Butter for Guns

For those of you who voted for Barack Obama three years ago, he promised that he would take this country in a new direction ... and he very clearly has.  Just when the Chinese are deploying missiles which can take out our aircraft carriers from 1,800 miles away (see: Washington Times Story), The Barry and his hand puppet, Leon Panetta, are cutting $500 billion out of our Defense Department budget ("guns") over the next ten years (Jimmy Carter redux).  These are not cuts from projected spending (called "baseline-budget" cuts), but these are real cuts ... that go far beyond the cutting of fat and means the atrophying of our military muscle.

Now contrast this with the fact that the Obama administration is poised to ask for another $1.2 trillion increase in the U.S. debt ceiling  (see: Wall Street Journal Story) ... only five short months after the debt ceiling was raised by $2.1 trillion this past August (see: Bloomberg Story) ... an increase that was implied to last the United States Treasury through this year's elections.  Since we are now totally out of Iraq militarily, these debt ceiling increases are clearly and mainly meant to cover the cost of Obama's vast social-program spending and government expansions (known as "butter").

My spider senses are even beginning to suggest that Obama is now trying to rush through many of his radical structural changes to our government ... in anticipation of his being booted from office this coming fall.  So, the question that now presents itself is: Over the next ten years or so, is the United States going first to expire from the hardening of its arteries from all this social-spending butter ... or be forced to kneel and lick the scaly feet of the Dragon of the East due to our lack of the necessary military might?