Vote ‘em out

Re: ‘Fiscal incompetents

 


Published/Last Modified on Thursday, November 12, 2009 4:13 AM MST

Our national debt is $12 trillion, and has been growing at the rate of $3.79 billion a day since September 2007. Interest on that debt for just 2009 is more than $383 billion.

The OMB expects deficits to rise by at least another $10 trillion over the next 10 years. This year alone, Congress has run up a record $1.4 trillion deficit and indebted us further to foreign governments.

Despite these fiscal facts, Saturday we saw the axis of financial incompetents in Congress barely pass the “Totally Unaffordable Health Care” bill that will certainly indebt generations yet unborn to the tune of another trillion plus.

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Sadly for the taxpayers of Colorado, only Reps. Coffman and Lamborn exercised their fiduciary duty of fiscal responsibility on behalf of Colorado. The other five, all liberal Democrats, chose to side with the other 215 fiscal incompetents who voted for the bill.

Hopefully, the wins in Virginia and New Jersey last week will be just the crest of the wave that will sweep all who continue to further indebt this country into an inglorious retirement in the next elections.

David Laird

Montrose
 

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