President Obama and his leftist cronies have been on a major spending spree since getting into office. The failed stimulus plan, continued bailouts, and other money wasting endeavors have driven our national debt to unheard of levels and the government continues to print money. Nothing works but we keep doing it anyway because this time it will be different. Obama is very fond of saying that this level of spending is unsustainable, yet he keeps doing it anyway. This man is an expert at saying one thing and then doing the exact opposite. The country is on the brink of financial destruction and we just keep stepping on the gas pedal. Eventually, we're going to crash head on into a brick wall and the aftermath will not be pretty.

Obama seems to be living in some kind of alternate reality. The new reports are that he will be issuing a presidential order to establish a deficit panel to look into the ballooning deficit. I couldn't even make this stuff up if I tried. The President of the United States and his majority of Congress are responsible for a majority of this deficit. We can blame the rest on George W. Bush. The solution is to spend more money to put together a deficit panel to tell the President that his actions created the problem. In other words, we're going to spend tax payer money to tell the President about what he just did.

This type of lunacy has to stop. When you spend hundreds of billions of dollars, you're going to create a deficit. When you keep spending billions of dollars after you spend those hundreds of billions of dollars (keep an eye on this jobs bill that our enlightened leaders are discussing) the deficit is going to get worse. You don't need a deficit panel to tell you that, particularly when they not authority to make you take action.

This is a waste of time and completely politics. Obama knows that the Democrats are going to get thumped in a major way in November and this is an attempt to provide some defensive ammunition. With this panel working, Obama can say "we know the deficit is a problem and we're taking action" while in effect doing absolutely nothing. I've got a solution, stop spending money. Problem solved and the advice was free. I'll wait for my thank you card.