Barack Obama recently said that voters should back him if they believe in a “fact-based” America.  Alright, so let’s give you some “facts” about the Obama economy.  You ready?

• 9.1% unemployment
• 2.5 million fewer Americans working (then when Obama was inaugurated)
• $4 trillion more in debt
• 14 million more Americans on food stamps
• A credit downgrade
• 75 new major regulations costing Americans $38 billion
• First quarter growth for this year was revised down from 1.9% to just 0.4%
• Second quarter growth limped in at a whopping 1.3% GDP growth
• In June, Americans cut their spending for the first time in nearly two years
• Zero jobs created in August.  Zero.
• Our federal government spends 24% more than we did in 2008

How’s that for fundamental transformation?  What we are seeing is a shift in our spending and our dependency on government that will take decades to undo.  This is what Obama meant by “fundamental” – changing the very essence, the building blocks, of how America functions.  And yet, with gonads the size of grapefruits, he has the audacity to say that Republicans’ small government views “will fundamentally cripple America.”  What has happened here is this … Obama is working under the assumption that HIS view of America – bigger government, centrally-planned economy, redistributed wealth, government dependency – is now the norm for Americans.  So for Republicans to come along and call for smaller government is now considered “fundamentally crippling America” … Returning to some semblance of a nation as intended by our Founding Father would, yes, cripple Obama’s America.  The America he is working to achieve.  Not the America we knew and loved.

Obama says that it is impossible to have a “modern industrial economy” with lower taxes, as the Republicans would like.  Shut the front door.  What does this man know about modern industrial economies?  The economies he is trying to mimic are centrally-planned economies … hardly modern, and hardly successful.