Reader Opinion: America on a path to destruction

Dear Editor,

Did you see the ad on TV “The End of America” or the current one, “Crisis 12.com”?  These ads are run by Martin Weiss, who has been in a research business the past 40 years. His business has to do with the investment of money. He has predicted the problems of Fannie and Freddie, the housing market, as well as the demise of Lehman Brothers.

He is now talking about the end of America and a crisis event that will cause it. That event is reached when our government can no longer borrow money, because Americans and other countries like China don’t want to buy our bonds, to provide about half of the money Washington pays for every bill or benefit that becomes due. That includes Social Security, veterans’ benefits, Medicare and Medicaid, and salaries of government employees, including the pay of our federal elected representatives. His motive in running these ads is to entice people to sign up for his monthly recommendations and concerns.

Let’s look at the “Hope and Change” we were told about in 2008 by our current president. Since that time, consider the following: The price of regular gasoline the day Obama become president was just $1.79 on average in our country. Today, it’s $3.59, a 100.6 percent increase, twice as much.

Long term unemployment soared 146 percent during the first 32 months of his time in office. American citizens living in poverty have risen from 39.8 million to 43.6 million people. The number of unemployed blacks has resin from 12.6 percent at the beginning of Obama’s term to 15.8 percent in his first 32 months in office. That’s a 25.4 percent increase. The biggest concern is the fact that our national debt is up 43.3 percent from $10.627 trillion to $15.278 trillion. Our country is going broke, and Obama is asking for another loan.

The Weiss presentation on his ad is simply saying when no one will loan Washington money, everything stops when it comes to Washington paying its bills. While our friend Mac Thornberry and most Republicans talk about cutting government spending and the size of government, Harry Reid and the Democrat senators don’t even want to talk about it. If this article makes sense to you, make sure you remember to vote in November

Tom Stauder, Clarendon

p.s. I just received a letter from Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, Ariz. He as well as another sheriff, and the governor of Arizona are being sued by Obama, [Attorney General] Eric Holder, and the ACLU for doing their job, trying to enforce federal and state laws. This stuff has to stop.