April 9, 2013

America's Locust Years

By Christopher Chantrill
President Post-partisan is submitting a bait-and-switch budget to Congress this week: more taxes, more spending, and it's only two months after the legal deadline. So that's another year for the locusts. Scott Johnson at Powerline was already talking about the year the locusts ate at the end of 2009. For a bit of context, Winston Churchill gave his "Locust Years" speech in November 1936, and he was talking about the mere two years that the locusts had eaten since Hitler had come to power and started rearmament. But here in the Obama wilderness years it's four locust years of cheap money and trillion-dollar deficits with no end in sight. Meanwhile the president met with Republican senators and accused Americans of munching up the seed corn, according to New York Times reporter Jackie Calmes (H/T Powerline). President Obama had Senate Republicans nodding in agreement during a recent ice-breaking dinner as he described a basic problem for the nation's fiscal future: For each dollar that...(Read Full Article)