Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Even Hillary Agrees!



Chuck Norris

Even Hillary Agrees!

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If Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned last week that our rising national debt "poses a national security threat," should President Barack Obama or anyone in his administration be suggesting any economic plan that would increase it in any way?

At last week's Council on Foreign Relations meeting, Clinton was supposed to be espousing "a new American moment" and boosting U.S. global leadership, but she ended up dropping the country further in the tank (the debt tank, that is) during an off-script Q-and-A session after her 45-minute speech.

In response to a question from the president of the CFR, Richard Haass, on the impact of a monstrous and crippling national debt, Clinton veered from the Obama administration's typical economic path and plan.

Here's a portion of Hillary's actual reply to Haass: "I think that our rising debt (level) poses a national security threat, and it poses a national security threat in two ways. It undermines our capacity to act in our own interests, and it does constrain us where constraint may be undesirable. And it also sends a message of weakness internationally. I mean, it is very troubling to me that we are losing the ability ... to chart our own destiny."

I can't say often that I agree with Hillary, but on this point, we're in complete harmony.

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