Colin Powell Warns Obama: “And We Can’t Pay for it All”
Former Secretary of State General Colin Powell appears on the CBS talk show “Face the Nation” on Sunday in Washington
Colin Powell, one of President Obama’s most prominent Republican supporters, expressed concern Friday that the president’s ambitious blitz of costly initiatives may be enlarging the size of government and the federal debt too much.
“I’m concerned at the number of programs that are being presented, the bills associated with these programs and the additional government that will be needed to execute them,” Mr. Powell said in an excerpt of an interview with CNN’s John King, released by the network Friday morning.
Mr. Powell, a retired U.S. army general who rose to political prominence after a long and accomplished military career, said that health care reform and many of Mr. Obama’s other initiatives are “important” to Americans.
But, he said, “one of the cautions that has to be given to the president — and I’ve talked to some of his people about this — is that you can’t have so many things on the table that you can’t absorb it all.”
“And we can’t pay for it all,” said Mr. Powell, who was the first African-American to serve as secretary of state, under former President George W. Bush. He was also national security adviser to President Reagan, and was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President George H.W. Bush from 1989 to 1993.
Guess Obama did not deliver a plum appointment for Colin and now he feels free to lecture the President.
But, we all know what a fair weather friend Colin is, now don’t we?
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Johnny
What he says is accurate about the big government agenda, what the hell did he expect supporting the Socialist. To the Knucklehead who wrote this, I believe he was offered a position in the Socialists Cabinet, sans “Obama did not deliver a plum appointment”.
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Cynical Synapse
Well, there’s a shocker! $800 billion in Wall Street bailouts and pork. $700 billion in “stimulus” money. Nothing to show for either one except on-going bonuses for the Wall Street baffoons who created this whole dang mess. But I digress. Beside Obama, our representatives need to get this message, too. With the 2010 defense budget, the House added $17 billion. We’re still waiting for the Senate adds, not to mention the compromise bill, which will probably be more than either the House or Senate versions were.