Ok, help me with this one...

From our illustrious leader:

"I do not want and I will not accept a deal in which I am asked to do nothing. In fact, I'm able to keep hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional income that I don't need, while a parent out there who is struggling to figure out how to send their kid to college suddenly finds that they've got a couple thousand dollars less in grants or student loans."

--Barack Obama

So, let me see if I can piece his meaning together on this one.. Is he saying that any money that the government has decided you "don't need" belongs to the government? If this is the case, then you are only getting to keep the money you earned at the pleasure of the US Government.. ?

Can someone explain to me how this Leftist viewpoint can even remotely exist within the bounds of the U.S. Constitution? Karl Marx would be proud.

Our Illustrious Hypocrite-In-Chief

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. government can't pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our government's reckless fiscal policies. ... Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."

 - Senator Barack Obama, in 2006, when he voted against increasing the ceiling