Out of touch with those not in the motorcade

 
President Obama told a questioner at a town hall meeting in Fairless Hills, Pa.: “So, like I said, if you’re getting eight miles a gallon you may want to think about a trade-in.  You can get a great deal.  I promise you, GM or Ford or Chrysler, they’re going to be happy to give you a deal on something that gets you better gas mileage.”

Problem solved. Next question.

I like the way undocumented radio host Mark Steyn put it in his column in today’s Investor’s Business Daily.

“America, 2011: A man gets driven in a motorcade to sneer at a man who has to drive himself to work,” Steyn writes. “A guy who has never generated a dime of wealth, never had to make payroll, never worked at any job other than his own tireless self-promotion, literally cannot comprehend that out there beyond the far fringes of the motorcade outriders are people who drive a long distance to jobs whose economic viability is greatly diminished when getting there costs twice as much as the buck-eighty-per-gallon it cost back at the dawn of the Hopeychangey Era.”

Like everyone else who maintains a modicum of sanity in this country, Steyn recognizes that the country is on autopilot toward to an economic collapse under the weight of a mounting debt.

“The Democrats' solution to the problem is to deny there is one,” Steyn explains. “Unsustainable binge-spending is, as the computer wallahs say, not a bug but a feature …

“I said the Democrats' plan is to ‘end America as we know it,’ but even that has been outsourced to others. The choice is between letting Paul Ryan end Medicare as we know it, or letting our foreign lenders determine the moment to end America as we know it.”

Beijing calling, they want a trade-in, now.