John Kasich: Like a lying, cheating husband

Who's tired of seeing and hearing from Mr. Nice Guy, John Kasich? I think one of the reasons he's still around is because people think he is at least a good honest "nice guy" who plays it straight and has a proven economic record.

Still, how many more times do we need to hear that he, as chairman of the House Budget Committee in the '90s, balanced the federal budget? Every stump speech, every debate we hear him say, "I'm the only person on this stage who actually was the chief architect of balancing the federal budget. It's not a theory for me. ... You have to know how to put everything together. And you know, I spent 10 years of my life to get there."

What he claims is a lie, yet no one ever calls him on it. They should, because he's a lying cheater – and he knows it – and so, too, should everyone. Maybe if more people did, he'd be gone already.

Allow me to explain it this way.

Let's say you're married. Both you and your wife have for years had a spending problem. Sure you both make decent money, but continue to spend more than you take in. At one point it gets so bad that you must borrow from friends and relatives.

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They begrudgingly help you out, all the while complaining about your lifestyle and insisting that you two must get a handle on things.

One day you get together and make the decision that it is time to change – cut spending, begin to pay down your debt and start working toward obtaining a surplus. You develop a plan and get to work to achieve it. You even agree to take over the headache of paying the bills. You know she hates doing it, and you look like a great guy for it. You're as happy as is your wife – that is until the agreed upon cutbacks begin to negatively affect you personally.

So unbeknownst to your wife, you apply for and receive a credit card with a sizable limit, which you covertly use to maintain your personal standard of living. All the while, your wife has no knowledge of the card, and as you pay the bills and maintain the checkbook, you are able to continue the ruse. Once a quarter, as agreed upon, you are able to show her how much you've paid down the household debt and will soon be able to put some into savings.

As time goes by, you are able to declare to your wife, your friends and relatives that the household budget is balanced and are now running a surplus. Hip hip hooray for you! Of course, neither she nor anyone else has any knowledge of the swelling credit card balance, as you keep two sets of books. You can't even tell your wife of the raise you received at work. That increase is helping to pay the monthly credit card bill. So you just continue to lie to her and cheat the family.

In case you were wondering, John Kasich is the lying, cheating husband, and the American people are the wife, friends and relatives who believe his economic line of crap.

Bill Clinton signed off on budgets from Fiscal Year (FY) 1994 through FY 2001. Kasich was the chairman of the House Budget Committee from 1995-2001. The following are the real numbers during Clinton/Kasich era of the '90s.

Now I'm no economist, but I can read simple Treasury tables.

Starting in FY 1993, the National Debt was about $4.4 trillion. By FY 2001, the debt had increased to over $5.8 trillion. This is nothing by today's standards, but just know that not once did it ever decrease! During the same time the annual budget deficit NEVER went to zero – not once! FY 2000 was the closest it ever came to being balanced at a $17.9 billion deficit, but it never balanced, and we never had a surplus! I repeat – not once!

How can this be? It's common knowledge that we achieved a balanced budget and surpluses in 1998, '99 and 2000. Ask yourself when we have ever known politicians to be straight with the people, regardless of their side of the aisle? This is no different.

Like the husband, the government has two sets of books – two sets of numbers. One they show us and one they hide from us. One of the sets, which Kasich proudly trots out, is that of "Public Debt." Indeed, in FY '98, '99 and 2000 the Public Debt, which is simply declared as debt held by the public, did decrease substantially, thus showing balance and surpluses. Hooray for John!

The other set of books they don't speak of and attempt to hide, yet is just as real, is that of "Intragovernmental Holdings," where the government actually gets to borrow money from itself. Must be nice. This is the husband's (Kasich) secret credit card.

The government borrows money from itself to pay down the Public Debt, thereby allowing the liar Kasich to say he balanced the budget. He knew and still knows they we were borrowing money at an average of three times the amount they claimed the debt was decreasing. It's a demonstrable lie and why the National Debt mysteriously never seems to shrink.

Kasich is just another Washington phony who will say anything he must to stay in the race. But hey – if no one is going to call him on it, he'll just keep lying.

Did I mention he's also delusional?