If Obama had his way we’d be a country full of welfare leeches.

Via KC Star:

. . . With that, he lashed familiarly at Republicans in Congress who were — as Obama hit the ground in Missouri — advancing legislation sure to invite a face-down with Obama and a possible government shutdown.

“The debate that’s going on in Congress is not meeting the test of helping the middle class,” the president said. “They’re focused on politics. They’ve focused on messing with me. They’re not focused on you.”

And he attacked efforts on Capitol Hill to resist raising the federal debt limit, warning to not do so would make Americans “deadbeats” and “we could have another financial crisis.”

Then, speaking to workers who put together pickup trucks, likened a refusal to raising the debt ceiling to blowing off monthly payments on a auto loan.

“You don’t say ‘I’m not going to pay my bill, my note, for my truck because I’m saving money,’” Obama said. “Once you bought the truck, you can’t say you’re saving money simply by not paying the bill. … This is not a deadbeat nation. We don’t run out on our tab.”