What are you going to do this weekend? If you are like the majority of Americans, you’ll spend it with family and friends, trying to find something inexpensive to do, due to the effects of the Obama Economy.

As I just said this, I heard Liberal heads all exploding in unison as they shrieked:

But…but…Boooosh!!!!!

Nope.  The sad fact of the matter is: A government report issued on Monday reported that the number of U.S. households that have been forced to get emergency food from a food pantry almost doubled between 2007 and 2009, at the height of the recession.

According to the The U.S. Department of Agriculture, the number of households jumped to 5.6 from 3.9 million.

An article published in the USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) “Amber Waves” said:

Households also accessed additional assistance through USDA’s 15 food and nutrition assistance programs.

The USDA is in charge of the government’s food stamp program,known as SNAP or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, for low-income families and other domestic feeding programs like school lunches.

During the 2009 fiscal year,according to the article:

15.2 million households participated in SNAP in an average month, up from 12.7 million in FY 2008.

In a separate report, the ERS said the percentage of U.S. households that did not have access to enough food for an active, healthy life, at some point during the year hit a record in 2009.

More than 50 million people, including at least 17 million children, lived in households uncertain of having or getting enough food at some point because of insufficient money or other material resources.

Remind me again the year in which the Democrats took over Congress. Oh yeah, 2007.

So this weekend, as millions of Americans are simply trying to survive, what is the leader of their country going to be doing?

Coming off a failed Asia trip, where Obama’s proposals were rebuffed time and again by world leaders trying to not laugh out loud at his economic policies, Scooter will travel to Europe this Friday and Saturday.

His mission is to attempt to convince skeptical European allies that he is an effective American President, able to engage in better cooperation on issues ranging from the war in Afghanistan to the fight against trade protectionism.

The problem for Obama is the fact that, just as Americans have seen behind his mask, so has the rest of the world, as evidenced by his failed Asian trip. Our allies do not have a whole lot of confidence in this “leader of the free world”.

As the president attends back-to-back NATO and European Union summits in Lisbon on Friday and Saturday, he faces an uphill battle, according to Sally McNamara, a European affairs expert at the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington:

Obama is facing  the daunting task of figuring out how to show the Europeans not only that he’s still important to them but that they’re still important to the U.S..

One of his main problems is that our friends in Europe may be feeling ignored by his foreign policy initiatives.

Despite his nonsensical European Presidential Campaign stops where he was treated like a rock star, once Obama was elected, he placed Europe on the back-burner, instead courting favor with India and Asia and devoting his attention to an attempt to change America into a socialist country, resulting in high unemployment and a horrible economy.

He will only be spending 24 hours in Lisbon, Spain, after spending 10 days in Asia.

And while Obama’s been pushing his failed strategy of more government spending, European leaders like German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron have been stressing fiscal discipline.

Because they tried socialism already and it did not work.  Capitalism does.

To say that the Europeans are less than impressed with Obama’s economic policies is an understatement. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, earlier this month, said the Federal Reserve’s decision to pump $600 billion into the U.S. economy was “clueless.” Germany, China and other big exporters have identified the action as a backdoor way to bring down the value of the dollar, thereby giving U.S. goods a trade advantage.

Obama will meet first with NATO leaders and then with heads of the 27-nation EU, the world’s biggest economic bloc. Given his track record, this weekend will undoubtedly be a failure, also.

This president’s domestic and foreign policies are both failing in an epic way.  In the span of two years, he has spent more money that all of our other presidents combined.  Instead of turning a slow economy around, his economic policies, including his so-called “Stimulus” Bill and strident government take-over of private industry, have not only driven the car into the ditch, his policies are burying our economy deeper than the Kennedys buried Chappaquiddick.  The next time that you’re in church or at a ballgame, count 6 people down the row.  That person may be fighting, economically, for their very survival.

America’s allies…and our enemies…have been watching for the past two years.  They view this American President as an inept bungler.  They probably are laughing themselves silly, wondering how the American people could have elected such a lightweight.  Obama has succeeded in diminishing America’s stature throughout the world.

Obama has never believed in American exceptionalism.  The crux of all his speeches has basically been to identify America as just another nation on the world stage.  He has been doing his best to turn the Shining City on the Hill into just another Third World Barrio.

The good news is, November 2nd was a refudiation (Refudiate…The New Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year…More Liberal heads exploding.) of Obama and his minions’ Master Plan to radically change America.  With the American people rejecting his policies, along with the rest of the world, Obama will be locked for the next two years in an ideological prison of his own device.