No one should be surprised that the Obama campaign refused to pay the cost of police protection for the President's Durham campaign stop on Monday. The entire Obama administration can be summed up in these five words: Obama gives speech, we pay.

Since when has this President taken personal responsibility for his actions, their effects or their costs? Every American ought to be able to see by now the pattern that he has repeated since he took office:

1. Give sweeping speech proclaiming grand but vague vision.

2. Lowball the real cost of executing that vision and pay for much of it with debt.

3. If policies are enacted and then generate unintended consequences, blame the results on the previous administration.

4. If policy costs are shown to be more than the administration predicted, blame private sector “greed” and political obstruction.

The stimulus bill was supposed to cost $787 billion. The Congressional Budget Office calculated late last year that the bill will increase the federal deficit by $831 billion over 10 years. Obamacare was supposed to cost less than $1 trillion. But Obama and Democrats in Congress got to that figure by cooking the books. For example, the law raised Medicaid payments to doctors but simply did not fund those payments after 2014. It expanded Medicaid eligibility, part of which states have to fund themselves. And of course individuals have to buy insurance if they don't have it now, and insurers have to pay for the costs of mandated coverage such as insuring “children” until age 26.

Obama loves the idea of replacing coal and oil power with wind and solar power. So he directs billions of dollars in taxpayer money to wind and solar projects. Solyndra, which went bankrupt after the Obama administration gave it $535 million in loan guarantees, was just one of these projects we were forced to subsidize.

Obama likes trains. So he committed $8 billion in debt-financed stimulus funding to trains, and the Democratic Congress added another $2.5 billion.

The President really enjoys spending money on things he thinks will make our lives better. He just doesn't like paying for it. He expects others (mostly our children) to do that at some undefined point in the future.

Obama sets the grand vision (which, conveniently, doles out money to political constituencies he favors) and lets others figure out how to pay for it later. That's why the budget he proposed this year grows the federal debt from $15.7 trillion this year to $25 trillion a decade later. Sticking the taxpayers of Durham with a $20,000 bill for his campaign speech is just par for the course with this guy. If only the American taxpayer, like Durham, had an anonymous donor to step in and pick up the tab.