Obama To U.S. Hostage's Families: 'You're on Your Own"

President Barack Hussein Obama just announced new policies on U.S. hostages.

If you read between the lines of the always servile AP’s drivel, the new policy allows families to attempt to scrape up the ransom for their loved ones, facilitated by the creation of what the president referred to as a “Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell” to ‘coordinate recovery efforts among various government agencies.’ Oh, and threats of criminal prosecution against families willing to mortgage their home and empty their bank accounts to try and get their loved ones back will cease.

Shamelessly, the president said that his administration would continue to abide by the “no concessions” policy when it came to hostages, but that families “who have suffered enough” would no longer be bound by that.

Instead, our government will now have a framework to operate as a go-between and courier between kidnappers and ransom payers.

What this president just did was to legitimize the wholesale kidnapping of Americans…not just by people like ISIS or the government of Iran but by entities like the Mexican drug cartels, who can now concentrate on going after a targets of lesser value but in greater volume.

Who says President Obama doesn’t create jobs?

This president, contrary to his supposedly high moral stance here paid millions of taxpayer dollars and released five top Taliban commanders from Guantanamo in exchange for a deserter like Bowe Bergdahl, because he wanted to for obvious reasons. Today, he announced that not only American hostages but their families are now on their own, except that fancy ‘Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell’ to help communicate with the kidnappers and handle the transactions of victims for cash.

I wonder how long the American people are going to continue to put up with being treated with such contempt.