I have been in shock and unable to even verbalize the disgust since Obama's state of the union attack on everyone but himself and his most progressive of supporters. Transcript of State of the Union I think back to a Beck show a couple weeks ago when he had basically said if he pulls back and triangulates in defeat we will have merely a liberal democrat in the white house but if he doubles down and becomes even more committed and resolved to his own agenda then we have trouble. He is a radical revolutionary of the progressives. He is not affected by the voice of the people but only his agenda to "fundamentally transform America" as he stated 5 days before the election. He seems to have the desire to be a dictator when he attacked everyone who doesn't agree with him including the Supreme Court and when most of the claims he makes are lies but stated with such confidence you almost beleive them. And then the media attacks the court or anyone else who dares defend themselves from these attacks or reacts in defense to his lies with a "you lie" or "not true" response. While the spineless Washington Post fact checked the speech according to the headline and the 4 issues they checked, were all allegedly true. However, here is one short AP story that seems to to a better job of fact checking even if it is done in a very softball manner. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100128/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_fact_check I guess all we can do is look at some of the attacks and consider the reality of his twisted view of them and realize he is not just a liberal but he is a progressive ideologue who is very dangerous to the country.
Now obviously after a glorious introduction, he had to start by laying the stage for attacking Bush as that has been a cornerstone of every policy and speech he has made in the past year. Not even worth commenting on that any further as it such a worn out excuse for executing his radical agenda.
Then he had to go on and start patting his back as the reason the country is not in a depression, in my world it is whether he thinks so or not. Taking credit for 2 million jobs that were created or saved, a statistic that makes for good rhetoric due to the fact that is can not be reliably or accurately measured and thus can not be trusted. How do you know what may have happened if something else had not happened? And anyway, I think most of the government jobs need to be lost and government needs to downsize. As Reagan said government is not the solution, government is the problem. Especially when you consider the average pay for a federal employee is about 71,000 compared to about 40,000 for the people who are paying their wages. USA Today article, average pay $30,000 over private sector And those government employees have pensions and insurance too. Oh and by the way, remember SEIU, they are who Obama goes to before he does anything, well guess who represents many of the government employees. But surely Obama is not affected by lobbyist. (David Sterns, head of SEIU is the most frequent non government visitor to the White House) He assured us he has cleaned all that up. Did you see that we now have more government employees represented by unions than private market employees? Guess they now want to work the same miracles on the government they did on the auto industry. It did work out pretty well since they now own GM NY Times, Most union members are now government employees And of course, the NY Times would have to work in a plug for card check legislation in this article, as they think the implied message is we need to make it easier for unions to organize in the face of their declining membership. To say nothing of the the fact they are the largest democrat contributors. And since he has so few examples of success in his special interest stimulus bill, he has to use as examples of success ones that have already been exposed as corrupt. Remember this great window manufacturer exposed on John Stossell. John Stossel on Crony Capitalism But Obama continues to sing the praises of this company in spite of the cover being blown. But that was another posting, I need to move on.
After blaming the trillion dollar deficit on Bush, although the TARP program has been largely repaid, he then promotes taking money from that program and using it for banking stimulus to promote lending. Everyone seems to call TARP a 700 billion dollar Bush program but from what I can see, and there are lots of pencils and mirrors in their accounting, they are now saying that it will cost 141 billion in total. http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/07/news/companies/tarp_interest/?postversion=2009120807 That is pretty small to save the entire banking system from collapse and thus may have been a good investment. However, TARP has become Obama's piggy bank, every time he sees something left or paid back, he wants to use it on another bail out while not taking responsibility for the deficit it creates. That was where he got the money to bail out the auto industry and subsequently screw the bond holders and give it as a gift to his union supporters. He blames the auto industry party on Bush but as I recall, Bush didn't want to do it but said he would conceded to Obamas request for doing so but only enough money to get them past the inauguration and then Obama could do what he wanted. What was the stimulus program and why can't he use some of the wasted special interest stimulus money passed with no debate or even being read by those who voted on it. Since no one knew what they were passing they wouldn't know if it was changed and spent someplace else.
Then he moves on to praise small business, although in this past year he has completely excluded them from any of his White House closed door meetings. Choosing rather big business, wall street, government and unions to influence his agenda the most. Probably because they write the big checks to his campaign, oh but that couldn't be true as that may be giving lobbyist a seat at the table. When in reality they own the table and all the chairs around it in this White House. Which is, I am sure, not that unusual in the White House. So after trumping up small business, which he knows nothing about, he wants to tout high speed rail. Which has no free market demand other than for the contracts to build it and suck off the government subsidy wagon to both build and operate it.
And then after telling us how government can direct business through incentives to get into the businesses he supports he says we are going to double our exports in the next 5 years. What is it we export that is in such demand we are going to double it and create American jobs in so doing? Unless the government is going to subsidize it in someway, there is nothing I can think of other than food that we are very efficient and cost effective at producing. How can we compete in a world market with all our government regulation and high priced union manufacturing labor? There is a reason we manufacture very little in this country. So he says we are going to double our exports while he supports unionizing everyone because of course that is where he gets his 750 million to run a presidential campaign. And if he is going to impose tariffs on imports because he needs to support the domestic unions, I am "sure" that other countries will not reciprocate with restrictions and tariffs on the "phantom" American imports to their country. Surely China doesn't mind our tariffs on their tires and will welcome with open arms anything we want to sell them at prices that support our domestic wage structure by way of US government subsidies. Then of course they will also turn around with what money they have left after buying all of our subsidized exports and spend it on US Treasury debt to support our deficit spending. Which deficit was created though government subsidizing the cheap exports. If this sounds circular, I think it is. Makes a lot of sense doesn't it?
And then of course we have to invest in education. To expand math and science, as long as it is the flawed science that supports man made global warming, or rather we now call it man made climate change due to the unusually cold winter. That way he can use science to institute more taxes (cap and trade) to combat the "phantom" man made global warming, woops, I mean climate change. One thing we don't want to teach is "American History" and "World History" as that may cause our young people to remember the mistakes made earlier in the 20th century in trusting silver tongued devils who took them down the path of destruction. And if we are going to teach history lets make sure it passes the progressive politicians test for "fairness" IE political correctness.
Then of course he had to mention health care and how he is trying to save the entire country, while in fact his bloated plan only changed who paid the bills and only covered about 10 million of the 30 million or so uninsured depending upon which report you read. And the greatest spin of the last two weeks, since the Massachusetts election, the reason government health care is failing with the public is because he has not explained it well enough. "Still, this is a complex issue, and the longer it was debated, the more skeptical people became. I take my share of the blame for not explaining it more clearly to the American people." UNBELIEVABLE ARROGANCE Yep, your right, we are just a bunch of idiots out here who can't think for ourselves and some of us even watch and listen to television and radio stations you don't approve of as actual news because it doesn't agree with your view Mr. Obama. I am beginning to feel like my son is right when he tells me that Obama is not his president even though I try to take the patriotic stance and tell him Obama represents our country and was elected by a majority of the voters. And then Obama says "if anyone has a better idea let me know". I think people have tried to let him know but they couldn't be heard over the lawyers political contributions. And I distinctly remember him saying he didn't create the mess and unless you are going to fall in line and help mop up this mess (accomplish his agenda) he didn't want to hear from you. In other words do what I say or sit down and shut up. That is what he said to the GOP on health care, energy and the economy. However, he sure decided he liked anyone who had Goldman Sacs on their resume for help in banking and wall street reform. Remember, Goldman Sacs was his second largest contributor at $994,795 behind University of California at $1,591,395. largest contributors
Then back to some Bush Bashing.
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