Thanks (for nothing) Obama!

I just read an interesting article from the web site infowars.com: Barack Obama conclusively outed as CIA creation.  I am not a ‘birther’, but as a person with a free mind I have questions that seem pretty natural– such as ‘why does obama refuse to release the documents typically accumulated by any US citizen’ and ‘why is it so difficult to produce a birth certificate?’   I also find it bizarre for a country to elect someone President while knowing nothing about where he comes from– and THEN start asking the important questions, after the election. 

But I don’t need any of this CIA stuff, or even the birth/citizenship stuff , to conclude that obama should never have been elected.  I mean REALLY– just take a look around!    For the libs who say he ‘inherited the economy’, I don’t know why more people don’t simply point out that Bush 2 also ‘inherited’ a recession.  I’ve come across people who don’t even know that fact;  I’ve been told by libs that ‘everything was great for the Clinton years and then Bush came and destroyed the economy.’  They even will claim that stating otherwise is ‘revisionist history.’  I don’t get them;  is it that they are too young to remember?  Does their ideology destroy their memory?  For those who don’t remember, Clinton’s first two years consisted of the usual Dem spending spree, which ushered in the ‘Contract with America’, Newt Gingrich, and attempts to limit spending.  Clinton adapted– one of his greatest skills was to adapt to Republican ideas and then claim to have invented them– and proclaimed ‘the era of big government is over.’  Remember?  That was the start of some good years… until the Republicans in Congress became addicted to the spending that ousted the dems.  The difference, of course, is that Republicans’ spending addiction consists of a joint per day, where the democrats’ spending addiction is like the scene from Scarface where the mobster buries his face into a pile of cocaine! 

The dot-com bubble, though, bailed out the economy;  as spending went up, tax collections went up even more as stocks skyrocketed.  Eventually the bubble burst, as they all do.  All of the ‘surplus’ attributed to Clinton was based on the dotcom tax receipts;  when the bubble burst, the surplus went away.  The nasdaq lost over 80% of its value, and the other indexes fell over 50%– a loss of value that typically destroys economies.  This is when Bush 2 took office.  The economy was in a recession by the time he entered office.  Later in the year the 9/11 attacks came.  Economists from both parties said that the attacks in NYC at the heart of the financial sector of our economy, on top of the recession, would cripple growth and throw the US into a depression.

This was Bush 2′s ‘inheritance,’ for those who like to speak of inheritances.  Of course, the Presidency is not ‘inherited;’ the country is designed, with staggered elections, so that those elected to major offices can come and go without great disruption of the country’s business.  Every President ‘inherits’ problems.  Obama’s ‘inheritance’ is no worse than any other President.  What IS unique about obama is his tendency to whine about every problem he comes across… and then commit a series of gaffes and mistakes that make the problem much worse.  The current economic situation is a classic example.  How did Bush avoid a deeper recession, despite the 911 attacks and the recession when he entered office?  He boldly cut taxes, following the mold of Reagan– and of JFK.  The response was 7 years of broad economic growth– despite two wars.  In fact, while critics whined about the deficit under Bush, even with the wars in two countries his largest annual deficit never exceeded half a trillion dollars.  Obama’s current deficit is three times that level– and will likely be higher going forward.

Obama likes to whine about his ‘inheritance.’  What he SHOULD be considering is what is replacement will inherit from HIM.  After all, 2012 is coming– not quite fast enough, but it is coming.

A couple years ago we knew nothing about obama, and unfortunately our newsmedia abdicated their traditional role of shining a light on stinky politicians– allowing perhaps one of histories ‘stinkiest’ to get elected.  Liberals will view my ‘stinky’ comments as racist of course, and that’s fine– I can’t change their world-view, and don’t really want to.  In fact, I think it best if we let their ‘world views’ shine forth for all to see;  let them take responsibility for the mess that they have created.  If you go back in this blog about 14 months or so, you will see that I have been consistent;  my fear then was that obama would be allowed to pass his ridiculous ‘stimulus plan’, which any non-partisan, educated reader knew was more anti-stimulus than pro-stimulus.  Why?  because businesses want to see an environment that allows growth, before they will commit to hiring. Wouldn’t you?  And businesses saw a trillion dollars of spending, the vast majority on social welfare programs that extended decades into the future, guaranteeing the eventuality of higher taxes.  None of this is rocket science– would YOU risk everything that you owned, to take a shot a growing a business that allowed you to take home a third of what you earned?

The trillion dollars offered nothing for businesses;  it may be a good thing to give money to teachers and unions (if you are a teacher, anyway)– but the money goes to buy them better pensions– not toward creating a job for anyone!  I have always suspected that Dems hated Bush so much that they actually believed the garbage they spewed, about him being ‘stupid.’  Never mind that he graduated from the best business school in the world (and do you REALLY think that being the son of the head of the CIA, a Republican appointee, won classroom favors for W at Harvard?!  If anything he probably had to work twice as hard).  Sure, he couldn’t give speeches as polished as the annointed one– but we all can see just how far THAT talent can carry a country!  The Dems figured that being president must be easy… and figured that the economy would just fix itself.  Don’t waste a crisis– use it to pass an agenda of wasteful social programs…. and the economy will be fine.  Heck, the recession that W inherited got better, right?!

Of course we know the truth;  Bush inherited the 2000-2001 recession, then the 9/11 attacks–  all in the shadow of Clinton’s stock market bubble and burst.  But Bush averted a deeper recession by doing what Reagan did– cutting taxes across the board, for everyone.  In return we had 8 years of economic prosperity, until the housing bubble (pushed in part by Dems who believe that everyone needs a home,  job or not) brought the good times to an end.

Obama did not reduce taxes like Bush did– he instead guaranteed they will rise.  That shuts off any interest in business investment.  But even worse, obama threw away a TRILLION DOLLARS– and added layers of government to the auto industry, the banks, and now healthcare.  So now we are too broke to actually HAVE a stimulus.  Yes, ‘shovel ready projects’ would be nice– if only obama had added them to the trillion dollar scheme that he pushed through in a few days, early last year.  Now we really need that money– today jobless claims rose ‘unexpectedly’ again– but it is too late.  Obama wasted that money, so we have no powder left in our kegs.

Thanks (for nothing) obama!

I read an article by Peggy Noonan in the WSJ recently about how despite his ‘accomplishments,’ our boy-president’s number just keep falling.  Every sane American knows the reason why, and Noonan explained the reason for the others– obama has done things for himself, for his own vision of the world, but they are at odds with the wellbeing of the United States.  The health care fiasco?  Obama’s lies were not exposed by the complicit media, so it is only now that the truth leaks out, when it is too late to do anything about it– that the costs were grossly under-reported, that there are NOT savings to be made in Medicare and Medicaid without draconian program cuts, and that you CAN”T keep your doctor.  Oops!  Sorry!

Over the weekend the silly AJ, Holder, said that the reason he hasn’t gotten around to deciding on where to try the mastermind of the WTC attacks was ‘politics.’   Never mind that it is his call;  that he can simply decide and act– he is being held back by ‘politics.’  So what does he expect US to do about it?  Um, Eric, you are in a politically-appointed government job. Politics sort of go with Washington DC!   This from the guy who couldn’t bring himself to say that ‘radical Islam’ motivates people against the US during Congressional hearings about the bang-up job he has been doing. 

Other obama accomplishments this week– we learned that obama was able to prevent the case against the black panther party from going forward– those guys who ‘hate white crackers’ who blocked Philly polling places.  According to obama’s world, you can’t accuse a black man of racism.

Dump Obama, keep Arizona!

Also this week obama and Holder, freed up from prosecuting black racists, announced their intention to sue Arizona for passing a law that says ‘we are enforcing the law.’  In fact, obama announced intent to sue Arizona twice.  If you asked Americans who we should get rid of, I bet more would favor dumping obama than dumping Arizona.

Obama announced another moratorium on drilling in the Gulf.  We had one accident in 40 years of drilling, but he wants to keep his boot on the neck of residents of the gulf.  Don’t let any crisis go unused– and this crisis allows him to try to destroy the country’s energy supply.  Thanks obama.

The bipartisan debt commision that obama appointed a couple months ago was supposed to keep quiet until after November, but someone talked– and admitted that after looking at the real amount that obama is running up in debt, some of the commision members up-chucked.  If someone wanted to destroy the country from within, could they do a better job than obama has one in 18 months?

Now that the slowing of the economy is clear for all to see, someone should point out the obvious– that the stimulus package sucked.  We know that economic growth is stimulated by less government, less regulation, more certainty, and lower taxes.  In the stimulus obama gave us more government, more regulation, more uncertainty, and higher taxes.  Half of the stimulus has not been spent– and much that was spent went to projects that did NOTHING to increase jobs.  Obama still blames Bush 18 mos into his presidency– never mind that Bush also inherited a recession, and also inherited the WTC attacks that could have crippled our economy if poorly handled.  We bounced back from that devastating blow on top of a recession, thanks to good policy.  This one drags on because of poor policy.

We still have cap and tax to look forward to… and obama’s cronies floated balloons about increasing taxes far beyond the expiring Bush tax cuts, including eliminating the mortgage deduction and means-testing Medicare.  And he is still just getting started.

Thanks– for nothing– obama!

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