Thanks (for nothing) Obama!

Obama came back from picking up his bogus Nobel Peace Prize to find his approval ratings at an all time low.  Is it any wonder?  I admit to being impressed by his speech– the first time he spoke from anything but a totally ‘wuss’ position!  And while he is still miles from ever being a ‘buck stops here’ President, he didn’t use the word ‘inherited’ even once that I heard.  Imagine that– obama actually giving an entire speech without blaming someone else for the country’s problems!

Obama approval numbers continue to drop like a stone

Despite going an entire speech without blaming his predecessor, don’t think that Obama has suddenly grown the wings of responsibility.  And he still has the media carrying water for him;  tonight a Reuters’ column described the terrible financial trouble we are in, due to ‘tax cuts, two wars and a recession’.   They love to talk about the horrible things that obama ‘inherited’, but never mention the fact that EVERY President inherits a set of problems.  Reagan came into office with hostages in Iran and stagflation that makes the current recession look like just another bad business cycle– interest rates were 20%, the economy was barely growing, and unemployment was higher than it is now.  But you won’t find speeches with the gipper complaining about what he ‘inherited’!  It wasn’t his style– which is one reason that he will always be seen as a strong President, while obama will be seen as opportunistic and weak.

Bush I inherited a recession, and Clinton got credit for the increasing business cycle that followed.  T he Republican Congress saved Clinton from himself and controlled spending, resulting in a strong economy– but not as strong as the budget numbers implied, which relied on projections of endless capital gains taxes from a stock market that turned out to be an obvious bubble.  So in comes Bush II, inheriting a recession that had been underway for one month (rarely mentioned, but look it up).  Bush resisted growing government, instead cutting taxes– giving businesses reason to expand in order to increase profits.  Besides the recession, Bush also inherited 8 years of intelligence failures that led to the largest terrorist attack on US soil.  But he didn’t whine about what he inherited;  he made an incredible series of necessary steps to increase security in our country in ways that are never recognized by the Bush-hating media.  Look at all of the things created by Bush– from the dept of Homeland Security to the presence of Air Marshals to the Federalization of air trafffic security personnel!  Think of the work that was required– and look at what his successor has accomplished in comparison.  Obama has some records– the most travel to foreign countries in the first year of a presidency, for example, or the most use of the word ‘inherited’ by a sitting president.  But as for the tough decisions, he has done nothing except blame others.

As for the Reuters article, we know from many examples through history that tax cuts INCREASE revenue.  Beyond the direct stimulation of the business cycle by tax cuts, obama’s horrible attacks on business ranging from cap and tax to health care takeovers to compensation tsars have struck fear into the hears of every business owner, as each waits for the next shoe to drop that will cost the company more than it can afford to pay.  As a business owner myself, I wouldn’t think of hiring right now;  I don’t know WHAT each new employee will cost, but obama promises to make them cost something big.  And why should I risk money to grow my business, when obama has made it clear that he will take whatever money he decides that I don’t deserve?  Where is the incentive– am I supposed to risk my business, just so that I can pay MORE to the federal government (whose workers have much better benefits than I will ever have!).

Finally, Reuters blames the wars for the deficit spending.  But the war in Iraq has cost a couple hundred billion dollars– a lot of money, sure– but only one forth of the near-trillion dollar ‘non-stimulus’ plan rushed through by obama.  How can you blame one without mentioning the other?  Deficit last year under Bush with two wars going on– 400 billion dollars.  Deficit this year with one war winding down and the other largely ignored– 1.8 TRILLION.  And obama’s spending is not ‘temporary’;  he has created departments upon departments than promise government jobs for everyone he knows.  The new government jobs and departments will cost us for decades into the future.  Only someone like obama (or Clinton could have pulled it off as well) would have the gall to ‘crow’ about ‘cutting the deficit by 50%’ all the way down to a trillion dollars– double what it was at the highest levels under Bush!

Thanks, America, for seeing the truth about this idiot.  And for obama:  Thanks– For Nothing!!

Thanks (for nothing) obama!!

I check in at Rasmussen Reports now and then, as doing so gives me some measure of faith that you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.  Today obama comes in at minus 14– not sure if that is a new record low on that poll, but if it isn’t it is close.  He has hovered around the negative 10 region for the past couple months, and I figured it was just a matter of time until some of the people in the ‘approve’ column pick up a paper or better yet, decide to do some critical thinking.  Obama just returned from another ‘blame America first’ tour, this time across Asia;  you can find pictures of him bowing so low to the Japanese President that it looks like Asian porn from the right angle.  Obama continued to apologize for that meanie, Bush– who instead of defending himself or his policies was visiting Fort Hood, trying to restore the morale that visits by obama typically deplete.

Obama polls show that Americans are learning the truth about a weak President

I find myself wondering how things will end with obama. He has already done enough damage to our economy that he is assured a legacy, as his deficit spending makes any of Reagan’s deficits puny in comparison–  and while Reagan’s deficits were the result of Congressional spending during Reagan’s tax cuts, the obama deficits will all be the result of obama’s spending and obama’s tax INCREASES– which have maintained, and will maintain, our slow economic growth–  perhaps for decades.  It is amazing how much damage one president can do!  Like is often said, you cannot give a president credit for a good economy (althouthegh the press sure has tried to credit Clinton!!), but you can sometimes blame a president for a bad one!  And every person with a college degree– and many without one– realize that the current problems started out as a global recession because of mortgage derivatives– not because of anything Bush did or didn’t do.  Simpletons will say ‘inherited from Bush’, but doing so is a purely reactive, non-thinking statement;  just ask such a person ‘how did Bush do this to the entire world?’ and wait for the answer that does not exist.  On the other hand, obama DID make things much worse– and you will be able to see that quite clearly going forward, as every other country recovers save the United States.

As for the ending, will he get it?  Will he realize that all of the apologizing does NOT build respect?  He is coming back from Asia totally empty-handed;  the press won’t report on it, but HE knows– obama knows that he wanted to accomplish some things, and he was ignored.  He knows he failed at the Olympic bid.  He knows that the dollar is falling like a stone.  He will see China stop investing in our debt– despite bowing lower and lower for them.  He will see the terrorists keep attacking, and he might even care that Americans will die (don’t hold your breath on that one!!).  Will he ‘get it’?  Will he recognize that he was a fool president?  Will he see, as US healthcare expenditures grow massively from the bureaucracy he creates,  just how wrong he was?  I would like to say ‘yes!’.  But we had the failed welfare system of the 1960′s and 1970′s, and he didn’t apparently learn from them.  So will he see?  When he sees the country mired in Carter-esque stagflation for decades, will he see what he did?  Again, it will be so obvious!  But then again, it already is– watch as the rest of the world explodes with growth, and we do a double-dip recession.  Watch as our unemployment worsens.  And he does not apparently see it… so the smart bet would be that he is one of those ‘lifelong’ Democrats who are blinded by partisanship.

Let's at least learn, and throw the bums out next year

In case you don’t read the details of stimulus plans and other failed obama initiatives, the reason we will not recover like other countries will is because obama spent us into bankruptcy during a recession– but not to do the thing that presidents usually do to reverse recessions, i.e. stimulate the growth of business, which creates jobs.  The blunder was so large that I have to think that obama assumed it would be easy to be president;  that he could just skim money off the economy for his pals, and that the economy would bounce back on it’s own without any help, and despite the harm he would do.  Maybe that would have occurred in some other era, but we really needed help this time.  And instead of providing help, obama made it much worse– he dumped billions upon billions into places and projects that do NOTHING to create jobs or spur economic growth.  In fact, he used billions of dollars to increase the size of government, even developing entirely new agencies.  Anyone in a position to expand a business saw that these new areas of spending were not temporary;  they were the start of projects that will forever cost taxpayers.  So the businessman says, ‘why expand if my taxes are going to go up to 80% in a few years?  Why risk my company if the return is essentially going to the government?’  So businesses did NOT expand.  And now the money is spent.  There is talk of spending ANOTHER 200 billion dollars– let’s see if it is spent wisely, or is instead wasted on paying for new Union-room coffee machines.

One final note-  I had the thought as I was reading about the billions upon billions that were being wasted on the new suddenly-endangered species that those people have quite a racket.  There were reports yesterday and today that environmental agencies had moseyed up to the spending hog-trough and were raking in huge increases in funding.  It occurred to me– who would question that?!  Can you see the press (outside of Fox news) going after agencies that protect spotted owls?  Michael Crichton had the guts to take on those agencies and was immediately dropped from all of the Hollywood guest lists;  with him gone (RIP) there is nobody, save John Stossel (who is already being pilloried) who will say a word about the issue.  And me, of course– but only two or three people get to hear my ranting!!

Unfortunately there is no giving him back!

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A reporter had the gall to attend a public event that was held to help people find assistance programs for which they may be eligible.  The recording speaks for itself.  If you are wondering what the point is, it is NOT about ‘racism,’ but rather to point out the attitudes that exist in America today.  Ask yourself who the respondents DON’T mention as the source of the money (i.e. YOU).  Also note the power of being the ‘person bearing gifts.’  The assumption is that the anointed one himself is bearing the gifts– when in reality he is only passing along what he has taken from you and benefiting from receiving credit for the gift.  It is ironic that the gift that ‘o’ is credited for is actually coming from the people who ‘o’ is always bashing– the hard-working, tax-paying citizens who have earned the right (by working their way to the upper percentage of incomes) to pay the majority of taxes (note that recent numbers released by the Feds themselves showed that the lower 50% of income-earners pay NO Federal tax.  Payroll tax, yes- but NO Federal tax at all– and often receive the ‘earned income tax credit’, a reverse-tax that PAYS OUT rather than demands paying in).

Just listen.  Is this attitude isolated?  I myself don’t think so.  Is it a good thing?  Is there anyone in the current majority doing anything at all to correct this attitude?

Really?!

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