Obama Will Soon Offer Plans to Create Jobs. Conservatives Must Help.
The country needs productive jobs, not counter-productive jobs.
During his bus tour of the hinterlands aboard a new $1.1 million bus made in Canada (“the perfect coach for entertainers, sports stars, NASCAR drivers, executive travel, or anyone accustomed to the very best”), President Obama’s much lamented bad luck ran out out. Only good luck could have brought him such a bus. Feeling very lucky, he promised that come September, when the CongressCritters return from their well deserved vacations listening attentively to constituents, he will offer some really great new plans to save/create more counter shovel ready jobs in the United States soon and to reduce the deficit someday.
As befits a top entertainer, President Obama will present his plans during a Big Show (hereinafter “BS”). Before presenting his BS, President Obama and family will travel to impoverished Martha’s Vineyard and stay for ten days at “Blue Heron Farm, a luxury retreat on Tisbury Great Pond in Chilmark.” Vacationing with an impressive entourage amongst the unwashed masses will doubtless create or save many jobs there and inspire him with fresh ideas.
President Obama’s BS will be as clear and specific as always and true to his view that we need more government. It is not yet known, at least outside the inner circle, what his specific BS will include. While probably not as specific as some policy wonks would like, there will be sufficient detail for the little people. As President Obama advised his supporters recently,
“I think the key is not to get too bogged down in detail,” the president said last night.
“If somebody asks about taxes, nobody is really interested in hearing what precise marginal tax rate change would you like to see in the tax code,” Obama said. “What they want to know is that our campaign stands for a fair, just approach to the tax code that says everybody has to chip in, and that it’s not right if a hedge fund manager is being taxed at a lower rate than his or her secretary.”
Something old, nothing new; something borrowed, nothing blue? President Obama is consistently consistent even in his inconsistency. It’s the domestic version of smart power, for which his administration is famous. Never mind that they are all fruitcakes, there have been some neat songs about fruitcakes.
Here is a sneak preview. When the BS plans are implemented, the United States will more closely resemble that remote and idyllic island of legend where the residents eked out bare livings by taking in each others’ laundry; nothing was produced. Only this time it will be better: the government will pay subsidies to those who pay for services and to those who provide them, hence making more money available for all to spend on other stuff produced elsewhere — a new laptop, television, or cell phone, for example. China and Japan should be very pleased. More food stamps will probably be included under a modernized Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to free up money to purchase whatever, beyond food, the folks want thereby encouraging more employment elsewhere; again, China and Japan should be very pleased. Maybe there will be a neatly crafted plan to provide these subsidies mainly in areas where unemployment is highest, to benefit voters in places where the Democratic Party usually wins elections. That might appease the Congressional Black Caucus.
But wait; there’s more. President Obama and his charming First Lady are keen on vacationing in expensive places and, after the hardships of life in the White House, need little touches of luxury. However, the common folk would be uncomfortable in such surroundings as found in sunny Spain or even Martha’s Vineyard. Hence, vacation stamps under a new SVAP — standing for “Supplemental Vacation Assistance Program” — must be introduced to pay for modest vacations in the poorest and most depressed places in the nation. There are plenty of those and their beauties often go unnoticed because few want to go there. This will bring unknown bounty to the unfortunates who live there, perhaps show flash mobs and other rioters that there are better ways to amuse themselves, and possibly even increase consumer confidence by showing the vacationers how much better off they are than those among whom they are vacationing.
Going really green will be part of the plan as well. A new and bright light bulb will shine to illuminate ways to save energy — just show them and they will come, as they did in Seattle:
SEATTLE (AP) — Last year, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn announced the city had won a coveted $20 million federal grant to invest in weatherization. The unglamorous work of insulating crawl spaces and attics had emerged as a silver bullet in a bleak economy — able to create jobs and shrink carbon footprint — and the announcement came with great fanfare.
McGinn had joined Vice President Joe Biden in the White House to make it. It came on the eve of Earth Day. It had heady goals: creating 2,000 living-wage jobs in Seattle and retrofitting 2,000 homes in poorer neighborhoods.
But more than a year later, Seattle’s numbers are lackluster. As of last week, only three homes had been retrofitted and just 14 new jobs have emerged from the program. Many of the jobs are administrative, and not the entry-level pathways once dreamed of for low-income workers. Some people wonder if the original goals are now achievable.
Only $1,428,571 per job? Cheap! It’s just ObamaMoney and the government can print create as much as is desired; if not, tax the obscenely rich! Don’t want to turn green? Green is beautiful! What would Kermit the Frog say? It’s not easy but that’s what we must do.
Although it’s great to give (or even to try to give) people money for stuff they don’t want and don’t think they need, and even better to give them money to buy things they do want if any are still manufactured in the United States, there are some silly notions that President Obama won’t consider because they are ideologically impure and he is far above that sort of pandering for votes.
Maybe he needs some changes in attitudes.
Unionize hookers, 0bama.
I can just see the ‘tramp stamps’ now:
“Hookers for 0bama 2012″
/sarc
I thought they were the pimps and we’re all the ho’s? Takin’ our money as fast as we can earn it…
After three years of hearing how this guy is the smartest president ever, let’s see what he comes up with after vacation. His plan will be so amazing that the citizens, and non-citizens, will encourage him to bypass Congress and enact it by fiat. I hear it’s been done. Recently.
Maybe there can be a Czar of Job Creation. And a Czar of Really Shovel Ready Projects. And a Czar of Washing the Misery Bus. And a Czar to Criticize Perry’s Boots. And a Czar to Enforce the Eating of Peas. I have already updated my resume so I can apply to be the Czar of my Block. I hear those jobs pay really well and I could remind my neighbors to use squiggly lightbulbs. Recycle. Get cash for their clunkers. Inflate their tires. Pay more taxes. Go to the cemetery and sign up some Democratic voters. Call Soros, get on the payroll, and post comments* on PJM. (*for source material, see WH talking points, DNC alerts, and MSNBC)
LeighB: Thanks for a cleverly written post and a good laugh, prior to a good cry.
And the appointment of all those Czars, especially the “Block Czars”, being paid excellent wages, will stimulate the economy and create even more jobs. Great idea! Unemployment problem solved.
Delia;
I think they have a “Ho’s Local” in San Francisco. They did a “slut walk” a few weeks ago. Did you miss it? See “Zombie’s” earlier post at PJM on 8/9/2011.
Oh; And Reid’s got one for sure. Very hush, hush, though.
The perfect starting place would be to announce he’s going to recommend that each of the legislators requests for pork spending be implemented ASAP. Most all of them make big claims for jobs! How could congress turn down such an offer? Wait till you see who’s porker for jobs requests come to surface!
To be serious for a moment, deep down the man is intelligent enough to realize the gig is up so he’ll be tempted to grab all the freebies (vacations, etc.) before his lease on the WH runs out. I mean, what could he possibly do when out of a job? Technically, I don’t believe he could work in a law firm. Maybe he could go back to ACORN and organize some new scams but his income will be dramatically diminished. He bowed so nicely to the Saudi king, maybe the Saudis might have something for him but once out of the WH to them he’ll become just another African which means at best playing a dhimmi and bowing deeper. In the interim, the dreamer in him, will to the last moment try for miracles to win back the illusion that he has something to offer.
He’ll still have his pay and security. The only things he won’t have is the residence at the White House and Air Force 1. He can be on permanent vacation.
Post oval office BHO will have multi-million $ book deals and rake in millions more on the lecture circuit. Michelle will be amply rewarded with sweetheart appointments to the boards of places like GE.
A year or two back, Bill Clinton came to our city to give a speech. The promoters advised that the seats in the first two rows would cost $2000 each. What’s crazy is that I live in Canada: I couldn’t believe that any but a handful of political junkies in this country would go to see an ex-President give a speech after he’d been out of office for a decade or more; I couldn’t imagine anyone that would pay $2000 for this “opportunity”.
I didn’t go and I heard nothing in the local media about how many people attended or sat in the first two rows but I have to believe that Clinton took away a lot of money from each of the appearances he made on this tour.
I don’t think Obama will be hurting for money once he’s left office.
Of course the lecture circuit won’t be his only source of income. There are bound to be all kinds of institutions (and some companies like GM) that will want to put him on their boards of directors, no doubt with handsome compensation.
The one thing I can’t imagine is that anyone would give him a real job doing something. That’s because he doesn’t have any ability or experience at anything in the real world, even after his time as President. That didn’t stop him from being elected to the Presidency but it should stop any damn fool in the private sector from ever hiring this bozo.
You are correct that nobody will give him a job “doing something.” Except talking. He will be paid bigtime to talk and talk and talk. Libs love to talk and they don’t care about facts or truth– Obama is the epitome of that.
Obama will not do the “rubber chicken” circuit, though. He will do the “straw man” (his specialty) circuit, comparing his ideas with ideas that no serious person ever proposed; that are so insane that they make his ideas seem reasonable.
He will make more money than Clinton– so much more that it will be jaw-dropping. But, at least he will be out of the White House.
I’m also sure he has at least one more auto-biography in him, and this one would make the Hillary Clinton book deal look like a bargain basement deal on a Polex watch. He is fifty years old now and his two previous auto-biographies are out-of-date.
¿Perhaps if the kiddiecons were to insource Freelord Miller from Panamá an’ run him for POTUS?
Happy days.
If I hear one more speech from Obama about “investing in infrastructure,” I think I’m going to vomit. Isn’t that what we did under the original “stimulus” bill? Didn’t we “invest” almost a trillion (with a “T”) dollars in “shovel-ready” programs tha were going to “jump-start” the economy? Didn’t we just do that? And didn’t Obama recently just chuckle at a public event that “Shovel-Ready wasn’t as shovel-ready as he thought?” After all this, he wants to do this AGAIN? How stupid does this bad salesman think we are? So we are going to repeat the exact same thing that did NOT work before? I’m telling you, 2012 can’t come fast enough for me. Our only hope is to throw this bum out of office.
Ls46 he allready knows there were enough of ue STUPID enough to elect him. so he assumes rightly so that there will still be enough STUPID IDIOTS to reelect him. one can only hope enough of them have come out from under the ether,
Liberals like Paul Krugman and Robert Reich keep talking about infrastructure. I keep asking about how many projects would be shovel-ready in the short term, given that Obama has already admitted that there aren’t many.
No answer.
They just ignore it.
It’s easier to chant “Infrastructure! WPA! Infrastructure! WPA!” like a mantra, with no actual numbers, no actual economic forecasts, no analysis of how quickly projects could be initiated, nothing.
Having said that, we do need to do a better job maintaining and improving our roads and highways. But that’s a long-term continuing effort. (How long did it take to build the Interstate Highway System?) It’s NOT going to lower unemployment this year, which is all liberals care about because high unemployment will mean Obama will lose in 2012.
It takes 2 years or more just for the EPA to review the environmental impact statements. Meanwhile, nothing is getting built at all.
Liberals could propose putting those infrastructure projects on a fast track. Give the EPA just 2 months, not 2 years, to do their reviews. But they can’t do that because their environmentalist allies would object. So they keep chanting “infrastructure” while giving the Natural Resources Defense Council every opportunity to block those same projects.
sinz: “Liberals like Paul Krugman and Robert Reich keep talking about infrastructure. I keep asking about how many projects would be shovel-ready in the short term, given that Obama has already admitted that there aren’t many.”
Ah, my friend, I see you might have been reading Volume 1 of “Krugman and Reich, The Clownishness of Bearded Economists” by yours truly. Here’s a tip for you. Be on the lookout for Volume 2, now at the printers.
I’m trying to think of a way that the hypothetical SVAP “vacation allowance” would be different from the British Labour Party-created “subsidy” for “overseas cultural travel”. Which mainly consisted of paying people to go once or twice a year on what Theodore Dalrymple refers to as “alcohol-and-drug-fueled rampages through Torremolinos” (that’s in Spain, BTW).
Thinking, thinking…
No. No difference at all.
The point being that no matter what preposterous idea you come up with for throwing taxpayers’ money down a hole and wrecking society in the process, somewhere a socialist masquerading as a “liberal” or “progressive” has already thought of it, and probably has already done it.
As for Obama, he is champing at the bit to do anything and everything that the Euro-socialists have done, plus more. He is determined that America (or at least he, himself) will lead the world in being completely irresponsible in politically-correct ways.
In this way, he will create Paradise, and finally be worshiped as he so richly deserves.
Well, that’s his theory, anyway.
Of course, most people with his level of delusions end up in padded cells, staring at the wall 24/7, having forgotten how to do anything else. While hiding from the Secret Masters of the Planet Neptune. But then, they aren’t progressive-type politicians.
clear ether
eon
Ah, but there is a difference. The SVAP will be for “modest vacations in the poorest and most depressed places in the nation” (emphasis added), i.e. the United States. This will be both a feature and a bug: a feature because the idea is to redistribute money in the U.S., and a bug because that’s the only place where, if our Great Leader has his way, it will be possible to use U.S. funds.
Of course, that leads to the question of why anyone would want to take a vacation in the “poorest and most depressed areas” of the U.S. I’m thinking southern Mississippi, as opposed to Miami/Dade.
The most likely ones to do it would be (surprise!) progressives of the arty type, who would go so they could be self-righteous, “sensitive”, and condescending toward the locals all at once. While feeling good about themselves, naturally.
Somehow, I suspect the locals would not find it all that amusing.
cheers
eon
On a side note, when in Moron (pronounced ‘Muhrone’) Spain in the 90′s assisting in yet ANOTHER U.S. Embassy evacuation from Africa myself and some colleagues went to Torremolinos. What a crummy tourist trap. As well as being inundated with U.S. Navy from Rota (though deliciously cheap paella!).
I’ll take Sevilla/Moron de la Frontera any day of the week.
I find it interesting that we are importing Latin America’s poverty into our own country and have likely added 100 million people in the last 20-25 years via high legal and illegal immigration rates. All these people require energy, infrastructure etc. We would have lower unemployment and far less energy use going forward if we would enforce illegal immigration laws and reduce immigration levels to historical levels of around 250,000 per year. Eradicate welfare to able bodied people and you will have the people to do the jobs that “Americans won’t do”.
We’re lucky so many lawn maintenance professionals have chosen to emigrate to the U.S.. Look how shabby America would be if it weren’t for them.
We owe them big time.
By appealing to reason, using facts and logic, you of course have become unintelligible to any liberals in range of your voice.
To which they respond, “Oh yeah? Well, you’re a poophead!”, while sticking their fingers in their ears. I understand Reich and Krugman have surgically implanted prosthetic earfingers, to free up their hands to type. It’s easier to concentrate, when you can’t hear dissenting opinion.
I guess this essay was a serious discussion of President Obama’s accomplishments, since there was no “sarc” tag anywhere. I was tempted to laugh many times, but, stifled the laughter because the the thought of the gravity of Mr. Obama’s dilemma is so immeasurable and unconquerable.
I think you’re on the right track, Mr. Miller, with the “Big Show” idea.
With the abject poverty befalling those poor people in Martha’s Vineyard, since Bush’s policies have left them so desolate and unable to recover, Michael Moore should have the Obama’s do a remake of the movie “On Golden Pond”. What splendid personal magnificence these two would bring to that story! We all know how adept Michael Moore is at producing love stories.
And with all the money that flows into the area from all the movie production revenue, they could build a bridge to the mainland for these poor folks. The Obama’s could have the bridge named after them and the access to the mainland would give the inhabitants acces to the nearest fast food drive through.
They could even build a WalMartha’s Market! God knows how badly they need one.
The two derelict busses Mr President will be abandoning, can be salvaged and used to ferry groups of the inhabitants to Detroit to show these people how well Obama’s economic recovery can totally remake their neighborhoods.
These people might even be so gracious they’ll want to rename Martha’s Vineyard, MIchelle’s Vineyard!!!!
I’m so overwhelmed with the possibilities.
(Just in case I misunderstood this article, I’ll laugh out loud in private.)
Basic commonsense policies are needed; that’s what the Tea Party is all about. Nothing else…and the weird, irrational rants against the Tea Party are either ignorant of its policies or are pure malicious political agendas.
The Tea Party policies are realistic and simple:
-limited government, constitutionally focused;
-balanced budget;
-free markets;
-lower taxes and tax reform;
-individual freedom and responsibility.
So- your reduction of govt regulations is a basic requirement; Obama’s massive increase in centralist, irrational regulations are smothering production.
And the equally massive increase in the public service, who live off the taxpayer, must be stopped. The public service unions, parasites, whose focus is on enriching themselves via the taxpayer, and who are embedded with the Democrats, should be abolished. A public service has no right to salaries, benefits and pensions above that of the private sector. Indeed, it ought to be lower, for a public service provides no wealth production to an economy.
Outsourcing to foreign countries? Well, that’s due to the rise of the unions, who drove up costs beyond the carrying capacity of industry in the USA.
Health care? The entitlements must be reformed; this includes social security, medicare and health insurance – the latter must be kept private. Tort reform is vital, cross-state coverage is vital.
But the govt should not move into this industry, as govt is a CONSUMER economy not a PRODUCTIVE part of the economic triad (investment, production, consumption). If you make this consumption available only within a monopoly, then…The result of a consumer action within a monopoly is that the costs of goods increases, as the system focuses on its employees rather than on providing goods and services. We see this constantly; the services are ignored, the employees are protected, unaccountable..fat cats.
Again, commonsense solutions are realistic and simple. The problem is, the US moved into a governmental mode that enabled more and more of its economic and productive lifestyle to be taken over within government. This can be seen at the municipal, state as well as federal levels. What follows is the emergence of an elite sector of the population, the bureaucrats, who become – akin to the 18th c landowners of Europe – a privileged class. They are very difficult to dethrone (I don’t mean individually, I mean as a class) and their rule and authority are upheld not merely by law and custom but by backroom deals and family contacts etc.
Then, Obama’s socialism is the movement of the federal level against the state level; that is, his ‘elites’ are taking more and more authority away from the state level. Notice that Obama is ignoring the rule of law within the federal system. He is ignoring the laws passed/not passed by Congress – and simply setting up unelected govt bodies that carry out the rules that were either rejected or not passed by Congress!
So, Congress refused cap-and-trade laws; Obama sets up the EPA to regulate the environment and business anyway.
Congress hasn’t passed the DREAM act; Obama sets up his DOJ to carry out its policies of ‘let them in’ anyway.
Imagine that. For Obama, Congress is irrelevant. He showed that long ago, when he insisted that Congress pass – without reading and without debate – his ‘Stimulus’ (which was a pork bill to protect the unionized public service); and his Health Care -which is a massive attack against the states. Remember that Pelosi told us; ‘you’ll know what’s in the bill after we pass it’. Huh? What kind of government is that?
Remember, Congress represents all the people, all Americans. Obama is thumbing his nose at America and Americans as he moves, more and more, into a ‘soft dictatorship’, run by propaganda and his endless Performances on camera, when he feeds us BS and emotional emptiness.
“Outsourcing to foreign countries? Well, that’s due to the rise of the unions, who drove up costs beyond the carrying capacity of industry in the USA.”
Partly so. Thanks to our Federal government, at 35%, we also have the highest corporate tax rates in the world. Then add in the state governments, which levy their own. California is at 10% or 11%. Granted there are deductions, but our governments seem to want to impede competion with other countries. Many foreign governments subsidize exports to the U.S., so our businesses have difficulty competing. A business that can’t compete either dies or is forced to move offshore. And the unions keep keep pressuring for laws to prevent businesses from moving overseas. If you can’t compete, you close the doors and terminate employees. Contrary to popular union myths, businesses can’t operate at a loss.
Excellent points and analysis.
These costs – the unionization of employees, the federal and state corporate and other taxes – have effectively driven the cost of the goods beyond the capacity of the US consumer to pay for them. So, they buy goods produced in China and Japan and India and elsewhere.
Add to that cost of producing goods and the flight of production overseas, the exponential increase in government costs, with the expansion of the bureaucracy since WWII, and you have an economy unable to sustain itself..and reduced to debt and borrowing.
What’s needed? Reduce the size of the government and thus, its costs to the taxpayer; reduce and reform individual and corporate taxes; get rid of the smothering bureaucratic driven regulations. Free the private sector in this way, to focus on its primary activities of: production of goods and re-investment of profits into manufacturing and business.
What’s the Democrat/Obama solution? Simply borrow more from foreign economies and tax more…a vicious circle which utterly and totally ignores and demolishes the first two phases in an economy of: Investment and production.
The cost of government in the us is 42% of the GDP, before attempting to monetize regulation, which is probably another 25% of the total. That’s a burden that is built into every Big Mac, every ipod and every automobile (ps: businesses put profit on the expense of taxes as well, so 42% become a 46% to 47% burden).
What do you think the overhead buren is in China? I don’t know, but it ain’t 47%. And their regulatory costs are probably less than 5%.
Take away our bloated, worse than useless government bureaucracy, and we are instantly competitive with them on price, and we blow them away on quality.
Thanks for reminding us. Our regulations are definitely having an effect on our business competitiveness. There are semi-autonimous government entities like the EPA and NLRB, through misunderstood economic principles and politics, causing our manufacturing base to increase the “cost of doing business”. We actually have the most stringent environmental regulations in the world, although the greenies will say otherwise. Fewer regulations and tax cuts are the way to go. When the Bush tax cuts took effect in 2003-2004, the economy took off and unemployment dropped, until the financial crises, which is another story.
Just curious where you get your government spending 40% of GDP.
["Federal spending has soared over the past decade. As a share of gross domestic product, spending grew from 18 percent in 2001 to 24 percent in 2011. The causes of this expansion include the costs of wars, growing entitlement programs, the 2009 stimulus bill and rising spending on discretionary programs such as education.......New projections from the Congressional Budget Office show that without reforms spending will keep rising for decades to come. The CBO's "alternative fiscal scenario" shows spending growing to 34 percent of GDP by 2035."]
CATO and Daily Caller July 2011
What follows is the emergence of an elite sector of the population, the bureaucrats, who become – akin to the 18th c landowners of Europe – a privileged class. They are very difficult to dethrone (I don’t mean individually, I mean as a class) and their rule and authority are upheld not merely by law and custom but by backroom deals and family contacts etc.
Actually, I don’t think it’s particularly easy to dethrone even a minor bureaucrat – or a teacher.
I remember Milton Friedman describing the hoops that the government had to jump through to get rid of a secretary who did virtually no work (because she rarely came to work and did almost nothing on the rare occasions she was there) in the 1980 version of Free to Choose. It’s only gotten worse – much worse – since then. John Stossel displayed a flowchart of the steps which need to be taken to fire a unionized high school teacher. It was mind-boggling with dozens of steps on a very large piece of paper. If I remember correctly, he said it took six years to go through all these steps for a teacher that had solicited sexual favours from his female students via email that he had signed with his own name using his school email account. If even a slam-dunk case takes six years, you can imagine how long a more ambiguous case takes….
And if it takes that much time to get rid of someone near the bottom of the totem pole, I can only assume that it is much harder to get rid of someone near the top.
Exactly right, Henry. It’s almost impossible to get rid of anyone in the public service.
For any reason: non-performance of work, inadequate work, errors in work, gross violation of others…You can’t get rid of them; they have to be ‘moved to another position’. And of course, they keep all their salaries, benefits, pensions..all paid by the taxpayer.
As proreason has pointed out, over 40% of the GDP goes to government. And, think of it, government operates in the Consumer phase of the economic triad of Investment/Production/Consumption. It produces no wealth. None. That’s why government should be as small as possible and provide only services that enrich and enable the operation of the other two economic functions. Instead, it’s become the largest of the three…and by its parasitic stranglehold, prevents a robust economy.
The plan is two words, Ben Bernanke. The Fed chairman is virtually Obama’s enabler, hard to accept but possible it’s another round of funny money. No more ridiculous than committing to a non-existent Fed rate for two years out. All the other nonsense is predicated on the Fed, the nations morons will go for what ever slop follows.
Bernanke is going to print more money. It’s his faith that more money will lift the US out of all the problems he thinks it has (and few of those are the same as what we think on the subject). He will continue in order to prove how much more intellegent and better educated he is. Anything that threatens that is going to incite him to try harder, and harder, and harder, while the nation sinks into a morass of suffering and poverty. And he will believe it’s all our fault because we are not reacting as he believes we should.
Even if he fell over dead today, the US will continue to slide into history as a has-been nation. There are just too many other factors, all reinforcing one another.
Goes for Obama and Soros, too.
But don’t hold your breath Danny, Barako won’t do any of that !!
after almost 3 years in office he finaly has a plan.. just like 08 he was going to change the world and he owned all 3 house and put us in this mess… so now he is running AGAIN and making promises….. Do youthink the people are going to buy it? or they are going to vote on his record… Actions speak louder than words…!
President Obama has many plans, but his first priority now is to avoid an encounter with a bunny wabbit. Should there be such an encounter, he would have to consult former President Carter to devise a suitable plan for a kinetic non-violent response showing both his great humanity and his manly ways of responding to crises. Unfortunately, the poor wabbit would die of old age before they figured it out and got the appropriate regulatory approvals.
That was good I remember in 1979 seeing the actual footage of the “killer rabbit” attacking Jimmuh in his canoe or whatever small watercraft he was in, sure wish there was still a video of this hilarious episode of such a dufus like Carter!
Mr. Miller;
If you are a Muppet fan, may I suggest the CD “John Denver & The Muppets A Christmas Together”, if you don’t already have it.
This CD has the transcendental requirement Conservatives need for the next Christmas season.
People take Little Lenin’s policy proclamations too seriously. They aren’t intended to be implemented, they are intended to get people to vote for him, and/or feel good about themselves for supporting such a progressive and fair person. As ETAB has said so well before, the truth is that he leaves the niggling policy details to others. And as Mr. Miller says, everything the Marxist in Chief does is for show.
The benefits of this approach are astonishing:
- since his proposals are impossible to implement, and never actually get approved by Congress, he can never be blamed for failure. Failure is always always somebody else’s responsiblity
- beyond that, his proposals can’t even be scored by the CBO. What a boon that is; lack of responsibility squared
- when somebody else (evil Republicans, but also Reid and Pelosi) actually implement something, and it fails, or even falls short of the mark, Little Lenin can always point out that they didn’t go far enough…no tax hikes in the Debt Ceiling compromise, nobody told him there were no shovel ready jobs in the StickItToUs, ObamaCare doesn’t have enough government in it, the subsidies for green energy haven’t been enough, we haven’t spent enough money on education, etc.
- there is always more work to be done. He needs to be elected again. He needs to be given more power. The media must stop advocating so strongly for his opponents
He has been thwarted at every turn. It’s virtually a conspiracy against him. ETAB is right about that as well. Obama is a victim. If he loses (and it’s inconceivable that he can even conceive of losing, since he is now 50 and he hasn’t lost at anything significant in his life), then he will be a martyr.
If you don’t want to make him a martyr, you have to vote for Obama.
Yes, it’s quite fascinating – and horrifying – to step back, far back, and see what is going on in the US. We have two key infrastructural changes to the USA that have been set up and are being set up. We aren’t that aware of them. But they are deep infrastructural changes to the basic economic AND political nature of America. Do we want them???
First, was the post WWII movement from a population based around a free, independent, mobile middle class. This individualist, independent set of the population is what the Constitution is based on. Free, equal, able and expected and allowed..to work, to invent, to think. A nation unheard of in the history of mankind.
The middle class, by the way, is the key popoulation in the economic triad of: investment, production, consumption. They, proportionally, are the highest percentage of the population in all three areas of the economy. They make profits, they invest those profits in building more factories, hiring more workers, investing in loans etc. They produce the most products and services. And obviously, consume the most.
The lower and upper classes MUST be kept, proportionally, in small ratios. Before US, the upper class was the privileged and powerful class and the lower class was the most numerous..but without power. The US changed all that..
Then, post WWII, the infrastructure changed. Government grew, at all levels: municipal, state and federal. This set up an elite class, the bureaucrats, the public service. This class is part of the Consumer phase of the economic triad. They produce no wealth, they consume massive..and more and more..of the middle class profits. This means – less investment capacity…and production starts to fall.
The unions move in, and the bureaucratic class demands higher salaries, benefits and pensions. The middle class shrinks in its investment and productive capacity. This is the basis of the crumbling US…that shrinking of the middle class, that set of free indivdualist people, for whom the Constitution was written..and their replacement by Bureaucrats. [Animal Farm?]
Industrial production moves overseas….and tax revenues continue to fall. Middle class jobs fall to low levels. The bureaucracies increase their numbers; often, they are the only jobs available!
Young people move out of the job market and delay their entrance by going to college and university – into essentially mindless degrees in humanities and social sciences. This reduces the strain on the job market for a few years but leaves most of them with massive debts. When they graduate, there are few jobs available..other than within the ever-increasing public service.
This movement of the economy from a private sector economy to a public sector economy is disastrous. The private sector economy is based around invesment and production of goods and services; this enables it to produce wealth. The public sector is based only around consumption. It does not produce wealth.
The nation ends up…borrowing more and more and more..to sustain its ‘faux economy’. So, wealth production moves elsewhere, and the US moves into a consumer rather than investment/production ..economy.
And, along with this, is a deliberate increase in the proportion of the population dependent on the govt for its consumer needs. The black population has been reduced to dependency, many other ‘identity groups’ are in similar positions. Almost 50% of the population pay no taxes; an enormous proportion are on welfare and other social services.
This set of the population has been removed from the Middle Class identity around which this nation was built. They produce no wealth; have nothing to invest; produce nothing. They merely consume. This further depletes the economic strength…as the third sector of the economic triad (investment, production, consumption)…becomes the most populated! No economy can afford such an imbalance!
Now, we see something else going on. A second phase. Obama and his Gang. My view is that, Obama himself, is a pathological narcissist, and has no interest apart from his own heady Power. He’s certainly not interested in policies and programs. He’s not an ideological but a psychological socialist. That is, since he moved into politics, then socialism is the only place he could move to, as socialism sets up Rulers over Ruled. And Obama must control people. He’s unable to directly interact with people as equals; he has to control them. Notice also, he’s been surrounded, all his life, by anti-American, anti-capitalist women: his mother, grandmother, wife. Add that to his pathological need to empower Himself and diminish the capacity of others…
His gang? It’s pure socialism..and something else. What we see in Obama’s Reign is a massive assault by the federal government against the States. In the first phase of this infrastructural change the federal govt is attempting to reduce the power of the states to govern. Every single act of Obama’s follows this agenda.
The stimulus – propped up the unionized public service workers in the states. It had NOTHING to do with helping the private economy. NOTHING. The unionized bureaucracies …regardless of states..are part of the ‘federal’ power.
Health care? A massive assault on States – and individual – rights, inserting the federal govt…and increasing the bureaucratic proportion of the population by a huge ratio.
Congress? Obama ignores it. Utterly ignores it – insisting that it pass his bills without reading or debating, and ignoring their laws that they pass when he doesn’t like them. Imagine that; a federal government is ignoring Congress, which is the will and power of the people. The people are irrelevant in this phase.
All that the people are, now, is a means of ‘showing power’; i.e., they have no WILL to govern themselves, no AUTHORITY to govern themselves. Nothing. That is being taken from them in this phase.
And Obama is a Performer; he performs a role to entice the people into being ‘his’. He came to power in 2008 as The Messiah. Now, he’s playing the role of Victim – as proreason outlines in examples. And, if you confront Obama, he’ll play the Martyr-to-be-crucified. Watch him manipulate.
I’m not as despairing as others; I think we are starting to recognize that things are ‘not as they should be’…and the rise of the Tea Party, which does indeed recognize this infrastructural collapse..is a shining hope. Of course, the bureaucrats and those who have become dependent on this new socialist state, will fight to retain their privileges. The landowners and aristocrats in Europe fought as well…but…can an economy sustain itself if it removes its population from the capacity for investment and production?
The government bureaucracy is worse than neutral. It’s the reality of Keansian economics…it actually consumes the production of the public sector, in several ways.
First, the government requires massive taxation to support. The current size of the federal government budget is 3.8T. State and local budgets are about 3T
(but about .5T are transfers from the federal gov). Thus government consumes 6.3T of a 15 trillion GDP…42% of the economy. Average taxatiion levels aren’t currently that high, but don’t kid yourself. That 42% has to be paid one way or another, thorugh current taxes, inflation, and future taxes. 42% is reality.
In other words, 17 hours of a 40 hour work week goes toward supporting government. But it’s better than that!! Since about 50% pay no federal taxes, even Joe Sixpack, who actually has a job, might well be contributing more than half his labor to his government overseers.
Second, the government is like sand in the gears. Bureaucrats are hired to “regulate”, and regulate they will. Estimates for the burden of regulation vary up to 2 trillion annually. That could be low, larger if we could drill for oil. Pharmaceuticals might have developed twice the life-saving medicines if they hadn’t had their hands tied. The sand in the gears might have a 25% impact on the economy.
But they don’t care about that. They care only about their power. They don’t care about what works. What works doesn’t improve their own position, doesn’t increase their own power.
YOU are the sand in the marxists’ wheels, because you impede their power.
And Obama’s strategy is totally separate from all of that. One might even say that his strategy is to completely hide it. He sells envy. That’s it. Every thing he does is designed to make you envious of something, with the provision that only government can correct it, redistribute it. You must be envious of businessmen, you must be envious of the affluent, white people, heterosexuals who look down on others, Christians with their false claims to eternal life, the families that stolen money enables, the education that stolen money enables. Even Obama’s lifestyle reminds you of these things, even while he demagogues against them. He doesn’t mind if you are envious of him. He knows your will project that envy on the fat cats. He moved on up, after all, because of government. Your only hope is to do the same; your only hope is to elect him.
Excellent – and that’s exactly right; the govt consumes almost half of the economy. How much of that goes to support the bureaucracy vs money spent on actual goods/services? We know that administration costs often go up to 70-80% of a govt budget, leaving almost nothing for goods/services.
And, as you say, a bureaucracy is like sand in the pipes; it impedes, slows down, destroys an economy. Obama’s current massive growth of regulation is destroying the private economy.
My points are, to repeat:
1) an economy is triadic: investment, production, consumption. All are entangled.
2) the US was founded and prospered as a private sector middle class economy;
3) post WWII, this structure changed and was replaced by a public bureaucracy which reduced the size and strength of the genuine (private) middle class and thus reduced the investment and production sectors of the economic triad.
4)this reduced the capacity of the US for wealth production and led to an increase in borrowing..and debt;
5)currently, we have an Obama-Gang attack by the federal govt against state govts, attempting to reduce the power of the state legislatures to control their own economy; and
6)a federal rejection of the federal Congress.
That is – the bureaucracy, federal and state – are taking the govt away from the people!
And that’s what the rise of the Tea Party is all about.
Is anyone else beginning to think that ETAB and proreason are one and the same guy? The mutual admiration is getting a little thick in here. And it’s downright creepy if they are the same guy agreeing with himself….
Nope, skeptic, I’m not proreason..and proreason is not me.
Are you seriously suggesting that two people cannot, using their reason to analyze facts, come to similar conclusions? Are you???? Whew. Where would science be if The Rule was that no-one would be allowed to come to the same conclusion?
Are you also suggesting that all those who voice opposition to Obama’s policies, even on this one blog, are not in the hundreds but reduce to only one person?
I suggest you come up with a new conspiracy theory.
Look at the writing styles, skeptic. They couldn’t be more different.
Plus, we have different themes and often disagree.
More evidence that libwits have no ability to reason whatsoever. This tool is pissed off that ETAB and I make stong cases for conservative thinking and in revealing Obama’s manias, so he naturally goes directly to a conspiracy theory.
Pitiful.
Words have a tremendous power.
Perhaps it is time to call the “Elite” class what it actually is – the “Parasitic” class.
It is standard Alinskyite/community organizer/union representative tactics. This is what it is like to deal with public employee unions, at least the big wall to wall ones like NEA or AFSCME. They almost never make an actual written proposal on anything. If they do, it is pie in the sky stuff calculated to please their most radical constituents and to be immediately and forcefully rejected by the employer. They constantly go to their running dogs in the media and mouth nebulous, sweet-sounding platitudes while complaining about how the employer is “bargaining in the media” and how unreasonable the employer’s positions are. Somewhere the threat to stop some vital public service or to take away the kiddies’ babysitters, or not print the welfare checks comes in. Then in a Democrat government, the union and the administration conspire to carry out a charade of bargaining that might even go so far as a short strike to make the point. Then the union goes on a media campaign to show the mommies with cancer who lost their health insurance and the starving babies and shuttered businesses because of the strike or lockout. Of course, the Democrat government can do all that harm so they settle with the union for something less than the union’s original exhorbitant demand but for far more than any sane person would have given them. That’s how the Blue states all got bankrupt. In a Republican state, the game is the same but usually without the collaborative charade; Republicans actually have to engage in adversarial bargaining with them, but at any given time there are only two to four states that have a significantly unionized workforce and Republican governance. What happens all too often in the Republican states is when the threats or job actions start the Republican government goes all weak-kneed and starts bargaining with itself – while enduring relentless media criticism for its intransigence – to try to come up with something that the union will buy. Sounds a lot like how we got the debt ceiling deal, doesn’t it? Anyway, if the Republican government will stand its ground and tell the union that it will take a strike and even lock them out if they try a “rolling” or limited strike – they know the members won’t stay out more than a few days, they can’t afford it, then the Republican government wins and the union comes to heel on the government’s terms
So, there’s a short course on how to deal with Alinsky tactics. Understand they don’t want a deal with a Republican and will only take a deal if it is the only alternative to feeling actual political, financial, or, if necessary, physical pain. So, you put a gun to their head, figuratively, of course, and ask them to be reasonable. I’ve found that they usually make intelligent decisions when so informed.
Newspeak: Investing=Flushing
Throw out Uhbama and that wombat he refers to as, ‘Michelle’.
Along with “BS” count on “HOME” (Hire One More Employee) to be part of it. Who wants to vote against “HOME.”
Dr. Shalit
In keeping with the way the ObamaTrons think and operate, they’ll devise a jobs program that emulates the forced participation of ObamaCare:
HOME (Hire One More Employee) … OR ELSE.
Mandate e-verify, so jobs are given to legal Americans.
The benefits are two-fold; our unemployment rate goes down, and illegals go home. The latter benefits us a hundred-fold; more money into our economy, lower taxes, less crime, better-allocated gov’t spending, higher quality healthcare & education, the list goes on…
The benefits are two-fold; our unemployment rate goes down, and illegals go home.
Great idea but it’ll never work: the Democrats will just create a massive amnesty to make all those “undocumented workers” legal citizens.
Having government take over the U.S. medical industry is as good an idea as the Soviet government’s decision to take over or “collectivize” agriculture. After Stalin did that, they were never self-sufficient in food again.
I usually mute his speeches, but this one I will watch, with a big glass of Laphroaig neat. Can’t wait for him to unveil a great new plan. BS.
Karla, a word of caution. Please leave that Laphroaig on a high shelf in the kitchen if you’re going to watch his television appearances. You’ll be a raging drunk in no time.
You need to save the Laphroaig for the good times. It’ll be better aged and a helluva lot more enjoyable. I think Lite beer suits any of Obama’s occasions. And you’ll be so busy barfing from drinking it, you’ll not feel so depressed with Obama’s continued failures. You’ll really want to forget them anyway.
I think Lite beer suits any of Obama’s occasions.
I would have said cod liver oil would be the most appropriate thing to drink to an Obama speech….
I generally need Alka-Seltzer (TM) after one.
Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, and all that.
cheers
eon
Sparky;
Didn’t some Obama Czar put cods on the protected species list?
Years ago I liked to use Neatsfoot oil on my leather goods. But, I think Neats are extinct now.
“New ideas” are exactly what got us into this, old experience is what will get us out.
This is the very best BS I’ve read in quite some time; since November. 2008 I think. A must read for Obama and his ilk. I especially enjoyed Jimmy Buffet but Mr. Miller needs to work on his sense of humor. He’s far too serious.
So in 2012, the president’s campaign slogan will be, “We put the ‘OBS’ in JOBS.”
Does anyone know what does the “J” stand for?
A “J” is one of those things smoked by ObamAA+ that most people think are cigarettes.
Building pyramids with manual labor would create a few jobs.
Bringing back the draft would also reduce unemployment.
You could combine the two ideas and draft pyramid builders.
I dont understand why everyones so upset about him taking a vacation. When he is at work everything he touches turns to pooh-pooh including our country, I would have no problem with him staying on vacation till November 2012…..heck I’d bet any of you if he did announce he was staying on vacation, the stockmarket would go positive for months into the future!
Here is an innovative idea that had not occurred to me. PETA intends to launch a porn site when the new .xxx URLs become available. No, it does not appear to be satire. According to Huff & Puff,
This is a great innovation and the ObamaCampaign will have no choice but to imitate it to publicize both its splendid plans for creating jobs and also the ways in which the malicious Republicans (stuff-shirts all) have thwarted them. Countless jobs will be created or saved and the cost will be minimal. The mind boggles at the possibilities.
Ya can’t make this sort of stuff up.
YEA! (cough) The thought of all those (choke) naked bodies gallivanting around the White House (mmmmfffff) gets me soo excited!!! (hack/barf)
I must be gettin’ a touch of the swine flu. I know it’s not Mad Cow, or I’d be over at Huff-Po and Politico agreeing with all the tripe they print.
Mark Steyn has a great name for Obama: Barack The Growth Slayer.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/275101/imperial-presidency-mark-steyn?page=2
Not a troll and ill keep this short. I know all you people at PJM care about this sort of thing.
I just spent a sabbath as a religious jew in Israel every half an hour checking the screen of my iphone and seeing the reports of a hail of rockets coming down on beersheva, ashkelon, ashdod, ofakim…
BBC middleast page headlines.
“Iran jails US hiker for spying”
“Heavy gunfire erupts in Tripoli”
“Israel ‘regrets’ deaths in Egypt”
“New Syrian protests ‘turn deadly’ ”
“Turkey jets in new strikes against PKK” (btw i wish they would put israeli strikes in such boring terms)
In small writing
Trial ordered for Hariri suspects
Yemen’s Saleh vows to return home
Rights panel shuts Bahrain office
Israeli forces kill two in Gaza
Judge takes Mubarak trial off TV
Israel backs Ariel settler homes
Wave of violence hits Iraq cities
Sorry guys, i love Sara Palin but were a’hurtin.
BBC keep up the good work
When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, flee immediately and don’t delay to gather supplies. Be ready to depart at a moment’s notice, just as your ancestors fled Egypt on Passover.
OOOOOOOHHHHHH! You are a sinner. May God forgive your disrespect of the Shabbat.
But, thanks for the update. Looks like you got the “scoop” here in PJM world.
I stayed in Be’er Sheva many years ago, because it was the safest place from the rocket fire, and suicide bomber attacks, at the time. It’s a very peaceful place very much like a college campus type area.
This is the area of Israel where the “MIT” type of students come from.
The Israeli’s should exact the reciprocal violence upon their aggressors. Those savages deserve nothing less. And if I had anything to do with the retaliation, it would be relentless.
Simboy:
Sorry; This was a reply to your comment.
We’re all drowning in the serial BS coming out of the Obama administration.
And have given up on even the pretense of taking any of it seriously.
Obama had a big problem in delegating the development of his “jobs” program. Those capable of engaging in “productive jobs” that make a profit, and which put something in the market that the people with money want, available a a comparatively cheap price that still produces a profit, well those people are mostly Republicans. Obama as a democrat does not want to use gov’t money to create jobs that might help or enrich republicans.
Sooooo! as a true democrat, Obama can only create a jobs plan that helps the non-productive, interested more in perks and pay that production. Problem is those people can’t justify their work with profits, so must get their money from other sources, like taxes and “spreading other peoples’ money into unproductive liberals pockets.”
Which will produce more jobs? Production, by giving value to money , creates more jobs. Liberalism by destroying the value of money creates more poverty. When will the poor wake up to the fact that lying liberals just looking for their votes through bribery, are really their worst enemies. It’s so obvious to me. Why is it not obvious to everyone?
Obama has already laid the foundation for major aspects of his miraculous jobs plan… (from Obama orders new plan to diversify federal workers)…
“President Barack Obama signed an executive order Thursday directing federal officials to design a government-wide strategy for making the federal workforce more diverse.”
This means that in Obama’s version of diverse America, whites do not get employment in government. However, whites are expected to be taxed to death in private jobs, in order to support over-represented minorities in do-nothing government bureaucracies, as well as tens of millions of perpetually downtrodden but endlessly deserving minorities and illegals on welfare programs.
You see, the tables have been turned… whites are now forced to pay for their collective past sin of slavery, by becoming the new slaves of the State. And to keep you in line, on a regular basis your stores will be flash-mobbed, your cities will be burned, your daughters will be raped, and ‘random attacks by youths’ will have you beaten within an inch of your life. People, this is a race war against you, brought to you by progressives, and gaining momentum now for decades. If you refuse to understand this, and/or continue to do nothing about it, then I can only conclude that you are enjoying the whip hand of your new massa’s.
A major point that no one seems to be addressing is how do the people prevent a repetition of Obama’s behavior by a future president. Obama has pointed out a major flaw in our system of government that has not been a problem in the past because all Presidents have had their view of good of the USA as their guiding light. Obama has a different guiding light. He has just selectively ignored those portions of the Constitutional restrictions on his power that he doesn’t like and no one has done anything to stop him. Who has failed to act? What organization now needs to act to protect our governmental system in the future? Any ideas?
You raise an important point. Obama has been, right from the start, ignoring Congress, its laws and the restrictions and laws of the Constitution.
These include, not only insisting that Congress pass His bills without reading or debate, but, his indifference to the laws that Congress either passes or does not pass. Obama’s EPA is in direct violation of the will of Congress which rejected the regulatory operations of EPA. And, it’s the same with the Dream Act that Congress did not pass; Obama is ignoring this and having his administration carry out its rules anyway.
The Libyan ‘war’ – which by constitutional law ought to be approved by Congress – Obama simply redefined ‘war’ as meaning: ‘hostile troops on the ground’ – ignoring that ‘hostile bombs dropped from the air’ are also an integral part of ‘war’.
Congress has to impeach Obama for violation of the Constitution. The problem is, that no-one has the guts to do this and are probably hoping that the election will achieve that goal.
Don’t underestimate Obama’s capacity-to-Perform. That is ALL he is: a performer, and he’s an Oscar winner at that. He is not an intellect, not a policy or program developer, not an analyst, not an economist..nothing. All he is, is a Performer. He has perfected this role since childhood and he is very, very good at it.
His Performances have one agenda: to control you. To achieve your adulation – and he’ll do anything to get it: he lies as he breathes, he’ll emotionally manipulate you..and he does this emotional manipulation constantly…present Himself as victim if you dissent…and defining YOU as bigoted and ignorant if you question him.
Obama presents himself, always, as the ‘young superrock star’..bouncing up on the stage, grinning and waving, dancing around…mouthing empty platitudes, presenting himself as a ‘folksy fellow’… It’s hard to dislike such a seeming helpless, goofy, charmer.
Obama’s first role in 2008 was as a Messiah, come to heal the oceans and the planet – and no-one questioned the arrogant effrontery of such a claim. He performed as Lincoln on the train to his inauguration (remember that?). Then, at various times, he’s performed as Reagan, and Martin Luther King, as Lincoln again.
And, now, his most recent role is: Victim. He, the pure, clean college-boy charmer, who only wants to do good in this world, is a victim of the manipulative dirty old men of Washington, of Congress…those ‘old politicians’ who just want to get political power…
This is all a Performance. Never, ever, forget, that it’s all a Performance for Obama. He has no capacity for empathy, for involvement with others, for patriotism for America. He has, we know, no economic or fiscal or managerial or..any..expertise or interest in these areas.
He has no capacity for anything other than a pathological need to Control others. And making YOU weaker as an individual, and HIS government more powerful and ruling over you…is part of this agenda.
So- when he bounces on stage, and laughs and waves and dances around – don’t ever forget. He’s a Performer and his one agenda is: to control…you.
I understand how Obama is fixated on controlling everything and seems to be succeeding on several fronts. Many are now onto him now and want to replace him. While impeachment sounds good, the current Democratic Senate will never vote to remove Obama, so that becomes just an exercise in futility. He will remain until the 2012 election. The problem is that he can do a lot of damage between now and that election, unless his rule by decree can be reigned in. Is anyone working on doing that? Can the House stop funding some of these agencies immediately to halt implementation of his directives. There have now been several court decisions against Obamacare, yet no one is moving to stop further implementation. The courts have ruled that the restrictions on drilling in the Gulf are invalid, and Obama reimposes them. That seems to be Contempt of Court. Who is fighting that? Do we all have to sit back and let Barry play while we suffer, until Jan 2013? Where are the checks and balances? Do we need a Constitutional Convention to add backbone to those who should be implementing the “checks and balances on the imperial president?
Theoretically, who do you think should be at the forefront of calling out unConstitutional executive acts and impeachable offenses? I would think it should be the so-called opposition, i.e., the Republicans… however, since they absolutely refuse to acknowledge perfidy when it is right in front of their noses, and since they have neither the backbone nor the cojones to do anything other than go-along-get-along (GAGA), then the inescapable conclusion is that they cannot be trusted any more than the Democrats. Furthermore, most of the new Representatives supported by the Tea Party succumbed to the likes of Boehner and the entrenched old guard in Washington, and promptly caved in to the travesty of a so-called debt reduction bill.
Even if Obama is cast out of office, there are millions of faceless progressive bureaucrats firmly entrenched in the bowels of government at all levels, who will do their utmost to obfuscate, resist, and twist the law to their own ends, thereby continuing to turn this country into a living hell of statist, leftist encroachment into every facet of you and your family’s lives.
So my next question to you, then, is why do you think voting in 2012 will make any difference? Do you really think you can just vote Satan out of office, and that he and his minions will then slink off quietly into the night?
I don’t think they’ll slink off, but I still believe that yanking the reins of power out of their hands is a necessary and useful first step.
And I believe that almost everyone in the Republican field is of good faith, or, at the very least, better faith than the current crowd.
Call me Pollyanna.
As much as I hate to detract from the authors attempt to bring some jocularity to the complete farce we have in the White House, I’ll take a serious note for this reply.
Obama and his home boys are daring anyone to attempt to dethrone them. Do you think there is any hope in the DOJ? Ha!
Congress? Ha! They love him since he is the progressive tool they have always desired.
They have the American People right where they want them; In the palm of their hand. They’re going to regulate you into uselessness, and tax you into eternity. And they know that the American People will not retaliate.
The American People have become the door mat for every nation and nationality through their own legislation and elected officials.
The Constitution is the most perfect prescription for an independent society, yet the American Congress thinks it can make it more perfect with amendments that entitle one designated group of Americans to have more political power than another designated group.
And in specifying the designated groups, they have left the qualifications vague and ambiguous, and ripe for any demagogue to profit from.
The Civil War was fought for the purpose of creating equality for ALL AMERICAN PEOPLE. That war, and it’s consequences, are now being nullified.
This president and Congress knows that they have the American People spitting in the wind with anger. But, they have no fear of being held accountable for any of their transgressions, because they have essentially neutered the Citizenry from taking any effective action against the government, and stacked the deck of referees with their old buddies who are guilty of the same offenses. Look at all the edicts being enacted and enforced by OUR GOVERNMENT.
Griping and grousing and commiserating at these comment sections to articles of protest, don’t really make the major inroads to our Congressmen or Representatives. About the only thing American citizens have left to show any discontent with our Governing Authority, is through the voting booth; And they are even screwing with that right, and daring anybody to do anything about that.
Yep! There’s a helluva lot of disgruntled American Citizens out here, but you better get used to it. It ain’t gonna get any better for a long time. Maybe never.
No, you can’t blame the GOP for refusing to call out Obama. They’ve been doing this all along – and that includes in Congress and outside of it. In speech after speech after speech – various members of Congress, from Ryan, Cantor, West, Rubio, Boehner etc…have been openly saying that Obama’s actions are unconstitutional, illegal, etc.
But what you are ignoring is that this is an unequal fight. It isn’t the exhalted power of the presidency that stops an equal confrontation. It’s Obama’s Key Defense. Make no mistake about this Key Defense. Obama has used it all his life to prevent his being accountable in any situation, on any issue, on any action. It’s RACE.
Attempt to impeach or dethrone Obama – and he’ll have his minions accuse such an action of racial bigotry. That would explode the criticism, that would sideline the GOP, that would strengthen Obama and his Gang.
The trend to overreaching/overextension of Executive power long preceded Barry. He has just upped it, in spades.
It is a sign of weakness of Constitutional limits and process that this erosion has been so constant, and successful.
Obama’s style of is coming more and more to resemble governance by executive fiat. Prior to becoming President, he had spoken rather strongly against using a process such as budgetary “reconciliation” to jam through social legislation like “healthcare”. About 2 weeks ago, Barry told an Hispanic audience that he had to respect Congressional process, and the defeat of the Dream Act could not be overridden. This past week, however, apparently seeing the decline in #’s of Hispanic supporters (whose votes the Democrats figure they desperately need) Barry unilaterally set down new regulations that only the most violent illegals would be subject to deportation.
So much for the rule of law. Illegal immigration is still illegal, but now Barack and Big Sis and Eric and all their friends get to select which parts of formal US law “make sense” and which parts don’t make sense.
Cap and Trade went down, but I read Barry’s EPA is about to shut down a batch of coal plants and that your energy bill can be expected to rise, working towards his goal of the consumer’s energy costs “necessarily skyrocketing”.
Obama has spoken wistfully of Chinese leaders’ capacity to just do things, no one need pay attention to that silly “will of the people”. I’d say all today’s Leftist ideologues envy the power of leaders who are essentially totalitarian.
So that’s Barry’s new model. To hell with the Constitution and limits on the Executive. To hell with the other branches of government and to hell with checks and balances.
And an un-vigilant people and a wheeling and deal making style in Congress, over decades, has laid the ground for all of this.
Exactly right; Obama is ruling by executive fiat; he has essentially ignored the 2010 election that gave the House to the GOP.
And, his disdain for Congress has been evident from the start, when he insisted it pass his ‘stimulus’ (aka pork for public service unionized employees) without reading or debate. Same with health care.
Same with Cap and Trade – whose rejection by Congress he now ignores and has set up an unelected unaccountable sector of his govt, EPA, to carry out its rules anyway. Same with ICE and the Dream Act.
And as I’ve said, his key tactical defense against anyone trying to reduce his Control (and Obama is ALL about Control)..is race. Criticize him – and he’ll have you accused of racism.
Right now, Obama is distancing himself from Congress and from all lawmakers. He’s above it all. He’s the ‘folksy, charming, bubbly guy’..all innocent, who just wants ‘everyone to, hey guys, get along’.. and ‘do what’s best for the folks’…and…
Don’t fall into the Honey Pot. Obama has no empathy for anyone; his focus is strictly on Control – and being charming, batting his eyes, laughing and setting himself up as different from …That’s all tactics. All of it.
I’ve read that the race card is less and less useful, that more and more people are seeing the idiocy of claiming that every criticism of Barry is a function of his skin color.
If true, that would be a nice step up for the survival of intelligent life on the planet.
Charming in the name of control and obfuscation, seems an accurate assessment of Barry.
We’ll survive if enough of us still have a functioning BS detector.
Yes, more comments are being made that criticism of Obama IS legitimate and not due to the criticizer’s ‘innate racism’ but I think this would be swept aside in a nanosecond if any Congressman tried to impeach Obama or tried to go further than simply voicing ‘concern’ that his actions are unconstitutional.
After all, as so many of us have pointed out, Obama’s appointed committees and czars are indeed carrying out actions that have been either rejected by Congress. Or not passed by Congress. And yet – Congress doesn’t, apart from verbal bleatings, call him out. I’m suggesting that this is due to Obama’s Basic Defense against criticism: racism.
Obama, long, long ago, moved into a pathological psychological state where he cannot interact with others as equal but must feel that he controls them. Race has been a basic, if not THE basic, tactic in his ability to control others and deflect criticism.
Couple that with his Performance Tactic of being the ‘folksy, friendly, charming, laughing, bouncing guy-next-door’..and he’s as slippery as an eel.
Notice how he can’t handle criticism; it’s always someone else’s fault. And he’s into Blaming the Evil Washington Establishment for all problems now. Why? Well, apart from his reflex act of blaming others, Congress has the lowest rate-of-approval of all time. So, Obama is simply being ‘one of the folks’ in blaming Congress. He, the Perfect One, who wants Just Good Things to Happen…is blameless.
It’s all a performance. Obama is controlling, malevolent and malicious. His focus is on his need to control and reduce the power and freedom of others. As i’ve said – this includes increasing the ratio of people dependent on govt (unsustainable in any economy!!!) and…disempower the States.
“Couple that with his Performance Tactic of being the ‘folksy, friendly, charming, laughing, bouncing guy-next-door’..and he’s as slippery as an eel.”
and shameless, unlimited liar.
This guy could chop his children’s heads off, dice them up and eat them for breakfast, and in the following hour, pass a lie detector test with flying colors. He isn’t the charming bumpking who has learned how to get into young girl’s pants. With Obama, it is pathological.
He is well aware of human emotions because he has trained his entire life to exploit them. It’s just that he doesn’t experience any human emotions.
Yes, I’ve made this point before. Although it’s counterproductive to focus on the long term solution until Obama is removed. But as soon as the extraction is complete and the country is set on the path to recovery, our attention has to turn to structural corrections to prevent a charlatan like Obama and national wrecking balls like the marxists from ever again achieving the level of power that they were able to achieve through their decades long subversion and con games.
The long-term corrective action needs to be focused on two areas.
First, the marxists need to be removed from our institutions, primarily the bureaucracy, the media, the schools and the universities. This won’t be an easy task. We have a start on the media since an alternative media already exists, but the others are extremely problematic. And this can’t be a legislative solution either. The bureaucracy is probably the easiest one to correct, since the leadership can be replaced. I would suggest that the new Republican administration should go much deeper than any has done before. It’s encouraging to hear Perry talk about this and it is one of the reasons he appears to be the strongest candidate. The education system is much harder. Vouchers may be the answer there. Like the alternative media, rather than rooting out the vermin, create an alternative structure that displaces them.
The second area of focus should be the Constitution itself, and is is one where it might be easier to over react than to under react. We certainly need amendments. Good ones are already on the table: Balanced Budget, repeal of the 17th amendment, clarification and enforcement of the 10th amendment, and Term Limits. Others are possible. One I favor is national recall elections. For example, 1/3 of State Legislatures or petitions by 1/3 of a prior electorate could create a recall election for the president (or similarly, within a state, for a congressman or senator). That’s just an example. There may be better details. Another I favor is an amendment to limit or prevent increases in net worth for congressmen and senators, plus limits on their earnings after leaving electoral office. Obviously, that one would be difficult to formulate, but it adresses the second biggest problem in the country besides marxism – political corruption. Others amendments are possible, of course.
Such structural changes have to be amendments to the Constitution. Laws are the playthings of the criminals in Congress. It doesn’t matter what law is enacted, they will find a way around it in short order.
I also favor execution of politicians convicted of high crimes, but I know that one will never be enacted in the United States.
ps: the easiest permanent solution is to create two countries: Flyover Country and Coastal Kooks. I think there is a slight chance of that happening, but, unfortunately, it is an extremely long shot.
Nice points. I agree; the socialist fungus that began post WWII has to be dealt with as it is smothering the basic societal and economic strength of the US.
As I’ve said, I outline an economy in three phases: investment, production and consumption. All entangled. The first two must be primarily within the control of the private sector; they are wealth-producing. Investment is put into production; this produces wealth..which goes back into investment and into production. No government produces wealth; it merely consumes wealth.
Post WWII, a socialist infrastructure developed to reduce the ratio of the population in phases 1 and 2, Investment and Production. Unions, regulations, taxes…all deeply harmed these sectors. And, govt grew; and those dependent on govt grew..to the current state where 40% of our GNP goes to sustain govt costs.
No economy can be so imbalanced. What we’ve seen with Obama is a sharp increase in the size and power of the federal govt – reducing the investment and productive sectors of the economy to a recession and/or standstill.
Obama’s solution? Borrow and borrow from foreign wealth! AND, AND.. he wants to tax the INVESTMENT sector of the population for his ‘govt economy’. Remember, govts don’t produce wealth; they only consume wealth. NO govt program produces wealth. So, taxing the wealthiest sector of the economy means: reducing the Investment capacity of the country…to Produce. No Investment: No Production. It’s as basic as that.
And, we’ve seen another thing. Obama is, on his own, not only ignoring the Will of the People, with his open denigration of, his contempt for, his rejection of the laws passed by Congress…. He’s attacking the American people’s freedoms in another area. He’s attacking the rights and freedoms of states. That’s a crucial tactic to disempower the American people -
Not only reduce Congress to irrelevance, which is what Obama is doing…but..reduce the States to irrelevance.
It should be illegal to lobby a Senator or member of the House.
I jest not. When you read of the egregious sums given to this or that member of Congress (on the surface, they’re political “donations” but, of course, only made to bolster this or that vote on the lobbyist’s issue) you know that lobbying, like pork, has deeply perverted the entire process.
I don’t think serving in Congress was intended to be a full time gig, with extensive personal benefits that, of course, surpass those of the general population, plus guaranteed salary for life, no matter how short the tenure.
It’s not hard to see how some members of Congress come to see themselves as mini-royals, especially when an individual is re-elected over and over (like a Ted Kennedy or a Barney Frankor a John Kerry) because voters in some state (Massachusetts is especially culpable) think having their guy forever is some kind of good deal.
Often I think it’s un-fixable and that, in Jefferson’s words, this particular federal government has become so abusive of the ends for which it was established that the people need to exercise their right to alter or abolish it.
Obama’s Hopeless, Liberal Change
There are liberals and there were liberals.
I’m talking here about American libs, not the British types who are a whole different set who have evolved from beliefs in classical liberalism to free thinkers, whatever that means, to what the new Brit PM calls his “conservative liberal” party, whatever that means.
Until relatively recently, British libs and American libs had one value in common: Without qualification, they cared for the well-being of their respective countries above all else, a sentiment absent today from the philosophy of America’s new liberals as epitomized by Barack Hussein Obama.
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a liberal. So, too, were the Happy Warrior, Hubert Horatio Humphrey, and a whole slew of other Democrats in the past half century, not inclusive of Lyndon Baines Johnson who governed by consensus until Dems turned against him for waging the Vietnamese War and conservatives rebelled because he refused to win that war.
Liberals in days gone by differed in many respects from their more conservative, Republican, opponents but they shared with that opposition a fundamental patriotism, a love of country which superseded base partisanship and the opportunings of special interests groups whose demands were contrary to the best interests of the country.
Not anymore.
That idyllic era came to an abrupt conclusion with Barack Hussein Obama although the end was presaged by Jimmy Carter’s inept politics of malaise and fearsome attack rabbits and Bill Clinton’s governing from the vantage points of what Dick Morris advised would best get him re-elected and how Monica Lewinsky could best service him.
Today, our president, elected despite his dubious credential of being the most liberal senator in the United States Senate during his remarkably brief two-year tenure in that august body, is locked in a death struggle.
His is certainly not a personal death struggle, to be sure, since he will no doubt outlive most of us thanks to his penchants for repetitive relaxation excursions to golf links, a multiplicity of family vacations in opulent locales, and a studied nonchalance as to the domestic and foreign perils the nation faces.
Obama’s stuggle primarily relates to the questions of whether to succumb to his instincts to abjectly cater to the insistent demands of his most restless constituencies or to head to the middle and again sucker a majority of 2012 voters into thinking he isn’t as radically liberal as he actually is.
He has many choices on his overflowing plate, including:
. Should he stay his economic course and promote additional monetary stimuli which fail to stimulate, advance job programs which only increase government employment, add even more regulatory constraints which strangle businesses, and allow the EPA to cripple any recovery with its mindless obsession with inconsequential environmental issues?
. Should he strive to win what he called the Afghanistan ”war of necessity” or bug out and abandon that country to Taliban repression and a return it to a terrorist haven? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5252)
It’s Not Easy Being White Today
In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his justly-famous “I Have a Dream Speech” from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in which he spoke the inspirational words, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Widely described as a defining moment in the Civil Rights movement, almost half a century later, America’s first (semi-) black president has re-defined that moment and has made a mockery of King’s speech and those words in the process.
Barack Hussein Obama capped off two and a half years of racially-applied justice, demonstrably black favoritism, and expressions of anti-white sentiments by issuing an executive order convolutely entitled, “Establishing a Coordinated Government-wide Initiative to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal Workforce.”
The stated purpose of the order is “to promote the federal workplace as a model of equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion.”
As Kermit the Frog is wont to moan, “It’s not easy being green.” It’s also not easy being white in Barack Hussein Obama’s America. The Washington Times clarified the White House directive in an editorial: “Whites need not apply” when it comes to employment with the nation’s largest employer. (http://bit.ly/qzYpGM)
The Times elaborated by pointing out that the ”diversity the government is seeking is not diversity of ideas, outlooks or work experiences. In contemporary political parlance, ‘diversity’ refers primarily to the color of one’s skin and not the content of one’s character” as evidenced by details in the executive order. It incorporates such language as, the federal government “must create a culture that encourages collaboration, flexibility and fairness to enable individuals to participate to their full potential.”
However, in a bald-faced effort to tilt the playing field, “the government will intensify programs that discriminate against white Americans by extending special privileges to everyone else.” Laughably, ”The order also says that ‘attaining a diverse, qualified workforce is one of the cornerstones of the merit-based civil service,’ ” while abandoning even the semblance of a fair meritocracy.
The executive order was issued in absentia by the president; he was busily conducting the nation’s business from afar in Martha’s Vineyard where he could escape some of the reaction and political brickbats. Nevertheless, it effectively negates the import and spirit of King’s 1963 speech as well as make the feds the nation’s prime agency of discrimination.
Our federal government–virtually the only employer hiring in D.C.–will now hire exclusively on the bases of “diversity and inclusion,” code for skin color, a factor King felt abhorrent. By presidential decree, their character content and qualifications be damned.
The government initiative is all the more startling, and ironic, in that it was announced during the same week a black congressional Democrat who holds office primarily because she is black went on an unholy rant against her (semi-) black, Democrat president. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5257)
Observations on Crimes and the People Who Commit Them
Criminality like poverty will always be with us. It doesn’t take an unemployed NASA scientist to realize that, as long as the human species reproduces unsavory malcontents, greedy thieves, and amoral sociopaths, some people will assault, rob, maim, and murder other people.
Crime and criminals exist in every socio-economic strata with those in the “upper classes” most often engaging in major thievery and embezzlement–like the master of the Ponzi scam, Bernie Madoff–although the rich and famous aren’t exempt from murderous escapades–like rock impresario Phil Spector.
Other classes are more likely to indulge in a wider variety of criminality, what some sociologists explain away as a consequence of their status: In effect, they steal because the devil or their mama made them do it and they maim, murder, and wreak havoc because they don’t know any better due to poor parenting, impoverishment, social inequities, and societal-legal discrimination.
All of that, of course, is hogwash. Poor criminals become criminals for the same fundamental reasons the rich become criminals: a lack of respect, for themselves, for the law, for common decency, and for other people.
The Irish were notorious criminals a century ago. The term “paddy wagons” dates to the nineteenth century and referred to New York City police vehicles used to transport often drunk and disorderly, legal Irish immigrants arrested during Civil War draft riots and, afterward, apprehended for petty thievery or worse misdeeds.
The Irish–and Italians, to a lesser extent–climbed out of that political rut because they gained, earned, and learned respect for themselves, etc.
Today, although it’s politically incorrect to articulate it and the FBI is no longer allowed to track crime on racial bases, the unfortunate truth is that African-Americans per capita are responsible for far more criminal activity than whites. This widely-understood, but minimized, ignored, and buried fact of criminal life was previously detailed in “Taboo! The Truth about Black Crime,” http://bit.ly/nPFZFm.
That said, it’s incontestable that, compared to whites, blacks represent a grossly disproportionate number of inmates in U.S. jails and prisons. However, the rate of black incarceration is not attributable to racism, as racial agitators contend with scant proof, but to the reality that African-Americans are disproportionately guilty of the commission of crimes.
That brings us back to the root question of, Why? In turn, the “why” leads us to the aforementioned dearth of respect and those same agitators who make their street creds–and all too frequently win elections–by perpetuating the racism myth as the cause . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5279)
Joe Biden and Cornell Belcher, Liberal Desperados
Desperate people have a tendency to say desperate things to conceal their desperation but don’t tell the Obamians their desperation is showing. It’s becoming increasingly difficult, though, not to get exasperated over their disregard for truth and their ruthless invective.
Liberals are getting more anxious by the day as their hopes for four more years of Obamamania diminish with every downtick in their leader’s approval ratings, every uptick in the unemployment numbers, every news item revealing the multiple scandals and disarray enveloping their hero’s administration, and evidence the president is becoming isolated and withdrawn.
Still, the extremes to which liberals have been going lately and the outlandish rhetoric they employ suggest a serious disconnect from reality that should be disturbing to liberals and rational people alike.
Vice President Joe Biden and Obama adviser Cornell Belcher are two cases in point of liberals and their thought processes sliding into a dark hole of bleak desperation.
Never at a loss for words, always at a loss for rationality, Biden let slip another doozey last week during his ongoing push for passage of Obama’s ”jobs bill,” which even his Democrat Senate refuses to consider, as he trashed about for excuses for an economy in the toilet.
He is now blaming the Chinese.
More specifically, during an interview with NBC’s David Gregory, America’s clown prince attributed the nation’s worsening economy at least in part to Chinese real estate. He might just as well have blamed the price of tea in the Middle Kingdom. As Biden explained, “There are roughly, depending on the estimate, 30 to 50 million apartment units in China that are vacant and people are worried about the real estate bubble there.”
So, vacant apartments in China are hurting America’s economy? I’m no more an economist than Clueless Joe but attributing any degree of our mess to a Chinese bubble of any sort borders on madness, or Bidenness.
Biden went on to define the cure for what ails us: passage of Obama’s American Jobs Act which would add up to 2 million new jobs to America’s work force. If true and based on previous exaggerations it isn’t, CNS.com points out they would be mostly government jobs, anyway, and the cost of the legislation would probably outweigh its benefits. (http://bit.ly/rtMXwy)
For his part, interviewer Gregory showed a marked lack of inquisitiveness by letting Biden get away with his claims. Had the interviewee been G.W. Bush a few years ago, Gregory and his MSM coterie would have verbally beaten Bush over the head and shoulders for such outlandishness.
Last month, Obama lackey Cornell Belcher showed an even greater disregard for common sense than Biden when he, an African-American, charged GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, an African-American, with being a racist bigot toward African-Americans. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5688.)
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