The Five Most Catastrophic Hidden Costs of the Obama Presidency
We well remember candidate Barack Obama’s ’08 throngs laying in breathless wait for the “Lightworker” to appear and speak as “sort of like God” from his teleprompter on high. Now, with nearly everything this president has touched lying in shambles, a shrunken Obama whines from town to town, transported in a taxpayer-purchased bus that resembles a big, fat hearse — the perfect symbol for the harbinger of economic death that Obama’s presidency has become.
It’s painfully apparent now that the American people were scammed in ’08 by Barack the Bamboozler in what will be known historically as the most audacious scheme of fraudulent branding the world has ever seen.
I would just love to see a crackerjack team of litigation attorneys put together a class action suit with a dollar amount on both the tangible and intangible “pain and suffering” costs of the Obama presidency. In fact, if I were a Republican strategist, I would commission a legal team to devise such a case and put it in a PowerPoint presentation for voters by next fall.
The all too apparent costs, of course, are those numbers economists lob forth every day, to a mouths-agape public:
- The staggeringly high unemployment rate – 9.1%, not counting the Americans who have given up looking for work or who are underemployed.
- The still-tumbling housing values, now worse than the Great Depression.
- The inflation indicators, with uncounted sharp inflation in food and gasoline.
- The debt and the deficit, now too big to even fathom without an advanced degree in mathematics.
- The unfunded future liabilities –Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, public worker pensions, and the like.
- When the S&P downgrade is thrown into this cliff-hanging mix, our fiscal situation goes from bad to worse.
But as all litigators worth their salt wind up telling every claims-award jury, the most catastrophic costs to victims are those which are less tangible and remain hidden from cursory view. We recognize this litigious category as “pain and suffering.”
So, on behalf of my fellow Americans, here is my list of the 5 most horrendous hidden costs of the Obama presidency:
Kyle-Anne, thank you for this cogent reminder of just how unprepared President Obama was to win election, and what a disaster the past three years have been under his rule (yes, rule! He directs his minions at the NLRB, EPA, DOJ, etc.). I remember hoping that he would win the Dem’s nominating process because I did not want Hillary Clinton getting anywhere near the presidency, and I could not fathom that the American voters would be so blind and uninformed as to actually elect this unprepared, pretentious, socialist egomaniac. Even after he told us in plain language that he wanted to bankrupt the coal industry thereby necessarily raising our electricity rates through the roof; force everyone into electric cars (course, since most of our electricity is generated by coal, I don’t understand how we are supposed to charge up all of those Volts!); and fundamentally transform America into his socialist wet dream. Oops, guess I underestimated the gullibility of American voters. Since they weren’t listening, I guess we got the leader we deserved. I know that there were watchmen on the wall, trying their best to warn the voters, but their wise voices were drowned out by American Idols, Dancing Stars, New Jersey Situations and Snookies, and other ‘reality shows’ that captured the imaginations of the electorate with more fervor than those brave watchmen. Add that to the left-leaning media who abdicated their duty to present the truth to the American people, and instead, fawned over the idea of the possibility to elect the first black president, and you have a recipe for disaster that has materialized. I don’t have an answer to our current dilemma. I can only pray that the electorate will wise up this time and elect a strong, conservative candidate to wend our way out of this mess. I pray we are not too late.
well Klaatugort I fear you are much too late. why do you think he and the dumocrats are working so hard to push amnesty through? those wetbacks are more democrat votes, I didn’t really want to vote for Mcain. but I did. and I will vote for anyone but the IDIOT in cheif in 2012,
And all Obama, and the missus is given us ? A big F/U while they go and take what they can before they tossed out. They are nothing but racial grifters!
The lefties know they have demographics on their side.
At the present rate, white people will be a minority in America by the year 2042 or so. At that point, it will be impossible for any candidate to win the White House without capturing a large share of black and Hispanic votes, something that no Republican candidate has been able to do. (In 2000, Bush did capture 40% of the Hispanic vote, but got very few black votes. McCain did worse, and I wonder if the GOP nominee this year will be able to match Bush’s Hispanic vote.)
Even today, as I’ve pointed out before, Reagan might have LOST the election if the demographics of 1980 were like the demographics today. He won 56% of the white vote, at a time when whites were 88% of the electorate. Today that’s down to 74%. That 14 point drop wipes out Reagan’s advantage over Carter–and then some.
It’s getting harder and harder for a Republican candidate to win the Presidency without the burgeoning Hispanic vote. In 2012, to win the Presidency with white votes alone, the candidate would have to win 68% of the white vote.
Well said. Palin 2012.
remember, the msm is responsible for mccian being the man of the hour and they will if they can make romney the man of the hour in 12, knowing he is a looser. Think for yourself and don’t go with the msm popularity man of the hour.
Barack — Michele — Malia — Sasha — Bo — There you go — Five (5) MOST catastrophic Costs of Obama Administration
Wait……don’t forget MRS ROBINSON…….the Royal Grandmother, and all the friends she brings in from Chicago to have crumpets in the Map Room.
The dog is just a stage prop to make the Obama family appear human.
Let’s hope Bo doesn’t meet the same fate as Clinton prop, “Buddy” (undoubtedly a poll-tested name), who was struck by a car and died, after Secret Service agents at the Clintons’ Chappaqua compound failed to exercise enough supervision (in the Clintons’ absence, of course).
Exactly. Muslims hate dogs. Obama got the dog for show – much like Clinton getting his dog ‘Buddy’ during his travails in the WH so he could appear just like us.
SeriouslySpeakin, I recommend you leave the kids out of it. The biggest mistake conservatives can make is to lower ourselves to the petty, classless, dishonorable levels taken by liberals/progressives.
Further, using Obama’s children as pawns in the debate about him and his policies lowers the impact and value of whatever it is you are actually trying to say.
Take the high road. Be fair. Be tough as nails, but refrain from ad hominem especially when it includes children.
Agreed. And the dogs, too. I met Buddy once–great happy Lab. Damn shame.
Exactly right!
Leave the children out of it!
Whether it’s Chelsea, the Bush twins, or Obama’s girls,
LEAVE THE CHILDREN ALONE!!!
Or just expect to be regarded as a low-life, scum-sucking creep.
You’re right about the kids,but I’m not sure about the mother-in-law.
Agreed. And for that matter, I’d leave Michelle out of it as well. At first it looked like she was going to be another loudmouth who wanted to dabble in policy like Hillary, in which case she’d be fair game. But a first lady who just takes a pet cause or two and mostly stays out of the political end of things deserves to have some peace. And I have to say that while I don’t like Michelle much, she has stayed mostly in the realm of the first lady.
Michelle is running up quite a bill on her vacations. If she wants to be taking “His & Her” taxpayer funded jets to Martha’s Vineyard (She and the Indonesian President arrived on separate flights– just hours apart), that seems to be fair game.
A story in The Daily Mail claims Michele has run up $10 million in vacation bills.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2029615/Michelle-Obama-accused-spending-10m-public-money-vacations.html
NO. no, no… Michele deserves as much bashing as the prez…she’s living extremely high on the hog, the trips around the world on the taxpayers back…expensive clothing, top shelf alcohol…taking a separate jet to Martha’s Vineyard (which must include all the additional secret service, bodyguards…) just because she didn’t want to wait an extra 4 HRS on her hubby. Their bill to the taxpayers so far (wait till the final bill) for the galavanting vacations ? A whopping 10 MILLION. Why are we allowing this? The role of the first lady certainly is Not to tell me what I can eat!!!… is Not to take the chocolate milk out of schools…is Not to flaunt herself at the taxpayers expense!!! Especially when MOST of us are BARELY living hand to mouth!
Yep, the Jeffersons have moved on up to the WH and are now fartin’ through silk.
Michelle has been made to sit down and shut up because, one) she anger so many Americans that paid for her to go through school etc. by her “I am FINALLY proud to be an American” statement, and two) she is running the show for her bedroom!
Agree that we should lay off Obamas wife and kids. It reminds me of the tasteless leftie attacks on Palins family. Obama and his policies are fair game. His kids are not. His wife might be if she was making policy and had political ambitions of her own like Hillary, but she looks to me like just a typical first lady, with her single pet cause, obesity. Lets use our attacks on the one that deserves it, Barak.
Has anybody noticed before that Barak Obamas initials are BO? It is a portent, since his policies definitely stink to high heaven.
This is a pretty great article. Thanks.
I have to concur that this administration has been disastrous. Who would’ve thought that the President would’ve incurred 70.40% of the debt that we’re currently looking at?! Amazing! Also, all those tax breaks that offset the rising costs of health care? Where the heck did those come from? And man, was he just asking to be sued by those states who saw fit in times of fiscal strife to squander tax payer dollars when their insurance company buddies were threatened to HAVE to cover people with pre-existing conditions, children, the elderly and veterans AND disclose costs, all while cutting their prescription drug prices to reasonable market rates. And don’t even get me started on the regulations-the 801 or so pages of outdated and unnecessary regulations that Obama just signed off to repeal that will save some $10 billion dollars over 5 years. Can you imagine?! When a majority of economists say that we’re in a good regulatory environment when we really want to be in a great regulatory environment that will help grow business and add jobs, I could only imagine the price tag on that!!
The fear of taxation looms high! No doubt! I mean since those tax cut extensions took place I can’t blame people for being scared of being taxed by the Obama administration! I mean that payroll tax cut that Obama implemented to help the working class who still had jobs is now likely to be repealed! And no less than that Obama insider Rep. Jeb Hensarling is championing this raise! It’s the typical pass the buck thinking that Obama is prone to…like when he came out and said (in 2009)”I know Washington’s all in a tizzy and everybody’s pointing fingers at each other and saying it’s their fault, the Democrats’ fault, the Republicans’ fault. Listen, I will take responsibility. I’m the president.” in regards to the high bonuses given out to banking industry executives while they continue to reap record profits and create no new jobs, but cut and slash their work forces! Amazing!
I would love to donate to your website in order to keep this kind of well informed journalism and stone solid opinions in the spotlight, but I simply can not afford it at this time. Good luck passing the hat!
Popepepe,
Your haughtiness is grossly misplaced. Obama, if actually trying to be a good American president, is an abyssmal failure. If he is an agent of the Cloward-Piven strategy to collapse our constitutional republic, he has been frighteningly successful. Health care is not a right, unless you believe that all physicians, nurses, pharmacists and technicians are nothing more than slaves to the uneducated masses. Employment is not a right either. An employer has to hire an employee, and the crushing costs imposed upon entrepeneurs by our socialist pseudo-intellectual politicians have been making such hiring ever closer to impossible with each new counterproductive federal regulation. It is, in fact, the federal spending (for the sole purpose of buying the votes of the uneducated, the lazy, and the covetous) that is destroying the greatest national economy in the history of the world. Even if you taxed everyone earning more than $200,000/year at 100%, you would only raise an additional $70 billion dollars – which is a freaking rounding error in an Obama budget with deficits each year of his misrule of between $1.29 and $1.65 TRILLION! If you think the disgustingly misnamed ‘progressive’ ideology works so well, then why don’t you move to Greece, Spain, Cuba, North Korea or some similar country that lives by your preferred economic slavery? Let those of us mature enough to know that one must EARN one’s income through hard work and due diligence – and be allowed to keep said income rather than have it stolen by slimey political plantation owners – have our liberty as our Constitution so beautifully states.
I cannot wait for the communist currently occupying the White House to be voted out of office, and I hope all his Keynesian acolytes remain unemployed for the rest of our national welfare.
Wonderful piece, as usual, Kyle-Anne.
If you would permit me, I would like to add some contenders for your list that would certainly fall in the Top Ten Most Catastrophic Hidden Costs.
6) The first contender for hidden cost to America is the intentionally divisive and decidedly NOT “racial healer” activities promised with the soothing words of the 2008 campaign trail.
We have found instead a vicious assault on Middle America, the Tea Party, anyone who disagrees even mildly with policy decisions, selective prosecution of racially charged crimes, the designation as “enemies”, “terrorists” and, of course “racists” of ALL non-leftists.
Their is the swarming undercurrent of the pernicious “good Jew vs. bad Jew” slander wafting through the air as well.
No President in the past 150 years has been as openly hateful and dismissive of a pinpointed base of those he means to lead as the current occupant of the White House and his invective-filled minions and lackeys who carry out their duties at the DOJ, Department of the Interior, legislators and rank and file small c communists masquerading as members of the Democratic Party…as this current crop of capitalism destroyers. Racial and class warfare are on the front burner, all day, every day. This has fractured the country and has caused a seismic shift in our unity as a nation.
7)The apology tour and subsequent foreign policy deep bowing, scraping, “reset” buttons and concurrent fawning over reprehensible despots while slapping the faces of our allies…has given America the patina of weakness, unreliability, unpreparedness and frailty that makes us a pariah to our friends, a target to our enemies and a laughingstock to the rest of the world.
We have been nothing short of abject traitors to Israel and her security and safety in the world. We have entered a new war and played semantic games with the rules regarding the obligation to go to Congress (not to mention repeatedly ignoring the Constitution on an array of other matters), we have subverted our own checks and balances of power and, as we will see later, that has a deleterious impact on how we self-govern this land of ours. However, just sticking to foreign affairs, we are weak, unreliable, can not be taken at our word and soon, coming to a military base near you…about to gut our military by way of automatic trigger when the Super-Committee gets a dose of small c communism all its own.
8)As noted above in the foreign affairs Hidden Costs and Other Traumatic Impacts of the Worst Administration Since Buchanan and Carter, the shredding of our Constitution and the naked attack on our checks and balances of power has eroded our protections inserted in our very foundational principles as a self-governing people.
The arrogant and dangerous destruction of our safeguards against a government invasion against its own people has been highlighted by the daily racial and class warfare epithets spat out and hurled upon the people through the propaganda machine that poses as our mass media apparatus.
But, those are only the open sores and boils visible to the naked eye. The “legislation by fiat”, the appointments of czars and czarinas to circumvent our governing rules and regulations, the ham-fisted seizure of power by the EPA, DOJ, Sebelius, Holder, ….the near appointment of the Communist Van Jones as “green jobs czar”…has undermined the very bedrock core of our self-governance over this land of ours.
In ways large and small, we have little knowledge over the day to day decisions being made, instituted and permanently inserted into EVERY branch of government, into EVERY nook and cranny…by the small c communists who want to “fundamentally transform” our nation. Without our permission, consent, or knowledge.
Destroying capitalism, wrecking the economy, seizing power, shredding the Constitution, gutting the military, weakening our status, shattering our unity, debasing our standing in the world. Not bad work for three years of small c communism. Soros, Ayers, Michael Moore and Frank Marshall Davis would be proud.
And, as for Jeremiah Wright? He got his wish. For the past three years, God Damned America….just the way he wanted.
HEAR HEAR!
Increasingly, Obama reminds me of, not Jimmy Carter, but Benito Mussolini. He was elected to office in Italy in 1921, and spent the next twenty-two years remaking Italy’s economy along syndicalist-socialist lines (like Obama), appointing his friends, relatives, and like-minded cronies as “czars” with no check on their powers (like Obama), and spending the country into deficit in pursuit of “social engineering” goals (like Obama). Also like Obama, he had a fondness for pseudo-classical imagery and a tendency to pose with his chin thrust out like the ram bow of a pre-dreadnought.
He also had a thing for questionable military adventures, and even more questionable alliances, but that’s a subject we don’t mention for fear of the Wrath of Godwin.
When he was finally removed (by his own cabinet) in 1943, it was only partly due to his having involved Italy on the losing side of World War Two. It was primarily due to his having taken its economy from one of the strongest in Europe when he started, to somewhere south of Albania’s, which was always the continent’s traditional “back marker”.
Obama will probably be noted in history as the “leader” who, by applying similar theories to Il Duce’s, took down the U.S. economy in right around twenty-two months, vs. the twenty-two years it took Benny the Moose to do in Italy’s (much smaller) economy.
It takes a degree of ineptness bordering on sheer genius to not only repeat Mussolini’s performance on a much larger economy- but also do it on fast-forward.
clear ether
eon
Brilliantly written, and I commend the comparison. Il Duce, at least. Or someone Sub-Saharan? The back question is how he got from apparent nowhere to this somewhere. Answer: CIA:
http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1852/article_detail.asp
CIA, specifically staff at the Combating Terrorism Center, are also the chaps who, protecting their careers from ending over their misreading/misleading on Saddam Hussein, lied about his sponsorship of the 1993 and 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center (and D.C. in 2001) and anthrax letters that followed as the second blow.
Kyle-Anne’s typically brilliant rehearsal of systemic take-downs characteristic of this Duce occupying the White House, and eon’s elaborations, illustrate the cat’s roots in the Extra-Government of the United States, the one shielded from check, scrutiny and punishment: the CIA.
Mr. Graham,
Finally, the impenetrable, wily incoherence that is Barack Obama begins to make some sense, like the chaotic chips in a kaleidoscope suddenly assuming a meaningful pattern at the briefest turn of the canister. Codevilla’s article defines the word “incisive.” Bulk copies should be dropped by airplanes on every city and village in America. Oddly, I feel a tremendous sense of relief in finally being sure of what I think has to be the awful truth. Perhaps it’s the stabilizing effect of a trustworthy reality check, after three years of observing the schizophrenogenic performance of the creature who’s riding mankind in the saddle of POTUS. Thanks so much for the link.
Mussolini worked hard at what he did — Obama, not so much. We are very lucky that he’s so lazy.
eon;
Engineer is the correct term for Mussolini, but it can’t be stretched far enough to apply to Obamao. Obamao couldn’t engineer himself out of a dark bathroom.
Dorothy L. Sayers once observed that in art, there’s a difference between the fellow who can draw, but won’t, and the fellow who can’t draw at all. She forgot to mention that there is also the chap who can’t draw either, but claims his very incapacity to do so is what makes his art “real” and “true”.
Social engineers generally fall into the latter two categories, as do their apologists and enablers. Which probably explains why they are all set with a list of others to blame when their grand plans don’t work out as they think they should.
People in the first category, by the way, form a substantial portion of those who refuse to even try “social engineering”. On the principle of “half of being smart is knowing what you’re dumb at.”
An attribute notably lacking in modern “progressives” generally, and The Self-Exalted One and his minions specifically.
cheers
eon
eon;
Schizo’s and art go well together.
See:
http://www.schizophrenic.com/articles/schizophrenia/schizophrenic-artists
But, on the other hand, we have Obama; Not a tinge of artistry anywhere.
And I think the American People lucked out there.
But did you intentionally omit the display of the Duce’s inverted carcass after the fall for public exhibition and target practice? Ask any American GI that witnessed the fitting finish. Watch for the jackboot brigade preceding revolt described in 2008 campaign speech to insure supporters of thorough planning.
But did you intentionally omit the display of the Duce’s inverted carcass after the fall for public exhibition and target practice? Ask any American GI that witnessed the fitting finish. Watch for the jackboot brigade preceding revolt described in 2008 campaign speech to insure supporters of thorough planning. They also ignore the true history of Islam.
These costs do not include the hundreds of lives that have already been lost in the United States and Mexico because of the DOJ and ATF intentionally selling thousands of AK-47′s and 50 cal rifles to the Mexican drug cartel through their Operation Fast & Furious and Project Gunrunner.
“President Obama’s pass-the-buck, blame-it-on-the-other-guy, it-was-just-bad-luck performance as a no-account “leader” sends a horrible message to our youth.”
It is just another form of “victim” mentality in this country. It’s never anybody’s fault anymore. Somebody else is always responsible for what’s happening to you and you never, ever, just admit that what you did was just plain wrong. This sure is a great example to set for kids today, let alone adults who buy into this terrible philosophy. If this guy was a man, a real man, he would stand up in front of the American public and say, “Look, we tried to fix the economy one way and it failed. Now we’re moving on to ‘Plan B’ and see what happens.” But not only isn’t this guy man enough to do that, he doesn’t even have a plan “B.” So now we’re all stuck until there is a new election in 2012. Problem is, I’m not sure a lot of people in this country can hang on until then.
The voters of the US ended up electing a president who is mentally subnormal. He is literally incapable of coping with ANYTHING. He can’t even call his DOG without a teleprompter.
It all happened because too many white voters automatically voted for Obozo without checking his (nonexistent) credentials and (insane) policies, simply because they wanted to prove to themselves that they weren’t ‘raaaaacist’.
We don’t need to prove anything to anybody. The only way to decide which way to vote for president is by looking at the candidates’ policies and track records. Allowing issues of race or ethnicity to cloud the issue is simply disgraceful.
Obama is not incompetent, he is evil.
He IS accomplishing his mission, which is to hasten along the destruction of the United States.
Those of you who refuse to see this are very much part of the problem.
I will place a wager here and now that no matter how bad the U.S. economy is in 2012, or how badly things are going internationally (nukes in Iran, anyone?) Obama will get 47% or better in the general election.
47%.
I don’t care what the unemployment rate may be. S&P or Moody’s ratings make no difference.
The Republican makes no difference. . . Palin, Romney, Cain, whoever.
Obama will get 47% (or more) of the vote.
There are THAT MANY of the people who have been brain-washed into believing about global-warming, unionism, statism and the benefits of a nanny-government that it doesn’t MATTER who runs.
When things are like this, the fact that a socialist candidate could get 47% of the vote in America is a condemnation of our culture, our schools and our media.
But Obama will get at least 47%. NO MATTER HOW BAD THINGS ARE.
Currently, all my investments are in gold, silver and energy. Granted, those could go south if big players decide to manipulate them. But I’d wager $100 of my current holdings to $40 of yours in traditional stocks that Obama will get 47% of the vote.
We’re THAT stupid.
No, furball, O and the dems will lose big next year. I understand your anxiety over the fact that millions actually voted for this loser. But last year’s voters will return next year to do the same again and the mythical one in every three Obama voters that didn’t vote last year will stay in the mythical category.
The hell of it is, what with ACORN, SEIU, New Black Panthers, DOJ, recounts, post-election specialists and challenges, Democrat Secretaries of State, and bans on checking voter ID, 47% should be plenty enough to win.
I sincerely hope you are mistaken. I hope you didn’t factor in all the people that stayed home to avoid voting for McCain. Since 81% (RECENT POLL) are really unhappy with Congress that a wave vote to throw the long term bums out will leave the One with a Republican Congress with some cojones and stop his programs. There is a lot to be done, as in impeaching Holder, but that will not happen with the current crop of RINOS. As it is Americans don’t see alot happening with regard to the rule of law. I am still hopeful that the Silent Majority will raise their ugly heads again. I still believe that America is blessed.
You are going to see people who have never punched the ‘r’ slot on their ballot do so in 2012. They will probably be embarassed to tell their friends so it will be a giant surprise when the polls begin closing that evening. It will be not because they are suddenly giant social cons or even economy cons, but because they will see something is badly wrong and will want to try a new approach. Then there will be loud conspiracy theories about a stolen vote. And then, republicans will have to deliver.
None of this will be great comfort if the depression has ravaged the country for another long year between now and then. Will even be able to recover without horrific sacrifice?
I agree. If unemployment surged to 15 percent, if the stock market dropped 5,000 points, and if gas went to $12 a gallon, Barry would still win New York, California, Illinois, etc. There are that many robots out there.
Likely Obama voters:
* Almost all government and public service workers
* Anyone recieving benefits from an entitlement program
* Almost everyone connected with Education
* Owners and employees of private businesses recieving government contracts
* All minority identity groups – ethnic and other
* Artists, writers and all Arts and Entertainment workers
* Environmentally “sensitive” folks
* Wealthy people with guilt or fear that serfs will storm their castles
* Most of the Main Stream Media
Add in families and close friends of all of the above and I think this is well over 50% of voters. The only hope is a massive voter turnout from the remaining citizens. Otherwise we are so hosed.
But are we stupid enough to ignore TV media minimizing the only candidate that knows exactly what is inherently wrong with paper money and IRS confiscation of wealth for more government expansion demonstrated for 95 years?
Remember, you are talking about PRESIDENT-FOR-LIFE O’bhamah here, show a little respect, or at least get down on one knee while you are criticizing Him.
More lollage about the Greyhound One jobless tour…
You have summarized well that which we try not to think about since it puts us into a foul mood day after day. It will take us and the country a long time to get over him and it would be appropriate if after we get rid of him and fumigate the White House, we find a legal way to banish him from America and get his irritating image out of our minds.
9) The upcoming world war he facilitated by permitting the Islamists to consolidate their hold over the middle east, by letting the Iranians to get nuclear weapons, and by abandoning Israel.
10) The loss of the US’s traditional allies that he has so cavalierly abandoned.
11) The future loss of Taiwan to the Chinese.
If furball is right and our disaster does, indeed, get back in with 47% of the vote, this voter will give up his U.S. citizenship because some of us don’t like to be associated with a nation in which a majority have evolved as village idiots.
I think you meant to say, “devolved into Village Idiots.”
Give up your citizenship, and go where?
Like Reagan said, there is no where else to go if America falls. This is the final refuge.
Makes next year’s election look even more interesting, doesn’t it.
Many of us are now in a state of exhaustion from having read and heard the mountain of evidence in support of the fact that Obama is a disaster as president (and he was probably a disaster before he became president). But a little more never hurts.
It is close to depressing to contemplate that many million are prepared vote for Obama (again) next year. I’m sure that the vast majority of his fans probably believe that they live in the ‘real world.’ But can their thinking, their perceptions be so compartmentalized that their store of real world experiences is so easily obviated by an irrational need to vote for this guy? The answer is yes and this strongly suggests that truth and reality are not essential ingredients to their happiness. These people will need generous quantities of this opiate next year when O is thrown out and dems lose control of Congress.
I live in Tulare County in the San Joaquin Valley of California. An area that Victor Davis Hansen calls the “new Appalachia” for good reason. While driving with my daughter to a favorite store, I noted the empty buildings, the poor condition of the parking lot and the businesses struggling to hang on. Our unemployment rate here in this county is well above the national average and hovers at 12-15%. My grandaughter teaches at a school that is 100% free lunches.
I am 65 years old and it saddens me so much to see what this President has wrought on our country. I’m shocked when people like Maxine Waters tell me I need to go to Hell and she’ll assist me in getting there. When the Vice President of this country calls me a terrorist when he won’t even call a real one by that name.
Any republican in this county who needs a ride to the polls in 2012, call me. I will personally come and pick you up. This had got to stop.
Amen, helen! Let us pray that enough Americans wake up in record numbers to stop this catastrophe from continuing down this path of ultimate self-destruction.
Some very good things in this piece. But . . . Is this Venezuela? Do we not have a Congress, which is responsible for all federal spending? This or any other President cannot turn on a light bulb in the White House unless the Congress of the United States authorizes the expenditure and appropriates the money. And the courts? Do not judges across the land regularly hold up various construction projects which might threaten some lone endangered salamander, thereby slowing job growth and driving up the costs of doing business? And how about the state governments? You know, those entities from New Jersey to California that for decades have offered pension and health plan entitlements that are bankrupting the states and, by extension, the country. And the people? Ah, yes, the people. Routinely they tell the pollsters that the government is just too big. Then they tell them that no one should even think about touching their Social Security or Medicare. Patriots all. The point is that one does not have to be an Obama supporter to recognize that our plight is not simply the work of the guy in the White House. Far from it. And to foster the notion that by replacing him we will magically fix all that’s now wrong in this country is pernicious fantasy, although it does presumably offer something in the way of therapeutic value.
Replacing Obama will be a good start. Without control of the presidency, the EPA and their socialist, hostile to business, Obama-appointed “czar” Jackson would never have issued those onerous “carbon” regulations that will cost our economies billions of dollars. Without Obama the Department of Interior would not have been so ready to place stumbling blocks on oil companies to drill. This will cost billions in higher gasoline prices and cost of doing business. Without Obama, the NLRB would never have challenged Boeing for moving some operations to S. Carolina, nor would we have an NLRB that is hostile to businesses. Without Obama, the Federal workforce would not have grown by 25%. Without Obama, there never would have been socialist “czars” in charge of the various government bureacracies. Without Obama, the “stimulus” would have gone in favor of businesses that create jobs, instead of flunky organizations that support the Democrats. And on and on.
Very good reminder, Gug. Without the tireless and very willing, even rabid, obedience of Reid, Pelosi, and Co. most of the disasters described here would not have taken place or would have been minimized. We need to fire the democrat economic terrorists in the Senate, as well as unelect the Enemy in Chief.
All of the responses that I have read here are thoughful and wise. Unfortunately, the masses in the US will vote for Obama again because they either have been dumbed down to believe the propoganda in the news, or they are on the dole and want that to continue. This will not stop until everyone feels the pain. That pain point will not happen until the rich and the poor feel the pain of the working middle class. And, that will not happen until things get much worse. So, hang on boys and girls, it is going to get bad.
If we include the incalculable cost of loss of freedom, the deficit of the rule of law, and the destruction of the constitution we well pass Obamacosts because that is only money.
For example: In Obamacare there is the creation of the Independent Payment Advisory Board which forbids elimination or amendment of its powers by any future Congress and judicial review of any of its decisions.
The more that I read that clause the more high crimes and misdemeanors is framed in the Reid-Pelosi-Obama term of supermajority..
In Obamacare there is the creation of the Independent Payment Advisory Board which forbids elimination or amendment of its powers by any future Congress and judicial review of any of its decisions.
That’s really part of the scam. Although the Congress can limit the jurisdiction of the Courts, they cannot bind future Congresses from repealing the whole board, period. This will just be an excuse they can give in the future as to why they won’t do anything about it. “Alas, alas, we would like to rein them in but we can’t, we just can’t, that would be illegal.” They are just setting up an excuse to use in the future.
Granted!: that a law built to grant immunity from law is unsustainable unless in a fascist country. Perhaps far worse than economic bankrupcy is the moral bankrupcy that would make little gods of narcisstic politicians.
I am wondering how anything will change until all three branches of government are obligated to be subject to the same laws and regulations as the rest of us; e.g. Social Security, health care and they can contribute to their own retirement like the rest of us must.
From the New Deal to the Great Society to Obama’s Era of Jive each represents a cost to society in opportunities lost. Gazillions of dollars poured into programs that offer little or no return (as we now see through our Monday morning quarterback goggles) are no longer available for investment in ‘better’ programs that might have moved us much further ahead in so many fields that the rest of the world would be eating our dust.
When the govt gave you something (highways, GI Bill, dams, etc.) you were still expected to work to pay for the house you bought or the car you drove. So, a little bit of socialism mixed with a whole-lot-of capitalism was a good recipe for creating wealth. Fast-forward to today, and we have too much socialism (govt, etc) and darned if haven’t become openly hostile to business, capitalism, and just about every liberty that “brung us to the dance”.
Essentially, the work ethic is dying in this country as more is taken from the ‘makers’ and given to the ‘takers’. Shovel Ready is funny not because it wasn’t ready, but because none of those who received the funds provided ever laid a hand on a real shovel. That’s work; have you noticed today how fewer are willing to get their hands dirty?
The Era of Jive has arrived- where you too can succeed with little or no effort and destinations like Martha’s Vineyard are not out-of-reach if you’ll just roll up your sleeves (not too high*, just below the elbow is fine) and get busy milking the system for all it’s worth.
* Anyone whose done physical labor would not recommend wearing the sleeve rolled to the Obama position as it actually hinders movement. If you’re going to wear a long-sleeve shirt, rolling it above the elbow allows the arms to move freely, improving productivity.
Absolutely brilliant concept, Kyle-Anne. I’m sure you sturggles to keep the article under the lenght of War and Peace. A few other hidden costs.
- Kids now think the path to success is…okey-doke
- People are ashamed of America. First, because the Moron told us to be. But also now because it has dawned on us that we elected him.
- Wonderful people have had it bashed into their brains that they are racists.
- The enemies of America now believe we are weak and vulnerable.
- We are suspicious of half of the country, who have proven to us that stealing what others have earned is more important than earning themselves. How can we ever overcome this?
Take two:
“Absolutely brilliant concept, Kyle-Anne. I’m sure you struggled to keep the article under the length of War and Peace.”
This site needs a spell checker
“This site needs a spell checker.”
If the school system had done a better job, you wouldn’t need software to check your spelling; you’d know how to spell yourself. Then, when your fingers had fumbled, as mine sometimes do too, you’d see and fix the error yourself.
The schools in my area dropped any attempt at teaching spelling and grammar about 1970 as a result of the education ideologists deciding that spelling and grammar were repressive; as long as people could understand you, that was good enough. Plus, it had the added bonus that your self-esteem wasn’t threatened if you misspelled a word. As far as I know, they still don’t teach grammar or spelling.
Spell checker wouldn’t have caught that.
sturrgles vs struggled
lenght vs length
If I was snorking someone else, I’d double check myself to avoid embarrassment.
BTW, that bus is Canadian.
Shockingly, most Americans are still in the dark about the extent of the looming fiscal hardships that we will face in the coming years. A hard fall now is best thing that could happen to us. Not only would this force people to pull their heads out of the sand, but a painful lesson is a lesson learned.
Obama is so universally awful he even has his own Three Laws of Motion. 1) The velocity of hot air emerging from President Obama’s mouth remains constant even if it is acted upon by an external force. 2) The acceleration of Obama’s fall in popularity is parallel and directly proportional to the net force and inversely proportional to the mass. 3) When Obama speaks, there is an equal and opposite cosmic reaction that is instantly transmitted throughout the known universe. Scientists are unwilling to speculate on how this occurs.
Let us add loss of freedom at home and more importantly around the world. Who will be the arsenal of defense in times of need? This in turn leads to a loss of US power projection. Weakness encourages agression. Stability is threatened as agressors will take notice and the new leaders of the world – France/Germany dither.
Good trends can also die. Libya may or may not be free but was on the path to freedom, but other nations will be a lot more cautious.
Further, in times of natural disaster, the US is predominant in aid. Does anyone expect China to fill that role? Further, our aid was unconditional, other countries aid is based on buying their products.
Here in the US, it is well known that hubs of entreprenuerial activity leads to growth. The regulatory climate is stifling as noted. Yet it is actually worse than noted. Every time a firm decides to leave the state, as in Illinois, or the country to redomicile, the hub becomes less stable and weakens the ability to create new firms.
Similarly, the Obama administration has targeted specific industries. For all the complaints about big oil, the Exxon’s of the world were pretty small compared to the state-owned firms. That will limit the ability of free marekt firms to compete against the bureaucracies. Given the efficiency of the two types of economic systems that will lead to less growth worldwide and worse support the despots of the world.
So, here’s the solutions for each numbered problem:
5) Fire Obama in 2012.
4) Repeal ObamaCare on Day One of the 113th Congress.
3) Devote the entire 113th session to weed wacking Federal regulations.
2) When the country sees 5, 4, and 3 being implemented; uncertainty will be replaced by relief. Six months max.
1) When the benefits of 5, 4, 3, and 2 kick in, morale will soar. 12-18 months.
Reagan after Carter is the historical template.
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I’m sorry Kyle-Anne, but furball is right about the 47%. “… the American people were not scammed …”. What they, the half that voted for this moron, were shown to be were complete idiots who are incapable of a serious thought or any kind of analytical perspective of the world they live in. So for the time being we are all Forked!
The true costs will be the efforts to rid our country and institutions of the socialist rodents who now infest every crevice of our government, educational, military, and business institutions. When the rule of the jungle, based on performance and character become law again, then the failures will be drummed out of service. And lets not forget the foreign threats that Barry has fostered. Our enemies have been feeling their oats while no one is at home and the US of A has been distracted in the Iraq/Afpak corridor. We are bleeding from a thousand cuts from the minor leagues when the big guys are getting ready to take the field. Wait and see.
With all the damage Obama has done to the U.S., he has hurt African-Americans the most, in ways that go beyond the fiscal. The black middle class is losing ground faster than the white middle class, and a whole new generation of young black people will be lost to a pathological ghetto culture of drugs, out-of-wedlock births, and imprisonment. And the next black man to campaign for election to POTUS will face an inevitable comparison: will he turn out to be another Barack Obama? Even his “post-racial politics” was a sham, as he has done more to turn blacks and whites against each other than any other president in the last sixty years.
The sad fact is, most African-Americans can’t bring themselves to blame him for the damage he has done to them.
If Obama wants to be popular again – and I mean really popular – I can think of one way for him to do it. It’s drastic but, hey, it would almost certainly work.
All he has to do is die, preferably of a “tragic” disease. [Moderators please note that I am NOT, repeat NOT, suggesting that anyone do anything to end Obama's life prematurely!!]
That’s what happened here in Canada the other day. Jack Layton, the leader of the main socialist party, the NDP (New Democratic Party), died of cancer. Just a few months ago, he’d lead his party to an unprecedented second place in the federal election. The NDP had never been better than third place in any previous federal election. That made Jack Layton the Leader of the Official Opposition and got him the official residence of the Opposition Leader. Naturally, the socialists were exuberant and most of the credit was given to Layton himself.
Now, the Canadian media is absolutely full of gushing tributes to Jack Layton and he’s even been granted a rare state funeral. I’m sure that if they took a poll today, his passing would be rated as one of the greatest tragedies in Canadian history and Layton would be given a very high rank in the list of Greatest Canadians Ever. (I’d vote diferently but that’s just me….)
So if Obama really wants to return to the glory days when he was viewed as the Second Coming, this would be the way to do it. And given that this would immeasurably improve the prospects of the United States, it would be a win for Americans and their allies too.
I suspect that 0bama’s handlers keep a balance sheet. Two columns only.
Column one: value as a Marxist sock puppet.
Column two: value as a martyr.
When the sum of column one is exceeded by the sum of column two, all hell will break loose.
Concur. My considered impression is, the difference between the Himmler and the Eric Holder personality types is only the strength of the exterior restraint.
Heaven forbid something should happen to him, because the media would make him into a martyr. He would go from worst President ever to enshrinement.
I don’t want anything to happen to Obama, except November, 2012.
Kyle-Ann wrote:
“The debt and the deficit, now too big to even fathom without an advanced degree in mathematics.”
It’s okay – we’ve made it easy for anybody without an advanced degree in mathematics to both understand and calculate that particular hidden cost!
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Here’s one.
Divisiveness.
Other Presidents certainly inspired this. Lincoln, Nixon, Clinton, Bush43. But I honestly do not know of another President who is so adept at driving Americans apart. There is no ambivalence about Obama. You either worship him or loathe him. And worse, those Americans falling into the camp opposite your own may as well be from another planet for all we are able to understand them.
Several of the Presidents mentioned were divisive because of the policies they espoused. Lincoln saved the Union and that by definition was unpopular no matter how he did it.
It is said that doing the public good is eventually good politics. Truman was hated in his time but his respect has only grown over time. Nixon was hated by the liberals so much that they used Watergate to cement their control. Yet at his funeral, the respect shown was palpable. Does anyone expect the same respect for Carter, when he finally passes?
Clinton had personal foibles but was actually fairly centrist and brought the Democrat party back to relevance.He was more liberal than many on the right would like, but he was also far more conservative than the Obama wing that has tried to kill off the DLC Democrats.
Further, Clinton’s economic policies were nto so liberal as to kill off the Reagan recovery. Even that was moderated by the GOP gaining control of the Congress and the resulting balanced budgets of his ear.
W ran as a uniter. Remember he was nominated by a Democrat Lt Gov with whom he worked well with in Texas. He certainly tried to continue that goodwill as President. Some of the policies were not his as working with Kennedy with No Kids Left Behind or renominating judges of the Democrats to change the nomination process.
W was divisive, to the degree that he was, because the other party had incentives to make him so. Yet the foreign policies that he promoted have magically been adopted by Obama. Surprisingly the very things that drove conservatives wild about W such as unchecked spending have exploded under Obama. So even the economic problems seemed only a political device used by Obama
Obama is creating problems where they were in the process of being solved. He was going to be the first post-racial President, a goal that could have been truly uniting. Yet he has set that back by his actions.
Dubya wasn’t divisive at all; exactly the opposite. He went out of his way not to offend and to consider the views of the other side. 100% of the reason he is now considered devisive is because of a deliberate and cynical 8-year attact by the make believe media and the lunatic fringe (now in control) of the Democrat Party.
ALL of his Afghanistan and anti-terrorism policies were and still are popular.
He was meticulous about getting bi-partisan approval for Iraq.
No Child Left Behind – liberal policy.
Medicare Plan-D – liberal policy.
Continuation of Fannie Mae – liberal policy.
Post Enron regulation – liberal policy.
Spending other than items mentioned – exactly like preceding 40 years.
TARP – bi-partisan.
GM – punted to his successor.
Again, the demonization of Dubya is 100% a deliberate, malicious marxists strategy. Other than Iraq, he governed as a left-leaning moderate.
The demonization worked like a champ. It’s one of the greatest lies in American history.
No President in my lifetime has mocked his fellow Americans as Obama has.
(‘…waving those teabags around” and his “moat” comments during a speech at the border)
No President has repeatedly implied that those who disagree with him are racists (How many times has he suggested that those who oppose his illegal immigrant policies just have a hard time or fear of people “who don’t look like they do” ?)
Which President has ever attributed evil motives to our doctors? (Obama claimed they would take out a child’s tonsils when the problem was just a sore throat– and that they would do it for the money. Or amputate a foot rather than properly treat a diabetes patient– for the money)
Obama said the “police acted stupidly” when he had no facts to support that statement.
Obama is at war with half of this country, and he has been at war with them every day of his awful administration. He is unfit for the Presidency and the damage he is doing will take decades to repair.
Other Presidents have had policies that were opposed, but they did not go out of their way to verbally attack fellow Americans who disagreed. It is one thing to go after politicians, but quite another to get verbally nasty with regular citizens. And would any other President (along with the corrupt media) have remained silent when the Speaker of the House insinuated that citizens who were peacefully protesting their government were Nazis? (Pelosi: You saw them…they were carrying swastikas)
“Divisive” does not even begin to describe the atrocity that was elected in 2008.
This sounds like the perfect argumentfor “high-speed” rail
For years we looked down on countries we called “Banana Republics”. Now, thanks to “the One”, except for the banana’s and a coup we are one.
Time for a NAAIP don’t you think. We have had this “diversity and racial” crap shoveled to the People for the last 50 years and Obama is the result; our country has been ruined by the Democrat/Marxist Party; the I above stand for intelligent.
The fault lies not so much with President Obama, who only did what ambitious narcissts in politics do – seek higher office. The real fault lies with the American populace, who elected him; with the media, who not only didn’t vet him but actively pushed his candidacy; and once more, with the American populace, most of whom at this point are true believers in a socialist, European-style state. I’m not sure if we can recover from the years of political correctness, racial pandering and demographics.
Please tell me that’s a mock-up parody of a Newsweek cover and not a cover that was actually published.
No it was real.
Note the capital G.
“…but also in the message of non-accountability hammered home to a whole generation of American youth.”
Kyle-Anne, I can regrettably tell you from watching the kiddies in action in this college town, that the Liberal’s work is already largely complete on that account. Barry-O is only an affirmation of it.
You missed the most important one: By making the United States look like a declining power, Obama has emboldened countries opposed to the United States. The costs of dealing with bellicose and empire-building nations will far exceed the waste now ongoing, and will be hampered because of the waste.
Do you think a rising — or mature — power would have elected someone like Obama?
Good God, no.
The catastrophic costs? Well, look at this recent news, then relate it to such as this (on the part of he who opened the way for Obama, and whose blushing bride continues the work as secretary of state).
…and then, moving along, note this.
…and then wrap it up by noting that the commerce secretary to whom Obama had two years ago transferred the ‘dual use technology’ (AKA thermonuclear ballistic technology that USA paid Lord Knows to produce, not counting the existential nature of it) that Clinton sold and gave away so much of (search Win Ho Lee, Riady), has just become … your new ambassador … to China.
That ain’t catastrophic enough to make the list?
Like I have been saying since July ’08 – THE AUDACITY OF HYPE.
27 states – more than half! – are actively entwined in a lawsuit to stop this debt-forcing law.
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Check your math… 57 states divided by 2 is 28.5.
LOL!
Well, should we really have expected more from a guy who freely admitted to doing “blow” and smoking “weed,” who never released a single transcript from a single school he attended, who never wrote a law review article, who voted “present” over 130 times as a state legislator, and who thought listening to hate-whitey political speeches qualified as going to “church”? Probably not.
Good article, but what do smoking weed or doing coke have to do with the rest of the list?
I put away quite a bit of Wild Turkey in college and I don’t think it qualifies as a lifetime character flaw – bad behavior certainly (which is why I am now a teetotaler), but not a lifetime character flaw.
And I am still waiting for an explanation, as to why alcohol is different from other drugs, which doesn’t amount to bad science and righteous indignation.
If things were as they are today no doubt alcohol would be regulated also. If there wasn’t mucho denaro to be made off illegal drugs the drugs would be legal. Plus there is a certain stigma to illegal drugs which is what O was using.
Under point 4 above: “the future funding forced upon every state in its provisions for Medicaid will quite frankly push many states into either bankruptcy or a shutdown of basic services.”
Which is precisely what these power-mad commie misanthropes desire. It’s called the Cloward-Piven Strategy.
Well, I didn’t vote for the guy, and never liked him…
…but hanging these issues entirely on his rump seems to be playing Pin The Tail On The Donkey (rather than the Elephant) at the behest of the global banksters and financiers in the Money Party.
Rather than questioning the entire monstrosity of a world economic order founded on computers running algorithms with one goal (permagrowth) and no reason.
Kyle-Anne;
How long did it take you to cut it down to just five?
Was that a requirement for the typical article space here at PJM?
The biggest hidden cost is Obama’s “canine like” obedience to the green agenda and the crisis formerly known as global warming. “Under my plan of cap and trade, energy prices will necessarily skyrocket.” Additionally, those who seek to build coal fired power plants “can do it” but my plan will “bankrupt them.” In the mean time, Obama sends $2 billion to Brazil to help it develop its offshore oil resources while our abundant energy sources lie fallow.
Excellent piece.
I would like to add to the “Great Demoralization of America under Obama” part, though.
It’s not just the financial disaster (and the high-living of the Obamas themselves) that create the demoralization.
Add to those the apology tour; the refusal to say the U.S. is exceptional; and all the other ways he has trash-talked us to the world. Now THAT’S demoralizing.
(What football coach would do that and expect any performance out of his team?)
Add to that, the federal government suing and demonizing the state of Arizona (and the feting of Calderon); treating our allies like dirt; and basically declaring a large swath of middle class America (the tea party) as either laughable or (through his minions) as the “enemy,” and tantamount to terrorists. Reducing NASA to the role of “helping Muslims feel better.” Supporting a mosque at the site of 9/11. Putting out Department of Homeland papers highlighting the threat of returning veterans and other normal groups. Removing any semblance of dignity and Fourth Amendment rights at airports.
Etc.
All that is very demoralizing to those of us trying to cheer the home team on.
In fact, this is the first time in my life when I ever felt that *I* was considered an enemy of the state, by the state.
But of all of those, the greatest demoralizer, I think, is running around telling the rest of the world that we aren’t very good people.
Right you are; Obama’s good for one thing only:
Breaking the spirit of the American People, and the foreign nations that have always believed in America.
What’s with that bare breast article right above yours? Trying to divert attention from yours or add to it PJ? Welcome back K~A. Missed you. Glad you’re giving ‘em hell again;) God Bless!
What’s wrong with falling housing values?
I don’t think American are demoralized — I think they really really annoyed. I also think that the youth to whom Obama is a great role model are (and were) beyond all hope — the rest, whom I think are the great majority, have just been given a sterling example how to become a miserable failure who is utterly despised by all right-thinking people (and some others as well).
This a good article, but it really is the cry of those in the grip of a horrible hangover, praying to the porcelain god and thinking they’d prefer death to further suffering and that tomorrow never comes.
But tomorrow will come, in November 2012, and either we get a grip or commit national suicide. So the proper course is to urge people to get a grip. But a little cathartic whining in the meantime does no harm, or at any rate, not much.
Obama’s still not as bad as I thought he’d be. He’s about what I’d hoped. Right now there is a general demoralization and a capital strike. If Obama is re-elected, look for actual capital flight — as the smart money gets out for good.
Right now I’ve had Democratic friends explain to me why the U.S. middle class is going to have to get poorer in the name of globalization, and why it’s necessary to force everyone to buy health insurance, and why the Republicans in general and Tea Party in particular are evil. It’s typical.
But what do you expect from a people who are now more committed to voting for policies that are about feeling good, not doing good. I don’t blame the younger voters, though they cut their own throat and didn’t know it. But I do blame anyone over 40 who remotely took this guy seriously.
The only silver lining I have to offer is this: We Republicans were going to lose an election in here somewhere, until a new generation learned that the Democrats can’t be trusted with the economy. With 20-20 hindsight, 2000 was probably the election to lose. We’d have definitely beaten Gore’s re-election. But we eked out 2000, and the second worst option would have been Kerry. We could have run the local dog-catcher and beaten Kerry for re-election in 2008.
What I’m getting at: We have a very good shot at 2012. I don’t think we would have any chance if McCain had won.
However, if Obama wins in 2012, all bets are off.
I have a successful business model — I hired in 2010. Then, seeing the regs and taxes, I turned down work and laid off my employee. I can probably get enough work to hire two people in 2013, just after Obama is out of office. Maybe three. But I won’t do it until Obama is out. In fact, I’ve already turned down work and lowered my own salary — who needs the hassle.
That’s what effed up incentives do. I will employ people — but I’m not going to make money so a bunch of assholes can decide what to do with the money I make — usually on counterproductive projects that only make them feel good about themselves.
My two cents.
If President Obama was a football coach everytime he called a play the team would say “sorry coach we are not going to run that play”. Everytime the Coach Obama tried to have a play run the team would say no. Finally Coach Obama says “here are 8 plays you guys love, you even tried to have them written into the playbook under the last coach” and the team responds with “NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO. It doesn’t matter that we have loved those 8 plays forever, it doesn’t matter we tried to have them written into the playbook with the last coach, we are not going to run them as long as you are coach.”
When Coach Obama, in frustration says “you will run these 8 plays you love” the team plugs their ears and goes na na na na na na and filibusters the coach over 300 times refusing to even consider running plays that the team loved before coach obama became coach.
The day Obama gets named coach, the team says we don’t want him to be coach and we will not run any play that makes the team successful, if we run successful plays and the team wins, people will think Obama is a good coach. Our number 1 prioity as a team is to make sure Coach Obama only lasts one season, therefore we can not run ANY play that will make the team win. We have to refuse to run any play that has a chance of success and give the team a win. It doesn’t matter if the team loses every game this season, we will just wait till next season and get a new coach. Even if Coach Obama wants us to run 8 plays we love, we will still refuse to run those plays because we do not want any success to fall on Coach Obama, we want a new coach.
Yep! “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED”! Heh, heh.
So this is why unemployment is still over 9%?
“Yep! “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED”! Heh, heh.” – Cybergeezer
Well you did it, you made sure the Nation lost and now you will probably get Michele Bachmann.
Yea, Don!
Bachmann/Palin; Palin/Bachmann!
What’s not to like?
Sales of antacids and aspirin hit record levels! Heh, heh!
Powerful women are totally sexy!
For a generation of Americans, this president has been catastrophic. If you are 50 years old, you’ve had your nest egg ripped out from under you multiple times. Your job is gone, because nobody will hire anyone over 45 due to ObamaCare; the cost of ensuring an older worker is significantly higher than that of a younger worker. Housing prices are so low, that there is no way to recoup the equity in one’s major asset. The truth is that Obama has stolen from my generation all that he can; yet, we are still standing. We will be voting…. anybody but Obama.
When we take this bunch to court, Kyle-Anne, we need to drag the old dogsh, I mean, main stream media in there too,cause, without their complicity Obama would never have even gotten nominated, let alone, elected.
Before he’s taken to court, he needs to be taken out of the driving seat. The Congress has the means to remove him, and to ensure he does not profit from the destruction he has wrought – Deliberately -as THE agent of the destructive Democratic Party of trhe USA.
He might lack leadership qualities, but he certainly does not lack capacity, will and means to destroy everything he touches that does not impact on him directly . While smirking at the pain and insecurity in his victims. In the case of American voters willing victims. A little sado-masochism here?
THEY elected him as if he were a Saviour/Messiah. Plenty – are they invested in the USA or those with demands on the labours of others – who still believe in him as saviour. We understand the motives of compliant passive Congress and his allies in the Media, among the political pundits, intellectuloids, and his supporters in the socalled Democratic Party of the USA. If he goes, they go.
Buffett’s Bluffing
. . . Unlike most carpenters, Buffett has, he says, cut off his progeny from his billions when he eventually shuffles off this mortal coil. Susan, Howard, and Peter Buffett can just shuffle for themselves, he says, when Warren bites the bullet and moves on up to the great corporation in the sky.
He might just as well sing, “If I were a billionaire/ And gave it all away/ Would you love me anyway/ Would you be my babies?”
Maybe they will, and maybe not since Buffett’s whole, politically-motivated charade, his pledge to give away 99% of his almost boundless wealth, most to be dispensed, with strings attached and in relative deibbles, to the philanthropic Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is an outrageous crock.
Borne of his new-found, George Soros-esque, socialistic, pseudo-egalitarianism and guilt over decades of milking the capitalist system for all it was worth, Buffett’s pledge is less a promise than a threat.
When octogenarians sniff their mortality, some seem to get social consciences even as their years tend to cloud their sanity.
Alternatively referred to as the Oracle of Omaha and the Sage of Omaha, the oracular, sagacious Buffett earned his billions as Chairman, CEO, and principal shareholder of the amazingly-successful American conglomerate, holding company, Berkshire Hathaway.
Just incidentally, Buffett indirectly made my neighbor a millionaire when Berkshire’s principal holding, Coca Cola, bought out his modest Coke delivery enterprise. For that, my neighbor is eternally grateful, even worshipful, of Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, and Coke, although he thinks Buffett’s professed, current political and economic views are asinine.
Good call, neighbor!
In conjunction with his 99% pledge which, even if fulfilled some day and which would leave him with a piddling $600,000,000 of his current $60 billion kitty, Obama buddy Buffett wants his fellow billionaires to cough up half their money for the common good, an invitation with as much likelihood of acceptance as Obama becoming a capitalist.
Knowing that Pollyannaish idea is a non-starter, he has other monetary plans up his sleeve which would threaten the livelihoods of millions.
Buffett made headlines with his as yet unfulfilled 99% giveaway as well as with his claim of paying 17.4% in federal taxes, a much lower rate than that paid by his secretary, and with his persistent insistence that the government undertaxes the rich even as it is in dire need of additional funding.
He ignores the truth that the upper echelons already pay 70% of federal taxes and 45% of those at the other end pay zilch and he doesn’t cite the primary cause of that funding shortfall–Obama’s profligacy. He also hasn’t offered to raise his secretary’s salary in compensation nor to write a check for ten billion or so to the Treasury Department to tide it over.
What he could do to help his country, and hasn’t . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5293
50% of the population control 97.5% of all the wealth, the other 50% control 2.5% of the total wealth of the Nation.
The obvious solution to our problem is simple. We need to get more of that 2.5% that those 50% control. If we would take that down to about the lower 50% only own 1% or 1.5% of the total wealth the Nation would be a lot better off.
When John Dillinger was asked why did he rob banks he said “because that’s were the money is”
Why do you tax the people with wealth? Because that is where the money is.
I couldn’t have enumerated it any better myself, Kyle. Great job and a fun read.
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