I guess by now it's no surprise that Obama has nothing but disdain for the democratic process (when it doesn't go his way) and prefers to implement his disastrous policies, and legislation by fiat, rather than going through the system that he so despises - He really would prefer a Dictatorship -- all this stuff about "working the levers of the legislative process" is too much trouble for him.
In this video Obama instructs his advisers to "scour" this "jobs" report and not to wait for Congress, but implement it through "administrative actions" despite the fact that the people, the Senate, the Congress have all agreed it's an election stunt that will help the economy, and a pathetic attempt to save only one job, his.
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Showing posts with label obamanomics. Show all posts
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
Obama betting 2008 no fluke - Americans really are stupid
Obama is betting that Americans are really as stupid as his 2008 presidential campaign seemed to bear out, and that they will fall for the soaring rhetoric, and ignore his incompetency and failed policies to reelect him in 2012.
He has thrown any pretense of governing the nation out the window and has switched to full campaign mode, not even making the slightest attempt to be truthful, or to try and work the legislative levers to get anything done.
Obama's constant haranguing to pass his jobs bill is more about his power to persuade the American people to vote for him in 2012, then it is about passing legislation or creating jobs. He knows it won't pass, but wants to make sure that Congress gets the blame, not him. And when Obama says "Congress" he means Republicans.
It is all about Obama, he is willing to use his failed jobs bill as a campaign message against the Republicans for his reelection. The people, the economy, the country be damned, its all a campaign stunt.
When Obama accuses Republicans of standing in the way of his nearly $450 billion plan, he ignores the fact that his own party has refused to unite behind the proposal either.
When Obama says Republicans haven't explained what they oppose in the plan, he ignores the fact that Republicans who control the House actually have done that in detail.
And when he calls on Congress to "pass this bill now," he slides past the point that Democrats control the Senate and were never prepared to move immediately, given other priorities. Senators are expected to vote Tuesday on opening debate on the bill, a month after the president unveiled it with a call for its immediate passage.
To be sure, Obama is only engaging in rhetorical excesses. But he is the president, and as such, his constant remarks on the bill draw the most attention and scrutiny.
The disconnect between what Obama says about his jobs bill and what stands as the political reality flow from his broader aim: to rally the public behind his cause and get Congress to act, or, if not, to pin blame on Republicans.
This is all about campaigning, not governing, and all about the success of Obama, not America.
He has thrown any pretense of governing the nation out the window and has switched to full campaign mode, not even making the slightest attempt to be truthful, or to try and work the legislative levers to get anything done.
Obama's constant haranguing to pass his jobs bill is more about his power to persuade the American people to vote for him in 2012, then it is about passing legislation or creating jobs. He knows it won't pass, but wants to make sure that Congress gets the blame, not him. And when Obama says "Congress" he means Republicans.
It is all about Obama, he is willing to use his failed jobs bill as a campaign message against the Republicans for his reelection. The people, the economy, the country be damned, its all a campaign stunt.
"He knows it's not going to pass. He's betting that voters won't pick up on it, or even if they do they will blame Congress and he can run against the 'do-nothing Congress,'" said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a senior fellow at the University of Southern California's School of Policy, Planning and Development.
When Obama accuses Republicans of standing in the way of his nearly $450 billion plan, he ignores the fact that his own party has refused to unite behind the proposal either.
When Obama says Republicans haven't explained what they oppose in the plan, he ignores the fact that Republicans who control the House actually have done that in detail.
And when he calls on Congress to "pass this bill now," he slides past the point that Democrats control the Senate and were never prepared to move immediately, given other priorities. Senators are expected to vote Tuesday on opening debate on the bill, a month after the president unveiled it with a call for its immediate passage.
To be sure, Obama is only engaging in rhetorical excesses. But he is the president, and as such, his constant remarks on the bill draw the most attention and scrutiny.
The disconnect between what Obama says about his jobs bill and what stands as the political reality flow from his broader aim: to rally the public behind his cause and get Congress to act, or, if not, to pin blame on Republicans.
This is all about campaigning, not governing, and all about the success of Obama, not America.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Thomas Sowell's : "Back to the Future"
In Thomas Sowell's three-part “Back to the Future” series, he looks at the insane fiscal policies that we are still trying to implement more than 60 years after the same Keynesian policies failed during the Great Depression. He points out how the political class fails, perhaps deliberately, to learn from their mistakes.
This Depression era 1930's political cartoon from the Chicago Tribune that asks the question "Planned Economy or Planned Destruction" is just as relevant today as it was then.
In it, members of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration are seen shoveling money out of a wagon with a billboard on the side declaring, "Depleting the resources of the soundest government in the world."
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In Part I, Mr. Sowell exposes Obama's stimulus schemes.
Once we get past the glowing rhetoric, what is the president proposing? More spending! Only the words have changed — from “stimulus” to “jobs” and from “shovel-ready projects” to “jobs for construction workers.” If government spending were the answer, we would by now have a booming economy with plenty of jobs, after all the record trillions of dollars that have been poured down a bottomless pit. Are we to keep on doing the same things, just because those things have been repackaged in different words? …When it comes to specific proposals, President Obama repeats the same kinds of things that have marked his past policies — more government spending for the benefit of his political allies, the construction unions and the teachers’ unions, and “thousands of transportation projects.” The fundamental fallacy in all of this is the notion that politicians can “grow the economy” by taking money out of the private sector and spending it wherever it is politically expedient to spend it — so long as they call spending “investment.”
In Part II, Mr. Sowell exposes the historical fallacy that government intervention ended the Great Depression.
The grand myth that has been taught to whole generations is that the government is “forced” to intervene in the economy when there is a downturn that leaves millions of people suffering. The classic example is the Great Depression of the 1930s. What most people are unaware of is that there was no Great Depression until AFTER politicians started intervening in the economy. There was a stock market crash in October 1929 and unemployment shot up to 9 percent — for one month.
Then unemployment started drifting back down until it was 6.3 percent in June 1930, when the first major federal intervention took place. That was the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill, which more than a thousand economists across the country pleaded with Congress and President Hoover not to enact. But then, as now, politicians decided that they had to “do something.” Within 6 months, unemployment hit double digits. Then, as now, when “doing something” made things worse, many felt that the answer was to do something more. Both President Hoover and President Roosevelt did more — and more, and more. Unemployment remained in double digits for the entire remainder of the decade. Indeed, unemployment topped 20 percent and remained there for 35 months, stretching from the Hoover administration into the Roosevelt administration.
And in Part III, Mr. Sowell explains how tax changes in the 1920s provide great evidence for the Laffer Curve.
Those who believe in high taxes on “the rich” got their way. The tax rate on people in the top income bracket was 73 percent in 1921. On the other hand, the rich also got their way: They didn’t actually pay those taxes. The number of people with taxable incomes of $300,000 a year and up — equivalent to far more than a million dollars in today’s money — declined from more than a thousand people in 1916 to less than three hundred in 1921. …More than four-fifths of the total taxable income earned by people making $300,000 a year and up vanished into thin air. So did the tax revenues that the government hoped to collect with high tax rates on the top incomes. …Mellon eventually got his way, getting Congress to bring the top tax rate down from 73 percent to 24 percent. Vast sums of money that had seemingly vanished into thin air suddenly reappeared in the economy, creating far more jobs and far more tax revenue for the government.
Keynesian clown economics, and Obama’s agenda of bigger government and class-warfare taxation has only undermined America’s economy further - It never needed to get this bad. History had taught us that, but if we learn anything from history, it's that we don't learn from history.
This Depression era 1930's political cartoon from the Chicago Tribune that asks the question "Planned Economy or Planned Destruction" is just as relevant today as it was then.
In it, members of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration are seen shoveling money out of a wagon with a billboard on the side declaring, "Depleting the resources of the soundest government in the world."
In Part I, Mr. Sowell exposes Obama's stimulus schemes.
Once we get past the glowing rhetoric, what is the president proposing? More spending! Only the words have changed — from “stimulus” to “jobs” and from “shovel-ready projects” to “jobs for construction workers.” If government spending were the answer, we would by now have a booming economy with plenty of jobs, after all the record trillions of dollars that have been poured down a bottomless pit. Are we to keep on doing the same things, just because those things have been repackaged in different words? …When it comes to specific proposals, President Obama repeats the same kinds of things that have marked his past policies — more government spending for the benefit of his political allies, the construction unions and the teachers’ unions, and “thousands of transportation projects.” The fundamental fallacy in all of this is the notion that politicians can “grow the economy” by taking money out of the private sector and spending it wherever it is politically expedient to spend it — so long as they call spending “investment.”
In Part II, Mr. Sowell exposes the historical fallacy that government intervention ended the Great Depression.
The grand myth that has been taught to whole generations is that the government is “forced” to intervene in the economy when there is a downturn that leaves millions of people suffering. The classic example is the Great Depression of the 1930s. What most people are unaware of is that there was no Great Depression until AFTER politicians started intervening in the economy. There was a stock market crash in October 1929 and unemployment shot up to 9 percent — for one month.
Then unemployment started drifting back down until it was 6.3 percent in June 1930, when the first major federal intervention took place. That was the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill, which more than a thousand economists across the country pleaded with Congress and President Hoover not to enact. But then, as now, politicians decided that they had to “do something.” Within 6 months, unemployment hit double digits. Then, as now, when “doing something” made things worse, many felt that the answer was to do something more. Both President Hoover and President Roosevelt did more — and more, and more. Unemployment remained in double digits for the entire remainder of the decade. Indeed, unemployment topped 20 percent and remained there for 35 months, stretching from the Hoover administration into the Roosevelt administration.
And in Part III, Mr. Sowell explains how tax changes in the 1920s provide great evidence for the Laffer Curve.
Those who believe in high taxes on “the rich” got their way. The tax rate on people in the top income bracket was 73 percent in 1921. On the other hand, the rich also got their way: They didn’t actually pay those taxes. The number of people with taxable incomes of $300,000 a year and up — equivalent to far more than a million dollars in today’s money — declined from more than a thousand people in 1916 to less than three hundred in 1921. …More than four-fifths of the total taxable income earned by people making $300,000 a year and up vanished into thin air. So did the tax revenues that the government hoped to collect with high tax rates on the top incomes. …Mellon eventually got his way, getting Congress to bring the top tax rate down from 73 percent to 24 percent. Vast sums of money that had seemingly vanished into thin air suddenly reappeared in the economy, creating far more jobs and far more tax revenue for the government.
Keynesian clown economics, and Obama’s agenda of bigger government and class-warfare taxation has only undermined America’s economy further - It never needed to get this bad. History had taught us that, but if we learn anything from history, it's that we don't learn from history.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Liberals vow to challenge Obama in Democratic primaries
It's increasingly likely that liberals will nominate someone to run against Obama. He is weak and unpopular with his democratic base, especially the progressives, and losing ground with independent voters everyday. He still can depend on over 90% of the black vote, majority of Hispanics, and probably most union voters as well. However more and more he is being viewed as a sinking ship, panic is setting in, and the rats are getting ready to jump ship.
The Washington Post is reporting that Ralf Nader and progressive leaders want to field a slate of candidates against President Obama in the Democratic primaries to make him stake out liberal stances as he seeks re-election. Ralf Nader emphasizes that this is not a move to defeat Obama.It is more an attempt to keep him er, uh honest -- good luck with that.
Mr. Nader said the intent is not to defeat Mr. Obama but to make him focus on issues that might get lost in a purely Obama-versus-GOP discussion.So what have Democrats learned from 2008 -- NOTHING. We know from the campaign in 2008 that Obama will say anything to get elected. Just don't hold him to it after the election. If Obama had any moral integrity it would have shown up by now.
Nader goes on to say that liberals are disappointed in Obama's handling of the Wall Street bailouts, the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the U.S. involvement in the military effort in Libya. They also criticized Mr. Obama’s decision to extend the Bush-era tax cuts and the recent deal he struck with Republicans over cutting spending to raise the debt ceiling.
Could we say that Obama lied ? No they won't go that far, they dare not. This is how Obama learned to make his living in the halls of America's elite Universities like Harvard, slipping and sliding through the huge cracks liberals leave open for him to duck out of taking any responsibility for his actions or deceptions.
Ralph Nader's message to the poor and middle class that are suffering through the worst economic crisis since the Great depression seems to be -- eat shit and die, we have to raise taxes and generate more revenue for the Nanny State to waste.
It gets better...Nader -- Mr. Snap and Sizzle himself goes on to say that :
“What we are looking at now is the dullest presidential campaign since Walter Mondale — and that’s saying something, believe me,” Mr. Nader told The Washington Times.We believe you Mr. Nader if anyone knows boring it would be you. The Democrats and liberals are hopelessly out of touch with reality. They are locked onto their failed Keynesian economic policies like a suicide bomber locked onto his detonator switch. More taxes and more stimulus will fix everything. Completely ignoring the wasted $800 billion of the first stimulus, TARP, and the bailouts . In the last ten years we have had so many stimulus programs the government has run out of acronyms for them. The Keynesian's reply to every one of their failed policies is always the same - It wasn't big enough.
I saved the best for last. The main reason they are worried is that;
They fear the liberal voice is being drowned out in the presidential campaign.Drown out the liberal voice ? They must be kidding. The liberal voice is everywhere CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, Time, Life, PBS, New York Times, Washington Post, along with thousands of their toady affiliates. It's not likely their voices will be drowned out any time soon, unfortunately.
I think what they mean is that they fear that someone else may get a chance to be heard, and expose the sham they are running on the American people.
Good Luck with that nomination. Liberals will not vote against Obama in any great numbers, they would then be considered racists, and we all know that can never happen.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Obama lectured Americans on living within their means - really, he did
The all time leading KING of spending other people's money and driving up debt came out and lectured us on "living within our means" As with most Obama speeches it was long on rhetoric and abstract concepts, very short on details, and facts.
We have reached the intersection of Cloud-Cukoo-Land and The Yellow Brick Road. In what can only be described as an another awful political stunt to portray himself as the only fiscally responsible adult in the room. Obama took credit for the talks that averted a government shutdown,and also lectured America on “living within our means.” and acted as if the last three years never happened, they just went up in Pixie dust right before our eyes ;
We know because we have video tape, and the internet now to prove it. We've watched hundreds of these speeches by now, and they keep looking more like DNC fund-raisers than an Oval Office address. Though Obama constantly refers to the need to compromise, his idea of compromise is to take to his bully pulpit and tell the public to overwhelm Republicans with demands to raise taxes. ... never once has asked them to demand congress cut spending, except when it's couched under the guise of raising taxes.
As far as the "Grand Plan' to save the poor honest, hardworking folk it's another reelection scam that he hopes will save a few people enough money on refinanced underwater mortgages, with the hopes that they will then take that money and spend it, creating some positive economic numbers before the election.
This one could actually work, for his reelection, not the economy if we lived in Cloud-Cuckoo-Land. We all know that when Obama wants to hand out money to Wall Street, or pet alternative energy companies like Solyndra, his administration green lights the money, breaks the rules, and possibly the law, to fast track the loans almost immediately.
But when The feds are handing out money to the poor, honest, hardworking folk, they create a maze of red tape and government restrictions that a layman cannot even understand, and needs to hire a lawyer, who will take 50% off the top, just to do the paper work. The money barely trickles out, if it ever trickles at all.
It's a pitiful sight watching a president twisting in the wind, pretending that he is just caught in forces beyond his control, unable to do anything except go on repeating the same mistakes. It takes courage to change course. he doesn't have that courage.
Obama, Geithner and Bernake are ideological prisoners of the failed Keynesian faith they have been following all along -- their conviction is that the country can spend its way out of hard times. And when times get harder, just keep spending more. They couldn't change, even if they wanted to, and they don't want to.
Obama likes to complain no other President in history has been treated worse than him. No one gives him credit for all he has done, and that he can't get anything right. At this point he is right, he's continually doubled down on failed policies for three years, and passed up many opportunities to change course. If he actually gives in to any of the fiscally sound ideas that he's been bashing and rejecting for the last three years now, right before the election, he really looks bad. But he has the audacity to do it. That's for sure.
We have reached the intersection of Cloud-Cukoo-Land and The Yellow Brick Road. In what can only be described as an another awful political stunt to portray himself as the only fiscally responsible adult in the room. Obama took credit for the talks that averted a government shutdown,and also lectured America on “living within our means.” and acted as if the last three years never happened, they just went up in Pixie dust right before our eyes ;
“Like any worthwhile compromise, both sides had to make tough decisions and give ground on issues that were important to them,” Obama said before cameras in the White House Blue Room as he acknowledged some of the cuts agreed to would be painful, with certain programs cut back and other projects encountering delays. “But beginning to live within our means is the only way to protect those investments that will help America compete for new jobs,”Of course, Obama never wanted to cut a dime from the budget that he increased by a trillion dollars in the last three years.
We know because we have video tape, and the internet now to prove it. We've watched hundreds of these speeches by now, and they keep looking more like DNC fund-raisers than an Oval Office address. Though Obama constantly refers to the need to compromise, his idea of compromise is to take to his bully pulpit and tell the public to overwhelm Republicans with demands to raise taxes. ... never once has asked them to demand congress cut spending, except when it's couched under the guise of raising taxes.
As far as the "Grand Plan' to save the poor honest, hardworking folk it's another reelection scam that he hopes will save a few people enough money on refinanced underwater mortgages, with the hopes that they will then take that money and spend it, creating some positive economic numbers before the election.
This one could actually work, for his reelection, not the economy if we lived in Cloud-Cuckoo-Land. We all know that when Obama wants to hand out money to Wall Street, or pet alternative energy companies like Solyndra, his administration green lights the money, breaks the rules, and possibly the law, to fast track the loans almost immediately.
But when The feds are handing out money to the poor, honest, hardworking folk, they create a maze of red tape and government restrictions that a layman cannot even understand, and needs to hire a lawyer, who will take 50% off the top, just to do the paper work. The money barely trickles out, if it ever trickles at all.
It's a pitiful sight watching a president twisting in the wind, pretending that he is just caught in forces beyond his control, unable to do anything except go on repeating the same mistakes. It takes courage to change course. he doesn't have that courage.
Obama, Geithner and Bernake are ideological prisoners of the failed Keynesian faith they have been following all along -- their conviction is that the country can spend its way out of hard times. And when times get harder, just keep spending more. They couldn't change, even if they wanted to, and they don't want to.
Obama likes to complain no other President in history has been treated worse than him. No one gives him credit for all he has done, and that he can't get anything right. At this point he is right, he's continually doubled down on failed policies for three years, and passed up many opportunities to change course. If he actually gives in to any of the fiscally sound ideas that he's been bashing and rejecting for the last three years now, right before the election, he really looks bad. But he has the audacity to do it. That's for sure.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
The Latest Obama Gimmick : "The Buffet Rule"
The United States of America 2012 - WANTED: A person who can function as president of the United States, and be, well.... "Presidential". Obama is still giving campaign speeches, and throwing bailing wire, rubber bands, and band aids at our economic problems. The goal of course is to assure his base he hasn't abandoned their cause of taxing the wealthy, and save his own job.
The NYT is reporting that Obama's not so new idea is....drum roll please... "increasing taxes on millionaires" -- You don't say ? The NYT is calling this stunt "political salesmanship" The "Buffet Rule" as Obama is calling it is just new spin on his already tired old game of trying to put the Republicans on the defensive for the Presidential election
Buffet has taken to Obama'a strategy of fixing the economy with "words", while stuffing his own pockets with more profits. He has been hitting the talk show circuit and writing Opinion pieces in the NYT pushing the Tax the Wealthy agenda for Obama :
The Obama presidency has rapidly hastened the arrival of midnight on our country and our economy. While Obama and his rich friends fiddle and increase their personal profits, we are crashing. Obama is dwarfed by this job and could not help the situation if he wanted to, and after three years into this debacle -- that is still a BIG "if" -- we still don't know what his true motives are.
Look up the term "Community Organizer" and see what they do, they don't organize communities. They preach fear-mongering, hate, and racism to polarize the people and extort money from the government, banks, and taxpayers for themselves and their cronies.
Personally I don't care about about the wealthiest top one or two percent. I am sure they can take care of themselves, and you can tax clowns like Buffet, Gates, Zuckerburg into oblivion for all I care, in fact PLEASE do. Tax them so bad that they will never stick their heads up, or shoot their self-serving mouths off in public again. What concerns me is the narrow-minded, selfishness, and pettiness coming from the office of the President of the United States, and the devastating effect that this class-warfare, tax and spend mentality is having on small and medium sized businesses and the middle class- we are under a siege mentality, under siege by a government looking under every rock for more revenue to keep the insane cycle of tax more -- spend more -- going until it breaks us, as it is doing to Europe.
Big Corporations and people like Buffet don't pay taxes, they pass them on or hire lawyers to find the loopholes -- Whatever they hand over to the feds in taxes is easily made up for by passing that cost on to consumers and the middle class. In class-warfare it's the middle class that suffers the most casualties, not the wealthy.
Small business is being hammered by Federal and State taxes, regulations, health care costs, fees, fines, and whatever other name the states and feds can come up with to call a tax. States especially those who are led by Democratic governors and legislatures that are following Obama's tax and spend lead and have -- if it breathes, moves or has a pulse TAX IT -- we don't need no stinking spending cuts-- and it is having devastating effects on those economies, just look at States like Nevada, California, and Illinois.
The 500 pound gorilla in the room that our so-called leader cannot bring himself to deal with is "Tax Reform" a complete overhaul of our tax system, it doesn't work. And the implementation of a fair system that makes everyone a stakeholder in our success and our future. One that generates revenue and doesn't cause people to hide their incomes, and businesses to flee overseas. that is a "Presidential" message not singling out political targets for attack, and beating the drums for class-warfare.
"Tax Reform" that's a Presidential message -- "The Buffet Rule" is a Community organizer's extortion stunt.
The NYT is reporting that Obama's not so new idea is....drum roll please... "increasing taxes on millionaires" -- You don't say ? The NYT is calling this stunt "political salesmanship" The "Buffet Rule" as Obama is calling it is just new spin on his already tired old game of trying to put the Republicans on the defensive for the Presidential election
Buffet has taken to Obama'a strategy of fixing the economy with "words", while stuffing his own pockets with more profits. He has been hitting the talk show circuit and writing Opinion pieces in the NYT pushing the Tax the Wealthy agenda for Obama :
“My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress,” he wrote in an opinion article in The New York Times, a complaint he has repeated in talks and media interviews since. “It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice.”Buffet says: "It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice " I would agree with that statement, but pushing the tax the wealthy theme is NOT getting serious it's kicking the can down the road and damaging an already fragile economy. Buffet is a self-serving slug.
The Obama presidency has rapidly hastened the arrival of midnight on our country and our economy. While Obama and his rich friends fiddle and increase their personal profits, we are crashing. Obama is dwarfed by this job and could not help the situation if he wanted to, and after three years into this debacle -- that is still a BIG "if" -- we still don't know what his true motives are.
Look up the term "Community Organizer" and see what they do, they don't organize communities. They preach fear-mongering, hate, and racism to polarize the people and extort money from the government, banks, and taxpayers for themselves and their cronies.
Personally I don't care about about the wealthiest top one or two percent. I am sure they can take care of themselves, and you can tax clowns like Buffet, Gates, Zuckerburg into oblivion for all I care, in fact PLEASE do. Tax them so bad that they will never stick their heads up, or shoot their self-serving mouths off in public again. What concerns me is the narrow-minded, selfishness, and pettiness coming from the office of the President of the United States, and the devastating effect that this class-warfare, tax and spend mentality is having on small and medium sized businesses and the middle class- we are under a siege mentality, under siege by a government looking under every rock for more revenue to keep the insane cycle of tax more -- spend more -- going until it breaks us, as it is doing to Europe.
Big Corporations and people like Buffet don't pay taxes, they pass them on or hire lawyers to find the loopholes -- Whatever they hand over to the feds in taxes is easily made up for by passing that cost on to consumers and the middle class. In class-warfare it's the middle class that suffers the most casualties, not the wealthy.
Small business is being hammered by Federal and State taxes, regulations, health care costs, fees, fines, and whatever other name the states and feds can come up with to call a tax. States especially those who are led by Democratic governors and legislatures that are following Obama's tax and spend lead and have -- if it breathes, moves or has a pulse TAX IT -- we don't need no stinking spending cuts-- and it is having devastating effects on those economies, just look at States like Nevada, California, and Illinois.
The 500 pound gorilla in the room that our so-called leader cannot bring himself to deal with is "Tax Reform" a complete overhaul of our tax system, it doesn't work. And the implementation of a fair system that makes everyone a stakeholder in our success and our future. One that generates revenue and doesn't cause people to hide their incomes, and businesses to flee overseas. that is a "Presidential" message not singling out political targets for attack, and beating the drums for class-warfare.
"Tax Reform" that's a Presidential message -- "The Buffet Rule" is a Community organizer's extortion stunt.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
5 Reasons Why GOP Should Give up on Minorities
GOP politicians are constantly trying court black and Hispanic voters, by giving into wasteful, useless welfare programs that don't work, and going soft on immigrations laws that are undermining our laws and our economy, under the delusion that this will lure minorities to vote for them. After over a half a century of these appeasement policies only one thing has become clear - It ain't going to happen, at least not this way.
5 Reasons why Republicans should stop reaching out to minorities
1. The majority of Blacks have never shown indication that they would switch to GOP candidates, regardless of the Republican's stance on entitlements and welfare programs.
2. The majority of Hispanics have never shown much interest in switching their vote to the GOP candidate regardless of their positions on immigrations policies, or entitlements and welfare programs.
3. Over Ninety percent of the people in America that support, limited government, fiscal responsibility, individual freedoms, and State's rights -- all GOP core principles, are white.
4. Ninety percent of Blacks and Hispanics support the Democratic party's core principles of a Nanny State government, welfare states, tax and spend Keynesian economic policies, and the shredding, and ultimate destruction of the Constitution through judicial usurpation
5. Post racial America is a myth -- we are NOT post racial at all - We are hyper-racial - Over ninety percent of blacks and overwhelming majority of Hispanics will begrudgingly vote for Obama in 2012, despite the fact that their lives have been made harsher, more unpredictable, and they have suffered the most economically from Obama's failed economic policies.
It is time for the GOP to start reaching "in" to the majority that support their core values and principles, and stop trying to reach "out" to minorities that do not - If we have learned anything from Obama, it's that you cannot lead a country from behind.
According to Gallup polls () Only 11% of Republicans are Hispanics, or are blacks or members of other races. By contrast, only 12% of Democrats are white conservatives.
A majority of Republicans say they want their party and its candidates to move in a more conservative direction. Which means back to basics and the core values and principles that made America the Great Nation it is -- limited government, fiscal responsibility, individualism, self-responsibility, self-reliance, independent spirit, and individual liberty.
We have reached an ideological schism - If you are still an independent in this hyper-partisan political environment you either don't care, or aren't paying attention - The middle ground is slipping away, the two choices are clear - Follow the Franco-German welfare states in Europe off the cliff to fiscal destruction, or get back to the American values and principles that got us here.
Republicans nave not always held firm to those values, and too often put self-interests, party, and votes before country. But with the Tea Party nipping at their heels they are slowly making the pivot back toward smaller more effective government, fiscal responsibility, individual freedom and open markets that encourage small and medium businesses and entrepreneurship, that is what we excel at.
We should be talking about how to dismantle all the Keynisian clown economics that have eaten away at fiscal integrity and social stability over the last century. Start to get control of, or better yet, do away with, the Fed and fractional banking. Get the banks out of the investment and hedge fund business and back to saving and lending money. Get our currency back on solid ground with a gold standard. Let toxic banks and businesses fail and let the guys who got it right step up to take their place as they should. Let investors who take high risks accept their own losses and stop pushing them off on the taxpayers. And get the government out of rigging the game for their own personal and political interests. Those are the discussions that should be coming out of Washington.
Americans and the GOP needs to stop being bullied by the left and their media propaganda. We can control our destiny. -- It is not a done deal that we will be eventually overrun by poverty, sexual perverts, illegal aliens, criminals, gangsters, drug cartels and Sharia law, by 2050 -- And even if it were inevitable -- we should go down fighting for what we believe in and not just give up like the Europeans have.
Americans Are Increasingly Hostile to the Federal Government,and the majority of Americans now do NOT buy into the "Tea Party are terrorists" hype pushed by the Obama administration and mainstream media 55 % disagree The GOP's policies and core beliefs are gaining ground, and the GOP isn't even paying attention- The middle ground is sliding out from underneath us, it's time to stand on our principles and take America back, or go down fighting for it.
The core values of our culture and country do NOT have to depend on "skin color" but the Democratic party and the mainstream media has used "skin color" to polarize and divide Americans along racial lines to support their political agenda. That is the reality we have to deal with.
5 Reasons why Republicans should stop reaching out to minorities
1. The majority of Blacks have never shown indication that they would switch to GOP candidates, regardless of the Republican's stance on entitlements and welfare programs.
2. The majority of Hispanics have never shown much interest in switching their vote to the GOP candidate regardless of their positions on immigrations policies, or entitlements and welfare programs.
3. Over Ninety percent of the people in America that support, limited government, fiscal responsibility, individual freedoms, and State's rights -- all GOP core principles, are white.
4. Ninety percent of Blacks and Hispanics support the Democratic party's core principles of a Nanny State government, welfare states, tax and spend Keynesian economic policies, and the shredding, and ultimate destruction of the Constitution through judicial usurpation
5. Post racial America is a myth -- we are NOT post racial at all - We are hyper-racial - Over ninety percent of blacks and overwhelming majority of Hispanics will begrudgingly vote for Obama in 2012, despite the fact that their lives have been made harsher, more unpredictable, and they have suffered the most economically from Obama's failed economic policies.
It is time for the GOP to start reaching "in" to the majority that support their core values and principles, and stop trying to reach "out" to minorities that do not - If we have learned anything from Obama, it's that you cannot lead a country from behind.
According to Gallup polls () Only 11% of Republicans are Hispanics, or are blacks or members of other races. By contrast, only 12% of Democrats are white conservatives.
A majority of Republicans say they want their party and its candidates to move in a more conservative direction. Which means back to basics and the core values and principles that made America the Great Nation it is -- limited government, fiscal responsibility, individualism, self-responsibility, self-reliance, independent spirit, and individual liberty.
We have reached an ideological schism - If you are still an independent in this hyper-partisan political environment you either don't care, or aren't paying attention - The middle ground is slipping away, the two choices are clear - Follow the Franco-German welfare states in Europe off the cliff to fiscal destruction, or get back to the American values and principles that got us here.
Republicans nave not always held firm to those values, and too often put self-interests, party, and votes before country. But with the Tea Party nipping at their heels they are slowly making the pivot back toward smaller more effective government, fiscal responsibility, individual freedom and open markets that encourage small and medium businesses and entrepreneurship, that is what we excel at.
We should be talking about how to dismantle all the Keynisian clown economics that have eaten away at fiscal integrity and social stability over the last century. Start to get control of, or better yet, do away with, the Fed and fractional banking. Get the banks out of the investment and hedge fund business and back to saving and lending money. Get our currency back on solid ground with a gold standard. Let toxic banks and businesses fail and let the guys who got it right step up to take their place as they should. Let investors who take high risks accept their own losses and stop pushing them off on the taxpayers. And get the government out of rigging the game for their own personal and political interests. Those are the discussions that should be coming out of Washington.
Americans and the GOP needs to stop being bullied by the left and their media propaganda. We can control our destiny. -- It is not a done deal that we will be eventually overrun by poverty, sexual perverts, illegal aliens, criminals, gangsters, drug cartels and Sharia law, by 2050 -- And even if it were inevitable -- we should go down fighting for what we believe in and not just give up like the Europeans have.
Americans Are Increasingly Hostile to the Federal Government,and the majority of Americans now do NOT buy into the "Tea Party are terrorists" hype pushed by the Obama administration and mainstream media 55 % disagree The GOP's policies and core beliefs are gaining ground, and the GOP isn't even paying attention- The middle ground is sliding out from underneath us, it's time to stand on our principles and take America back, or go down fighting for it.
The core values of our culture and country do NOT have to depend on "skin color" but the Democratic party and the mainstream media has used "skin color" to polarize and divide Americans along racial lines to support their political agenda. That is the reality we have to deal with.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Obama's Green Energy "Bloodbath"
You can now add to the long growing list of "Green Energy" companies that are going out of business -- Solyndra LLC of Fremont, Calif., -- Obama visited the company in May 2010 and noted that Solyndra expected to hire 1,000 workers to manufacture solar panels. Touted by the Obama administration in 2010 as a as a "gleaming example of green technology" today announced bankruptcy. 1,100+ employees will be fired.
Please Consider: Solyndra Filing a Disaster for Obama
President Obama faces political catastrophe in the form of Solyndra -- a San Francisco Bay area solar company that he touted as a gleaming example of green technology. It has announced it will declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy. More than 1,100 people will lose their jobs.
During a visit to the Fremont facility in spring of 2010, the President said the factory "is just a testament to American ingenuity and dynamism and the fact that we continue to have the best universities in the world, the best technology in the world, and most importantly the best workers in the world. "
It's not his statements the administration will regret; it's the loan guarantees. The President was celebrating $535 million in federal promises from the Department of Energy to the solar startup. The administration didn't do its due diligence, says the Government Accountability Office. "There's a consequence if you don't follow a rigorous process that's transparent," Franklin Rusco of GAO told the website iWatch News.
There is that ugly word the Obama administration loathes so much -- "transparency" .
The collapse also exposed the folly of the stimulus programs -- Solyndra had received a $535 million federal loan guarantee. Solyndra was one of about 40 projects funded since 2009 through a U.S. Department of Energy loan program that helped major wind, solar, nuclear and ethanol projects. Together, those projects were expected to create about 60,000 jobs.
I wonder if anyone considered that the artificially high energy prices the greens have forced upon states like California might have something to do with increasing manufacturing costs.
And how about the high taxes placed upon individuals and businesses there. And all the regulatory morass that makes doing ANYTHING so difficult, slow and expensive, that everyone is giving up and moving to China.-- I guess not -- at least no one with any influence in the Obama administration, but there were plenty of doubters, no one wanted to listen.
Do the math, The "seen" math is simple enough. $535 million divided by 1,100 is roughly $486,363 per job saved -- which are now jobs lost, the unseen is incalculable.
Obama obviously rushed this pitiful company so he could get his photo op and push his "Green Energy" agenda with taxpayer money. What is amazing is that this company could blow through over half a billion dollars in such a short time. Congress needs to look into this, there must be some fraud involved.
Generally, if companies cannot survive without government subsidies then they should not survive at all.
From : Mish's global Economic Trend Analysis
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