Obama's Vision For Your America - Can You See It Clearly Now?

[Oxrock]

"At stake is whether this will be a country where working people can earn enough to raise a family, build a modest savings, own a home, and secure their retirement."

 

 

That's his lofty goal for YOU (not for him of course - he has the State Department buying his books to pad his retirement).

 

 

"It's a simple theory – one that speaks to our rugged individualism and healthy skepticism of too much government. It fits well on a bumper sticker. Here's the problem: It doesn't work. It's never worked. It didn't work when it was tried in the decade before the Great Depression. It's not what led to the incredible post-war boom of the 50s and 60s. And it didn't work when we tried it during the last decade."

 

Well, if that's how he thinks the of course you can't be left on your own:

 

"We simply cannot return to this brand of your-on-your-own economics..."

"Fair" is the poll tested word for this campaign eh?

Obama's latest stump speech.

Edited December 7, 2011 by Oxrock

[B-Man]

Not surprisingly, Obama was disingenuous in a few places but just a few. At one point, he said he had already signed $1 trillion in spending cuts into law. Presumably, he was referring to the cuts included in the debt ceiling deal. As a reminder, those were cuts to future spending and legislators will soon frantically work to ensure they dont materialize. At another point, he called for greater responsibility from homeowners to not take out mortgages they cant afford, and remember that if something seems too good to be true, it probably is.

 

That statement would have had more punch if he hadnt earlier excoriated lenders for tricking people into loans they cant afford, as though people are too stupid to understand the terms of a loan. He also cited two of the rare big-government projects of which conservatives approve the post-World-War-II GI tuition bill and the creation of the interstate system as evidence that we are greater together (a phrase that appeared repeatedly in the speech).

 

Notice he didnt cite the many New Deal, Great Society and modern programs from headed-for-implosion entitlements to sunken welfare benefits to additional education spending that have proved to be either ineffective or disastrous, exacerbating the very problems they were intended to solve.

 

But, on the whole, the president was pretty transparent about his belief that big government makes everything better. The speech reads like a compelling essay in defense of government interference in free markets at every level. Read it and youll wonder why were not rushing to increase unemployment benefits, hike taxes, tighten regulations and expand government programs. But then youll remember the presidents own advice: .............................If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is

 

Hot Air

 

 

 

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Edited December 7, 2011 by B-Man

[DC Tom]

"It's a simple theory – one that speaks to our rugged individualism and healthy skepticism of too much government. It fits well on a bumper sticker. Here's the problem: It doesn't work. It's never worked. It didn't work when it was tried in the decade before the Great Depression. It's not what led to the incredible post-war boom of the 50s and 60s. And it didn't work when we tried it during the last decade."

 

That is !@#$ing ludicrous.

[OCinBuffalo]

That is !@#$ing ludicrous.

Yes, as apparently Obama's command of history doesn't include that fact that every other country in the world's factories and infrastructure was leveled in 40s, and most wasn't rebuilt until the late 60s.

 

Nah, it was all FDR's New Deal programs that....oh wait, didn't FDR's own advisers have to force him to kill the WPA, because they could recognize that the government competing with business for labor on a massive scale was a terrible, tax-base destroying idea, even if he couldn't? They knew then that "shovel-ready" was BS. They knew that it was counterproductive. How the hell can you tax business, and raise revenue, if most of the new jobs you create work for the government? All their grandiose spending plans were dependent on raising taxes, but the WPA was killing them, and so, they killed it...BEFORE WW2.

 

Why are we having to re-learn these lessons? For the same reason that Obama thinks the 50s and 60s boom was due to government activity: willful ignorance of history. Perhaps somebody should assign Obama Eisenhower biography homework, as in:

 

"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking...is freedom."

 

Notice I didn't even have to talk WW2 to kill this, and I'm still right.

[1billsfan]

"Fair" =

 

 

How many mouths in Port-Au-Prince could have been fed on the half billion dollar you gave to the failing Solyndra? How many mouths could have been fed on the $400,000 Michelle spent just so she could be in Martha's Vineyard four hours earlier than you? Let's talk about greed. Let's talk about Franklin Raines. Let's talk about Barney and Chris and the democratic party's responsibility as to why middle class Americans find themselves in such desperate conditions right now. You've spent 5 Trillion dollars of debt, yet somehow the dirt poor people of this country have become even more dirt poor. What's a fair amount for your next term? 10 Trillion?

 

The man who once glorified himself as a uniter is the very definition of a divider. He hates everything that has made this country great. To put it simply, he hates both freedom and capitalism. Rugged individualism and healthy skepticism of too much government doesn't work? It's never worked? Wow. What a shamefully sorry excuse for a United States president.

[GG]

Again, the litmus test should always be, where's the money - specifically, investment money going? When you talk to an entrepreneur or a company that is expanding operations in US (and there are still those), how many will choose the over regulated behemoths that are California, NY & NJ, or do they consider less burdened Texas, Arizona & Colorado?

Edited December 7, 2011 by GG