“Not True”

Posted by Raquel on Jan 28th, 2010 and filed under New York. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

Before the State of the Union yesterday, I watched Rep. Joe Wilson (who famously yelled “You lie!” the last time Obama addressed Congress) on Neil Cavuto’s show, who was there to discuss the upcoming speech by the President. Mr. Wilson proved to be a humble guest by profusely apologizing (yet again) for his outburst, and by politely disagreeing with the President’s spending policies during a short two or three minute interview that exuded sincerity.

It was a sharp contrast from President Obama’s State of the Union address, head held high, a few hours later, where the same annoying arrogance permeated the speech, so much so that a dumb little interview showed more humility on the part of Mr. Wilson for one mistake, than Obama showed during his 70 minutes long speech for big mistakes that affect us all. (I have no choice but conclude that Mr. Wilson has more integrity in his pinky toe than President Obama.)

Last year the President’s idea of fixing problems catapulted the deficit into unknown and dangerous territory. The Wall Street Journal reports that according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office “over the first three years of the Obama Presidency, 2009-2011, the federal government will borrow an estimated $3.7 trillion. That is more than the entire accumulated national debt for the first 225 years of U.S. history.”

This government largesse led to the public revolt of 2009, also known as the “tea party” revolt. Protesters led the public debate against big government and Obama‘s liberal spending policies. These concerns were not just ignored by the President last night but he mistakenly misinterpreted the angst as well.

You see Mr. Obama blames everyone and anyone besides himself for the bad economy; banks, brokers, speculators, Congress, Washington, corruption, Bush, health insurance companies, corporations and stubborn Republicans who refuse to “cooperate”. But he says nothing about the out of control spending that has incurred under his watch and has – and this is important – contributed to the bad economy.

At some point, Mr. Obama has to realize or at least acknowledge that we cannot spend our way out of this serious debt problem and that if we do not stop spending right now, we risk deteriation of the dollar and possible collapse of the free market as we know it.

A great President once said that the best thing government could do for business in America is get out of the way. That is the sentiment that the country is expressing today, and as smart as everyone wants to portray the President, it’s kind of dumb that he did not acknowledge that this Whitehouse and its Democrat controlled Congress is spending too much money that we do not have on projects that failed to stimulate jobs in private industry last year. What makes anyone think that continued spending will work now?

Although the President did not use the term “saved or created” when referencing jobs last night, he certainly relied on its faux data. Mr. Obama claims that if it wasn’t for the various spending bills of last year, the economy would have experienced a deep depression, yet there is no reliable evidence that this assertion is true unless you rely on the “saved or created” model.

“Saved or created” is a term invented by the Obama administration so that the rate of jobs created can be manipulated. The two words are used in conjunction always, otherwise the scheme doesn’t work.

It is impossible to count the amount of jobs “saved” by last year’s mass Stimulus bill that poured billions of dollars into state governments, but you can quantify a “created” job because there is no ambiguity. With a “saved” job, some state governments reported “saved” jobs by the thousands, by tabulating every government job (i.e. teachers, fireman, police) that may have been lost if the federal government did not intervene.

So the Whitehouse can come out and say we “saved or created” “x” amount of jobs without being tied down to facts or circumstances, like a job was really created. I heard three different figures from the Obama administration just this past week, “thousands”, “1.5 million” and “2 million” jobs were “saved or created” thanks to the Stimulus bill. They might as well say 10 million jobs were “saved or created” because no one can dispute it based upon the “save or created” threshold.

The President claims he wants a three year freeze on government spending (starting in 2011) that excludes non-discretionary spending such as the military and entitlement programs that comprise approximately 83% of the budget, to show the American people that the federal government knows how to tighten its belt. It’s a start, right?

Wrong. The Obama administration increased spending on discretionary items last year so much so that it bypassed the usual increases of 3-4% to a whooping 20+%. If Congress agrees to freeze spending in those areas, it actually locks the increased budgets where they are — which ultimately benefits big-spending officials who do not have to fight off their fiscally conservative counterparts who may want to decrease the federal budget for real.

Sheer hypocrisy can only explain the continued and ridiculous blame game by President Obama.

He calls on Congress to be transparent, but he hides behind closed doors with Union leaders to work out a sweetheart deal. He calls on Congress to post earmarks on-line before submitting bills for signature, but he did not do the same for the proposed healthcare “reform” bill. He tells us to stop the partisan bickering as he name calls Republicans in the same breath. He calls on the American people to look forward, but we cannot move forward until lessons are learned from the past.

Remember folks, it was President Obama who looked you in the eye last night and apologized for not explaining the healthcare “reform” bill well enough. He begrudgingly admitted that you are angry, but went on to lecture that he knows what’s right for you, and sooner or later you will love what he has proposed.

Mr. President, the American people have been telling you for about a year now and it’s getting quite tiresome. We want the federal government to STOP. Stop spending money, stop trying to transform America, and for heaven’s sake stop the lies. We do not like the healthcare reform bill because it stinks to high heaven, that message is clear.

Forge ahead with new spending bills, forge ahead with Obamacare and forge ahead with Cap & Trade legislation, is he kidding me? Mr. President – damn it – take your hands off your ears!

The President continues to pursue the idea that the earth is warming due to man- made carbon emissions, even though the evidence is mounting against the global warming theory first advocated by former Vice President Al Gore.

Cap & Trade is a scheme to collect funds from the rich and redistribute those funds to poor and underdeveloped nations. This idea that somehow instituting new taxes on businesses for excess carbon emission will save the economy and make us leading innovators of the world, that’s if you believe we are not already the most innovative country in the world, is complete and utter rubbish.

Cap & Trade legislation will raise consumer costs, extend government control on industry, and do nothing to control climate change. The climate changes minute by minute, hello!

Furthermore, the President’s continued delusion that Islamic terrorism is a reaction to Western imperialism is a stale argument that doesn’t fly anymore. Every minute of every single day Islamic terrorists are plotting to kill Americans and our way of life. Devoting ten minutes to an issue as important as national security is both scary and depressing. The President is more afraid of offending terrorists, than the backlash he will receive from the public if he fails to protect us.

Obama is also facing mounting criticism for offering suspected terrorists the same rights under the law as the average criminal. Instead of addressing the topic head on; he chose to ignore it, as if it is not even happening. Funny, liberal journalists accuse tea party people of living in an alternate universe!

Finally, and I promise this is my last point, the President criticized the recent Decision of the US Supreme Court that overturned parts of the McCain Feingold Act that restricts corporations from free speech. If you are a conservative like me, you welcome the decision, but if you are a liberal like Obama, you denounce it.

I found it odd that the President chose this venue to criticize the US Supreme Court while the Justices were sitting in the front row, but whatever! What I did find very interesting was the phrase mouthed by Justice Alito in reaction to the President’s criticism – “not true” – two simple words that succinctly summarize the contents of Mr. Obama’s State of the Union. For the first time all night — I cheered!

8 Responses for ““Not True””

  1. A friend of mine just emailed me one of your articles from a while back. I read that one a few more. Really enjoy your blog. Thanks

    By Randy Nichols on Jan 28, 2010

  2. You do know that ’09 was under Bush’s budget, right?

    See

    http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/browse.html

    for more information.

    By Phil on Jan 28, 2010

  3. …Mr. Obama is completely unpresidetial. He giggled to himself from time to time during his speech
    He looked and acted like a mid- level manager out to pizza hut with his friends. One term , Mr. Obama , you will be one term

    By Freda on Jan 28, 2010

  4. Freda, I made the mistake of making a pot of coffee before watching the address, so after my 2nd cup I was bouncing off the walls, and when Obama started chuckling — I spontaneously screamed “What are you laughing at jerk off?!?!”

    By Raquel on Jan 28, 2010

  5. Thanks Randy and Welcome!

    By Raquel on Jan 28, 2010

  6. I strained to stay awake during the speech, but became phsically ill and had touble sleeping. The next day I left work early being sick. A country with a vacuum of leadership, or worse, an atrrogant narcissist in charge is like the Titanic with a drunk captain about to land on an iceberg. In fact many people I talked to today also became sickened after the speech. Countless lies about lobbyists, about excoriating the Chief Justices’ decision, unemployment rates, effects of the Stimulus bill plus a new one just introduced. The freeze on spending for 3 years is a pathetic joke! It’s like stopping the boy from playing with matches while the house is burning down.
    As a machine shop manager, myself who works in the real world with people of all races and stripes, I look at POTUS as a bubble boy from another planet who is far out of touch with America. Anyone with managerial acumen knows as we do during last year’s economic crisis that you have to cut jobs(spending), which we did. We cut our workforce in half,and the remaining workers took on more repsonsibilities, worked hard and late hours, worked sometimes Sat and Sun in order to survive. In purchasing raw materials I shopped around for the best buys and purchased “lean”. Our pay was cut back and at tmes we were several weeks behind in pay. We were not bailed out by gov’t and I witnessed many collallues in the industry lose everthing, business & $$ & homes. Our company bid on a Defense Agency contrct which although we were the lowest bidder, and have the best industry reputation , the gov’t contract for $350K was awarded to an Italian company. Taxpayer $$ that could have put people to work here on Long Island is now flowing to Italy. This is especialy how gov’t is run, a bureaucratic nightmare, blind corrupting self-interest. Leaders are elected with the fiduciary duties to carry out the business of the people. The gov’t should be run like a business enterprise managed by capable people who have run businesses, managed people, and worked in finance, manufacturing, industry, and the military. Good Americans are now drawn to the process becuase they see a duty to their communities, state and nation, since they see this country going in a very destructive direction. There will be a change in the fabric of America as more honest capable people get more invoved in the political process.

    By Phil Orenstein on Jan 29, 2010

  7. After New Jersey, Virginia and Mass, the Democrats have yet to learn the lesson of 09.

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/29/senate-oks-new-debt-limit-raised-by-19-trillion/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_must-read-stories-today

    By Raquel on Jan 29, 2010

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