"Let me be clear..."
I don't know about you, but I'm sick and tired of hearing Obama preface nearly everything he says with that phrase. Instead of just talking about being clear, Obama would do well to actually BE clear.
The man is a gifted orator. His speeches were once eloquent and inspirational...and in my opinion, they were a significant reason Obama was elected in 2008. Obama's themes of "hope" and "change" resonated with the majority, many of whom had grown weary of George W. Bush.
After having assumed the very real responsibility and accountability of the presidency, the novel ideas of "hope" and "change" borne from Obama's community organizing days quickly evaporated as he struggled to be clear in reporting to Congress and the American people. His spin doctors had to work overtime preparing his speeches for the TOTUS (TelePrompTer Of The United States), and Obama was unable to provide clear explanations or take responsibility for his rapidly mounting failures.
To quote Shakespeare, his speeches became "...tale[s], told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.". The only thing clear was the lack of clarity.
He tried to excuse his incompetence by blaming others and whining about having "inherited" this economy.
To be sure, he did inherit the economy - but he wanted to inherit it. He fought hard day in and day out for months trying as hard as he could to inherit this economy!
For two years - half of his term - his Democrat party controlled both houses of Congress. This is a Democrat president's dream, and essentially allowed Obama to deploy his agenda for America with relatively little resistance. This was the best opportunity for him to kick off his "fundamental transformation" of America...and kick it off he did.
Obama's first term lowlights include increasing the debt more than every single president in history combined. He promised to cut the deficit in half, but instead he tripled it. He took over healthcare, nationalizing an industry that represents 17% of the economy.
He lined the pockets of the UAW while leaving GM investors with nothing and taxpayers with billions in losses. He prevented the purge of illegal aliens while refusing to secure the border.
He has trampled upon religious liberty by forcing religious institutions to pay for contraception and he has ensured that taxpayer money will fund abortions.
After taking credit for the killing of bin Laden, his idiot VP endangered our special operations warriors. Obama blamed an American for attacks on our Libyan embassy and the killing of our diplomats rather than blaming extremism and terrorism.
Eric Holder, Obama's attorney general, is directly responsible for countless deaths associated with the "Fast and Furious" operation, and actively fights against efforts to combat voter fraud by filing suit against every state that passes voter ID laws. He also helped Obama ensure illegals enjoy a comfortable stay in America by suing Arizona in response to its efforts against illegal immigration.
Obama talked a lot about jobs, but the unemployment rate kept climbing and has never fallen below the level it was when he took office.
In January of 2009 when Obama was inaugurated, the average price of gas was $1.84. Today it is $3.69.
Now at the end of his first term, there is real clarity. Barack Hussein Obama has clearly failed as President of the United States. If you or I were to perform at our jobs the way Obama did at his, we would have been fired a long time ago.
We are not better off than we were four years ago. It would be impossible for a reasonable person to conclude otherwise. I simply can't wrap my head around the fact that once again, even after all these miserable failures, there is so much support for Obama.
Let me be clear: Obama has got to go!
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Obamacare: Symptom of a Disease
"After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the government then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence: it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd." - Alexis de Tocqueville
De Tocqueville was clairvoyant, but I would argue that - especially after this week's United States Supreme Court rulings - our nation's government IS forcing men to act, it DOES destroy, and DOES tyrannize.
Today, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Obamacare and its individual mandate passes constitutional muster, as a "tax" (never mind that Obama himself vigorously denied - and, inexplicably continues to deny - that the individual mandate was a tax). Because of this, there will be $500 billion in new or increased taxes on everyone (mostly the poor and middle class) over the next 10 years, while also adding $1.76 trillion to the national debt.
So much for Obama's promise not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year.
According to the Court, it's perfectly constitutional for the federal government to force people to buy health insurance, and levy a punitive tax if they don't do so. That's right, folks...for the first time in history, the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the federal government of the United States of America have come together to impose and uphold a tax - on simply being alive.
To put this in perspective, if you're in the service industry as many of my friends are, making $30K per year and don't have health insurance, you MUST A) pay your contribution for the insurance that your employer offers, B) find and pay for your own insurance, or C) pay a $695 penalty for not having insurance, and go on the government dole for your healthcare.
No matter what, you're going to pay. That's the law. Obama's "fundamental transformation" in action.
Another portion of this ruling dictates that small business owners must provide health insurance if they have 50 or more employees, or face fines. Whether they start offering health insurance or pay the fine for not doing so, they will have to incorporate these new expenses into the cost of doing business. To offset these new costs, they will have to raise prices and/or lay off employees. Neither of those are good for the economy, and one of those is especially bad for you, the employee.
Government, through tyranny, is forcing people to act against their free will. The spending needed to enforce this tyranny and enact this legislation will dramatically speed our progress towards financial destruction.
This legislation flies in the face of freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You know, those things this nation was founded upon. When a government can dictate to people what we must spend our money on, and there is no alternative, there is less freedom. There is less liberty. Our pursuit of happiness has been restrained, limited, curtailed.
Liberals will applaud and cheer this ruling, because they'll say it's for the common good and it saves the country money. How is the destruction of the country "good"? How is taking healthcare decisions out of the hands of We the People "good"? How does adding 30 million people to the government dole, and building the additional bureaucracy necessary to enforce Obamacare provisions going to save anybody any money? (It won't.) How is putting the government in direct control of 18% of the economy "good"? (It's not.)
It's scary how diabolical liberals are. They take advantage of the ignorant and reap the fruits of their lifelong brainwashing (see my last blog entry) in order to advance their ultimate agenda of fundamentally transforming America into a socialist utopia even worse than Greece, Spain, and other countries currently swirling down the toilet of financial ruin wrought by socialism. They are winning, and America is losing. The Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves.
America is sick, and it took a turn for the worse today. Help cure our great nation by kicking the disease known as Barack Hussein Obama out of office in November.
De Tocqueville was clairvoyant, but I would argue that - especially after this week's United States Supreme Court rulings - our nation's government IS forcing men to act, it DOES destroy, and DOES tyrannize.
Today, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Obamacare and its individual mandate passes constitutional muster, as a "tax" (never mind that Obama himself vigorously denied - and, inexplicably continues to deny - that the individual mandate was a tax). Because of this, there will be $500 billion in new or increased taxes on everyone (mostly the poor and middle class) over the next 10 years, while also adding $1.76 trillion to the national debt.
So much for Obama's promise not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year.
According to the Court, it's perfectly constitutional for the federal government to force people to buy health insurance, and levy a punitive tax if they don't do so. That's right, folks...for the first time in history, the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the federal government of the United States of America have come together to impose and uphold a tax - on simply being alive.
To put this in perspective, if you're in the service industry as many of my friends are, making $30K per year and don't have health insurance, you MUST A) pay your contribution for the insurance that your employer offers, B) find and pay for your own insurance, or C) pay a $695 penalty for not having insurance, and go on the government dole for your healthcare.
No matter what, you're going to pay. That's the law. Obama's "fundamental transformation" in action.
Another portion of this ruling dictates that small business owners must provide health insurance if they have 50 or more employees, or face fines. Whether they start offering health insurance or pay the fine for not doing so, they will have to incorporate these new expenses into the cost of doing business. To offset these new costs, they will have to raise prices and/or lay off employees. Neither of those are good for the economy, and one of those is especially bad for you, the employee.
Government, through tyranny, is forcing people to act against their free will. The spending needed to enforce this tyranny and enact this legislation will dramatically speed our progress towards financial destruction.
This legislation flies in the face of freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You know, those things this nation was founded upon. When a government can dictate to people what we must spend our money on, and there is no alternative, there is less freedom. There is less liberty. Our pursuit of happiness has been restrained, limited, curtailed.
Liberals will applaud and cheer this ruling, because they'll say it's for the common good and it saves the country money. How is the destruction of the country "good"? How is taking healthcare decisions out of the hands of We the People "good"? How does adding 30 million people to the government dole, and building the additional bureaucracy necessary to enforce Obamacare provisions going to save anybody any money? (It won't.) How is putting the government in direct control of 18% of the economy "good"? (It's not.)
It's scary how diabolical liberals are. They take advantage of the ignorant and reap the fruits of their lifelong brainwashing (see my last blog entry) in order to advance their ultimate agenda of fundamentally transforming America into a socialist utopia even worse than Greece, Spain, and other countries currently swirling down the toilet of financial ruin wrought by socialism. They are winning, and America is losing. The Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves.
America is sick, and it took a turn for the worse today. Help cure our great nation by kicking the disease known as Barack Hussein Obama out of office in November.
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