Obama: If your business fails, we won’t bail you out (unless you’re a big democrat donor)

Flopping Aces ^ | 07-27-15 | DrJohn

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Barack Obama is a liar of biblical proportions. That's not new, but every now and then he spouts something that makes you want to scream "Are you effing kidding me?" And he's done it again.

His Weekly Address yesterday was a beauty. He starts by patting himself on the back as usual:

Hi, everybody. It’s been seven years since the worst financial crisis in generations spread from Wall Street to Main Street – a crisis that cost millions of Americans their jobs, their homes, their life savings. It was a crisis that cost all of us. It was a reminder that we’re in this together – all of us.

We're in this together- to a point. Ready? Here it comes:

Wall Street Reform turned the page on the era of ‘too big to fail.’ Now, in America, we welcome the pursuit of profit. But if your business fails, we shouldn’t have to bail you out. And under the new rules, we won’t – the days of taxpayer-funded bailouts are over.

This is not simply a lie. It's a galactic lie.

Firstly, too big to fail is far from over. Fannie and Freddie still are too big to fail.

It's been three years since the financial crisis, which spurred the great recession. In that time little has been done to fix the 'too big to fail' banks or the government sponsored agencies — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — responsible for the global economic meltdown.

Today U.S. banks are bigger than ever. The top four banks in the United States — J.P Morgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citigroup — control 62% of total commercial assets in this country, up 8% from five years ago, reports The Wall Street Journal.

The Dodd-Frank bill was supposed to rein in the banks, but clearly has failed to do much to date, in part because the banks and many Republicans have been fighting to repeal the legislation. A big point of contention in the bill is the so-called Volcker rule, which would prevent firms from using customer deposits for trades made for the bank's own accounts. The banks have also been pushing back against calls to revamp debit card rules, as well as the outright breakup of the institutions.

That's not all. Some of the "too big to fail" banks are even bigger. Small banks are getting killed, which will lead to bigger banks via consolidation. Consumers have been clobbered as well. 75% of banks used to offer free checking and that's fallen to 39%.

Obama's Wall St. donors continue to see their profits  go through the roof thanks to Dodd Frank. Small banks are paying for the sins of the large banks.

But let's return to Obama's central theme:

But if your business fails, we shouldn’t have to bail you out.

Unless you're GM. Or Chrysler. Or Goldman Sachs. Or AIG. Or any of the 951 entities Obama bailed out. Or the insurance companies which support Obamacare. Obama is now bailing out and will continue to bail out insurance companies:

[DiogenesLamp]

Another example of what I mean when I say he lies a lot.

[Chode]

YOU didn't build that, but if it fails it's YOUR fault

[relictele]

If you didn’t build that and government did, isn’t it government’s responsibility?

[relictele]

JINX!

[OttawaFreeper]

“But if your business fails, we shouldn’t have to bail you out.”

How does this compare with his “You didn’t build that” remark, I wonder? I know, there are more worthwhile uses of my time than trying to make sense of The One’s observations on business.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

As a political parasite, when your host dies you just find some fresh blood somewhere else.

[tumblindice]

And Barry’s got a buttload of “I gave you money” cronies and other Dembuddies (like Moochelle’s college roommate and Obamacare website design) nagging him about global warming/climate change.
These public entrepreneurs—like Ma Richard’s Lamborghini lovin’ daughter over at Das Planned Parenthood—want to get on board the federal gravy train with their bullshite, but very expensive, plans to lower Mother Gaia’s temperature.