Posted on 01/21/2015 4:34:30 AM PST by Kaslin
resident Obama sure is consistent. His State of the Union address sounded like his other speeches: What I've done is great! America is in a much better position. We've created a manufacturing sector that's adding jobs. More oil is produced at home. I cut deficits in half!
Give me a break. The deficit is lower now not because of any prudence on Obama's part but merely because the $800 billion stimulus spending blowout didn't continue. All the president does is increase spending: free community college, free Obamaphones, free birth control, etc. Yes, our annual deficit is lower, but it's still $488 billion! Our $18 trillion national debt increases by $3 million every minute!
Yes, more oil is produced at home, but that's in spite of the administration. Oil production is down on public land.
Yes, the manufacturing sector added jobs, but that's mostly because of cheaper natural gas created by fracking, which Obama's cronies opposed. Also, America is finally recovering from recession. Obama's policies probably slowed that recovery.
Does the President delude himself when he takes credit for oil production, lower deficits, etc.? Or does he mislead on purpose? I don't know.
More recently he bragged, "I created the lowest unemployment rate in years." He created it? He must know it's "low" only compared to the 10 percent reached during the recession -- and because millions have simply given up looking for work. This recovery is the slowest in 70 years.
If Obama gave the State of the Union address I'd like to hear, he'd say this:
I heard you, voters, in November when you took control of the Senate away from my party. I get it. I overreached. I was arrogant. I imposed Obamacare on a nation that was deeply divided about it. I ruled through executive orders instead of legislation. I threw money at "green" nonsense. I'll give up the payments to the "green energy" industry if the Republicans stop coddling defense contractors.
I've been in government for years now. I know how badly it works. The last thing I should try to do is make it bigger. In fact, with Republicans now in control of Congress, it's time I worked with them to shrink government. If we shrink it, we might even dig our way out of the debt hole we're in. Heck, if we just slow the growth of government to 2 percent a year, we'd be in better shape.
But I didn't even try to accomplish that. I pretended taxing the rich would solve our financial problems. But there aren't enough rich people to tax. I got drunk on the idea of promising voters "free" stuff such as low down-payment mortgages and guaranteed paid family leave. I told them that all good things come from government. That's nonsense.
We should put an end to all bailouts. Businesses that screw up should accept the consequences, just like ordinary people who spend recklessly. Main Street should never again be forced to rescue Wall Street.
Instead of expanding government control of health care, we should phase it out. That includes Medicare. I know Medicare is popular, but it is unsustainable. Let current retirees receive their benefits as promised, but younger people should pay for their own health care.
People criticize the economic distortion created by welfare, but Medicare and Social Security are almost as bad. Both redistribute money away from the young and struggling toward those of us who have had decades to invest and save up.
To make these challenges a little easier to deal with, let's make America richer by abolishing most regulations. They strangle opportunity.
The more I think about it, the more Congress and I could transform America for the better just by getting out of America's way. The state of our union will be truly strong if the state -- by which I mean government -- is strictly limited
"The GOP supports my destruction of America and its stupid Constitution.
Your fathers' America is dead, and now we change the page."
Then you're either an idiot, a liar, or gutless. Or all three...
I got one thing to say to him...”you didn’t do that”
You had nothing to do with the domestic drilling. In fact I bet you opposed it particularly since you’re in the pocket of the Saudis. We ALL knew he would try to take credit for the lower gas prices and here he tries to do it indirectly because he knew he’d get called on it otherwise...
Obama State of the Union 2015 Text Transcript and Full Video
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3248982/posts
I'm resigning, effective immediately.
FUBO & the clapping clowns in CONgre$$
(No, I didn't watch the BIG GOVERNMENT BUDDIES programming.)
Clinton had the sense in 1995 to declare that the era of big government was over. Of course he couldn’t resist proposing a lot more big government in his state of the union.
Good solutions by Stossel. Thanks for posting.
Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter — by peaceful or revolutionary means — into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it.
Woe to the nation when this latter purpose prevails among the mass victims of lawful plunder when they, in turn, seize the power to make laws!…
Instead of rooting out the injustices found in society, they make these injustices general. As soon as the plundered classes gain political power, they establish a system of reprisals against other classes. They do not abolish legal plunder. (This objective would demand more enlightenment than they possess.) Instead, they emulate their evil predecessors by participating in this legal plunder, even though it is against their own interests.
It is as if it were necessary, before a reign of justice appears, for everyone to suffer a cruel retribution — some for their evilness, and some for their lack of understanding.
/Bastiat
You are exactly right with what you said
I have not ever voted for a Rat candidate and will not vote for any in the future
John Stossel’s SOTU Chainsaw Massacre!
Stoessel’s fantasy would be very much like Nixon-in-China.
Unfortunately, it requires a statesman with Nixon’s intelligence and integrity. Clearly, Obama lacks the former and cannot even attain the latter.
Restate:
—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
DEPOPULATE socialists/totalitarians/liars/criminals/enablers from the body politic.
DEFUND/DISMANTLE their programs/collectives/agencies.
http://www.usa.gov/directory/federal/
Watch the bloated, BIG GOVERNMENT SOCIALISTS, pigs squeal.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
18 trillion of debt slavery to socialists.
Rules for Radicals? No, “Rules for Changing a Limited Republican Government into an Unlimited Hereditary One” - 1784-1796 Freneau
6. But the grand nostrum will be a public debt…
7. It must not be forgotten that the members of the legislative body are to have a deep stake in the game.
9. The management of a great funded debt and a extensive system of taxes will afford a plea, not to be neglected, for establishment of a great incorporated bank. the use of such a machine is well understood. If the Constitution, according to its fair meaning, should not authorize it, so much the better. Push it through by a forced meaning and you will get in the bargain an admirable precedent for future misconstructions.
10. “Divide and govern”
11. As soon as sufficient progress in the intended change shall have been made, and the public mind duly prepared according to the rules already laid down, it will be proper to venture on another and a bolder step toward a removal of the constitutional landmarks.
http://www.constitution.org/cmt/freneau/republic2monarchy.htm
Stossel is such a funny fellow.
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