Posted on 02/25/2009 10:09:31 AM PST by Zakeet
I have probably listened to too many State of the Union speeches over my seven decades of life to get excited by talk of cutting the budget or the promises made. I am not a cynic. I am a realist.
What I heard was President Obama being anti-Wall Street, anti-bankers, anti-CEOs, anti-wealthy people, and anti-oil, and that is just the short list.
It was a classic populist speech intended to appeal to the have-nots. Those people who dropped out of school. Those who have failed to hold onto jobs because of bad attitudes. Those who have fathered children while still in their teens. Those convinced that the system is rigged against them. Theyre right. America does not reward the lazy.
The State of the Union speech was, as is always the case, filled with the promise of new spending on everything; healthcare, education, so-called renewable energy, and even the very tired promise to find a cure for cancer. Richard M. Nixon made the same promise in the 1970s.
The President spent some time whistling passed the graveyard, promising that, Slowly, but surely, confidence will return. Well see.
The bulk of the vast spending programs of the so-called stimulus bill will not kick in this year or next. Most involve major construction projects that will require years of planning. The stimulus will go mostly to government. Many of the projects involve an upgrade to government buildings. That money will stay in Washington, D.C.
There are other projects spread around the map to make the spending look plausible, but what is needed is not scatter-shot federal spending for purely political gain, but a far larger effort to reduce the mind-boggling waste of federal spending and, of course, reform of the vast entitlement programs of Social Security, Medicare, et cetera.
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Let me dust off my crystal ball and tell you whats in store for the day after Santa Obamas State of the Union speech.
The Dow will take another dive as investors flee the stock market. Foreign investors will look elsewhere to put their money. U.S. corporations and manufacturers will consider moving their operations to places where everything they do is not mini-managed to benefit the federal government at their expense.
We are not witnessing the beginning of the end or even the end of the beginning to this recession. We are witnessing all the errors of the past, all the failed programs, all the same efforts to expand government as the ultimate answer to every problem.
BO didn’t have to write that speech. He just copied one of Hugo Chavez’s campaign speeches. They are both good speakers, and that’s all that the msm cares about. They would have been wowed by Adolph Hitler, too.
Actually, they were. If you ever have time to go to a library archives of Time Magazine, the New York Times or any major media, they all gushed about how he was a ladies man, a dynamic speaker, a gentlemanly dresser, a man of impeccable manners and fine taste in wine and music and even a health-conscious non-smoker ahead of his time. They didn't even start to smell the coffee until he unleashed the murderous crystal night on the Jewish shopowners in November 1938. And it wasn't until he invaded Russia in June 1941 that they fully woke up.
You need to really read the media of the day to get a full understanding of how Hitler owned the media, but you will get a minor sense of it by viewing the old Robert Mitchum movie Winds of War.
What I am suffering from is the winds of OBAMAWIND!
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