Posted on 04/30/2011 11:17:46 AM PDT by John Semmens
While commiserating with those who lost loved ones in the recent tornadoes that ravaged much ofAlabama, President Obama urged that “we not overlook the positives of this tragic event. Every structure that was damaged needs repairs—that means jobs. Every piece of personal property that was destroyed will need replacing—that means jobs. Every injury that needs tending, every body that needs burying—means jobs. So, in a way, these storms may be a blessing in disguise for the region’s economy.”
“On top of this, there will be ripple effects that will be felt throughout the nation as the spending on repairs and purchases of materials and supplies trickles into the stream of commerce,” the President added and likened the event to “the economic stimulus of World War that brought America out of the Great Depression.”
Austan Goolsbee, the chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers seconded Obama’s remarks and blamed the anemic 1.8% economic growth for the most recent quarter on “insufficient government spending. It is essential that individuals’ and businesses’ caution in the face of economic uncertainty be offset by government’s boldness. Concerns about cost and return-on-investment that intimidate the private sector can be brushed aside by government. If disaster and destruction are what it takes to get Congress to loosen the purse strings then, indeed, these tornadoes are a gift from heaven.”
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http://azconserv1.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/president-says-tornadoes-may-be-a-blessing-in-disguise/
What an a$$hole. People have been killed and everything in their lives destroyed and he talks about the good to the economy.
I bought the title. He’s stupid and inarticulate enough to say something like that. But the first sentence was too much to swallow. :)
“Why did you post this junk ??? slow news day ???”
The point of satire is to call attention to an event, especially a tragic one, by making a mockery out of some form of it. Think of Jonathan Swift mocking the Catholic-Protestant issues with his Big Endians and Little Endians, or bringing attention to the potato famine tragedy in his A Modest Proposal. You don’t really think Swift wanted people to eat little Irish babies do you?
LOL, I’ve had to start triple checking the URL, satire is getting way too close to reality.
‘every body that needs burying’
Oh, that is what he meant by shovel-ready jobs.
This man is crazy.
Ooops... just noticed that it was satire.
Semi-satire? Heh.
“Almost got me, but I’ve learned to be a little more careful.”
I no longer open these time-wasters except to occasionally see who got suckered in.
Responses to threads like these are proof positive why birther threads will live on to become the next Roswell and Grass Knoll...
This thing, whatever it is, has no heart at all. He might as well be an android.
Let’s let John (ping) in on that one freedumb2003, because you hit the nail on the head. John does the best satire of the Leftists, and their sheer idiocy I’ve ever encountered, and his success is mostly as you say due the “reasonableness” of it.
So, I repeat your post to fish hawk:
“iAlso, when smart asses post these things, some put (sarcasm) or (satire) on the post.
LOL — John has been entrapping people with his wicked satire for quite some time.
It is the REASONABLENESS of it that makes it so effective!
Don’t feel bad — I have been roped in a few times when I forgot to look at the source. Now, if my jaw drops, I look for his signature.
What is sad is that more often than not it is not John, but REAL!”
Right on I say.
(Yes I know it is satire, I just needed to vent.)
You gotta be kidding me....you have GOT to be kidding. Please. Tell me this is something from The Onion!!!!!
What a thoughtless CLOD.
2012 cannot come quickly enough.
May God give us the strength to get there, and get the right person.
Tatt
It’s satire.........
I have been had : |
The sad part, is that it IS that believable : /
A VERY Sheepish Tatt
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