Mark Steyn: It's all bumps, no road in Obamaville

Orange County Register ^ | 6/10/11 | Mark Steyn

[passionfruit]

"There are always going to be bumps on the road to recovery,'' President Obama said at a Jeep plant in Toledo the other day. "We're going to pass through some rough terrain that even a Wrangler would have a tough time with.'' His audience booed. They're un-fire-able union members with lavish benefits, and even they weary of the glib lines from his 12-year-old speechwriters.

We're not on the road to recovery. You can't get there from here, as they say. Obama was in Toledo to "celebrate" the sale of the government's remaining stake in Chrysler to Fiat. That's "Fiat" as in the Italian car manufacturer rather than "an authoritative or arbitrary decree (from the Latin 'let it be done')," which would be almost too perfect a name for an Obamafied automobile. The Treasury crowed that Fiat had agreed to pay a whopping $560 million for the government's Chrysler shares. Article Tab : New Chet's Restaurant in Toledo, Ohio, will close its doors Sunday June 12, 2011, due to the economy and a smoking ban, the owners said. The restaurant, located near an auto plant, was mentioned briefly by President Obama in a speech to Jeep autoworkers during his recent visit to Toledo. Without you, who would eat at Chet's ... the President told the workers. New Chet's Restaurant in Toledo, Ohio, will close its doors Sunday June 12, 2011, due to the economy and a smoking ban, the owners said. The restaurant, located near an auto plant, was mentioned briefly by President Obama in a speech to Jeep autoworkers during his recent visit to Toledo. "Without you, who would eat at Chet's ..." the President told the workers.

Wow! 560 million smackeroos! If you laid them out end to end, they're equivalent to what the federal government borrows every...

[GOPJ]

...inviting Common to the White House the one week of the year that police forces across the country commemorate their fallen fellows, etc.. When he’s good, he’s oh-so-good.

I missed the 'specialness' of that insult... thanks for reminding me. That one's unforgivable.

[spodefly]

Brilliant! And absolutely infuriating.

A few key points:

• In May, the U.S. economy added just 54,000 jobs. For the purposes of comparison, that same month over 100,000 new immigrants arrived in America.
• So what kind of jobs were those 54,000? ... according to an analysis by Morgan Stanley, half the new jobs created were at McDonald's.
• The federal Department of Education doesn't employ a single teacher but it does have a SWAT team ...
• The American Dream, 2011: You pay four bucks a gallon to commute between your McJob and your underwater housing to prop up a spendaholic, grabafeelic, paramilitarized bureaucracy-without-end bankrupting your future at the rate of a fifth of a billion dollars every hour.

I am heading to the gun range. Undoubtedly, it is the one skill that will be in demand in this 3rd world $%i#hole that used to be America.