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Obama strikes back at budget critics
The Washington Times ^ | Saturday, February 28, 2009 | Jon Ward

Posted on 02/28/2009 1:04:10 PM PST by topfile

President Obama on Saturday struck back aggressively at critics of his $3.6 trillion budget proposal, casting himself as a populist crusader whose "sweeping change" has angered Washington's entrenched special interests, and promised to fight them.

"I realize that passing this budget won't be easy. Because it represents real and dramatic change, it also represents a threat to the status quo in Washington," Mr. Obama said in his weekly video and radio address.

Mr. Obama's language was combative and confrontational, as he promised to fight for "American families."

"I know these steps won't sit well with the special interests and lobbyists who are invested in the old way of doing business, and I know they're gearing up for a fight as we speak. My message to them is this: So am I," he said.

Since he unveiled his budget blueprint on Thursday, the reaction in the financial markets and among the business community, not to mention the Republican party, has been decidedly negative.

Influential conservative economist Lawrence Kudlow wrote Friday that Mr. Obama was proposing "anti-growth" tax hikes that make "absolutely no sense" and are intended to promote a "left-wing social vision."

Mr. Obama, he said, was "declaring war on investors, entrepreneurs, small businesses, large corporations, and private-equity and venture-capital funds."

One day after announcing that U.S. combat troops would leave Iraq in 18 months, the president's weekly address was his first major response to budget criticisms. He portrayed critics as fat cats and power brokers who have enriched themselves at the cost of every day Americans.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


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To: 21twelve

OMG_that link is from 2003??? And the author is discussing 1938?????? This is uncanny. Frightening.

QUOTE:

Now given (1) the opportunity, (2) a country whose fabulous wealth was in the modern forms dynamic, functional, non-portable, (3) a people so politically naive as to have passed a law against any attempt to overthrow their government by force and, (4) the intention to bring about what Aristotle called a revolution in the state, within the frame of existing law Then from the point of view of scientific revolutionary technic what would the problems be?

They set themselves down in sequence as follows:

The first, naturally, would be to capture the seat of government.

The second would be to seize economic power.

The third would be to mobilize by propaganda the forces of hatred.

The fourth would he to reconcile and then attach to the revolution the two great classes whose adherence is indispensable but whose interests are economically antagonistic, namely, the industrial wage earners and the farmers, called in Europe workers and peasants.

The fifth would be what to do with business whether to liquidate or shackle it.

(These five would have a certain imperative order in time and require immediate decisions because they belong to the program of conquest. That would not be the end. What would then ensue? A program of consolidation. Under that head the problems continue.)

The sixth, in Burckhardt’s devastating phrase, would be “the domestication of individuality” by any means that would make the individual more dependent upon government.

The seventh would be the systematic reduction of all forms of rival authority.

The eighth would be to sustain popular faith in an unlimited public debt, for if that faith should break the government would be unable to borrow, if it could not borrow it could not spend, and the revolution must be able to borrow and spend the wealth of the rich or else it will be bankrupt.

The ninth would be to make the government itself the great capitalist and enterpriser, so that the ultimate power in initiative would pass from the hands of private enterprise to the all-powerful state.


101 posted on 02/28/2009 5:31:56 PM PST by silverleaf (Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose")
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To: topfile

More propaganda. We are THE PEOPLE and we are and will continue to resist.


102 posted on 02/28/2009 6:02:01 PM PST by romanesq
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To: topfile

Every income in America totals about 8.2 trillion dollars. He has spent 1.5 Trillion of it in one week. That’s about 18% of all income. But, close to a half don’t pay tax.

This is a huge burden on taxpayers


103 posted on 02/28/2009 6:05:37 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain, Pro Deo et Patria)
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To: papasmurf

Didn’t Cramer support this jackass in the election?


104 posted on 02/28/2009 6:10:02 PM PST by JrsyJack (Oh dem golden slippers!!)
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To: patriotmediaa

It’s better to have war now than after the brown shirts are mobilized.


105 posted on 02/28/2009 6:10:20 PM PST by Piranha
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
Suicide is a "real and dramatic change" too.

That would make a nice bumper sticker.

106 posted on 02/28/2009 6:12:24 PM PST by Piranha
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To: topfile
Mr. Obama's language was combative and confrontational, as he promised to fight for "American families."

Does he know American families are marching in the streets in protest of his polocies?!!!

107 posted on 02/28/2009 6:15:04 PM PST by lonestar
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To: topfile
"Mr. Obama's language was combative and confrontational,"

Every time he speaks, it's in that tone of voice. He is beginning to sound threatening & he is now giving orders.

Each day, he is displaying more of his "I WON' attitude. At times, even implying that he will put the full force of his office behind his demands.

What will he do if the majority does not agree with him & won't listen???

108 posted on 02/28/2009 6:22:44 PM PST by LADY J
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To: silverleaf
“OMG_that link is from 2003??? And the author is discussing 1938?????? This is uncanny. Frightening.”

Yep - it IS scary. “Those who forget history are destined to repeat it” - or will allow it to be repeated.

And it is hard for me to excerpt from that thread. It is ALL so relevant to today.

109 posted on 02/28/2009 6:32:09 PM PST by 21twelve
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To: GrouchoTex
It just all seems so .............sinister.
Everyday I wake up and hear or read the next train wreck coming down the tracks.
I hope we can all survive until 2010,2012.

I have the same feeling exactly.... every day is a new LOW in terms of Oboombi the commie usurper proposing some other program that is another attack against freedom & liberty & the USA. I hate that lying sonofabeeotch POS and the idiot voters (including my brain dead younger brother who now believes Obooombi to be the greatest thing since sliced bread) & the leftist media enabled this POS to undertake the greatest coup d'tat in history.

I am afraid we will not have until 2010 or 2012 to regain our freedom & our country. Socialism-communism is being entrenched in every aspect of our country and will never go away without a knock down, bloody battle. I hope & pray we have enough patriots on hand to take back our country sooner rather than later!!!
.

110 posted on 02/28/2009 6:34:33 PM PST by rcrngroup
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To: topfile

Putin would kick the living crap out of Obooombi.... I would pay to see that!!!


111 posted on 02/28/2009 6:38:02 PM PST by rcrngroup
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To: rcrngroup

Oh, the media............

I could go on but you already know the crimes they have commited by their lack of reporting the truth.

Wasn’t this supposed to be the 4th branch of government?

Above the fray, searching for the truth. rooting out evil, etc.,etc., ad naseum?


112 posted on 02/28/2009 6:38:33 PM PST by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free....)
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To: Piranha
Truer words, my friend, truer words...
113 posted on 02/28/2009 6:40:11 PM PST by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free....)
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To: auboy

He is promoting his agenda AND still running for office at the same time.


114 posted on 02/28/2009 6:44:12 PM PST by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free....)
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To: xzins
He has spent 1.5 Trillion of it in one week.

Obama's Answer to Everthing....Charge it!

115 posted on 02/28/2009 6:44:55 PM PST by topfile
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To: WildcatClan

More reason than ever to stop this in 2010


116 posted on 02/28/2009 6:46:52 PM PST by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free....)
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To: papasmurf

Actually, it makes the most sense.

Think about it:

Where are these cars:

Edsel, Studebaker, Hudson, DeSoto, Tucker, Kaiser Etc...

All failed without “bail outs”


117 posted on 02/28/2009 6:50:01 PM PST by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free....)
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To: topfile
"I know these steps won't sit well with the special interests and lobbyists who are invested in the old way of doing business, and I know they're gearing up for a fight as we speak. My message to them is this: So am I," he said.

He doesn't have to fight. He only has to make a show of chewing out an imaginary foe and then make a speech and sign the bill once the Commiecrats finish larding it up. Some of the posters here have it right ... this is posturing to diminish the Republicans. Hopefully in a couple of years he'll have some meaningful opposition and will have to start fighting. If we have a country left.

118 posted on 02/28/2009 6:53:42 PM PST by GenXFreedomFighter
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To: LADY J
What will he do if the majority does not agree with him & won't listen???

'Narcissistic personality disorder is a condition characterized by an inflated sense of self-importance, need for admiration, extreme self-involvement, and lack of empathy for others. Individuals with this disorder are usually arrogantly self-assured and confident. They expect to be noticed as superior.'

These kind of folks can't stand to be questioned.

119 posted on 02/28/2009 6:56:00 PM PST by topfile
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To: GenXFreedomFighter
He doesn't have to fight...


120 posted on 02/28/2009 7:07:42 PM PST by topfile
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