Posted on 03/01/2009 10:30:52 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A constant theme among the Obama Gang suggests that questioning their path is reckless. Their followers say that my observations are questionable solely for existing and not for their substance. One person demanded I withhold commentary for a year. “Give him a chance” is the constant theme. “No” is the answer to that. Every American has an obligation to question where Obama’s proposals are heading.
You have probably noticed Obama’s use of the current economic situation radically changes the structure of our society. His bodacious proposals are staggering in their scope. Only an audacious individual would propose budget expenditures for ten years when he has only been elected for four.
Questioning the policies created stem from evaluating the source. Most of us work in the private sector. That has shaped our lives and created the most affluent society known to mankind. Yet, the people who want to revamp our existence barely know what we face. As I watched President Obama’s speech to Congress, key Democrats reveled in his proposals. I noted few if any have ever experienced the same challenges we in the private sector now face. They only know government and thus only know governmental solutions.
This is a President who showed his true colors by remarkably stating “A surplus became an excuse to transfer wealth to the wealthy.” Either he completely missed the Bush era governmental budgets, or he is disingenuous. He, like almost all Democrats, appears not to understand the difference between tax rates and revenue collections. They were not happy with the explosion of revenues at the federal and state levels from the Bush tax rate cuts. They appear to discount the problem was out-of-control spending. They skip over these facts: more people were eliminated from the tax rolls, the middle-class paid lower taxes, and the upper income earners bore the highest relative tax burden in history.
We have an obligation to question Obama’s policy directions at every turn. He wants to nationalize our health-care system, pour more money into a challenged education system with little reform, and force us into a relatively inefficient energy system which will skyrocket our costs based on questionable scientific theories. Wait until his gets his hands on Social Security. That will be another tab for which all of us will pay with little benefit. Maybe, at least, he will admit that his political party no longer considers this a retirement program, but merely another transfer of wealth.
Each Administration enters office with a hallmark theme. Clinton stated he was going to have the most ethical operation in history. Obama keeps pitching transparency, which also translates to honesty. At every turn he has failed so far, only with the excuse he is moving too fast and his administration is too new to get it done.
Obama came into office complaining about Bush’s budget deficits, but his proposals mire us in debt for centuries. Accepting that the current deficit is due to the economy, can someone please explain why the outsized expenditures continue even into next year when they project a 3% growth in GDP? My thought would be that the expenditures are for political and not economic purposes.
So during the coming weeks I will be laying out critiques of the major areas that Obama wants to change. There will be no straw man scenarios as Obama has become fond of creating. We will analyze the proposals put forth by Obama and offer alternative facts and proposals. We will see that in the case of energy, health care and education, Democrats have created the crisis through misguided governmental policies. Now they want to offer us a cure by giving us more of the same.
The attempt to stifle policy analysis not only challenges our senses, but goes against American values. The current group in power railed against the Bushies because they said if you questioned the War on Terror, your patriotism was called out. Now they want to suppress us while they radically alter the federal government. We must all be the loyal opposition to assure our collective path secures our collective future. Anything less would be un-American.
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Bruce Bialosky is the founder of the Republican Jewish Coalition of California.
I will give him the same chance of success as he gave me while I was in Baghdad for a year dodging rockets and mortars.
Dissent is patriotic!
Thanks for posting! This says it all. Wanting anyone to refrain from criticizing ZERO for a year is ludicrous and in fact, un-American IMO since we have freedom of speech which means we have a right to disagree with the direction that ZERO, and his associates want to take this country.
So disgusted with people not wanting anyone to criticize ZERO when that is all the RATs did from Day One against President Bush. Hypocricy on display!
All I’m hearing from the scumbag cowards in the Republican “leadership” is that they want Dumbo to “succeed”.
Meanwhile, my checkbook remains slammed shut, and two or three RNC-affiliated solicitations get tossed (unopened) into the post office trash can every week. I remember the days when I sent $50 checks several times a year. Now I wish I had my money back.
1) decrease income taxes
2) decrease fuel taxes
3) increase domestic drilling
4) increase refining capacity
5) decrease capital gains taxes to:
a. 0% for two years
b. 5% for two years
c. 10% for two years
d 15% for two year
6) increase long term capital gain/dividend losses from $3,000 to $5,000 for the next 10 years and
7) decrease depreciation from 30 years to 15 years.
Instead of growing the economy Obama/Reid/PelousyMousy shrunk the economy with their ideology.
When some liberal newsroom mouse baits a Republican with the silly question about whether or not that Republican wants to see Dumbo succeed, how hard could it be to reply, “No, I do not want President Obama and the Democrats to succeed in their brazen attempt to turn America into a Euro-socialist welfare state”?
The Republicans’ lack of command of basic English is the most disturbing aspect of today’s political debate. The cowardice, stupidity, and incompetence of the Republican party today is downright scary. All they can come up with when challenged is a pansy ass, “Of course we want the President to succeed.”
(spit) Every time I hear it I throw up in my mouth a little.
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They don’t want our economy to succeed. They want the economy to tank so they can rush in and say they have to nationalize everything in order to “save” us from ruin.
Are they communists? Maybe. But I am convinced their policies are designed to destroy are freedom. I also think they are on the side of evil.
What Obama/Reid/Pelosie should have done is as follows:
1) decrease income taxes
2) decrease fuel taxes
3) increase domestic drilling
4) increase refining capacity
5) decrease capital gains taxes to:
a. 0% for two years
b. 5% for two years
c. 10% for two years
d 15% for two years
6) increase long term capital gain/dividend losses from $3,000 to $5,000 for the next 10 years and
7) decrease depreciation from 30 years to 15 years.
Instead of growing the economy Obama/Reid/PelousyMousy shrunk the economy with their ideology. Because of them, unemployment will reach double digits. Never ever let them get away with this crap. Never ever forget. Rahm, Obama, Reid, PelousyMousy are responsible for the on coming Tsunami.
Welcome to permanent indentured servitude! Not just for US, but also for our progeny!
The expletives deleted!!!!!!
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