Posted on 09/10/2009 3:42:39 PM PDT by Beaten Valve
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) -- President Obama will deliver a "major speech" on the global financial crisis on Monday, the White House said on Thursday evening.
The speech comes one year to the day after Lehman Brothers collapsed and precipitated a financial crisis that reverberated across the globe. Obama will deliver the remarks on the crisis at Federal Hall in New York City at midday.
"He will discuss the aggressive steps the Administration has taken to bring the economy back from the brink, the commitment to winding down the government's role in the financial sector and the actions the United States and the global community must take to prevent a crisis like this from ever happening again," a statement from the White House read.
It will be about the ant and the grasshopper...
THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
OLD VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
THE OBAMA VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green.’
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant ‘s house where the news stations film the group singing, ‘We shall overcome.’ Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.
Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ants food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around him because he doesn’t maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.
And more and more lies. Maybe some head of government will call him a liar.
Fine by me. When he disappearas his ratings recover. Let him keep talking. Infact I think he should speak tonight. Interrupt the first game of the NFL season. I’m sure the public would welcome that.
The GOP should let Dick Cheney give the rebuttal.
we had TWO major speeches this week......only one next week? how can we go through a week with only ONE speech from dearLeader?
/sarc
Oh wait.. I thought this was a satire, being posted from a year ago. He is actually going to give ANOTHER speech ????!!!
He is starting to act more and more Castro-like every day.
I bet the speech starts at 12:07 PM Eastern.
My God, this story MUST be satire. Really BHO?
Keep in mind folks it’s ONLY been just over 7 months since this guy took office. It seems like 20 years...
Or Joe Wilson.
“I got a fever and the only prescription is...more me.”
YAWN same ole same ole.
He can't. He's a narcissist.
I really think this guy is crazy. Does he intend to give a major speech every other day?
That, plus AP constantly reporting on his movements.
Thursday:
Of soft texture, but nicely shaped, just firm enough to wind the bowl.
Editor's Note: "It was delicious."
you ain’t kidding....
it is like Saddam....just has to have his face everywhere— all the time....
give it a rest......
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