Posted on 09/09/2011 8:53:14 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
From the desk of Johnny Fincioen on Fri, 2011-09-09 20:56
Obama lost his way. He is drowning in economic problems: unemployment doesn’t fall, au contraire; the economy is in a virtual standstill; the Government debt reaches dangerous heights; the yearly deficits are just plain immoral, and the dollar is weak. He still believes it’s the government’s task to create jobs by pumping borrowed money into the economy. The friendly explanation is he has no clue how a free market economy works. The more stringent view is he hates the free market and wants to destroy it. Today, people are not any more afraid to ask: Why does he repeat the same failed policies over and over again?
His reactionary collectivist ideology blinds him. He is unable to backtrack on his previous decisions. He believes his revolutionary changes (ObamaCare; the nationalization of the car industry, of the student loans, of the mortgage loans; his vast extension of the union’s power; his mammoth expansion of regulations on everything that moves or grows) as essential to his policy, as the defining factor of his presidency. Very probably he believes the next points are proof of his success:
Yesterday Thursday September 8th, he read again from his teleprompter his plans to revive the American economy. It was ‘all show and no substance’. This was the reason why he insisted to have his reading exercise in front of Congress, on the highest political platform of the USA. Such shows are normally limited to once a year.
His proposals are only a déjà-vu of his old tricks, which don’t help the country forward, but paralyze the economy. He said nothing we haven’t heard before. Obama wants to borrow another 400 billion from the Chinese (?), and spend it on infrastructure. Although, the previous trillion spent on such stimulus had a negative impact on the economy and on employment. He wants to prolong again unemployment benefits. Pay money to people because they are without a job is considered the ‘best’ stimulus for the economy by the Democrats. But, they are afraid to use that ‘stimulus’ word again. Today the word provokes laughter at the Obama policies. Obama wants to give again many billions to the States so they can pay their unionized bureaucrats and keep them on the job. Which States really need this money? The States that are lead by Democrats to bankruptcy, for example my own home State of California.
But wait, Obama will only next week tell us how he will pay for all the new expenses. Why didn’t he tell us yesterday? We know what to expect: higher taxes and phantom savings over the next 10 years. This will never pass the Republican House.
However, he also offered some positive measures. The government will pay its vendors sooner (no kidding); the taxes on wages will be halved; businesses get a tax credit for every veteran hired, etc. The problem is, Obama packs everything together in one ‘all or nothing’ deal. This proves Obama’s aim with this speech was pure politics: corner the Republicans, and blame them for the lack of jobs.
Obama accuses Congress for all economic problems, but he is silent about his absolute majority he enjoyed in both chambers of Congress for over one year, and about the control over both chambers he had for the first two years of his Presidency. The Republican majority in the House is only 8 months young. Obama was able to push through Congress all the laws he wanted for two long years. He used this advantage to the fullest extent, even against the voiced opposition of the American population.
For almost three years he sits on the trade agreements between the US and Columbia, South Korea and Panama. He refused to introduce them in Congress for a vote. Last night he presented the situation as if it’s Congress fault these agreements were not ratified.
As a first reaction the Republicans said to welcome negotiations on Obama’s proposals to boost the economy, and lower the unemployment.
The recent poll by NBC/WSJ shows only 42% of the Americans consider Obama a strong leader. That’s almost 40% less than at the time he became President. Obama is finished as a President. He will NOT be reelected. The majority of the Americans have stuck a needle in his balloon. Most Americans believe Obama is a nice guy, but totally not up to the task to be President.
Confront Obama’s ideas with the proposals of the different Republican candidates for the Presidency in their TV debate the night before Obama’s speech. All of them focus on the growth of the economy, by which unemployment should fall fast, and by which government’s income should rise faster. All candidates agree on the strategy. We see only differences in tactics, in personality, and in how fast and how far they would go implementing their policies.
Some examples.
“Biden is a total clown.”
He knew he was at the circus watching the clown in chief making a fool of himself and us-—again. I guess biden could have done the “rabbit ears” thing behind hussein to complete his act.
I have always wondered why Biden was chosen as the VEEP. I remember the morning it was announced, and couldn’t believe it...laughed about it and thought (foolishly, I might add), that there was no way Obama would win, especially with the clown Biden at his side. Boy, was I ever wrong! I’ve always thought of Biden as a two-bit, good for nothing, lying, deceitful clown...still do. Biden = a joke of the highest order!
Looks like Joe is filling up his Depends... and loving it!
I wanna see it too. Comment from the page at the link: "Post the video... I have people calling bullshit and need to shut them up"
Whoa. You are exactly right.
As they say, only a heartbeat away.
“Photo Shop, I don’t have it.”
Try Gimp, it is open source and free. For most things it is an excellent substitute for Photo Shop.
For 5-1/2 years I ran a catalog department and printed a 3,000 page catalog for a distributor and did their website images for 37,000 items. I had Creative Suite, but quit using Photo Shop or Illustrator. My default was Gimp.
Here is where you can download Gimp for Windows. (I use Linux)
The only problem you might have is integrating Ghostscript with Gimp. (for handling .pdfs directly) I did that on my last Windows computer but would have to do a little searching for that.
If you want to batch process a lot of image conversions ImageMagick is an amazing open source command line image processing app.
All of these are pretty standard Linux image manipulation programs.
Thank you sir for the vid link.
I have some regret about posting the tag on the title about the pic. It got the attention needed and deserved, but the article was spot on and more important than the humorous pic.
“Obama is NOT the problem.
Our problem is those Americans who voted for him.”
That’s the truth. Mark Steyn points this out well. They have eyes to see and don’t see.
...Sometimes it's better to laugh at yourself after the joke, then you don't make the mistake of thinking you've offended someone you care about. So maybe there will be no regret... (-;]
Even if it is true he didn’t mess with Biden and Obams, I bet the guy applied some affect such as HDR (high dynamic range) to this pic. The whole thing just looks weird compared to the pic in post #30.
Nice!
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