Absorbed....
Posted on 03/04/2012 5:04:23 AM PST by Kaslin
“We are five days away,” the future President famously said in October of 2008, “from fundamentally transforming the United States of America…”
So how does Barack Obama’s “fundamental transformation” look to you now?
If the world seems chaotic to you, you’re not alone. President Obama promised “change” during his first campaign for the presidency, and in less than one full term he’s delivered.
American foreign policy, historically devoted to protecting American interests and championing liberty, is now focused on “outreach” to people who want to destroy us. But the “transformation” has not just impacted America’s place in the world.
Your private world – your day-to-day environment and the cultural norms that order that environment – is changing as well (so is mine). And while it’s difficult to measure people’s changing attitudes, there is clear evidence that Americans are increasingly developing a negative attitude towards work, productivity, and success.
Depending on what poll you’re reading, roughly half of the American population agrees with President Obama’s assumption that “rich” Americans need to be taxed at a higher rate. Concerns about undermining people’s incentive to achieve just don’t matter to many of us – making “somebody else” pay makes a lot of us feel better.
There also seems to be a change in Americans’ attitudes towards working. And while there are far too many of us who are earnestly trying to find work and cannot, there nonetheless appears to be growing numbers of us for whom working is just not a priority.
The reality of Americans choosing to not work – or, at a minimum, choosing to work less – would seem to be a very intentional consequence of President Obama’s agenda. Indeed, it has long been the belief of the President’s science adviser John P. Holdren that the world would be a better place environmentally if “Americans worked, produced, and earned less.”
This may seem counter-intuitive, yet the numbers don’t lie. As the unemployment rate has recently dropped a bit, so also has the “labor force participation rate” – the statistic that represents the ratio between the labor force itself, and the overall population. Assuming that the Bureau of Labor Statistics is telling the truth, participation in the labor force has dropped to a 30 year low, as roughly 1.2 million Americans recently chose to exit the labor market.
It’s difficult to deny that the decline in the number of people who want to work correlates with the President’s agenda. At the very least, one has to admit that this change corresponds on the timeline with Mr. Obama’s presidency.
Yet within his first three years as our President, we’ve seen the amount of direct federal payments to individual households – both direct payments for specific usages, and for “unrestricted” usages – skyrocket by more than $600 billion. One might argue that these direct payments rose out of necessity because of the recession, although President Obama has slated for another $500 billion worth of annual increases in direct payments between now and 2016. If the trend continues, within the next four years direct payments will account for two-thirds of all annual federal government spending.
But wait, there’s more. A record forty-nine percent of all American homes have somebody living in them who is receiving some sort of federal benefit. And reliance on food stamps has expanded forty-five percent during the Obama presidency, thanks in no small part to the President’s insistence that the expansion of food stamp funding be included in his “economic stimulus bill.”
So has the expansion of “federal assistance” brought about “fundamental transformation?” President Obama insists that it creates a sense of “fairness” in our society. Yet it’s difficult to argue that it doesn’t create at least some incentive to cease being productive.
And then there’s President Obama’s signature “healthcare reform law.” Nearly two years ago the Congressional Budget Office warned that with all the robust entitlements that the law promises, it would most certainly impact the labor market.
Speaking at a little-noted event at the University of Southern California in October of 2010, C.B.O. Director Doug Elmendorf noted that, outside the healthcare sector of our economy, the greatest impact of the Obamacare agenda would be with people’s interest in working.
Furthermore, Mr. Elmendorf stated that, in some cases, Americans would simply choose to no longer work, because their needs for healthcare will be provided by the enhanced Medicaid funding entailed in the Obamacare law.
Proclivities to make somebody else pay, and a declining interest in working – indeed America is being transformed. Will voters choose more of it this November, or will we choose to get back to being Americans?
There are many who have fallen to the great decievers lies.
Obama’s actual record of accomplishments are all negative...and the media wants to talk about birth control.
If the topic becomes the price of gas and 25% unemployment and underemployment Obama loses. Let’s see if the MSM can keep this up until November.
Remember when ABC hosted the GOP debate...nobody could figure out why six minutes of questions were about contraception. Three weeks later the attacks on the Catholic church began...and according to the media Republicans were anti-woman.
Not a whisper about the trashing of the establishment clause. Not one word.
The media MUST be confronted...if for no other reason than to respect the memory of Andrew Brietbart who gave his life either directly or indirectly in this fight.
Every GOP candidate needs to confront questioners when they are put in a box. Enough! ABC, NBC, and CBS are in the tank for Obama...it is as clear as the sky is blue.
Remember Breitbart! Honor him by confronting the corrupt media.
There are many who were taught to believe the lies. I’ve got kids whose mothers taught them 26 days out of 30 days a month to be liberal. They TRULY BELIEVE that if we let anyone have an abortion who wants one, free of charge, and allow men and women and dogs and cats and men and dogs and women and cats to marry, and if we share our wealth and power equally to those who hate us, and we change our national anthem to “It’s a Beautiful Morning” by the Young Rascals, we will all live in one big happy world.
transformed?
more like digested, etc. and only one final grunt needed...
Semper Trvth!
*****
Occupy the MSM.
Bump
bump
The only important question to be answered is “can it end bloodlessly?”
We will know in November.
Isn’t It Ironic? The food stamp program, part of the Department of Agriculture, is pleased to be distributing the greatest amount of food stamps ever.
Meanwhile, the Park Service, also part of the Department of Agriculture, asks us to “please do not feed the animals” because the animals may grow dependent and not learn to take care of themselves.
the sheeple should have known we were in trouble when Valerie Jarrett said on Meet the Press 11/09/2008: “President Obama is prepared to take power and begin to rule on day 1”
President Obama promised “change” during his first campaign for the presidency, and in less than one full term he’s delivered.
Don't need a Weatherman to see which way the wind bl
ws.
"Behind the Violence, Says Jane Alpert, Was Sex"--November 09, 1981--
"The leaders of the Weather Underground, she believes, followed a similar pattern of constantly shifting sexual alliances..."http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20080637,00.html
"He [Bill Ayers] also writes about the Weathermen's sexual experimentation as they tried to 'smash monogamy.' The Weathermen were 'an army of lovers,' he says, and describes having had different sexual partners, including his best male friend."
Source: New York Times, September 11, 2001: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1"...the Weathermen, when not engaged in group sex, committed such revolutionary acts as parading with a Viet Cong flag through a local park on Independence Day and spray-painting the walls of a high school with the slogans, "Off the Pigs," "Viet Cong Will Win," and "F#$k U.S. Imperialism."..."
Campus Wars: The Peace Movement At American State Universities in the Vietnam Era
"What happens next bears watching closely, as does the response of the president, ex-Speaker Pelosi, and others on the left. Encouraged by leftists in the Democratic Party and funded by left-leaning nonprofit organizations and celebrity contributors, Occupy Wall Street may in time morph into something resembling the radical factions of the late 1960s and 1970s."
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/predicting_the_weatherman.html
I commented on a different thread some time ago that 0bama’s followers theme song should be the one with the refrain “ Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies”.
Add to that Michelle’s comment with the words to the effect “ when Barak is president you will not be able to go back to your life as you knew it”...
“The media must be confronted!”
Disagree. The visceral, psychotic, vein-throbbing Progressive media need to be institutionalized.
They are the reason why emptying the insane asylums and then mainstreaming was a bad idea.
IMHO
One fruitful avenue for approaching the problem will be the vulnerability of the dinosaur media to removal of the special preferments they receive in law, such as an exemption in many cases from the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (in newspapering, where different dailies often share plant, and in TV, where coverage areas overlap).
Another would be the number of Mediots who are tax-supported (CPB/PBS for example), or who are supported indirectly by tax moneys supplied by tax-exempt foundations whose boards are playing politics with foundation funds (this has been going on, as Bill Buckley, James W. Wilson and others have complained, since the 1950's).
TRACE THE CONNECTIONS -- FOLLOW THE MONEY -- DEFUND THE LEFT
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