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Sarah Palin: #SOTUGottaBKiddingMe
Sarah Palin Face Book ^ | February 13, 2013 | Sarah Palin

Posted on 02/13/2013 11:46:41 AM PST by onyx



If you missed President Obama’s State of the Union address last night, you didn’t miss much – especially if you watched any of his past four State of the Union addresses.

We heard the same recycled rhetoric, and we heard his Orwellian declaration that the cornucopia of new federal programs he proposed, as well as his intention to eradicate world poverty, wouldn’t “increase our deficit by a single dime.”

Of course, he glossed over the inconvenient facts. He boasted about job creation, but didn’t mention that real unemployment is higher today than when he took office. He touted all those still undiscovered “clean energy” jobs without mentioning the tens of thousands of real jobs the Keystone Pipeline will create if he would simply allow it to be built. He sang of new energy development, but didn’t mention that new offshore leases for oil and natural gas drilling have declined a decimating 61% under his administration.

He talked about “helping” to build “a thriving middle class,” but didn’t address how the middle class is actually faring under his economic stewardship. This is important – his deception must be addressed: under his leadership, middle class families have seen the average price per gallon of gas increase 96%, the average cost of family health care premiums rise 24%, the annual cost per household from federal regulations rise to over $15,000, and real median household income decline $4,520. If this is what happens when he “helps” the middle class, then please, Mr. President, we implore you to stop “helping” us.

He talked about a “balanced approach to deficit reduction” without mentioning that $5.9 trillion has already been added to the debt since he took office. We’re $16.5 trillion in debt and he keeps digging the hole deeper! He didn’t mention his record trillion dollar deficits or the fact that his last proposed budget would add $9.2 trillion to the debt through 2022. His Democrat-controlled Senate hasn’t passed a budget in four years. That’s obviously not “responsible” or “balanced.” He said, “We can’t cut our way to prosperity.” Well, we definitely can’t get there by borrowing and spending money we don’t have on his “investments” that don’t work. If indiscriminately borrowing and spending money led to prosperity, then bankruptcy would be a sign of economic strength. But it isn’t.

A State of the Union address should give us a true picture of the direction in which we are headed. But we didn’t get the truth last night. And it WAS Orwellian.

What is the true state of our union? Though this may sound harsh, I’ll speak the truth here. We are a country going bankrupt to fund a bloated, distant, and often corrupt federal government led by venal politicians more concerned with paying off their campaign cronies and consolidating their own power than in preserving the constitutional republic that so many have fought and died for (including our brave men and women in uniform who were barely mentioned last night).

We are a country with an economy being stifled under the weight of a bankrupt and voracious federal machine demanding more taxes and burdensome regulations. Job creators are the ones stuck with the bill when Obama calls for “new revenue.” Their businesses bear the brunt of the nearly 87 million paperwork hours imposed by federal regulations in 2012 – annually costing them $1.75 trillion. And I haven’t even mentioned Obamacare yet, which looms like the dark cloud it is over our private sector. Is it any wonder why our economy is stagnant or why job growth is so anemic? President Obama’s “solution” to these problems is to make the federal government more intrusive, bankrupt, and controlling.

If we continue down the path Barack Obama has us on, the long-term forecast of the state of our union is not a pretty picture. Yet he merrily rolls along it, deceiving too many Americans into thinking that these are intelligent, economic, and ethical proposals.

Our President wasn’t candid with Americans about our forecast, but, interestingly, in a Q&A session last week, Paul Krugman, one of President Obama’s economic cheerleaders at the New York Times, was remarkably candid about where we’re headed.

When asked about our federal debt, he admitted that “eventually we do have a problem” especially because “the population is getting older” and “health care costs are rising.” So, what does he see as the solution to pay for all this? He admits that your taxes will rise. And worse:

“Surely in the end it will require some middle class taxes as well. We won’t be able to pay for the kind of government the society will want without some increase in taxes, not a huge one, but some increase in taxes on the middle class, maybe a value added tax. And we’re also going to have to make decisions about health care – not pay for health care that has no demonstrated medical benefits. So, the snarky version I use, which I shouldn’t even say because it gets me in trouble, is death panels and sales taxes is how we do this.” (But wait, I thought there’d be no such thing as “death panels,” liberal liars?)

Mr. Krugman tried to portray this brave new world in the gentlest possible light, but it’s going to take quite a lot of “sales taxes” to meet the payments on the ever-increasing multi-trillion dollar debt we’re burying our kids and grandkids under. And with health care costs rising under Obamacare, obviously a lot of care will be rationed and even flat out denied by panels of faceless bureaucrats making life and death decisions for you and your loved ones. This is the long-term forecast for the state of America under Obama’s failed policies: middle class taxes and death panels.

Does that sound good to you? It doesn’t to me. So, we better get motivated to do something about it. We’d better get out of our post-election funk and wake up to the radicals’ reality being created as America gets “fundamentally transformed.”

Here’s the good news: President Obama is in many ways a lame duck president. None of his ridiculous ideas will come to pass via the legislative process. Of course, he may try to force them down America’s throat by imposing them through other means. But they can be undone if the right people are in position to undo them. He is very bold right now – some would say cocky – because of his November win, but there is another election around the corner, and we can check his boldness at the ballot box by electing constitutional conservatives. We must continue to affirm the fact that growing our bankrupt federal government is NOT the solution. Most of what the federal government does could be handled better on the individual, local, and state levels.

Our country didn’t weather a Revolution, two World Wars, a Civil War, a Great Depression, and countless other political and economic storms, just to be sunk by the dangerous policies of this current administration. We’re stronger than this. As President Reagan said, “I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.”

So, do something. 2014 is just around the corner. Get motivated! Get organized. America, don’t retreat. In the words of yet another White House program, “Let’s move.”

- Sarah Palin


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 113th; bhosotu; economy; getmoving; gosarah; obama; palin; sarahpalin; sotu; themarxist
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To: bicyclerepair

SOTU 2013: Spendarilla IV


41 posted on 02/13/2013 12:52:35 PM PST by cookcounty
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To: onyx

I like your idea.
Would you invite me. :)


42 posted on 02/13/2013 12:52:51 PM PST by Clyde5445
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To: TexasGunLover
Yep, what we need are C-List un-electable reality TV stars.

Karl, I didn't know you had a FreeRepublic account!


43 posted on 02/13/2013 1:01:10 PM PST by COBOL2Java (Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

“Palin doing the job MSM refuses to do.”

And the GOP too.


44 posted on 02/13/2013 1:01:39 PM PST by princeofdarkness (The GOP is the present version of 1940 France and it will only get worse.)
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To: editor-surveyor; Clyde5445

Yes, I know about those laws, but I would send FR mail invitations to build. Land cost very cheap and filthy rich me would also help with building costs. You realize, I have won the Mega Power Ball Lottery, right?


45 posted on 02/13/2013 1:02:30 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: old curmudgeon

I find myself in the exact same place. Always thought it best to reform the GOP from within, to adhere to tea-party, constitutional conservative ideals and candidates. But the past year has demonstrated that there is more ossified corruption in the GOP than I ever conceivably expected. From the constant caving and capitulating to Obama on issues from fiscal cliffs to Obamacare to amnesty, to Rove and his vile ilk’s scorched-earth attacks on any and every conservative grassroots encroachment, it no longer appears a viable or worthwhile option.

When the GOP convention outlawed the terms “tea party” from being uttered, and basically told Palin to get lost... that was pretty much it. The GOP couldn’t have spit more on my face if they’d tried. That was the nail in the coffin. So I’m more than open to a “new” party at this point. And this is coming from a lifelong, exclusive GOP supporter and voter.


46 posted on 02/13/2013 1:03:43 PM PST by greene66
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To: onyx
"We are a country going bankrupt to fund a bloated, distant, and often corrupt federal government led by venal politicians more concerned with paying off their campaign cronies and consolidating their own power than in preserving the constitutional republic that so many have fought and died for."
47 posted on 02/13/2013 1:03:56 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: onyx

Sarah Bacaruda is right on.


48 posted on 02/13/2013 1:05:06 PM PST by willibeaux (de ole Korean War vet age 83)
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To: bicyclerepair
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49 posted on 02/13/2013 1:10:27 PM PST by Dick Bachert ("Those who hammer their swords into plowshares will likely plow for those who do not." B.Franklin)
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To: KC_Lion; Bratch; editor-surveyor; Jane Long; Lakeshark; C. Edmund Wright; Aria; ...

Trig Getting Ready for his Dad's Iron Dog!

So, do something. 2014 is just around the corner. Get motivated! Get organized.
America, don’t retreat. In the words of yet another White House program,
“Let’s move.”

~Trig's Mom/a.k.a. Sarah Palin, Governor Palin

50 posted on 02/13/2013 1:13:04 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: onyx

Sounds good to me!


51 posted on 02/13/2013 1:18:19 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: onyx

Great picture of Trig.

If he can smile like that, he’s doing very well. Many Downs kids can’t smile like that.
.


52 posted on 02/13/2013 1:20:45 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: onyx

Trig has really grown in the last four year hasn’t he.


53 posted on 02/13/2013 1:20:48 PM PST by Clyde5445
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To: Clyde5445; editor-surveyor

Yep, he’s getting to be a big boy and he’s very happy!
He’s always been very happy and totally loved.


54 posted on 02/13/2013 1:24:49 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: onyx
Sarah Palin saying the word, is all it would take for me to follow her into a new TEA Party and to he// with the GOP.

About what it's going to take from what I saw last night.
Too, too many good old boy Rinos clapping their a$$es off.
Real men would have gotten up and walked out.

55 posted on 02/13/2013 1:29:09 PM PST by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: onyx

Sarah makes me wish I had more skills...I would like to help her.


56 posted on 02/13/2013 1:29:35 PM PST by LachlanMinnesota
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To: onyx
Awwhhh!! So handsome ;)

♥♥♥

57 posted on 02/13/2013 1:37:25 PM PST by Jane Long
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To: onyx; All

Yahoooo!!!!

3,500,224 Facebook fans!!!!......Sarah has broken the 3.5 million mark!!!!


58 posted on 02/13/2013 1:45:25 PM PST by Kolath
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To: Dick Bachert

I love Sarah Palin. I’ve read the previous posts and have little to add, except; a few years ago there was a Sarah look-alike doing a parody of her. There was a ‘bama guy too. They stepped in a pub and I’d had a few drinks. .Well, I didn’t just shake her little hand, I gave her a big hug. sortof a body squeeze for an instant.
Just because she looked like Sarah Palin. Dangers of the job.


59 posted on 02/13/2013 1:51:20 PM PST by noodler (!)
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To: Dick Bachert

I love Sarah Palin. I’ve read the previous posts and have little to add, except; a few years ago there was a Sarah look-alike doing a parody of her. There was a ‘bama guy too. They stepped in a pub and I’d had a few drinks. .Well, I didn’t just shake her little hand, I gave her a big hug. sortof a body squeeze for an instant.
Just because she looked like Sarah Palin. Dangers of the job.


60 posted on 02/13/2013 1:52:19 PM PST by noodler (!)
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