Posted on 03/11/2009 2:35:47 PM PDT by pissant
Imagine that last fall before being elected, Barack Obama had outlined the positions he has embraced since being inaugurated as president. An honest campaign speech could have gone something like this:
"As we approach Election Day, the American people should not waste the crisis we find ourselves in.
"Consequently, if elected, I promise to get us over the Bush financial meltdown with a stimulus program that will borrow $787 billion -- which, of course, will add to the already sizable budget deficit (nearly $500 billion) projected in the Bush administration's last budget.
"By March of next year, my new $3.6 trillion budget will include a spending bill with over 8,500 budget earmarks to target in-need constituents.
"In addition to the stimulus/borrowing plan, I intend to devote $634 billion to fund a new supplementary national health care system. But that is not all. Unfortunately, the initial Bush bank bailout of some $700 billion also may well have to be augmented by an additional $750 billion.
"Although my new spending proposals may raise the federal deficit in my first year to $1.75 trillion, I promise the American people that by the end of my first term, I will halve the federal deficit -- albeit adding another $3 to $5 trillion to the national debt.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmsfeatures.com ...
I think that number is miniscule. People were flat tired of Bush, and didn't want McCain starting up a 3rd Bush term. Almost all of Obama's supporters clearly know nothing of history, or economics, or law, or freedom, or American excellence, and were going to vote for Obama no matter what.
votes bought with dollars that have unnamed donors tied to them .. and the flock expected a saviour? oops.
What a machine, well lubricated, refined in purpose over the years, now a ripe beast devouring 401Ks and capital gains and jobs like wild animals
The herd never learns, the burden they impose needlessly on themselves when, they let the foxes guard the henhouses and the rats the granaries.
VDH understood.
Another masterpiece, even if he is a wide eyeed optimist.
He told you all this. You just were to dumb or too in awe to understand it!
Yes he did. And the sheep wanted it and they voted for it.
There is no work ethic anymore. The number of people who think the government exists to take care of them and redistribute money from the achievers to the slackers is close to the tipping point, if it isn’t there already.
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Great article. Thanks.
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