Politics and Insights from History

Yesterday, Barack Obama once again delivered a speech. This time he was in Kansas; something that he almost forgot. Perhaps if Obama stayed in one place he might remember where he is. Yesterday, was December 7, Pearl Harbor Day. Instead of talking about it and commemorating those who died that day, he had to give a speech about how the wealthy don’t pay enough, America is unfair, and how only he knows best.

The bulk of Obama’s speech was basically chastising the rich for being rich. He claims that he wants to build the shrinking middle class. Except, the middle class is shrinking because the government keeps enacting policies that increase the cost of living and force businesses to cut costs by firing people.

Obama slammed Republicans and Conservatives who believe in Reagan’s trickle down economics theory, and who believe in cutting taxes for everyone who actually pay taxes and in cutting government regulations that hinder economic growth and development. Obama claims that Republicans have no ideas and only hold to what doesn’t work. If Reagan’s tax cuts and deregulation did not work, then why were 1980s a decade of economic growth, a prosperity that continued through most of the 1990’s despite Bill Clinton’s increase in taxes and regulation? Obama claims that the Bush tax cuts led to the recession we are in now. If that is so, then how come unemployment under bus remained under 6% until the last few months of his presidency when the housing market collapsed? Meanwhile, Obama’s policies made unemployment shoot up to 10% and the economy is now stagnated with a 9.1% unemployment. But according to Obama his not so new socialist ideas are working.

Obama rants that Republicans have no new ideas. But He and his fellow Democrats have no new ideas either. IN fact, everything they do is just a throwback to F.D>R.’s New Deal programs. Neither side has new ideas and it doesn’t matter if they do or not. What is important is if they have good ideas that actually work.

Almost every other paragraph in Obama’s speech yesterday was him whining how the wealthy don’t pay their fair share. What is fair about 50% of Americans who pay no taxes but receive government welfare from those that actually pay taxes? That’s fair? Taking money from someone and giving it to someone else to fulfill your ideological sense of fairness is fair? Obama claims that a billionaire only pays 1% of his income in taxes while someone earning 50 grand a year pays more. Let’s do the math? Say a person who earns $1 billion annually pays 1% in taxes. That equal $10 million that goes to Uncle Sam. Now take the guy who earns $50 thousand and pays 38% of his income in taxes. That amounts to $19,000 that goes to Uncle Sam. Despite the differences in the tax rate, who still pays more to the government? If this still seems unfair to some of you, why not get rid of the current tax code that even the IRS cannot make sense of and institute a flat tax, where everyone, regardless of their income level, pays the same tax rate. Let’s say the billionaire in the example above still pays 1% of his income in taxes, but now the guy earning $50,000 also pays only 1%. This means that the he will only pay $500 of his annual earnings to the government.

Interestingly, Obama is pushing an extension of the payroll tax cut. But just a few months ago he proposed increasing taxes. Also, he is pushing the extension of a tax cut, while in the same speech he claims that tax cuts led to the “greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression”.

Another thing Obama falsely claims is regarding the 1920s. Obama claims that deregulation and tax cuts led the disaster of the 1920s. The 1920 were the most prosperous decade in our history because we had presidents who deregulated and cut taxes and then minded their own business. Remember Calvin Coolidge? The reason why the stock market crashed in 1929 was because under President Hoover, the government began meddling in the economy again. Then Obama praised F.D.R. whose polices kept us in the depression. His New Deal programs were so great that while the rest of the world recovered economically the U.S. continued to have double digit unemployment and a stagnant economy.

Obama’s speech was the same speech he’s been giving since he was elected. Basically, according to Obama America is unfair, capitalism doesn’t work, the wealthy are too wealthy and could do with less, the poor just need a government program to make it, and, well, the world’s just not fair. This coming from a guy who is going to spend 17 days in Hawaii for his Christmas vacation. Isn’t this something those wealthy CEOs do?

Once again the liberal media is dictating who will be the GOP Presidential Nominee to ensure that Obama wins. It is obvious that they love Mitt Romney. But since people like Herman Cain and Michelle Bachman proved to be threats to them and the chances of Barack Obama winning re-election, they are trashing them.

Over the weekend Hermain Cain announced that he is no longer seeking the presidential nomination. Because he has chosen not to run anymore, the media has so far won. With all of the baseless accusations of harassment they succeeded in getting rid of Cain. Next they will probably do everything in their power to get Michelle Bachman to cease her bid for the GOP nomination and then they will move on to either Rick Perry or Newt Gingrich.

The media are doing now what they did in 2008. In 2008 they did everything in their power to make certain that John McCain was the GOP nominee. They succeeded. Now they are doing it again by trying to get Romney as the GOP nominee. Why? Because they got away with before so they think they can do it again. Also, the left know that Obama cannot win against a real conservative. That is why they are trying to get rid of the candidates that they view as a threat. Herman Cain was on such threat. Now that he is gone, the left will feel emboldened and will increase their attacks on Bachman and Perry.

Don’t let the left wing media do it again. We do not need another 2008.

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The media ripped the Tea Party apart, yet praise Occupy Wall Street.  Of course, no one within the mainstream media will admit that this is so.  They love the protesters on Wall Street, and the sister protests around the country.  Why?  Because these people are socialist radicals that love big government solutions and hate individual initiative.  The protesters hate Capitalism.  They hate conservatives.  They hate success when it is someone other than them that is successful.  They hate Fox News.  They hate rich people, unless it is them that are rich.  They hate Jews.  They basically hate everything but themselves.

They people here are here out of pure jealousy and hatred of those who have more than them. One thing that media refuses to report is the violence at some of these protests and the amount of racism. It is everywhere. Protesters have shouted, “The Jews control Wall street” or “Leave you filthy Jew”. Hundreds of people have been arrested for disturbing the peace. Businesses have been forced to close or cut their hours because the Wall Street protesters are preventing them from receiving customers. Other businesses have been forced to repair their bathrooms because of vandalism by protesters.

Where are the reports on this. Instead of reporting the destruction of property, the people standing around naked, the harmful impact on businesses (many of which are small) and the hatred spewing from these people, instead you get glowing reports. Or reports like these that make the police look bad simply for doing their job.

To the media these protesters are just frustrated at a system that let them down. They are peaceful with people of all ages.

Compare all this to the way the Tea Party was portrayed. There were no reports of businesses being harmed or vandalized, of naked people, violence, or arrests, when the Tea Party held their protest. The media cried racism and bigotry, but could not find any proof of it. They called the Tea Partyers extremists even terrorists. The liberal media harassed Tea Party members as a way of “proving” how racist they were.

The liberal media hates the Tea Party movement because it is against big government solutions. The Tea Party believes in a limited government. When it comes to the two movements think about this: which movement has turned violent and had several arrests made? Which movement has taken over public property turning it into a slum with their tents? Which movement gathered for a day and left, leaving the area clean and neat? During which gathering were the people dressed neatly?

What is wrong with our Justice department?  They sued Arizona over their immigration law.  Then they sued Alabama.  Now they are suing South Carolina over their immigration law.  Does anyone else think there is something shady about this?  The federal government has no right to file a lawsuit toward individual states.  The Obama Administration is is using the courts to force the states in line.  Another sign of their corruption.

Here is something they never consider: if the federal government enforced current immigration laws, individual states would not be implementing their own.  There is a huge immigration problem in this country with illegals being able to stay here for decades without fear of punishment.

Read the article at: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/31/justice-department-sues-south-carolina-over-states-strict-immigration-law/?test=latestnews

President Obama loves his executive orders.  Like most presidents, once in office he has used that power to get what he wants.  But, unlike a lot of presidents, Obama has been using to get everything he wants even when Congress turns him down, thus abusing the privilege of executive orders.  Just this past week, Obama has made 5 executive orders to get portions of his Jobs Bill through because Congress has yet to even debate it, and many republicans in the House flat out said they will not vote for it.  Last week He has issued an executive order to:

1. Force the government to help people with home mortgages that they are unable to pay.

2. Allow callege grads to lower their student loan payments.

3. Limit the time between government research and when a product is available on the market.

4.  Allow FDA to eliminate drug shortages by forcing drug companies to produce drugs even if they can’t afford to.

5. To encourage that 8,000 veteran’s be hired at community health centers.

Under Barack Obama, Congress has increasingly become obsolete.  When he doesn’t get what he wants, he issues an executive order; or gets a bureaucratic body to give him what he wants.  He used executive orders to get portions of the Dream Act through because it stalled in Congress.  He used the FCC to get his Net Neutrality because both Congress and the Supreme Court said that the bill was unconstitutional.

Obama is your typical tyrant.  If he doesn’t get what he wants, then he throws a fit and uses the power of he office to achieve his goals.  This is not the consent of will of the people, but instead is the will of one man.  Congress is the legislative body in this country and they are charged with representing the people.  Now, true, they have not done a good job, since many within Congress only care for themselves.  However, it is still their job to decide what legislation will be passed and put on the president’s desk for a signature.  It is not the president’s job to dictate what laws will be enacted and what laws will be ignored.

But Obama and the liberals do not care about the process of law in this country.  They want what they want and will achieve it by any means necessary.  Obama wants his socialist dream and if Congress won’t go along with it, then he will just issue and executive order to achieve it.  This is an abuse of power.  It also demonstrates that he cannot be trusted with power.  And at this rate, who knows if we will have a country left once Obama is through implementing his policies.

Now the Presbyterian church has decided to accept homosexual ministers.  The Gay Rights crowd is overjoyed of course saying that we are now finally becoming an enlightened crowd.  How accepting their pervertedness makes us enlightened I will never know.  But the thing is there is a fine line between tolerance and plain stupidity.  Sometimes tolerance is a bad policy.

Does anyone else think that we are becoming too accepting of homosexuality?  There is something wrong with a society that decides to openly accept it and allow it to run rampant in the public arena.  Some things belong behind closed doors and all acts of sex should stay there.  Newsflash for all you homos out there: no one cares that you are one. Quit trying to force me to accept you weirdness out of some misguided sense that you are victims.  Quit telling me to get with the times.  And keep your smut out of the classroom and off the TV.

Republicans are crippling America. At least, that is according to Obama. Once again Obama is out there giving Town Hall meetings and utilizing his ACORN skills to rally people to help him push through his new Jobs Bill. This time he is on the west coast and is basically preaching to the choir. Everyone knows that both the east and west coasts are highly liberal as they are more populous. And his speech making didn’t stop him from participating in a fundraiser.

Once again Obama is back to blaming others for an economy he created. Even though America was slipping towards a recession at the end of Bush’s term, Obama put us in the thick of one and has made certain that we never left it.

What is it about Republican policies that cripple America? Hard to say. Obama never specifies what it is Republicans have done to cripple the economy. (Other than the tired mantra of: tax breaks for the rich.) His big issue with Republicans is that they are saying no to his policies. If that is what is hurting the country, then I’m Mickey Mouse.

Who is really crippling America? Is it the people who wish the government to behave responsibly by cutting spending and reducing that amount of money that is borrowed? Or is it the people that spend wildly, borrow excessively, hike up taxes, play the blame game, and never met a government regulation they didn’t like? It is Obama and his policies that are crippling this country. He has gotten practically everything he wants. And when he can’t get Congress to go along, he just uses his executive power to get it. We have already had at least two bills passed that were supposedly focused on creating jobs. They didn’t work. Another one isn’t going to bring different results, but it will waste money.

Obama claims that his jobs bill will provide tax cuts, unemployment benefits, and public works projects. However, he is going to pay for it by raising taxes. How can you push a bill claiming it provides tax cuts, and then pay for by raising taxes? Doesn’t this seem a bit illogical? Some will say that taxes will only be raised on the rich. This has never happened. Whenever liberals propose making the rich pay their “fair” share, taxes go up for everyone.

Obama knows that he and his party are responsible for crippling America, but he doesn’t care. After all, he belongs to the party that thinks you have to pass a bill to know what’s in it. He is in campaign mode and focused on winning re-election. That means his is on the attack and will do anything to fuel hatred for Republicans. This means that he and the Democrats will blame the GOP and the Tea Party for all their problems. He is also going to participate in class warfare and racial warfare. He needs people pitted against each other because the more conflict there is, the better his chances of winning. Don’t let him succeed.

Obama’s speech last Thursday brought a feeling of déjà vu. I was suddenly transported back to January 2009 when the first stimulus bill was rammed through Congress. Then, again to 2010 when the Jobs Bill was proposed and pass. Now Obama wants another stimulus bill to tackle the economy. If after 2½ years and almost 4 trillion dollars of spending the economy is still in shambles and the U.S. is even more broke than before.

Obama starts off his speech by ordering Congress to pass the bill. A statement he repeated at least 16 times. This bill is little more than high taxes and wasteful spending. Obama says it will be paid for, but cannot specify how. Taxes alone will not cover the cost.

He promises tax cuts, but they are more like credits. The cuts Obama proposes are only good for the year 2012. Just one year. That won’t encourage businesses to hire new employees. It will not help those who are struggling to get by.

The projects Obama proposes that the government spends money on are all public works projects. These are things that are already run by government, whether local, state, or federal. If there is not money to repair roads or schools that is the fault of a government that has spent itself broke.  Besides having a new school building with the latest technologies does not guarantee a good education. We already spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year, maybe even close to a trillion, on our public school system. There should be more than enough money to repair school buildings, update them, and hire new teachers if necessary.

Obama promises us that a committee will look through all the regulations and cut out a lot of the red tape that prevents people from being able to open a business. That’s all we need is another committee that does nothing but sit on their butt. The thing is, Obama has no intention of cutting useless government regulations. He just wants another bill that allows him to spend money on his personal agenda.

Obama plans to cut a trillion dollars in ten years with this bill. Interesting, considering that he has spent $4 trillion in 2½ years. His estimated one trillion in cuts will do nothing to reduce the deficit.

This speech is little more than a campaign speech. Obama knows he is in trouble and is hoping that if he gets this bill through it will look like he is doing something and that he cares. The truth is Obama doesn’t care about the bad economy. He is the reason why the economy has not improved. He has thrown money at it and nothing has improved. Throwing more money at it won’t help.

Obama believes that government is the only solution to our problems. But government is the problem. It always has been. More regulation does give more protection to the people. Instead it puts a burden on everyone, especially those who are poor. His speech is little more than more of the same vagueness that only promises more hardship. He pits groups of people against each other hoping that those of us with little will hate those who have more than we do. Nothing good will come from this bill. I hope Congress tells Obama to take a hike.

Why did we elect Barack Obama to be president? Be honest with yourself if you did vote for him. What was the real reason? Though there may be some that thought he could effectively the country, the real reason is because he was black. Before you start accusing me of racism, think about it. Up until the 2008 election, we never had a black man run for president. Along comes Obama and not only is he dark skinned, but he was cool and hip, and had a way of inspiring people. Also, all the media could concentrate on was how historical it would be if he won. People bought into that. And there were many who were eager to prove that America had finally moved beyond race, assuming we were ever hung up on it to begin with. When Obama won, the only thing the media talked about was how historical a moment that was and they never stopped talking about it.

Not once did the pundits of ABC, NBC, or CBS investigate Obama’s background so the people would know what sort of man he is. They never talked about his time in the Illinois state senate, or his time in the U.S. Senate. They talked about his childhood, or bothered with his college years and his time as a professor. And they never bothered to dig into the books he wrote. The media tore McCain to shreds, but left Obama alone. The only we really knew about him is how historical it would be if he won and that he was cool. Obama really did win because he is black, and no one knew much about the guy.

Now we are fast approaching 2012, another election year. Undoubtedly, Obama will run for re-election. But unlike 2008, this time around Obama has a public record of his performance on the job. And this is what we have thus far, under Obama’s leadership, or lack thereof.

Firstly, unemployment is still above 9% and has been for a solid three years. Of course if you were to take into account the newly unemployed, those on unemployment, and then those that have been unemployed for so long that they have given up looking for work, the actual rate is probably closer to 20%. Government data collectors do not count everybody and are known for skewing the numbers. Regardless, when Obama was inaugurated unemployment was 7.8%. It rose under him, despite his attempts to bring jobs to Americans and shows no sign of decreasing. His disastrous stimulus bill did nothing to stimulate the economy. Instead is made it worse. With added regulations and expenditures, business continue to downsize and move overseas to more business friendly countries. A lot of highly skilled people have lost their jobs and many college graduates can’t even find one.

We’ve recently had the debt ceiling raised so that the Democrats can continue their spending spree. Obama has managed to add $4 trillion to the deficit. That is money that he alone has spent. Compare this to the cost of the Iraq war under 8 years of Bush. The first stimulus bill was rammed through Congress within Obama’s first week and we had to borrow the $787 billion from China to pay for it. And yet the Democrats wonder why the dollar is losing value and why the U.S.’s credit rating has fallen.

Obama has promised money to Brazil to help them expand their offshore drilling and build new refineries. Yet he refuses to allow America to expand its drilling or build new refineries. In fact, Obama is allowing the EPA to exert tighter control when it comes to oil usage and carbon regulation. Obama pushes for “clean energy” alternatives that has only resulted in rising gas and oil prices and an increase in the cost of living. And no return on all this investment that the government has poured into this “clean energy”.

We have a president who gives plenty of speeches, but does not deliver on leadership. When it comes to making an executive decision, he dithers. He routinely chastises business for not hiring, yet passes legislation that imposes new taxes and regulations on those same companies. He talks about fiscal responsibility but refuses to pull Congress’ credit card. We are also going on a second year with no budget. We had budget for 2011 and the new fiscal year begins in October. The House has passed a budget, but the Senate refuses to let it come up for a vote. Obama has vowed to veto anything passed by Republicans. Then he turns around and demands that the Republicans come up with real solutions. Of course, Obama refuses to propose any of his own, except the push to raise taxes.

We have a monstrosity of a health care bill that is full of new taxes and regulations. The bill itself is also vaguely written, leaving much of the rule making for un-elected bureaucracies to do. The same thing also happened with the Financial Reform Bill.

When Obama doesn’t get what he wants he uses bureaucratic entities to push his agenda. For instance, he used the FCC to get Net Neutrality through even though bother the Supreme Court and Congress said such a thing was unconstitutional. He uses the EPA to push regulation on carbon emissions without approval from Congress. Obama has at least 39 czars that are appointed by him and answer only to him. All of this ignores the process of constitutional law.

Our president routinely ignores holidays that are special to Americans. Since his inauguration he has ignored Memorial Day, July 4, and Veteran’s Day. On these days it is customary for the president to deliver a speech and take part in some sort of ceremony. Obama has delegated these tasks to Biden with only a few exceptions. He manages to pay tribute to Ramadan, but ignores Christmas while he runs off to Hawaii. We are Americans, Mr. President. Ramadan has no meaning here.

Don’t forge the apology tours. Soon after being elected, Obama toured the world giving one apology after another for America’s supposed arrogance. In Cairo he told people that America had a predominately Muslim population. Sorry, Mr. President, but America is more Christian than any other religion. Muslims only make up about 1%-2% of the population. He pals around with dictators like Chavez. When Honduras upheld their constitution and ousted José Manuel for trying to take over the presidency even after being voted out, Obama criticized the Honduran people.

We are involved in at least three wars. We have not completely pulled out of Iraq and are still in Afghanistan. Now, we are in Libya. Obama has no clear objective for these wars and cannot give us one. Strangely, the major media is silent about the Middle East under Obama’s presidency.

To top it off, Obama always seems to be vacationing. And though no one will deny the president a little R&R once in awhile, Obama takes it to a new level. He plays golf weekly, and sometimes daily. Routinely shoots hoops with NBA players. Gives weekly concerts at the White House with big name celebrities. Routinely goes to Martha’s Vineyard. In fact, soon after the debt deal was reached that is where he went. Guess that was the real reason for the Aug. 2 deadline. Toured Asia during Veteran’s Day in 2010. Supposedly it was to promote American business, but where was the promotion while he was busy attending state dinners and dancing with kids. He went to Brazil with the family earlier this year attending all of the tourist sites. Then he tries to pass it off as presidential business. He goes to Hawaii every Christmas. None of Obama’s trips are cheap. And this does not count the ones his wife takes without him.

This is leadership under Barack Obama. In 2012, we should fire him. He has proven to be little more than a two bit dictator that throws a fit when he doesn’t get what he wants. The American economy is tanking despite his glossy speeches. The world laughs at us and is counting down the days until our demise. America can ill afford 4 more years of Obama’s madness. We need a president who stands up for America and American values. We need a president who will cut back on taxes and regulations and allow individual businesses and people decide their own fate. And most importantly we need a president who will follow the Constitution and force Congress and the courts to do the same. And for those of you who think otherwise, you are either bona fid idiots, or have rocks for brains.