Posted on 10/05/2013 1:23:32 PM PDT by John Semmens
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew says that the barricading of parks and monuments is “merely lesson number one in the effort to educate Americans on how their government works. Not being able to visit a park or monument is an inconvenience. Lesson number two, I assure you, will cut closer to home.”
“Lesson number two” will apparently entail the withholding of benefit checks for Social Security recipients, persons on welfare, and veterans pensions. “This more painful lesson can be avoided if Congress cooperates in implementing the President’s program for America,” Lew cautioned. “However, the continued insistence that the President negotiate a compromise solution only ensures that these dire consequences will be fulfilled.”
The kinds of compromises that are off-limits according to Lew include “any modification to the Affordable Care Act not initiated at the President’s sole discretion, any attempt to discontinue subsidies to any corporations carrying out the President’s green energy program, and any action intended to reverse or limit the scope of any Executive Order issued by the President.”
Lew marked out a date in October when “Congress must without hesitation raise the debt ceiling to the level specified by the President in order to avert the implementation of lesson number two. It will literally be a ‘do-or-die’ situation. The stress of delayed pension payments to aged recipients could be deadly. Likewise, rioting and looting might be welfare dependents’ only option once their checks stop coming. The President has clearly delineated the choice before Congress: cooperation or chaos. The decision is theirs to make.”
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This is a joke today, but tomorrow it could be all too real.
Hey, that’s my post!
Satire maybe, but I think the headline is for real.
Lesson number 3 will be shut off your healthcare. Oh wait that was Lesson number 1.
Inventor Barry Soetoro, aka “B. Hussein Obama,” has decreed that his BARRYCADES (Tm) shall be used in outdoor Park, outdoor Monument, and outdoor Mall settings.
However, details have been secretly emerging of past and future plans for Barrycade “investments.”
Construction of larger Barrycades to be used on the US Mexican Border had to be canceled when the income from the Fast and Furious uncontrolled gun control “investment” went the way of all other Obamanation investments.
Potential construction of Barrycades to be placed on Obama’s Red Line in Syria is currently being jointly studied by the US Military, and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, Vladamir Putin.
Ambassador Dennis Rodman, no relation to Mrs. Bill Clinton, is rumored to be trying to put together a syndicate of his best friends to provide funding for the construction of these Red Line Barrycades.
North Korea spokesmen would not confirm or deny this rumor.
As usual, a razor’s thickness from the truth. Well done, John.
I just want to see EBT cards rejected the 1st of some month.
It's becoming the instruction manual for Obama and the Democrat Party.
He wants to cut Social Security? Somebody ought to inform this guy that Seniors are in the “most likely to vote” category. Let the elderly go hungry and the 2014 elections well may be a slaughter for the Democrats. Remember, it is a Democratic President who is threatening to do this.
the US Congress is listed too high in the order of life forms in this cartoon.
Why do you mark this as satire? This is exactly what the DemonCrats plan to do. This is exactly how they think.
I agree. But what redeems it is that obozo is far beneath even them.
no it doesn’t. IMO
Maybe we could start something simple and effective. Everybody who cares should walk around with clearly visible wire cutters. Whenever you run into something wired shut by the feds, CUT THOSE WIRES !
But Obama will point to his opponents and say they MADE him do it. The media will assure the general public that his charges are valid. The rage of morons will be directed at advocates of liberty enthrone the man who would be king.
no no...welfare recipients won’t get cut off.
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