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Obama Shifts to "Underwear Gnome Strategy"
The White House ^ | 3/15/13 | Obama

Posted on 03/15/2013 8:03:04 PM PDT by pabianice

Fans of "South Park" are familiar with the underpants gnomes. As one episode explains, they sneak into little kids' bedrooms at night and steal their underpants. Several of the brave 4th graders follow them one night in their underground underpants factory. There, a gnome that looks like David Axelrod explains to the kids the essence of their business:

1. Collect Underpants.

2. ??

3. Profit!

As we see below, this is exactly the strategy Obama has launched to make the U.S. independent of oil and gasoline. (I am not making this up).

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How we shift America off oil

$XXXB in ten years --->

Investments!---->

Cutting Edge Discoveries!---->

Creates---->

Energy Independence!!!

America's auto industry is in the midst of a change for the better. Right now, car dealers are offering customers twice as many hybrids as they were five years ago and seven times as many cars that can go 40 miles or more on a gallon of gas. Last year, General Motors sold more hybrid cars than ever before and Ford is working hard to keep up with demand for its fuel-efficient vehicles.

That trend is a key example of how innovation helps to drive business success -- and creates jobs for the middle class in America. But it's one thing to make a car more fuel efficient. It's another thing altogether to move cars and trucks off oil entirely.

And that's the next step. Here's how President Obama is proposing to get us there:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/infographic/energy-security-trust

At a time when the sequester is forcing laboratories and science facilities across the country to scale back on their work, we need to keep investing in research.

Because if we can meet this goal, the benefits are clear. We'll help diminish the burden of spiking gas prices. We'll reduce our reliance on foreign oil. And most importantly, the kind of technological breakthroughs the Energy Security Trust will work to produce won't just create jobs -- they could create whole new industries.

So if you think the Energy Security Trust is a good idea, will you share this graphic?

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1 posted on 03/15/2013 8:03:04 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: pabianice; Eric Blair 2084

South Park ping!

3. profit!


2 posted on 03/15/2013 8:04:28 PM PDT by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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To: pabianice
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3 posted on 03/15/2013 8:06:57 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: pabianice
Still can't beat his cut the deficit in half trick!

The Kenyan thought he could just print it in half, till China informed him otherwise!

4 posted on 03/15/2013 8:08:01 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: dynachrome; EveningStar

Please do the honors.


5 posted on 03/15/2013 8:20:12 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer to drink a bunch of them. Stay thirsty my FRiends)
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To: pabianice

Do the underwear gnomes ever steal the Mormons’ magic underwear?


6 posted on 03/15/2013 8:33:42 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: pabianice

He wants to secure his bundlers’ energy to write him and his party big, fat checks.


7 posted on 03/15/2013 8:54:34 PM PDT by hometoroost
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To: cripplecreek

Yup, that captures it.


8 posted on 03/15/2013 9:09:00 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: pabianice
Step 1. Save $2 million dollars by cutting WH tours.

Step 2. ???

Step 3. Give $2 billion dollars to Green Energy.

9 posted on 03/15/2013 9:50:48 PM PDT by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: TigersEye
Pardon me for the slight revision to your step 3.

Step 3. Give $2 billion dollars to soon to be bankrupt Green Energy.

10 posted on 03/15/2013 9:57:41 PM PDT by upchuck (Free Republic: faster than a speeding bullet!)
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To: upchuck
We still don't have it right.

Step 3. Give $2 billion dollars more to soon to be bankrupt Green Energy.

11 posted on 03/15/2013 9:59:52 PM PDT by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: pabianice

This is not believable, because as they march off to work the underwear gnomes sing a song:

“gotta go to work, work all day...”

This is so antithetical to Obama’s revealed philosophy that it must have an independent origin.


12 posted on 03/16/2013 4:12:17 AM PDT by bakeneko
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To: pabianice

One of these days the Muslim Brotherhood will have a very real physical address in America, a building or monument.


13 posted on 03/16/2013 4:14:50 AM PDT by Eye of Unk
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14 posted on 03/16/2013 8:51:31 AM PDT by EveningStar ("What color is the sky in your world?" -- Frasier Crane)
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To: EveningStar

15 posted on 03/16/2013 8:57:11 AM PDT by Old Sarge (We are officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet...)
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To: EveningStar
thanks, for the ping.

16 posted on 03/16/2013 9:47:58 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income,tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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