"The dreadful policy proposals will continue until the market rallies."
Posted on 03/05/2009 6:27:20 PM PST by Kaslin
Forget the pork. Forget the waste. Forget the 8,570 earmarks in a bill supported by a president who poses as the scourge of earmarks.
Forget the "$2 trillion dollars in savings" that "we have already identified," $1.6 trillion of which President Obama's budget director later admits is the "savings" of not continuing the surge in Iraq until 2019 — 11 years after George Bush ended it, and eight years after even Bush would have had us out of Iraq completely.
Forget all of this. This is run-of-the-mill budget trickery. True, Obama's tricks come festooned with strings of zeros tacked onto the end. But that's a matter of scale, not principle.
All presidents do that. But few undertake the kind of brazen deception at the heart of Obama's radically transformative economic plan, a rhetorical sleight of hand so smoothly offered that few noticed.
The logic of Obama's address to Congress went like this:
"Our economy did not fall into decline overnight," he averred. Indeed, it all began before the housing crisis. What did we do wrong? We are paying for past sins in three principal areas: energy, health care, and education — importing too much oil and not finding new sources of energy (as in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Outer Continental Shelf?), not reforming health care, and tolerating too many bad schools.
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Machts nichts. Hitler was duly elected too. Sal si puedes. While you can -- the window will not be open long, tovarich.
"The dreadful policy proposals will continue until the market rallies."
He doesn’t care what this country needs!
May God help us all!
mrs
Right now He is the only one I have any confidence in.
Wait.... there’s a pirate thing I learned at the renaisannce faire
“The beatings will continue until morale improves!!”
Pretty much what this skinny guy has in mind
mrs
Agreed
OZero can eat sh*t and die for all I care. He is destroying this country and this is just the beginning.
Qualified to ruin one, though!
“OZero can eat sh*t and die for all I care.”
It doesn’t take much for me to be on board with that.
He IS my husband’s CinC. I have to breathe twice.
But I’m all for a pitchfork march.
Mrs
Citi may fail. And if it does BOFA will be next! Geithner and Obambi are clueless morons.
He’s proposing $845 billion by the end of this year for healthcare, and $318 billion in new taxes to pay for it.
When do the adults take over in Washington? It’s not like we have the money.
I think it’s getting reasonable to ask: did the voters elect a nut?
Induced panic is the fuel for Obama's agenda.
Can the Republicans run out the clock?
I think even the liberals are getting shakey in their support of 0.
I hope he fails (quickly).
Someone here recently described health care as a big “industry” and lamented its fall. LOL! ...out of touch, I’m tellin’ ya.
Who said “White man’s greed runs a world in need” ?
Obama....that’s who.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdLX3aRNa...
The media never mentions it, of course.
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