So once again, the Honorary Serb SOTU Non-Waching Game was a winning strategy.
We didn’t miss anything, and had no Hussein and what’s-her-name to make me lose my temper!!!!
(a Trade Enforcement Unit, a Financial Crimes Unit),
In other words: More tyranny!
Against my better judgment and instincts, I watched the speech. What was amazing was he thinks this is a GREAT COUNTRY all of a sudden. I sure hope the GOP hauls out the videos where he says otherwise. Evidently we’re no longer an unexceptional country. Every country loves us now - he even named them! No one hates us anymore...
Lost track of the number of times he talked about Buffett’s secretary paying less tax than her boss. He did manage to say “tax rate” a few times but he was speaking to the dummies in the crowd and “less tax” sounds better.
Started and ended with kind words about our military but nary a word about the cuts in the defense budget! The military brass in the front row ate it up. Bunch of “go along to get along” individuals.
We should judge the efficacy of this speech in the light of what Americans would want to hear.
Obama ignored the out-of-control spending and the debt in this speech, and that will spell his demise.
There’s abject fear in this country, and rightly so. I think he’ll lose the female vote on this issue alone. We’ve sold out our children, and I think women instinctively sense this. No Democrat can win without the female vote.
And when threatened, women will always ditch the pretty boy for the street-fighting dude with the gun.
The fact that he can’t speak extemporaneously from notes but instead has to depend on a teleprompter as a crutch speaks volumes about this shallow empty suit. If it’s not scripted, this narcissistic bastard is completely lost.
I know middle schoolers who have more on the ball than this POS.
This SOTU was a hugh waste of time. He should have mailed it.
In their overwhelming desire for accumulation of power of government over people, Democrats, under Obama, now acknowledge the taxing power as useful for restraining motivation toward what they deem to be undesirable behavior.
On the other hand, they deny the certain fact that "taking," or taxing productive citizens also discourages and restrains motivation.
They now have endangered the liberty of millions yet unborn with their illogical arguments on behalf of "taking" and "redistributing" the earnings of hard-working Americans. They claim they are "taking care" of those who elected them. Their "taking care" amounts to enslaving every citizen, born and unborn, for generations to come.
Their claims would fall on deaf ears, if most citizens understood their Constitution's limits on the powers of government. Here what some of the Founders said about the policies of today's "progressive" Democrats.
"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39
"I deem [this one of] the essential principles of our government and consequently [one] which ought to shape its administration:... The honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801. ME 3:322
"I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816. ME 15:23
"[With the decline of society] begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia [war of all against all], which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:40
"Is it now high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves. It is an important question which ought to be decided. It concerns more than anything in this life. The salvation of our souls is interested in this event. For wherever tyranny is established, immorality of every kind comes in like a torrent, it is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice.” - Samuel Adams
And:
“The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.” - Samuel Adams
Republican voters need to "conserve" and these ideas on behalf of future generations. Their spokesman needs to have studied history enough to be able to use them intelligently against the "chief redistributionist" and "leveler" of today.