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Let us hope Jackwagon Obama is last on Nov 6, 2012.
Posted on 01/30/2012 4:08:36 AM PST by Kaslin
The theme President Obama gave to his State of the Union address was “An America Built to Last.”
But his vision would be better described as an “An America Built to Be Last.”
As the president asked us to be patient and keep drinking the same kool-aid he’s been serving up for three years, the New York Times reported that the Federal Reserve’s latest assessment of our economy is that “…a full recovery is years away.”
Even his most loyal constituency, black Americans, is losing patience. In Gallup’s latest tracking poll, black approval rate for Obama was 79 percent. This is seventeen points under the 96 percent of blacks who voted for him in 2008, and the first time that black approval has dropped under 80 percent.
The debate will go on for many years about what caused the horrible economic collapse from which we are still trying to recover.
The president continues to sell the idea, which serves his agenda to continue to expand government, that the cause was insufficiently regulated business.
There is much convincing research, in which the president shows little interest, that government caused it, by mandating expansion of low quality mortgages and enabling this expansion because taxpayers ultimately guaranteed these loans.
But economists are still debating what caused the Great Depression of the 1930’s.
What Americans must come to terms with now is what we choose to believe this country is about, why in the past it seemed to work so well, and why today things are falling apart.
According to the president, everything will be okay if we allow him and his government to continue to build and consolidate power over our lives.
He gave more reasons to grow government and barely lip service to what is tearing our nation apart today and dragging it down.
The major factors driving us into insolvency, spending on entitlement programs – Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid – and covering the interest on our nation’s debt, which is now surpassing the size of our entire economy, got attention in two sentences in an hour plus long speech.
The unraveling of our social fabric doesn’t seem to bother our president a whit.
You would think our nation’s leader would be concerned that today four of every ten of our babies are born to unwed mothers.
He called on “every State to require that all students stay in high school until they graduate or turn eighteen.”
Rather than addressing broken families and why poor kids don’t care about learning, our president thinks he’ll solve this problem by turning our failing public schools into prisons.
It’s nice to know that the president believes what “Republican Abraham Lincoln believed: That government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves, and no more.”
But unlike our president, Lincoln was the Great Emancipator. Lincoln’s agenda was freedom.
According to a new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation, 54 percent feel that the Supreme Court should find the Obamacare mandate forcing every American to buy government defined health insurance unconstitutional. Only 17% agree with this flagrant violation of individual freedom.
Now the Department of Health and Human Services has ruled that religious institutions must, like all employers under the new Obamacare law, provide free birth control and sterilization services as part of health coverage.
Catholic universities and charitable organizations are now left with the choice of violating their religious convictions, not offering health insurance and pay millions of dollars in fines, or just shut down.
Catholic charities serve over 10 million of America’s poor.
Diminished freedom and moral relativism is no way out of the morass we’re in.
An America built on government, as President Obama sees it, severed from our roots as a free people under God, is surely an America “built to be last.”
...[Zero] asked us to be patient and keep drinking the same kool-aid he's been serving up for three years, the New York Times reported that the Federal Reserve's latest assessment of our economy is that "...a full recovery is years away."
‘The unraveling of our social fabric doesn’t seem to bother our president a whit’
The unraveling is his intention. You cannot achieve more Government control when the citizenry believes we should have control over ourselves. You cannot replace one form of Government unless/until you destroy the current form. He must destroy the family and our personal moral center so we are more compliant. He needs us to cry ‘Uncle Sam, please take care of me; I cannot take care of myself’. We are at 50% control/compliance now. We must fight back hard or our country is lost for decades.
Good article.
I like what Paul Ryan said yesterday on Fox, that Obama represents the politics of “debt, doubt, and decline”.
You are welcome. 0-bama needs the ignorant to reelect him
The obuma stall at the local flea market is almost metaphorical.
All the obuma merchandise is covered with dust. The obuma pictures lie exhausted against the wall with his smug puss staring at nothing. A big sign says 50% off on everything. There’s a dollar tray filled with trinkets no one wants. The owner doesn’t show up anymore; it’s tended by a person from another stall selling old plates and used clothes.
Obuma is a trend that nobody buys anymore.
And New America seems OK with that. Ever since Obama's killing of the Keystone pipeline and the SOTU speech, his poll numbers have gone up. I guess destroying economy seems to resonate.
And New America seems OK with that. Ever since Obama's killing of the Keystone pipeline and the SOTU speech, his poll numbers have gone up. I guess destroying economy seems to resonate.
What resonates is class envy. Jealousy and resentment have become a mainstay in American culture, along with the attitude of entitlement. When the left frames their class envy arguments in attempted ‘reasonable’ terms (e.g. Warren Buffett should pay at least as much tax as his secretary) it fans the flames of those who buy into the erroneous idea that everyone would have more if the people at the top would just stop cheating them. We've let them get away with these claims. We can no longer afford the luxury of sitting back and hoping that the truth will become apparent. Eventually it will, but it may be a very painful road to that point.
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Let us hope Jackwagon Obama is last on Nov 6, 2012.
Well, then you run into Lehman Brothers and Fannie Mae and Goldman Sachs and Bank of America and George Soros and all of a sudden the Left's arguments look pretty realistic. The public is righteously angry at the gaming of the system done by politically connected billionaires. The fault is in letting the political class (Democrats and Republicans) shift blame away from their contributors and puppet masters.
To the Free S**t Army, the guy who owns the local flower shop is just as big a villain as Soros, but he's closer at hand. So who do you think is going to suffer the effects of this class warfare? Who gets to take the blame and see his shop and life's work destroyed by protestors? Who gets to serve as a buffer against public outrage? It sure ain't gonna be Soros.
The middle class is hated by the rich, the poor, and the politicians, because they are not rich enough to guarantee political power to anyone who supports them but too independent to shut up and vote as they are told. Ergo, the decision has been made to reduce their numbers as much as possible.
I don't disagree with you at all, but it needs to be pointed out to the general public that in any system of government there are those who are politically connected and line their pockets on the backs of others. The politburo in the USSR comes to mind, as does the late Kim Jong-il and his minions. You don't eliminate that kind of cronyism by veering to the left. In fact, you make it much more entrenched and difficult to get rid of.
You got that right Buckeye!
A couple of years ago those who ascribed bad intentions to Obama were called crazy. It is now apparent to all but the most willfully blind that those who ascribe good intentions to him are as nutty as a Hickory grove.
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