Posted on 09/27/2012 7:03:22 AM PDT by Qbert
It’s 0bama’s Five Year Plan. What will we have for our “economic patriotism?” Recognition for “Stakhonovites?” Go fill your quota, comrade!
This is actually a copy of the ABC American jobs weekly segment. Libs begging the economy to get better.
” he promotes an economic plan he says will create 1 million manufacturing jobs”
At a cost of 2 million per job, no doubt. And what will they be manufacturing?
“cut oil imports”
Creating an oil shortage here at home.
In "Obama-speak," economic patriotism means if you're a working, productive citizen--you stop griping about high taxes are. You forgo large, suburban houses for the inner-city blight of stacked high-rise apartments. You skip private schools completely, in favor of public schools. You give up once-cherished economic choices, in favor of single, lower standard, but expensive products (Chevy Volt, anyone?). You shut up about new government plans and schemes, designed to spread the wealth around, and you let the czars do as they see fit.
If you're currently mooching from the government, at some point, the gravy train will end. Once the economy is securely under the government's thumb, your handouts will become lesser...there will be less to go around, and there won't be a need for the party in power to give away baubles for votes. If you're currently mooching, you be quiet when those monthly checks get smaller; more people will be counting on them, and there's only so much to go around. You take pride in standing in lines...lines for unemployment benefits, lines for health benefits, lines for mass transit benefits, lines for single mother benefits, lines at the soup kitchen, lines at local food pantries.
Economic patriotism for all!
It's a bizarre thing to watch, isn't it?
The instigator of the mess is strolling through the wreckage apparently with blinders on while waving to his adoring followers from The View, Letterman, and other frivolous venues (brings to mind Tiny Tim strumming his ukelele and singing "Tiptoe Through the Tulips"). This fraud has a nerve to talk about "patriotism" while the US economy is in shambles, the ME burns, and his administration is caught repeatedly lying to the American people.
Obama's version of "economic patriotism":
The National Debt has now increased more during President Obama's three years and two months in office than it did during 8 years of the George W. Bush presidency. The Debt rose $4.899 trillion during the two terms of the Bush presidency. It has now gone up $4.939 trillion since President Obama took office. The latest posting from the Bureau of Public Debt at the Treasury Department shows the National Debt now stands at $15.566 trillion.* It was $10.626 trillion on President Bush's last day in office, which coincided with President Obama's first day. The National Debt also now exceeds 100% of the nation's Gross Domestic Product, the total value of goods and services. Mr. Obama has been quick to blame his predecessor for the soaring Debt, saying Mr. Bush paid for two wars and a Medicare prescription drug program with borrowed funds. The federal budget sent to Congress last month by Mr. Obama, projects the National Debt will continue to rise as far as the eye can see. The budget shows the Debt hitting $16.3 trillion in 2012, $17.5 trillion in 2013 and $25.9 trillion in 2022.
*exceeds $16 TR as we speak
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