Posted on 07/25/2013 10:19:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Obama made his fourth or fifth, or maybe it's the seventh or eighth, pivot to the economy on Wednesday, and a revealing speech it was. We counted four mentions of "growth" but "inequality" got five. This goes a long way to explaining why Mr. Obama is still bemoaning the state of the economy five years into his Presidency.
The President summed up his economic priorities close to the top of his hour-long address. "This growing inequality isn't just morally wrong; it's bad economics," he told his Galesburg, Illinois audience. "When middle-class families have less to spend, businesses have fewer customers. When wealth concentrates at the very top, it can inflate unstable bubbles that threaten the economy. When the rungs on the ladder of opportunity grow farther apart, it undermines the very essence of this country."
Then the heart of the matter: "That's why reversing these trends must be Washington's highest priority. It's certainly my highest priority."
Which is the problem. For four and a half years, Mr. Obama has focused his policies on reducing inequality rather than increasing growth. The predictable result has been more inequality and less growth. As even Mr. Obama conceded in his speech, the rich have done well in the last few years thanks to a rising stock market, but the middle class and poor have not. The President called his speech "A Better Bargain for the Middle Class," but no President has done worse by the middle class in modern times.
By now the lackluster growth figures are well known. The recovery that began four years ago has been one of the weakest on record, averaging a little more than 2%. And it has not gained speed. Growth in the fourth quarter of 2012 was 0.4%.
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Number One priority for conservative constitutionalists must be to support primarying the feckless republican rhino non-opposition. End the country’s slide towards Detroit writ large. Senator Lee’s initiative to defund Obamacare is the litmus test.
This is intentional. Anyone who doubts it is living with their eyes closed. Obama is the figurehead for the northeastern oligarchists. He does everything necessary to benefit the Ivy Leaguers, the multinationals, the government workers, etc. at the expense of everyone else.
If you think the disparity is great now, wait until Obamacare kicks in with full force. Higher taxes per the Supreme Court and reduced hours of work to avoid Obamacare should insure a dramatic growth in the wealth divide.
His speeches about the economy over the last 6 years have been identical. His strategy is to deflect blame and buy time for his policies to cement voter demographics. His overall strategy is to guarantee Democrat control in the future. Democrat control means communism.
He can’t help himself.
Monday---Soak the Rich
Tuesday---Begin hearing from the Rich
Tuesday Afternoon---Decide to give the Rich a chance to get richer
Wednesday---Tax Wall Street stock sales
Thursday---Get word from Wall Street; "Lay off us or you will get no campaign contributions
Thursday Afternoon---Decide-We are wrong about Wall Street
Friday---Soak the little fellow
Saturday Morning---Find out there is no little fellow-he as been soaked until he is drowned
Sunday---Meditate
Next Week---Same procedure, only more talk and less results
The rich doing better than the middle class is an attribute of every recession or depression.
Reeling from his over 4 year failure to achieve his stated goal of “Fundamentally changing the United States of America,” Communist Tyrant B. Hussein Obama has embarked on another expensive road trip to try to sell his Commune-Style power grab of 1/6 th of the US economy by promoting the idea that increased Federal debt is the best way of salvation for the over-taxed Middle Class.
The problem is not with loyal Communist Obama, as he is just doing what his Communist trainers have taught him to do.
The problem lies with the sorry House RINOs who keep John Boehner on as their useless, Commie Obama enabler Speaker.
Nothing is going to help Commie Obama more than to keep John Boehner on as Speaker of the House.
Boehner has repeatedly stated his baseless fear that “If the Republicians stand up and oppose Obama we might be blamed by the Liberals for __________________(Fill in the blank).”
It is time for the House RINOs to step up to the plate and fight FOR The Republic, and not wallow in the baseless fears of losing the fake prasie of Liberals when a “Bi-Partisan Cave-In” is finally agreed to.
The reality is that WE would cheer “Shutting down the Government,” and it’s ‘non-essential’ Federal expenditures, or “playing politics” with Commie Obama’s “phony scandals” such as the Obama coverup of the Benghazi Massacre, or the NSA, or IRS, etc., etc., etc.
Rather than taking the fight TO the enemy, in this case the inexorable attempt to turn our Republic into a Communist State, Boehner has consistently shown that he is not a fighter.
It is time during Commie Obama’s con-artist tour of the remaining Liberal bastions in America for us to demand from our sorry House RINOs that they depose scardy-cat Boehner as Speaker, and install a FIGHTER worthy of our trust in his/her record of defeating Communist Con-Artists such as B. Hussein Obama.
What say all of you?
We are never going to turn the tide, until we attack the false underpinnings of those who play the blame & envy game.
Consider Compassion Or Compulsion? In the long term--even medium term--no one--no one--but demagogues & scoundrels benefit from what is being promoted.
William Flax
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