Barack Obama promised to fundamentally change America. What America thought it was going to get was an oratorical vision…there are no red states; there are no blue states; there is only the United States. Well, talk is cheap. What we actually got was a partisan of the worst degree whose idea of compromise was my way or the highway.
Armed with a Democratic House and Senate, Obama moved unilaterally to spend us into oblivion. His definition of stimulus is different than mine. To me, stimulus is building hard projects…bridges and roads and airplanes and schools. His idea of stimulus was using the bulk of the money to fund liberal pet projects that produced few new jobs and were geared to saving government union jobs. Now the money has run out. Jobs that he did produce cost in excess of $500,000.00 per job, if any at all.
I saw a concert tonight that had an American Bandstand segment in it. For those of you under 40, that was Dick Clark’s pop music dance program…you know…the old guy ABC drags out on New Year’s Eve?? At any rate, flashed across the back of the stage were pictures of a simpler America filled with sock hops and poodle skirts. Is this the America Obama wanted to fundamentally change? And change to what?
On the 11:00 news right after the concert, a local television station ran a news story about an African American woman who wanted to do something about hunger in her neighborhood. She literally set up a soup line on a sidewalk in Youngstown’s south side. She runs it at the end of the month to help those whose monthly check has run out and still need to buy food. Children were lined up for take out containers filled with spaghetti and meatballs. Is this the America Barack Obama wants? Does he want a nation of dependents?
One little boy kept looking into the container, and at the food spread out on the table. It broke my heart. What did that little boy learn lining up for food? Did he learn how to shift for himself and how to make money…or did he learn that food comes from the government or charity, and he should be glad for whatever government largess gives to him? Does he learn true hope or true despair? We did that to those people.
Nobody wants to see anyone go hungry, but when 52% of the population does not make enough money to pay income tax…and almost 20% of the population is on food stamps…there is a big, big problem. Where are these folks going to work? You see, Obama doesn’t care about making jobs. He cares about increasing dependence on the government. He views business as dirty, and evil, and greedy…something that must be suppressed. His priorities are world government, dissipation of American power, global warming, and social justice...translate social misery. His goals are loftier than worrying about someone standing in a soup line. That person is the price we pay to achieve those esoteric goals.
The people of the United States have yet to fully understand what Obama has done: punish free enterprise and make a nation of dependents addicted to worthless government dollars. The people of the United States do not fully understand Obamacare, and when they do they will realize what a liar and manipulator Obama is. He is nothing more than a silver tongued snake oil salesman, the is the Bureaucrat in Chief with no understanding of the real world. He is the ultimate oligarch…the ultimate control freak.
Business has come to a standstill because percolating underneath that winning smile is a plethora of regulations too large for the American public to understand. These are all set to kick in 2014/15, after the election. Although most Americans don't understand what is happening in Washington, businessmen do. And America will too when non-union company employees are booted off their health care plan as companies opt to pay a government "fine" and leave the employees to their own devices buying subsidized government health care in their local state insurance exchanges. How good do you think THOSE policies are going to be...and we will be up to our chins in a sea of red ink for the next 100 years.
Under these circumstances, why would businesses hire anybody?
Business has come to a standstill because percolating underneath that winning smile is a plethora of regulations too large for the American public to understand. These are all set to kick in 2014/15, after the election. Although most Americans don't understand what is happening in Washington, businessmen do. And America will too when non-union company employees are booted off their health care plan as companies opt to pay a government "fine" and leave the employees to their own devices buying subsidized government health care in their local state insurance exchanges. How good do you think THOSE policies are going to be...and we will be up to our chins in a sea of red ink for the next 100 years.
Under these circumstances, why would businesses hire anybody?
That little African American boy looking at that Styrofoam takeout package of spaghetti is the future of the United States unless we awake from our sweet smelling Obama stupor and see things as they are. Folks, we can do better than this.
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