Archive for the ‘Obama’ Category
The real State of the Union
The national debt, now stands at $12,300,000,000,000 and change, and it’s growing by the second. That’s about $40,000 for every American. More important, it represents $113,000 for each and every taxpayer.
The federal deficit in 2009, the amount we added to the nation’s credit card, was a record $1.4 trillion, which was our largest, as a share of our Gross Domestic Product, since the end of World War II. Read the rest of this entry »
The Great Green Jobs Flimflam
Some people learn from their mistakes. It appears Barack Obama is not one of them.
Immediately, after assuming the office of president of the United States, Obama began clamoring for an unprecedented $787 billion dollar stimulus package. It was necessary, he told us, in order to put Americans back to work and arrest the rising rate of unemployment at eight percent.
A year later, the unemployment rate is hovering around 10 percent, but when you add to the list the number of discouraged workers or those working only part time, the rate is a staggering 17.3 percent.
What went wrong?
Obama’s Christmas Stocking
Every Christmas, stockings are hung by the chimney with care, with the anticipation that each stocking owner will be properly rewarded for his or her behavior over the past year. What will President Barack Obama get this Christmas? If this citizen were Santa he would receive:
- A lump of coal for using our economy, which had begun to stabilize when he took office, as an excuse to pass a so-called $787 billion stimulus bill, which funded every big government program on the liberals’ wish list.
In Search of Justice
Last Friday, President Obama made an unscheduled appearance during the daily White House press briefing to say that he had spoken with David Souter and announced to those assembled that the Supreme Court justice would retire this year. Reporters interrupted their presidential swoon to feign surprise. What a spontaneous moment! The president quickly whipped out a carefully crafted speech designed to fool us, again, and read it word for word. Read the rest of this entry »
Is the U.S. A Christian Nation?
On Monday, Barack Obama’s U.S. apology tour, stopped in Turkey where he caused quite a stir. In a press conference, in a shaky attempt to be all things to all people, he said this: “Although we have a very large Christian population, we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.” Read the rest of this entry »
