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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 »
About Your Tax Cut
“A chicken in every pot” is the temptation waved under the noses of voters by politicians of every political stripe. It’s an alluring promise. Little wonder that the average life of a democracy is a mere 200 years.
Americans are smart enough to realize that there is no such thing as something for nothing. Barack Obama was elected on the idea that he was going to reward 95 percent of us at the expense of the top 2 percent, those making more than $200,000 per year. What could be wrong with that?
It was an easy sell to the 95 percent on the receiving end of that promise. Now it’s time to deliver the goods in the form of tax cuts for all but the very wealthy.
So, just how much is that tax cut really worth? Read the rest of this entry »
