Barack Obama is a man without a plan. When you are young, they often tell you to "fake it until you make it", but Barack Obama is taking this to ridiculous extremes. Barack Obama has absolutely no idea what he is doing when it comes to the economy, and yet he continues to give speeches in which he declares that he is the man for the job. The State of the Union speech the other night was just abysmal. The federal government is spending way too much money, and yet Barack Obama is proposing even more government spending. Entrepreneurs and small businesses are being taxed into oblivion and yet Barack Obama is proposing even higher taxes. Our economy is being strangled to death by crippling regulations, and yet Barack Obama is proposing a vast array of new regulations. Barack Obama always gives a nice speech, but it has become appallingly evident that he is totally out of ideas. So our country will continue to drift aimlessly along without a direction and without a plan until the next financial tsunami comes along and makes things even worse.
And the American people are starting to clue in to the fact that Obama does not have a plan and does not have anything new to say. Just check out how the audiences for his State of the Union addresses have declined each year....
2009: 52.3 million
2010: 48 million
2011: 42.8 million
2012: 37.8 million
His ratings are falling almost as fast as the ratings for American Idol are.
It is amazing how Barack Obama can use so many words to say so very little.
He always tickles our ears but then he never delivers the goods. Toward the beginning of his speech the other night, he made the following statement....
"Tonight, I want to speak about how we move forward, and lay out a blueprint for an economy that’s built to last—an economy built on American manufacturing, American energy, skills for American workers, and a renewal of American values"
Well, that sounds pretty good. Except for the fact that everything he has done for the past 3 years has been the exact opposite of that.
It is almost as if he woke up that morning and decided that he would try the whole "do the opposite" thing once made famous by George Costanza on Seinfeld.
Obama says that our employment situation is getting better, but that is not really true. The only way that the federal government can claim that there is an 8.5 percent unemployment rate is because they have decided that millions of Americans that have been unemployed for a long time should not be considered "part of the workforce" any longer.
If the number of Americans that were considered to be part of the workforce was the same today as it was back in 2007, the "official" unemployment rate put out by the U.S. government would be up to approximately 11 percent.
Sadly, the number of Americans that are dependent on the government continues to soar even higher.
Since Barack Obama took office, the number of Americans on food stamps has actually increased by 14 million.
Things have not gotten better for average Americans.
They have gotten worse.
In fact, 10 million more Americans have fallen below the poverty line since 2006. And in 2010, more Americans fell into poverty than ever before.
A lot of people out there are really hurting, and the American people deserve some real answers.
But instead, Obama was saying stuff like this the other night....
"I intend to fight obstruction with action, and I will oppose any effort to return to the very same policies that brought on this economic crisis in the first place"
Oh really?
What is Obama actually doing about the things that caused the last financial crisis?
The "financial reform" bill was a complete and total joke. Obama has been shamefully soft on the big Wall Street banks that caused the last crisis.
Today, the "too big to fail" banks are larger than ever. The total assets of the six largest U.S. banks increased by 39 percent between September 30, 2006 and September 30, 2011.
So now they are more of a danger to the financial system than ever.
And not a single Wall Street executive has gone to jail for what they did during the last financial crisis.
Thanks Obama.
But of course Obama was never going to seriously go after Wall Street.
After all, they are the ones that fund his campaigns.
Most Americans don't realize this, but 3 of the top 7 donors to Obama's campaign in 2008 were "too big to fail" banks.
And the Obama administration has been absolutely packed with ex-Wall Street bankers. Last year, Michael Brenner wrote the following about the composition of the Obama administration....
Wall Street's takeover of the Obama administration is now complete. The mega-banks and their corporate allies control every economic policy position of consequence. Mr. Obama has moved rapidly since the November debacle to install business people where it counts most. Mr.William Daley from JP Morgan Chase as White House Chief of Staff. Mr. Gene Sperling from the Goldman Sachs payroll to be director of the National Economic Council. Eileen Rominger from Goldman Sachs named director of the SEC's Investment Management division. Even the National Security Advisor, Thomas Donilon, was executive vice president for law and policy at the disgraced Fannie Mae after serving as a corporate lobbyist with O'Melveny & Roberts. The keystone of the business friendly team was put in place on Friday. General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt will serve as chair of the president's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.
During his State of the Union address, Obama also promised to bring manufacturing jobs back to America....
"Think about the America within our reach: A country that leads the world in educating its people. An America that attracts a new generation of high-tech manufacturing and high-paying jobs"
That sounds great, except for the fact that Obama has been doing everything he can to get more American jobs shipped out of the country.
The Obama administration has been aggressively pushing new "free trade" agreements with Panama, South Korea and Colombia. The Obama administration has also made the Trans-Pacific Partnership ("the NAFTA of the Pacific") an extremely high priority.
And of course we have all seen how wonderfully the first NAFTA worked out.
Our "free trade" policies have been an absolute nightmare for the American worker.
During 2010, an average of 23 manufacturing facilities a day shut down in the United States. Overall, more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities in the United States have shut down since 2001.
We are bleeding jobs at a pace that is hard to believe.
Amazingly, the United States has lost an average of 50,000 manufacturing jobs a month since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.
Yet Obama promises more of the same and that is supposed to help?
During his speech, Obama correctly noted that many foreign manufacturers are heavily subsidized....
"It's not fair when foreign manufacturers have a leg up on ours, only because they're heavily subsidized"
So are we going to deeply penalize those that have been cheating?
Are we going to warn them that we will stop trading with them unless they stop?
Of course not.
Obama is going to do next to nothing to stop what China and other predatory nations are doing to us.
Today, the United States spends approximately 4 dollars on goods and services from China for every one dollar that China spends on goods and services from the United States, and the U.S. trade deficit with China in 2010 was 27 times larger than it was back in 1990.
But the Obama administration doesn't seem to care much about these things.
In fact, just check out what U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk told Tim Robertson of the Huffington Post about the Obama administration's attitude toward keeping manufacturing jobs in America....
Let's increase our competitiveness... the reality is about half of our imports, our trade deficit is because of how much oil [we import], so you take that out of the equation, you look at what percentage of it are things that frankly, we don't want to make in America, you know, cheaper products, low-skill jobs that frankly college kids that are graduating from, you know, UC Cal and Hastings [don't want], but what we do want is to capture those next generation jobs and build on our investments in our young people, our education infrastructure.
Oh, but Obama now says that he is going to toughen up on trade....
"I'm announcing the creation of a Trade Enforcement Unit that will be charged with investigating unfair trading practices in countries like China. There will be more inspections"
Oh boy - "inspections" - yeah, that is really going to have the Chinese shaking in their boots.
Meanwhile, the Chinese just keep hitting us with new tariffs. According to the New York Times, a Jeep Grand Cherokee that costs $27,490 in the United States will now cost about $85,000 in China thanks to these new tariffs.
So is Obama going to hit China with tough new tariffs in return?
Of course not.
Meanwhile, our economy continues to bleed businesses and jobs. According to Professor Alan Blinder of Princeton University, 40 million more U.S. jobs could be sent offshore over the next two decades if current trends continue.
But if you listen to Obama, he makes it seem like many of our industries are in better shape than ever....
"We bet on American ingenuity, and tonight the American auto industry is back."
Yes, the American auto industry is no longer on the brink of bankruptcy, but it is not "back". Just consider the following stats....
*In 1970, General Motors had about a 60 percent share of the U.S. automobile market. Today, that figure is down to about 20 percent.
*Back in 2000, about 17 million new automobiles were sold in the United States. During 2011, less than 13 million new automobiles were sold in the United States.
*Japan builds more cars than anyone else on the globe. Japan now manufactures about 5 million more automobiles than the United States does.
*Since Alan Mulally became CEO of Ford, the company has reduced its North American workforce by nearly half.
*In the year 2000, the U.S. auto industry employed more than 1.3 million Americans. Today, the U.S. auto industry employs about 698,000 people.
Obama bailed out the auto industry, and they responded by sending even more of our jobs overseas.
During his speech, Obama declared that there will be no more bailouts....
"No bailouts, no handouts, and no copouts."
That is kind of funny because Obama is basically the all-time champion of handing out bailouts.
If Barack Obama and John McCain had not aggressively pushed for the Wall Street bailouts back in 2008, they never would have happened.
And once Obama became president, there was a seemingly endless parade of bailouts and "stimulus packages".
So what do you honestly think he will do when the next financial crisis happens? Do you think he would actually be able to resist the temptation for more bailouts?
Obama also says that he wants to spend more money on training for American workers....
"Join me in a national commitment to train two million Americans with skills that will lead directly to a job."
But the American people already have enough training. There are tons of college-educated Americans that are among the ranks of the unemployed right now.
What the American people need are jobs.
Unfortunately, jobs are leaving this country at an unprecedented pace.
Back in the year 2000, more than 20 percent of all jobs in America were manufacturing jobs. Today, about 5 percent of all jobs in America are manufacturing jobs.
Not only that, but our incomes are also going down. Because U.S. workers now have to compete for jobs with workers that make slave labor wages on the other side of the globe, pay in this country continues to decline.
A recent White House reported entitled "Investing in America: Building an Economy That Lasts" actually bragged that our trade policies have driven wages in America down. The following chart is from that report....
The Obama administration has been very good for the largest corporations.
For the rest of us, not so much.
But Obama now says that he wants America to be a place that encourages entrepreneurs and small businesses to thrive....
"It means we should support everyone who’s willing to work; and every risk-taker and entrepreneur who aspires to become the next Steve Jobs."
Unfortunately, the reality is that the federal government is strangling entrepreneurs and small businesses to death with taxes and crippling regulations.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 16.6 million Americans were self-employed back in December 2006. Today, that number has shrunk to 14.5 million.
That is not a good trend.
And right now small businesses are extremely hesitant to bring on new workers.
One recent survey found that 77 percent of all U.S. small businesses do not plan to hire any more workers in the coming year.
So obviously what the Obama administration is doing is not working.
During his speech, Obama also spoke of developing our own energy resources....
"A future where we are in control of our own energy, and our security and prosperity aren't so tied to unstable parts of the world."
Hopefully most of those watching laughed when they heard this, because this had to have been a joke.
America is absolutely swimming in oil and natural gas, and yet the Obama administration has blocked the development of those resources at every turn.
Instead, Obama has been very busy trying to push green energy companies on us, but they have had a nasty habit of going bankrupt.
During his speech, Obama also spoke of the need for "comprehensive immigration reform".
But apparently Obama's idea of "immigration reform" is to grant "backdoor amnesty" to the vast majority of the illegal immigrants in the United States and to continue to leave our borders completely wide open.
The consequences of such a policy are very serious. As I wrote about the other day, there are now 1.4 million gang members living inside the United States, and that number has risen by an astounding 40 percent since 2009.
The last thing we need is more "immigration reform" from Barack Obama.
Of course the "class warfare" part was the centerpiece of Obama's speech the other night.
Referring to it as the "defining issue of our time", Obama said that now is the time to hit the wealthy with higher taxes....
"We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well, while a growing number of Americans barely get by. Or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules."
This is going to be what Barack Obama is going to base his entire 2012 campaign on. He is going to try to tap into the economic frustrations of the poor and the middle class and he is going to try to get them to blame the rich and the "party of the rich" (the Republicans).
But taxing the rich is not going to solve our problems. If Bill Gates donated his entire fortune to the U.S. government, it would only cover the U.S. budget deficit for about 15 days.
The truth is that the ultra-wealthy are always several steps ahead of the U.S. government. The global elite are hiding 18 trillion dollars in offshore banks, and they are absolute experts at avoiding taxes.
No, the people that always get hit when taxes are raised are small business owners that try to do things "by the book" and middle class families that are barely scraping by.
What we need to do is to get rid of the income tax system entirely. It is deeply corrupt and it is full of thousands of loopholes.
Trust me, I know. I used to study this stuff.
But Obama seems to think that taxing the rich is the solution to all of our problems....
"We don’t begrudge financial success in this country. We admire it. When Americans talk about folks like me paying my fair share of taxes, it’s not because they envy the rich. It’s because they understand that when I get tax breaks I don’t need and the country can’t afford, it either adds to the deficit, or somebody else has to make up the difference – like a senior on a fixed income; or a student trying to get through school; or a family trying to make ends meet. That’s not right. Americans know it’s not right. They know that this generation’s success is only possible because past generations felt a responsibility to each other, and to their country’s future, and they know our way of life will only endure if we feel that same sense of shared responsibility. That’s how we’ll reduce our deficit."
Oh really?
If we just accept Obama's plan the deficit will be fixed?
That worked out so well during his first term. During the first three years of the Obama administration, the U.S. government accumulated more debt than it did from the time that George Washington took office to the time that Bill Clinton took office.
The truth is that Obama does not plan to fix anything. Barack Obama's proposed 2012 budget projects that the national debt will rise to 26 trillion dollars a decade from now. And his budget numbers are ridiculously optimistic.
Not that our tax system does not need reform.
If we are going to have an income tax system (which we should not), then it should at least be fair.
There is no way in the world that General Electric and Mitt Romney should pay a lower tax rate than you and I do.
In a previous article, I noted some of the big corporations that have made enormous profits and yet have paid less than zero in taxes in recent years....
What U.S. corporations are able to get away with is absolutely amazing.
The following figures come directly out of a report by Citizens for Tax Justice. These are combined figures for the tax years 2008, 2009 and 2010.
During those three years, all of the corporations below made a lot of money. Yet all of them paid net taxes that were below zero for those three years combined.
How is that possible? Well, it turns out that instead of paying in taxes to the federal government, they were actually getting money back.
So for these corporations, their rate of taxation was actually below zero.
If you have not seen these before, you are going to have a hard time believing some of these statistics.....
*Honeywell*
Profits: $4.9 billion
Taxes: -$34 million
*Fed Ex*
Profits: $3 billion
Taxes: -$23 million
*Wells Fargo*
Profits: $49.37 billion
Taxes: -$681 million
*Boeing*
Profits: $9.7 billion
Taxes: -$178 million
*Verizon*
Profits: $32.5 billion
Taxes: -$951 million
*Dupont*
Profits: $2.1 billion
Taxes -$72 million
*American Electric Power*
Profits: $5.89 billion
Taxes -$545 million
*General Electric*
Profits: $7.7 billion
Taxes: -$4.7 billion
Are you starting to get the picture?
Hopefully we can all agree that there is something seriously wrong with those numbers.
But fixing holes in the tax system is one thing - blaming America's economic ills on the wealthy is another.
During his speech, Obama made the following statement....
"You can call this class warfare all you want"
And yes, we will hear the term "class warfare" over and over again for the rest of 2012.
Obama actually believes that "blaming the 1%" can get him sent back to the White House again.
But that isn't going to solve any of our problems.
Instead, we should be focusing on the root causes of our economic problems.
I would love to see a president get up during a State of the Union address and declare that we need to shut down the Federal Reserve.
Since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913, the U.S. dollar has lost over 95 percent of its purchasing power.
Since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913, the U.S. national debt has gotten more than 5000 times larger.
Thanks to the debt-based Federal Reserve system, we are going into debt at a pace that is unlike anything the world has ever seen.
Right now, the federal government is stealing 150 million dollars an hour from our children and our grandchildren.
But Barack Obama loves the Federal Reserve.
In fact, he actually nominated Ben Bernanke for a second term as Federal Reserve Chairman even though Bernanke has a track record of incompetence that is legendary.
So no, nobody should be applauding Barack Obama for his absolutely abysmal speech the other night.
He is a man without a plan and he has been an absolute disaster for America.
The blaming the rich, to saying how great our dying industrial base is, to finally saying he’s apparently going to throw kids in jail if they don’t graduate from high school, this SOB has really topped them all. I’m shocked no one has really noted that last one.
I think the “graduate or else” mandate BO is trying to force on the states bothered me the most. But don’t worry, kids won’t be going to jail, their parents will……
You can be sure that Barack Obama has a plan all right, but it’s just not for the benefit of Main Street. If one is to say that Barack Obama has no plan, then I would submit that no plan is better than a bad plan (that one would naturally expect from one of those Republican hacks) any day.
OBAMA WHITE HOUSE: A FULLY OWNED DIV. OF GOLDMAN SACHS
I am “glad” you mentioned tariffs. I’m in Australia and 20 years ago as part of the economic reforms they decided to get rid of tariffs so there would be a “level playing field”. Probably parroting something about “world’s best practise”, etc. The idea was the government wasn’t going to prop up inefficient industry. It sounds fine and many businesses were happy to go alone with the scheme as in meant that many inputs would also reduce in price.
The government was promising to “eliminate” foreign tariffs by negotiating with our trading partners! Did that happen! No! In fact in many instances the cost of exporting to foreign countries increased as tariffs remained essentially the same, and in many instances customs charges were added as well. So having a thriving chemicals industry which met all of the regulatory requirements died. We now import billions in agrochemicals alone! The prices of inputs have gone up dramatically (excluding exchange rate fluctuations) and so we are worse off. The quality of the inputs is much lower and we have the unemployed as well. Many people changed careers – usually to something poorer paying. Several senior people never got a job again. More hot air and promises and ever more extravagant pay packages to reward them for their “wisdom”.
Our new business leaders are more like “Robber Barons” and are great at extracting wealth for themselves while system,ativcally destroying businesses – none can build anything. Australia is a at the edge of a great precipice. With our glorious leader, we tremble at the thought that our government will make a bold leap forward anytime now….
If you think the housing collapse is bad in the US, just cast an occassional eye across the pacific – it wont be long before the mining boom is gone and a crater of destroyed dreams is left in its place.
Tequila shot, anyone?
I’m the mom of a five year old son. His future looks very bleak and I’m beside myself with frustration at the ignorance and stubborn attitude of the majority.
This is not about Democrat/Republican/Independent, etc.
What we have here is a show for the owners of the world.
Pisses me off that my son is a star on their flippin’ stage.
Your analysis was so insightful and well articulated, I reprinted it on: GeoffTalk.com
Just helping to encourage everyone to get educated and get into action.
Thanks for the work you do, we need to be ever vigilant.
Thank you for that. I am always honored when others consider this information to be valuable enough to share on their own sites.
Michael
……….destroying America to implement Fascism on a Global scale – which can also be defined as the godless money-worshiping elite lording over the rest of us idiots (for allowing it).
I don’t know about you guys, but I got exactly what I voted for. The 2008 election was between a candidate that was promising to destroy the country slowly (McCain) and a candidate that was promising to destroy the country quickly (Obama). I voted for the one that would get the destruction over with quickly, so we could move on to whatever is coming next (socialism).
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like that the US is being destroyed. However, what do you do when both political parties are bent on said destruction? The game is rigged so that we the people don’t really have any kind of input any longer. Certainly we can jump up and down and scream and yell, but so what. We the people don’t have a police force that can go to Washington and arrest the politicians who aren’t listening to us (or who are guilty of outright treason). Yes, we can theoretically vote them out of office, but they’ve made sure election rules such that incumbents are favored in all federal level elections. Districts are drawn to favor one party or the other, so that there is a sort of balance of power (with Democrats generally in the majority).
The US is in decline by design, and the plans were drawn up by both parties. Why? Because you and I just aren’t smart enough to know how to properly direct our lives; which school to send our kids to, which line of work to enter once we’ve finished school; how to spend the money we make from our chosen profession. They believe with all their heart that if we would just do what they tell us to we’d be much much happier than we are now.
The only question in my mind is when will the last shoe drop? All the pieces are in place. All it will take is a gentle tap and it will all come down.
P.S.
My gut has told more for over a year now that Obama gets re-elected.
It saddens me that most people still don’t understand the real problem facing the country and therefore continue to make the same mistake of misidentifying the problem. The elites keep us arguing about Republicans and Democrats. This is intentional.
Basically what you are saying is that there is no real choice because both parties are the same. This is true for one reason. You are comparing Republican Progressives with Democratic Progressives. We needed to elect Non-Pregressives. Unfortunately that has become a moot point now because the progressives have taken us so far down the wrong road that a collapse of our economy or out of control inflation are the only two avenues out of this mess. Neither will end well.
I agree that the only Non-Progressive person running is Ron Paul. The thing that makes him unelectable is his foreign policy. He is either very naive, ignorant, or a total loon. I do not know what is in his heart so I can’t choose which. I will let everyone else figure out which in their own mind but the fact is that he would get 10s of millions of American civilians killed if his foreign policies were ever implemented.
If you read the book “UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES” you will find the solution.
Romney is the republican obama. Gingrich, obama, romney, etc all all insiders. The big problems are government spending and income tax.
Ron Paul is the solution and he is the only one that is not an insider and that has addressed these issues. When the main stream media said Ron Paul is unelectable, I knew he was the solution.
Let me see if I have this right: Michael is advocating for more government intervention in business – people in jail, companies pay more taxes. And, tariff wars with China ,who own huge amounts of American $$ because of iPads, Walmarts, Sony’s, xBoxes, …. Someday Michael will actually make a sensible suggestion, not just regurgitate talking points and shill for the MRE/gold/water filtering advertisers of his. I know, lets all go back to the gold standard! Ron Paul says to, and he should know, after all, he’s against that pesky Civil Rights act, the Voting Rights act. In fact, lets have zero goverment, break it up, issue everyone a sidearm, and duck!
The only way to defeat the machine, is not be its slave. If the US doesn’t adopt something like China’s one-child-per-family policy, then government will continue to jolly along and grow, industry will continue to have eager mouths to buy their products and eager slaves as workers. But, no one can do the math and instead rail about symptoms, not causes. Overpopulation is *the cause of all these problems.*
Not quite right.
Overall, I think there should be much less regulation on business.
But down on Wall Street they have been getting away with bloody murder for decades and hardly anyone is every held accountable.
And I have made it very clear that I would like to see all income taxes eliminated.
But if we must pay taxes, then we should eliminate the loopholes.
Hard to see how anyone can argue much with those points.
Michael
your analysis is ridiculously over-simplified and inaccurate. Caucasian and black populations in the USA have been falling for over a decade with whites now having only 1.5 children for every 2 adults. If not for immigration-both legal and illegal- the US population numbers in the last census would have actually fallen from the 2000 numbers……An interesting trivia number for you…. there are 171,904,640 acres in Texas..enough for a half acre of land for every man, woman and child in the USA- a family of 4 would have 2 acres of land in Texas and THE ENTIRE REST OF THE COUNTRY would be devoid of human habitation. If we factor in apartments, condos, high rises, nursing homes, indigents etc etc, the population of the United States is easily sustainable for the resources we have in the USA. If we close off our borders then our national population would actually be shrinking. Coincidentally, the populations in ALL of the major countries of Europe are also declining yet they also are sliding into a financial abyss. So your weak analysis backed by little to no supporting fact is just plain ridiculous……..
Well you can’t say Obama is not politically smart.
He saw the Occupy movement and aligns himself with them. “I’m with you 99%!” He labels his strategy ‘fairness’. Just like “Yes we can!”, “Hope”, they sound so good to the dumbed-down. The smart ones know, of course, such words are utterly non-implementable.
Just to make sure, Obama adds a sense of action-plan to his inspirational words. See, he going to make things ‘fair’ by revamping the freaking tax codes.
Yes, Obama is going to fix the tax codes to make things ‘fair’. My spreadsheet blows up when I try to enter the number of pages in the tax code.
If you believe Obama The 99% Man, you certainly deserve twice as much the screw you got from G W Bush when he proclaimed he is the ‘compassionate conservative’.
the “PLAN” I heard from Obama in his most recent speeches was this…..”no matter what I say I am going to do the opposite. When I say we are going to create new rules to protect americans from fraud artists, what I really mean is that we are going to do NOTHING about the fraud artists who brought our economy to its knees”. (applause from the room) When I say we are all in this together, what I mean is, that about a thousand of the richest people in the world are in this together, and all the politicians in the room are in it as handmaidens…..(more applause) “but no, I am not talking about the american people……..unless by “in this”, you don’t mind carrying the burden on your backs………”
I used to admire this guy, but now I see puppet strings above him every time he speaks…….poor USA, what a waste of a great country, great people
I think Obama is on this wild spending spree on purpose and knows what he’s doing. His goal is to literally bankrupt the nation and have riots in the street when the currency collapses so he can have an excuse to invoke martial law. Obama has even been selling out his own country by sharing our secrets with our enemies. He hates America and American exceptionalism. Even Romney strikes me as someone who’s more patriotic. Will he screw over America? Certainly. But that doesn’t change the fact that Obama is an American-hating socialist who wants to create a United States of the Socialist Republic. Even avowed progressive socialists like Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, and FDR had more love of country and American exceptionalism than Obama does.
does anyone have any idea what they are doing? especially when it comes to the economy?
come on over china, we’re ready to take back what you’ve been given?
Hate to tell you Klean, but China is fundamentally in worse shape than the U.S., China has built just as of an illusionary economy as the U.S. has and is ready to implode too. The difference is that most Chinese have had years of hardship, low standards of living and poverty, thus they will be able to handle such an implosion whereas, the good people in the U.S. are soft, accustom to comfort and plenty.
right on lennie and elias you are both correct! more people need to understand the true agenda. I belive that most have been fooled by polotricks. the agenda is aperant and clear as day most just dont want to hear about it, and the others have there indoctrinated views and refuse to listen to facts. Too many empty ended articles and comments every where on the net. thats why i belive people should gather info from every source possible left, right center, economical, radical, and foriegn. then do the math and add it up. its clear as day! destroy the last road block to a new world order.
Back in 1989, in Argentina, there was this guy running for that country’s presidency, named Carlos Saul Menem. He gained huge popular support with his campaign slogan, “Sigueme!” That’s Spanish for “follow me!” I used to subscribe to a magazine called “World Press Review” at that time (are they still around?!)
At that time, Argentina was in the midst of hyperflation and economic crisis (tends to happen a lot there). The people were looking for a hero. Menem would take the stage, make a speech, and then say, “Sigueme! Yo no los traicionaré! Es mi promesa! (I will not betray you! It’s my promise!)
Menem was elected President. It didn’t take long for him to betray the Argentine people.
Sound vaguely familiar?!
I didn’t and won’t vote for President Obama, but what a stupid comparison. President Obama doesn’t represent my values, but I don’t believe he’s a coward or is trying to destroy our nation. He certainly hasn’t resigned his post unlike Sarah Palin, who did quit in the middle of her term in office. and since it was George W. Bush who helped steer our country into financial danger! The collapse occured during Bush’s watch and President Obama has been trying to pick up the pieces.
Sorry you can’t face the facts you resort to calling me the 1%, even though I’m not rich. and Ludicrous… Infantile reasoning… You may of course disagree with his politics (I do on many issues) but to say that he HATES america is preposterous… Why do I even bother to try to explain to these racists……… *sigh*
With the demise of guilds, we no longer have a way to train people in apprentiships,etc for future self employment or cooperative ventrues. Hence, bot htsides talk about “jobs”, where a fellow gets to drive and work for someone else, often surrendering talents and self esteem. ALso, no personal responsibility. A owner has to take responsibility and leadership.
The “class warfare” talk is a communist technique and one that both Parties and their people engage in often. It breaks down to A vs B, all who is against who, again, a marxist technique and one that Dems, Repubs, Limbaugh,etc excel at and make a lot of $$ off.
There have been a lot of wrong-headed politicians (all are sociopaths) but this one is worse than others by a factor of 10,000. He is a totalitarian (think Stalin), but since our fellow citizens voted him in, what has to happen has to happen in order for people to learn the lesson of putting people in charge of the US economy and military who do not have US interests as their first priority. Sad, but it happens every few administrations; Roosevelt; Johnson; Carter; Clinton; Obama. The wreckers. Then come the rebuilers, then the wreckers again. When they are let loose, time after time the same things happen. You’d think we’d learn.
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