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The $800 billion (which we don’t have and will end up being $2 trillion with increases and interest for our grandkids to pay) pork-ulous package had to be passed immediately or the sky would fall! said Obama, so our Congressional clowns passed it without reading it–then Obama took four days off before signing it.

State Secretary Clinton screwed up a Russian gift button label, mispronounced two minister’s names, and said America had democracy long before Europe (Athens, Greece, anybody?)

Racial reconciliation, an Obama appeal. In his first speech, his Attorney General Eric Holder said–after we elected a black President–we’re “a nation of (racial) cowards.”

Attacks on private citizens who disagree with them, such as Rush Limbaugh, because he said he hopes Obama’s policies fail. No mention of a 2006 poll that revealed 51% of Democrats hoped that Bush would fail.

A half-dozen tax cheats nominated for high-level positions. One–Timmy Geithner–even after being exposed as an 8-year tax cheat, crowned the head of the IRS.

No lobbyists permitted in his administration. Eleven appointed so far, including a Cabinet member and an assistant Defense Secretary.

“New Europe” allies Poland and Czech left twisting in the wind as Obama said he’d cancel their (and ours) missile defense system if Russia would help with Iran. Russia refused.

Iran proceeding with nukes; North Korea testing missiles; China harassing our Navy ships. Team Obama’s response: “huh?“

“No more earmarks!”, said Obama. About 9,000 earmarks in the $410 billion Omni-porkulous bill.

Al Dorn

O’Fallon, Ill.

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  1. Charlot  April 27, 2009 at 11:50 UTC

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  2. Ronald Reagan  March 20, 2009 at 10:26 UTC

    Well, well, well…

    “A NEW CONSERVATIVE TAKE ON FDR…. Conservatives have argued repeatedly of late that there’s no reason for the Obama administration to look to FDR as an example. The New Deal, according to many on the right, was a failure. FDR didn’t help pull the United States out of the depression, they say, he made it worse.

    It was curious, then, to see this item in the Wall Street Journal (Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal…) this week, arguing that Roosevelt’s economic policies really did work, but only because they were actually conservative.

    The piece from the University of Kansas’ George Bittlingmayer and George Mason University’s Thomas W. Hazlett present a novel argument:

    Roosevelt initially tacked right on fiscal issues. On March 10, he asked Congress to slash the salaries of federal government employees by $100 million, with an additional $400 million sliced from veterans’ pensions. This stunning cut — total annual federal expenditures then running at $4.6 billion — came in a measure called “A Bill to Maintain the Credit of the United States Government.”

    [Raymond Moley, an FDR adviser intimately involved in crafting the bank holiday and other 100 days policies] said the “psychological effect was electric. The bill [was] greeted with loud shouts of approval by all articulate conservatives. But I am confident that deep down in the consciousness of the average people of the country it found a similar response. Somehow or other . . . Hoover had always seemed to be an expensive President.” [...]

    Whatever is to come, an Obama administration reset that focused on investment incentives could stimulate confidence and give our economy a fighting chance to recover. That is the message being conveyed by pro-Obama business champions such as Warren Buffett — and it was in fact the strategy executed by FDR.

    I see. So, as far as conservatives are concerned, FDR was both an ineffective liberal who made the crisis worse in the 1930s and an effective conservative who helped address the crisis with conservative ideas. The New Deal failed because it was liberal and it succeeded because it was conservative.

    Good to know.”

    http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_03/017376.php

    With all the Republicans confused about whether they’re for are against executive bonuses, I guess this is not so surprising…

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  3. HKCHAS  March 20, 2009 at 5:18 UTC

    Doc–

    It’s not your language it’s you thought patterns…

    I’m still suggesting the decaf, really, it tastes just like the regular…REALLY

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  4. HKCHAS  March 20, 2009 at 5:14 UTC

    Lost —

    Martial Law ?

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  5. Ronald Reagan  March 19, 2009 at 5:23 UTC

    Damn, Boehner has some memory problems…

    BOEHNER: ‘THERE WAS NO DEREGULATION’…. On CNN’s “Situation Room” yesterday, Wolf Blitzer, paraphrasing President Obama, told House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), “[H]e seemed to be saying, all those Republicans who want a free market, who want to deregulate, who want the government off the back of these huge corporations, look what we got as a result of all of that.” Boehner replied:

    “Wolf, you have to understand, there was no deregulation of anything in the financial services industries. As a matter of fact, there was an increase in regulation.”

    Seriously, has Boehner even been awake since getting elected to Congress 18 years ago? Does he not remember voting for the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act? And supporting the deregulation of derivatives?

    Now, perhaps Boehner can defend these regulatory changes, perhaps not. But to deny that the changes even took place is ridiculous.

    “There was no deregulation of anything in the financial services industries.” John Boehner has said a lot of bizarre things in recent years, but this is just breathtaking. He’s either a) lying; b) hopelessly ignorant; or c) confused about the meaning of the word “deregulation.” “I suppose we shouldn’t rule out some combination of these possibilities.” —Steve Benen

    http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_03/017368.php

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  6. Lost in the Ozarks  March 19, 2009 at 4:28 UTC

    Gold going thru the roof, dollar dropping off a cliff. I think the messiah has done it to us already. We printed a trillion dollars yesterday, the CBO is about to tell the messiah his 2010 budget/revenue projection off slightly, by ANOTHER TRILLION DOLLARS. This may be it, market cut in half by this time next week, the messiah urging his mindless flock to go after the producers with pitchforks, martial law. Coming sooner than I thought.

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  7. Tom Beebe  March 19, 2009 at 4:24 UTC

    Let’s hear it for Jessee Jackson; he had the right idea:

    snip, snip.

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  8. Tom Beebe  March 19, 2009 at 4:17 UTC

    Since obama can’t seem to find a cabinet slate we can all agree on, may I suggest these?
    Groucho
    Zeppo
    Chico
    Harpo
    and his favorite, Karl.

    Undersecretaries?
    Larry
    Curley
    Moe

    Will the ethics committee investigate chris dodd or Barney frank?

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  9. dr-debunk  March 19, 2009 at 3:56 UTC

    drivenunderground-I guess we better start using smaller paraphrases and easier to understand bites for hkchas, and his cronies. They are obviously intimidated by long bites and large words. That or they just don’t want to hear the truth.

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  10. dr-debunk  March 19, 2009 at 3:46 UTC

    The portencious,narcissistic, megalomaniacal qualities of o’bama’s character are exceeded only by the brown-nosed sycophants of the lapdog media that whimper at his feet. When the depths of the desires of this man’s agendas are revealed, all right-thinking people will recoil in admonishment, as well as most others. Yes, hkchas, you and others like you who live in a perpetual dream of phantasmagoria, shall even see the light of truth.

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  11. HKCHAS  March 19, 2009 at 3:29 UTC

    Doc–

    I calls ‘em as I sees ‘em

    At LEAST change over to decaf

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  12. dr-debunk  March 19, 2009 at 3:16 UTC

    hkchas- brilliant argument, your keen insight into the topic discussed is neuron-tingling. Obviously, your priapsis is in need of attention. You better go handle it.

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  13. Ronald Reagan  March 19, 2009 at 9:28 UTC

    Iraq Vets For Obama!

    WILKERSON’S STILL UNIMPRESSED…. Larry Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s right-hand man at the State Department in Bush’s first term, hasn’t been too shy about criticizing his Bush administration colleagues over the years. He’s complained publicly, for example, about a “Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal” that hijacked U.S. foreign policy.

    And now that Dick Cheney is once again playing the role of attack dog, accusing President Obama of undermining U.S. national security, Wilkerson is once again weighing in on the judgment of the former vice president. (via Ali Frick)

    Cheney went on to say in his McLean interview that “Protecting the country’s security is a tough, mean, dirty, nasty business. These are evil people and we are not going to win this fight by turning the other cheek.” I have to agree but the other way around. Cheney and his like are the evil people and we certainly are not going to prevail in the struggle with radical religion if we listen to people as he. [...]

    But al-Qa’ida will be back. Iraq, GITMO, Abu Ghraib, heavily-biased U.S. support for Israel, and a host of other strategic errors have insured al-Qa’ida’s resilience, staying power and motivation. How we deal with the future attacks of this organization and its cohorts could well seal our fate, for good or bad. Osama bin Laden and his brain trust, Aman al-Zawahiri, are counting on us to produce the bad. With people such as Cheney assisting them, they are far more likely to succeed.

    First, Wilkerson is right. Second, shouldn’t Wilkerson be encouraged to start a blog? Seems like he has some worthwhile things to say.”

    I certainly have more faith in a brother-in-arms veteran like Larry Wilkerson (he flew OH-6’s in Vietnam…) than a chickenhawk who sought and received FIVE deferments for Vietnam!

    Go Larry!

    http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_03/017359.php

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  14. HKCHAS  March 18, 2009 at 7:23 UTC

    DR.–

    See a doctor ;-)

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  15. dr-debunk  March 18, 2009 at 2:45 UTC

    One thing I’d add to “driveunderground” is the part being played by George Soros in the geopolitical takeover by the fascist\leftists currently in control. His influence is greater than the part being played by his money-managing business. His global media empire includes over 300 newspapers, radio, and website arms, each with a fascist bent. Wake up conservatives and moderates, we are almost the U.nitized S.laves of S.ocialist A.merika.

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  16. magnum  March 18, 2009 at 1:42 UTC

    Lost

    You are funny buddy. I don’t have the edumucation and I don’t lie, but the wars would be won within 2 weeks, after we pulled out.

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  17. Lost in the Ozarks  March 18, 2009 at 1:30 UTC

    Drivenunderground spells it out well. Any thinking observer had to realize Obama was unaccomplished, dishonest, and hypocritical during the campaign. I actually wish this staggering level of incompetence was real. If that were true, the good guys would take over congress in 2010, and we could run Magnum and Superdave for the top spots in 2012 and win in a landslide. I fear Obama knows exactly what he is doing, and the first step is the rapid destruction of capitalism. Does he have one business person in his administration? One self-made person? Anyone who succeeded in the private sector? The entire cabinet and staff, including the messiah, literally drip with envy when discussing producers. If any of them could have made it as captains of industry, that is where they would be. I just heard the messiah say that the bonuses are not the question, the real question is why were these people earning so much in the first place. He wants his mindless flock going after the producers with pitchforks. They are, the AIG CEO just said he feared for his employees safety, many have received death threats. He does not want any of these firms being bailed out to survive, otherwise, even he would realize they must pay their employees and be allowed to market their products. He wants to destroy capitalism and create a welfare state, and he is well on his way.

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  18. we are screwed  March 18, 2009 at 12:05 UTC

    O ne
    B ig
    A ss
    M istake
    A merica

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  19. drivenundergraound  March 18, 2009 at 10:51 UTC

    Feb. 13…mark this date down; it is so ridiculously perfect that the Obamessiah’s administration will initiate financial Armageddon on Friday the 13th that someone must have orchestrated the coincidence. Perhaps this seems like hyperbole to all the weeping, cooing liberal fools who closed their eyes in ecstasy anytime Barry spewed silky promises of hope and change, but unfortunately it’s not. Along with all the outright lies, silly campaign rhetoric, soaring diatribes completely devoid of content that made up the entirety of the Obama rise to power was a background of shady dealings, shady friends and shady motivations.

    Comrade Obama what is done is done. His supporters own this presidency they were/are so giddy about, just as he owns the results of these economic decisions. The only question now relates to the nature of the man now occupying the oval office. Is he the most bumbling, inept, empty-headed president in US history or is he an unrepentant socialist whose nefarious dictatorial ambitions have been hidden beneath an extraordinarily thin veil of messianic sermons? There are no other options here; it’s one or the other. Since no one stupid gets to be the President of the United States (for anyone shouting the name of George W. Bush right now, keep in mind his IQ is higher than John Kerry’s), we are faced with a truly frightening situation that should have everyone around the world wondering how this could have happened. Most of the commentary on the subject claims that this election arose from an overwhelming rejection of the previous administration and a strong desire for a new direction. This is partly a factor, thanks to the absolutely treasonous behavior of the national media and other loud, uninformed voices with the ability to influence public opinion. However, there is more to it than just fatigue and anti-Bush sentiment, something much more dangerous, something much more insidious and something we have seen time and again throughout the histories of dying empires. Where is your Obamessiah now?

    What is indisputable is that Barrack Obama was not elected based upon his accomplishments, experience, wisdom or proposed policy positions. Naturally, this statement will outrage his supporters who attempt to argue it lest they be exposed as vacuous idolaters. These protests cannot change the facts. He never accomplished anything significant aside from having a successful political career which involved voting present at a few Senate hearings (incidentally, he and Joe Biden twice voted for Alaska’s bridge to nowhere before Sara Palin was even Governor) and never once stated any tangible plan for a policy to be implemented. The collusion of the media was apparent in that he was never once held accountable for his questionable associations, extreme positions on such matters as abortion or for never actually saying anything. The fact that he considered himself qualified and ready to lead the free world is irrefutable proof that he lacks even a modicum of wisdom or has sacrificed what little existed to his own hubris.

    He was elected essentially because he talks good and has a jump shot. He has the uncanny ability to say absolutely nothing better than anyone not accepting an Academy Award. So well, in fact, that people don’t notice or maybe just don’t care that his speeches amount to whispering sweet nothings. Somehow, some way, the ability to read aloud the words of another and to do so with cool affectations and intonation became necessary and sufficient for securing the highest office in the land at arguably the most important moment in its history. Never mind that without a teleprompter he is a stuttering, stumbling fraud and is consistently exposed as such. Never mind that he is a hypocrite whose minions have destroyed hapless members of the public without a word on free speech from the Obamessiah. Never mind that all the observations about his socialist agenda are playing out exactly as predicted by many economists, political commentators and observers. And never mind that hope and change switched to fear and threats within a week of inauguration, which anyone who had been paying attention knew would happen. All of this was clear and on display, in spite of the attempts by liberals and their media to minimize it or sweep it under the rug entirely. So how and why were all these facts ignored?

    Fear. Emptiness. There is an underlying melancholy to the world that has crept in, particularly over the last ten years or so. And no, it’s not because of the Bush administration. But timing-wise, it is roughly parallel and that is why there is / was so much vitriolic hatred for George Bush and so much blame was laid at his feet. He was and is a convenient scapegoat for those too lazy to do any honest searching for truth or too frightened of what they might find. As much as people don’t want to admit it, the world did change on September 11, 2001. It has been reduced to an historical reference, it has been ridiculed by liberals as nothing more than a shameless political move to even mention it and it has become devoid of actual meaning or feeling by wave after wave of insincere memorials, memorial days, movies, songs and commemorative plaques or coins. It is treated like a scary movie or an amusement park ride. Phew, I’m glad that’s over that had me really freaked out there for a minute. The larger the population, the shorter the memory.

    But it’s there in the background nevertheless. It’s on the news in thirty-second sound bytes about the latest bin Laden recording, the most recent beheading, the conversion of Europe into a caliphate, maneuverings by Russia, resurgent anti-Semitism, Waziristan, the gathering storm has brought an electricity to the air. But the citizenry of North America have allowed themselves to become fat, lazy and stupid, a global laughingstock to both friends and enemies. Gone is the greatest generation, replaced by wave after wave of ever more complacent, hedonistic fools accustomed to an easy, convenient and problem free existence. Perhaps it’s the fault of the parent generations who let their children be raised by television, taught them peace at all costs, taught them to hire someone instead, to borrow money instead, to turn away from problems instead. Generations who numb themselves with Hollywood drivel, pop culture, online gaming, fast-food, pornography and ever more outrageous reality television have bred such a level of complacency into the formerly great empire that it is now helpless and ripe for the picking. And for perhaps the first time in a hundred years, they feel a sense of vulnerability.

    Instead of stepping to the challenge, however, breeding has led them to turn to distraction. And it’s taking more and more bizarre, violent, explicit and addictive distraction to keep their attention fully focused to the exclusion of outside realities that are too frightening to face especially for fat, lazy, stupid creatures that are empty inside and have no beliefs or values worth fighting for. They don’t even understand the concept of that. But citizens in other countries do, and our enemies most certainly do and they are watching and waiting.

    State of the Union People roll their eyes and don’t want to hear about it. They are dismissive on the surface, but deep down they know what September 11th heralded. It heralded the beginning of the end of the American empire, something many had seen coming for years prior. What’s more is that it wasn’t so much the strike itself as it was the response. In the months and years immediately afterwards, it appeared as though the US was rising to the occasion and to the greatness of which it had demonstrated throughout its history. But once that faded and turned into fatigue, bitterness, anger and hatred all directed inward, it became clear that the clock was ticking loudly on America’s dominion. Everyone can feel it, everyone knows it, and everyone knows the enemies are at the gates, the wolves are at the door and instead of acknowledging and confronting the threat, and we are hiding in a bunker saving that last round for ourselves. Then a messiah appears from the darkness and, with soaring words of great beauty, He offers a way out, he offers heaven. But it’s a trick. He is a fraud; a deceiver who, with all his strategists, recognized this fear in people and the desperation it has bred. And he recognized the opportunity it presented; it’s all right there in the history books the blueprint for a rise to unchallenged power (before he even took office there was suggestion in the halls of power that term limits be repealed). He mocked people who turn to faith. He mocked the notion that our enemies need to be dealt with as enemies. He mocked the idea that hardship must be endured in order to prosper. He mocked any avenue for solace or peace of mind that wasn’t him or his cohorts. He offered a painless way out for you and your loved ones. And people have gotten to the point that they feel utterly incapable of helping themselves, or have been conditioned and bred to believe they shouldn’t have to. Come with me, take my hand everything will be fine, don’t worry about anything anymore. Barrack is here. Now THAT is a megalomaniac.

    The election of Barrack Obama represents a national murder-suicide and the mainstream media should be ashamed of themselves for their capitulation. No, not just capitulation, they should be ashamed of becoming a blatant propaganda machine. Not only do they never question the Obamessiah, they question, ridicule and castigate anyone who does. Viciously and venomously and without pretext or subtlety. It’s an international disgrace. No wonder many are going out of business. Not to worry, there’ll be money for them in the second bailout package. What is even more worrisome than the adulation with which these reporters (read: minions) fawn over this president is the simultaneous attack on alternative media and in particular talk-radio. Ever a bastion of conservative opinion, talk-radio has been a source of ire for the left since its rise to prominence. Enter the fairness doctrine. Leftist commentators have attempted to compete in the world of talk radio but were obliterated in the attempt and failed miserably. Can’t compete in a free market? Cheat. Stack the odds. Call your mommy. That’s precisely what the fairness doctrine is, but it’s not funny. It is the silencing of dissent. It is destruction of free speech. It is another nail in the coffin of America as a free and democratic society. The Whitehouse already owns and operates CNN and the majority of television and print news, they are in the can and that is power. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck names like these are on the hit list of this administration and have already been called out. Foolishly prematurely mind you, but that’s just another example of the Obama ego.

    The Fairness Doctrine (cute name), Card Check, Rahm Emmanuel in charge of the Census, tax cheats in the cabinet, Nancy Pelosi and Scary Reid drafting pork-ridden stimulus packages, TARP 2, Tim Geithner’s abysmal press conference, the Senate not even reading the legislation before signing it, potential nationalization of banks, Congress telling CEO’s how to spend their money, reporters asking the President why he didn’t just fire the CEO’s, 13 minute stumbling non-responses to press conference questions, the fraud of global warming, lies about the CEO of Caterpillar saying he would hire people if the stimulus went through, not one word about border security the list goes on and on. And none of these are partisan attacks. They are recent and ongoing facts with HUGE implications. This man was a complete unknown and he was whisked into the halls of power without any vetting whatsoever and that which was done was panned as racist, invented or irrelevant. Guess what, everything being done by this administration is designed to increase the size, power, reach and dominance of government over the people, to crush personal freedom. And sadly enough, it’s working.

    After all of the talk about whether this stimulus will show effects immediately or in a year or two or not at all, what hasn’t been discussed (aside from by the heroes of IOUSA) is that there may be no way out of avoiding the financial Armageddon described by Michael Panzer in his book of the same name. Peter Schiff, Mark Steyn and many others have cited all the issues under their particular expertise and how they affect the United States and the Western world. Each in and of themselves is more than just daunting, they are overwhelming and seemingly insurmountable. Now put them all together.

    All the trade, budget and leadership deficit issues described by David Walker, the nervousness of US creditors, the rise of Islamofascism and the devastating effects of the next series of unavoidable attacks (and the cowardly lack of response by lovers of freedom), the demographic deterioration of Europe, the inevitable wave of hellacious inflation that will result from massive stimulus/bailout packages, Pakistan, Afghanistan, the upcoming showdown between Israel and Iran, Russia’s ambitions, Mexico’s incursion North, dependence on foreign oil, these are the real issues that loom all at the same time and there appears to no plan no, there seems to be no hope even if there was a plan.

    Borrowing trillions more dollars from creditor nations (and printing vast amounts of currency) to pay for internal infrastructure projects (if that was actually what this plan was about) and other such items which do not actually contribute to GDP does nothing. The US needs to sell something, needs to make a profit by getting other nations to buy something from them. But there is no plan to do this.

    Think of a large business massively beholden to a foreign bank that makes and sells stuff. The company’s policy requires employees to pay dues to the company and also encourages them to waste time and money. This business is buying more and more stuff from their bank, using it and on the side, making and selling just a little bit here and there. The company is broke so the manager of this business, which is a co-op and owned by its employees, goes back to the bank for more money and has to beg now. The money is given at exorbitant rates and used to pay more staff so they play with more stuff that is bought from the same bank the money is borrowed from. The staff has been wasting so much time and money that they are beholden to the company who pays them, whether they actually work or not. The company is, in turn even more beholden to the foreign bank that makes and sells stuff. The company is in big trouble because they have lent out so much borrowed money to the staff to waste, so regional managers have to go to the CEO for more money or else the staff will starve. The CEO borrows more money from the foreign bank that makes and sells stuff, in order to give money to regional department managers to lend money to the staff who already owe money they can’t pay back. The CEO is having trouble getting this foreign bank that makes and sells stuff to keep lending money, but that’s ok because there are others. Even so, he decides to begin counterfeiting just because it’s easier. The CEO likes this set up because it’s a free ride that will never end and everybody is happy and gets to keep wasting time and money and he will get to stay as CEO forever and everyone will need him. The CEO was wrong because the foreign bank that makes and sells stuff wants its money and has the power to put the company out of business. The CEO also forgot to factor in that the entire staff was promised Social Security and Medicaid packages, yet were too busy wasting time and money to have children to pay company dues. The staff, who own the co-op, want to fire the CEO but he has become too powerful and without him they will starve because he has made them too fat and stupid and complacent to do anything themselves. Fun analogy.

    Try a little simple math, a little simple math that proves this “stimulus” package is not about job creation.

    $800 Billion/4 Million (the number of jobs Obama will “save” or create) = $200, 000. This means the Federal Government intends to spend $200,000 to create one job. That is the equivalent of our company facing insolvency and adopting a survival strategy that involves borrowing $500 from the bank that makes stuff, using it to buy widgets from the bank that makes stuff, and selling the widgets to it’s own staff for $25. It’s all so ridiculous, it almost defies belief. THEN you toss in the fact that there is no possible way to measure whether jobs were saved or created by the plan or by something else.

    We are witnessing the inflating of the one final bubble, that of Federal Government spending of borrowed and printed money. Once it bursts, it’s endgame Weimar/Nigeria/Roman Empire style, yet those legitimately warning others of what is looming are ostracized as nihilists. When you wake up to hyperinflation, soup lines, bodies in the street and martial law try to look surprised.

    http://www.drivenunderground.wordpres.com

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  20. magnum  March 18, 2009 at 10:27 UTC

    By the time ACORN gets done, we will have 600 million people. What a joke.

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/17/lawmakers-concerned-role-acorn-census/

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  21. magnum  March 18, 2009 at 9:57 UTC

    Sounds like buyer’s remorse is setting in across the country. Fantastic.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M0ZOMXPzQ0

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  22. Amazedbythelunacy  March 18, 2009 at 9:57 UTC

    magnum, I read that link.

    My thoughts are that anytime a police officer kicks in a door and arrests a suspect, we are tearing a family apart. If I chose to drink and drive and hurt someone, my jail time would tear my family apart. If I rob a bank, my jail time would tear my family apart.

    Coming into this country is illegal, for now, and should be punished according to the law. I’m sure Pelosi can use her power to change the law legally rather than encouraging illegal behavior.

    When one breaks the law, one of the consequences is the potential to rip your family to shreds. Period.

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  23. Bingo  March 18, 2009 at 9:19 UTC

    “You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”
    ~~~ Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931

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  24. Ognib  March 18, 2009 at 9:03 UTC

    The wheels are coming off the (muslim’s) Obama’s Bus in slow motion.

    I know, let’s go on The Tonight Show …Yeah!

    HopeChangeFailure

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  25. magnum  March 18, 2009 at 7:45 UTC

    Some dems are finally geting it. Took them long enough.

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20150.html

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  26. STL  March 18, 2009 at 7:10 UTC

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    GOBAMA
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  27. HKCHAS  March 18, 2009 at 6:05 UTC

    And yet, my friends, in stark contrast to your becoming ” nattering nebobs of negativity” Obama’s personal popularity continues to rise and the perception of his performance improves ( and always was in the majority) at least according to Zogby.

    The turn around is coming …. I’m SURE the stock market will continue to go up and down but the last week or so has bee encouraging.

    And Limbaugh remains ” a big fat liar” …..

    Most Americans simply don’t buy your blather.

    More news at 10:00pm

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  28. budb1969  March 17, 2009 at 7:37 UTC

    Anybody remember the catchy tune to the Blues Bros opening act?? A really fitting tune to preclude anytime BHO speaks!!

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  29. BHstlmo  March 17, 2009 at 6:59 UTC

    The sorry facts are that nothing can be done about this until 2010 (for congress) and 2012 for O_BLAME_A. America really needs to take a hard look at all 536 Crooks that we elected to represent us in DC. Oops, I forgot Joe Biden. 537 Crooks!

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  30. Bob  March 17, 2009 at 6:54 UTC

    Al

    A private citizen? Limbaugh? a private citizen is someone who does not present themselves to the public on a regular basis. Unless you have a life that I do not know, you are a private citizen for you do not go on the public radio on a consistent basis presenting your views. Limbaugh does so for profit, he is not different than any Hollywood actor as for being a private citizen.

    Even if he was a private citizen, if he says something that the administration does not agree with then the administration has the right to respond.

    Poland and Czech wanting the missile shield? They sure did not want it until given massive amounts of aide, so I doubt if they would miss it.

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  31. Iconoclastic Sage  March 17, 2009 at 6:37 UTC

    Al Dorn:

    Thank you Al, for enumerating change we can believe in. Not exactly what the saps and gulls thought they would get when they voted for the Anointed One but well deserved anyway.

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  32. SPP6118  March 17, 2009 at 5:49 UTC

    CroMagnum Man talks out of his as*. Don’t listen to him. He is part of the problem.

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  33. Bob  March 17, 2009 at 5:43 UTC

    Magnum

    What defense spending is he cutting? I saw a defense posting that they are getting $426 billion with an additional $146 billion to target specifically the war on terror. So where did Obama cut the funding?

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  34. magnum  March 17, 2009 at 4:17 UTC

    Al

    “The Messiah” has spoken sir.

    He is also cutting defense spending just like Jimmy “Peanut Man Carter” and Bill “BJ” Clinton. Look out, we are going to get hit again, hopefully, not with a nuke.

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