Obamination: Jobs

Obamination: Jobs Obamination addressed the nation about jobs. Sort of like someone who administered poison telling you how to get well. The time has come to tell him, his administration and their enablers in Congress to go to Hell. If we won't tell them, who will?  Lets not wait until November 6, 2012; lets do it immediately.

    The superscripts in the prepared remarks are linked to my contumacious comments, which follow. You can click the superscripts to read the relevant comment, then use your Backspace key to return to your place in the text.

Remarks of President Barack Obama
As Prepared for Delivery
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Washington, DC

On Thursday, I visited a new, high-tech factory in Michigan where workers are helping America lead the way in a growing clean energy industry. 

They were proud of their work, and they should be.  They’re not just showing us a path¹ out of the worst recession in generations – they’re proving that this is still a country where we make things²; where new ideas take root and grow; where the best universities, most creative entrepreneurs, and most dynamic businesses in the world call home³.  They’re proving that even in difficult times, there’s not a country on Earth that wouldn’t trade places with us. 

That doesn’t mean we don’t face some very tough economic challenges.  Many Americans are hurting badly right now.  Many have been unemployed for too long.  Putting these men and women back to work, and growing wages for everyone, has got to be our top priority⁴.

But lately, the response from Washington has been partisanship and gridlock⁵ that’s only undermined public confidence and hindered our efforts to grow the economy.

So while there’s nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics⁶, and that’s what we’ve got to fix.  Because we know there are things Congress can do⁷, right now, to get more money back in your pockets, get this economy growing faster, and get our friends and neighbors back to work. 

The payroll tax cut that put $1,000 back in the average family’s pocket this year?⁸  Let’s extend it.  Construction workers who’ve been jobless since the housing boom went bust?  Let’s put them back to work rebuilding America.⁹  Let’s cut red tape in the patent process so entrepreneurs can get good ideas to market more quickly.  Let’s finish trade deals so we can sell more American-made goods around the world.¹⁰  Let’s connect the hundreds of thousands of brave Americans coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan to businesses that need their incredible¹¹ skills and talents.

These are all things we can do right now.  So let’s do them.  And over the coming weeks, I’ll put forward more proposals¹² to help our businesses hire and create jobs, and won’t stop until every American who wants a job can find one.

But we can no longer let partisan brinksmanship get in our way – the idea that making it through the next election is more important than making things right.  That’s what’s holding us back – the fact that some in Congress¹³ would rather see their opponents lose than see America win.

So you’ve got a right to be frustrated.  I am.  Because you deserve better.  And I don’t think it’s too much for you to expect that the people you send to this town start delivering.¹⁴

Members of Congress are at home in their districts right now.  And if you agree with me – whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican or not much of a fan of either – let them know.

If you’ve had it with gridlock, and you want them to pass stalled bills that will help our economy right now – let them know¹⁵. 

If you refuse to settle for a politics where scoring points is more important than solving problems; if you believe it’s time to put country before party and the interests of our children before our own – let them know. 

And maybe they’ll get back to Washington ready to compromise, ready to create jobs, ready to get our fiscal house in order – ready to do what you sent them to do.

Yes, we’ve still got a long way to go to get to where we need to be.  We didn’t get into this mess overnight, and it’s going to take time to get out of it.  That’s a hard truth – but it’s no excuse for inaction.  After all, America voted for divided government, not dysfunctional government, and we’ve got work to do.  And when we come together and find common ground, there’s no stopping this country.  There’s no stopping our people.  There’s no holding us back.  And there is every reason to believe we’ll get through this storm to a brighter day.

Thanks for listening, and have a nice weekend.

 

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1. Government subsidized & dictated proof of concept enterprises are not the path to prosperity.  They are the path to failure. The Chevy Volt can not be mass produced at an affordable price. If it could be, the generating capacity needed to operate the fleet does not exist and will not because of onerous regulations blocking the construction of new generating capacity. Lighter, more efficient batteries will not solve the problem. The energy density simply is not available. There is no alternative to hydrocarbon motor fuel. Economic recovery needs to be demand driven, not government driven.
2.  This is a country with little remaining manufacturing industry primarily because of your allies: unions and crony capitalists. The unions priced labor out of the market. Government wanted "economic development", mis-interpreted as "industrialization", for Asia & Latin America. Crony capitalists wanted lower energy costs. Together, they shipped jobs overseas. 
3. No, Mr. President, this is America, not Israel. Get your bearings. 
4. Government's top priority is national security.  We need prosperity to finance security and we need security to maintain prosperity. Employment & wages are not the government's province, they belong in the private economy. Government employs too many and pays too much, contributing to our spiral of economic decline, not curing it. We are deep in debt because of government profligacy, not despite it. 

            Everyone's income is someone else's expense. When wages increase, prices increase... leading to demands for higher wages. Some of us are old  enough  and sober enough to remember what happened under Johnson, Nixon & Carter.  By printing money, you are artificially inflating the cost of everything we need.  By increasing the cost of fuel, you are inflating the price of all commodities, products and services. You're policies are the problem, not  the solution.

5. Strike Washington, insert The White House & Democrat Party. Barry bitches bitterly about his own conduct, attempting to project it onto others who are innocent.
6. Your "politics": your Socialist Agenda & partisanship; those are the problem; what is wrong with our politics. This nation's economic salvation is dependent on the immediate resignations of yourself, the Vice President, the Secretary of State and your Czars.   Go to Hell and good riddance to you!
7. Congress can do nothing positive because AssWholes control the Senate and you wield the veto pen. Your words are perverse because you want the Congress to enact your own counter productive policies which will deepen and prolong the depression.  Congress should reverse every Gd'd thing it did under the second term of Shrub and your first term. That would be a good start, but insufficient to solve the problem.
8.  That "tax cut" helps only those who have jobs, while they have jobs. It also contributes to the insolvency of Social Security and Medicare.  Besides which it is a drop in the bucket while the flood of food and energy inflation spurred by your damn fool policies robs us of purchasing power.
9. Nobody can get a mortgage. Union wages drive up housing costs. Federal regulations drive up housing costs. Artificially low interest rates distort the market. This whole problem stems from the idiotic and self-serving legislation & regulations of Franks, Dodd & co., exploited by their crony capitalist patrons. 
10. Please explain to us how you will engineer one sided trade deals so that our exports will increase but imports won't. How will you get the rest of the world to agree to that?
11. "Incredible" skills? Exactly what part of their legendary skill and courage lacks credibility?  If they are not credible, how can those skills be marketed at home in our domestic economy?  How do we put sniping, defusing IEDs, rifle and artillery fire to work in the domestic economy?  Will we put them to work putting down the riots you and your allies are working hard to foment with your class warfare politics?  Or will Blackwater hire them and go to work putting down the riots in Europe? That would not be "at home", would it?
12. Repeal Obama Dont't Care to reduce costs and increase predictability. Make the "Bush tax cuts" permanent by removing the sunset clause. Cancel the ass-idiot regulations that will double the cost of electricity. Cancel the new regulations on truck fleet fuel economy that will raise the cost of everything and put truckers out of work. Remove the restrictions on domestic oil exploration & production both on and off shore. Do those things immediately and make them permanent!!!
13. Some in Congress: the G'd'd liberals and one in the White house; those are the obstacles to progress. We need to get rid of them and we can't wait until November 6, 2012.
14. You delivered. You promised hope: you delivered despair. You promised change: you delivered ruin.  Politics as usual: promise gold; deliver excrement. The electorate needs to learn from this. Most of them are not smart enough to learn. Everyone who voted for Obama should be removed from the voter rolls  because they are incompetent.
15. Let them know? Yeah, right. Members of Congress: if you voted for the stimulus bills, TARP or Obama Don't Care, resign at once. Do not pass go, do not collect a pension, just go to Hell. The American people are fed up with your conduct in office: misfeasance, malfeasance & non-feasance.  

    Readers, here is your assignment:

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Where's Barney?

(Cross-posted from America Needs Me)

Throwing up in my mouth a little...

The Botox Hag (D-CA) was just on the tube telling me that we're now going to get to the bottom of why this crisis started in the first place. How? Barney Frank is going to hold hearings.

That's like Hitler presiding over the Nuremberg Trials (shut up, pansies, I'm not saying that Barney Frank is Hitler. Being Barney Frank is bad enough.) Unless the hearings involve just Barney Frank and a mirror they are a sham.

My biggest question is this: why in God's name isn't John McCain telling you this?

He is about to piss away an election over what should be the single biggest issue advantage he has. Bigger than national security, energy, taxes and Maverick sainthood combined.

McCain and Sarah Palin shouldn't let two sentences out of their mouths about the economy without mentioning a) the Democrats who ignored all the warnings while b) McCain was proposing prescient oversight legislation.

Specifics, please. "I fought for reform" isn't good enough. "I proposed this bill on this date and here's what Chris Dodd said," is where he needs to be going now.

I've been watching this unfold and have been dumbfounded. They either start hammering this point or make vacation plans for Nov. 5th.

There is a theory out there that I hope is true. Ace of Spades HQ (my favorite site after elfshaving.com) is where I saw it first. It posits that McCain is just holding out, acting all presidential until the Monster passed both houses and then start up with the finger-pointing.

Well, the fingers had better be getting ready. And they have to point better than this. I usually post these ads here on the site but this one is so limp that a Viagra IV couldn't help it.

Just checked the reader and saw a new post from Michelle Malkin expressing the same frustration.

I have contacted the campaign by email and phone today telling them that I wouldn't be volunteering down the home stretch if this they don't start pressing this advantage. It's time to clog their phone lines with this message: 703-418-2008. Steve Schmidt's mailbox is currently full. Press the volunteer option and tell them you'd love to but not until they pull their heads out.

I've been championing a fighter pilot for president.

Time for him to fight, already.

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That Sound You Heard Today

cross-posted from TOCB

This post was written and posted at TOCB the day the unconstitutional Wall Street bail out bill failed…

~Snooper~

That sound you heard today was Common Sense once thought to be dead and buried coming to life and coming home to roost.

That sound you heard today was the United States Constitution making itself noticed.

That sound you heard today was We The People getting our message made known.

That sound you heard today was socialists screaming from the rooftops in anguish and pain.

That sound you heard today was Collective Reasoning forcing itself upon the unreasonable and the intolerant.

That sound you heard today was the fat cats, crooks and robbers screeching in agony as their reign of deceit, lies and charlatanism being exposed.

That sound you heard today was Free Markets fixing itself in spite of government fabricated cure intrusion.

That sound you heard today was defective government meddling into financial markets coming to a screeching halt.

That sound you heard today was the sound of the demanding of Personal and Professional Accountability of those responsible for the current self-induced quagmire.

That sound you heard today was the sound of charlatans admitting, without the integrity to actually admit, failure.

That sound you heard today was the groans of those responsible being made known.

That sound you heard today were those trying to not get caught red-handed lying as being exposed as liars and having to face the American People for their lies.

That sound you heard today was the death of an unconstitutional Wall Street Bail Out Bill.

That sound you heard today was the politicians that actually still care about the United States Constitution standing up to be recognized as the Constitutional Caretakers that they are, both Democrat and Republican alike.

That sound you heard today was the Free Market Ghosts of days past being revived as if to say, "Leave us alone and we will take care of ourselves, thank you very much."

That sound you heard today was foolish people knowing that their days of defrauding the American People are gone.

That sound you heard today was a message being sent to CONgress and those in CONgress responsible for the self-induced idiocy CONgress has become: "The party is over."

That sound you heard today was the sound of We The People dictating to CONgress and not the other way around.

That sound you heard today was the American People reclaiming their Constitution and once more claiming it as their own as it does not belong to the government and never has.

That sound you heard today was the sound of Freedom annihilating the Socialist Demons of the Democrat and Republican Parties.

That sound you heard today was Free Enterprise reasserting itself.

That sound you heard today was Capitalism reasserting itself and granting the ability to either succeed or fail on one's own merit and not some governmental intrusion and fabricated reality.

That sound you heard today was Reality settling in.

That sound you heard today was Personal Responsibility raising its ugly head.

That sound you heard today was the inevitability of the official acknowledgment of the total and complete lack of leadership qualities of the Speaker of The House Nancy Pelosi being revealed for what it is...the worse leadership in the People's House in the history of this Nation.

That sound you heard today was the inevitability of the official acknowledgment of the total and complete lack of leadership qualities of the Senate leader Senator Harry Reid being revealed for what it is...the worse leadership in the People's Senate in the history of this Nation.

And I will ask the following: what program, policy or legislation of note that has had a positive influence on our Nation that the SoH Pelosi or Senate Leader Reid has accomplished in their two years of service? Someone please name me one. Just one. That is all I ask. I have been searching and I have not detected any. And they dare criticize others within and without or Nation? Please. Stop insulting our intelligence.

That sound you heard today was the Death Knell of American Socialism.

Selah.

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