On July 29th 2011 President Obama said “I don’t know why the Republicans in the House are voting for their own bill, it doesn’t have a shot at becoming law. We need to reach a consensus as a nation.” That statement is the reason for this post. What Obama is really saying is “play our way, or not at all.” The Democrats have been very resistant to doing the right thing also, but are misleading the nation with this game, that America can no longer afford. Be sure to watch every video of this one as well as read the text and take your time. This is a history lesson from our recent past that must be remembered right now. Now, let’s study the pattern of behavior which indicates what the true intention of this game really is about for the current President of the United States.
The General stated to Obama that according to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171…
During rendition of the national anthem, when the flag is displayed, all present (except those in uniform) are expected to stand at attention, facing the flag, with the right hand over the heart. Or, at the very least, “Stand and Face It”.
‘Senator’ Obama replied:
“As I’ve said about the flag pin, I don’t want to be perceived as taking sides….” “There are a lot of people in the world to whom the American flag is a symbol of oppression….” “The anthem itself conveys a war-like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air, and all that sort of thing.”
Obama continued:, “The National Anthem should be ‘swapped’ for something less parochial and less bellicose. I like the song ‘I’d Like To Teach the World To Sing.’ If that were our anthem, then I might salute it. In my opinion, we should consider reinventing our National Anthem as well as ‘redesign’ our Flag to better offer our enemies hope and love. It’s my intention, if elected, to disarm America to the level of acceptance to our Middle East Brethren. If we, as a Nation of waring people, conduct ourselves like the nations of Islam, where peace prevails – – – perhaps a state or period of mutual accord could exist between our governments ……”
“When I become President, I will seek a pact of agreement to end hostilities between those who have been at war or in a state of enmity, and a freedom from disquieting oppressive thoughts . We as a Nation, have placed upon the nations of Islam, an unfair injustice, which is WHY my wife disrespects the Flag, and she and I have attended several flag burning ceremonies in the past.”
“Of course now, I have found myself about to become the President of the United States and I have put my hatred aside. I will use my power to bring CHANGE to this Nation, and offer the people a new path. My wife and I look forward to becoming our Country’s First black Family. Indeed, CHANGE is about to overwhelm the United States of America.”
I wanted to respond to this, one of your best pieces, straight out when it came in my inbox last night. With all the weeks events and news, I’m pretty sure my mind was mush. Decided to take today away from the absurdity that is Washington and do something that didn’t have anything to do with politics. Like before I’d had enough…back in those days of ignorant bliss, which is odd that I can’t remember what that was like. That person is long gone.
Figured I’d finish Overton Window, which I did, and garden. I lasted about an hour and I couldn’t stand it any longer. Turned on the news. I need help.
My husband came home and said lets do some prep, that will ease your frustrations. He was right. Afterwards, we then spend a couple of hours watching the horses run out back and shared thoughts. We have skills independent of eachother that were taught to us long ago by parents and peers. I can hunt, skin, and cook dinner, he can build a house. We wondered if the youth of today is taught any basic survival skills at all. It was common in our day to know at least some of those things. Just part of growing up.
I say that because I do not see life getting back to “normal”. We either burn it down and start over, or prolong the inevitable. Either way..things are going to get very bumpy…and it’s pain now or massive pain later. Pick one. I hope I’m wrong and Wednesday it will all be Unicorns and Butterflies, but I’m guessing that won’t be the case unless it’s 1978 and I’m halucinating again.
Damn shame it’s not, as reality is really starting to piss me off.
So I’ll continue to wear my “Hobbit” hat while keeping the tin foil one close by, and pray.
While I don’t subscribe to many of the solutions (especially his Canadian take as I have family there), This isn’t bad. You can nit pick a few but he did a pretty good job. Amazing what Capitolists can accomplish!
John Stossel
I don’t claim to be a budget expert. But others, such as Chris Edwards at Cato and Stuart Butler at Heritage, are. They found lots of serious cuts. My staff found a few more, and put together a list that would completely balance the budget:
Defense cut by 2/3: $475 billion (Federal Budget, pg. 58)
Medicare/Medicaid*: $441 billion (Cato Institute)
Social Security Means Testing: $170 billion (Heritage Foundation)
I had the “pleasure” of seeing a true con artist at my workplace back in the mid ’90s. The company I work for hired a lady in a temporary clerical position. She was very nice and personable, a mature lady in her late ’50s, and seemed to be efficient at her job. She was attractive for a lady for her age but certainly not a “bombshell” that comes to mind when you think of women “sleeping their way to the top”. She had a rather incredible story of events that happened to her in her past which she overcame to “get to where she was today”.
Within days she was beginning to exhibit the manipulative behaviors you described above on any man whom she thought could help her in her career. She was very pleasant to those of us not in management, but she reserved the special touching and flattery (and who knows what else) for the supervisors and managers. My best friend (a female) and I both saw right through her act but no one else seemed to. Right around the time her contract was up our manager was being promoted and gained an executive admin. He chose her instead of any number of more qualified women who had been actual employees of the company for years. She then was physically located near the executives and continued to ply her trade on an even bigger level. She quickly moved up the ladder until she was named head of the charitable wing of our organization, a position which controls or influences the dispensation of millions of dollars a year given in grants.
This was during the Clinton administration, and our CEO was (and still is) a master con man with moves taken right out of the Clinton playbook, including the “pointing with the thumb sticking out of the fist” to emphasize words. I thought Mr. Clinton and our CEO were the two biggest con men I’d ever seen until she came along…it was like watching a predator lure in her prey. It was pretty amazing to see a master at work, even if I thought what she was doing was sleazy.
When I watch our current president in action I personally don’t see the same level of skill demonstrated by Mr. Clinton, my CEO, or the lady I described above. I see a man who is repeating the same old progressive lines over and over, usually read from a teleprompter. When those words cease to be effective he falters and seems to get more angry and petulant. Mr. Clinton has a jovial manner that seems to charm many people. Mr. Obama seems cold and calculating to me, with none of Mr. Clintons “charm”. I believe that if it was not for incredible media support, the state of the economy at the time, Chicago-style thug tactics and a weak Republican challenger Mr. Obama would never have been elected president. For that matter, if you take away the Chicago-style thug tactics he would never have been elected Senator.
When Mr. Clinton faced a situation similar to the current showdown in the mid-90’s he showed what a true con artist can do. He managed to get the world to think he balanced the budget and even create a “surplus”, even though it was the House Republicans who were primarily responsible. He then took credit for even more right-wing ideas from the Republicans like welfare reform, all while continuing to be loved by the left. I see very little of that kind of skill in Mr. Obama.
Fantastic, Phil! And you are right about Obama, he’s not Slick Willie. But he can tell a lie with a straight face. But you are right that he doesn’t have the same level of skill like you discussed with CEO or even the woman. Obama is simply the attractive puppet where others who are good at that behavior pull the strings, which is why he gets angery when things don’t work and he has to speak on his own. Great example!
I wanted to respond to this, one of your best pieces, straight out when it came in my inbox last night. With all the weeks events and news, I’m pretty sure my mind was mush. Decided to take today away from the absurdity that is Washington and do something that didn’t have anything to do with politics. Like before I’d had enough…back in those days of ignorant bliss, which is odd that I can’t remember what that was like. That person is long gone.
Figured I’d finish Overton Window, which I did, and garden. I lasted about an hour and I couldn’t stand it any longer. Turned on the news. I need help.
My husband came home and said lets do some prep, that will ease your frustrations. He was right. Afterwards, we then spend a couple of hours watching the horses run out back and shared thoughts. We have skills independent of eachother that were taught to us long ago by parents and peers. I can hunt, skin, and cook dinner, he can build a house. We wondered if the youth of today is taught any basic survival skills at all. It was common in our day to know at least some of those things. Just part of growing up.
I say that because I do not see life getting back to “normal”. We either burn it down and start over, or prolong the inevitable. Either way..things are going to get very bumpy…and it’s pain now or massive pain later. Pick one. I hope I’m wrong and Wednesday it will all be Unicorns and Butterflies, but I’m guessing that won’t be the case unless it’s 1978 and I’m halucinating again.
Damn shame it’s not, as reality is really starting to piss me off.
So I’ll continue to wear my “Hobbit” hat while keeping the tin foil one close by, and pray.
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While I don’t subscribe to many of the solutions (especially his Canadian take as I have family there), This isn’t bad. You can nit pick a few but he did a pretty good job. Amazing what Capitolists can accomplish!
John Stossel
I don’t claim to be a budget expert. But others, such as Chris Edwards at Cato and Stuart Butler at Heritage, are. They found lots of serious cuts. My staff found a few more, and put together a list that would completely balance the budget:
Defense cut by 2/3: $475 billion (Federal Budget, pg. 58)
Medicare/Medicaid*: $441 billion (Cato Institute)
Social Security Means Testing: $170 billion (Heritage Foundation)
Eliminate Dept. of Education (includes Pell Grants): $106.9 billion (Cato Institute)
Social Security*: $85.7 billion (Cato Institute)
Eliminate Dept. of Transportation: $84.8 billion (Cato Institute)
Tax Amnesty: $80 billion (Rep. Jared Polis D-Co.)
Eliminate Dept. of Labor*: $78.6 billion (Department of Labor and White House)
Eliminate HUD: $60.8 billion (Cato Institute)
Eliminate Dept. of Agriculture*: $33 billion (Cato Institute)
Cut civilian employee compensation: $30 billion (Cato Institute)
Stop maintaining vacant federal property: $25 billion (Heritage Foundation)
Eliminate Foreign Aid: $21.2 billion (Cato Institute)
Eliminate Dept. of Energy*: $20.8 billion (Cato Institute)
Eliminate NASA: $19.6 billion (Cato Institute)
Federal Drug War: $15 billion (White House)
Earmark moratorium: $16 billion (Heritage Foundation)
Eliminate Fannie/Freddie Subsidies: $14 billion (Federal Housing Finance Agency (p. 10))
Eliminate Dept. of Commerce: $13.9 billion (Department of Commerce)
Eliminate Dept. of Interior: $12 billion (White House)
Legalize Pot, Online gambling, Immigrants: $12 billion (Rep. Jared Polis D-Co.)
Privatize Army Corps of Engineers: $10.6 billion (Cato Institute)
Cut federal employee travel budget: $10 billion (Heritage Foundation)
Eliminate National Science Foundation: $7.4 billion (National Science Foundation)
End EPA’s State and Local grants: $6.5 billion (Cato Institute)
Repeal Davis-Bacon: $6 billion (Republican Study Committee)
Privatize TSA: $5.7 billion (Federal Budget)
Cut Dept. of Justice’s State and Local grants: $5 billion (Heritage Foundation)
Privatize Post Office: $4 billion (White House)
Eliminate Small Business Administration: $1.8 billion (Small Business Administration)
Lease coastal plain of ANWR: $1.5 billion (Heritage Foundation)
Eliminate Federal Flood Insurance: $1.3 billion (CBO, pg. 3)
Abolish SEC: $1.3 billion (SEC)
Eliminate Corporation for National Community Service: $1 billion (Cato Institute)
Suspend acquisition of federal office space: $1 billion (Heritage Foundation)
End subsidies for public broadcasting: $500 million (Cato Institute)
Eliminate the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp: $480 million (Heritage Foundation)
Eliminate the FCC: $439 million (FCC)
Eliminate the Endowments for Arts/Humanities: $332 million (NEA/NEH)
Total Cut: $1,882,619,000,000
Current deficit: $1,645,000,000,000
Surplus Achieved: $237,619,000,000
(Research by Maxim Lott and Charles Couger.)
They don’t need to drive us deeper in debt. They choose to. Tune in tonight at 10pm to see how they could choose differently.
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*Notes
Department of Energy is eliminated except for Nuclear arms maintenance
Department of Agriculture is eliminated, except for food programs for the needy
Department of Labor is eliminated, except for 26-week unemployment benefits
Defense budget would still be $243 billion, more than twice what the next highest country (China) spends
Medicare and Medicaid savings breakdown:
Block grant Medicaid and freeze spending (226)
Repeal 2010 healthcare law (87)
Increase Medicare premiums (39.8)
Cut non-Medicare premiums (37.7)
Cut Medicare payment error rate by 50% (28.6)
Increase Medicare deductibles (12.6)
Tort Reform (10)
Social Security savings breakdown:
Price index initial benefits** 41.1
Raise the normal retirement age** 31.4
Cut Social Security disability program by 10% 13.2
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Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/stossel/blog/2011/07/29/take-chainsaw-budget-2#ixzz1TgbB1gey
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That’s awsome!!!!! Thanks!
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I had the “pleasure” of seeing a true con artist at my workplace back in the mid ’90s. The company I work for hired a lady in a temporary clerical position. She was very nice and personable, a mature lady in her late ’50s, and seemed to be efficient at her job. She was attractive for a lady for her age but certainly not a “bombshell” that comes to mind when you think of women “sleeping their way to the top”. She had a rather incredible story of events that happened to her in her past which she overcame to “get to where she was today”.
Within days she was beginning to exhibit the manipulative behaviors you described above on any man whom she thought could help her in her career. She was very pleasant to those of us not in management, but she reserved the special touching and flattery (and who knows what else) for the supervisors and managers. My best friend (a female) and I both saw right through her act but no one else seemed to. Right around the time her contract was up our manager was being promoted and gained an executive admin. He chose her instead of any number of more qualified women who had been actual employees of the company for years. She then was physically located near the executives and continued to ply her trade on an even bigger level. She quickly moved up the ladder until she was named head of the charitable wing of our organization, a position which controls or influences the dispensation of millions of dollars a year given in grants.
This was during the Clinton administration, and our CEO was (and still is) a master con man with moves taken right out of the Clinton playbook, including the “pointing with the thumb sticking out of the fist” to emphasize words. I thought Mr. Clinton and our CEO were the two biggest con men I’d ever seen until she came along…it was like watching a predator lure in her prey. It was pretty amazing to see a master at work, even if I thought what she was doing was sleazy.
When I watch our current president in action I personally don’t see the same level of skill demonstrated by Mr. Clinton, my CEO, or the lady I described above. I see a man who is repeating the same old progressive lines over and over, usually read from a teleprompter. When those words cease to be effective he falters and seems to get more angry and petulant. Mr. Clinton has a jovial manner that seems to charm many people. Mr. Obama seems cold and calculating to me, with none of Mr. Clintons “charm”. I believe that if it was not for incredible media support, the state of the economy at the time, Chicago-style thug tactics and a weak Republican challenger Mr. Obama would never have been elected president. For that matter, if you take away the Chicago-style thug tactics he would never have been elected Senator.
When Mr. Clinton faced a situation similar to the current showdown in the mid-90’s he showed what a true con artist can do. He managed to get the world to think he balanced the budget and even create a “surplus”, even though it was the House Republicans who were primarily responsible. He then took credit for even more right-wing ideas from the Republicans like welfare reform, all while continuing to be loved by the left. I see very little of that kind of skill in Mr. Obama.
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Fantastic, Phil! And you are right about Obama, he’s not Slick Willie. But he can tell a lie with a straight face. But you are right that he doesn’t have the same level of skill like you discussed with CEO or even the woman. Obama is simply the attractive puppet where others who are good at that behavior pull the strings, which is why he gets angery when things don’t work and he has to speak on his own. Great example!
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