Yesterday, I heard President Obama make a statement that I think the Republicans and Mitt Romney should jump on with all the enthusiasm that they can muster…with a couple of minor additions. Obama has said countless times, as have the Democratic talking heads, that we need to move forward. So how come last night he said we should go BACKWARDS to the Clinton-era tax rates that he claims led to some terrific prosperity. He’s right, but only partly; Obama forgets that the Republican-controlled Congress demanded from Clinton a huge spending cut and a balanced budget!
Obama hasn’t submitted a budget acceptable by EITHER party in over three years. Obama has rejected any cut or reform in the programs that make up the biggest part of the federal budget. Obama and the Democrats scream bloody murder about touching Medicare and Medicaid; yet Obamacare is effectively going to kill both programs. Yes, Mrs. Pelosi; some of us have READ the bill to see what’s in it. The Supreme Court has ruled that the “mandate” is only constitutional as a TAX! Obama is willing to go BACKWARDS, but only to raise taxes. He is NOT willing to do what Bill Clinton did as President and move to the center of political thought and values.
President Obama is basically admitting that his policies have not worked! Is channeling PART of the Clinton administration going to get us where we were economically back then? The answer is a resounding NO; not without a massive cut in spending and a balanced budget for four years in a row that was accomplished back then. Obama looks at history like some people read books; look at the pictures and skip the parts you don’t like, but this is REAL life, Mr. Obama.
If Obama is so infatuated with the Clinton success, why did he work so hard to defeat Hillary Clinton for the Democrat nomination for President? He could have just as easily set aside his ambition for a couple of years until he had more legislative experience under his belt. He’s a young man, and the wait would have prepared him for the job that he now holds and can’t handle. I see the statement that Obama made last night as a man looking for a life jacket to save him from drowning in his economic situation, yet hanging on to the anchor of his Socialist ideology that’s pulling him under. Bill Clinton was smart enough to rethink his position and ended up with a pretty decent economic presidency. Obama should take a lesson from Clinton, but he won’t.
If you will listen closely to what Obama and his Socialist zombies keep repeating over and over again, it’s this talking point: ” We need to get the wealthy to pay their fair share! We have to get those who can afford it to contribute more to take the burden off the backs of the middle class.” The recurring theme for the Socialists (Democrats) is that taxes must be raised in order to continue spending money like drunken sailors on programs that they either will not cut or refuse to reform. Oh yeah, how about having the 50% who pay 0% in taxes pay at least a token amount before you reach into the pocket of those who already pay the lion’s share of the federal revenue?
The Socialists (they stop being Democrats a long time ago) refuse to make cuts that Bill Clinton was forced to make by the Republicans. They are not interested in being fiscally responsible because they wouldn’t be able to buy votes by going that route. Ask yourself a question, citizens: what are you forced to do when you run out of money but you still have the rest of the month left? You could go out and borrow money from everybody you know until they realize that you just want to continue spending to maintain a lifestyle that you can no longer afford. Obama needs to come to that realization, or in November, we the taxpayers need to help him get there by showing him the door.
One more thing. The Obama campaign has started this “Romney was an OUTSOUCER of jobs” when he was at Bain Capital. Let me ask you hypocrites a question: what about Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, shipping the entire X-ray division of GE to China along with a few other pieces of G.E.? Immelt, you may remember,was appointed to head Obama’s Job Creation Committee, or whatever they called it at the time. A jobs advisor who OUTSOURCES jobs to China? How is that working out for you, Barack? Man, I bet glass shattering in your house makes a helluva noise, doesn’t it? Just asking! Adieu.
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You’re asking a rigid, closed-minded ideologue to move to the political Center in order to save the country from HIM? He won’t budge. He’s a Communist. Communists do not compromise. They expect the opposition to give in and they’ll move forward inch by inch till they get what they want.
To you out there that are still expecting Obama to come to his senses and play nice you’re asking the mountain to come to Mohammed. Forget it, ain’t gonna happen. Neither is Comrade Obama going to go to the mountain and compromise.
IT IS OBAMA’S INTENTION TO WRECK THE ECONOMY. Period.
Cloward-Piven and the 45 Goals are running at top rpm in the White House and that won’t stop until either His Majesty wins or he’s removed by force. Do not expect him to quit on his own, he’s granted himself dictatorial powers through EOs while Congress sat on the sidelines cheering him on.
You can over-analyze this subject to death but get nowhere till you accept the fact that Obama DOES NOT CARE ABOUT ESTABLISHED LAW OR POLITICAL ORDER. His mission is to destroy the United States and nothing will distract him from it.
People don’t complain when they have to buy car or house insurance for the banks, but taxpayers are the ones who take the brunt of healthcare costs rather than financial institutions except hospitals, and they’d be able to reduce healthcare costs if more than just a few people had health insurance who have to pay more for the ones who don’t have insurance.
people are so afraid that they’re going to have to buy health insurance or may loose one of the few jobs that still provide health benefits that they are blaming everything on the current president. In reality it was the Bush administration that started healthcare mandate in 2006 when congress fought tooth and nail against seniors getting prescription benefits, people who have paid into medicare and social security, so why shouldn’t they have it? If seniors on fixed incomes can pay $100+ a month for Part B, as well as copays, etc., then people who are using the system for healthcare should have to shell out, too. And there should be a standard of care established. I don’t see why people are kicking so hard against this and calling Obama all kinds of names. If you loose ONE job, I guess you’re just screwed, as long as big business is sending the jobs overseas and being greedy and getting richer and richer while the general population is getting poorer and poorer.
vadajain you need to learn more about Obamacare before you condone it. It’s a monstrosity that is going to cost taxpayers (mostly the middle class and poor will suffer) TRILLIONS of $$$$$. Many doctors are going to quit accepting Medicare; many already have. The gov’t is going to decide if you are worthy of an operation if you are 70+ otherwise you will hear from a death panel if it is one that would save your life. Another major point, if it is good enough for the people why isn’t it good enough for the POTUS and Congress? Why have they handed out waivers to “their friends”? Wake up, Obamacare is an Obamanation and Obama will go down as the worst POTUS ever! But, we need to get him out before he completely destroys our beloved country and it’s getting close!
I remember when Bush eliminated that BAD estate tax, and started a war over WMD and coincidentally raised gas prices to $3/gallon. Reagan eliminated the Fair Trade Act, and no one even noticed. Why do we have to continue to hear all this crap about ‘Obamacare’? Obama is just upholding the law. You should listen to news that isn’t bought and paid for by big corporations and politicians. If doctors stop accepting medicare, they won’t have any patients. Most people can barely afford medicare Part B and copays, but now they have better care and prescription benefits which were non-existent before. People who are in congress have great benefits for life, many fringe benefits that most people don’t have, and they may have to pay out of pocket for some things that were previously covered by taxpayers. If you can afford a better standard of care, or a better insurance plan, you may be entitled to it, but people who are on medicare or medicaid deserve a standard of care, also. The standard of care has been RAISED UP, not DOWN with ‘death panels’ since Obama has taken office. If some people have to pay a tax for health care that don’t have insurance, its no worse than what the seniors have to do who are on fixed incomes and have to pay over $100/mo just for Part B. Its only fair. What isn’t fair is the rich not paying their share of income tax and taking their money overseas and the jobs overseas and saying to hell with lazy people who won’t work. Fortunately for Bush he had a brother who could eliminate 57,000 Gore votes by calling them criminals.
Vadajan, All I can say is that you have your head in the sand and don’t really know much about Obamacare or you are just a liberal, Obama lover and he is destroying our country as sure as the sun rises each morning. Twenty-one new taxes! He is killing middle America & the poor; 12 of these new taxes will directly affect these two classes of people and the rich pay a huge amount in taxes. If we had built a money making business or whatever these people have done to become rich we wouldn’t want our hard earned money to go to people to lazy to work or just not interested or can’t do the same; that’s a ludicrous statement! When Obama was talking awhile back about “feeling our pain” he was worth 7.7 million. Do your research!