I think President Obama has made clear several things tonight.
I’ve seen the Great Depression, and I fully intend to do whatever Hoover and Roosevelt did to get us there.
I’m popular, so screw the constitution! The people like me, I can do whatever I want. Besides, having laws that people like me have to follow is so 19th Century.
If you’re rich, it must be because you were stealing money. If not from the poor people, you were stealing it from the government. We’re going to tax you into oblivion. If you haven’t already bought a home in Ireland or Hong Kong, then you were stupid for waiting so long to do so. In fact, if you haven’t already moved out, you are pretty dumb for a rich guy.
If you run a small business that is struggling, screw you. If you outsource employees, then you might as well move your entire operation overseas. Because if you don’t, I am going to crush you. I’ll crush you regardless, but I’ll double-crush you if you decide that trading with foreign countries is in America’s best interest.
Unless, of course, you were a business run by democrats. In which case, we are going to bleed the American worker dry trying to make sure you can keep your retirement package. There is no bill big enough that I will ever veto it, as long as the bill will send money straight from American’s pockets to my buddies in Washington D.C. This is the hope and change that America wanted and voted for, and I intend to deliver it.
Republicans better watch out. I’m going to sound more Reaganesque than them. If they try to pull any of that Milton Friedman crap on me, I’m going to wag my finger and point out how popular I am. And then I will crush them. See, I am so popular, that even Jesus looks like a second-rate city council member compared to me. You can’t stop Obama, so don’t even bother trying. By the way, this is what I call “bipartisanship”. Republicans sit over there and look stupid while I tell the world how they refuse to cooperate with my plans to socialize the rest of America.
Mama government is going to make sure everyone gets rationed medical care, whether they want to or not. That means if you are Canadian, you can no longer sneak across the border to get cancer treatment. You’ll have to die before you can get treatment just like the Britains do. And Americans, too, pretty soon. Forget whether government-run medical care is even a good thing, because I’m going to do it no matter the cost to the American people.
When your grandchildren grow up an realize that the US used to be, hands down, the leader in medical care and research, they are going to turn to you and ask, “What happened?” And you’re going to say, “Obama.” And that’s going to send a chill down their spine, because by that time, Obama will be synonymous with all that is evil in government.
I’m going to fix Social Security and Medicare, by the way. Not that I had a choice to, but that it’s actually broken right now and we’re not going to be able to spend all that money on pork if we have to bail out Social Security. (The Chinese, after all, can only take so much money from the American worker to buy government debt to fund my socialism.) So I’m going to do the only reasonable thing and follow President Bush’s plan but I’ll call it something else. I’m still thinking of ways to screw the American people and take their money, so I don’t have many details yet. As soon as I can figure out how to take everyone’s money and get away with not paying out Social Security benefits, then you’ll see the details of my plan.
At least republican governor Bobby Jindal from Louisiana had some words of hope. His message was that it is the American people, not government, that make America great. As long as we keep government far away from its people, we will recover and do the impossible. But if we let government take over, there is no way the American people can be free to do what they need to to fix the economy.
I think the history books have already been written on President Obama. He is, by far, the worst disaster of a president this country had ever seen. You have to go back in the history books to the 1800′s to find presidents as bad as he is right now. It’s clear from his speech that he doesn’t realize how bad his administration is or how much worse it can get.
About a year and a half from now, the American people are going to be demanding change. Already Obama has 50% higher than average disapproval rating for modern presidents. People are finding out what he is doing with our grandchildren’s money and it isn’t sitting well, especially because the money is simply wasted.
I’m done with socialism and everything related to it. If you are a politician that believes that government can do anything right, I am going to call you out on your idiocy.
February 25, 2009 at 12:03 am |
[Ad-hominem name calling attack removed]
Heck, the only thing you’re doing now is making reasonable people want to buy weapons, just in case folks like you actually do start “voting with your guns”. Zimbabwe indeed… I doubt that packs of crazy right-wingnuts with weapons are too far from street gangs in Harare.
February 25, 2009 at 12:48 am |
Packs of crazy right-wingnuts with weapons built this country. Rather than devolve into a tyranny as almost every revolution in the history of mankind has, instead the American people demanded and got representative government. That was those gun-toting Redcoat-hunting King George-hating rednecks, mind you, the ones that bragged about how big a deer they have shot.
February 25, 2009 at 12:56 am
Oh, and they lived in log cabins they built with their bare hands by chopping down old growth forests, too.
February 25, 2009 at 2:05 pm |
Finally, the truth!
February 25, 2009 at 5:37 pm |
This country was built by folks that could come here and get the fair shake that they couldn’t in European societies that were dominated by rich and greedy landed gentry. It was the fact that we weren’t controlled by a small wealthy class that made us successful. Canada and the northeastern US dominated economic growth in the Western Hemisphere in the 1700s/1800s simply because you didn’t have a system where a few wealthy landowners were making their fortunes on the backs of slave labor. So we became a democracy not because folks decided to go out and kill other people, but because people could enjoy more opportunities than anywhere else in the world.
Your extremist laissez-faire attitude does nothing to really improve equality or opportunity… it’s just a smokescreen. It merely keeps wealth with the wealthy at the expense of society as a whole. It would recreate a plantation system with well-educated plutocrats as the new nobility, and poorly-educated minimum wage workers enslaved at the bottom with no power and no options. I don’t object to wealth per se, but wealth at the expense of a well-educated public, functioning infrastructure, or basic social insurance programs is foolish.
As much as you deride folks that place too much faith in government, you place too much faith in economics and money.
Didn’t quite see that catastrophic market collapse today, by the way. Should I keep a count of the number of times you get simple economics wrong?
February 28, 2009 at 10:08 pm |
Excuse me, but you are woefully ignorant. How did Bill Gates and Warren Buffett become the richest people in the history of the earth? Did they:
(a) Enslave vast populations and conquere huge tracts of land with barbaric armies, then exploited the people to milk them for every dollar they could, or
(b) Do things that benefitted others much more than they received compensation for, since no person would ever enter into a transaction with Bill Gates of Warren Buffett without believing they were leaving with more wealth than they brought?
If you answered (a), you are pathetic, really, really pathetic. Where is Bill Gates slave army? Which people did he crush under his iron fist?
Instead, Bill Gates invented the idea that software, in and of itself, was valuable, and people would gladly pay for the right to use it. Then he produced software at a price that was affordable to the masses, bringing computers to every household and business, improving productivity and profitability and the lifestyle of everyone on the planet. If anything, his billions in fortunes are barely comparable to the trillions of wealth he single-handedly created with the power of his mind and the drive of his ambition. The internet became a tool of the masses because Bill Gates provided Windows 95 to everyone on the planet and it contained the tools needed to connect up.
Every rich person in America’s history, save for the political elite who happen to rich, became rich because they benefitted mankind far more than others. They became rich because people gladly handed over their money in exchange for whatever it was they sold, and they were not disappointed.
You have to simply look at the lives of Bill Gates and Warren Buffet today to see their true character. Bill Gates is busy trying to fix education in the world, and has already done more than any legislator or congressman anywhere in helping more kids get ready for the 21st century. Bill Gates is also fighting diseases that the UN has fought for 50 years and made pathetic advances against in Africa. Warren Buffet hands out his secrets to endless wealth for free to anyone who will take the time to read his essays. He makes no secret that his purpose is to make companies more profitable and thus provide more high-paying jobs to more people than ever before.
Your opinion of the rich is absolutely wrong. It is based on ignorance and misinformation. Our society needs rich people, the more the better, the wealthier the better, because our society’s wealthy give back more to our society than they have ever received, and in the end, give back everything they have left in the form of foundations and harities.
March 9, 2009 at 7:36 pm |
HELL YEAH TO THAT!!!!!
im gonna send this to all my friends
January 27, 2010 at 9:30 pm |
You all need to stop arguing about this. Seriously, you BOTH make excellent points and that should be recognized and accepted. I can guarantee you all that debating about this isn’t helping anyone nor contributing to the well being and reestablishment of the economy. Despite how different your opinions may be, you should remember a very significant quote; “United we stand Divided we fall.” ~ John Dickinson