Monday - July 16, 2012

Obama In A Nutshell

I try not to be one of the Samizdat blogs too often, but this one I can’t let slip past. Here is an excerpt from a campaign speech by President Obama given in Roanoke Virginia on July 13. I included a few paragraphs more than other bloggers did, so that his remarks are more in context. But the core remains the same. Fearless Reader is at heart

THE PRESIDENT:  ... Now, one last thing—one of the biggest differences is how we pay down our debt and our deficit.  My opponent, Mr. Romney’s plan is he wants to cut taxes another $5 trillion on top of the Bush tax cuts.

AUDIENCE:  Booo --

THE PRESIDENT:  Well, first of all, like I said, the only way you can pay for that—if you’re actually saying you’re bringing down the deficit—is to cut transportation, cut education, cut basic research, voucherize Medicare, and you’re still going to end up having to raise taxes on middle-class families to pay for this $5 trillion tax cut.  That’s not a deficit reduction plan.  That’s a deficit expansion plan.

I’ve got a different idea.  I do believe we can cut—we’ve already made a trillion dollars’ worth of cuts.  We can make some more cuts in programs that don’t work, and make government work more efficiently.  (Applause.) Not every government program works the way it’s supposed to.  And frankly, government can’t solve every problem.  If somebody doesn’t want to be helped, government can’t always help them.  Parents—we can put more money into schools, but if your kids don’t want to learn it’s hard to teach them.  (Applause.)

But you know what, I’m not going to see us gut the investments that grow our economy to give tax breaks to me or Mr. Romney or folks who don’t need them.  So I’m going to reduce the deficit in a balanced way.  We’ve already made a trillion dollars’ worth of cuts.  We can make another trillion or trillion-two, and what we then do is ask for the wealthy to pay a little bit more.  (Applause.) And, by the way, we’ve tried that before—a guy named Bill Clinton did it.  We created 23 million new jobs, turned a deficit into a surplus, and rich people did just fine.  We created a lot of millionaires.

There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me—because they want to give something back.  They know they didn’t—look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own.  You didn’t get there on your own.  I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart.  There are a lot of smart people out there.  It must be because I worked harder than everybody else.  Let me tell you something—there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.  (Applause.)

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.  There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.  Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive.  Somebody invested in roads and bridges.  If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that.  Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own.  Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.

The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.  There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own.  I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service.  That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.

So we say to ourselves, ever since the founding of this country, you know what, there are some things we do better together.  That’s how we funded the GI Bill.  That’s how we created the middle class.  That’s how we built the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam.  That’s how we invented the Internet.  That’s how we sent a man to the moon.  We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people, and that’s the reason I’m running for President—because I still believe in that idea.  You’re not on your own, we’re in this together.  (Applause.)

Is it really necessary to give this a Fisking? I’m certain my readers can see what I’m talking about. The true Obama peeking out again. The Socialist who wants all the (what did the Democrats start calling them the week before last? Oh yes ...) free riders to have a bigger slice of your pie. The Collectivist who plans to take even more of your hard earned income and spread the wealth around to the less fortunate and to those who shouldn’t even be here. Not to mention all his crony contributors who need another 50 billion to set up shell Green Energy companies designed to go bankrupt.

But worse than that is the naivete of this guy. What a childlike worldview he has. How simple, how wrong his outlook is. Which is no surprise. The guy has never held a paying job that he got by his own merit and then had to work at. Any paycheck he or his Klingon war bride ever had came from political connections, Affirmative Action, or reaping the profits from a couple of books full of lies that were largely written by someone else.

I mean, come on. Aside from the other two dozen people on the entire planet who are rich and famous for being rich and famous, everyone else got where they are from their own endless hard work. Don’t forget that the deadbeats and bums get just as much benefit from the infrastructure and public education system as the rest of us.

So, a little off the top first, so no one can claim I’m taking things out of context:
Romney wants to but taxes another $5 trillion? Imagine that. The federal government doesn’t bring in $5 trillion in a year. So Romney’s idea, which I haven’t heard about because I live under a rock, has to be a $5 trillion tax reduction over several years. Like 10 or 20 or even 50. So he really isn’t talking about more than $500 billion per year, and probably less. And that’s IF Obama’s statement is accurate - doubtful - and not a “mathomagic” Democrat bending of his ideas.  And hey, let’s poke everyone in the eye again with the Evil Bush Tax Cuts For The Rich. You know, the ones that actually cut the income tax rates for low income workers by a full third. The ones reanimated by Obama’s own signature ... twice now? At least once. Empty rhetoric and misdirection to get the crowd riled up. Smoke and mirrors, the only two products that Obama actually excels at creating.

Cuts in programs that don’t work? Hey brainwave: CANCEL programs that don’t work. Just reducing their budgets isn’t going to make them suddenly efficient and functional. STOP WASTING OUR MONEY.

A balanced deficit reduction? Tax the rich even more? There he goes again. We already have a highly progressive income tax system in place. The top 10% pay in many times more than just 10% of the taxes. It’s something like 80%. Go look it up. It’s severe. Contrast that with the 50% of the population at the other end who isn’t paying a cent in taxes. Can we call them free riders now? And not only are they not paying in anything, they’re the group that is getting the most in direct benefits from the government. I don’t want to expand this group. I want to shrink their numbers, and one way to do that is to flatten the tax structure so that they aren’t demotivated to go out and earn more. At the other end of the wealth spectrum, I ran a post the other day about another really rich Democrat renouncing her citizenship to avoid paying millions in taxes. Tax the rich too much and they leave. They can afford to! And without them, who will pay for Obama’s solution? Another recycled Democrat idea that just doesn’t work. Remember when the idea was to fund the education system by raising taxes on cigarettes and booze? Now almost everyone has quit smoking. How’s that plan doing these days?

Another recycle: Clinton balanced the budget and ran a surplus. Ok, props go to the man in charge at the time, and that man was Slick Willy. But it was the Republican controlled Legislature that made the balanced budget for him to sign. Newt and his gang. After fighting Clinton tooth and nail because he was dead set against it. And I seem to recall that a HUGE piece of the pie was from the “Peace Dividend” that came from gutting the military and the military industrial complex once Reagan won the Cold War. And a large part of the rest of the pie came from Welfare Reform, slowing down the perpetual free ride and kicking off some cheaters. But Clinton gets the credit, so be it.

I’m not sure where Obama’s claim of 23 million jobs created (or saved?) at that point comes from. I was living in upstate NY at the time, and I remember McDonnell-Douglas laying off thousands, and then seeing local businesses die, malls close, real estate prices tank, and people flee the area. There was a lot of defense contractor work going on in the Binghamton area, lots of high tech stuff right on up to a 3D Space Shuttle simulator. That one is still around, but cut to the bone. Pretty sure it used to employ 10 times as many folks.

Al Gore must be rolling in his grave: the government created the internet so that Amazon could thrive. Oy vey. Two lies in one, perhaps three. Read a history book once in a while please. It was CERN who created the visual internet so that everyone could get easy access to porn. Because it turns out that Rule 34 really is Rule 1. Porn drove the video tape revolution, and porn drove the digital revolution. Before that all we had was CompuServe and a bunch of BBSes. Dial up 1200 baud modems. It took forever to download that .gif file of Zoe showing off her boobs ( a file format that CompuServe invented by the way ). Hmm, what’s that? Al Gore isn’t dead yet? He should be.



And now to the heart of it:
if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own There it is. Every last bit of effort you’ve put into yourself to get where you are today is NOT yours. It’s because Mrs. McGarvey taught you what a verb was in second grade, and because paved roads exist between where you live and where you work. Your success is owed to everyone else. Period.

If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that.  Somebody else made that happen. Holy smokes. I can’t believe what I’m reading, can you? Let’s read it again:
If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that.  Somebody else made that happen.

All you’ll ever need to know about Obama in just 14 words. At his very core, he is against what America is all about. PERIOD.

Think that quote through and see what it implies, and your deduction can only be one thing: the guy is a Communist. All your efforts, all your ideas, all the scrimping and saving and long hours and investment put in to start a business and make it go: none of this is yours. It’s OURS. Because of a streetlamp or some other bit of infrastructure. Because Juan pumped some gas in your tank so you could drive there. So YOU OWE US for your success. And of course, the underlying perpetual Leftist core concept that no one can get ahead without exploiting everyone else. Which is straight out of Karl Marx.

Sometimes Obama lets the curtain down a bit and we can see the little man hiding behind it. And it’s important that we pay plenty of attention to him. Because it really matters.  And at heart, he’s an anti-Capitalist. A statist wealth-spreader-arounder. In other words, a Communist. Ok, maybe he’s merely a Fascist. I’ll be kind and use the softer label Socialist. From the viewpoint of freedom, those are just shades of difference.

UPDATE: Want to be even less impressed? Mr. Owonderful cribbed darn near all of this from Fauxcahontas - Elizabeth Warren, the pretend indian from Harvard. From 10 months ago. His former advisor. Same concept, nearly the same words. Watch the video and read the smack-down at Rush ... and the conclusion is the same: COMMIE. He adds the obvious for those still asleep: government spending originates in tax money taken from the private sector. Whatever good that any government might create is no more than private wealth redistributed. I add that their overhead is usually staggering, absorbing a huge part of that money before it actually gets redistributed, often to cronies and no-bid contracts awarded to friends.

This is the kind of stuff they believe: Total collectivism. It’s all found in Marx. It’s all there, and it’s all based on the presumption that all success is illegitimate, including the success of the country. No, no, no, no. We all don’t share in the failure when the factory collapses. That’s a celebration! But according to Ms. Warren we’ve all got skin in the game, that factory owner wouldn’t be anywhere without us.
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This is exactly how Obama looks at this country, the same way she looks at factory owner is how he looks at this country and the rest of the world.  And not just Obama, but all the people he surrounds himself with.  The factory owner, illegitimate.  The business owner, illegitimate.  Nothing special about him.  Nothing special about somebody who built something from nothing because he really didn’t.  He couldn’t have done it without screwing a bunch of other people along the way.

Posted by Drew458     on 07/16/2012 at 06:57 AM   
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