Obama wants more of your money to re-distribute to his voting base. His speech should be titled:
It Takes a Hard Working Rich Person’s Money to Raise a Lazy Dependent Sloth
Not too much about personal responsibility, liberty, freedom, or the criminality of Wall Street.
“We, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity. We must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit. But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future. For we remember the lessons of our past, when twilight years were spent in poverty, and parents of a child with a disability had nowhere to turn.
We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few. We recognize that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, any one of us, at any time, may face a job loss, or a sudden illness, or a home swept away in a terrible storm. The commitments we make to each other – through Medicare, and Medicaid, and Social Security – these things do not sap our initiative; they strengthen us. They do not make us a nation of takers; they free us to take the risks that make this country great.
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms.
The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition; we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries – we must claim its promise. That is how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure – our forests and waterways; our croplands and snowcapped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. That’s what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared.”
Barack Obama
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What a puny mind this guy has. Has he ever thought outside the box. How did the USSR and China get our technology? They stole it. What did we do about it? Let other nations waste their money and go done blind alleys to develop ‘sustainable energy sources’ and we still it from them. We have the world’s best intelligence and electronic eavesdropping equipment. About time we use it the way the Russians, Chinese and even the French use theirs… to obtain commercial and technological know how.
As for the rest of his rhetorical vomit, Charles Hugh Smith address that in his blog today
The Grand Tradeoff of Risk/Innovation/Growth and Financial Security
http://www.oftwominds.com/blog.html
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21st January 2013 at 3:55 pm
treemagnet says:
He didn’t win that!
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21st January 2013 at 3:57 pm
ThePessimisticChemist says:
“He didn’t win that!”
I know, the Republicans gave it to him.
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21st January 2013 at 4:03 pm
underfire says:
I know Obama has to cast a positive light on our situation, but this economy, and society, is so completely chock full of gaping and hemorrhaging holes. His rhetoric is laughable.
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21st January 2013 at 4:07 pm
Eddie says:
Oh, so now they’re worried about climate change?
What rubbish. We would breathe the last liter of O2 on the planet before anything could be accomplished in Washington by our elected morons on this problem. It is simply too VAST, and the solutions too hard, to expect anything other than posturing and a nice new carbon tax.
Maybe they’ll give some more incentives for solar. I’d be pleased as punch if the power companies had to buy back electricity from consumers at the same price they pay wholesale producers. So far, that’s been up to the States, and in Texas the consumer is getting screwed on this. I doubt that a priority with Obummer, though.
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21st January 2013 at 4:13 pm
AWD says:
“these things do not sap our initiative; they strengthen us. They do not make us a nation of takers; they free us to take the risks that make this country great.”
Spoken by a man that’s never run a lemonade stand, let alone a business. These things don’t sap the FSA, the democrats, and the socialists, because THEY DON”T HAVE TO PAY FOR THEM. Just the suckers who pay taxes.
Let’s see; those that take risks and make the country great: entrepreneurs. Those that weaken our country by getting paid to sit on the couch, become obese, chug pain pills, reproduce and vote and cost our country $1 trillion per year: parasites.
Obama has turned this country into a nation of parasites, he being the biggest parasite of all. He’s just giving a “shout out” to the FSA, relieving their guilt for being leaches on this country and thanking them for putting him, the most incompetent president his history, back into office.
I’ve been pissed off all day. We won’t survive four more years of this monkey and his liberal progressive circus. The debt is real, and will wipe them out (and everyone else).
Well, at least 8 million people are happy. They no longer have to work or look for a job:
First Term: Americans ‘Not in Labor Force’ Increased 8,332,000
January 20, 2013 By Terence P. Jeffrey
The number of Americans age 16 or older who decided not to work or even to seek a job increased by 8,332,000 to a record 88,839,000 in President Barack Obama’s first term, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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21st January 2013 at 4:16 pm
AWD says:
The Militant Unemployed
In 2008, the Party formed the ‘League of the Militant Unemployed’ for citizens to be organized under after renouncing labor as a means of acquiring their fair share of the People’s Wealth. These workers and peasants of the USSA are not considered ‘unemployed,’ but are now engaged in political activity, such as voting and filing for State benefits, as Community Unemployment Activists as classified by the Department of Labor’s Labor Statistics Manipulation Division. Much to the delight of all members of the Party, the League’s membership during Comrade Party Chairman and President Barack Barackovich Obama’s first term jumped by over 8 million citizens, placing the total number of Non-Labor Activists nation-wide to over 88 million.
This is a great victory for Comrade Barack Barackovich and the entire Socialist Democratoc Party, as the Party relies on the agitation of the League of the Militant Unemployed to push for Social Justice through Collectivization and Redistribution of Kulak Property, which have need unjustly stolen from the People through the oppressive policies of Capitalism and the reactionary Bourgeoisie. These 8,332,000 patriotically unemployed citizens, working for the good of the Masses through reclassification and volunteering for Social Benefits, are engaged in the social struggle against Imperialism by reducing the productivity of counter-revolutionary elements within the State, thereby pulling down the means of resistance against Progress.
Many of these citizens participate in voluntary weapons exchanges, receiving free items in exchange for their firearms, and participate in the many redistributive activities of the State, which then generate more demands for these services and guarantee their perpetuity. Yes, Comrades, the State cannot redistribute wealth without those volunteering to receive it, until our society progresses to the stage where participation in redistribution is mandatory.
We congratulate Comrade Barack Barackovich, on this first day of his second term as Party Chairman and President, for his heroic leadership of the League of the Militant Unemployed, and we pledge to our Dear Leader to continue to ad more citizens to the ranks of the Community Unemployment Activists.
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21st January 2013 at 4:18 pm
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21st January 2013 at 4:22 pm
AWD says:
Predatory Political Parasites Are Bleeding America Dry
Tactic 1. Socialists are both predators and parasites. They look for and create crises in order to weaken the target. They start salivating when they find weak people. They smell blood. They like to scare people into feeling insecure, make them feel like victims even when they are not. That is one of their most effective weapons. They are determined to make the target feel as if he or she cannot make it in this world without them. In case you haven’t noticed, that is also the mode of operations for scam artists, i.e. convince the target that he or she cannot survive “the problem” without them.
Tactic 2. Socialists are very good at attacking the strong in order to weaken them. Predators know how to turn the target into lunch. The strong are their enemies. After all, if you are strong, smart, and self-sustaining, then you are less likely to succumb to the predator’s conniving plans to overtake you. So the plan then becomes to strike the strong with public scorn and any other media smear in order to undermine their support. Surprise attacks creating hysteria work well in this one. (I watch the hawk in my backyard swoop in, scare the living daylights out of the smaller birds so they flee in fear and smack their little heads on the house. Then the hawk grabs the little bird as it has knocked itself out lying on the ground. The little bird was fine a minute earlier, but the hawk created the fear that led to the bird’s being taken.)
Tactic 3. “Just a little blood sucking won’t hurt you.” Socialists, like other predators, are very patient. They know they can get you by inches if they can suck you in just a little bit at a time. “Just a little European Socialism” won’t hurt quite as bad as a complete Bolshevik revolution or a few guillotines in the public square as the French suffered. In this tactic, the predatory parasites take power by getting you hooked, like a drug addict wants more and more of the addictive dependence on whatever the predatory parasites is offering. What happens here is you can’t fight them, so you join them. You become the support system because you want to appease the predator and you think you can put off the inevitable death. The Socialist predatory parasite offers you part of the take, a la dependence on government money.
The Predatory Parasite in Chief and his minions are out there pushing to suck another $4 trillion (with a T) of borrowed dollars from our already wounded nation, from you. Their budget doubles our deficit in five years and triples it in ten years. When you add the interest on this insanity, Americans will be so weak and the dollar will be so devalued that we are done, our children are done, & America’s goose will be cooked. In fact our poor goose has already been plucked and readied for the pot.
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21st January 2013 at 4:28 pm
underfire says:
“We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.”
Notice how the sterotypical middle class, or small business owner, is being increasingly vilified? They’re starting to mark the target.
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21st January 2013 at 4:41 pm
John A says:
““We, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity. We must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit.”
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21st January 2013 at 6:54 pm
printmemoney says:
“We need to ignore math and the consequences of that ignorance.”
BO – 2013 Inauguration
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21st January 2013 at 7:46 pm
printmemoney says:
“Preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action”
I’m not sure why, but this statement struck me as one of the scarier things our dear leader said today. Maybe its because whenever the “collective” of DC acts freedoms are further restricted rather than protected
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21st January 2013 at 8:16 pm
DaveL says:
I just spent 25 minutes in the checkout line at Walmart while a Hispanic zunt with three kids piled all her shit on the conveyer, talked for the entire fucking time on her cell phone, signed over three food voucher checks for some of her shit and then swiped her EBT card for the rest of it. I’ve got to buy a fuckiung gun!
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21st January 2013 at 8:58 pm
Makati1 says:
If you think that the government is not doing anything about the debt, you are wrong. They are doing it to the tune of $85+ billion every month. They are inflating the dollar bubble with every new weapons system ordered. Every check written. Every war started. They DO understand what is coming. They are not that stupid, although it may appear that way. This is all part of a very tightly choreographed plan to eliminate you, the middle class.
Who will have ownership of everything of REAL value when it all collapses? The ones who own the controlling stock in the corporations. The Farmland. The energy plants. The mines, etc. The REAL wealth, not the toilet paper in your wallet. Your retirement plans, mutual funds, 401ks will be in government hands before it happens. Do you think the truly wealthy got there by chance? This plan has been ongoing for 200 years or more. Think Rothschild …
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21st January 2013 at 6:41 am
Mark says:
It’s time for the free market idealist to look at the world through the progressives perspective. And note that they can see the obvious. That is there has been no hope for 4 or 5 decades in inner cities and there will be no hope going forward. To further wit, there will be no possible mass migration of negros out of those areas.
What to do about it? There is only one solution now. Expropriate as much wealth as possible for the haves to give to the have nots.
Every speech or scratch is nothing but window dressing to obfuscate this reality that no one wants to have a forthright honest discussion about.
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21st January 2013 at 9:32 am