Seems as though someone ignore his message....In case it is in some foreign speak for you, it was, BALANCE THE BUDGET!!!!!
Holy ****! Balance the budget? That's ****ing genius. No one's ever thought of that! Yes, let's, during very shaky economic times, pull a bunch of money out of the economy and see how that works. Let's quit investing in any new technology of the future, who wants to plan ahead? **** infrastructure, we don't need that crap. Just whatever you do, don't cut any military spending because it would be irresponsible to have any less than 100,000 troops in Iraq to watch over the maybe hundred people there that are actively planning attacks on us on our soil. And while were at it don't raise those taxes back up to what they were in the 90's because the 90's were a terrible time where no one invested in anything because of the invasive taxes, right? As a matter of fact, let's cut taxes, that'll get us more money, just like it led to the current booming economy.
We need to balance the budget. Everyone knows that. But the problem, right now a slashing of the government budget would simply make our economy even more weak. As much as you like to deny it, the money the government is spending is going towards government employees, construction firms, defense contractors, engineers, the unemployed etc. and those people are using it to buy **** in our economy. All of that spending is going right back into our economy. Pulling a huge portion of it out right now will just make things worse. We need to get over the recession and then cut any unnecessary spending.
And there is a part that I am interested in concerning your dismissive post, largely because I have seen the theme over and over coming from libs when they are caught in their destruction. and that is when you said...."It'd be different if the guy laid out some profound information or had a well thought out explanation of what Obama is doing wrong, but he doesn't."
Ok, it doesn't have to be profound, but it should at least be coherent. He sounded like a nut that can't wrap his head around the greater implications of just slashing the government's budget. If it was that easy and there would be no bad results from slashing the budget then it would have been done already.
1. Why is it up to any critic to do Obama's job for him? I mean what Obama is doing wrong is elementary, and clear. We have Barry's own words exclaiming how he is going to "fundamentally change the system" not to mention a track record of how he keeps doing things to the economic engine of this country that is analogous to success in a free market system, like when he cut to shareholders of GM out of the picture so he could reward the Union. Not to mention stepping all over contract law to do it.
How much is the admission charge into whatever parallel, right wing universe you've seemed to find you're way into? Yea, GM and Chrysler were doing way better before the bailout, lol.
2. Race was important to the opening post because it is just another example of how steadfast Obama supporters are leaving him. Or at the very least scratching their heads wondering where the hell this MIA, bomb throwing clown is....
One black person doesn't speak for the black community any more than you or I speak for our entire race. The whole idea is silly on it's face. You'd understand that if you could get over the Obama derangement syndrome.
3. Obama's message is incoherent. It is more so bent on deflecting responsibility than it is anything of true substance. Filled with platitude, and generalization and vitriolic attack it is as Rick Perry said over the weekend, 'Rutterless'. I think Barry would love to think that Socialistic policies would be the answer to what our problems are, however he is way too gutless to actually enact them, nor does he have the stomach to actually do what it would take to see it through in actually killing the opposition to them. See, you libs do have at least one thing right, and that is that this country's problems were started long before Obama, long before Bush. They were started when this country started creeping away from the principles of freedom that founded this country, and when politicians started thinking, and putting into place those policies and programs that shifted responsibility for ones life away from the person themselves, and onto the collective in the form of government aid.
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It's not just libs that want a functioning society that doesn't treat workers like **** and don't think that poor people should be denied a little assistance. If everybody except for some minority group of liberals, since I'm constantly being told this is a center right nation, then we would have gotten rid of most of the assistance a long time ago and the fairtax wouldn't be just a dream of a small sliver of the republican party.. This reminds me of the Bush days when the conservative mantra was "don't like it? Well then you can just get out!"
I don't think Obama's done a great job. I don't think the stimulus was implemented as well as it could have been, and it maybe just wasn't big enough. I don't like his actions in Libya, I don't like how slow he is taking on the wind down of the wars etc.
But then I think about what would have happened if McCain were elected. No stimulus, just a reduction in taxes. Wouldn't have created nearly as many jobs, wouldn't have saved any jobs. Still would have more soldiers in Iraq and almost as many or more in Afghanistan with no signal of a withdrawal date, no investing in any new green technology, which regardless of how much you disagree, will be the wave in the very near future, and if China and Japan develop it all before us we will just see another couple of decades of falling behind.
I understand not being in love with Obama, I know I'm not, but trying to say that everything would be better if he would just enact some conservative policies is simply false. We have seen what strictly conservative policies give you which is exactly why from day 1 they pushed all of Bush's crap on Obama and revved up the talking points. "He's just blaming Bush" Yea, and what part was he wrong about exactly? He should have to stand by his results, but just mentioning the starting point he was given isn't a bad thing.
This can all be summed up very easily. When I see a conservative point to a specific policy, point out which details are flawed and why, I know I'm speaking with someone who has thought this through and knows what they're talking about. When I hear a conservative talk about how Obama is a socialist, hates this country, wasn't born here, is trying to ruin the economy to turn us into a nanny state, should slash spending, that we should not raise the debt ceiling etc, I know that that person should just be laughed at.
