Saturday, January 24, 2015

Misstate of the Union

      President Obama gave his State of the Union speech last Tuesday, but it should have been called the Misstate of the Union speech.  BHO is more of the liar-in-chief rather than the commander-in-chief and certainly the politician-in-chief.  He certainly may be the biggest liar we have ever had as president rivaling only Bill Clinton, but certainly the best campaigner.  His advisers have rightly told him to take credit for all improvements in the economy and ignore or blame someone else for the all that went wrong.  This stand operating procedure for the regime.
      There have been some signs of improvement in our economy, not because of BHO 's policies, but despite them.  Does anyone believe the unemployment figure?  For the past six years more new people show up for unemployment benefits than people newly employed each week, yet we are told unemployment is less than 6%, more people are on welfare than ever, and fewer employed since the 70's.  So how can that be?  I suppose if you consider anyone getting a government check as employed then it is possible.  After all, welfare recipients work about as hard as many government workers.
      For a president who has made every effort to destroy the American energy sector,  it was amazing to hear him take credit for the renaissance in our gas and oil industry to the point where we are the leading producer of oil and natural gas in the world.  Obama has always been a "peak oil" advocate (an old and now disproven theory that all the oil reserves in the world have already been discovered).  He has used "peak oil" as the excuse to waste tax payer dollars to develop costly and unproven sources of energy.  Although oil production has increased dramatically due to fracking and horizontal drilling, it has been on private lands.  Use of public land has decreased because of Obama.  As a panderer to the lunatic fringe of the Democrat party, he threatens to veto the congressional legislation to approve the Keystone Pipeline, holds up approval of facilities to turn natural gas into liquid natural gas (LNG) for export, and issues regulations to make exploration, drilling, and transport more costly and difficult.
       In fact, if one examines BHO's policies both at home and abroad, they are designed to wreck the US economy.  The stimulus that didn't stimulate anything, but the bank accounts of his bundlers and financial supporters, Obamacare that has cost and wasted billion and will cost trillions if the Supremes don't shoot it down, 200 weeks of unemployment benefits, Obama phones, food stamps, millions of illegal aliens, sending the military to West Africa to build facilities that will never be used, and numerous other programs to crush the economy and double the national debt all are BHO's way of instituting the Cloward-Pivan plan of destroying capitalism.  Remember BHO was a student of Richard Cloward while at Columbia and a follower of Saul Alinsky.  "Free" college is just another way to take a swipe at the economy, but the final straw could be legislation or regulation to promote the disproven theory and anticapitalism hoax of global warming.  Thanks to the 2014 elections, BHO's biggest regret when he leaves office will be that he has been unable to destroy the American economy.
      Despite this being a critical time in the history of America and the World, he devoted very little time to his failed foreign policy as if it didn't exist.  Islamofascism is terrorizing the planet and he can't even say the words "Jslamic extremist terrorism."  It looks like Iran will get a nuclear weapon as BHO is so intent on striking a deal that though wanting a rug, he will buy the camel (see previous blogs). Lets hope congress can put some pressure on the Iranians.  Maybe BHO will make James Taylor a diplomat at large and he and "Lurch" Kerry can travel to Iran, Cuba, and even North Korea.  Who knows, Kim Jung Il may be a fan.  Maybe ISIS and Al Qada would want to see The Clash and Boko Horam Little Wayne, as they both like guns and hos.
      After the address, BHO answered questions from You Tube personalities including Glozell, a woman who wears green lipstick and bathes in Fruit Loops and milk. He wanted to show how cool and hip he is, but instead came off as a real idiot.  Rumor has it that Moochelle was jealous of Glozell and may start wearing green or blue lipstick herself.  I can hardly wait until next year's speech to see what lies and destructive policies he will be promoting.

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Some Brief Observations and Comments: Paris, Employment Math, Republican Agenda, Al Sharpton, Anti Police Demonstrations

      For decades, like good socialists, the governments of most Western European countries have allowed unchecked immigration form the Middle East. The purpose is allegedly to supply cheap labor to do jobs that Europeans may be unwilling to perform. (sound familiar).  In many of these countries the native birth rate is less than two per married couple where as the birth rate for Muslims is four or five per couple. As a result many major cities have huge Muslim populations that are threatening to overtake the native population in the near to distant future. The Muslims are interested in instituting Sharia Law in Europe and are well on their way to doing so.  In many cities, there are areas where the government has relinquished its control either purposely or de facto allowing them to be governed by Sharia Law irrespective of  the native civil and criminal law in most cases. In thirty years,  Sharia may govern many Scandinavian cities as well as Brussels and Antwerp.  Paris is one of those cities where the police avoid the Arab sector and Sharia Law is practiced.  The French law prohibiting Burkas is largely ignored.  The right to free speech has been assaulted by the murderous attack on the office of the French humor magazine Charles Hebdo.  Twelve people, including two police officers were murdered and another ten wounded in a well orchestrated military like assault.  To their credit, the French authorities quickly identified the three.  One has apparently surrendered and they are hunting the other two.  President Obama condemned the attack in a rather weak speech, still failing to recognize radical Islamic terror.  Its okay to condemn Christians and Jews and disparage their religion, but not Muslims.  I suppose he considers this work place violence.  Heavily armed terrorists dressed in black  going into an office building yelling "Allah Akbar" while murdering people is not workplace violence as he called the Ft. Hood attack. He still fails to recognize Islamic terror.  He recently let a number terrorists out of Gitmo and sent them on their merry way.  As usual, the far left blames the magazine. As a religion, Islam needs to unchain itself from the Middle Ages.

      I used to think I was good a math, but these figures just don't add up.  The regime tells us that unemployment is less than 6%.  We also know that fifty million American are on welfare and that the number of people employed is less than it has been in decades.  Hmmm, oh I get it now, if one gets a welfare check from the government, the Obama regime considers that a job.  Its like a government job, since many government workers don't really work either.

     I hope the Republicans will pursue an aggressive agenda now that they control both houses of congress.  Approving the Keystone Pipeline, eliminating the 70's law that prohibits oil exports, rolling back Obamacare and anti business regulation, lowering taxes, and immigration  reform that first seals the border ought to be high up on their agenda .  Democrats are starting to realize that tying their future and the future of the party to Barak Obama has been a failure.  If they should decide to nominate Hillary Clinton or worse Elizabeth Warren the party will continue to fail.  A record number of Republicans now serve in both houses and governorships. Its time for the Democrat party to stand up to Obama for the good of the country.  Congress ought to override any presidential veto. Obama is an ideologue with a policy to destroy the American economy as described by Cloward and Piven. The American economy has survived not because of Obama, but despite his anti American policies. The failure of our foreign policy is another problem.

      We all know that Al Sharpton is a race hustler, liar, and extortionist. but now we have learned that he is a tax evader, owing nearly five million dollars to the IRS.  If I owed that kind of money to the IRS, I'd be sitting in a cell at some federal institution and all my belongings would be seized.  Because he is buddies with Obama (he has visited the White House more than eighty times), I guess he gets a pass.  He is also good buddies with New York Mayor DeBlasio. The only place where Al should be an honored guest is Leavenworth.

      The usual suspects are protesting again. The same people who were part of the "occupy" movement are now protesting in many cities.  Their mantra this time "black lives matter." and their target is the police.  If black lives really matter to them, they would be supporting the police and protesting the gangs and drug dealers who live in their neighborhoods and kill a lot more blacks than the police.  The people that the police kill are criminals, often in a gun duel or during an assault. Police risk their own lives to protect us.  The deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, though tragic, were not racially motived. In the Brown case, the victim tried to take the officer's gun and after starting to run away, turned on the officer to attack him again.  Sharpton and his ilk have, as usual, picked the wrong victims to support.,

Monday, January 5, 2015

The Obama Boom...or Bust

      In case some of you haven't noticed, the American economy, according to government statistics, is on the rise and some far left pundents and media are calling this the "Obama Boom."  This raises some important questions such as; is there really a boom and if there is, is Obama responsible?  As usual, a little history is necessary.
      Bill Clinton's presidency is often cited by the media as being responsible for a strong and growing economy, but in fact the economy grew despite Clinton's attempts to hurt it.  One of the first things Clinton did after taking office was raise taxes.  In a little mentioned speech in Houston Texas shortly afterward, he made the unchallenged and absurd remark, that the Republicans made him do it.  As we have seen, a raise in taxes usually slows the economy, as businesses and consumers have less to spend and ironically brings in fewer tax dollars.  Liberals then double down by wanting to raise taxes even higher.  Why didn't this happen with Clinton? very simple, the internet just about began at the start of his presidency and grew so rapidly that it wiped out the negative effect of raising taxes. Out of  stupidity and vengeance (the dot coms did not contribute as much he wanted them to), Clinton had Attorney General Janet Reno go after Microsoft, one of the economic engines pulling the train. In 2000, the antitrust law suit was certified by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson and on that very day the stock market plunged, the dot com bubble burst,  and Clinton recession began.  Most of you don't know that there was a recession in 2000, because the media protected the Clinton regime from this significant downturn in the economy.  In 2001, after Bush was elected we were on our way out until 9/11 occurred.  In my opinion, the roots to 9/11 began during the Clinton regime as did the roots of the collapse of the housing bubble with the justice department pushing Community Redevelopment Act (CRA). (Obama, by the way, was one of the attorneys representing ACORN and the plaintiff in Buycyk-Robeson vs. City Bank of Chicago).  In 2007, with a Democrat controlled Congress, the seeds were sown for a economic collapse with Barney Frank protecting Fannie Mae from investigation..  Bush's lack of foresight, after defeating  Al Quada and toppling Sadam Hussien resulted in two prolonged wars that lacked the military and political resolve to end them.
      Taking advantage of the recession that hit the country despite the Democrat run Congress as well as his own contribution to the recession years earlier, Obama ran on the vague slogan of "hope and change." He became the media darling, with few if any reporters actually looking into who he really was, but basing much of their information on the Bill Ayers ghosted autobiography Dreams From My Father.  (I found it somewhat amusing that a man who had accomplished so little in his life and no compelling life story had the nerve to publish an autobiography).  The autobiography served as barrier to what was really the truth about his background, rather than a look into it.  If someone would have taken the time to do the research, they would have discovered that two of the people that Obama met while at Columbia were Richard Cloward and Francis Ford Piven, two left wing radical professors who advocated  expanding the welfare system to collapse the American economy.  This was really the "change" he wanted and he "hoped" he could pull  it off.
      With the help of the adoring media, he began his plan to destroy America.  The so called stimulus, was nothing more than a waste of nearly a trillion dollars benefiting mostly his financial contributors. The jobless numbers increased dramatically, with the only jobs being created were in the government sector.  Extending unemployment benefits to almost two years, guaranteed that fewer people would be looking for jobs and kept the printing presses rolling turning out unemployment benefits and increasing the debt. Food stamps and  other welfare subsidies such as Obama phones also pushed the debt much higher.  That more American than at any time in history were on the public dole didn't matter to Obama, in fact, it was what he wanted.  When legislation was not possible from Congress, he used regulation to stifle economic growth, assessing taxes and penalties to American industry at a record rate.
      Finally came the last straw that Obama hoped would break the camel's back, Obamacare.  As I have stated in several previous postings on my blog, Obamacare was not really about healthcare, it was about destroying 20% of the economy.  Fortunately for Americans, he has had to delay and illegally change parts of it, as it would not have been politically expedient for it to go into full effect immediately.  Certainly that would have prevented his reelection in 2012.  My postings have been confirmed by the recent surfacing of a number of quotes from the author of Obamacare, John Gruber. From that, we have learned the Obama is willing to lie over and over again  to the American people to accomplish his destructive political agenda and doubled the national debt.
      His lawlessness in ignoring the Constitution, bringing hundreds of thousand of children illegally into our country and reducing deportations and allowing illegals to stay will cost trillions. Although illegal aliens may not be entitled to welfare or Obamacare directly, they will still show up in emergency rooms, commit crimes, have children who will need to be fed and schooled, all of which will grow the debt.
      After all that I have said, why is there an "Obama boom."  One of the main reasons for the "boom", has little to do with Obama, in fact I can say that it is in spite of Obama, and that is the growth of our energy industry. (See previous blogs about the myth of "peak oil").  Fracking and deep water drilling have placed America on the very brink of becoming the leading producer of oil in the world.  Saudi Arabia and the rest of OPEC to a lesser extent have increased their production, producing a glut of oil, bringing down the price dramatically.  The Saudi's goal was to slow down or even stop our own oil production, as theirs is much cheaper to get out of the ground, but it has helped us more by seriously hampering that of some of our enemies such as Russia, Venezuela, and Iran, all of who rely heavily on export oil revenue for hard currency.  Obama likes to point out that oil production is at a record high in the United States and tries to take credit.  In fact, on government controlled land it is at a record low, but high in the private sector. Although the unemployment figures have dropped dramatically, this is due to statistical manipulation. Looking more closely one finds the the fewest number of people are actually employed since the depression.  People no longer looking for work, who are now complacent with being a welfare recipient are no longer counted as unemployed and those that are employed are working fewer hours for less pay hence the push for raising the minimum wage.
      Sadly this so called boom has become one half of an Obama win-win.  If the economy had collapsed as he wanted it to, then he achieves his main goal. If on the other hand, it remains resilient, as it seems it has, he takes credit for that.  All I can say is let him take credit, though he is absolutely not responsible in any way, for a "booming" economy, as the alternative would be a disaster.