80,000 jobs. Do you know how pathetic that is? We need an absolute minimum of 125,000 jobs a month (in light of our 313 million citizens it’s more like 200,000) just to begin to keep up with population growth. And when you consider Obama’s godawful labor participation rate and the number of working-age Americans who have just been cast out during the cancer of this presidency, it is an abject disgrace.
But here’s the thing: you listen to Obama campaign and you’d think the last four years didn’t happen. He’s mouthing the same garbage that he was blathering when he was running for president in 2008. Nothing bad has happened (“the private sector’s doing fine”) or it’s anybody and anything else’s fault but the man who sits behind “the buck stops here” desk in the Oval Office.
Barack Obama is the most narcissistic, the most ignorant, the most naive and the most demagogic president America has ever seen. Bar none.
Obama told us that the answer to the bad economy was a government takeover of the private economy via his stimulus. He took office when unemployment was 7.6 percent. If his stimulus passed, he promised, unemployment would never get to 8 percent – and in fact by this time (July 2012) unemployment would be 5.5 percent. History proves that Obama was completely wrong and has absolutely no idea whatsoever how to get an economy moving. All he can do is count on people to believe the same lies he’s been making for years and idiotic things.
One of the idiotic things you’ve got to believe is a flip side of Obama’s “I’m the president who got bin Laden” argument. On this view, had George Bush had another term or even two more terms, he never would have been able to get bin Laden. And of course Bush couldn’t have got bin Laden because he’s not Obama, and only Obama could have ever got bin Laden. It doesn’t matter if the military loved Bush far more than Obama, or that the esprit of the CIA was far, FAR higher under Bush; only Obama could possibly have got bin Laden. End of discussion. It wasn’t just a matter of time as Bush said it would be; it was Obama personally nailing bin Laden with his sheer magnificent wonderfulness.
If you apply this same mindset to Bush and the economy, we had a terrible economic hit (actually caused by liberals who recklessly ran Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into the ground, but that’s another story) and as Bush left office we were lost 700,000 jobs in just one month. And the religious doctrine that all Democrats must believe as an article of their faith in messiah Obama is that if Bush were still president today, we would have continued to lose 700,000 jobs every single month and unemployment would be 30 percent today. And of course Obama’s otherwise godawful performance now looks GREAT if you consider the 30 percent unemployment that we would of course had had under George Bush. Never mind facts like no recession has ever lasted forever; and never mind that there have only been TWO times when America didn’t come roaring back from a bad recession and both occurred under socialist presidents (Obama and FDR). The average recession lasts 11 months. And historically we get very strong recoveries out of recessions. But if Bush were still president it would have lasted forever and ever and ever. And only messiah Obama can possibly deliver us. Because Mitt Romney is the devil. And do you want a rich, evil, vulture capitalist vampire monster to be your president when you could have more Obama instead??? Hint: if you say “yes” you’re clearly a racist.
So we listen to Democrats demonize “the failed Republican policies” that got us into this terrible mess and we believe their narrative that of course Obama must never be blamed for anything negative but must be given total credit for anything positive. We are taught to not remember that George W. Bush – who himself inherited a terrible recession with the DotCom bubble burst that happened on Clinton’s watch and which wiped out $7.1 trillion in American wealth – ended his presidency with a 5.26 percent overall unemployment rate.
5.26 percent. That’s not bad for a president who inherited the DotCom bubble collapse which vaporized $7.1 trillion in American wealth and annihilated 78% of the Nasdaq Exchange valuation before we here hit on 9/11 due to Bill Clinton’s gutting the military and intelligence budgets while he emboldened Osama bin Laden into believing that America was a paper tiger.
If we extrapolate pure liberal demagoguery and simply utterly refuse to consider history, then Obama is the answer. Otherwise this pathetic president truly and profoundly sucks.
So let’s let the messiah who has an average unemployment rate of 9.16 percent through June 2012 assure us that the president who had a 5.26% unemployment rate was terrible for jobs. And we’ll believe him because this is God damn America and God damn America is under a spirit of delusion.
Yesterday (July 5) I had CNBC’s Larry Kudlow program on, and Kudlow had two economists representing a liberal (Dean Baker) and conservative (David Goldman) perspective. Baker had an optimistic view, believing that the Labor Department release today would show that we created a lousy but-comparatively great 165,000 jobs in June; Goldman believed the report would be even worse than the economists’ consensus view of 125,000 jobs and we’d get only 100,000 jobs. To make it even more interesting and show just how LOUSY liberals and liberalism are, Baker demagogued Goldman and accused him of merely ticking off “talking points” as compared to Baker who was of course examining the NUMBERS.
And Dean Baker documented just who was the ideologue living in a world of talking points: 80,000 jobs. Not even HALF of his shockingly idiotic estimate. And it was the conservative and his “talking points” who was right, right, RIGHT.
If it was a street fight, Goldman would be standing over Baker’s corpse and liberalism would be lying on the street DEAD. But you just can’t kill this failed ideology of liberalism off in a “civilized” world. They just get to keep screeching to fools and counting on the fact that there will always be ignorant, stupid, depraved people who believe that somebody else ought to be forced to support their failed lifestyles.
Stop and think about the difference of this “cancer presidency” and the Reagan recovery. As voters considered re-electing Ronald Reagan, GDP was surging to 8.5 percent. Under Obama, it’s 1.2 percent and we’re facing a double-dip recession.
Newsbusters has a great documentation of how incredibly propagandist the mainstream media was. In May, 1984, when the jobs report for Ronald Reagan reported 269,000 jobs, the New York Slimes actually arbitrarily revised it DOWN by 19,000 jobs to 250,000 ostensibly to keep the numbers in increments of 50,000. So if the New York Times were fairly “reporting” on Obama today, we’d have only 50,000 jobs created, wouldn’t we? And whereas Obama’s numbers keep getting revised DOWN, Reagan’s for some mysterious reason were being revised UP: the revised jobs report for May, 1984 actually showed growth of 363,000 jobs. Compare that to Obama’s jobs number above – recognizing that Reagan’s number was when we had a population of 235 million people versus 313 million today – and tell me that Obama isn’t wildly failing the American people.
The worst lies, according to the “lies, damned lies and statistics” proverb, are statistics. And when liberals control the statistics, you get great news being depicted as lousy news and you get lousy news being depicted as great news.
Your biggest problem in being able to know the truth is that most of our “journalists” are Marxist propagandists who could have easily fit in at TASS during the Soviet days.
Ultimately communist “journalists” blamed seventy years of bad weather for why they couldn’t keep up with Ronald Reagan and an America that was being ran under conservative Republican policies.
And Obama is one of those Marxist ideologues trying to explain away failure and marginalize Reagan. He makes me SICK with his rabid dishonesty.
Obama keeps demonizing Romney as standing for the “same failed Republican policies of the past.” JUST LIKE RONALD REAGAN’S.
If you want to see “the failed policies of the past” you just take a look at Barack Obama’s utterly failed liberal policies of the last four years. And as much as Obama has demonized George W. Bush, Barack Obama has never once even in his very best month been anywhere CLOSE to George Bush’s very worst month of unemployment.
Bill O’Reilly interviewed Bill Clinton and asked a question: Bill Clinton, George Bush, Barack Obama – who collected the largest revenue?
O’REILLY: I didn’t mind paying you that but do you know between… among you, Obama and Bush who had the highest tax receipts of all three of you? Do you know? Bush. So under prosperity the tax cuts under Bush more money flowed into the federal government.
Bill Clinton didn’t know (or more likely, knew but wouldn’t answer) and shook his head without responding: Bill O’Reilly supplied the answer: George Bush. And that is because Tax Cuts INCREASE Revenues; They Have ALWAYS Increased Revenues.
For the record, if Barack Obama were held accountable to the labor participation rate that he inherited from George Bush, unemployment would be well over 11 percent right now. The only reason that Obama’s unemployment number is as “good” as 8.2 percent is because Obama has destroyed millions of jobs and driven millions of Americans completely out of the work force where they are simply not even counted by the Labor Department. The fact is that 88 million working-age Americans are not in the work force because of this completely failed presidency. And the far better U-6 unemployment measurement has unemployment at 14.9%.
For the record, Bush’s U-6 rate was more than five points lower at this point in his presidency as he faced re-election. To go with a 5.5 percent U-3 rate which is nearly three points lower. But, hey, whatever we do, let’s not go back to “those failed policies.”
The “failed Republican policies of the past” don’t just refer to George Bush in late 2008 ( Democrats want you to believe that Bush was only president for the last few months of 2008 because the rest of his presidency looked pretty darn good); they refer to Ronald Reagan.
Let me tell you liberal pukes something: Ronald Reagan didn’t fail at NOTHIN’.
I wrote an article describing the grim economic indicators that were facing Ronald Reagan when he took office in 1980. Jimmy Carter had said of the crisis, “It would be misleading for me to tell any of you that there is a solution to it.”
Unlike Jimmy Carter – and at this point it is very obvious to say, unlike Barack Obama – Ronald Reagan had a solution. Under Reagan’s leadership, the US economy soared into the stratosphere. Bill Clinton became part of that Reaganomics solution when he acknowledged that “the era of big government is over” and cooperated with the Republicans who had swept both the House and the Senate in a landslide when he too had failed to accept that conservative policies WORK.
It is a solution that Barack Obama has dedicated his entire life to destroying. Which is why Obama has never and never WILL succeed as president.
If I had Barack Obama’s performance, I would resign. I would have held a press conference and declared, “I’m sorry. I thought I had a plan to turn this economy around. Clearly I was wrong. It’s time for me to step aside and allow someone with better ideas and better leadership to help the American people.”
But Barack Obama doesn’t give one miserable rat damn about the American people. All the people whose support Obama rode to victory are the worst impacted by the disgrace of the Obama economy: black unemployment, Hispanic unemployment, female unemployment, college-age unemployment are utterly pathetic. Last month in the “Obama recovery” minorities suffered miserably; this month their suffering got worse. The unemployment rates for blacks shot up to 14.4 percent (14.8 percent prior to ‘seasonal adjustment’). Barack Obama is to these people as Adolf Hitler was to Germans, promising a government Utopia and producing nothing but abject ruin.
Barack Obama has declared war on the United States of America. But instead of bullets and bombs, he has waged his war with massive and unsustainable government spending and joblessness.
Tags: Bill Clinton, conservative, failed policies, growth, Jimmy Carter, jobless, Ronald Reagan, unemployment
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July 6, 2012 at 5:12 pm
Blind American Patriotism *makes me sick*, why not? Today the right calls another Obama-hating racist, bigot, extremist a “Patriot” talk about re-using a word till it losing all meaning..
This is because I am sick and tired of hearing brain-damaged people describe things as being socialist or Marxist or Trotskyite or whatever when they don’t have any clue what any of those words mean, they only call him that cause they can’t call him “n i g g e r”
hey just , the Obama accomplishment is in regular text, followed by what it would have been had Obama been a socialist, in quote:
Obama has overhauled the food safety system – “Obama nationalized all farms.”
Advanced women’s rights in the work place – “Obama implemented a single standard wage for all workers.”
Ended Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) in our military – “Obama implemented compulsive military or civilian service.”
Stopped defending DOMA in court. – “Outlawed all religious marriage”
Passed the Hate Crimes bill. – “Passed an antisedition act prohibiting all speech which is not glorifying to the state.”
Appointed two pro-choice women to the Supreme Court – “Replaced all nine justices with suitable replacements.”
Expanded access to medical care and provided subsidies for people who can’t afford it. – Nationalized all health insurance companies
Expanded the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) – “Nationalized all health providers
Fixed the preexisting conditions travesty [and rescissions] in health insurance. – Executed all insurance company executives for crimes against humanity”
Invested in clean energy. – “Directed National Energy Corps to disassemble coal power plants and replace them with wind and solar.”
Overhauled the credit card industry, making it much more consumer-friendly. – “Nationalized all banks.”
He got help for people whose health was injured during the clean-up after the 9/11 attacks. – “Continued Bush-era cover-up of hazardous breathing conditions following 9/11 attacks”
He’s got Osama Bin Laden – “Used Osama bin Laden as a bogeyman to convince people to do everything else he wanted.”
I just feel like it needs to be pointed out over and over again: Obama’s a capitalist. His economic advisors are all capitalists. His solutions for our economic problems rarely make it as far left as “liberal,” much less actually socialist.
You want to know who’s a socialist? Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital specialized in leveraged buyouts of companies with rich pension systems, which Bain then raided and left taxpayers holding the bag for. His $250 million cost taxpayers billions. But Mitt Romney, like other Republicans, is only a socialist when it comes to Mitt Romney. The rest of us get Mitt Romney capitalism, which consists of Mitt Romney stealing our retirement while telling us not to be so lazy.
You think? Jeb couldn’t run this year because George is still radioactive (the worst president ever according to Newsweek’s recent poll). A majority of voters still blame Bush more than Obama when they’re asked who’s responsible for the rotten economy.
Man I was right again, Anyone who hates Obama Is in fact a racist!
what a bunch of sick, ridiculous, hateful posts!
Calling the POTUS a POS and a fraud seems to the the usual calling call for you right-wing racists and bigots like you!
July 6, 2012 at 5:13 pm
http://newquestionman.wordpress.com/2012/06/28/hey-illiterate-racist-lying-pos-a-hole-klansman-micheal-eden/
July 7, 2012 at 1:12 pm
As for the link, isn’t that interesting: another hater dedicating his worthlessly-lived life to talking about me.
I don’t have a nano-second to waste on Questionman or NewQuestionman or whatever the hell he calls himself.
“Questionman” is frankly an interesting choice for avatar; the guy doesn’t HAVE any “questions”; the only thing he’s got are “answers” – and the answer every single time is hate all white people and the only possible problem the black community has is racism. Why do black women kill 60% of their babies in abortion mills? Because white people are racist. Why is fatherlessness in the black community at beyond-crisis levels? Because white people are racist. Why is drug addiction so rampant in the black community? Because white people are racist. Why is the level of incarceration for black males so stratospherically high? Because white people are racist. Why are there so many violent criminal black street gangs? Because black people are racist. Etc. etc. etc.
I know that there are people like him and like you (assuming you’re not both the same guy angrily typing away from a new IP address) who are filled with hate and rage against white people because they have different skin than you do. I find you people a) rabid and b) boring.
What IS a “socialist,” ZaMan? Maybe you could define it in such a way that it can’t possibly apply to Obama, such that only “brain-damaged people” who “don’t have any clue what socialist or Marxist or Trotskyite mean” would ever get the idea that liberal Democrats ar socialist.
Here is the heart of Karl Marx’s economic philosophy that I want you to document and substantiate has nothing whatsoever to do with the Democrat Party or Barack Obama:
I welcome you to knock yourself out trying to demonstrate how this statement in no way, shape or form applies directly to Barack Obama.
It is very interesting that you would talk about what Obama “would have done” if he were a “socialist.” Interesting because on your view the new president of France – who is a self-proclaimed socialist – must now immediately do all of those things. If he doesn’t start lining up insurance executives and shooting them after nationalizing their companies, it will demonstrate what a stupid straw man you are relying on in place of any kind of rational argument whatsoever.
Let’s say for the sake of discussion that Joseph Stalin were elected president. Are you saying that Stalin would have disbanded our Constitution the next day? Disbanded Congress? Really? Under what authority? YOU wouldn’t rise up, because YOU’D welcome it, “ZaMan,” but do you truly not believe that the rest of us wouldn’t??? Which is to say that if even STALIN were elected president of the United States, he would be VERY constrained in what he could do or how quickly he could do it. I would submit IN DIRECT REFUTATION of your asinine argument about how Obama can’t possibly be a socialist because if he were we’d be the USSR today and we’re not that if even STALIN were president he’d have to chip away, he’d have to work within our system, to impose Marxism over a long period of time. Because otherwise the American people would have risen up against him. And I would then submit that THAT is just what Obama has in fact been doing.
It, of course, is a FACT that the Nazis (that’s “National SOCIALIST German WORKERS Party”) and the USSR (“Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics”) both had nationalized health care. You at least seem to know that much.
It is also true that Barack Obama is on the record favoring such a national “single payer system” in America.
We have Obama speaking on video saying the following words:
The goal is and always HAS BEEN for the same sort of national health care system that Nazi Germany and the USSR made famous.
And, yeah, when Obama and Conyers get done, we’ll have a system just like the Nazis and the Stalinists had.
Just remember if you come back here you’d better prove that the Karl Marx statement:
– cannot be linked to Obama in any way, shape or form. Show me that Obama does NOT want to redistribute the wealth lest it be YOU who is shown to be one of the “brain-damaged people” who “don’t have any clue what socialist or Marxist or Trotskyite means.”
July 8, 2012 at 7:11 pm
Michael,
This ZaMan character, or whatever he goes by, is a seriously mentally diseased individual. Unfortunately, where I live, near Toledo, Oh, which is a strong Union town, I run into these types all the time. There is one individual who will actually seek me out to argue and spew his ignorance. I used to “debate” him but have since just try to avoid this useful idiot at all cost, as it is not worth my time. Thanks to your blog, I have ample resources and ammunition to fight for and advance conservatism. I now only become engaged with individuals who seem receptive and/or are acting out of ignorance and might be swayed with facts. The others, like I previously said, I just kick the dust off my feet and move on.
One of the things that I really enjoy when reading this blog, are your responses to extreme liberal whack jobs like ZaMan. I really like the phrase insect brain, which you appropriately use quite often! LOL. Anyway, it is sad and frustrating to deal with liberals, especially when the media, government and academia support it. Often, it feels like we are going against the grain or constantly swimming up stream. I can just imagine how you feel, especially considering that you live in Cali and are so intimate with the subject through this blog. Anyway, your efforts are greatly appreciated and you have a brilliant conservative mind.
I am firmly convinced that, to borrow a phrase from Michael Savage, liberalism is a mental disorder, and for some, the disease is terminal.
July 8, 2012 at 11:19 pm
Free Market Capitalist,
I’m not proud of some of my “zingers.” I didn’t start out name-calling, etc.. But over time, I got so many hateful comments from so many people who literally had nothing more to post BUT their hate, that I started to get angry.
I started to realize that liberals tore Bush and Republicans down one bloody piece of meat at a time. And I started realizing that if conservatives don’t fight back the same way we’re attacked that we’re doomed.
If they firebomb your cities, you firebomb theirs. Maybe they won’t quit firebombing your cities, but at least you’re finally fighting on equal terms. If one side is using poison gas and firebombing civilians and the other side believes it’s too righteous to fight back, that second side is going to lose the war. And it IS a war.
On your point about the guy in Toledo who reminds you of ZaMan, I agree with you. Take the tactic out of the Bible: don’t cast your pearls before swine. There are people who will listen to reason and argue with you intelligently with facts. These people can be reached and we should politely try to persuade them. There are also plenty of people who are rabid leftwing ideologues. And you are doing nothing more than wasting your time with them.
These guys would love noting more than to waste your time. They are sad, pathetic, lonely people; if they can’t get in a screaming match with you, they have very little else to live for.
I try to deal with these people according to Proverbs 26:4-5
4 Do not answer a fool according to his folly,
or you yourself will be just like him.
5 Answer a fool according to his folly,
or he will be wise in his own eyes.
What that passage means, on my view, is that you have to correct a fool because otherwise his stupidity and lies will be believed in a vacuum. The “Big Lie” comes out of that; if the lie isn’t corrected, people over time will assume the most stupid nonsense is true. But on the other hand, once you have rebuked the fool with the truth, move on. Don’t waste your time with him anymore. Because if you spend too much time arguing with a fool, pretty soon people won’t be able to tell the difference between you.
That’s why when I come to the belief that someone is a fool, I proceed to painstakingly attempt to refute them. And then I block them so I’ll never have to waste my time with them again.
That’s harder to do with a guy who physically follows you around town and argues with you whether you want to or not, of course. You can’t just “block” them like you can on a blog.
Fortunately God invented tasers for those people.
July 9, 2012 at 9:14 am
ZaMan, Michael aptly defended his point and I am looking forward to your reply. However one thing I would like for you to take away from this transaction is that while I can’t speak for my fellow Conservatives being an Independent I am sick of liberals using the term racism to mean, “anyone who disagrees.”
For your convenience here is the actual definition so you can start using it in all of it’s original three syllable glory:
“A belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule others.”
You see, what yourself and several of people like you have failed to do is to give us (us, meaning fiscal conservatives) factual objective evidence by any of type of economic barometer that Obama has been anything short of a prime example of a) how Keynesian economic theory is a failed experiment (see also FDR) b) liberal policies address an issue only with fallacious arguments and bear no fruit and c)this entire administration has no clue on how to fix the economy as their predictions are constantly wrong.
We have judged Obama by his actions and his results. Race having nothing to do with it. However something to think about ZaMan, is that you praise him despite the lack of evidence, you defend him for the simple fact you agree with him only. Him being simply the first black president doesn’t make him great. Thinking that, however, by the very definition of the word is racist.
Again I am interested in your response to Michael challenge. There are several pamphlets where BHO listed himself in New Socialist Party of USA. He has every right to be a Socialist, and I have every right to vote against him as I disagree with his political vision.
July 9, 2012 at 12:05 pm
JoJo,
In terms of “aptly defending my point,” allow me to further pile on.
ZaMan’s thesis was that Obama wasn’t a socialist because if Obama WERE a socialist he would have fundamentlly changed America.
Well, according to the Hill, an overwhelming majority (68%) of Americans believe that in fact Obama has “transformed the nation.” And 56% of Americans believe Obama has “transformed the nation” in a negative way:
Obama has in fact “fundamentally transformed America” as he put it. More than half of the American people believe Obama has “substantially transformed” America in a negative way; even 20% of DEMOCRATS are now agreeing that Obama has transformed America in a negative way.
ZaMan is going to argue that, well, if Obama was actually a “SOCIALIST,” that he would act like an absolutely rabid tyrant. ZaMan is going to argue that one can’t just be a “little socialist” anymore than one can be a “little pregnant.” If one is a socialist at ALL, on ZaMan’s presentation, he is all the way Hitler and Stalin.
Well, if that is the case, then it is a documented fact that seventy Democrats are seventy Hitlers and Stalins waiting to kill us all. Because seventy Democrats are officially members of the Socialist Party of America. Not to mention Obama himself, who – as JoJo stated – actually ran as a socialist.
I also rightly argued that even if we HAD a Stalin as president – and Obama is far, FAR closer to being a Stalin than ANY president in American history bar NONE – he would be forced to work within our system. ZaMan believes that a true “socialist” would have just taken over America while you and me and everyone else acted like helpless sheep.
ZaMan is one of those thirty percent of our craziest crazies who would vote for the North Korean regime.