The Wayfarer Philosophy

One of the great things that has happened over the last year is that more and more American people started paying attention to their government. No longer is it enough to just sit there, listening to sailing rhetoric and big promises. Now, most Americans know that they need to pay attention to what is actually going on, not just what the politicians SAY is going on. They use spin and carefully worded phrases to make it seem like what they are doing is all wonderful while the very important details remain hidden. In the last year, more and more Americans are now looking at the truth underneath the well-constructed surface that looks golden. Barack Obama’s first State of the Union Speech tonight was a great example of surface gilding, spun results, and all-out lies that make crap and BS seem wonderful.

Playing Favorites and Dealing out Punishment and Blame

Obama’s comments on green energy and innovations were all great tonight. He even said it would be productive for the country even if there are doubts about global warming (which have grown exponentially in the alst few years). But right after these nice superficial, agreeable platitudes, Obama said that the house had passed a great energy bill and he wanted to Senate to take it up and get it to his desk. If the house Cap and Trade bill is an example of what he wants, then his soaring surface rhetoric has nothing to do with the actual legislation! The Cap and Trade bill that was passed by the house was a job killer, a business killer, and a country-wide ton of regulations that would increase the cost of energ significantly for everyone. Punishing and taxing is not a method of creating incentives. You don’t help one are simply by hurting others, especially when the whole population is one of those areas you hurt.

Obama made his plans on taxing big banks sound nice. He said that he would be asking them to pay the American people back for helping them out. Well, virtually all of the banks have paid back their loans with interest. What is the purpose of taxing them more? He said that he didn’t want to punish banks, but that’s basically what he’s doing. Once again, he’s all about punishing some as a method of helping others. Now, many Americans may not have a problem with this because it is easy to not have regard for large banks, especially after the crisis. Yet, given the fact that most of the banks he will be taxing already paid back their loans with interest, and many of them weren’t involved int eh crisis and were forced to take the TARP funds to begin with, how do they deserve this punishment? Now, you may still feel that it’s ok to punish big companies, but what good comes from it? Will singling them out and taxing them extra make them loan more? Will it encourage them to hire more people? the banks are the ones being demonized right now, but once again it will be the insurance companies, then it will be the energy companies, and so on and so on.

If you listened carefully during the student loan promises, you would have heard more favoritism. obama stated that he wanted grants where students who graduate would not have to pay more than 10% of their income toward their loans. He added that the loan payments would even end after 20 years whetheer or not the loan was paid back. Then, he promised that this loan forgiveness would come after 10 years for those in public service. Hmmmmm… public serice just means government jobs. Why should those working for government get a better deal than those who do not? It’s merely a reward to the public service unions, who already have realy sweet salary and benefit packages.

Now he is a Budget Balancer

Yeah, once again, even after a year he comes back with blaming Bush for putting us on the brink of a depression that he saved us from. He talked about how there were budget deficits under Bush, and he HAD to quadruple them in order to save us from economic disaster. But now, he is going to put a spending freeze on the budget. As I said in a detailed earlier post, that only freezes the spending in 1/6 of the budget at their already outrageously high levels! We need a spending cut, not a spending freeze. So, all that rhetoric about how he does not want to pass a debt burden on to the next generations is just a bunch of BS. what is truly grand is to hear Obama justify his spending by the high, but far-less spending under Bush. He spends most of the time bashing and insulting Bush, but he uses him as a model to justify his own decisions!

Putting a Nice Spin on a Bad Year

It is almost as if Barack Obama did not go through the same year we all did last year. He went on about jobs, jobs, and more jobs. He praised his own “Recovery” or “Stimulus” bill that was actually written by Nancy Pilosi and the far0left Apollo Project. It was tauted to keep unemployment below 8%, but unemployment has been at 10% or above for a few months now. He says how it saved or created 2 million jobs. His staff members say varying figures to show ho how accurate these estimates actually are. In any case, the method that they use to calculate these numbers is based on calculating how much money went to whatever projects or areas and then calculate the number of jobs there. They ASSUME that the money that they sent to different groups or areas actually saved all the jobs that are there! Recovery.gov has not been updated in 3 months, more of that unprecedented transparency. About $15 billion went to districts that don’t exist as is un-accounted for. Of course, this is just a small amount to government. Yet, $15 billion is also the amount that Obama’s spending freeze is supposed to save. Yet, supposedly this is supposed to make us forget that we have lost 3 million jobs since the bill was passed.

It’s also kind of funny how he still talks as if they are trying to move the country forward and all these interest groups and the Republicans are holding him back. With an overwhelmingly Democratic house, a filibuster-proof mejority in the senate (up until a week ago), and ownership of the White House shows that there was no possibility of the Republicans stopping them! The resistance came from the American people, who, for example, overwhelmingly apposed the Healthcare agenda. They want healthcare improvements, but they paid attention tot eh actual bills that came through and saw what disasters they would create! Yet, tonight, Obama talked about how great it was and how we cannot give up on it. 60% of the country does not want your Obamacare!

As usual, any groups against Obama’s plans are called “special interest” groups, but all the groups that support him are unlabeled as interest groups. Obama got a special tax reprieve for unions in the health care bill. He gave partial union ownership to GM and majority union ownership to Chrysler, butting out the bond holders who were 1st in line to be paid back. He talks about improving education, but he cut out charter and school choice programs int he inner city of Washington, DC at the request of the NEW and AFT. He talks about how the peple want less bickering in Washington, yet the Democrats have been portraying the worst in sleazy politics. They work on bills in backroom meetings where they don’t allow Republicans nor the press inside to see what’s going on. Then he complains about the Republicans not working with him. They aren’t even allowed int he room! The reason why he is falling in the polls and Scott Brown got elected last week is because the American people are getting wise to him, his lies, and the Democrats ACTUAL actions not their rhetoric.

I could go on and on, but I’m tired and I want to go to bed. Obama, you’re full of crap as usual.

For the past few weeks, the mantra of the government healthcare promoters has been “Health Insurance Reform.” Barack Obama, Nancy Pilosi, Harry Reed, Henry Waxman, and Barney Frank (the usual far-left suspects) have been demonizing health insurance companies and have been blaming the surge of disappointment from the American public with the Obamacare bills on “special interest groups.” Obama and Pilosi have been characterizing their plans to take over the healthcare system as fighting for the little guy against big special interest. Of course, the polls indicate that it is the majority of the American public that is against Obamacare. Does the majority of the American people work for the health insurance industry?

At the same time, the Democratic National committee has been mobilizing its union groups, including SEIU, NEA, UAW, and AARP on bus trips to town hall meetings to pressure congressmen to support whatever Obamacare bills come out of committee. This sounds more like the real “Astroturf” to me. As Nancy Pilosi characterizes anyone against the Democrats’ plans as “swastika bearing neo-Nazis,” the polls seem to indicate that the majority of the people in our country are apparently neo-Nazis because they do not support the Obamacare proposals.

Organizing for America, Barack Obama’s campaign fund-raising organization is now run out of the DNC and is staging town hall meetings and funding their union thugs to go to these meetings to look like they are actually int he majority of opinion instead of what the polls clearly indicate. So, where’s the real Astroturf? It’s amazing how the far-left is actually trying to get away with having their paid operatives fake the semblance of having the majority of the public in favor of Obama’s healthcare plans. No wonder his approval ratings are plummeting. How long will he be able to get away with his lies and propaganda?

Here, SEIU thugs wearing their purple union T-shirts are beating up a man outside of a town hall meeting. This reminds me of the kind of stuff that Chavez or Castro would organize. no wonder why these two dictators like Obama so much.