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.

One of the principles that Barack Obama really seems to have trouble with is “take responsibility for your actions.” He also has a great deal of trouble with honesty. Last week, after the big Scott Brown election, Barack Obama came out fighting with more campaign appearances and softball interviews. His interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC included a great line about why the American people are not in favor of the various Democrat health care plans. Obama said it was because they “lost a sense of speaking directly to the American people about their what their core values are.” I guess we need to be told what our values are instead of deciding for ourselves. There has certainly been no lack of Obama telling us what he wants, and his campaigning on the various health care proposals was pretty non-stop. I guess we are just not thinking the way he wants us to. He needs to tell us what our core values SHOULD BE. Apparently, we cannot decide for ourselves. Once again, the problem is with us, not his policies.

Obama also started a new crusade of “populism” last week by talking about how he is fighting for job creation. During his campaign speech in Ohio last Friday, he even stated that he would fight for us against those who stand in his way of creating jobs for us. Who exactly is standing in his way of creating jobs? The republicans? Are they fighting to not create jobs? In what way? What are they proposing to stop job creation? They are mostly arguing how all the things that Obama has Well, if you are a company who is in the private sector, not owned by government done and is planning to do do not seem to be geared toward actual job creation. The stimulus package obviously did not work, and it was clear at the time that most of it was just pay offs to state and local governments as well as left wing interest groups. No surprise why this big spending bill did not create private sector jobs. It was mostly geared to creating public sector union jobs.

Simultaneously, Obama decided to shift the public’s anger toward the banks again. He wants to create a new tax just devoted to banks. He says that it is to have the banks pay back penalty funds for having borrowed money from the TARP program. The thing that goes unsaid is that virtually all of the banks have paid back their TARP loans WITH INTEREST. If they have completed their financial agreement with the government, why do they need to be punished further? Additionally, many of the big banks did not request TARP funds are were forced to take the funds. Some of them even stepped in to save other banks. Now, all of these banks too must be punished. Just like with energy companies, insurance companies, and other businesses, Obama likes to announce an attack on these “evil corporations,” playing on peoples’ emotions and anger in order to divert frustration away from him. If he is really bothered by the banking disaster that occurred, why is he a stalwart supporter of Ben Bernanke, the Fed chairman? Why does he not have a problem with all the bonuses from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government banks that were at the center of the catastrophe?

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, GM, and Chrysler are all companies that have taken a lot of taxpayer money from TARP, have not paid it back, and are now protected both financially and politically by the Democrats in government. As has become customary, Obama and the Democrats select those groups and companies that they consider to be allies in their cause and protect them. Likewise, they point out those who they want to demonize and attack them. How do you know if you are an ally or enemy?

Obama will protect you and fight for you if…

If you are a member of a union that has paid a lot of money to the Democrat party, you will be protected and favored. For example, int he health care bill, the unions negotiated a
stipulation that they would not have to pay the taxes on expensive health care plans that the rest of the population would have to pay. The United Auto Workers union was given significant partial ownership of GM and
Chrysler. These companies will not be demonized for needing bailouts. They will not even be criticized for not paying back the loans either.

Businesses that create private sector jobs will be demonized unless they pay off Obama and the Democrats for protection. For example, the big pharmaceutical companies were not targets of Obama in his health care promotion, because they paid a lot of money to Obamacare promotion nd supported it. On the other hand, the insurance companies did not support nor pay money to Obamacare promotion, so they become demonized.

It’s Chicago Mob Philosophy plain and simple. You ahve to pay and offer support to Obama to get his protection. If you don’t, you may need to be demonized, so he can get his agenda across and/or make himself look better tot he people.

Here it is, the day after Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts. In this aftermath, Barack Obama’s talking points as uttered by himself and Robert Gibbs, his propagandist is that “it doesn’t have to do with the last one or two years, but rather the last eight years. Still blaming Bush. It doesn’t seem like such a hot explanation given the fact that Massachusetts is a dark blue state, and supposedly, according to Obama and his political advisors, the people decided to show their anger with George Bush by electing a Republican rather than the Democrat that Obama endorsed and spoke for. Yeah, Obama-logic rarely makes sense, but this is going to a whole new low in their perception of the intelligence of the American people.

According to Scott Brown’s own opinion polls, most of the people who voted for him did so because of national security. If you remember, that was one area where John F. Kennedy, a true Democrat, was strong in. Of course, the healthcare debate has a lot to do with it. Although liberal, the majority of the people in Massachusetts disagree with Obamacare just like the majority of people in the United States.

One troubling issue is that many people blame the problems solely on the Democrat leadership in congress. Of course, Harry Reed’s backroom deals and Nancy Pilosi’s blatant disregard for the will of the people are major factors. We need also put equal blame on the Obama administration’s policies. He has been touring around, campaigning, and basically pimping all the different plans that have been coming out of the congress. He chose to put the Stimulus bill in Nancy Pilosi’s hands and supported it afterwards. Obama’s people have been in Harry Reed’s backroom meetings helping to craft whatever monstrosity of a bill they are finalizing now. Why can’t he share some of the blame too? He has endorsed three Democratic candidates in Virginia, New Jersey, and now Massachusetts that have all lost to Republicans, anon Gd he still blames it on George Bush?

To Obama: No slick, the American people are sick of all the things that your and the other Democrat leaders have been doing. We would be willing to give you time to address the economy , but we actually have. I know that things cannot change dramatically in one year, but give us credit for having thoughts about your decisions in trying to address the issue. We know that punishing and demonizing businesses is not going to help create jobs. You’re just playing to peoples’ emotions and trying to get more money to spend. Making deals with your money-donors and the special interest like the special union tax waiver in the healthcare bill just shows that you lied about not listening to the special interest. Somehow your special interest groups are special and the others are evil.

So union members that have the same healthcare plan as non-union members don’t have to pay the 40 percent tax that the rest of the people have to? So, Nebraska gets a special deal on Medicaid to buy Ben Nelson’s vote? So Louisiana gets a special $300 million deal to get Mary Landrieu’s vote? So Bill Nelson’s vote got bought for allowing seniors to keep Medicare advantage in 3 Democratic counties in Florida while the rest of the state and country don’t?

Call me silly, but if you were not in favor of these deals, you might have spoken out against them.

Call me naive, but you probably could have requested that Harry Reed’s backroom deals in the Obamacare meetings the last few weeks could have been televised on C-Span like you promised eight times. At least you could have called for it.

Maybe you could have argued against the taxes on healthcare plans that will actually make healthcare plans more expensive for us, unlike your promises of reducing our expenses.

Nahhhh.. none of that had to do with Massachusetts voting in a Republican into a senate seat that has been occupied by Democrats for the last 58 years. Besides, it’s Bush’s fault that they voted for a Republican. Yeah, you make a lot of sense… dumbass.