For facts and graphs that will blow you away (the HuffPo will probably charge me with inciting violence with that cliché) you have to go to A Goy and His Blog. Here is but a sample of his work. This Goy has done a great service. Paul Ryan move over, here comes the Goy.
I apologize for the size, but you can click it to enlarge. My webmaster is a lazy cat named Loosey and, like the government , is no help at all.
There is much more on this blog site. Do not fail to take a look.
Bob B
More Socialism – Obama administration announces it will require lenders to temporarily slash or eliminate monthly mortgage payments.
Fidel Castro praises Obama for following in his footsteps.
More spending – Obama’s 2011 budget will raise the accumulated national debt to 90% of GDP in 10 years.
More insults – Obama snubs Israeli Prime Minister by refusing to eat with him. I know that is a crass way of expressing it but it is appropriate to the occasion. Obama walked away from the Prime Minister to have dinner alone.
More insolvency – The Pansy scheme on which Social Security operates had been forecast to remain with a positive cash flow in the year 2016. Today it was reported cash flow will turn negative this year.
The demand for US Treasury bonds on yesterday’s auction was weak. Concern about our looming debt is making our bonds harder to sell without offering higher rates in compensation for declining quality.
Bob B
One of the things Obama said when presenting his budget proposal was “Our government is so deeply in debt after what can only be described as a decade of profligacy.” and “We have to address the failure that led to [this crisis], and that includes the failure to rein in spending.” and “It would be a terrible mistake to borrow against our children’s future to pay our way today.”
With these very words he proposes to dramatically increase spending and raise the debt our children must pay. The audacity of the man! Has he always thought we were fools or did he just conclude so when we elected him President?
The American people know the quality of our health care has no peer. We also see what is wrong with our health care system. It is too costly, too complex and so burdened with lawsuits that some doctors are leaving their practices. Those that remain find it necessary to prescribe tests dictated by tort law and not medical need. Obama proposes a plan that fixes none of the problems, adds to the cost, threatens the quality and increases the power of government over the people.
The American people don’t want it. Obama knows they don’t want it. The Democrats know they don’t want it. But the people be damned, Obama wants it, and he is willing to throw even some Democrats under the bus to get government run health care imposed on the people.
Obama’s goal is single payer healthcare. Single payer, just one payer – the government. He who pays has control. He who is the only payer has total control. When speaking to friendly audiences Obama has stated clearly and on the record that single payer is the goal. It may take time, he says, we may not be able to do it in one step. Just as clearly, when speaking to general audiences he denies that it is the goal. To whom is this man lying, to the unions and ACORN, or to the people? It has to be one or the other.
To be continued
Bob B
He sees the problem and offers a solution – more government spending and higher taxes. Of course he didn’t say “more government spending”, but he advocated for deployment of Obama’s programs as part of the solution. And what is that if not more government spending? Einstein’s definition of idiocy immediately comes to mind. But Friedman is a very intelligent man. If idiocy is not the answer, then how is it that repeating the cause of the problem comes to be seen as the solution?
If you have read A Conflict of Visions you know the answer. It lies in an uwavering belief in the superiority of conceptual planning over the empirical evidence of experience. Reagan came close when he simply said “Government is not the solution. Government is the problem.”
It is clear that Friedman sees government to be the solution. I wonder what he sees as the cause.
Bob B
A group of Republican Congressmen snookered Obama into meeting with them in Minnesota on January 29th. Paul Ryan (R-WI) asked the President why he had found it necessary to increase discretionary spending by 84%. Obama said – Bush made me do it!
The exact words he used to say this were ” The fact of the matter is, is that most of the increases in this year’s budget, this past year’s budget, were not as a consequence of policies that we initiated but instead were built in as a consequence of the automatic stabilizers that kick in because of this enormous recession. So the increase in the budget for this past year was actually predicted before I was even sworn into office”
I can see it now. The year is 2012. The location is Iowa. The speaker is incumbent President Barack Obama. He speaks…” My fellow Americans, unemployment is touching 20%. The stock market is the lowest it has been since I took office, and mortgage foreclosures hit an historic high last month. I have said it before and I will say it again, I inherited this mess. As you know, the prior administration left this nation in such dreadful shape that even I could not put it back together in just 4 years.
When you walk past the SEIU polling place peacekeepers in November remember, what the world needs now is more Hope. Vote for more Hope. Your vote is important. Every vote counts. Vote as often as you can.
I have delivered on my promise. Scientists all agree, the oceans have not risen since I came to power. I can do the same for this alleged great nation as I did for the seas, but, as I said from the beginning it will take time. Give me 4 more years and you will see even greater Change.
(With a wave of the hand he departs ) Glad to be with you! And May God Change America”
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