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Saturday, September 4, 2010
Washington DC
On Monday, we celebrate Labor Day. It’s a chance to get together with family and friends, to throw some food on the grill, and have a good time. But it’s also a day to honor the American worker – to reaffirm our commitment to the great American middle class that has, for generations, made our economy the envy of the world. That is especially important now. I don’t have to tell you that this is a very tough time for our country. Millions of our neighbors have been swept up in the worst recession in our lifetimes. And long before this recession hit, the middle class had been taking some hard shots. Long before this recession, the values of hard work and responsibility that built this country had been given short shrift.
[What I'm not telling you: The 'Handler Group' modeled this regime after one of my favorite idols, Frankling Delano Roosevelt. FDR managed to prolong "The Great Depression" several years beyond it's normal lifespan, as I am doing with "The Great Recession!!" You've heard me whinin,' pissin,' and moanin' about the millions upon millions (Heh!!) of jobs this regime as saved or created. (How the hell does one even quantify a 'saved job'??) I've done FDR 'one-better,' he had to create all those "alphabet" agencies to put people to work--I just ignore the facts and toddle onward!! That "...throw some food on the grill...." thingie...?? Ever notice: After "Michelle-The-Moocher" whines and bitches about all the fat kids.... ya see her stuffin' her pie-hole with ice cream by the 'boat-load?!?!?" WHEW...!! That's gonna make some hips on that ol' girl!!!]
For a decade, middle class families felt the sting of stagnant incomes and declining economic security. Companies were rewarded with tax breaks for creating jobs overseas. Wall Street firms turned huge profits by taking, in some cases, reckless risks and cutting corners. All of this came at the expense of working Americans, who were fighting harder and harder just to stay afloat – often borrowing against inflated home values to pay their bills. Ultimately, the house of cards collapsed. So this Labor Day, we should recommit ourselves to our time-honored values and to this fundamental truth: to heal our economy, we need more than a healthy stock market; we need bustling main streets and a growing, thriving middle class. That’s why I will keep working day-by-day to restore opportunity, economic security, and that basic American Dream for our families and future generations.
[What I'm not telling you: I can't take ALL the credit for the housing bubble and it's collapse!! It was "Slick-Willie" Clinton and Andrew Cuomo, his HUD Secretary, who forced Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to loosen their requirements and put more and more people into houses they couldn't afford and had no desire to pay for. Now that Freddie and Fannie are bankrupt and require Billions in bailouts each year.... I'M LEFT HOLDING THE BAG!! I gotta plan..... We blame this whole housing thing on GEORGE BUSH!! I say it enough, the sheep (taxpayers) will believe it!! Ya know....... I'm a walkin' talkin' breathin' OXYMORON!! I preach about having a healthy stock market, a bustling main streen and a growing, thriving middle class....... and yet,........ I'm practically OWNED BY THE UNIONS!! Anybody BUT the unions thriving, IS NOT the union goal. The union management is the union goal!!]
First, that means doing everything we can to accelerate job creation. The steps we have taken to date have stopped the bleeding: investments in roads and bridges and high-speed railroads that will lead to hundreds of thousands of jobs in the private sector; emergency steps to prevent the layoffs of hundreds of thousands of teachers and firefighters and police officers; and tax cuts and loans for small business owners who create most of the jobs in America. We also ended a tax loophole that encouraged companies to create jobs overseas. Instead, I’m fighting to pass a law to provide tax breaks to the folks who create jobs right here in America. But strengthening our economy means more than that. We’re fighting to build an economy in which middle class families can afford to send their kids to college, buy a home, save for retirement, and achieve some measure of economic security when their working days are done. And over the last two years, that has meant taking on some powerful interests who had been dominating the agenda in Washington for far too long.
[What I'm not telling you: Have you had the opportunity to check out what I've done sofar with the roads and bridges?? When you do, you'll see these really neat, pretty signs saying I did it!! Those signs ONLY cost $300 each PLUS installation!! What'ta deal, right?!?! Any more to be done, YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN!! As for the high-speed railroads.... if we just stick to the trackage leased by Amtrack, we'll need about a Trillion Bucks to upgrade infrastructure and to develop safety, security hard and software. Another 'real deal,' right?!?! THEN we... 'n' by 'we,' I mean YOU.... get to subsidize it ad infinitum while no one rides it!!]
That’s why we’ve put an end to the wasteful subsidies to big banks that provide student loans. We’re going to use that money to make college more affordable for students instead.
[What I'm not telling you: We effectively 'nationalized' an entire private industry--essentially destroying ALL BUT ONE of the lenders of student loans. That ONE is The State Bank of North Dakota, coincidentally, in the home state of Senator Kent Conrad, Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee!! How special is that?!?! With the nationalization of said student loan industry, we've made 35,000 more Americans eligible for some portion of the federal tit!! Again, How special is that?!?! BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!! Now we control who goes to college, what college they attend, what political party the student belongs to, what the student's religion is, what the student's major is.....see, we now CONTROL EVERYTHING about ANY STUDENT, foreign or domestic!! Ain't that George Soros a real smarty?!?!]
That’s why we’re making it easier for workers to save for retirement, with new ways of saving their tax refunds and a simpler system for enrolling in retirement plans like 401(k)s. And we’re going to keep up the fight to protect Social Security for generations to come.
[What I'm not telling you: Even with my lack of any economic or financial experience what-so-ever; even with Congress' track record of heretofore mismanaging the various federal entitlement programs; most of the sheep known as 'taxpayers' will follow along blindly, allowing the executive and legislative branches to continue their contest to see who can piss away more money, faster!! Who--in their right mind--would even consider loaning the federal government a tax refund at such an interest rate as to be mathematically nill?? Those same sheep, that's who!! The 'Handler Group' has a plan that I hesitate to refer to. (Shush!!....Don' tell nobody I tol'ya this!!) At least once a year if not more often, they plan to tweek the IRA and 401(k) regulations and convince the sheep that each tweek is to their advantage. In reality, the tweeks will result in nothing more than controlling how much an individual can invest in his or her retirement fund; how much said retirement fund can grow, how said retirement fund is dispersed. The more an individual has in retirement, the less he or she is dependent upon the federal tit!! Without more and more dependency, thus control, the fascist way of life--the fascist way of rule--will collapse. If that collapse comes by way of restoration of a constitutional republic, the timetable of my plan to become UN Secretary-General will have to be stepped up!! That may not be so bad..... I always wanted to be a 'general,' anyway.]
That’s why we stopped insurance companies from refusing to cover people with pre-existing conditions and dropping folks who become seriously ill.
[What I'm not telling you: Of course I'm going to brag about forcing the insurance companies to stop considering pre-existing conditions when marketing their products. What you don't realize is that there's no provisions for controlling the costs of insurance to those with pre-existing conditions. The companies are free to charge what they feel will cover their outlays. The 'Handler Group' which formulates what I think and what I say and what is programed into my teleprompter have intentionally left out one important fact in the talking points I blather on and on about.... The insurance can continue to morally and ethically, "nail your ass to the wall!!" Pre-existing conditions portion of the unconstitional 0bamaCare legislation DOESN'T EVEN KICK IN UNTIL 2014!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Isn't that special!!! Rather cleaver of Soros--wasn't it--to leave it out of the talking points!!]
And that’s why we cut taxes for 95 percent of working families, and passed a law to help make sure women earn equal pay for equal work in the United States of America.
[What I'm not telling you: Actually both 'Turbo-Tax' Tim Geithner and I were surprised so many Americans bought into that ruse!! The actual brilliance involved here is that we decided to call 'it' a tax cut when 'it' was actually a cash rebate. We sent each American a check for a measly $300; each pair of joint tax filers a check for a measly $600. I congratulate 'Turbo-Tax' for coming up with this scheme!! While this regime does not rely on 'cash in the bank' to piss away; it looks better on the books if there's seemingly, a strong incoming cash flow to disguise our faulty Keynesian economics!! Think of the detrimental effects of even a measly 2% actual cut in the tax rates that reasonably could go on for years. The actual rate cut would have amounted to real savings to the American taxpayer--something that can not be tolerated by this regime!!]
This Labor Day, we are reminded that we didn’t become the most prosperous country in the world by rewarding greed and recklessness. We did it by rewarding hard work and responsibility. We did it by recognizing that we rise or we fall together as one nation – one people – all of us vested in one another. That is how we have succeeded in the past. And that is how we will not only rebuild this economy, but rebuild it stronger than ever before.
[What I'm not telling you: In less than five years, we'll be overtaken by China in the areas of real GDP growth, manufacturing output, defense spending, federal gold ownership, all the areas that have any significance. We will be relegated to the status of my home country of Kenya...... a THIRD-WORLD RAT-HOLE!! Oh, in closing I'd like to point out one more thing: There's a new website that I prefer you not check out; if you do, don't believe a word of it!! That's http://www.theblaze.com/; another offering by that dam' Glenn Beck!! Just when I had the fascist media reduced to mere phamphleteers, he has to come along--AGAIN--to post "the rest of the story!!"]
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