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"Clown Prince" Blather Opportunity
Unremarkable Remarks,
Prince George's Community College,
Largo, Maryland
March 15, 2012
Now, I just finished learning about some of the work that you’re doing here at this community college to make sure that homes are using less energy, and helping folks save money on their heating and their air-conditioning bills. And I was very impressed. I’m even more impressed because I know this program is giving a lot of people a chance to make a decent living -- everyone from veterans to folks with disabilities to folks who’ve just been down on their luck but want to work. So I want you to know how proud I am of this program, of this institution, of all of you. The skills that you gain here at this community college will be the surest path to success in this economy. Because if there’s one thing that we’re thinking about a lot these days, is, first of all, how do we make sure that American workers have the skills and education they need to be able to succeed in this competitive global economy? And community colleges all across the country and all across Maryland are doing an outstanding job providing young people that first opportunity after high school but also helping older workers retrain for the jobs of the future because the economy is constantly adapting. So community colleges are big. Community colleges are critical to our long-term success. What’s also critical to our long-term success is the question of energy: How do we use less energy? How do we produce more energy right here in the United States of America?
I have mixed emotions coming here today. On the positive side, I so enjoy coming to community colleges; I don't have to sound very smart to impress the student audience. Another positive is that the student body are usually in their teens and as such, are highly impressionable, they believe all the crap I feed them. On the negative side, this school is in Maryland, just outside the District of Corruption. With the school being that close, I don't have to use Air Force One and that's a dam' shame. The taxpayers fund all my travel--even all those illegal campaign charges I write off to them--but coming here is just a short helicopter ride. Actually it takes three helicopters for all the Secret Service protection and one just hauls all the sound crap and teleprompters. I can't speak without them!!
I have found though, that many students don't belong in a community college. They'd fare far better if they were in a high-quality trade school. The great demand for the future will be in the trades. We have far more lawyers, economists, professional lobbyists and professional, career politicians than we'll ever need in the foreseeable future!!
And I know this is an especially important topic for everybody right now because you guys have to fill up at the gas station. And it’s rough. Gas prices and the world oil markets right now are putting a lot of pressure on families right now. And one of the things that is important to remember is for a lot of folks, just doing what you have to do to get your kids to school, to get to the job, to do grocery shopping -- you don’t have an option. You’ve got to be able to fill up that gas tank. And when prices spike on the world market, it’s like a tax, it’s like somebody is going into your pocket. We passed the payroll tax at the beginning of this year to make sure that everybody had an extra $40 in their paycheck, on average in part because we anticipated that gas prices might be going up like they did last year, given tight world oil supplies. But that doesn’t make it easier for a lot of families out there that are just struggling to get by. This is tough. Now, the question is, how do we meet this challenge? Because right now we’re starting to see a lot of politicians talking a lot but not doing much. And we’ve seen this movie before. Gas prices went up around this time last year. Gas prices shot up in the spring and summer of 2008 -- I remember, I was running for President at the time. This has been going on for years now. And every time prices start to go up -- especially in an election year -- politicians dust off their 3-point plans for $2.00 gas. I guess this year they decided, we're going to make it $2.50. I don't know where -- why not $2.40? Why not $2.10? But they tell the same story. They head down to the gas station; they make sure a few cameras are following them and then they start acting like we've got a magic wand and we will give you cheap gas forever if you just elect us. Every time. Been the same script for 30 years. It's like a bad rerun.
Now, here’s the thing -- because we've seen it all before, we know better. You know better. There is no such thing as a quick fix when it comes to high gas prices. There’s no silver bullet. Anybody who tells you otherwise isn’t really looking for a solution -- they’re trying to ride the political wave of the moment. Usually, the most common thing, when you actually ask them -- all right, how is it that you're going to get back to $2.00 a gallon gas, how are you going to do it, specifically, what is your plan -- then typically what you'll hear from them is, well, if we just drilled more for oil then gas prices would immediately come down and all our problems would go away. That's usually the response. Now, Maryland, there are two problems with that answer. First of all, we are drilling. Under my administration, America is producing more oil today than at any time in the last eight years. (Applause.) Any time. That's a fact. That's a fact. We’ve quadrupled the number of operating oil rigs to a record high. I want everybody to listen to that -- we have more oil rigs operating now than ever. That's a fact. We’ve approved dozens of new pipelines to move oil across the country. We announced our support for a new one in Oklahoma that will help get more oil down to refineries on the Gulf Coast. Over the last three years, my administration has opened millions of acres of land in 23 different states for oil and gas exploration. Offshore, I’ve directed my administration to open up more than 75 percent of our potential oil resources. That includes an area in the Gulf of Mexico we opened up a few months ago that could produce more than 400 million barrels of oil. So do not tell me that we’re not drilling. We’re drilling all over this country. I guess there are a few spots where we’re not drilling. We’re not drilling in the National Mall. We’re not drilling at your house. I guess we could try to have, like, 200 oil rigs in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay. Well, that’s the question. We are drilling at a record pace but we’re doing so in a way that protects the health and safety and the natural resources of the American people. So that’s point number one. If you start hearing this “drill, baby, drill; drill, drill, drill” -- if you start hearing that again, just remember you’ve got the facts -- we’re doing that. Tell me something new. That’s problem number one.
I'm really in an indefensible position, here. You've heard all those lies I've been peddling since fuel prices became the topic du' jour. There's alot more facts that I could spell out, but they're directly opposite of my public position. See, the first and foremost fact is the national average gas price is up over 105% since my immaculation, three LONG years ago. Additional national average diesel price is up 80++% since my immaculation.
I blather almost constantly about that 2% versus 20% lie. The actual phrase that was stolen from is:
"America has 5% of the population but use 24% of the world's energy." Of course, we had to tweak the numbers to make the consumption seem far worse than the rest of the planet. One point that's never mentioned: with the exception of my incredible borrowing and spending, all the energy consumed by the citizens of the United States is bought and paid for; nothing was stolen from the world's third-world ratholes as we socio-fascists would have you believe.
Those 'drilling' numbers I cite?!? Some guy in some broom-closet in MY barackingham Palace pulls them out of his ass!! The actual truth is the vast majority of working drilling sites were approved and permitted in the past 25 years or so, by Presidents Bush-41, "Slick-Willie" Clinton or President Bush-43. True, I opened up lots of federal lands to oil drilling.... but I forgot to mention that I very rarely approve a permit to actually start the drills turning!! Most of the drilling I refer to--that drilling I lead you to believe is taking place on federal lands--is taking place on private lands, sometimes in someone's front-yard!! Given the current--and ongoing--owe-bama Depression, most folks would relish having an oil rig in their yards.... just imagine the royalties they'd be receiving for every barrel pumped out of the ground.
Here’s the second problem with what some of these politicians are talking about. There’s a problem with a strategy that only relies on drilling and that is, America uses more than 20 percent of the world’s oil. If we drilled every square inch of this country -- so we went to your house and we went to the National Mall and we put up those rigs everywhere -- we’d still have only 2 percent of the world’s known oil reserves. Let’s say we miss something -- maybe it’s 3 percent instead of 2. We’re using 20; we have 2. Now, you don’t need to be getting an excellent education at Prince George’s Community College to know that we’ve got a math problem here. I help out Sasha occasionally with her math homework and I know that if you’ve got 2 and you’ve got 20, there’s a gap.
Do we have anybody who’s good at math here? Am I right? Okay.
So if we don’t develop other sources of energy, if we don’t develop the technology to use less energy to make our economy more energy-efficient, then we will always be dependent on foreign countries for our energy needs. And that means every time there’s instability in the Middle East, which is the main thing that’s driving oil prices up right now -- it’s the same thing that was driving oil prices up last year -- every time that happens, every time that there’s unrest, any time that there’s concern about a conflict, suddenly, oil futures shoot up, you’re going to feel it at the pump. It will happen every single time. We will not fully be in control of our energy future if our strategy is only to drill for the 2 percent but we still have to buy the 20 percent. And there’s another wrinkle to this -- other countries use oil, too. We’re not the only ones. So you’ve got rapidly-growing nations like China and India, and they’re all starting to buy cars. They’re getting wealthier. They want cars, too. And that means the price of gas will rise. Just to give you an example -- in 2010, China alone added 10 million new cars. That’s just in one year. And there are about a billion Chinese. So they’ve got a lot more people who are going to want cars in the future, which means they are going to want to get some of that oil and that will drive prices up. So we can’t just drill our way out of the problem. We are drilling, but it’s not going to solve our problem. That’s not the future I want for the United States of America. We can’t allow ourselves to be held hostage to events on the other side of the globe. That’s not who we are. America controls its own destiny. We’re not dependent on somebody else. So we can’t have an energy strategy for the last century that traps us in the past. We need an energy strategy for the future -- an all-of-the-above strategy for the 21st century that develops every source of American-made energy. Yes, develop as much oil and gas as we can, but also develop wind power and solar power and biofuels. Make our buildings more fuel-efficient. Make our homes more fuel-efficient. Make our cars and trucks more fuel-efficient so they get more miles for the gallon. That’s where I want to take this country. And here's -- the best part of it is thousands of Americans have jobs right now because we’ve doubled the use of clean energy in this country since I came into office. And I want to keep on making those investments. (Applause.) I don’t want to see wind turbines and solar panels and high-tech batteries made in other countries by other workers. I want to make them here. I want to make them here in Maryland. I want to make them here in the United States of America, with American workers. That's what I want. So when I came into office, we said, all right, how are we going to start moving America in that direction? It's not a thing you get done in one year, but how do we start moving in that direction? So after 30 years of not doing anything, we raised fuel economy standards on cars and trucks so that by the middle of the next decade, our cars will average nearly 55 miles per gallon -- that's double what we get today -- 55 miles per gallon. Fifty-five miles a gallon.
I have to apologize for this meaningless, unfactual blather.... it ain't my fault; nothing's ever my fault!! The teleprompter is programmed ahead of each blusterful blather; I just read what appears on the screen. We socio-facists are quick with 'the word,' but short with 'the facts!'
The "2%" I'm constantly referring to as if it were a 'cuss-word,' is a far cry from the truth. That "2%" is 22.3 billion barrels of proved oil reserves. "Proved oil reserves" as explained by my own Energy Information Administration (EIA), is a small subset of recoverable resources!! Ok--and George Soros is gonna get really pissed at me for this--let's look at all the oil reserves:
**22.3 bln barrels: those "2%" I blather about, HOURLY, per my own the EIA, and
**86 bln barrels in the Outer Continental Shelf, per my own Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and
**24 bln barrels (shale deposits) in the 'lower-48,' per my own EIA, and
**2 bln barrels (shale deposits) in Alaska's 'North Slope,' per my own U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and
**12 bln barrels in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), per my own USGS, and
**19 bln barrels in the Utah Tar Sands, per my own Bureau of Land Management, and
**1.4 TRILLION barrels in Wyoming's Green River Formation, per my own USGS.
Oh, but these are only estimates, you say!! How true, I say!!
Historically, federal agencies' estimates on anything are generally on the low side. As but one example, I cite North Dakota's Bakken Formation:
In 1995, the USGS estimated the total recoverable oil volume to be 151 million barrels.
In 2008, the USGS increased it's estimate to 3 billion to 4.3 billion barrels.
In 2011, oil analysists increased the estimate to 20 billion barrels.
The United States--by these totals--truely is awash in crude oil!!
So the young people here who were driving those beaters that getting 5 miles per gallon we're going to get you to 55. And that will save the average family more than $8,000 over the life of a car -- $8,000. That will help pay some bills. That means you’ll be able to fill up every two weeks instead of every week. And those are the cars we need to keep building here in the United States.
All right, so now, to fuel these cars and trucks, obviously if they're using less gas, that's great. That saves us; we're using less oil. But we also want to invest in clean advanced biofuels that can replace some of the oil that we're currently using. That's important. Already, we’re using these biofuels to power everything from city buses to UPS trucks to Navy ships. I want to see more of these fuels in American cars -- homegrown fuels -- because that means we're buying less oil from foreign countries and we're creating jobs here in the United States including big parts of rural America, big parts of rural Maryland, where the economy oftentimes is struggling and you have a real opportunity to create entire new industries and put people to work. And it's happening all across the country. So all of these steps have put us on a path of greater energy independence. Here's a statistic I want everybody to remember next time you're talking to somebody who doesn’t know what they're talking about. Since I took office, America’s dependence on foreign oil has gone down every single year. In 2010, our oil dependence, the amount that we're bringing in, the percentage we're bringing in, was under 50 percent for the first time in 13 years. We've got to do better than that, and we can do better than that.
But in order to do better than that, we've got to tell the folks who are stuck in the past that our future depends on this all-of-the-above energy strategy. That’s our job. That it can't just be -- it can't just be drilling for more oil. We're drilling for more oil, but that can't be all the solution; that's just part of the solution. Now, here's the sad thing. Lately, we’ve heard a lot of professional politicians, a lot of the folks who are running for a certain office who shall go unnamed they've been talking down new sources of energy. They dismiss wind power. They dismiss solar power. They make jokes about biofuels. They were against raising fuel standards. I guess they like gas-guzzlers. They think that's good for our future. We’re trying to move towards the future; they want to be stuck in the past. We’ve heard this kind of thinking before. Let me tell you something. If some of these folks were around when Columbus set sail they must have been founding members of the Flat Earth Society. They would not have believed that the world was round. We've heard these folks in the past. They probably would have agreed with one of the pioneers of the radio who said, "Television won’t last. It’s a flash in the pan." One of Henry Ford’s advisors was quoted as saying, "The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a fad." There have always been folks like that. There always have been folks who are the naysayers and don't believe in the future, and don't believe in trying to do things differently. One of my predecessors, Rutherford B. Hayes, reportedly said about the telephone, "It’s a great invention, but who would ever want to use one?" That's why he's not on Mt. Rushmore because he’s looking backwards. He’s not looking forwards. He’s explaining why we can't do something, instead of why we can do something.
The point is, there will always be cynics and naysayers who just want to keep on doing things the same way that we’ve always done them. They want to double down on the same ideas that got us into some of the mess that we’ve been in. But that's not who we are as Americans. See, America has always succeeded because we refuse to stand still. We put faith in the future. We are inventors. We are builders. We are makers of things. We are Thomas Edison. We are the Wright Brothers. We are Bill Gates. We are Steve Jobs. That’s who we are. That’s who we need to be right now. That's who we need to be right now. I don't understand when I hear folks who are in elected office, or aspiring to elected office, who ignore the facts and seem to just want to get a cute bumper sticker line, instead of actually trying to solve our problems. What I just said about energy, by the way, is not disputed by any energy expert. Everybody agrees with this. So why is it that somebody who wants to help lead the country would be ignoring the facts?
If you want an example of what I’m talking about, consider an important issue that's before Congress right now. The question -- there’s a question before Congress I want everybody to know about. The question is whether or not we should keep giving $4 billion in taxpayer subsidies to the oil industry.
The oil industry has been subsidized by you, the taxpayer, for about a hundred years -- 100 years. One hundred years, a century. So some of the same folks who are complaining about biofuels getting subsidies, or wind or solar energy getting subsidies, or electric cars and advanced batteries getting subsidies to help get them off the ground, these same folks -- when you say, why are we still giving subsidies to the oil industry –- “well, no, we need those.” Oil companies are making more money right now than they’ve ever made. On top of the money they’re getting from you at the gas station every time you fill up, they want some of your tax dollars as well.
That doesn't make any sense. Does it make sense?
It’s inexcusable. It is time for this oil industry giveaway to end. So in the next few weeks, I expect Congress to vote on ending these subsidies. And when they do, they’ll put every single member of Congress on record. I guess you can stand up for the oil companies who really don't need much help, or they can stand up for the American people, because we can take that $4 billion -- we could be investing it in clean energy in a good energy future, in fuel efficiency. We could actually be trying to solve a vital problem. They can bet -- they can place their bets on the energy of the past, or they can place their bets on America’s future -- on American workers, American ingenuity, American technology, American science, American-made energy, American efficiency, American productivity. We can bet on America and our own capacity to solve this problem. That’s the choice we face. That’s what’s at stake right now.
Maryland, we know what direction we have to go in.
And every American out there, as frustrated as they are about gas prices right now, when you actually ask people, they’ll tell you, yes, we’ve got to find new sources of energy. We got to find new ways of doing things. People understand that. We just got to get Washington to understand it. We got to get politicians to understand it. We’ve got to invest in a serious, sustained, all-of-the-above energy strategy that develops every resource available for the 21st century. We’ve got to choose between the past and the future. And that's a choice we shouldn’t be afraid to make because we’ve always bet on the future, and we’re good at it. America is good at the future. We are good at being ahead of the curve. We’re good at being on the cutting edge. Ending these subsidies won’t bring down gas prices tomorrow. Even if we drilled every inch of America, that won’t bring gas prices down tomorrow. But if we’re tired of watching gas prices spike every single year, and being caught in this position, where what happens in the Middle East ends up taking money out of your pocket, if we want to stabilize energy prices for the long term and the medium term, if we want America to grow, we’re going to have look past what we’ve been doing and put ourselves on the path to a real, sustainable energy future. That’s the future you deserve. So I need all of you to make your voices heard. Get on the phone, write an email, send a letter, let your member of Congress know where you stand. Tell them to do the right thing. Tell them we can win this fight. Tell them we’re going to combine our creativity and our optimism, our brainpower, our manpower, our womanpower. Tell them: Yes, we can. Tell them we are going to build an economy that lasts. Tell them we’re going to make this the American century just like the last century.
$8,000!! Wow!! $8,000, really?!? That's a huge number, right?!? OK, now take blusterful bullshit out of the equation. The average age of a car in the United States has increased since I instututed the owe-bama Depression with my wild borrowing from the Chinese and my reckless spending to reward the various unions, my donors, my supporters as well as my campaign workers. That vehicle average is now about 12 years!! Wow!! That's a pretty old car for anyone to be driving. Now--all bullshit aside--when you do the math--here we go again with the math--that $8,000 "over the life of the car" now looks like less than $700 a year; $58 a month; less than $3 a work-day!! The number suddenly isn't so big any more, is it?!?
"....invest in clean advanced biofuels...." On it's face, that's a ludicrius statement!! As much as the socio-fascists--the liberals; the progressives; the owe-bamacRATics--want the public to see them as the nation's "do-gooders," I'm completely dumbfounded that they go along with this biofuels bullshit!! Biofuels are manufactured--actually, distilled--from food grains and grasses. To put the grains to this use is the greatest mis-use that could be undertaken. OK, the aforementioned socialist groups "don't-give-two-hoots-in-hell" for those in the United States that may be food-deprived, if not starving; the grains could be used to feed millions of souls in world's various third-world ratholes!!
Until the various unsustainable 'green' energy sources I support and promote, are stand-alone industries in the energy sector, all 'R and D' should be left to the private sector without federal interference; without federal monies. As it stands now, so long as the interference and monies are as pervasive as they are; no 'green' energy source will ever be able to stand alone. Can anybody spell "Chevy-Volt?!?" We bribe each buyer with $7,500. If the Volt's sales remain as dismal as they've been of late, I'm contemplating raising the bribe to $10,000!! If the Volt were forced to 'stand alone,' it would be a $41,000 vehicle! What idiot would buy one when--with the addition of less than $8,000--they could drive away in a Corvette!!!
The jet engine in it's various sizes, is the most prolific energy source in aviation. Thousands are used in both civilian and military aircraft, worldwide. No 'green' energy source can compete with the jet engine! Until they can--which is probably NEVER--no 'green' energy source will completely replace fossil fuels. Until there is a wind-powered; a water-powered; a solar-powered aircraft, fossil fuels will be the ONLY WORKABLE ENERGY SOURCE for high speed travel; high speed military aircraft!!
America DOES NOT have to choose between the past and the future. This is nothing more than a source for further socio-fascist 'warfare,' much like class warfare; much like economic warfare; much like racial warfare!! I employ an "all-the-above" approach when it comes to using 'warfare' to advance my dismal chances for re-immaculation!!
As I quietly acknowledge, those "$4 billion in oil company subsidies" are a necessity. Sure, it may appear that we're subsidizing said companies' huge--albeit evil--profits at the expense of the working man and woman; at the expense of working families;.... ah..... what-ta-hell.... at the expense of the children!! Everybody uses 'children' when they want to make a point by tugging at the public heartstrings!! What do you suppose would be the net affect of ending said subsidies?!? Let me tell'ya.... The evil oil companies ain't gonna 'eat' the added expense!! They'll pass it on, ultimately to the end user..... YOU, the consumer!! How--when coupled with MY doubling of gas prices in three years--do you think that will affect my dwindling chances at re-immaculation?!? Not Well!!
Ta'hell with George Soros!! Yes, contact your senators and congressmen and women!! But.... tell them to approve more drilling permits; tell them to approve more oil refineries; tell them to approve new--as well as replacement--nuclear reactors!! If we truly want an "all-the-above" approach to a national energy policy, these will put the 'non-greens' on equal footing with the 'greens,' thus truly "all-the-above!!"
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
This'n'That; March Ninth #2; MORE Unremarkable Remarks
The "Condemning Conservatives" Tour; Stop #2
Campaigning on "The Taxpayers' Dime"
"Clown Prince" blather from Petersburg, Va
Now, back then, in 2008, we were talking about how working Americans were already having a tough go of it. Folks were working harder and longer for less. It was getting tougher to afford health care or to send your kids to college. The economy was already shedding jobs, and in less than a decade, nearly one in three manufacturing jobs had vanished. Then the bottom fell out of the economy, and things got that much tougher. We were losing 700,000 to 800,000 jobs a month. The economy was hemorrhaging. And three and a half years later, we’re still recovering from the worst economic crisis in our lifetimes. And we’ve got a lot of work to do before everybody who wants a good job can find one, before middle-class folks regain that sense of security that had been slipping away even before the recession hit, and before towns like Petersburg get fully back on their feet. But here’s the good news: Over the past two years, our businesses have added nearly 4 million new jobs. We just found out that last month in February we added 233,000 private sector jobs. More companies are bringing jobs back and investing in America. And manufacturing is adding jobs for the first time since the 1990s. We just had another good month last month in terms of adding manufacturing jobs. And this facility is part of the evidence of what’s going on all across the country. This company is about to hire more than 200 new workers -- 140 of them right here in Petersburg, Virginia. So the economy is getting stronger. And when I come to places like this, and I see the work that’s being done, it gives me confidence there are better days ahead. I know it because I would bet on American workers and American know-how any day of the week.
When I was immaculated in January 2009, the U-3 (socially acceptable) unemployment rate 7.8% which I--over the course of 10 short months--I and my regime managed to pushe the rate up to 10.1%!! Over the same period of time the U-6 (TRUE) unemployment rate ran from 14.2% at the immaculation to--in October--17.2%. By comparison, that evil George Bush's U-6 rate ranged from 7.3% to 13.5%.... Hell-a-va difference, huh?!?
Now here's where the cleaver--fuzzy--math comes in: each month the regime checks the 'labor participation rate' prior to tweaking the unemployment numbers. The 'labor participation rate' is a cleaver 'fascist' way of tweaking all the relative numbers to finally come up with a U-3 (socially acceptable) unemployment rate. When folks just stop looking for work--whether they're drawing unemployment benefits or not--we eliminate them from the 'labor participation rate' thus we can artificially lower the U-3 rate, most recently to 8.3%. Realistically, the rate to be considered--to get the complete picture of the lack-of-jobs--is the U-6 rate. Now, isn't that cleaver?!?!?
By comparison, that evil "Ronaldus-Magnus," President Ronald Reagan had the record for longest span of high unemployment until I beat him!! Finally.... I beat someone at something!! I now hold the record for:
Unemployment rate over 8%--32 months, and
Unemployment rate over 9%--27 months, and
Average number of weeks unemployed--40.5!!
We--and by we I mean others in the regime--can blather on all we want about the number of new jobs added. It's just more servings of the same bullshit I've been feeding you through a most compliant corps of national pamphleteers since the immaculation. We--and by we, I mean others in the regime--usually just pull numbers out of 'the clear, blue sky' and feed them to you.
The key now -- our job now is to keep this economic engine churning. We can’t go back to the same policies that got us into this mess. We can’t go back to an economy that was weakened by outsourcing and bad debt and phony financial profits. We’ve got to have an economy that’s built to last. And that starts with American manufacturing. It starts with you. For generations of Americans, manufacturing has been the ticket into the middle class. Every day, millions clocked in at foundries and on assembly lines, making things. And the stuff we made -- steel and cars and jet engines -- that was the stuff that made America what it is. It was understood around the world. The work was hard, but the jobs were good. They paid enough to own a home, and raise kids and send them to college, gave you enough to retire on with dignity and respect. They were jobs that told us something more important than how much we were worth; they told us what we were worth. They told us that we were building more than just products. They told us we were building communities and neighborhoods, we were building a country. It gave people pride about what America was about. And that’s why one of the first decisions I made as President was to stand by manufacturing, to stand by the American auto industry when it was on the brink of collapse. The heartbeat of American manufacturing was at stake -- and so were more than a million jobs. And today, the American auto industry is coming back, and GM is number one in the world again, and Ford is investing billions in American plants and factories. And together, over the past two and a half years, the entire auto industry has added more than 200,000 jobs.
And here’s the thing. They’re not just building cars again, they’re building better cars. For the first time in three decades, we raised fuel standards in this country, so that by the middle of the next decade the cars that are built in America will average nearly 55 miles to the gallon. That will save the typical family about $8,000 at the pump over time. That’s real savings. That's real money.
Here I go again.... actually, 'still!' I continually beat you over the head with the 'Government Motors' bailout as if it were a good thing. Well, maybe the basic concept of the industry bailout was good, but the owe-bama regime so bastardized that 'GM' thingie, it was unrecognizable by the time we finally paid off the unions (with 37% of the company), campaign supporters and election donors, the discerning public was able to figure out that it was a complete sham!!
"....they're building better cars...." Quality was not optional at the time of the GM and Chrysler bailouts, or even with Ford--which refused bailout funds, even though the regime tried to force them as we did with the banks. Ford's "quality numbers" were good, but both GM and Chrysler's had to come up or even more socio-fascist bailouts couldn't save them!!
"....the entire auto industry added more than 200,000 jobs...." They sure did, one of the very few truisms you'll ever hear from me. What I'm not saying, though is that the vast majority of jobs were created by those 'foreign' monikers that manufacture in the United States, with American labor!!
Raising the CAFE standards has nothing to do with saving the American consumer money at the retail pumps; it has everything to do with control of every aspect of American life! You'll note that I rarely say much about the pump price of gasoline and diesel fuel. Gasoline prices at the 'immaculation rate' would save the consumer considerably more money with unchanged CAFE standards. I have no desire to see it drop; rather, I'd like to see it keep increasing, albeit at a much slower pace!! An 'owe-bamaFact:' The national average gas price has gone up 105% since my immaculation, diesel has gone up 95% since said immaculation.And it shows that depending on foreign oil doesn’t have to be our future. It shows that when we harness our own ingenuity, our technology, then we control our future. See, America thrives when we build things better than the rest of the world. I want us to make stuff here and sell it over there. I don't want stuff made over there and selling it over here. And that’s exactly what you’re doing here at the largest Rolls-Royce facility in the world. That’s what you’re doing by building the key components of newer, faster, more fuel-efficient jet engines. But a few weeks ago.... I went to Boeing, in Washington State, and I checked out a new Dreamliner. I even got to sit in the cockpit, which was pretty sweet. I didn’t press any buttons there, though because if it had started going it would have been a problem. So this plane, the Dreamliner, is going to keep America at the cutting edge of aerospace technology. American workers are manufacturing various components for it in Ohio, and Oklahoma, and South Carolina, and Kansas, and right here in Petersburg. In fact, the demand for their planes was so high last year that Boeing had to hire 13,000 workers all across America just to keep up. And Boeing is gaining more and more share all the time. So think about that. Rolls-Royce is choosing to invest in America. You’re creating jobs here, manufacturing components for jet engines, for planes that we’re going to send all around the world. And that’s the kind of business cycle we want to see. Not buying stuff that’s made someplace else and racking up debt, but by inventing things and building things and selling them all around the world stamped with three proud words: “Made in America.” Think about how important this is. I mean, imagine if the plane of the future was being built someplace else. Imagine if we had given up on the auto industry. Imagine if we had settled for a lesser future. But we didn’t. We’re Americans. We are inventors. We are builders. We’re Thomas Edison and we’re the Wright Brothers and we are Steven Jobs. That’s who we are. That’s what we do. We invent stuff, we build it. And pretty soon, the entire world adapts it. That’s who we are. And as long as I’m President, we’re going to keep on doing it. We’re going to make sure the next generation of life-changing products are invented and manufactured here in the United States of America. I--as well as others in the regime--continue to piss-n-moan about 'sending' jobs overseas, when the real truth is that the U.S. Tax Code, the EPA regulations, the OSHA regulations as well as the rest of the red-tape bullshit are 'DRIVING' businesses out of the country!! If you lived in Manhattan and could do your job in--say--Springfield, Missouri, wouldn't you move?!? Missouri's tax rates are far less than New York State's; the cost-of-living is far lower in Springfield than Manhattan; Springfield is on a major trucking freight lane, while Manhattan is not!! Truckers HATE to go into the five-boroughs that make up New York City.
See how I bally-hoo about visiting the Boeing Complex in Everett, Washington. I'm the same guy whose NLRB gave Boeing so much 'heartburn' about building a manufacturing facility in Charleston, South Carolina, lying about moving jobs from Everett to Charleston!! This was little more than favoring one of my largest blocks of support, the union membership over private industry!!So that’s why we launched an all-hands-on-deck effort. We brought together the brightest academic minds, the boldest business leaders, the most dedicated public servants from our science and our technology agencies all with one big goal: a renaissance in American manufacturing. We called it the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership. The Advanced Manufacturing Partnership. And today, we’re building on it. I’m laying out my plans for a new National Network of Manufacturing Innovation –- and these are going to be institutes of manufacturing excellence where some of our most advanced engineering schools and our most innovative manufacturers collaborate on new ideas, new technology, new methods, new processes. And if this sounds familiar, that’s because what you’re about to do right here at Crosspointe. Later this summer, the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing will open its doors. And it’s a partnership between manufacturers, including this one, UVA, Virginia Tech, Virginia State University. VSU is a little overrepresented here, obviously the Commonwealth and the federal government. So think of this as a place where companies can share access to cutting-edge capabilities. At the same time, students and workers are picking up new skills, they’re training on state-of-the-art equipment; they’re solving some of the most important challenges facing our manufacturers.
You just got all this brain power and skill and experience coming together in this hub, and that makes the whole greater than the sum of its parts. It allows everybody to learn from each other and figure out how we’re going to do things even better. It’s going to help get that next great idea from a paper or a computer to the lab, to the factory, to the global marketplace. And that’s especially important for the one in three Americans in manufacturing who work for a small business that doesn’t always have access to resources like these. Obviously, big companies -- the Boeings, the Intels, the Rolls Royces -- they’ve got the resources, the capital, to be able to create these platforms. But some of the small to medium-sized businesses, it’s a little bit harder. So this gives them access and allows them to take part in this new renaissance of American inventiveness. And we’ve got to build these institutes all across the country -- all across the country. I don’t want it just here at Crosspointe, I want it everywhere. To do that, we need Congress to act. Hmm. It’s true. But that doesn’t mean we have to hold our breath. We’re not going to wait -- we’re going to go ahead on our own. Later this year, we’re going to choose the winner of a competition for a pilot institute for manufacturing innovation -- help them get started. With that pilot in place, we’ll keep on pushing Congress to do the right thing because this is the kind of approach that can succeed, but we’ve got to have this all across the country. I want everybody thinking about how are we making the best products; how are we harnessing the new ideas and making sure they’re located here in the United States. And sparking this network of innovation across the country – it will create jobs and it will keep America in the manufacturing game. Of course, there’s more we can do to seize this moment of opportunity to create new jobs and manufacturing here in America. We’ve got to do everything we can to encourage more companies to make the decision to invest in America and bring jobs back from overseas. And we’re starting to see companies do that. They’re starting to realize this is the place with the best workers, the best ideas, the best universities. This is the place to be. We've got to give them a little more encouragement. Right now, companies get tax breaks for moving jobs and profits overseas. Companies that choose to invest in America, they get hit with one of the highest tax rates in the world. Does that make any sense? It makes no sense. Everybody knows it. So it's time to stop rewarding businesses that ship jobs overseas; reward companies that create good jobs right here in the United States of America. That's how our tax code can work. That's how our tax code should work.
And let’s make sure all our workers have the skills that companies like this one are looking for -- because we've got to have folks engaged in lifelong learning. The days when you started out at 20 at one company and you just kept on doing the same thing for 40 years -- that's not going to happen anymore. So even if -- as I was meeting some of the folks here, they had been in the industry, they'd been machinists, they'd been in manufacturing for years. But they're constantly upgrading their skills and retraining. And some of them had been laid off and had gone back to school before they came to this company. And so we've got to make sure those opportunities for people mid-career and onward, that they can constantly go back to a community college and retool so that they can make sure they're qualified for the jobs of tomorrow. At a time when so many Americans are looking for work, no job opening should go unfilled just because people didn’t have an opportunity to get the training they needed. And that’s why I've asked Congress, join me in a national commitment to train 2 million Americans with the skills that will lead directly to a job -- right now. We need to create more partnerships like the one this plant has with John Tyler Community College. We should give more community colleges the resources they need. I want them to be community career centers -- places that teach people skills that companies are looking for right now, from data management to the kind of high-tech manufacturing that's being done at this facility. So day by day, we’re restoring this economy from crisis. But we can’t stop there. We've got to make this economy ready for tomorrow. Day by day, we’re creating new jobs, but we can’t stop there -- not until everybody who’s out there pounding the pavement, sending out their résumés has a chance to land one of those jobs.
See where I'm going, here?!? I fully intend to be--hopefully, with the exception of the 'FDR Depression'--as remembered as President Franklin Roosevelt. To that end, I've developed and initiated nearly as many 'alphabet agencies' as FDR did. The whole idea here is to grow the federal bureaucracy as quickly and as large as is possible given the distinct probability that I'll rule for only four years. With the proliferation of owe-bama 'alphabet agencies' there will be more and more control, more and more wealth re-distribution with fewer and fewer individual rights!! No one can doubt that I favor a college education for every graduating high school senior. What few understand is.... in most cases college is not necessary, in more-than-just-a-few cases, college is not the best choice for particular graduates. As Justin Case is fond of saying:
"More college graduates hire plumbers than plumbers who hire college graduates!"
Every day we’re producing more oil and gas than we have in years, but we can’t stop there. I want our businesses to lead the world in clean energy, too. We’ve got the best colleges and universities in the world, but we can’t stop there. I want to make sure more of our students can afford to go to those colleges and universities. Everybody knows we’ve got the best workers on Earth, but we can't stop there. We’ve got to make sure the middle class doesn’t just survive these times, we want them to thrive. We want them to dream big dreams and to feel confident about the future. I did not run for this office just to get back to where we were. I ran for this office to get us to where we need to be. And I promise you we will get there. Some of these challenges may take a year; some may take one term; some may take a decade -- but we're going to get there. Because when we work together, we know what we’re capable of. We’ve got the tools, we've got the know-how, we've got the toughness to overcome any obstacle. And when we come together and combine our creativity and our optimism and our willingness to work hard, and if we're harnessing our brainpower and our manpower, our horsepower, I promise you we will thrive again. We will get to where we need to go. And we will leave behind an economy that is built to last. We will make this another American century.
This on-going "oil-and-gas" kerfuffle nothing more than the socio-fascists whining-and-bitching about all the damage done to the environment, the ecology, the atmosphere. Hell, even the dumbest hill-billy in the country can understand that humans do not have the power to destroy any one or all of the aforementioned sectors of life on earth. The earth was 'engineered'--by some superior being--to be self-sustaining. Let's take the Gulf Oil Spill precipitated by the Deepwater Horizon as an example. At my behest, the national pamphleteer 'corpse' invested millions-of-dollars and thousands-of-hours in helicopter flights over the oil spill zones looking for the scum that accumulates on the water's surface. After the initial sightings, they became fewer and fewer. The regime kept the reason as quiet as possible for as long as possible, but it finally came to light. There's a type of algae that thrives on crude oil!! Who'da thunk it?!? There went our best defense for curtailing any drilling permits, deep water, shallow water or on land!!
The regime continues to prove--with each subsequent multi-million dollar gift--'green energy' in their current states, are unsustainable.
We give 'em money; they file for bankruptcy!!
'Green energy' within the auto industry is equally unsustainable. The Chevy Volt is selling so well that GM temporarily curtailed production for 6-8 weeks. Not only does the car not sell with a $7,500 federal bribe; the bribe will be increased to $10,000-maybe that will boost sales. Why buy a car with a range of 25-35 miles on electric motors when--with an additional 10-grand--you could be driving a Chevrolet Corvette!! We socio-fascists fully intend to drag America--kicking and screaming--back into the 'horse-and-buggy' era, albeit in style. What I mean by that is: Once the stratospheric fuel prices preclude buying vehicles with internal combustion engines--and with Volt-type vehicles--a day's travel will be taken back to that of farmers and their buggies.
My regime will continue to press socio-fascism as the American 'norm!' We used it during the recent presidential election with the New Black Panthers' Voter Intimidation Unit as well as the SEIU's "Purple People Beaters."
Campaigning on "The Taxpayers' Dime"
"Clown Prince" blather from Petersburg, Va
Now, back then, in 2008, we were talking about how working Americans were already having a tough go of it. Folks were working harder and longer for less. It was getting tougher to afford health care or to send your kids to college. The economy was already shedding jobs, and in less than a decade, nearly one in three manufacturing jobs had vanished. Then the bottom fell out of the economy, and things got that much tougher. We were losing 700,000 to 800,000 jobs a month. The economy was hemorrhaging. And three and a half years later, we’re still recovering from the worst economic crisis in our lifetimes. And we’ve got a lot of work to do before everybody who wants a good job can find one, before middle-class folks regain that sense of security that had been slipping away even before the recession hit, and before towns like Petersburg get fully back on their feet. But here’s the good news: Over the past two years, our businesses have added nearly 4 million new jobs. We just found out that last month in February we added 233,000 private sector jobs. More companies are bringing jobs back and investing in America. And manufacturing is adding jobs for the first time since the 1990s. We just had another good month last month in terms of adding manufacturing jobs. And this facility is part of the evidence of what’s going on all across the country. This company is about to hire more than 200 new workers -- 140 of them right here in Petersburg, Virginia. So the economy is getting stronger. And when I come to places like this, and I see the work that’s being done, it gives me confidence there are better days ahead. I know it because I would bet on American workers and American know-how any day of the week.
When I was immaculated in January 2009, the U-3 (socially acceptable) unemployment rate 7.8% which I--over the course of 10 short months--I and my regime managed to pushe the rate up to 10.1%!! Over the same period of time the U-6 (TRUE) unemployment rate ran from 14.2% at the immaculation to--in October--17.2%. By comparison, that evil George Bush's U-6 rate ranged from 7.3% to 13.5%.... Hell-a-va difference, huh?!?
Now here's where the cleaver--fuzzy--math comes in: each month the regime checks the 'labor participation rate' prior to tweaking the unemployment numbers. The 'labor participation rate' is a cleaver 'fascist' way of tweaking all the relative numbers to finally come up with a U-3 (socially acceptable) unemployment rate. When folks just stop looking for work--whether they're drawing unemployment benefits or not--we eliminate them from the 'labor participation rate' thus we can artificially lower the U-3 rate, most recently to 8.3%. Realistically, the rate to be considered--to get the complete picture of the lack-of-jobs--is the U-6 rate. Now, isn't that cleaver?!?!?
By comparison, that evil "Ronaldus-Magnus," President Ronald Reagan had the record for longest span of high unemployment until I beat him!! Finally.... I beat someone at something!! I now hold the record for:
Unemployment rate over 8%--32 months, and
Unemployment rate over 9%--27 months, and
Average number of weeks unemployed--40.5!!
We--and by we I mean others in the regime--can blather on all we want about the number of new jobs added. It's just more servings of the same bullshit I've been feeding you through a most compliant corps of national pamphleteers since the immaculation. We--and by we, I mean others in the regime--usually just pull numbers out of 'the clear, blue sky' and feed them to you.
The key now -- our job now is to keep this economic engine churning. We can’t go back to the same policies that got us into this mess. We can’t go back to an economy that was weakened by outsourcing and bad debt and phony financial profits. We’ve got to have an economy that’s built to last. And that starts with American manufacturing. It starts with you. For generations of Americans, manufacturing has been the ticket into the middle class. Every day, millions clocked in at foundries and on assembly lines, making things. And the stuff we made -- steel and cars and jet engines -- that was the stuff that made America what it is. It was understood around the world. The work was hard, but the jobs were good. They paid enough to own a home, and raise kids and send them to college, gave you enough to retire on with dignity and respect. They were jobs that told us something more important than how much we were worth; they told us what we were worth. They told us that we were building more than just products. They told us we were building communities and neighborhoods, we were building a country. It gave people pride about what America was about. And that’s why one of the first decisions I made as President was to stand by manufacturing, to stand by the American auto industry when it was on the brink of collapse. The heartbeat of American manufacturing was at stake -- and so were more than a million jobs. And today, the American auto industry is coming back, and GM is number one in the world again, and Ford is investing billions in American plants and factories. And together, over the past two and a half years, the entire auto industry has added more than 200,000 jobs.
And here’s the thing. They’re not just building cars again, they’re building better cars. For the first time in three decades, we raised fuel standards in this country, so that by the middle of the next decade the cars that are built in America will average nearly 55 miles to the gallon. That will save the typical family about $8,000 at the pump over time. That’s real savings. That's real money.
Here I go again.... actually, 'still!' I continually beat you over the head with the 'Government Motors' bailout as if it were a good thing. Well, maybe the basic concept of the industry bailout was good, but the owe-bama regime so bastardized that 'GM' thingie, it was unrecognizable by the time we finally paid off the unions (with 37% of the company), campaign supporters and election donors, the discerning public was able to figure out that it was a complete sham!!
"....they're building better cars...." Quality was not optional at the time of the GM and Chrysler bailouts, or even with Ford--which refused bailout funds, even though the regime tried to force them as we did with the banks. Ford's "quality numbers" were good, but both GM and Chrysler's had to come up or even more socio-fascist bailouts couldn't save them!!
"....the entire auto industry added more than 200,000 jobs...." They sure did, one of the very few truisms you'll ever hear from me. What I'm not saying, though is that the vast majority of jobs were created by those 'foreign' monikers that manufacture in the United States, with American labor!!
Raising the CAFE standards has nothing to do with saving the American consumer money at the retail pumps; it has everything to do with control of every aspect of American life! You'll note that I rarely say much about the pump price of gasoline and diesel fuel. Gasoline prices at the 'immaculation rate' would save the consumer considerably more money with unchanged CAFE standards. I have no desire to see it drop; rather, I'd like to see it keep increasing, albeit at a much slower pace!! An 'owe-bamaFact:' The national average gas price has gone up 105% since my immaculation, diesel has gone up 95% since said immaculation.And it shows that depending on foreign oil doesn’t have to be our future. It shows that when we harness our own ingenuity, our technology, then we control our future. See, America thrives when we build things better than the rest of the world. I want us to make stuff here and sell it over there. I don't want stuff made over there and selling it over here. And that’s exactly what you’re doing here at the largest Rolls-Royce facility in the world. That’s what you’re doing by building the key components of newer, faster, more fuel-efficient jet engines. But a few weeks ago.... I went to Boeing, in Washington State, and I checked out a new Dreamliner. I even got to sit in the cockpit, which was pretty sweet. I didn’t press any buttons there, though because if it had started going it would have been a problem. So this plane, the Dreamliner, is going to keep America at the cutting edge of aerospace technology. American workers are manufacturing various components for it in Ohio, and Oklahoma, and South Carolina, and Kansas, and right here in Petersburg. In fact, the demand for their planes was so high last year that Boeing had to hire 13,000 workers all across America just to keep up. And Boeing is gaining more and more share all the time. So think about that. Rolls-Royce is choosing to invest in America. You’re creating jobs here, manufacturing components for jet engines, for planes that we’re going to send all around the world. And that’s the kind of business cycle we want to see. Not buying stuff that’s made someplace else and racking up debt, but by inventing things and building things and selling them all around the world stamped with three proud words: “Made in America.” Think about how important this is. I mean, imagine if the plane of the future was being built someplace else. Imagine if we had given up on the auto industry. Imagine if we had settled for a lesser future. But we didn’t. We’re Americans. We are inventors. We are builders. We’re Thomas Edison and we’re the Wright Brothers and we are Steven Jobs. That’s who we are. That’s what we do. We invent stuff, we build it. And pretty soon, the entire world adapts it. That’s who we are. And as long as I’m President, we’re going to keep on doing it. We’re going to make sure the next generation of life-changing products are invented and manufactured here in the United States of America. I--as well as others in the regime--continue to piss-n-moan about 'sending' jobs overseas, when the real truth is that the U.S. Tax Code, the EPA regulations, the OSHA regulations as well as the rest of the red-tape bullshit are 'DRIVING' businesses out of the country!! If you lived in Manhattan and could do your job in--say--Springfield, Missouri, wouldn't you move?!? Missouri's tax rates are far less than New York State's; the cost-of-living is far lower in Springfield than Manhattan; Springfield is on a major trucking freight lane, while Manhattan is not!! Truckers HATE to go into the five-boroughs that make up New York City.
See how I bally-hoo about visiting the Boeing Complex in Everett, Washington. I'm the same guy whose NLRB gave Boeing so much 'heartburn' about building a manufacturing facility in Charleston, South Carolina, lying about moving jobs from Everett to Charleston!! This was little more than favoring one of my largest blocks of support, the union membership over private industry!!So that’s why we launched an all-hands-on-deck effort. We brought together the brightest academic minds, the boldest business leaders, the most dedicated public servants from our science and our technology agencies all with one big goal: a renaissance in American manufacturing. We called it the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership. The Advanced Manufacturing Partnership. And today, we’re building on it. I’m laying out my plans for a new National Network of Manufacturing Innovation –- and these are going to be institutes of manufacturing excellence where some of our most advanced engineering schools and our most innovative manufacturers collaborate on new ideas, new technology, new methods, new processes. And if this sounds familiar, that’s because what you’re about to do right here at Crosspointe. Later this summer, the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing will open its doors. And it’s a partnership between manufacturers, including this one, UVA, Virginia Tech, Virginia State University. VSU is a little overrepresented here, obviously the Commonwealth and the federal government. So think of this as a place where companies can share access to cutting-edge capabilities. At the same time, students and workers are picking up new skills, they’re training on state-of-the-art equipment; they’re solving some of the most important challenges facing our manufacturers.
You just got all this brain power and skill and experience coming together in this hub, and that makes the whole greater than the sum of its parts. It allows everybody to learn from each other and figure out how we’re going to do things even better. It’s going to help get that next great idea from a paper or a computer to the lab, to the factory, to the global marketplace. And that’s especially important for the one in three Americans in manufacturing who work for a small business that doesn’t always have access to resources like these. Obviously, big companies -- the Boeings, the Intels, the Rolls Royces -- they’ve got the resources, the capital, to be able to create these platforms. But some of the small to medium-sized businesses, it’s a little bit harder. So this gives them access and allows them to take part in this new renaissance of American inventiveness. And we’ve got to build these institutes all across the country -- all across the country. I don’t want it just here at Crosspointe, I want it everywhere. To do that, we need Congress to act. Hmm. It’s true. But that doesn’t mean we have to hold our breath. We’re not going to wait -- we’re going to go ahead on our own. Later this year, we’re going to choose the winner of a competition for a pilot institute for manufacturing innovation -- help them get started. With that pilot in place, we’ll keep on pushing Congress to do the right thing because this is the kind of approach that can succeed, but we’ve got to have this all across the country. I want everybody thinking about how are we making the best products; how are we harnessing the new ideas and making sure they’re located here in the United States. And sparking this network of innovation across the country – it will create jobs and it will keep America in the manufacturing game. Of course, there’s more we can do to seize this moment of opportunity to create new jobs and manufacturing here in America. We’ve got to do everything we can to encourage more companies to make the decision to invest in America and bring jobs back from overseas. And we’re starting to see companies do that. They’re starting to realize this is the place with the best workers, the best ideas, the best universities. This is the place to be. We've got to give them a little more encouragement. Right now, companies get tax breaks for moving jobs and profits overseas. Companies that choose to invest in America, they get hit with one of the highest tax rates in the world. Does that make any sense? It makes no sense. Everybody knows it. So it's time to stop rewarding businesses that ship jobs overseas; reward companies that create good jobs right here in the United States of America. That's how our tax code can work. That's how our tax code should work.
And let’s make sure all our workers have the skills that companies like this one are looking for -- because we've got to have folks engaged in lifelong learning. The days when you started out at 20 at one company and you just kept on doing the same thing for 40 years -- that's not going to happen anymore. So even if -- as I was meeting some of the folks here, they had been in the industry, they'd been machinists, they'd been in manufacturing for years. But they're constantly upgrading their skills and retraining. And some of them had been laid off and had gone back to school before they came to this company. And so we've got to make sure those opportunities for people mid-career and onward, that they can constantly go back to a community college and retool so that they can make sure they're qualified for the jobs of tomorrow. At a time when so many Americans are looking for work, no job opening should go unfilled just because people didn’t have an opportunity to get the training they needed. And that’s why I've asked Congress, join me in a national commitment to train 2 million Americans with the skills that will lead directly to a job -- right now. We need to create more partnerships like the one this plant has with John Tyler Community College. We should give more community colleges the resources they need. I want them to be community career centers -- places that teach people skills that companies are looking for right now, from data management to the kind of high-tech manufacturing that's being done at this facility. So day by day, we’re restoring this economy from crisis. But we can’t stop there. We've got to make this economy ready for tomorrow. Day by day, we’re creating new jobs, but we can’t stop there -- not until everybody who’s out there pounding the pavement, sending out their résumés has a chance to land one of those jobs.
See where I'm going, here?!? I fully intend to be--hopefully, with the exception of the 'FDR Depression'--as remembered as President Franklin Roosevelt. To that end, I've developed and initiated nearly as many 'alphabet agencies' as FDR did. The whole idea here is to grow the federal bureaucracy as quickly and as large as is possible given the distinct probability that I'll rule for only four years. With the proliferation of owe-bama 'alphabet agencies' there will be more and more control, more and more wealth re-distribution with fewer and fewer individual rights!! No one can doubt that I favor a college education for every graduating high school senior. What few understand is.... in most cases college is not necessary, in more-than-just-a-few cases, college is not the best choice for particular graduates. As Justin Case is fond of saying:
"More college graduates hire plumbers than plumbers who hire college graduates!"
Every day we’re producing more oil and gas than we have in years, but we can’t stop there. I want our businesses to lead the world in clean energy, too. We’ve got the best colleges and universities in the world, but we can’t stop there. I want to make sure more of our students can afford to go to those colleges and universities. Everybody knows we’ve got the best workers on Earth, but we can't stop there. We’ve got to make sure the middle class doesn’t just survive these times, we want them to thrive. We want them to dream big dreams and to feel confident about the future. I did not run for this office just to get back to where we were. I ran for this office to get us to where we need to be. And I promise you we will get there. Some of these challenges may take a year; some may take one term; some may take a decade -- but we're going to get there. Because when we work together, we know what we’re capable of. We’ve got the tools, we've got the know-how, we've got the toughness to overcome any obstacle. And when we come together and combine our creativity and our optimism and our willingness to work hard, and if we're harnessing our brainpower and our manpower, our horsepower, I promise you we will thrive again. We will get to where we need to go. And we will leave behind an economy that is built to last. We will make this another American century.
This on-going "oil-and-gas" kerfuffle nothing more than the socio-fascists whining-and-bitching about all the damage done to the environment, the ecology, the atmosphere. Hell, even the dumbest hill-billy in the country can understand that humans do not have the power to destroy any one or all of the aforementioned sectors of life on earth. The earth was 'engineered'--by some superior being--to be self-sustaining. Let's take the Gulf Oil Spill precipitated by the Deepwater Horizon as an example. At my behest, the national pamphleteer 'corpse' invested millions-of-dollars and thousands-of-hours in helicopter flights over the oil spill zones looking for the scum that accumulates on the water's surface. After the initial sightings, they became fewer and fewer. The regime kept the reason as quiet as possible for as long as possible, but it finally came to light. There's a type of algae that thrives on crude oil!! Who'da thunk it?!? There went our best defense for curtailing any drilling permits, deep water, shallow water or on land!!
The regime continues to prove--with each subsequent multi-million dollar gift--'green energy' in their current states, are unsustainable.
We give 'em money; they file for bankruptcy!!
'Green energy' within the auto industry is equally unsustainable. The Chevy Volt is selling so well that GM temporarily curtailed production for 6-8 weeks. Not only does the car not sell with a $7,500 federal bribe; the bribe will be increased to $10,000-maybe that will boost sales. Why buy a car with a range of 25-35 miles on electric motors when--with an additional 10-grand--you could be driving a Chevrolet Corvette!! We socio-fascists fully intend to drag America--kicking and screaming--back into the 'horse-and-buggy' era, albeit in style. What I mean by that is: Once the stratospheric fuel prices preclude buying vehicles with internal combustion engines--and with Volt-type vehicles--a day's travel will be taken back to that of farmers and their buggies.
My regime will continue to press socio-fascism as the American 'norm!' We used it during the recent presidential election with the New Black Panthers' Voter Intimidation Unit as well as the SEIU's "Purple People Beaters."
Saturday, March 3, 2012
"Clown Prince" Weekly Blather; March 3rd
A Patriotic Response To The "Clown Prince;" 03/03/2012
barackingham Palace,
District of Corruption
March 3, 2012
Earlier this week, I spent some time with the hardworking men and women of the American auto industry, who are busy writing a new chapter in America’s story. Just a few years ago, their industry was shedding hundreds of thousands of jobs. Two of the Big Three – GM and Chrysler – were on the brink of failure. If we had let this great American industry collapse – if we had let Detroit go bankrupt – more than one million Americans would have lost their jobs in the middle of the worst recession since the Great Depression. I refused to let that happen. These jobs are worth more than just a paycheck – they’re a source of pride and a ticket to the middle class. These companies are worth more than just the cars they build – they’re a symbol of American innovation and a source of our manufacturing might. So in exchange for help, we demanded responsibility. We got the companies to retool and restructure. Everyone sacrificed. And three years later, the American auto industry is back. Today, GM is the number one automaker in the world. Chrysler is growing faster in America than any other car company. Ford is investing billions in American plants and factories, and plans to bring thousands of jobs back home. All told, the entire industry has added more than 200,000 new jobs over the past two and a half years. And they’re not just building cars again – they’re building better cars. Thanks to new fuel efficiency standards we put in place, they’re building cars that will average nearly 55 miles per gallon by the middle of the next decade. That’s almost double what they get today. That means folks will be able to fill up every two weeks instead of every week, saving the typical family more than $8,000 at the pump over time. That’s a big deal, especially as families are yet again feeling the pinch from rising gas prices. So what’s happening in Detroit will make a difference. But it won’t solve everything. There’s no silver bullet for avoiding spikes in gas prices every year. There’s no shortcut to taking control of our energy future. We have to pursue an all-of-the-above strategy that helps develop every source of American energy. And we have to do it now.
[What I'm not telling you: No one seems to question why I never visit auto manufacturing plants in Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana or Texas. I'll tell'ya why: Because I don't own them, they're primarily foreign-badged manufacturers!! If I didn't own General--or 'Government'--Motors and Chrysler, it's doubtful I'd visit Michigan either, with the exception of the on-going union rewards built into the bailout PORKulus bill.
It's very easy to hypothesize about "cudda; wudda; shudda!" We can 'manufacture' various numbers of jobs that would have 'disappeared' had we not bailed out GM and Chrysler. And, what did the American taxpayer, the American investor get for their investment?!? They got the shaft.... that's what they got!! The American investor watched as George Soros and the Regime rewarded the United Auto Workers union with a 37% ownership stake in General Motors while--simultaneously--the federal government underwrote the UAW--underwater--Health and Retirement program. The American investor was rewarded for their confidence in the viability of GM prior to the federal takeover with a reasonable return on investment (ROI). As a result of the federal takeover, those investors--primarily the bond investors--were rewarded with the loss of 96-98 cents on every dollar invested!! The screwing the American taxpayer took on the Chrysler bailout was of collosal proportions! They essentially bailed out a foreign company--Fiat which owns 58% of Chrysler--and negotiated with the UAW to give the remainder to that union's Health Care Trust.
Had the owe-bama Regime let both auto companies proceed into bankruptcy as it should have, it's doubtful that 'a million jobs' would have been lost. While there may have been extensive lay-offs, a vast majority of those would have been recalled to work, post-bankruptcy. The end result of the bankruptcy procedures would have been leaner, meaner far more efficient manufacturing facilities, nationwide! Both companies' product quality would have improved--to compete with the likes of Honda, Toyota, Kia, Land Rover, et al--which would have generated greater sales, worldwide. We can--and will--brag that General Motors--as a conglomerate--is the largest car maker in the world. But how does the top Buick model's sales compare with those of the Honda Accord, for example?!?
As a sidebar, have you seen the affects of Regime--and by 'Regime,' I mean George Soros' orders--support for alternative energy sources?!? Every one I've touched has collapsed "in a pile of rubble," financially!! First, we proped up Solyndra and their 'sister' companies with billions-of-TAXPAYER-dollars, only to have them enter into bankruptcy shortly thereafter. Now we come to the Chevy Volt. The only way Chevy could sell them is to have the federal taxpayer underwrite about 20% of the purchase price, with the $7,500-$10,000 rebate per vehicle!! That wasn't enough to forestall a five-week plant shutdown.
(Note: Add $8,000 to the Volt's retail price of $41,000 and you could drive away in a new '12 CORVETTE!!)
The Volt--with it's on-going battery problems, coupled with it's 25-mile electric range--seems destined to go the way of Solyndra!! Apparently the GM hierarchy feels the same way. They're preparing to manufacture both the Chevy Chevelle and Impala in the Volt's Hamtramck, Mi., plant next year.
Sure fuel price spikes do happen every Spring The 2012 price-spike is very early in the season, exacerbated by the Regime's complete lack of a viable energy policy. Oh, don't get me wrong: We do have an energy policy. Castigate fossil fuels in favor of those currently unsustainable--without government financial intervention--'green' energy sources. Some reliable studies--that Soros and I, even with our investments in Brazilian oil, do not subscribe to--have concluded that fossil fuels are a RENEWABLE RESOURCE!! As is the norm, I continue the bold-faced lie that the United States only has 2% of the earth's energy supplies!! If I were the least-bit concerned with the truth, I'd have to repeat the new slogan: "The United States is the Saudi Arabia of natural gas!!" Seemingly--much to my chagrin--we almost daily discover new and larger gas fields.... all over the country, from the oil fields of the Dakotas to the Marcellus Shale gas fields of the Northeast!! If George Soros, the Regime and me, personally, are not successful--soon--in vilifying fossil fuels in favor of those unsustainable 'green' sources, I fear we will have lost our chance! Said vilification is essential in 'the spread of socialism of America!!']
The good news is, we’ve been making progress. Take a look at this chart. Six years ago, 60% of the oil we used was imported. Since I took office, America’s dependence on foreign oil has decreased every single year. In fact, in 2010, for the first time in thirteen years, less than half the petroleum we consumed was imported. Part of that is because we’re producing more oil here at home than at any time in the last eight years. But we can’t just drill our way out of this problem. While we consume 20 percent of the world’s oil, we only have 2 percent of the world’s oil reserves. We’ve got to develop new technology that will help us use new forms of energy. That’s been a priority of mine as President. And because of the investments we’ve made, our use of clean, renewable energy has nearly doubled – and thousands of Americans have jobs because of it. Now we need to keep at it. And to do that, we need to make the right choices. Here’s one we can make right now. Every year, $4 billion of your tax dollars go to subsidizing the oil industry. These are the same companies making record profits – tens of billions of dollars a year. I don’t think oil companies need more corporate welfare. Congress should end this taxpayer giveaway. If you agree with me, I’m asking you to e-mail, call, or Tweet your representative. Tell them to stop fighting for oil companies. Tell them to start fighting for working families. Tell them to fight for the clean energy future that’s within our reach. Because the sooner we all get started, the sooner we’ll get there together.
[What I'm not telling you: It's fairly easy to slant the numbers in my favor; I only tell you part of the story!! That line:
"....America's dependence on foreign oil has decreased every year...."
is as phony as my most recent birth certificate!! The 'dependency' numbers are decreasing primarily due to fuel prices climbing ONE-HUNDRED PERCENT since my immaculation, three LONG years ago!! Don't forget too, unemployed workers drive far less than those employed; given the true unemployment rate (U-6) nearing 15%, that means alot'ta folks! With my extensions, unemployment payments have become a personal revenue stream, in-turn creating a whole-new dependency class in America. And by extension, a whole new class of owe-bama supporters!!
To continue--and to re-double--my efforts at fossil fuel vilification, it's necessary to 'go after' the oil companies incessantly. That $4 billion in subsidies is a mere 'drop-in-the-bucket' when considered against the total of my wasteful spending!! That would be .00259 OF ONE PERCENT of the total 15.42 TRILLION in national debt!! Seems kinda' silly to bitch about that doesn't it?!? Well, the KoolAid drinkers among my subjects believe everything I say, and "four-billion" sounds like a huge number when left to stand alone! Even if the Congress were to reduce the oil subsidies by 50%, not only would the savings be comparatively infintesimal, it would cause another substantial increase in the retail pump-price of both major highway fuels. That "....more corporate welfare...." statement: More oil industry vilification. The federal payments to the oil companies are nothing more, nothing less than pass-thru retail price subsidies; very much akin to the $7,500-$10,000 I pay each-and-every sucker who buys a Volt instead of a Corvette!!
If you really want to have an effect on your personal 'bottom line' contact your Senators and Respresentatives to express your support of the subsidies which will continue to insure a reduced pump price of fuel you need every day!! True, that reduced price will not have a great affect so long as the Regime's non-existant energy policy continues to push fuel prices ever upward!!]
barackingham Palace,
District of Corruption
March 3, 2012
Earlier this week, I spent some time with the hardworking men and women of the American auto industry, who are busy writing a new chapter in America’s story. Just a few years ago, their industry was shedding hundreds of thousands of jobs. Two of the Big Three – GM and Chrysler – were on the brink of failure. If we had let this great American industry collapse – if we had let Detroit go bankrupt – more than one million Americans would have lost their jobs in the middle of the worst recession since the Great Depression. I refused to let that happen. These jobs are worth more than just a paycheck – they’re a source of pride and a ticket to the middle class. These companies are worth more than just the cars they build – they’re a symbol of American innovation and a source of our manufacturing might. So in exchange for help, we demanded responsibility. We got the companies to retool and restructure. Everyone sacrificed. And three years later, the American auto industry is back. Today, GM is the number one automaker in the world. Chrysler is growing faster in America than any other car company. Ford is investing billions in American plants and factories, and plans to bring thousands of jobs back home. All told, the entire industry has added more than 200,000 new jobs over the past two and a half years. And they’re not just building cars again – they’re building better cars. Thanks to new fuel efficiency standards we put in place, they’re building cars that will average nearly 55 miles per gallon by the middle of the next decade. That’s almost double what they get today. That means folks will be able to fill up every two weeks instead of every week, saving the typical family more than $8,000 at the pump over time. That’s a big deal, especially as families are yet again feeling the pinch from rising gas prices. So what’s happening in Detroit will make a difference. But it won’t solve everything. There’s no silver bullet for avoiding spikes in gas prices every year. There’s no shortcut to taking control of our energy future. We have to pursue an all-of-the-above strategy that helps develop every source of American energy. And we have to do it now.
[What I'm not telling you: No one seems to question why I never visit auto manufacturing plants in Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana or Texas. I'll tell'ya why: Because I don't own them, they're primarily foreign-badged manufacturers!! If I didn't own General--or 'Government'--Motors and Chrysler, it's doubtful I'd visit Michigan either, with the exception of the on-going union rewards built into the bailout PORKulus bill.
It's very easy to hypothesize about "cudda; wudda; shudda!" We can 'manufacture' various numbers of jobs that would have 'disappeared' had we not bailed out GM and Chrysler. And, what did the American taxpayer, the American investor get for their investment?!? They got the shaft.... that's what they got!! The American investor watched as George Soros and the Regime rewarded the United Auto Workers union with a 37% ownership stake in General Motors while--simultaneously--the federal government underwrote the UAW--underwater--Health and Retirement program. The American investor was rewarded for their confidence in the viability of GM prior to the federal takeover with a reasonable return on investment (ROI). As a result of the federal takeover, those investors--primarily the bond investors--were rewarded with the loss of 96-98 cents on every dollar invested!! The screwing the American taxpayer took on the Chrysler bailout was of collosal proportions! They essentially bailed out a foreign company--Fiat which owns 58% of Chrysler--and negotiated with the UAW to give the remainder to that union's Health Care Trust.
Had the owe-bama Regime let both auto companies proceed into bankruptcy as it should have, it's doubtful that 'a million jobs' would have been lost. While there may have been extensive lay-offs, a vast majority of those would have been recalled to work, post-bankruptcy. The end result of the bankruptcy procedures would have been leaner, meaner far more efficient manufacturing facilities, nationwide! Both companies' product quality would have improved--to compete with the likes of Honda, Toyota, Kia, Land Rover, et al--which would have generated greater sales, worldwide. We can--and will--brag that General Motors--as a conglomerate--is the largest car maker in the world. But how does the top Buick model's sales compare with those of the Honda Accord, for example?!?
As a sidebar, have you seen the affects of Regime--and by 'Regime,' I mean George Soros' orders--support for alternative energy sources?!? Every one I've touched has collapsed "in a pile of rubble," financially!! First, we proped up Solyndra and their 'sister' companies with billions-of-TAXPAYER-dollars, only to have them enter into bankruptcy shortly thereafter. Now we come to the Chevy Volt. The only way Chevy could sell them is to have the federal taxpayer underwrite about 20% of the purchase price, with the $7,500-$10,000 rebate per vehicle!! That wasn't enough to forestall a five-week plant shutdown.
(Note: Add $8,000 to the Volt's retail price of $41,000 and you could drive away in a new '12 CORVETTE!!)
The Volt--with it's on-going battery problems, coupled with it's 25-mile electric range--seems destined to go the way of Solyndra!! Apparently the GM hierarchy feels the same way. They're preparing to manufacture both the Chevy Chevelle and Impala in the Volt's Hamtramck, Mi., plant next year.
Sure fuel price spikes do happen every Spring The 2012 price-spike is very early in the season, exacerbated by the Regime's complete lack of a viable energy policy. Oh, don't get me wrong: We do have an energy policy. Castigate fossil fuels in favor of those currently unsustainable--without government financial intervention--'green' energy sources. Some reliable studies--that Soros and I, even with our investments in Brazilian oil, do not subscribe to--have concluded that fossil fuels are a RENEWABLE RESOURCE!! As is the norm, I continue the bold-faced lie that the United States only has 2% of the earth's energy supplies!! If I were the least-bit concerned with the truth, I'd have to repeat the new slogan: "The United States is the Saudi Arabia of natural gas!!" Seemingly--much to my chagrin--we almost daily discover new and larger gas fields.... all over the country, from the oil fields of the Dakotas to the Marcellus Shale gas fields of the Northeast!! If George Soros, the Regime and me, personally, are not successful--soon--in vilifying fossil fuels in favor of those unsustainable 'green' sources, I fear we will have lost our chance! Said vilification is essential in 'the spread of socialism of America!!']
The good news is, we’ve been making progress. Take a look at this chart. Six years ago, 60% of the oil we used was imported. Since I took office, America’s dependence on foreign oil has decreased every single year. In fact, in 2010, for the first time in thirteen years, less than half the petroleum we consumed was imported. Part of that is because we’re producing more oil here at home than at any time in the last eight years. But we can’t just drill our way out of this problem. While we consume 20 percent of the world’s oil, we only have 2 percent of the world’s oil reserves. We’ve got to develop new technology that will help us use new forms of energy. That’s been a priority of mine as President. And because of the investments we’ve made, our use of clean, renewable energy has nearly doubled – and thousands of Americans have jobs because of it. Now we need to keep at it. And to do that, we need to make the right choices. Here’s one we can make right now. Every year, $4 billion of your tax dollars go to subsidizing the oil industry. These are the same companies making record profits – tens of billions of dollars a year. I don’t think oil companies need more corporate welfare. Congress should end this taxpayer giveaway. If you agree with me, I’m asking you to e-mail, call, or Tweet your representative. Tell them to stop fighting for oil companies. Tell them to start fighting for working families. Tell them to fight for the clean energy future that’s within our reach. Because the sooner we all get started, the sooner we’ll get there together.
[What I'm not telling you: It's fairly easy to slant the numbers in my favor; I only tell you part of the story!! That line:
"....America's dependence on foreign oil has decreased every year...."
is as phony as my most recent birth certificate!! The 'dependency' numbers are decreasing primarily due to fuel prices climbing ONE-HUNDRED PERCENT since my immaculation, three LONG years ago!! Don't forget too, unemployed workers drive far less than those employed; given the true unemployment rate (U-6) nearing 15%, that means alot'ta folks! With my extensions, unemployment payments have become a personal revenue stream, in-turn creating a whole-new dependency class in America. And by extension, a whole new class of owe-bama supporters!!
To continue--and to re-double--my efforts at fossil fuel vilification, it's necessary to 'go after' the oil companies incessantly. That $4 billion in subsidies is a mere 'drop-in-the-bucket' when considered against the total of my wasteful spending!! That would be .00259 OF ONE PERCENT of the total 15.42 TRILLION in national debt!! Seems kinda' silly to bitch about that doesn't it?!? Well, the KoolAid drinkers among my subjects believe everything I say, and "four-billion" sounds like a huge number when left to stand alone! Even if the Congress were to reduce the oil subsidies by 50%, not only would the savings be comparatively infintesimal, it would cause another substantial increase in the retail pump-price of both major highway fuels. That "....more corporate welfare...." statement: More oil industry vilification. The federal payments to the oil companies are nothing more, nothing less than pass-thru retail price subsidies; very much akin to the $7,500-$10,000 I pay each-and-every sucker who buys a Volt instead of a Corvette!!
If you really want to have an effect on your personal 'bottom line' contact your Senators and Respresentatives to express your support of the subsidies which will continue to insure a reduced pump price of fuel you need every day!! True, that reduced price will not have a great affect so long as the Regime's non-existant energy policy continues to push fuel prices ever upward!!]
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
January Seventeenth in History
Chevrolet Corvette Debut
On January 17, 1953, the Corvette prototype was unveiled at the GM Motorama at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. The 500,000th Corvette was built in 1977; the millionth in 1992; the millionth-and-a-half in 2009.
Paula Jones vs "Slick-Willie"
On January 17, 1994, Paula Jones--an Arkansas state file clerk--filed suit against President "Slick-Willie" Clinton in Federal Court, Little Rock, Ar., asking for $700,000 in damages. Investigation into the Jones allegations discovered that "Slick-Willie" was boinking Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office. The Jones allegations eventually led to "Slick-Willie's" impeachment; He was later acquitted.
Eisenhower's Farewell
On January 17, 1961, President Eisenhower made his last speech to the American people. The President--despite his sadness that peace had not prevailed worldwide--offered the following prayer:
"We pray that people of all faiths, all races, all nations.... will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."
Gilmore: "Let's Do It!"
On January 17, 1977, double-murderer Gary Gilmore was executed by firing squad at the Utah State Prison, Draper, Utah. Mr Gilmore was convicted of murdering an elderly couple because they wouldn't give him their car. Gilmore's final words on this earth were: "Let's Do It!"
Where's The "Mushroom Seeds?!?"
On January 17, 1966, the United States Air Force lost a total of four hydrogen bombs ('mushroom seeds') over and around Palomares, Spain. The Air Force B-52 collided with the refueling boom of an Air Force KC-135 tanker aircraft. The collision ripped open the top of the bomber and fuel exploded in both the bomber and the tanker. All four souls in the tanker and three souls in the bomber died; the remaining four bomber crewmen were able to parachute to safety.
Til Nex'Time....
On January 17, 1953, the Corvette prototype was unveiled at the GM Motorama at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. The 500,000th Corvette was built in 1977; the millionth in 1992; the millionth-and-a-half in 2009.
Paula Jones vs "Slick-Willie"
On January 17, 1994, Paula Jones--an Arkansas state file clerk--filed suit against President "Slick-Willie" Clinton in Federal Court, Little Rock, Ar., asking for $700,000 in damages. Investigation into the Jones allegations discovered that "Slick-Willie" was boinking Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office. The Jones allegations eventually led to "Slick-Willie's" impeachment; He was later acquitted.
Eisenhower's Farewell
On January 17, 1961, President Eisenhower made his last speech to the American people. The President--despite his sadness that peace had not prevailed worldwide--offered the following prayer:
"We pray that people of all faiths, all races, all nations.... will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."
Gilmore: "Let's Do It!"
On January 17, 1977, double-murderer Gary Gilmore was executed by firing squad at the Utah State Prison, Draper, Utah. Mr Gilmore was convicted of murdering an elderly couple because they wouldn't give him their car. Gilmore's final words on this earth were: "Let's Do It!"
Where's The "Mushroom Seeds?!?"
On January 17, 1966, the United States Air Force lost a total of four hydrogen bombs ('mushroom seeds') over and around Palomares, Spain. The Air Force B-52 collided with the refueling boom of an Air Force KC-135 tanker aircraft. The collision ripped open the top of the bomber and fuel exploded in both the bomber and the tanker. All four souls in the tanker and three souls in the bomber died; the remaining four bomber crewmen were able to parachute to safety.
Til Nex'Time....
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