Clarifying the Blather
The "clownish" blather out of barackINGHAM PALACE is in dire need of clarification. If--and that's a huge 'if'--"Clown Prince" obama were prone to bouts of truthful bluster AND if he had the best interests of the country and its' people at heart, he'd have blathered his topics differently, to wit:
"I want to be clear though that, even as we've dealt with the situation in Syria, we've continued to focus on my number one priority since the day I took office, making sure we recover from the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes, and rebuilding our economy so it works for everybody who's willing to work hard, so that everybody who is willing to take responsibility for their lives has a chance to get ahead."
~~Truth-be-told, the number one priority of this cabal has been golfing followed closely by the emperor's MONTHLY vacations costing the federal treasury billions. Remember: Michelle "Antoinette" has her own taxpayer-funded travel schedule, sometimes to the same destination, but unable to wait the 2 or 3 hours necessary to travel with the "Clown Prince!"~~
"It was five years ago, this week, that the financial crisis rocked Wall Street, and sent an economy already into recession, into a tail spin. And it's hard sometimes to remember everything that happened during those -- those months, but in a matter of a frightening few days and weeks, some of the largest investment banks in the world failed, stock markets plunged, banks stopped lending to families and small businesses, our auto industry -- the heartbeat of American manufacturing -- was flat-lining.
By the time I took office, the economy was shrinking by an annual rate of more than 8 percent. Our businesses were shedding 800,000 jobs each month. It was a perfect storm that would rob millions of Americans of jobs and homes and savings that they had worked a lifetime to build."
~~This 'tailspin' the "Clown Prince" refers to is in part, the culmination of years of policies instituted by "Slick Willie" Clinton and his HUD Secretary--the current (and sadly) New York Governor--Andrew "King" Cuomo. "Slick Willie's" prime policy culprit was the Sub-Prime Mortgage scandal. The mortgages granted to those who could ill-afford them and had no compunction to repay, were bundled into investments and sold, resold and resold again and again. This pyramid scheme collapsed when the smart people realized the value wasn't there and refused to continue their involvement! "Clown Prince" obama then added his amateurish incompetence to the mix, to the tune of an amount NO ONE is talking about: EIGHTEEN TRILLION DOLLARS--that's $18,000,000,000,000--when the continuing allotments of qualitative easing are added.~~
"It’s what those earliest days of the crisis caused us to act so quickly through the Recovery Act to arrest the downward spiral and put a floor under the fall. We put people to work, repairing roads and bridges, to keep teachers in our classrooms, our first responders on the streets. We helped responsible homeowners modify their mortgages so that more of them could keep their homes. We helped jump-start the flow of credit to help more small businesses keep their doors open. We saved the American auto industry."
~~The Recovery Act became The Donors, Bundlers and Supporters Payback Act and beyond the crony payoffs, did little to reduce the affects of the oncoming obama Depression. Few roads and fewer bridges ever got the attention they needed; the teachers were under little threat due to tenure; the limited funds for the police and firemen were administered by the states and were only available to fund said responders for a single year. Again, the "Clown Prince" continued the failed "Slick Willie"-"King" Cuomo sub-prime mortgage fiasco, further alleviating any personal responsibility on the part of the home buyers. Rather than letting the nature of business take it's course, the cabal intervened in General Motors' impending bankruptcy, but only to the extent of bailing out the auto unions with cash, an ownership stake in GM as well as placing the UAW retirement system under federal control/funding. The US Treasury is still a major stakeholder in General Motors, monies the taxpayer will never recover!~~
"....so we took on a broken health care system, we invested in new American technologies to end our addiction to foreign oil, we put in place tough new rules on big banks...."
"We also changed a tax code that was too skewed in favor of the wealthiest Americans. We locked in tax cuts for 98 percent of Americans."
~~The obama lip service to the nearly destroyed middleclass continues. Whatever was 'broken' in the previous healthcare system, obamaKare ignored. Whatever worked in the previous healthcare system, obamaKare DESTROYED. The cabal campaigned on the (alleged) 30 million Americans without health insurance. IF AND WHEN obamaKare is fully implemented, the same 30 million Americans--plus millions of illegal 'democrats'--will still be lacking health insurance. A 'quick-fix' for the obama Cabal would have been to open health insurance providers to nationwide sales and marketing. With competition comes fair and AFFORDABLE premiums!!
Any time the taxpayer hears the word 'investment' from any branch of any government, best they should hang onto their wallets!! There have been solutions available to both parties to lessen the affects of foreign oil. Were they considered? N-o-o-o-o-o!! Since the "Clown Prince's" immaculation, he could have--with the stroke of a pen; by executive order--made the United States the successor to Saudi Arabia in the world's oil marketplace. obama could have easily approved the Keystone XL pipeline project. obama could have easily opened federal lands to exploration development of both drilling and fracking. Did he consider it? N-o-o-o-o-o!! Instead, the best play--in his limited common sense--was to bankroll alternative energies, their development and production. The "Clown Prince" GAVE tens-of-billions to alternative energy companies and--wouldn'cha know it--almost immediately thereafter, at least EIGHT solar companies filed for bankruptcy after--of course--paying their obama donors, bundlers and supporters millions in bonus money!!
The 'new-and-improved' banking rules benefitted Big Banking at the expense of the lowly middleclass. More stringent control over practically anything the middleclass investor wanted to do rather than restricting much of the banking industry.
Rather than considering the complete scrapping of the current tax code in favor of a fair or flat tax, the cabal passed out miniscule tax cuts while simultaneously strangling business/corporate investment by taxing money away from the wealthier among us, money that undoubtedly could have been invested in R and D, in plant and equipment. A fair or flat taxing system could have been written to ensure the treasury had sufficient funds to piss away as they do today!~~
"....over the last three-and-a-half years, our businesses have added 7.5 million new jobs. The unemployment rate has come down. Our housing market is healing. Our financial system is safer. We sell more goods made in America to the rest of the world than ever before. We generate more renewable energy than ever before. We produce more natural gas than anybody. Health care costs are growing at the slowest rate in 50 years."
~~Over the past three-and-a-half years, our businesses have lost nearly TEN MILLION JOBS, thus the obama obfuscation is necessary.
Any other president would be ashamed of a 7.4% unemployment rate. The primary reason the obama rate has come down from the 10% range is the severe reduction in the labor participation rate. If the participation rate were the same as during the President Bush years, the obama unemployment rate would be in the 22-25% range, and he'd still be proud of it!! As it is, the U-6 unemployment rate (that counts EVERYONE) is in the 15% range. A dam' shame for a president; acceptable for a ruler.
The obama Cabal is still backing a sub-prime mortgage pyramid scheme and is very likely to continue until the next housing collapse. I doubt that the financial system is safer but no matter, the middleclass has little money. obama's much celebrated renewable energy plan is unworkable. All facets of alternative energy rely on sizeable, annual government subsidies; none are self-sustaining, stand alone! It's not due to obama that we produce more natural gas than anybody. He's done everything possible to thwart the petroleum/natural gas industries. The vast majority of production occurs on private lands where obama has little control, at least for now. Due to obamaKare, the costs to the individual, to the family are growing exponentially, if they can find coverage at all! obamaKare is the mirror image of the disaster that is the obama Cabal.~~
"We need to grow faster. We need more good-paying jobs. We need more broad-based prosperity. We need more ladders of opportunity for people who are currently poor, but want to get into the middle class.
Because even though our businesses are creating new jobs and have broken record profits, the top 1 percent of Americans took home 20 percent of the nation’s income last year, while the average worker isn’t seeing a raise at all.
In fact, that understates the problem. Most of the gains have gone to the top one-tenth of 1 percent. So in many ways, the trends that have taken hold over the past few decades of a winner-take-all economy, where a few do better and better and better, while everybody else just treads water or loses ground, those trends have been made worse by the recession."
~~Everything--and I mean EVERYTHING--that the obama Cabal has f*cked up thus far, can be laid at the feet of obamaKare!! Every ill in the previous paragraph has been exacerbated by the unintended--or intended--consequences of obamaKare! America has gone from the 19th century standard 100-hour, six-day workweek to become a nation with the new 29-hour workweek as full time employment. "Clown Prince" obama can excoriate the rich, the wealthy all he wants, but I've never had a paycheck signed by a poor person!! It can only get worse if he and the RINOs get their coveted 'comprehensive immigration reform.' (Remember: in this case 'comprehensive' means open the gates and let the influx of human debris begin!)!!~~
In the last third of "Clown Prince" obama's blusterful blather, he does little more than add his personal touch to all the socio-fascist bullshit he learned from Saul Alinsky and that dynamic duo: Cloward and Piven!! The only phrases missing are "It's all Bush's fault" and "You're a racist." Obama and his minions spend most of their waking moments excoriating the conservatives in the congress. Those like Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Mike Lee, Senator Rand Paul and others who've actually read the US Constitution and stand ready to honor their oath of office.... you know the one:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.
(oath emphasis-mine.)
Now we have the looming conflagration of defunding obamaKare versus an increase in the federal debt ceiling. For the past several years the Senate has used an illegitimate continuing spending resolution to continue government operations. Said resolution instead of an annual budget hides the vast amounts and coverage of the government's spending habits. "Clown Prince" obama and his Cabal accuse the republicRATic House of favoring a 'government shut-down' rather than cave on defunding the unaffordable, impossible-to-implement, federal health plan. Imagine giving your morbidly obese child a twenty-dollar-bill in the local candy store! That's directly akin to continuing to raise the debt ceiling for a socio-fascist spender like the "Clown Prince."
Til Nex'Time....
Justin Case
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/running-transcript-president-obamas-sept-16-speech-on-the-economy-and-the-navy-yard-shooting/2013/09/16/c63b2c30-1ee4-11e3-b7d1-7153ad47b549_story_1.html
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Oath_Office.htm
Showing posts with label Michelle Antoinette. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michelle Antoinette. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Thursday, April 25, 2013
This'n'That; April Twenty-Fifth #1; Stones
I Don't Know How You Do It....!
A coupl'a points before we get started:
1. Twitter just doesn't allow for lengthy twits to thoroughly explain a point.
2. There are several reverse-euphemisms for themale testicles: balls, nuts, balls-of-brass, stones, cojones, hangy-down things, et al. Testicular fortitude is defined as the trait of standing up for ones self; for the downtrodden, the mistreated; standing up against the arrogant, the inept, the blusterful, the stupid, the unlearned, et al.
May I call you "Clownie" or would you prefer the more formal "Clown Prince" obama?!? Let's assume you've read this. Let's assume--a really, really big assumption--you'll be less-formal with me. As I see it, "Clownie;" you've got a capacity of testicular fortitude that can only be measured in 'hundreds-of-tons." To that end, you're displaying every ounce each time you demonstrate your uncaring attitude toward those subjects you claim to rule. How can you:
a. Attach a donation request to a site that purports to express gratitude for those who helped during the latest radical muslim terrorist acts, the Boston Bombings and murders committed by the aforementioned radical muslim terrorists.
b. Continue with your monthly vacations in the face of a nationwide obamadepression that you--yourself--have perpetrated.
c. Continue to repress and hide all information concerning the four Americans you and Secretary Clinton conspired to murder.
d. Continue to protect the radical muslim terrorist acts, mindset, persons from any detractors, foreign or domestic.
e. We could go on and on here, but in conclusion-Your greatest display of nuts the-size-of-railroad-freight-cars is.... you guessed it!!
You and your putz-frau, Michelle Antoinette showing up in Dallas, Texas, for the dedication of the
President George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum!! After dragging said president 'thru-the-mud' on a regular basis in the past five-years, you got'cher-stones, just showing up!!
I'm guessin' "Clownie," that somewhere in the future, someone will attempt to 'educate' you in the ways of a polite and conservative world.... and.... much as you are, you'll refuse to accept the information. You've always--albeit, incorrectly--considered yourself "the smartest guy in the room!" But like I said, you've been incorrect all of your life.
Although I don't condone the incredibly inept way you've ruled this country into ruin, I certainly hope you and your 'betters'--the remaining former presidents--are left unscathed at the end of the day. To that end, every single Dallas policeman will be on-duty for the festivities!
Comments, anyone?
Til Nex'Time....
A coupl'a points before we get started:
1. Twitter just doesn't allow for lengthy twits to thoroughly explain a point.
2. There are several reverse-euphemisms for the
May I call you "Clownie" or would you prefer the more formal "Clown Prince" obama?!? Let's assume you've read this. Let's assume--a really, really big assumption--you'll be less-formal with me. As I see it, "Clownie;" you've got a capacity of testicular fortitude that can only be measured in 'hundreds-of-tons." To that end, you're displaying every ounce each time you demonstrate your uncaring attitude toward those subjects you claim to rule. How can you:
a. Attach a donation request to a site that purports to express gratitude for those who helped during the latest radical muslim terrorist acts, the Boston Bombings and murders committed by the aforementioned radical muslim terrorists.
b. Continue with your monthly vacations in the face of a nationwide obamadepression that you--yourself--have perpetrated.
c. Continue to repress and hide all information concerning the four Americans you and Secretary Clinton conspired to murder.
d. Continue to protect the radical muslim terrorist acts, mindset, persons from any detractors, foreign or domestic.
e. We could go on and on here, but in conclusion-Your greatest display of nuts the-size-of-railroad-freight-cars is.... you guessed it!!
You and your putz-frau, Michelle Antoinette showing up in Dallas, Texas, for the dedication of the
President George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum!! After dragging said president 'thru-the-mud' on a regular basis in the past five-years, you got'cher-stones, just showing up!!
I'm guessin' "Clownie," that somewhere in the future, someone will attempt to 'educate' you in the ways of a polite and conservative world.... and.... much as you are, you'll refuse to accept the information. You've always--albeit, incorrectly--considered yourself "the smartest guy in the room!" But like I said, you've been incorrect all of your life.
Although I don't condone the incredibly inept way you've ruled this country into ruin, I certainly hope you and your 'betters'--the remaining former presidents--are left unscathed at the end of the day. To that end, every single Dallas policeman will be on-duty for the festivities!
Comments, anyone?
Til Nex'Time....
Monday, February 25, 2013
This'n'That; February Twenty-Fifth #1; Irony
An obama Irony!
Most conservatives; nearly all constitutionalists, many obamunists agree:
not only will "Clown Prince" obama not govern, he conspires with his Secretary of State to deny responsibility for the murder of four Americans in Bengahzi. With their actions, they're assigned said responsibility!!
Those old enough: do you remember the 1979 Iran Hostage negotiations? That 'problem' is illustrated and dramatized by the "Best Picture" Argo! Do you not find it ironic that, while her husband completely failed to 'rescue' the Bengahzi murder victims prior to their deaths; Michelle Antoinette announced--from barackingham Palace--a film about hostage rescue as the best picture?!?
Folks, ya can't make this shit up!!
Til Nex'Time....
Most conservatives; nearly all constitutionalists, many obamunists agree:
not only will "Clown Prince" obama not govern, he conspires with his Secretary of State to deny responsibility for the murder of four Americans in Bengahzi. With their actions, they're assigned said responsibility!!
Those old enough: do you remember the 1979 Iran Hostage negotiations? That 'problem' is illustrated and dramatized by the "Best Picture" Argo! Do you not find it ironic that, while her husband completely failed to 'rescue' the Bengahzi murder victims prior to their deaths; Michelle Antoinette announced--from barackingham Palace--a film about hostage rescue as the best picture?!?
Folks, ya can't make this shit up!!
Til Nex'Time....
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
This'n'That; January Thirtieth #1; Who'da Thunk It?!?
Actually, All HIGH Information Voters!
Remember back on November Seventh, when the low-information voters propelled "Clown Prince" obama into his--clearly unexpected--second term as The Bilderberg Group Ruler for America, remember that?!? Well, somebody forgot to inform his highness, the "Clown Prince!" Not only has he not stopped campaigning, he's started his 2013 Apology Tour way early! The 2009 Tour concentrated on the Middle East, this one's for the Far East, Pacific areas. Here's just part if his itinerary:
November 6: [a pass] Chicago for unroyal-family voting.
RETURN TO D.C.
November 15: Staten Island, NYC to promise all kinda crap in the wake of Hurricane Sandy (it's now Jan 30; victims STILL WAITING!]
RETURN TO D.C.
November 18: Bangkok, Thailand to kick off the apology tour.
November 19: Rangoon, Burma.
November 20: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
RETURN TO D.C.
November 30: Hatfield, Pa., for non-campaign blathering; fundraising.
RETURN TO D.C.
December 6: Northern Virginia for non-campaign blathering; fundraising.
December 10: Redford, Mi., for non-campaign union meeting; blathering; fundraising.
RETURN TO D.C.
December 16: Newtown, Ct., for non-campaign reclamation of the camera lens and "the front page."
RETURN TO D.C.
December 19: Michelle Antoinette and the princii depart for Hawaii on their annual $4 Million Christmas vacation.
December 21: "Clown Prince" obama departs on #29000 BY HIMSELF for his ultra-expensive Hawaiian Christmas vacation. When all is said-and-done, this family tour will cost just short of $10 Million.
December 26 (unnecessary RETURN TO D.C.): "Clown Prince" obama makes unnecessary return to the mainland for the Fiscal Cliff signing. The 'signing' was done via autopen, which could have easily been done from The Bilderberg Group's digs in Hawaii. The "Clown Prince" found the trip necessary to show the republicRATics that The Bilderberg Group is definitely in charge.
January 2: "Clown Prince" obama makes unnecessary return to Hawaii to continue his $10 Million vacation.
RETURN TO D.C.
January 29: (Del Sol High School) Las Vegas non-campaign stop to promote his latest "scheme-to-scam," this time involving illegal aliens.
RETURN TO D.C.
Every time the "Clown Prince" decides to go for 'a airplane ride' it costs upwards of a half-million bucks just to "light the fires" on the clown-plane. If obama stays in 'the lower-48,' travel and security expenses can be kept to a cuppla-million, more-or-less. Hell, it costs around $150,000 just for "Clown Prince" obama to visit on of those D.C. grade-schools he's fond of campaigning at. Those in-city visits equal nearly 6-years' (2011) wages for those earning the national median annual wage-FOR JUST ONE TRIP TO VISIT JUST ONE SCHOOL!!
This guy--"Clown Prince" obama--is so out of touch; so inept; so uncaring, that not only is he not aware of the near-depression he's caused, HE DOESN'T CARE!!
Let's make it a point to do this itinrery check-up every month or so, ok?!?
Your comments?
Til Nex'Time....
Research "Lie-Barry:"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/23/obamas-christmas-vacation-hawaii-2012_n_2355524.html
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/275129-obama-departs-on-post-cliff-vacations
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/12/obama-returning-to-washington-as-fiscal-cliff-looms/
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/01/president-obama-returns-to-hawaii-vacation-post-cliff-deal/
http://www.calendar-365.com/2012-calendar.html
http://search.whitehouse.gov/search?affiliate=wh&query=gun+violence+executive+orders&form_id=usasearch_box&submit.x=58&submit.y=18
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/central.html
Remember back on November Seventh, when the low-information voters propelled "Clown Prince" obama into his--clearly unexpected--second term as The Bilderberg Group Ruler for America, remember that?!? Well, somebody forgot to inform his highness, the "Clown Prince!" Not only has he not stopped campaigning, he's started his 2013 Apology Tour way early! The 2009 Tour concentrated on the Middle East, this one's for the Far East, Pacific areas. Here's just part if his itinerary:
November 6: [a pass] Chicago for unroyal-family voting.
RETURN TO D.C.
November 15: Staten Island, NYC to promise all kinda crap in the wake of Hurricane Sandy (it's now Jan 30; victims STILL WAITING!]
RETURN TO D.C.
November 18: Bangkok, Thailand to kick off the apology tour.
November 19: Rangoon, Burma.
November 20: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
RETURN TO D.C.
November 30: Hatfield, Pa., for non-campaign blathering; fundraising.
RETURN TO D.C.
December 6: Northern Virginia for non-campaign blathering; fundraising.
December 10: Redford, Mi., for non-campaign union meeting; blathering; fundraising.
RETURN TO D.C.
December 16: Newtown, Ct., for non-campaign reclamation of the camera lens and "the front page."
RETURN TO D.C.
December 19: Michelle Antoinette and the princii depart for Hawaii on their annual $4 Million Christmas vacation.
December 21: "Clown Prince" obama departs on #29000 BY HIMSELF for his ultra-expensive Hawaiian Christmas vacation. When all is said-and-done, this family tour will cost just short of $10 Million.
December 26 (unnecessary RETURN TO D.C.): "Clown Prince" obama makes unnecessary return to the mainland for the Fiscal Cliff signing. The 'signing' was done via autopen, which could have easily been done from The Bilderberg Group's digs in Hawaii. The "Clown Prince" found the trip necessary to show the republicRATics that The Bilderberg Group is definitely in charge.
January 2: "Clown Prince" obama makes unnecessary return to Hawaii to continue his $10 Million vacation.
RETURN TO D.C.
January 29: (Del Sol High School) Las Vegas non-campaign stop to promote his latest "scheme-to-scam," this time involving illegal aliens.
RETURN TO D.C.
Every time the "Clown Prince" decides to go for 'a airplane ride' it costs upwards of a half-million bucks just to "light the fires" on the clown-plane. If obama stays in 'the lower-48,' travel and security expenses can be kept to a cuppla-million, more-or-less. Hell, it costs around $150,000 just for "Clown Prince" obama to visit on of those D.C. grade-schools he's fond of campaigning at. Those in-city visits equal nearly 6-years' (2011) wages for those earning the national median annual wage-FOR JUST ONE TRIP TO VISIT JUST ONE SCHOOL!!
This guy--"Clown Prince" obama--is so out of touch; so inept; so uncaring, that not only is he not aware of the near-depression he's caused, HE DOESN'T CARE!!
Let's make it a point to do this itinrery check-up every month or so, ok?!?
Your comments?
Til Nex'Time....
Research "Lie-Barry:"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/23/obamas-christmas-vacation-hawaii-2012_n_2355524.html
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/275129-obama-departs-on-post-cliff-vacations
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/12/obama-returning-to-washington-as-fiscal-cliff-looms/
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/01/president-obama-returns-to-hawaii-vacation-post-cliff-deal/
http://www.calendar-365.com/2012-calendar.html
http://search.whitehouse.gov/search?affiliate=wh&query=gun+violence+executive+orders&form_id=usasearch_box&submit.x=58&submit.y=18
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/central.html
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
This'n'That; December Twenty-Sixth #1; Screwed More!
Why Not Just Stay In Hawaii?!?
"Clown Prince" obama's decision to return to barackingham Palace with Valarie Jarrett but without Michelle Antoinette and the two princii (MY plural of both prince and princess). This will increase the taxpayer's cost of the family's monthly vacation from the usual $4,000,000++ to well over $6,000,000!! The government will needlessly send several aircraft EMPTY, to Hickam AFB, Hi., to retrieve the remainder of the royal family and haul their more-than-ample asses back to the 'Palace.'
Remember dear taxpayer:
with the numbers and types of aircraft the royal family demands, the total cost is over $180,000 per-flight-hour!!
You know Michelle Antoinette demands the greatest luxury the taxpayer can provide!!
But why?!?
Why is "Clown Prince" obama returning to the District of Corruption for negotiations?!?
Given his negotiating style of "my way or the highway," it doesn't seem necessary that he be in the royal residence. He's already stated his demands; now it's just up to Speaker John Boehner to 'roll-over-and-play-dead' to his demands!!
Til Nex'Time....
"Clown Prince" obama's decision to return to barackingham Palace with Valarie Jarrett but without Michelle Antoinette and the two princii (MY plural of both prince and princess). This will increase the taxpayer's cost of the family's monthly vacation from the usual $4,000,000++ to well over $6,000,000!! The government will needlessly send several aircraft EMPTY, to Hickam AFB, Hi., to retrieve the remainder of the royal family and haul their more-than-ample asses back to the 'Palace.'
Remember dear taxpayer:
with the numbers and types of aircraft the royal family demands, the total cost is over $180,000 per-flight-hour!!
You know Michelle Antoinette demands the greatest luxury the taxpayer can provide!!
But why?!?
Why is "Clown Prince" obama returning to the District of Corruption for negotiations?!?
Given his negotiating style of "my way or the highway," it doesn't seem necessary that he be in the royal residence. He's already stated his demands; now it's just up to Speaker John Boehner to 'roll-over-and-play-dead' to his demands!!
Til Nex'Time....
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
This'n'That; December Twelfth #1; Annual Expense
The Expense Of Royalty
On December 11, 1917, King George V of Great Britian issued Letters Patent delineating who is--and who is not--a member of the British Royal Family. In 1996 Queen Elizabeth II modified the aforementioned Letters as noted in the London Gazette, thus:
Currently, the British Royal Family consists of 22 souls and their family members as noted in the Kings Letters and as modified by Queen Elizabeth. Some are noted by name, others only by title.
There are several official and private royal residences and vacation homes in the Royal real estate inventory.
Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh normally live in
Buckingham Palace (London) on weekdays,
Windsor Castle (Windsor) on weekends as well as
Palace of Holyroodhouse (Edinburgh, Scotland) for duties in Scotland.
There are thirteen other official residences occupied by various members of the Royal Family. These do not count a considerable number of properties privately owned by members of the Windsor Royal Family.
The number of official residences, a huge number of motor and horse-drawn vehicles, day-to-day expenses, the official travel and accomodations of the extended Royal Family et al, only costs the British taxpayers a total of $57 million.
Now we come to the royal family of the United States. "Clown Prince" obama, Michelle Antoinette, the two princesses have--by action, by attitude, by arrogance--claimed unofficial royalty status. The obamas normally live in
barackingham Palace, (District of Corruption) and
Camp David (Thurmond, Md).
Rarely does the 'royal family' visit their Chicago (in the ritzy Kenwood area) home; they're responsible for any personal expenses while they're in residence.
The American 'royal family' normally takes monthly vacations; uses military and federal aircraft for private junkets worldwide as well as throwing lavish parties for their cronies, supporters, donors as well as the celebrities they desire to equal. Just the "Princely" Christmas vacations cost between $4-6 million EACH YEAR. The "Clown Prince" obama family is probably the most 'high-maintenance' on the planet; the annual 'maintenance' for the American "royal family" is $1.4 BILLION (that--and maybe more--EACH AND EVERY YEAR!!!)
NOTE: Those 'obama-bucks' would keep the British Royal Family in finery for TWENTY-FOUR AND A HALF YEARS!!!
Your comments?
Til Nex'Time....
On December 11, 1917, King George V of Great Britian issued Letters Patent delineating who is--and who is not--a member of the British Royal Family. In 1996 Queen Elizabeth II modified the aforementioned Letters as noted in the London Gazette, thus:
"The QUEEN has been pleased by Letters Pantent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 21st August 1996, to declare that a former wife (other than a widow until she shall remarry) of a son of a Sovereign of these Realms, of a son of a son of a Sovereign and of the eldest living son of the eldest son of The Prince of Wales shall not be entitled to hold and enjoy the style, title or attribute of Royal Highness."
Currently, the British Royal Family consists of 22 souls and their family members as noted in the Kings Letters and as modified by Queen Elizabeth. Some are noted by name, others only by title.
There are several official and private royal residences and vacation homes in the Royal real estate inventory.
Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh normally live in
Buckingham Palace (London) on weekdays,
Windsor Castle (Windsor) on weekends as well as
Palace of Holyroodhouse (Edinburgh, Scotland) for duties in Scotland.
There are thirteen other official residences occupied by various members of the Royal Family. These do not count a considerable number of properties privately owned by members of the Windsor Royal Family.
The number of official residences, a huge number of motor and horse-drawn vehicles, day-to-day expenses, the official travel and accomodations of the extended Royal Family et al, only costs the British taxpayers a total of $57 million.
Now we come to the royal family of the United States. "Clown Prince" obama, Michelle Antoinette, the two princesses have--by action, by attitude, by arrogance--claimed unofficial royalty status. The obamas normally live in
barackingham Palace, (District of Corruption) and
Camp David (Thurmond, Md).
Rarely does the 'royal family' visit their Chicago (in the ritzy Kenwood area) home; they're responsible for any personal expenses while they're in residence.
The American 'royal family' normally takes monthly vacations; uses military and federal aircraft for private junkets worldwide as well as throwing lavish parties for their cronies, supporters, donors as well as the celebrities they desire to equal. Just the "Princely" Christmas vacations cost between $4-6 million EACH YEAR. The "Clown Prince" obama family is probably the most 'high-maintenance' on the planet; the annual 'maintenance' for the American "royal family" is $1.4 BILLION (that--and maybe more--EACH AND EVERY YEAR!!!)
NOTE: Those 'obama-bucks' would keep the British Royal Family in finery for TWENTY-FOUR AND A HALF YEARS!!!
Your comments?
Til Nex'Time....
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
This'n'That; December Fifth #2; Fairness?'
Finally, A Solution For The "Princely" Conundrum!
"Clown Prince" obama has magnanimously been insisting that everyone in the country pay 'their fair share' of the federal revenue requirements. The only problem with obama's scheme is: he's never determined what "fair" is! Not once has he ever attached an actual value--either percentage or dollar-amount--to his 'suggestion.'
Well, we now have someone with the testicular-fortitude to actually make a decision outside The Bilderberg Group!! Had Michelle Antoinette removed her--vise-like--grip on the obama nut-sack, he may have been able to concentrate on the obamanomics of the country.
Rep Louie Gohmert, (r, Tx-1) has extended his overage of testicular-fortitude to the federal budget and pronounced that a 15% flat tax rate is 'the fairest number in the land!!' Now someone has had the balls; has taken time out of his busy day to make this determination.... so "Clown Prince" obama doesn't have to take time away from his non-election campaign or his golf-betterment 'practices' to make these difficult decisions!!
Let's see how this is received....
Your comments?!?
Til Nex'Time....
"Clown Prince" obama has magnanimously been insisting that everyone in the country pay 'their fair share' of the federal revenue requirements. The only problem with obama's scheme is: he's never determined what "fair" is! Not once has he ever attached an actual value--either percentage or dollar-amount--to his 'suggestion.'
Well, we now have someone with the testicular-fortitude to actually make a decision outside The Bilderberg Group!! Had Michelle Antoinette removed her--vise-like--grip on the obama nut-sack, he may have been able to concentrate on the obamanomics of the country.
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| Michelle's tourniquet-like grip on the obama nut-sack! |
Let's see how this is received....
Your comments?!?
Til Nex'Time....
Friday, November 9, 2012
This'n'That; November Nineth #1; obama-quences
obama-quences Begin BEFORE Re-immaculation!
Remember the photo op that never accomplished anything?!? You know the one: "Clown Prince" obama shows up on the Jersey Shore in his shiny, new helicopter; walks in the sand, as ususal-promising everything to everybody; is endorsed by turncoat-Governor Chris Christie, then--as is becoming more usual for the "Clown Prince"--hopped off to 'Vegas.
Since the aforementioned politically-expedient photo op, what's changed; what's been improved?!? A coupla million folks had their utilities restored, only to have them knocked out during the most recent nor'easter storm that hit New Jersey, southeastern New York State and continued on up into southern New England. The on-site FEMA offices were closed 'due to the weather!' Now that the election's over, the "Clown Prince" has taken a stance of blatant ignorance; the turncoat-Governor Christie--having secured future employment consideration by the continuing regime--apparently has better things to do!!
A Las Vegas employer--who remained anonymous--is laying off 22--out of 114--employees to afford to keep his business open; the aircraft giant--Boeing, Inc--will reduce its executive and management staffing by an additional 30% since early rounds in 2010; close facilities in California, as well as consolidating business units. So much for the obamanomics socio-fascist economic model!!
Not only do we have the quote attributed to obama-handler Valarie Jarrett:
"When we win, there'll be hell-to-pay for those who opposed us!"
We have that ass-tute statesman; the "Nevada Nose-Picker," pinky reid trying to convince the conservatives among us of a mandate in the recent election:
"The mandate was, look at all the exit polls, look at all the polling. The vast majority of the American people--rich,poor, everybody--agrees that the reich [the] richest of the rich, have to help a little bit."
....and finally, we have one of the most astute investors of all time--Warren Buffett--agreeing with those occupying barackingham Palace as well as the occupants of the Ameri-stag [Reichstag {Hitler's puppet government}-Git'it; git'it?!?]:
"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war and we're winning."
This is exactly the right point beyond which Speaker Boehner should not cave!! He must continue to prove his nut-sack is not in the grips of any of the leftists in the House or the Senate (Remember the photo--from their appearance on 'the view'--of Michelle 'Antoinette' having a death-grip on the "Clown Prince's" nut-sack). The House Speaker must continue to stand up for--his version of--fiscal conservatism, for spending cuts and for the CURRENT tax code!!
Til Nex'Time....
Remember the photo op that never accomplished anything?!? You know the one: "Clown Prince" obama shows up on the Jersey Shore in his shiny, new helicopter; walks in the sand, as ususal-promising everything to everybody; is endorsed by turncoat-Governor Chris Christie, then--as is becoming more usual for the "Clown Prince"--hopped off to 'Vegas.
Since the aforementioned politically-expedient photo op, what's changed; what's been improved?!? A coupla million folks had their utilities restored, only to have them knocked out during the most recent nor'easter storm that hit New Jersey, southeastern New York State and continued on up into southern New England. The on-site FEMA offices were closed 'due to the weather!' Now that the election's over, the "Clown Prince" has taken a stance of blatant ignorance; the turncoat-Governor Christie--having secured future employment consideration by the continuing regime--apparently has better things to do!!
A Las Vegas employer--who remained anonymous--is laying off 22--out of 114--employees to afford to keep his business open; the aircraft giant--Boeing, Inc--will reduce its executive and management staffing by an additional 30% since early rounds in 2010; close facilities in California, as well as consolidating business units. So much for the obamanomics socio-fascist economic model!!
Not only do we have the quote attributed to obama-handler Valarie Jarrett:
"When we win, there'll be hell-to-pay for those who opposed us!"
We have that ass-tute statesman; the "Nevada Nose-Picker," pinky reid trying to convince the conservatives among us of a mandate in the recent election:
"The mandate was, look at all the exit polls, look at all the polling. The vast majority of the American people--rich,poor, everybody--agrees that the reich [the] richest of the rich, have to help a little bit."
....and finally, we have one of the most astute investors of all time--Warren Buffett--agreeing with those occupying barackingham Palace as well as the occupants of the Ameri-stag [Reichstag {Hitler's puppet government}-Git'it; git'it?!?]:
"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war and we're winning."
This is exactly the right point beyond which Speaker Boehner should not cave!! He must continue to prove his nut-sack is not in the grips of any of the leftists in the House or the Senate (Remember the photo--from their appearance on 'the view'--of Michelle 'Antoinette' having a death-grip on the "Clown Prince's" nut-sack). The House Speaker must continue to stand up for--his version of--fiscal conservatism, for spending cuts and for the CURRENT tax code!!
Til Nex'Time....
Thursday, October 11, 2012
This'n'That; October Eleventh #1; Why....?
Why Keep The Morons In Barackingham Palace?!?
Why should anyone vote for "Clown Prince" obama?!? He--as surrounded by his neanderthalic, moronic minions--is truly the most inept, the most inexperienced, guy in the room!! He's been so insulated from any and all, denigrating, any negative remarks that he really believes he's "the smartest guy in the room!" To this point, "Clown Prince" obama--upon leaving the stage--actually thought he won the first presidential debate.
"Clown Prince" obama has--for his entire life--lied about his past, as evidenced by the memories of a grade-school classmate. In some circles, it's believed that his primary mentor--the pedophile, CPUSA-member Frank Marshall Davis is also--ALLEGEDLY--"Clown Prince" obama's father; the sperm-donor to Stanley Ann Dunham during an affair they allegedly had. Which brings into question, said "Clown Prince's" upbringing. Was the young 'clown;' the young 'prince' subjected to pedophilic child abuse?!?
Surely, the young 'prince' was schooled in the spread; in the positives, of the Communist Party-USA.
So we have a communist-mentored, socio-fascist member of either Kenyan or Indonesian royalty, ensconced in the former White House; barackingham Palace. Imagine the possibilities: How much better the United States would presently be if the Kenyan or Indonesian "Clown Prince" obama had married the future Michelle "Antoinette" Robinson-Soetoro-obama and they'd be the current ruling family of either Kenya or Indonesia?
Your thoughts??
'Splain to me again why YOU elected this Verdammte Arschloch!
Til Nex'Time....
Why should anyone vote for "Clown Prince" obama?!? He--as surrounded by his neanderthalic, moronic minions--is truly the most inept, the most inexperienced, guy in the room!! He's been so insulated from any and all, denigrating, any negative remarks that he really believes he's "the smartest guy in the room!" To this point, "Clown Prince" obama--upon leaving the stage--actually thought he won the first presidential debate.
"Clown Prince" obama has--for his entire life--lied about his past, as evidenced by the memories of a grade-school classmate. In some circles, it's believed that his primary mentor--the pedophile, CPUSA-member Frank Marshall Davis is also--ALLEGEDLY--"Clown Prince" obama's father; the sperm-donor to Stanley Ann Dunham during an affair they allegedly had. Which brings into question, said "Clown Prince's" upbringing. Was the young 'clown;' the young 'prince' subjected to pedophilic child abuse?!?
Surely, the young 'prince' was schooled in the spread; in the positives, of the Communist Party-USA.
So we have a communist-mentored, socio-fascist member of either Kenyan or Indonesian royalty, ensconced in the former White House; barackingham Palace. Imagine the possibilities: How much better the United States would presently be if the Kenyan or Indonesian "Clown Prince" obama had married the future Michelle "Antoinette" Robinson-Soetoro-obama and they'd be the current ruling family of either Kenya or Indonesia?
Your thoughts??
'Splain to me again why YOU elected this Verdammte Arschloch!
Til Nex'Time....
Friday, September 14, 2012
This'n'That; September Fourteenth #1; What We Got
The Result Of "Leading From The Golf Course!"
"Clown Prince" obama is a clear example of what a 'chief executive' is not! An effective 'CEO' is intune with the happenings of his sphere of responsibility, in this case, the entire free and oppressed worlds. We're seeing the ongoing result of the "Clown Prince" obama '2009 Worldwide Apologize For The American Success' tour. All the world's misfits; all the world's miscreants; all the world's radical, muslim terrorists see the United States an it's principal leader as a joke. Something to be ridiculed; something to be rallied against.
Something I rarely do but in the "Clown Prince's" defense, this didn't happen overnight.... we're still awaiting any forceful "Slick-Willie" Clinton action against the Yemenis who bombed the USS Cole. There have been several radical muslim terrorist bombings and murders between the Cole and thedeath murder of US Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens. The various tepid responses to all al Qaeda and other radical muslim terrorists' attacks on the free world do little more than placating a constituency while embolding said muslim terrorists.
I fear these radical muslim terrorist attacks will continue until one of two thing happens:
1. "Michelle Antoinette" releases her death-grip on "Clown Prince" obama's nut-sack, allowing the free-flow of testosterone or....
2. Governor Romney becomes President Romney and demostrates the testosterone fueled testicular fortitude necessary to govern rather than rule!
'Splain to me again why YOU elected this Verdammte Arschloch!?!
Til Nex'Time....
"Clown Prince" obama is a clear example of what a 'chief executive' is not! An effective 'CEO' is intune with the happenings of his sphere of responsibility, in this case, the entire free and oppressed worlds. We're seeing the ongoing result of the "Clown Prince" obama '2009 Worldwide Apologize For The American Success' tour. All the world's misfits; all the world's miscreants; all the world's radical, muslim terrorists see the United States an it's principal leader as a joke. Something to be ridiculed; something to be rallied against.
| USS Cole Bombing, Oct 12, 2000 |
Something I rarely do but in the "Clown Prince's" defense, this didn't happen overnight.... we're still awaiting any forceful "Slick-Willie" Clinton action against the Yemenis who bombed the USS Cole. There have been several radical muslim terrorist bombings and murders between the Cole and the
I fear these radical muslim terrorist attacks will continue until one of two thing happens:
1. "Michelle Antoinette" releases her death-grip on "Clown Prince" obama's nut-sack, allowing the free-flow of testosterone or....
2. Governor Romney becomes President Romney and demostrates the testosterone fueled testicular fortitude necessary to govern rather than rule!
'Splain to me again why YOU elected this Verdammte Arschloch!?!
Til Nex'Time....
Thursday, September 13, 2012
This'n'That; September Thirteenth #2; Romney Comments
More Presidential than The "Clown Prince!"
I gotta tell ya, Governor Romney certainly looked and sounded more presidential in his response to the radical muslim terrorist attacks in Cairo and Benghazi than did "Clown Prince" obama! While the "Clown Prince" sounded apologetic--even tepid--in his response, Governor Romney was forceful, presidential and sounding every bit like the president we've been longing for during the past three-plus years. In chastizing The Bilderberg Regime's representative for his misguided response, Mr Romney said:
"It's disgraceful that the obama administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks."
Actually I don't think Governor Romney went far enough. See, every embassy--worldwide--IS United States property and as such, has the same considerations, the same protection as if each were another state in the union. The radical muslim extremist attacks on the two embassies, carries the same weight as if they were attacks on federal buildings in Rhode Island and Connecticut! They are ACTS OF WAR! Where is the obama condemnation of a deliberate attack on federal property by radical-muslim-extremist-terrorists?!? To answer my own question, we have to remember that the radical Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization are obama's asshole buddies and as such are above reproach!!
Governor Romney may be slow to realize a couple of this about "Clown Prince" obama, The Bilderberg Group and "Michelle Antoinette." The obamas are staunch socio-fascists with a protective stance with regard to radical muslim terrorists. The Bilderbergers are a one-world currency; a one-world government bunch. What ever happens in the Middle East is glossed over by the obamas and applauded by the Bilderbergers; they feel any denegration of the United States is working in the Group's best interests.
Governor: Just stay on message regarding jobs creation, the economy, the dismal unemployment rate, the dropping labor participation rate, et al!! So far, you're doing a far better job of president'n, than the guy who's actually gettin' paid for it!!
'Splain to me again why YOU elected this Verdammte Arschloch!?!
Til Nex'Time....
I gotta tell ya, Governor Romney certainly looked and sounded more presidential in his response to the radical muslim terrorist attacks in Cairo and Benghazi than did "Clown Prince" obama! While the "Clown Prince" sounded apologetic--even tepid--in his response, Governor Romney was forceful, presidential and sounding every bit like the president we've been longing for during the past three-plus years. In chastizing The Bilderberg Regime's representative for his misguided response, Mr Romney said:
"It's disgraceful that the obama administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks."
Actually I don't think Governor Romney went far enough. See, every embassy--worldwide--IS United States property and as such, has the same considerations, the same protection as if each were another state in the union. The radical muslim extremist attacks on the two embassies, carries the same weight as if they were attacks on federal buildings in Rhode Island and Connecticut! They are ACTS OF WAR! Where is the obama condemnation of a deliberate attack on federal property by radical-muslim-extremist-terrorists?!? To answer my own question, we have to remember that the radical Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization are obama's asshole buddies and as such are above reproach!!
Governor Romney may be slow to realize a couple of this about "Clown Prince" obama, The Bilderberg Group and "Michelle Antoinette." The obamas are staunch socio-fascists with a protective stance with regard to radical muslim terrorists. The Bilderbergers are a one-world currency; a one-world government bunch. What ever happens in the Middle East is glossed over by the obamas and applauded by the Bilderbergers; they feel any denegration of the United States is working in the Group's best interests.
Governor: Just stay on message regarding jobs creation, the economy, the dismal unemployment rate, the dropping labor participation rate, et al!! So far, you're doing a far better job of president'n, than the guy who's actually gettin' paid for it!!
'Splain to me again why YOU elected this Verdammte Arschloch!?!
Til Nex'Time....
This'n'That; September Thirteenth #1; Nuts!
"Closed Circuit" Message For obama
Seems to me that you're not able to act properly; in a manly way; in a presidential way. Now might be a really good time for you to ask beg "Michelle Antoinette" to loosen the grasp she has on your nuts! You are in dire need of a testosterone injection and dam' quick!!
Governor Romney is making you look like more of a fool that you, yourself normally do!! I gotta ask ya?!? Who was the more-presidential in their response to the recent radical, muslim terrorist actions in the Middle East? RIGHT!! Governor Romney!! You've got to take back your nut-sack control if you expect to have any chance at all in the upcoming re-immaculation election!!
Til Nex'Time....
Seems to me that you're not able to act properly; in a manly way; in a presidential way. Now might be a really good time for you to ask beg "Michelle Antoinette" to loosen the grasp she has on your nuts! You are in dire need of a testosterone injection and dam' quick!!
Governor Romney is making you look like more of a fool that you, yourself normally do!! I gotta ask ya?!? Who was the more-presidential in their response to the recent radical, muslim terrorist actions in the Middle East? RIGHT!! Governor Romney!! You've got to take back your nut-sack control if you expect to have any chance at all in the upcoming re-immaculation election!!
Til Nex'Time....
Thursday, September 6, 2012
This'n'That; September Sixth #1; Michelle 'Antoinette'
Rush Did It Better!!
I took my turn at analyzing Michelle "Antoinette's" September Fourth blather at the DNC attendees. I shudd'a waited; Rush Limbaugh did a far better job than I! You can catch his pithy comments here.
I'll quote a caller--Kevin from Sterling Heights, Michigan--to Rush's show on the topic:
CALLER [after doing his own research]: Mmmm. I also started wondering about Michelle herself, and I discovered they were living in her aunt's house at the same time that they were taking vacations at a cottage that they owned in White Cloud, Michigan. And Michelle's as old as I am. Now, she would have been of school-age during the Jimmy Carter years, and I'll tell you what: My family couldn't have afforded a cottage anywhere (chuckles) when Jimmy Carter was president.
RUSH: (laughing)
CALLER: I just found the whole thing to be very contrived.
Mr Limbaugh then took a call from "Mary, from Houston, Texas" who compared the obamas to the Perons of Argentina!! All-in-all, a very enlightening segment! Given that the "Clown Princess'" blather was liberally laced with fabricated narrative, I found some quotes--well, two--that might serve her well:
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
--Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher; 428-348 B.C.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keept repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the prople from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
Dr (Peter) Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propoganda; 1897-1945.
"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly--it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over." Ibid.
Enjoy Rush's--and his callers'--commentary!!
Til Nex'Time....
Oh, by the way: These photos were in the same segment!!







I took my turn at analyzing Michelle "Antoinette's" September Fourth blather at the DNC attendees. I shudd'a waited; Rush Limbaugh did a far better job than I! You can catch his pithy comments here.
I'll quote a caller--Kevin from Sterling Heights, Michigan--to Rush's show on the topic:
CALLER [after doing his own research]: Mmmm. I also started wondering about Michelle herself, and I discovered they were living in her aunt's house at the same time that they were taking vacations at a cottage that they owned in White Cloud, Michigan. And Michelle's as old as I am. Now, she would have been of school-age during the Jimmy Carter years, and I'll tell you what: My family couldn't have afforded a cottage anywhere (chuckles) when Jimmy Carter was president.
RUSH: (laughing)
CALLER: I just found the whole thing to be very contrived.
Mr Limbaugh then took a call from "Mary, from Houston, Texas" who compared the obamas to the Perons of Argentina!! All-in-all, a very enlightening segment! Given that the "Clown Princess'" blather was liberally laced with fabricated narrative, I found some quotes--well, two--that might serve her well:
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
--Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher; 428-348 B.C.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keept repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the prople from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
Dr (Peter) Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propoganda; 1897-1945.
"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly--it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over." Ibid.
Enjoy Rush's--and his callers'--commentary!!
Til Nex'Time....
Oh, by the way: These photos were in the same segment!!
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
This'n'That; September Fifth #2; Convention Speech
Excerpts From Michelle "Antoinette's" Speech
Last night, September Fourth, Michelle "Antoinette" made a feeble attempt at keeping her husband, "Clown Prince" obama as the nation's--latest and most--socio-fascist ruler, in office. As they always do, she verbally paraded victims of those evil President George W. Bush middle-eastern wars to garner feelings of actual support; didn't work with me!! 'Just for the fun of it,' let's have a look at some selected--verbatim--quotes from her blather opportunity:
Were I one of Michelle "Antoinette's" speechwriters, I'm not so sure I'd have included the aforementioned statements in the blather. The obamacRATic policies have been to increase foodstamp participation as much, and as quickly as possible. In that vein, "Clown Prince" obama eased the work requirements for participation--a massage is now considered work! Good work, if ya can get it!! Her husband took the unemployment rate from the 7.0% range [Jan, 2009] to the obama-high--so far--to 10.0% [Oct, 2009] to finally settle at the current--unacceptable--rate of 8.3% [July, 2012]. Many more statistics--mostly negative to the current regime--can be found here.
Stephanie Cutter used this to illustrate the uncaring Governor Mitt Romney but it backfired and "Clown Prince" obama had more negative conservative press to ignore. With conservative talk-radio and the single conservative television network gaining listener- and viewership on a daily basis, the "Clown Prince" would be an even greater fool to continue to ignore them!
GAWD!! This is not only tough--to re-read the transcript--it's boring; there's no changing a devout socio-fascist! I think Clint Eastwood hit-the-nail-on-the-head with this excerpt from his RNC speech:
Mister Eastwood and I are of like mind!
'Splain to me again why YOU elected this Verdammte Arschloch!?!
Til Nex'Time....
Last night, September Fourth, Michelle "Antoinette" made a feeble attempt at keeping her husband, "Clown Prince" obama as the nation's--latest and most--socio-fascist ruler, in office. As they always do, she verbally paraded victims of those evil President George W. Bush middle-eastern wars to garner feelings of actual support; didn't work with me!! 'Just for the fun of it,' let's have a look at some selected--verbatim--quotes from her blather opportunity:
"....he was the guy whose proudest possession was a coffee table he'd found in a dumpster, and whose only pair of decent shoes was half a size too small."Really, Michelle?!? You're gonna say that, unbelievable as it is?!? He was more proud of a beat-up coffee table over a degree from Harvard Law?!? More proud of a beat-up coffee table over his 'Saul Alinsky discipleship' as a community agitator?!? Come-ON!! Some of us were born at night, but it wasn't LAST NIGHT!!
"Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it … and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are, or where we’re from, or what we look like, or who we love."
Do as you're told!!
Were I one of Michelle "Antoinette's" speechwriters, I'm not so sure I'd have included the aforementioned statements in the blather. The obamacRATic policies have been to increase foodstamp participation as much, and as quickly as possible. In that vein, "Clown Prince" obama eased the work requirements for participation--a massage is now considered work! Good work, if ya can get it!! Her husband took the unemployment rate from the 7.0% range [Jan, 2009] to the obama-high--so far--to 10.0% [Oct, 2009] to finally settle at the current--unacceptable--rate of 8.3% [July, 2012]. Many more statistics--mostly negative to the current regime--can be found here.
"He ["Clown Prince" obama] did it [health care reform] because he believes that here in America, our grandparents should be able to afford their medicine.... our kids should be able to see a doctor when they're sick.... and no one in this country should ever go broke because of an accident or illness."obamaKare is bearing out to be the greatest income re-distribution scheme in American--if not WORLD--history. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates now peg the cost of obamaKare at $1.76 TRILLION; that's ANOTHER $1.76 Trillion that has to be borrowed from the Chinese!! That aside, it's against federal law to deny ANYONE service at a public hospital emergency room; everyone has health care... that you and I pay for!!
"The letter.... from the woman dying of cancer whose insurance company wouldn't cover her care...."
Stephanie Cutter used this to illustrate the uncaring Governor Mitt Romney but it backfired and "Clown Prince" obama had more negative conservative press to ignore. With conservative talk-radio and the single conservative television network gaining listener- and viewership on a daily basis, the "Clown Prince" would be an even greater fool to continue to ignore them!
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"....and I think possibly now it may be time for somebody else to come along and solve the problem."
Mister Eastwood and I are of like mind!
'Splain to me again why YOU elected this Verdammte Arschloch!?!
Til Nex'Time....
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
This'n'That; June Twenty-Sixth #2; What Next?!?
Who Will The "Clown Prince" Pimp-Out Next?!?
Now that "Clown Prince" owe-bama has pimped out your wife; pimped out your husband
http://www.barackobama.com/news/entry/the-obama-event-registry?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
in his effort to boost the "I Need 4 More Years To Fix What I Broke" campaign coffers with your wedding gifts' values, what will he do next?!?
A couple of possibilities are:
1. Pimp-out "Michelle Antoinette" for a donation of.... say $50, to 'entertain' at your bachelor party or your office party, or
2. Pimp-out the daughters for a donation of.... say $75-EACH, to appear at your child's birthday party.
Ah'm jis sayin'!!
'Splain to me again why YOU elected this Verdammte Arschloch!?!
Til Nex'Time....
Now that "Clown Prince" owe-bama has pimped out your wife; pimped out your husband
http://www.barackobama.com/news/entry/the-obama-event-registry?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
in his effort to boost the "I Need 4 More Years To Fix What I Broke" campaign coffers with your wedding gifts' values, what will he do next?!?
A couple of possibilities are:
1. Pimp-out "Michelle Antoinette" for a donation of.... say $50, to 'entertain' at your bachelor party or your office party, or
2. Pimp-out the daughters for a donation of.... say $75-EACH, to appear at your child's birthday party.
Ah'm jis sayin'!!
'Splain to me again why YOU elected this Verdammte Arschloch!?!
Til Nex'Time....
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
This'n'That; May Second #3; Unremarkable Remarks-Las Vegas
"Princessly" Unremarkable Remarks
Taxpayer-paid remarks by
"Michelle Antoinette"
(Fundraiser)
The Springs Preserve
Las Vegas, Nevada
May 1, 2012
As I've done with the "Clown Prince;" I'll edit out the inconsequential portions of "Michelle Antoinette's" remarks:
[....] I am beyond [....]
[....] I also want to [....]
[....] I want to thank [....]
[....] I also want to recognize your [....]
[....] I am here [....]
[....] I mean, truly [....]
[....] I want to [....]
[....] I want to thank [....]
[....] I know is that the [....]
[....] I know you all [....]
[....] I know you all have [....]
[....] I also know there’s [....]
[....] I’m here today.
[....] I am a little biased [....]
[....] I think my [....]
[....] I to get an education [....]
[....] I’ve had the chance [....]
[....] I've seen it.
[....] I’ve seen how the [....]
[....] I have said this before [....]
[....] I have said this before [....]
[....] I will say [....]
[....] I just want you [....]
[....] I want you to [....]
[....] I want you to [....]
[....] I’m going to ask [....]
[....] I am in.
[....] I am so fired up.
[....] I hope you [....]
[....] I cannot wait [....]
....and now you have it!
'Splain to me again why YOU elected this Arschloch!?!
Til Nex'Time....
Taxpayer-paid remarks by
"Michelle Antoinette"
(Fundraiser)
The Springs Preserve
Las Vegas, Nevada
May 1, 2012
As I've done with the "Clown Prince;" I'll edit out the inconsequential portions of "Michelle Antoinette's" remarks:
[....] I am beyond [....]
[....] I also want to [....]
[....] I want to thank [....]
[....] I also want to recognize your [....]
[....] I am here [....]
[....] I mean, truly [....]
[....] I want to [....]
[....] I want to thank [....]
[....] I know is that the [....]
[....] I know you all [....]
[....] I know you all have [....]
[....] I also know there’s [....]
[....] I’m here today.
[....] I am a little biased [....]
[....] I think my [....]
[....] I to get an education [....]
[....] I’ve had the chance [....]
[....] I've seen it.
[....] I’ve seen how the [....]
[....] I have said this before [....]
[....] I have said this before [....]
[....] I will say [....]
[....] I just want you [....]
[....] I want you to [....]
[....] I want you to [....]
[....] I’m going to ask [....]
[....] I am in.
[....] I am so fired up.
[....] I hope you [....]
[....] I cannot wait [....]
....and now you have it!
'Splain to me again why YOU elected this Arschloch!?!
Til Nex'Time....
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
This'n'That; April Twenty-Fifth #3; Unremarkable Remarks
"Princely" Unremarkable Remarks, UNC
Taxpayer Funded Campaign Stop
(Student Loans)
UNC-Chapel Hill,
Chapel Hill, N.C.
April 24, 2012
Later today, I am getting together with Jimmy Fallon and the Dave Matthews Band right here on campus. We’re going to tape Jimmy’s show for tonight so I want everybody to tune in, make sure it has high ratings.
[....] the reason I came to Chapel Hill today is to talk about what most of you do here every single day -- and that's study, I assume. Higher education is the single most important investment you can make in your future. So I'm proud of all of you for doing what it takes to make that investment -- for the long hours in the library -- I hope in the lab, in the classroom. This has never been more important.
Whether you're here at a four-year college or university, or you're at a two-year community college, in today’s economy, there's no greater predictor of individual success than a good education. Right now, the unemployment rate for Americans with a college degree or more is about half the national average. The incomes of folks with a college degree are twice as high as those who don’t have a high school diploma. A higher education is the clearest path into the middle class. Now, I know that those of you who are about to graduate are wondering about what’s in store for your future. Not even four years ago, just as the global economy was about to enter into freefall, you were still trying to find your way around campus. And you’ve spent your years here at a time when the whole world has been trying to recover, but has not yet fully recovered from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the worst economic crisis in most of our lifetimes -- and that includes your teachers.
Being truthful, I--your exalted ruler--might have said: College--as an economic indicator--has little value. College is where you might apply yourself to the project of advancing your knowledge, unfettered by commie-lib professors with their purpose of indoctrinating new minds to the ways of marxism, fascism; all the -isms necessary to spread their communistic manifesto. In many instances, an impossible task!
Most college students today, are in school at the financial behest of their parents, grandparents or some other benefactor. It's the rare student that does more than part-time work, that being to finance their incidentals. Largely, the current college student is completely unphased by the cost of said education. Do you realize that the tuition costs rise at a rate three-times greater than the rate of inflation?!?
SIDEBAR: With the Federal Reserve printing money--willie-nillie--the official inflation rate is being kept artifically low. This blogger has seen the unofficial inflation rate as illustrated by a loaf of bread: In the last six-months, a store-brand loaf of 'italian' bread has risen from $1.29 to $1.99 per loaf! That's an increase of ten-cents per month in price, with no commensurate increase in value!!
The current affects of my lack of a clear--beneficial--domestic economic policy have pretty-much destroyed the jobs markets! You have me--as well as yourselves--to blame for having no employment upon graduation; one cannot be afraid to get his or her hands dirty in the persuit of success.
Our businesses have added more than 4 million jobs over the past two years, but we all know there’s still too many Americans out there looking for work or trying to find a job that pays enough to cover the bills and make the mortgage. We still have too many folks in the middle class that are searching for that security that started slipping away years before the recession hit. So we’ve still got a lot of work to do to rebuild this economy so that it lasts, so that it’s solid, so that it’s firm. But what I want you to know is that the degree you earn from UNC will be the best tool you have to achieve that basic American promise -- the idea that if you work hard, you can do well enough to raise a family and own a home, send your own kids to college, put a little away for retirement. That American Dream is within your reach. And there’s another part of this dream, which is the idea that each generation is going to know a little bit more opportunity than the last generation. That our kids -- I can tell you now as a parent -- and I guarantee you, your parents feel this about you -- nothing is more important than your kid’s success. You want them to do better than you did. You want them to shoot higher, strive more, and succeed beyond your imagination.
So keeping that promise alive is the defining issue of our time. I don’t want this to be a country where a shrinking number of Americans are doing really, really well, but a growing number of people are just struggling to get by. That’s not my idea of America. I don’t want that future for you. I don’t want that future for my daughters. I want this forever to be a country where everybody gets a fair shot and everybody is doing their fair share, and everybody is playing by the same set of rules. That’s the America I know and love. That’s the America within our reach. I think back to my grandfather. He had a chance to go to college because this country decided every returning veteran of World War II should be able to afford it, should be able to go to college. My mother was able to raise two kids by herself because she was able to get grants and work her way through school. I am only standing here today, Michelle is only who she is today because of scholarships and student loans. That gave us a shot at a great education. We didn’t come from families of means, but we knew that if we worked hard we’d have a shot.
Being truthful, I--your exalted ruler--might have said: Years ago--when the "baby-boomers" were raising their kids; your parents--very few parents were able to just send their kids off to college. In many families, the college student only enrolled for classes after he'd worked for six-months or a year, earning the tuition-and-expense money. When did it become the norm for a student to be 'handed an education,' financially?!? A far-more-beneficial path would be the one I just mentioned. The continuing student would have 'a bit of dirt under the fingernails;' a work ethic that would serve him well throughout his or her life!!
My mother was involved in my early-life little more than the four-years I lived with her and her then-husband in Indonesia. My grandmother, Madelyn Dunham was an essential figure in my upbringing, having lived with her until left for the mainland and college. We--my grandparents' household--were not poor or even middle-class, by any stretch of the imagination! My grandfather worked as a government employee at the Honolulu Municipal Water Station. My grandmother was a vice-president at The Bank of Hawaii from 1970 until her retirement in 1986. They gave me practically anything I wanted, growing up, and--unbeknownst-to-them--financing my excursions into the consumption of drugs of various kinds.
This country has always made a commitment to put a good education within the reach of all who are willing to work for it. That’s what makes us special. That’s what made us an economic superpower. That’s what kept us at the forefront of business and science and technology and medicine. And that’s a commitment we have to reaffirm today in 2012. Now, everybody will give lip service to this. You'll hear a lot of folks say, yes, education is important -- it’s important. But it requires not just words but deeds. And the fact is, that since most of you were born, tuition and fees at America’s colleges have more than doubled. And that forces students like you to take out a lot more loans. There are fewer grants. You rack up more debt. Now, the average student who borrows to pay for college now graduates with about $25,000 in student loan debt. That’s the average -- some are more. Yes -- because some folks have more debt than that.
Americans now owe more on their student loans than they do on their credit cards. And living with that kind of debt means that this generation is not getting off to the same start that previous generations -- because you’re already loaded up with debt. So that means you’ve got to make pretty tough choices when you are first starting out. You might have to put off buying a house. It might mean that you can’t go after that great idea for a startup that you have, because you’re still paying off loans. Maybe you’ve got to wait longer to start a family, or save for retirement. When a big chunk of every paycheck goes towards loan debt, that’s not just tough on you, that’s not just tough for middle-class families, it’s not just tough on your parents -- it’s painful for the economy, because that money is not going to help businesses grow. I mean, think about the sooner you can start buying a house, that’s good for the housing industry. The sooner you can start up that business, that means you’re hiring some folks -- that grows the economy.
And this is something Michelle and I know about firsthand. I just wanted everybody here to understand this is not -- I didn’t just read about this. I didn’t just get some talking points about this. I didn’t just get a policy briefing on this. Michelle and I, we’ve been in your shoes. Like I said, we didn’t come from wealthy families. So when we graduated from college and law school, we had a mountain of debt. When we married, we got poorer together. We added up our assets and there were no assets. And we added up our liabilities and there were a lot of liabilities, basically in the form of student loans. We paid more in student loans than we paid on our mortgage when we finally did buy a condo. For the first eight years of our marriage, we were paying more in student loans than what we were paying for our mortgage. So we know what this is about. And we were lucky to land good jobs with a steady income. But we only finished paying off our student loans -- check this out, all right, I’m the President of the United States we only finished paying off our student loans about eight years ago. That wasn’t that long ago. And that wasn’t easy, especially because when we had Malia and Sasha, we’re supposed to be saving up for their college educations, and we’re still paying off our college educations.
Being truthful, I--your exalted ruler--might have said: I have done nothing relative to the escalating costs of a quality college education. Had that been at the fore--as I'm making it now--I should have gone after 'Big-Ed' much like I continue to vilify 'big oil!!' I did not. That's but one of my many shortcomings, my many failures!! As I continually paint a rosy picture of my involvement with the student-loan legislation, you have to know that as a U.S. senator--of some several days--I failed to vote in July, 2007 as well as September, 2007--nor did I sign on as a co-sponsor--of the current loan legislation!! How well I prove that one can lie-by-omission!!
All this blather about the tough time "Michelle Antoinette" and I had in repaying our student loans?!? Complete bullshit!! Remember, any money I earned was a direct result of government at some level; I've never worked-for-wages in the private sector. I made dam'-good-money plying my trade as a community agitator, using Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" to my advantage. "Michelle Antoinette" has also never suffered financially, either as a single person, married person or mother. She's been over-paid in various legal positions as a result of my influence as a community agitator. She even had a 'no show job' with the University of Chicago hospitals earning well over a quarter-million-dollars as late as 2006! Where's "the pain" of repaying student loans with a family income approaching a half-million-dollars annually?!? This blather is nothing more-or-less than thinly disguised campaign bluster. So we have to make college more affordable for our young people. That’s the bottom line. And like I said, look, not everybody is going to go to a four-year college or university. You may go to a community college. You may go to a technical school and get into the workforce. And then, it may turn out that after you’ve had kids and you’re 35, you go back to school because you’re retraining for something new. But no matter what it is, no matter what field you’re in, you’re going to have to engage in lifelong learning. That’s the nature of the economy today. And we’ve got to make sure that’s affordable. That’s good for the country; it’s good for you. At this make-or-break moment for the middle class, we’ve got to make sure that you’re not saddled with debt before you even get started in life. Because I believe college isn’t just one of the best investments you can make in your future -- it’s one of the best investments America can make in our future. This is important for all of us. We can’t price the middle class out of a college education. Not at a time when most new jobs in America will require more than a high school diploma. Whether it’s at a four-year college or a two-year program, we can’t make higher education a luxury. It’s an economic imperative. Every American family should be able to afford it. So that’s why I’m here. Now, before I ask for your help -- I’ve got something very specific I’m going to need you to do. But, North Carolina, indulge me. I want to briefly tell you what we’ve already done to help make college more affordable, because we’ve done a lot. Before I took office, we had a student loan system where tens of billions of taxpayer dollars were going to banks, not students. They were processing student loan programs except the student loans were federally guaranteed so they weren’t taking any big risks, but they were still taking billions of dollars out of the system. So we changed it. Some in Washington fought tooth and nail to protect the status quo, where billions of dollars were going to banks instead of students. And they wanted to protect that. They wanted to keep those dollars flowing to the banks. One of them said -- and I’m going to quote here because it gives you a sense of the attitudes sometimes we’re dealing with in Washington. They said, it would be "an outrage" -- if we changed the system so that the money wasn’t going through banks and they weren’t making billions of dollars of profits off of it -- said it was "an outrage." And I said, no, the real outrage is letting these banks keep these subsidies without taking any risks while students are working two or three jobs just to get by. That’s an outrage. That’s an outrage. So we kept at it, we kept it at -- we won that fight. Today, that money is going where it should be going -- should have been going in the first place -- it’s going directly to students. We’re bypassing the middleman. That means we can raise Pell grants to a higher level. More people are eligible. More young people are able to afford college because of what we did. Over 10 years, that’s going to be $60 billion that’s going to students that wasn’t going to students before.
Being truthful, I--your exalted ruler--might have said: Then again, you may work for your mother's cousin-the family plumber. A quality--hands-on--education to be sure! I AM asking for your help! I care not, the quality; the costs of your education. All I care about is pacifying George Soros, this time with my re-immaculation!!
I--and by 'I' I mean ME--took over the student loan program not for any real benefit for the consumer but for the singular control of who, why and where anyone--from the upcoming high school graduates to the senior citizen looking to advance his knowledge--attends institutions of higher learning. The banks did assume some risk in issuing a student loan as well as the processing fees they were entitled to. To that end, name one--JUST ONE--federal program that's run efficiently and economically?!?
Ha!!
Gott'cha!!
There is none; it was a trick question!!
So how can the justification be made that it was good for the consumer to have the student loan program under the auspices of the federal government?!?
Another trick question!!
It matters not that in ten years there'll be more grants. With the economy continuing to "go-to-hell-inn'a-handbasket" there will be fewer and fewer students enrolling in college; hell, they'll be lucky to be able to afford to have the basic necessities!
Now, then, last fall, I acted to cap student loan payments faster, so that nearly 1.6 million students who make their payments on time will only have to pay 10 percent of their monthly income towards loans once they graduate. Now, this is useful -- this is especially helpful for young people who decide to become teachers, or maybe they go into one of the [....] social work or one of the helping professions. And they may not get paid a lot of money, but they’ve got a lot of debt. And so being able to cap how much per month you’re paying as a percentage of your income gives you a little bit more security knowing you can choose that profession. And then we wanted every student to have access to a simple factsheet on student loans and financial aid, so you can have all the information you need to make your own choices about how to pay for college. And we set up this new consumer watchdog called the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and so they’re now putting out this information. We call it “Know Before You Owe.” Know before you owe. It’s something Michelle and I wish we had had when we were in your shoes -- because sometimes we got surprised by some of this debt that we were racking up. So that’s what we’ve done. But it’s not enough just to increase student aid. We can’t keep subsidizing skyrocketing tuition or we’ll run out of money. And colleges and universities, they’ve got to do their part also to keep college costs down. So I’ve told Congress to steer federal aid to those schools that keep tuition affordable, that provide good value, that serve their students well. And we’ve put colleges on notice: If you can’t stop tuition from just going up every single year a lot faster than inflation, then funding you get from taxpayers, at least at the federal level, will go down -- because we need to push colleges to do better, and hold them accountable if they don’t.
Being truthful, I--your exalted ruler--might have said: Even the most incompetent boob among us should realize that the longer the term of the loan, the higher the interest paid. THAT is the reason for the 10% cap on payments! More revenue to the Treasury that my regime will undoubtedly piss away, faster than it comes in! All those 'helping professions' I mentioned...?!? They're all controlled by the appropriate union. How do unions vote?!? The way they're told!! By whom?!? What ever owe-bamacRATic politician, in whatever owe-bamacRATic level of government that needs that controlled vote to win election; re-election!
Are you--the student--really dumb enough to think that we--the socio-fascist politician--will actually force institutions of higher learning to reduce their income?!? That makes absolutely no sense! Much like the "Buffett Rule"-completely stupid!!" Nothing more than polictical posturing! We--the socio-fascist politician--are wholly dependent on professors, grad-student lecturers--as I was--and other administrators for the indoctrination of the student to the socio-fascist mindset. We have no other way--yet--to influence the vast numbers that colleges, universities and trade schools have!
Now, public universities know well, and Governor Perdue knows well -- states also have to do their part by making higher education a higher priority in their budgets. I know that Bev is fighting hard to make tuition affordable for North Carolina families. That’s a priority for her. But last year, over 40 states cut their higher education spending. And these budget cuts have been among the largest factors in tuition increases at public colleges over the past decade. So we’re challenging states to take responsibility. We told them, if you can find new ways to bring down the cost of college and make it easier for students to graduate, then we’ll help you do it. But I want everybody here, as you’re thinking about voting, make sure you know where your state representative and your state senator stands when it comes to funding higher education. They’ve got to be responsible. They’ve got to be accountable as well to prioritize higher education. All right. So helping more families, helping more young people afford a higher education; offering incentives for states and colleges and universities to keep their costs down -- that’s what we’ve been doing. Now Congress has to do their part. They need to extend the tuition tax credit that we put in place back when I came into office. It’s saving middle-class families thousands of dollars. Congress needs to safeguard aid for low-income students, like Pell grants, so that today’s freshmen and sophomores know that they’ll be able to count on it. That’s what Congress has to do. Congress needs to give more young people the chance to earn their way through college by doubling the number of work/study jobs over the next five years. That's what Congress needs to do. And then there's one specific thing -- and now this is where you come in -- there's one specific thing that Congress needs to do right now to prevent the interest rates on student loans, federal student loans, from shooting up and shaking you down. So this is where you come in. I want to explain this, so everybody listen carefully. Five years ago, Congress cut the rate on federal student loans in half. That was a good thing to do. But on July 1st -- that’s a little over two months from now -- that rate cut expires. And if Congress does nothing, the interest rates on those loans will double overnight. So I’m assuming a lot of people here have federal student loans. The interest rates will double unless Congress acts by July 1st. And just to give you some sense of perspective -- for each year that Congress doesn’t act, the average student with these loans will rack up an additional $1,000 in debt -- an extra thousand dollars. That’s basically a tax hike for more than 7 million students across America -- more than 160,000 students here in North Carolina alone. Anybody here can afford to pay an extra $1,000 right now? I didn’t think so. So stopping this from happening should be a no-brainer. Helping more of our young people afford college, that should be at the forefront of America’s agenda. It shouldn’t be a Republican or a Democratic issue. This is an American issue. The Stafford loans we’re talking about, they’re named after a Republican senator. The Pell grants that have helped millions of Americans earn a college education, that’s named after a Democratic senator. When Congress cut those rates five years ago, 77 Republicans in the House of Representatives voted for it -- along with a couple hundred Democrats including the Democrats who are here. So this shouldn’t be a partisan issue. And yet, the Republicans who run Congress right now have not yet said whether or not they’ll stop your rates from doubling. We’re two months away. Some have hinted that they’d only do it if we cut things like aid for low-income students instead. So the idea would be, well, all right, we’ll keep interest rates low if we take away aid from other students who need it. That doesn’t make sense. One Republican congresswoman said just recently -- I’m going to quote this because I know you guys will think I’m making it up -- She said she had
"very little tolerance for people who tell me they graduate with debt because there’s no reason for that."
I’m just quoting here. I’m just quoting. She said, students who rack up student loan debt are just sitting on their butts, having opportunity "dumped in your lap." I mean, I’m reading it here, so I didn’t make this up. Now, can you imagine saying something like that? Those of you who have had to take out student loans, you didn’t do it because you’re lazy. You didn’t do it lightly. You don’t like debt. I mean, a lot of you, your parents are helping out, but it’s tough on them. They’re straining. And so you do it because the cost of college keeps going up and you know this is an investment in your future. So if these folks in Washington were serious about making college more affordable, they wouldn’t have voted for a budget that could cut financial aid for tens of millions of college students by an average of more than $1,000.
They certainly wouldn’t let your student loan rates double overnight. So when you ask them, well, why aren’t you making this commitment? They say, well, we got to bring down the deficit. Of course, this is the deficit they helped run up over the past decade. Didn’t pay for two wars. Didn’t pay for two massive tax cuts. And now this is the reason why you want students to pay more? They just voted to keep giving billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to big oil companies that are raking in record profits. They just voted to let millionaires and billionaires keep paying lower tax rates than middle-class workers and their secretaries. They even voted to give an average tax cut of at least $150,000 to folks like me, the wealthiest Americans -- a tax cut paid for by cutting things like education and job training programs that give students new opportunities to work and succeed.
Being truthful, I--your exalted ruler--might have said: Contrary to the popular beliefs, money does not cure all ills! The answer is not money, if it were, why do those institutions that are not the Texas Aggies, the Notre Dame Irish, et al, with athletic programs that support far more acitivities than do the budgeted funds from government continue to exist. I promote more government spending for one reason: control; CONTROL; C-O-N-T-R-O-L!! So long as the institutions take government money--at any level--said schools are obligated to bend to the will of said governmental entity!! If government money were "the be-all, to end-all" then why is there at least one specific contrary institution, that being Hillsdale College?!? Hillsdale College is one of the very few in the entire United States that take absolutely no government funds of any sort; from any level! Nor do they allow students--or perspective students--to take federal grants or loans. Where the hell is MY CONTROL in that?!?
Now, that’s their priorities. And that doesn’t make any sense. Do we want to keep tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans who don’t need them and didn’t ask for them? Or do we want to make sure that they’re paying their fair share? Do we want to keep subsidizing big oil, or do we want to make sure we’re investing in clean energy? Do we want to jack up interest rates on millions of students, or do we want to keep investing in things that will help us and help them in the long-term -- things like education and science, and a strong military and care for our veterans? We can’t do both. We can’t have it both ways. We’ve got to make a choice about what our priorities are. You know, I’ve said this before, but I’m just going to keep on repeating it: In America, we admire success. We aspire to it. I want everybody to be rich. I want everybody to work and hustle and start businesses and study your tails off to get there. But America is not just about a few people doing well. America is about giving everybody a chance to do well. Everybody -- not just a few -- everybody. That’s what built this country. That’s what the American Dream is all about. A lot of us had parents or grandparents who said, maybe I can’t go to college, but some day my son, he’ll go to college and I’ll be so proud of him. A lot of us had parents or grandparents who said, maybe I can’t start my own business, but maybe some day my daughter, she’s going to start her own business, she’s going to work for herself. A lot of us had parents or grandparents who said, I may be an immigrant, but I believe that this is a country where no matter what you look like and where you come from, no matter what your name is, you can make it if you try.
North Carolina, that’s who we are. That’s our values. That’s what we’re about. So, no, "set your sights lowe" -- that’s not an education plan. "You’re on your own" -- that’s not an economic plan. We can’t just cut our way to prosperity. Previous generations made the investments necessary for us to succeed, to build a strong middle class, to create the foundation for America’s leadership in science and technology and medicine and manufacturing. And now it’s our turn. We’ve got to do the right thing. I want one of you to discover the cure for cancer, or the formula for fusion, or the next game-changing American industry. And that means we’ve got to support those efforts. So if you agree with me, I need your help. I need you to tell your member of Congress, we’re not going to set our sights lower. We’re not going to settle for something less. Now, all of you are lucky, you already have three congressmen who are on board. So don’t -- you don’t need to call them. They’re already doing the right thing. But I’m asking everyone else who’s watching or following online -- call your member of Congress. Email them. Write on their Facebook page. Tweet them -- we’ve got a hashtag. Here’s the hashtag for you to tweet them: #dontdoublemyrate. Your voice matters. So stand up. Be heard. Be counted. Tell them now is not the time to double interest rates on your student loans. Now is the time to double down on smart investments to build a strong and secure middle class. Now is the time to double down on building an America that lasts. You and me, all of us here, every single one of us -- we’re here only because somebody, somewhere, felt responsibility not just for themselves, but they felt responsibility for something larger. It started with them feeling responsible for their families. So your parents sacrificed, your grandparents sacrificed to make sure you could succeed. But then they thought bigger than that. They thought about their neighborhood, they thought about their community, they thought about their country. Now -- [....] And now it’s our turn to be responsible. It’s our turn to keep that promise alive. And no matter how tough these times have been, no matter how many obstacles that may stand in our way, I promise you, North Carolina, there are better days ahead. We will emerge stronger than we were before. Because I believe in you. I believe in your future. I believe in the investment you’re making right here at North Carolina. That tells me that you share my faith in America’s future. And that’s what drives me every single day -- your hopes, your dreams. And I’m not quitting now because, in America, we don’t quit. We get each other’s backs. We help each other get ahead. And if we work together, we’ll remind the world just why it is that America’s the greatest nation on Earth.
Being truthful, I--your exalted ruler--might have said: We--and by 'we' I mean the owe-bama Regime--must invest in what works!! Be it fossil fuels, be it in revising the tax code to eliminate tax deductions for those evil oil companies. The best single change--which would benefit those at every level of the citizenry--is to reduce federal spending to the level that minimal borrowing would be necessary.
That ain't gonna happen under my--read: Soros'--watch!!
I rely on those with not'ta whole lot'ta common sense to ensure that my re-immaculation campaign will continue on schedule. I need this second term as your exalted ruler to complete the conversion of the United States of America into a completely socio-fascist state!! I would've had it done, excepting that dam' "Tea Party" Movement. With the loss of control over the House of Representatives, I no longer had that dupe-marionette, Nancy PORKlosi to do my bidding; much as 'pinky' reid does each day!!
I have one benefit probably NONE OF YOU will ever achieve: No matter how long I rule, I will continue with this--nearly half-million-dollar paycheck--FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!! That's another financial burden you'll have to bear, so....
ya better find a job....
and it better be a good one!!
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April 24, 2012
Later today, I am getting together with Jimmy Fallon and the Dave Matthews Band right here on campus. We’re going to tape Jimmy’s show for tonight so I want everybody to tune in, make sure it has high ratings.
[....] the reason I came to Chapel Hill today is to talk about what most of you do here every single day -- and that's study, I assume. Higher education is the single most important investment you can make in your future. So I'm proud of all of you for doing what it takes to make that investment -- for the long hours in the library -- I hope in the lab, in the classroom. This has never been more important.
Whether you're here at a four-year college or university, or you're at a two-year community college, in today’s economy, there's no greater predictor of individual success than a good education. Right now, the unemployment rate for Americans with a college degree or more is about half the national average. The incomes of folks with a college degree are twice as high as those who don’t have a high school diploma. A higher education is the clearest path into the middle class. Now, I know that those of you who are about to graduate are wondering about what’s in store for your future. Not even four years ago, just as the global economy was about to enter into freefall, you were still trying to find your way around campus. And you’ve spent your years here at a time when the whole world has been trying to recover, but has not yet fully recovered from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the worst economic crisis in most of our lifetimes -- and that includes your teachers.
Being truthful, I--your exalted ruler--might have said: College--as an economic indicator--has little value. College is where you might apply yourself to the project of advancing your knowledge, unfettered by commie-lib professors with their purpose of indoctrinating new minds to the ways of marxism, fascism; all the -isms necessary to spread their communistic manifesto. In many instances, an impossible task!
Most college students today, are in school at the financial behest of their parents, grandparents or some other benefactor. It's the rare student that does more than part-time work, that being to finance their incidentals. Largely, the current college student is completely unphased by the cost of said education. Do you realize that the tuition costs rise at a rate three-times greater than the rate of inflation?!?
SIDEBAR: With the Federal Reserve printing money--willie-nillie--the official inflation rate is being kept artifically low. This blogger has seen the unofficial inflation rate as illustrated by a loaf of bread: In the last six-months, a store-brand loaf of 'italian' bread has risen from $1.29 to $1.99 per loaf! That's an increase of ten-cents per month in price, with no commensurate increase in value!!
The current affects of my lack of a clear--beneficial--domestic economic policy have pretty-much destroyed the jobs markets! You have me--as well as yourselves--to blame for having no employment upon graduation; one cannot be afraid to get his or her hands dirty in the persuit of success.
Our businesses have added more than 4 million jobs over the past two years, but we all know there’s still too many Americans out there looking for work or trying to find a job that pays enough to cover the bills and make the mortgage. We still have too many folks in the middle class that are searching for that security that started slipping away years before the recession hit. So we’ve still got a lot of work to do to rebuild this economy so that it lasts, so that it’s solid, so that it’s firm. But what I want you to know is that the degree you earn from UNC will be the best tool you have to achieve that basic American promise -- the idea that if you work hard, you can do well enough to raise a family and own a home, send your own kids to college, put a little away for retirement. That American Dream is within your reach. And there’s another part of this dream, which is the idea that each generation is going to know a little bit more opportunity than the last generation. That our kids -- I can tell you now as a parent -- and I guarantee you, your parents feel this about you -- nothing is more important than your kid’s success. You want them to do better than you did. You want them to shoot higher, strive more, and succeed beyond your imagination.
So keeping that promise alive is the defining issue of our time. I don’t want this to be a country where a shrinking number of Americans are doing really, really well, but a growing number of people are just struggling to get by. That’s not my idea of America. I don’t want that future for you. I don’t want that future for my daughters. I want this forever to be a country where everybody gets a fair shot and everybody is doing their fair share, and everybody is playing by the same set of rules. That’s the America I know and love. That’s the America within our reach. I think back to my grandfather. He had a chance to go to college because this country decided every returning veteran of World War II should be able to afford it, should be able to go to college. My mother was able to raise two kids by herself because she was able to get grants and work her way through school. I am only standing here today, Michelle is only who she is today because of scholarships and student loans. That gave us a shot at a great education. We didn’t come from families of means, but we knew that if we worked hard we’d have a shot.
Being truthful, I--your exalted ruler--might have said: Years ago--when the "baby-boomers" were raising their kids; your parents--very few parents were able to just send their kids off to college. In many families, the college student only enrolled for classes after he'd worked for six-months or a year, earning the tuition-and-expense money. When did it become the norm for a student to be 'handed an education,' financially?!? A far-more-beneficial path would be the one I just mentioned. The continuing student would have 'a bit of dirt under the fingernails;' a work ethic that would serve him well throughout his or her life!!
My mother was involved in my early-life little more than the four-years I lived with her and her then-husband in Indonesia. My grandmother, Madelyn Dunham was an essential figure in my upbringing, having lived with her until left for the mainland and college. We--my grandparents' household--were not poor or even middle-class, by any stretch of the imagination! My grandfather worked as a government employee at the Honolulu Municipal Water Station. My grandmother was a vice-president at The Bank of Hawaii from 1970 until her retirement in 1986. They gave me practically anything I wanted, growing up, and--unbeknownst-to-them--financing my excursions into the consumption of drugs of various kinds.
This country has always made a commitment to put a good education within the reach of all who are willing to work for it. That’s what makes us special. That’s what made us an economic superpower. That’s what kept us at the forefront of business and science and technology and medicine. And that’s a commitment we have to reaffirm today in 2012. Now, everybody will give lip service to this. You'll hear a lot of folks say, yes, education is important -- it’s important. But it requires not just words but deeds. And the fact is, that since most of you were born, tuition and fees at America’s colleges have more than doubled. And that forces students like you to take out a lot more loans. There are fewer grants. You rack up more debt. Now, the average student who borrows to pay for college now graduates with about $25,000 in student loan debt. That’s the average -- some are more. Yes -- because some folks have more debt than that.
Americans now owe more on their student loans than they do on their credit cards. And living with that kind of debt means that this generation is not getting off to the same start that previous generations -- because you’re already loaded up with debt. So that means you’ve got to make pretty tough choices when you are first starting out. You might have to put off buying a house. It might mean that you can’t go after that great idea for a startup that you have, because you’re still paying off loans. Maybe you’ve got to wait longer to start a family, or save for retirement. When a big chunk of every paycheck goes towards loan debt, that’s not just tough on you, that’s not just tough for middle-class families, it’s not just tough on your parents -- it’s painful for the economy, because that money is not going to help businesses grow. I mean, think about the sooner you can start buying a house, that’s good for the housing industry. The sooner you can start up that business, that means you’re hiring some folks -- that grows the economy.
And this is something Michelle and I know about firsthand. I just wanted everybody here to understand this is not -- I didn’t just read about this. I didn’t just get some talking points about this. I didn’t just get a policy briefing on this. Michelle and I, we’ve been in your shoes. Like I said, we didn’t come from wealthy families. So when we graduated from college and law school, we had a mountain of debt. When we married, we got poorer together. We added up our assets and there were no assets. And we added up our liabilities and there were a lot of liabilities, basically in the form of student loans. We paid more in student loans than we paid on our mortgage when we finally did buy a condo. For the first eight years of our marriage, we were paying more in student loans than what we were paying for our mortgage. So we know what this is about. And we were lucky to land good jobs with a steady income. But we only finished paying off our student loans -- check this out, all right, I’m the President of the United States we only finished paying off our student loans about eight years ago. That wasn’t that long ago. And that wasn’t easy, especially because when we had Malia and Sasha, we’re supposed to be saving up for their college educations, and we’re still paying off our college educations.
Being truthful, I--your exalted ruler--might have said: I have done nothing relative to the escalating costs of a quality college education. Had that been at the fore--as I'm making it now--I should have gone after 'Big-Ed' much like I continue to vilify 'big oil!!' I did not. That's but one of my many shortcomings, my many failures!! As I continually paint a rosy picture of my involvement with the student-loan legislation, you have to know that as a U.S. senator--of some several days--I failed to vote in July, 2007 as well as September, 2007--nor did I sign on as a co-sponsor--of the current loan legislation!! How well I prove that one can lie-by-omission!!
All this blather about the tough time "Michelle Antoinette" and I had in repaying our student loans?!? Complete bullshit!! Remember, any money I earned was a direct result of government at some level; I've never worked-for-wages in the private sector. I made dam'-good-money plying my trade as a community agitator, using Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" to my advantage. "Michelle Antoinette" has also never suffered financially, either as a single person, married person or mother. She's been over-paid in various legal positions as a result of my influence as a community agitator. She even had a 'no show job' with the University of Chicago hospitals earning well over a quarter-million-dollars as late as 2006! Where's "the pain" of repaying student loans with a family income approaching a half-million-dollars annually?!? This blather is nothing more-or-less than thinly disguised campaign bluster. So we have to make college more affordable for our young people. That’s the bottom line. And like I said, look, not everybody is going to go to a four-year college or university. You may go to a community college. You may go to a technical school and get into the workforce. And then, it may turn out that after you’ve had kids and you’re 35, you go back to school because you’re retraining for something new. But no matter what it is, no matter what field you’re in, you’re going to have to engage in lifelong learning. That’s the nature of the economy today. And we’ve got to make sure that’s affordable. That’s good for the country; it’s good for you. At this make-or-break moment for the middle class, we’ve got to make sure that you’re not saddled with debt before you even get started in life. Because I believe college isn’t just one of the best investments you can make in your future -- it’s one of the best investments America can make in our future. This is important for all of us. We can’t price the middle class out of a college education. Not at a time when most new jobs in America will require more than a high school diploma. Whether it’s at a four-year college or a two-year program, we can’t make higher education a luxury. It’s an economic imperative. Every American family should be able to afford it. So that’s why I’m here. Now, before I ask for your help -- I’ve got something very specific I’m going to need you to do. But, North Carolina, indulge me. I want to briefly tell you what we’ve already done to help make college more affordable, because we’ve done a lot. Before I took office, we had a student loan system where tens of billions of taxpayer dollars were going to banks, not students. They were processing student loan programs except the student loans were federally guaranteed so they weren’t taking any big risks, but they were still taking billions of dollars out of the system. So we changed it. Some in Washington fought tooth and nail to protect the status quo, where billions of dollars were going to banks instead of students. And they wanted to protect that. They wanted to keep those dollars flowing to the banks. One of them said -- and I’m going to quote here because it gives you a sense of the attitudes sometimes we’re dealing with in Washington. They said, it would be "an outrage" -- if we changed the system so that the money wasn’t going through banks and they weren’t making billions of dollars of profits off of it -- said it was "an outrage." And I said, no, the real outrage is letting these banks keep these subsidies without taking any risks while students are working two or three jobs just to get by. That’s an outrage. That’s an outrage. So we kept at it, we kept it at -- we won that fight. Today, that money is going where it should be going -- should have been going in the first place -- it’s going directly to students. We’re bypassing the middleman. That means we can raise Pell grants to a higher level. More people are eligible. More young people are able to afford college because of what we did. Over 10 years, that’s going to be $60 billion that’s going to students that wasn’t going to students before.
Being truthful, I--your exalted ruler--might have said: Then again, you may work for your mother's cousin-the family plumber. A quality--hands-on--education to be sure! I AM asking for your help! I care not, the quality; the costs of your education. All I care about is pacifying George Soros, this time with my re-immaculation!!
I--and by 'I' I mean ME--took over the student loan program not for any real benefit for the consumer but for the singular control of who, why and where anyone--from the upcoming high school graduates to the senior citizen looking to advance his knowledge--attends institutions of higher learning. The banks did assume some risk in issuing a student loan as well as the processing fees they were entitled to. To that end, name one--JUST ONE--federal program that's run efficiently and economically?!?
Ha!!
Gott'cha!!
There is none; it was a trick question!!
So how can the justification be made that it was good for the consumer to have the student loan program under the auspices of the federal government?!?
Another trick question!!
It matters not that in ten years there'll be more grants. With the economy continuing to "go-to-hell-inn'a-handbasket" there will be fewer and fewer students enrolling in college; hell, they'll be lucky to be able to afford to have the basic necessities!
Now, then, last fall, I acted to cap student loan payments faster, so that nearly 1.6 million students who make their payments on time will only have to pay 10 percent of their monthly income towards loans once they graduate. Now, this is useful -- this is especially helpful for young people who decide to become teachers, or maybe they go into one of the [....] social work or one of the helping professions. And they may not get paid a lot of money, but they’ve got a lot of debt. And so being able to cap how much per month you’re paying as a percentage of your income gives you a little bit more security knowing you can choose that profession. And then we wanted every student to have access to a simple factsheet on student loans and financial aid, so you can have all the information you need to make your own choices about how to pay for college. And we set up this new consumer watchdog called the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and so they’re now putting out this information. We call it “Know Before You Owe.” Know before you owe. It’s something Michelle and I wish we had had when we were in your shoes -- because sometimes we got surprised by some of this debt that we were racking up. So that’s what we’ve done. But it’s not enough just to increase student aid. We can’t keep subsidizing skyrocketing tuition or we’ll run out of money. And colleges and universities, they’ve got to do their part also to keep college costs down. So I’ve told Congress to steer federal aid to those schools that keep tuition affordable, that provide good value, that serve their students well. And we’ve put colleges on notice: If you can’t stop tuition from just going up every single year a lot faster than inflation, then funding you get from taxpayers, at least at the federal level, will go down -- because we need to push colleges to do better, and hold them accountable if they don’t.
Being truthful, I--your exalted ruler--might have said: Even the most incompetent boob among us should realize that the longer the term of the loan, the higher the interest paid. THAT is the reason for the 10% cap on payments! More revenue to the Treasury that my regime will undoubtedly piss away, faster than it comes in! All those 'helping professions' I mentioned...?!? They're all controlled by the appropriate union. How do unions vote?!? The way they're told!! By whom?!? What ever owe-bamacRATic politician, in whatever owe-bamacRATic level of government that needs that controlled vote to win election; re-election!
Are you--the student--really dumb enough to think that we--the socio-fascist politician--will actually force institutions of higher learning to reduce their income?!? That makes absolutely no sense! Much like the "Buffett Rule"-completely stupid!!" Nothing more than polictical posturing! We--the socio-fascist politician--are wholly dependent on professors, grad-student lecturers--as I was--and other administrators for the indoctrination of the student to the socio-fascist mindset. We have no other way--yet--to influence the vast numbers that colleges, universities and trade schools have!
Now, public universities know well, and Governor Perdue knows well -- states also have to do their part by making higher education a higher priority in their budgets. I know that Bev is fighting hard to make tuition affordable for North Carolina families. That’s a priority for her. But last year, over 40 states cut their higher education spending. And these budget cuts have been among the largest factors in tuition increases at public colleges over the past decade. So we’re challenging states to take responsibility. We told them, if you can find new ways to bring down the cost of college and make it easier for students to graduate, then we’ll help you do it. But I want everybody here, as you’re thinking about voting, make sure you know where your state representative and your state senator stands when it comes to funding higher education. They’ve got to be responsible. They’ve got to be accountable as well to prioritize higher education. All right. So helping more families, helping more young people afford a higher education; offering incentives for states and colleges and universities to keep their costs down -- that’s what we’ve been doing. Now Congress has to do their part. They need to extend the tuition tax credit that we put in place back when I came into office. It’s saving middle-class families thousands of dollars. Congress needs to safeguard aid for low-income students, like Pell grants, so that today’s freshmen and sophomores know that they’ll be able to count on it. That’s what Congress has to do. Congress needs to give more young people the chance to earn their way through college by doubling the number of work/study jobs over the next five years. That's what Congress needs to do. And then there's one specific thing -- and now this is where you come in -- there's one specific thing that Congress needs to do right now to prevent the interest rates on student loans, federal student loans, from shooting up and shaking you down. So this is where you come in. I want to explain this, so everybody listen carefully. Five years ago, Congress cut the rate on federal student loans in half. That was a good thing to do. But on July 1st -- that’s a little over two months from now -- that rate cut expires. And if Congress does nothing, the interest rates on those loans will double overnight. So I’m assuming a lot of people here have federal student loans. The interest rates will double unless Congress acts by July 1st. And just to give you some sense of perspective -- for each year that Congress doesn’t act, the average student with these loans will rack up an additional $1,000 in debt -- an extra thousand dollars. That’s basically a tax hike for more than 7 million students across America -- more than 160,000 students here in North Carolina alone. Anybody here can afford to pay an extra $1,000 right now? I didn’t think so. So stopping this from happening should be a no-brainer. Helping more of our young people afford college, that should be at the forefront of America’s agenda. It shouldn’t be a Republican or a Democratic issue. This is an American issue. The Stafford loans we’re talking about, they’re named after a Republican senator. The Pell grants that have helped millions of Americans earn a college education, that’s named after a Democratic senator. When Congress cut those rates five years ago, 77 Republicans in the House of Representatives voted for it -- along with a couple hundred Democrats including the Democrats who are here. So this shouldn’t be a partisan issue. And yet, the Republicans who run Congress right now have not yet said whether or not they’ll stop your rates from doubling. We’re two months away. Some have hinted that they’d only do it if we cut things like aid for low-income students instead. So the idea would be, well, all right, we’ll keep interest rates low if we take away aid from other students who need it. That doesn’t make sense. One Republican congresswoman said just recently -- I’m going to quote this because I know you guys will think I’m making it up -- She said she had
"very little tolerance for people who tell me they graduate with debt because there’s no reason for that."
I’m just quoting here. I’m just quoting. She said, students who rack up student loan debt are just sitting on their butts, having opportunity "dumped in your lap." I mean, I’m reading it here, so I didn’t make this up. Now, can you imagine saying something like that? Those of you who have had to take out student loans, you didn’t do it because you’re lazy. You didn’t do it lightly. You don’t like debt. I mean, a lot of you, your parents are helping out, but it’s tough on them. They’re straining. And so you do it because the cost of college keeps going up and you know this is an investment in your future. So if these folks in Washington were serious about making college more affordable, they wouldn’t have voted for a budget that could cut financial aid for tens of millions of college students by an average of more than $1,000.
They certainly wouldn’t let your student loan rates double overnight. So when you ask them, well, why aren’t you making this commitment? They say, well, we got to bring down the deficit. Of course, this is the deficit they helped run up over the past decade. Didn’t pay for two wars. Didn’t pay for two massive tax cuts. And now this is the reason why you want students to pay more? They just voted to keep giving billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to big oil companies that are raking in record profits. They just voted to let millionaires and billionaires keep paying lower tax rates than middle-class workers and their secretaries. They even voted to give an average tax cut of at least $150,000 to folks like me, the wealthiest Americans -- a tax cut paid for by cutting things like education and job training programs that give students new opportunities to work and succeed.
Being truthful, I--your exalted ruler--might have said: Contrary to the popular beliefs, money does not cure all ills! The answer is not money, if it were, why do those institutions that are not the Texas Aggies, the Notre Dame Irish, et al, with athletic programs that support far more acitivities than do the budgeted funds from government continue to exist. I promote more government spending for one reason: control; CONTROL; C-O-N-T-R-O-L!! So long as the institutions take government money--at any level--said schools are obligated to bend to the will of said governmental entity!! If government money were "the be-all, to end-all" then why is there at least one specific contrary institution, that being Hillsdale College?!? Hillsdale College is one of the very few in the entire United States that take absolutely no government funds of any sort; from any level! Nor do they allow students--or perspective students--to take federal grants or loans. Where the hell is MY CONTROL in that?!?
Now, that’s their priorities. And that doesn’t make any sense. Do we want to keep tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans who don’t need them and didn’t ask for them? Or do we want to make sure that they’re paying their fair share? Do we want to keep subsidizing big oil, or do we want to make sure we’re investing in clean energy? Do we want to jack up interest rates on millions of students, or do we want to keep investing in things that will help us and help them in the long-term -- things like education and science, and a strong military and care for our veterans? We can’t do both. We can’t have it both ways. We’ve got to make a choice about what our priorities are. You know, I’ve said this before, but I’m just going to keep on repeating it: In America, we admire success. We aspire to it. I want everybody to be rich. I want everybody to work and hustle and start businesses and study your tails off to get there. But America is not just about a few people doing well. America is about giving everybody a chance to do well. Everybody -- not just a few -- everybody. That’s what built this country. That’s what the American Dream is all about. A lot of us had parents or grandparents who said, maybe I can’t go to college, but some day my son, he’ll go to college and I’ll be so proud of him. A lot of us had parents or grandparents who said, maybe I can’t start my own business, but maybe some day my daughter, she’s going to start her own business, she’s going to work for herself. A lot of us had parents or grandparents who said, I may be an immigrant, but I believe that this is a country where no matter what you look like and where you come from, no matter what your name is, you can make it if you try.
North Carolina, that’s who we are. That’s our values. That’s what we’re about. So, no, "set your sights lowe" -- that’s not an education plan. "You’re on your own" -- that’s not an economic plan. We can’t just cut our way to prosperity. Previous generations made the investments necessary for us to succeed, to build a strong middle class, to create the foundation for America’s leadership in science and technology and medicine and manufacturing. And now it’s our turn. We’ve got to do the right thing. I want one of you to discover the cure for cancer, or the formula for fusion, or the next game-changing American industry. And that means we’ve got to support those efforts. So if you agree with me, I need your help. I need you to tell your member of Congress, we’re not going to set our sights lower. We’re not going to settle for something less. Now, all of you are lucky, you already have three congressmen who are on board. So don’t -- you don’t need to call them. They’re already doing the right thing. But I’m asking everyone else who’s watching or following online -- call your member of Congress. Email them. Write on their Facebook page. Tweet them -- we’ve got a hashtag. Here’s the hashtag for you to tweet them: #dontdoublemyrate. Your voice matters. So stand up. Be heard. Be counted. Tell them now is not the time to double interest rates on your student loans. Now is the time to double down on smart investments to build a strong and secure middle class. Now is the time to double down on building an America that lasts. You and me, all of us here, every single one of us -- we’re here only because somebody, somewhere, felt responsibility not just for themselves, but they felt responsibility for something larger. It started with them feeling responsible for their families. So your parents sacrificed, your grandparents sacrificed to make sure you could succeed. But then they thought bigger than that. They thought about their neighborhood, they thought about their community, they thought about their country. Now -- [....] And now it’s our turn to be responsible. It’s our turn to keep that promise alive. And no matter how tough these times have been, no matter how many obstacles that may stand in our way, I promise you, North Carolina, there are better days ahead. We will emerge stronger than we were before. Because I believe in you. I believe in your future. I believe in the investment you’re making right here at North Carolina. That tells me that you share my faith in America’s future. And that’s what drives me every single day -- your hopes, your dreams. And I’m not quitting now because, in America, we don’t quit. We get each other’s backs. We help each other get ahead. And if we work together, we’ll remind the world just why it is that America’s the greatest nation on Earth.
Being truthful, I--your exalted ruler--might have said: We--and by 'we' I mean the owe-bama Regime--must invest in what works!! Be it fossil fuels, be it in revising the tax code to eliminate tax deductions for those evil oil companies. The best single change--which would benefit those at every level of the citizenry--is to reduce federal spending to the level that minimal borrowing would be necessary.
That ain't gonna happen under my--read: Soros'--watch!!
I rely on those with not'ta whole lot'ta common sense to ensure that my re-immaculation campaign will continue on schedule. I need this second term as your exalted ruler to complete the conversion of the United States of America into a completely socio-fascist state!! I would've had it done, excepting that dam' "Tea Party" Movement. With the loss of control over the House of Representatives, I no longer had that dupe-marionette, Nancy PORKlosi to do my bidding; much as 'pinky' reid does each day!!
I have one benefit probably NONE OF YOU will ever achieve: No matter how long I rule, I will continue with this--nearly half-million-dollar paycheck--FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!! That's another financial burden you'll have to bear, so....
ya better find a job....
and it better be a good one!!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsdale_College
http://www.hillsdale.edu/admissions/spotlight/spotlight.asp?iSpotID=626&Forward=http://www.hillsdale.edu%2FDefault%2Easp
http://www.hillsdale.edu/
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