Tell Me Lies, Tell Me Sweet Little Lies

Sorry for the lack of Obama-nations. I've been so busy and with the little free time I've had I haven't felt like infuriating myself by reading or writing about the communist in chief.

Some fun little tidbits about Obama:
1. Last week he talked about how important frugality was, at the same time he's on track to be the biggest debtor President in US history. He will outspend FDR, even though FDR was dealing with the Great Depression and WWII. During FDR's 12 fiscal years as Pres., federal spending averaged 19.35% of GDP. During Obama's four years, his federal spending will average 24.13% of GDP. Actually, during FDR's first 8 fiscal years, he only spent 9.85% of GDP. That was until the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

2. He's still defending that STUPID spendulus bill. He had the gall to say it already created 2 million jobs and it will create 1.5 million in 2010. Do you think we're stupid Obama? A CBS poll recently showed only 6% of Americans thought it created jobs!!!! SIX PERCENT! Even the hard core left doesn't think it created jobs.

3. He recently referred to the Bush years as the "lost decade". Really Obama? When Bush was pres. unemployment averaged between 4 and 5% and I remember my 401k had a lot more than it does now.

4. On Feb. 2, he said all the "red ink" in the federal budget "keeps him awake at night". His solution? Sign an executive order creating the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform to make recommendations on how to reduce the country's debt. That's after he approves a budget that is over $1 trillion in the red.

Climate Change & National Security

Obama just decided to give eastern Europe a big screw you in order to suck up to Russia by scrapping Bush's plans to build a missile defense shield. The replacement system he is implementing instead is "likely to allay some of Russia's concerns" according to Robert Gibbs. Instead of siding with our allies, Poland and the Czech Republic, Obama chose "setting back the gradual progress toward repairing relations with Russia". And besides, why would Europe need a missile defense shield anyway? Click here to read more.

Another doozy: the Obama administration just concluded that a cap and trade law would cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year, the equivalent of hiking personal income taxes by about 15 percent. This equals $1,761 a household. All to combat "climate change". Wait, I thought it was global warming, no it's global cooling, no wait, the real problem is climate change. Click here to read more.

Typical Government Programs

Two for today, both from my favorite blog, michellemalkin.com:

- The first shows how government entitlements are rarely temporary and never cost less than we are told up front - Remember that $8,000 home credit for new buyers passed last November? 40 percent of all home buyers this year will qualify for it (sure wish I could take $8,000 off my mortgage!). It's going to cost the taxpayers $15 billion, more than twice the amount projected when it was passed. Skeptics say most of those people would have bought a home anyway, and unless it's allowed to expire in November as planned, it will become one more entitlement that fails to die. Click here to read more.

- Under Obama's heatlth care plan, 45% of doctors would consider quitting, according to a new poll. 72% of doctors disagree with Obama's claim that the government can cover 47 million more people with better-quality care at lower cost. Click here to read more.

I'm Shocked! NOT!

A real shocker! The White House is now predicting bigger deficits and bigger debt! Now the CBO is predicting a $9 trillion deficit from 2009-2019, which is $2 trillion more than the Obama administration predicted in May. The debt is supposed to double by 2019 and consume three-quarters of the national economy.

Cash for Appliances? Way to Go Obam-inable One.

Since the horrible Cash for Clunkers program has ended, now it's time for another waste of taxpayer dollars - consumers are getting cash towards buying energy efficient appliances. This is part of the spend-ulus bill signed into law by Obama. We are spending $300 million on this. Click here to read more.

That Cash for Clunkers was a disaster. What a stupid stupid waste of $$. What idiot decided it was a good idea to take perfectly good cars, destroy them, and give the owner $4,500 of MY money towards a new car? Now let's give money for people so they can get new kitchen appliances. What's next? Cash for Botox? Cash for a big screen TV? Cash for cell phones?

Obama-care

There's a lot I could say about Obama's health care plan, but Fox News is hammering it right and left so I won't bother. It's completely ridiculous for him to push to overhaul the entire US medical system by August. The good thing is I think Americans are finally waking up.

One radio talk show host I listen to pointed out this morning that there is no huge outcry from the American people that we must all have guaranteed access to coverage. In fact, polls show that the majority of Americans are happy with their care.

This is a funny article. Obama has praised the Mayo Clinic repeatedly in the past for its excellent care and low costs. Do you think the Mayo clinic has reciprocated? NO!! The Mayo clinic issued a statement totally bashing Obama-care. It says Obama-care will create higher cost, lower quality healthcare. It goes on to say the proposals are not patient focused or results oriented, and the losers will be American citizens.

After Gitmo, Live in Paradise on Our Dime

Oh my goodness. If you click on nothing else today, you must read this story. The most outrageous thing I've seen in a long time, although with Obama at the helm I seem to be reading something like this at least once a week.

Four former terror suspects from China, who were being held at Guantanamo Bay prison, are now on a paid permanent vacation in Bermuda at our expense. Just look at them! Swimming in the ocean, fishing, eating ice cream and dreaming of opening their own restaurant and starting families. They are also planning on learning to drive, scuba dive and bowl. All on our dime.

Obama-care? NO THANKS!

Obama wouldn't recognize the truth if it bit him in the butt. His latest rounds of lies today were spewed at an American Medical Association meeting, where he was trying to convince doctors that his healthcare plan isn't actually socialized medicine and the country will come to an end if we don't adopt it. The good news? He was booed by doctors. What's wrong with you doctors? You don't want to become government bureaucrats after spending 25 years of working your butts off to become doctors?

The funniest part of his speech? After warning of all the doom and gloom that would be America if the government doesn't take over health care, he had the audacity to state that "we know there are those who will try to scuttle" the program no matter what. He said that "because these fear tactics have worked, things have kept getting worse." He says that opponents of his healthcare plan use "fear tactics"? Those in glass houses should not throw stones. That's all he does is try to scare us into doing what he wants. Remember what he said would happen if we didn't pass his precious spendulus bill asap? Well all of that and worse has happened.

The funniest part of this whole plan? He claims he has now found the $$ to pay for his socialized medicine plans. He claims to have found $313 billion in savings to pay for it. Wait, I thought this was going to cost us a trillion. And also, last I checked, he had spent $1 trillion on his stimulus package and gave us a $1 trillion deficit for this year. So the way I see it, he needs to take care of paying that off before mysteriously "finding money" for his health care plan.

The Spend-ulus Package is a Complete Failure

Also, Obama-nation reader Rose pointed out that Obama promised to deliver more than 600,000 jobs this summer with his $787 billion stimulus package (experts put the actual cost at more than $1 trillion, but we'll give him the benefit of the doubt). That equals out to about $1.3 million in borrowed funds per job, not to mention the interest that's racking up daily.

Obama's Pay "Czar" and More Money We Don't Have

A couple of new things to get your blood boiling before the weekend:

- the White House is going to appoint a "pay czar" to regulate the pay of employees of companies receiving bailout funds. Or to insure that high level employees that are the brains behind the company leave in favor of overseas companies that don't regulate their employees' pay. Right now the White House just wants to regulate the pay of companies receiving federal money and they can make a decent argument for why they need to do that. But how long until they try to regulate your pay? Sound ludicrous? The White House is taking over companies right and left. They are dying to get their hands on healthcare. How long before they tell us what doctors and nurses can make? They are handing out money to states right and left. How long will it be before they tell us what state employees can make? At the rate they are going, I fear that no one is safe.

- Back in April I told you that Obama wants to lend $100+ Billion to the International Monetary Fund. Now Democrats are trying to make him happy by sticking a multi-billion loan to the IMF onto a war supplemental bill that's supposed to be voted on next week. Disgusting. Click here to read more.

Where's My $11,000 Worth of Benefits?

Did you know Obama's proposed budget spends over $11,000 for each man, woman and child in America? Is my family going to receive over $44,000 worth of benefits from the federal government? We'd better, because we're going to be paying for it.

Also, did you know that if the US was located in Europe, we wouldn't be allowed to join the European Union because of our debt levels? That's scary!

Obama's In Bed With Labor Unions

It was big news this week that Obama is cutting $17 billion from his budget. That's a whopping one-half of one percent of the budget. It's also only 4.25% of the INCREASE in the budget under Obama, and it's only 2.2% of the spendulus package. It's only .85% of 2009's deficit.

The most obam-inable part of this? Guess what areas Obama is making his cuts in? 50% of the savings come from defense's budget, that was not unexpected given his track record of making this country less safe. But guess which other department whose budget was slashed by a whopping 9 percent? The unit of the Department of Labor in charge of regulating labor unions!! Let's see, first this week he strong arms secured creditors of Chrysler in order to save the labor unions, and now he is slashing the budget of a group in charge of investigating corrupt union practices. Unbelievable.

Obama's Getting Snippy

When asked about fiscal discipline and entitlements reform in St. Louis today, Obama said "Those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I'm not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around, let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we are going to stabilize Social Security.” “But,” Obama continued, “let's not play games and pretend that the reason [for the deficit] is because of the Recovery Act."

Ouch! I guess our savior doesn't like seeing hundreds of thousands of Americans finally stand up to let our voices be heard.

Does he think that we didn't know there was already a deficit? Everyone knows that. What we were standing up for was his crazy spending that is going to quadruple the deficit in a few years at the rate he's going. And BTW Obama, I would love to hear how you are going to cut health care costs and stabilize Social Security. Because I really haven't heard anything that gives me any hope whatsoever that you are going to do either of those things.

You are Making it Too Easy, Obama

There is so much tomfoolery coming out of the White House these days.

First, a White House photo op nearly scared already scarred 9-11 victims in NY to death. Air Force 747 did a low flyover over Lower Manhattan in order to take some nifty pictures. The White House military office ordered the mission. Hey Obama, if you are looking to trim some fat from your budget, useless pictures for your scrapbook are a good place to start. Click here and here to read more.

Also, Obama is in a bind about what to do over Guantanamo detainees. The U.S. is "relatively close" to a decision about which of the 240 dangerous terrorist detainees to set free and which to put on trial. We are stuck begging with European countries to take them. Maybe if you hadn't closed it we wouldn't be in this mess. Click here to read more.

Finally, the funniest, most hilarious thing of all. Obama's quote from his weekly radio address last week: “We cannot settle for a future of rising deficits and debts that our children cannot pay,” the president says, adding that we must “recognize that we cannot meet the challenges of today with old habits and stale thinking. So much of our government was built to deal with different challenges from a different era. Too often, the result is wasteful spending, bloated programs, and inefficient results. It’s time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington.”
I simply don't know what to say about that. You can click here to watch the video.

He is Making Us Less Safe and Spending Us Into the Poorhouse!

Obama, you've been keeping me busy lately. A couple of knee slappers:

Obama's Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano said on Larry King, when talking about illegal aliens crossing the Mexican border, that "crossing the border is not a crime per se." Yes, Janet, it is. You picked yourself a doozy there Obama. Don't you feel safe with her protecting our homeland and our borders? I can't tell who amuses me more, her, Biden, or that poor schmuck Robert Gibbs who stands there before the White House press corps constantly trying to justify the obam-inable policies. Click here to read more.

Another knee slapper: Obama signed a $5.7 BILLION program called Give/Serve to triple the size of the AmeriCorps program. Can we really afford that? And didn't you JUST, in an impressive show of leadership, order your department heads to trim $100 million from their budgets asap? So one day later you spend $5.7 Billion on something we can't afford.

If I don't laugh about it I will cry.

A Round-up of Recent Obam-inable Actions, Part 2

Obama's been keeping busy. Some of his latest Obam-inable actions:

- Obama obviously was not pleased at taxpayers rising up and protesting his massive spending. So what does he do to appease us? He orders department chiefs to cut $100 million from their budgets. Wow, that's great Obama! I believe it's a whopping 1/36,000 of the money you are planning on spending next year. (Or, to someone making $50,000 per year, it's like cutting 72 cents from their annual spending). It's also equal to the interest that accumulates each and every day on the spend-ulus bill that congress passed this year. How stupid do you think we are? Do you think you tossing us a crumb is going to shut us up?

Then, the same day he ordered the budget cut, he announced that the US should loan the International Monetary Fund $100 BILLION. Let's cut $100 million, then spend $100 billion the same day! Click here to read more.

- Obama ordered the release of memos about torture interrogation methods last week. As it turns out, he only ordered the memos released that make the US look bad. Cheney wants memos released showing how successful our methods were at getting terrorists to squeal. Click here to read more.

- Obama has a new BFF (for those not in elementary school in the 80's, that means best friend forever). His name is Hugo Chavez, and he is a ruthless dictator from Venezuela. Chavez once called Bush the "devil" and Obama an "ignoramus". But all those things are in the past now, we should forget about that. They cordially shook hands last week and Obama has a huge grin pasted on his face. Chavez was kind enough to give Obama a gift, a lovely book called "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent", which chronicles America's criminal actions towards Latin America. Obama thought the book was a "nice gesture". I am guessing Chavez will skip back to Venezuela and brag to all his subjects about how he proved to Obama how horrible America is by giving him that book. Sigh.

More Government Spending

You all know how I feel about the Obam-inable one, but I do have to give credit where credit is due. Navy snipers shot those pirates after the pirates had guns pointed at the captain, apparently on orders from Obama. Maybe if his back is against the wall in military matters he will do the right thing, who knows? Click here to read more.

Now that I've been all warm and fuzzy towards him today, let's talk about his latest Obam-inable actions. The government is going to buy 17,600 fuel efficient cars in order to help U.S. automakers. The cars will be purchased for the "government fleet" and will cost $285 million. The decision was made to buy the vehicles on a short timetable in order to give a boost to the economy and to show Obama's support for US automakers. What? This seems like a waste to me. Haven't the taxpayers already shown their support for US automakers? Does the government fleet even need new cars? Does buying them on a "short timetable" mean they were an impulse buy? Doesn't the government need to get bids or go through a process like that? So many questions, so few answers. Sigh.

Obama the Outraged

This AIG stuff just makes me mad. All of a sudden Obama has knickers in a bunch about AIG getting taxpayer dollars and using that to give bonuses. He said the bonus payments are an “outrage” and said he wants Geithner to “pursue every single legal avenue” to block the payments. “This is a corporation that finds itself in financial distress due to recklessness and greed,” Obama said. “This isn’t just a matter of dollars and cents. It’s about our fundamental values.”

First of all, the bonuses are less than 1/10 of 1% of the bailout money AIG received. The bonuses are $165 million. Second of all, the company is contractually obligated to pay these bonuses. Obama can't come in and rewrite contract law. Third, I am guessing that many of these executives earned their bonuses b/c their particular divisions did well, even if the company did terrible overall.

But the thing that makes me the MADDEST is all of a sudden Obama is so concerned about $165 million dollars of taxpayer funds? This is the man who has spent $1 BILLION EVERY HOUR of the first 50 days of his administration! I think he wants to direct the focus away from his reckless spending and direct the anger towards some greedy executives. This is just disgusting.

Also, if we are so concerned about accountability of taxpayer funds all of a sudden, what about the billions of taxpayer dollars that go to welfare recipients every month? Aren't they allowed to go out and blow that on whatever they want? Are they held accountable?

(I'm not saying that people who ran a company into the ground should be rewarded with my money. But that's not what this hullabaloo is all about).

$1 Billion Per Hour

How much of our money (well, since we don't even have the money, I guess you could say how much debt) has the Obama administration voted to spend during his short time in office (as of yesterday)? Are you really ready for the number? $1 BILLION PER HOUR, every hour of his administration.

He's been in office 50 days as of yesterday, and since that time Congress has voted to spend $1.2 trillion, which equals out to $1 billion an hour. Click here to read more.

Only 1,411 Days Left!!

Obama signed a $410 Billion spending package today behind closed doors. Obama, why not ride Air Force One to Denver to sign it in front of some solar panels to show how "green" you are like the last spending bill you signed? Is it because you are embarrassed that the bill contains 8,000 earmarks? While also killing the voucher program that allows poor D.C. minorities to go to private schools?

This video shows what he thought about earmarks during the campaign (his exact words are "absolutely we need earmark reform, and when I'm President I will go line by line to make sure we're not spending unwisely"). Now I guess earmarks are ok and spending is through the roof. In fact, right up until he signed the bill, he was claiming it didn't have any earmarks in it - watch here.

Now, he claims that it's an "imperfect bill". Well, then don't sign it!! Nobody has a gun to your head. He said the bill must signal "an end to the old way of doing business". OK, so starting NOW things are going to change. Ha ha ha. You are ridiculous and I am counting the days until you are out of office (1,411 days to be exact).