Obama promises to work weekends to pass Generational Theft Act
The Wealth Redistributor-Elect just wrapped up his fear-mongering speech on behalf of the Generational Theft Act of 2009.
He promised “bold,” “sweeping” and “dramatic” action, including giving up his weekends to work America into an even bigger spending abyss.
Wonder if he’ll give up his gym time? Then we’ll know he’s really serious.
The most galling line came near the end when he exhorted the public to get behind his growth-stifling agenda in order to save our future from “dire consequences.” We need to spend a trillion dollars on “green jobs” and bloated union pork projects “for the children.”
For the children.
The man has chutzpah.
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Commenter flmom: “What he meant to say is working Americans will be spending their weekends toiling to pay for this spending abyss.”
TCOT Report dubs PEBO the “Pessimist Elect.”
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He’ll work hard so others won’t have to.
I’m thoroughly disgusted.
Gee, I wonder if Obama who favors true bipartisanship in crafting the economic bailout bill will give Pelosi a call and have her reverse her draconian, partisan rules…I won’t hold my breath.
What he meant to say is working Americans will be spending their weekends toiling to pay for this spending abyss.
I honestly believe Obama has no concept of money. After all when has he ever had to work to earn any? Or maybe he has a money tree in his backyard where he is going to get all the money to “stimulate” us. I am beginning to wonder if he is a bit crazy.
Yes. Go to your “regular” job Monday-Friday, and show up at a government program Saturday and Sunday.
As for “for the children”…shouldn’t he have said “for all those punishments”?
Well I guess this blows yesterday’s ‘one President at a time’ argument that was in play when asked about Israel yesterday.
Boy does this poor fellow ever stop with the whoppers? Someone ought to tell him, you aren’t very good at the jive talking, perhaps we should just stick to the truth.
So he is going to spend hundreds of billions on a problem that doesn’t exist (global warming) and do it with borrowed or printed money. yay. BTW even the chinesse are starting to think twice about lending to us.
dumb de dumb dumb dumb!!!!
The only thing this is going to do for the children is leaving them with massive debt that even their children will be paying.
We will be bankrupt WWAAAYYY before then.
Well, obviously, creating a government reliant Marxist/socialist state is worth a few weekend hours.
There is one thing Obama and Congress don’t seem to realize when they talk about these huge spending plans that depend on the US being able to sell bonds to fund them: http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/07/business/yuan.php – “U.S. debt is losing its appeal in China” – so who exactly is going to buy the bonds to fund this borrowing? The dollar is going to tank big time in the next few years unless the US does something and borrowing more money is the opposite of what is needed. The media has completely ignore the fact about there is no one to fund our debt any more when they talk about these huge spending plans.
I have long thought that the Government needs to put mothers in charge of the nations money. They know how to budget, how to stretch money out, how to find bargains, etc.
Instead, people who are trying to buy votes are in charge of it.
He only says that when he doesn’t have anything to say or hasn’t been told what his opinion should be.
I say we all give Obama a record 1461 days of paid vacation (hey, that includes weekends too!).
Why do the words “uh-oh” come to mind when I read that part of his speech?
We all know that was a Presidential version of voting present.
As I mentioned to pelosi yesterday:
YOU CAN NOT BORROW YOUR WAY OUT OF DEBT.
YOU CAN NOT BORROW YOUR WAY OUT OF DEBT.
YOU CAN NOT BORROW YOUR WAY OUT OF DEBT.
YOU CAN NOT BORROW YOUR WAY OUT OF DEBT.
YOU CAN NOT BORROW YOUR WAY OUT OF DEBT.
YOU CAN NOT BORROW YOUR WAY OUT OF DEBT.
YOU CAN NOT BORROW YOUR WAY OUT OF DEBT.
YOU CAN NOT BORROW YOUR WAY OUT OF DEBT.
YOU CAN NOT BORROW YOUR WAY OUT OF DEBT.
YOU CAN NOT BORROW YOUR WAY OUT OF DEBT.
YOU CAN NOT BORROW YOUR WAY OUT OF DEBT.
Some how I don’t think they are listening to us anyway.
Bingo!
No way the repubs should in any way support the Messiah. This gem of a plan should be ALL on the democrats.
Either that or quit allowing government to contract for goods and services at higher prices than what the individual consumer pays. I have to choose from lists of vendors that my school system has contracts with and all of those vendors offer the EXACT SAME products for at least 25% more than what I would pay for it as a regular consumer. Of course, I MUST buy from one of those approved vendors, I can’t go and save $100 on a printer or $300 on a computer by buying somewhere else. It’s like that with government everywhere. It makes no sense.
It will be. They have complete control of the house and are 1 rino away from complete control of the senate.
This is the DNC’s game now. We are simply spectators till at least 2010.
Watch the idiots on our side vote for this bill.
You people are so childish it’s unbelievable – we’ve just experience the dumbest, drunkest, most insecure, laziest President ever:
He’s cultivated extensive damage to our economy, our military, our relationships in this country and around the world and all you people can do is complain about a man who isn’t even president yet.
All of you (even the 1 or 2 decent people on this site) need to move to Israel or Alaska or wherever racist people think they’re God’s chosen children.
Since when was the Presidency of the United States a Monday through Friday 9-5!?!?
Giving up his weekends… give me a big fat break… (tax break…and I don’t mean tax “credit”)…
What a clown this inept tool is…
You can pick a check to kiss, either one, or you can just kiss the bit inbetween. Your choice. Take your irrational bush hatred elsewhere.
This just demonstrates how clueless obama is.
It must have been the lazyness that has kept all safe since 9/11 right?
Pretty much what we can expect:
Glib, collegiate, numberically dyslexic, with commie talking points. All gauged to maximize the emergency in order to give him and his cronies a free hand.
I’m tired of him already.
Ilovemycountry is just mad because bush has a bigger manhood than he does.
Overtime? I smell another raise from congress… for congress.
Words. Just words.
Friday, Saturday and Sundays have been the most arduous days of the week lately, with all the bail-outs that have greeted the American public on Monday mornings.
Hey, ilovemycountry. When you talk about racists you mean the democrats, right? Ever hear about any of that? Of course not! God forbid that the truth be known.
Thomas Jefferson, a real democrat, said, “I do not fear the truth, I fear the lack of it.” However, liberals hate it when the truth is told because they know that the truth doesn’t support any of their positions.
BTW, I consider GWB to be a socialist, just not a stark raving lunatic socialist like the B.O.
Read this book. It is exactly as you said, secondsight. The liberals will either create a crisis (Global Warming) or use one (the Depression, WWII) to galvanize the people to their point of view. “We must act NOW!”
I believe the proper intelligent response is: Don’t just do something, sit there!
This has been know since Amity’s book, “The Forgotten Man.” It’s nice it’s being backed up, but it won’t matter. Liberals don’t read. And, our schools would never teach anything counter to the ideology they are indoctrinating their students with.
And in particular, Harry Reid.
FDR 1933 – “The only thing we have to fear is, fear itself.”
Obama 2008 – “More families will lose their savings. More dreams will be deferred and denied. And our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse.”
John Adams 1797 – “Fear is the foundation of most governments;
but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be
likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.”
I hope someone speeaks these words on the floor of the Congress.
But I don’t want to move to Washington, D.C., Detroit, or San Francisco.
All told, that’s about the same amount we will spend destroying another country, with absolutely nothing to show for it.
You all had 8 years to crap on your children’s future, and you did a damn fine job of it. Now it’s the Democrat’s turn.
Actualy thats not true. But that aside, obama the idiot will spend that much in his FIRST MONTH. Even if iraqi had cost a trillion, it took 7 years to get there.
I think the liberals are getting thier first taste of buyers remorse even before the guy gets sworn in.
…. from a man who has never held a job in management or administration who thinks we must finance his campaign promises in one bundle — while over half the previous “bailout” sits unused …..
How dumb are our legislators?
If someone slips in a photo of ANY repub kissing that Soros puppet’s ring — I’ll bend over and kiss my own buh byeeeee ….
Explain “You all”. At least you have part of it right and admit it (inadvertently I am sure) – it is now the Democraps turn. Watch how Obingo brings in a trillion dollars in spending nearly doubling the deficit in one bill and they will have the budget “balanced” in 3 months.
Hm, has Huggybear or lgm ever defended Democrat policies, or are they incapable of any argument beyond “Republicans suck?”
Ok, let try to break this down,
He did graduate from Ivy league universities, I can’t recall seeing or hearing of him being drunk in office, he seemed to me to handle himself fairly securely when the shoes were flying and we have been relatively safe from attack on his watch.
I believe he had very little to do with this. Our economic problems really began during the Carter administration with the Community Reinvestment act (CRA) that started the trend toward lending to unqualified borrowers. This was further re-inforced under Clinton and continued, despite administration warnings about Fanny/Freddy under the Democratic congress. Remember, the Dems gained control of congress in 2006 and were staunch defenders of Fanny/Freddie.
As for our military, they seem to be doing just fine, especially since the surge and our relationships around the world have never been anything to brag about because as a rule we don’t harbor the defeatist mindset and socialistic malaise demonstrated by most of the rest of the world.
I just don’t understand why questioning the policies of the President Elect would make everyone on this board a racist? Or is that how you perceive everyone that questions the wishes of “The One”?
BINGO
I remember being in college during the Reagan years and hearing all my profs and the media go on and on about deficit spending. But I guess if Obamasiah is doing it all is well. Not.
Typical liberal reaction – ad hominem attacks on anyone disagreeing with their point of view.
In the spirit of bipartisanship we should clear the decks and give ilovemycountry enough room to address:
- the fear mongering used by Obama to justify the need to act
- the fear mongering used by Obama to justify the need to act NOW
- the academic documentation proving that massive government intervention has worked in the past in the US or elsewhere (eg. the UK, Japan, Australia)
- the rules crammed down on the House by Nancy Pelosi effectively disenfranchising every Republican voter in the country.
The microphone is yours.
Exactly! What a great defense and it will be used well over the next four years!
in_awe
I’ll answer for Ilovemycountry:
chirp…. chirp…. chirp….
RACIST!!!
chirp…. chirp… chirp…
Got out my popcorn and a large OJ. Looking forward to his response.
I wonder what personal invectives he is going to use on us this time? We all biologically have mothers, so I guess he has that one available…..
What a disaster the next 4 years will be.
from BHO’s lecture today;
“…we’ll invest in PRIORITIES like Energy and Education , Healthcare and a NEW Infrastructure…”
These are his four priority areas. His tops on the list.
Priorities??????
1)Energy investments?
How, O’ Pessimistic one? Will you DRILL?
2)Education?
Now that sounds like immediate stimulus to me.
3)Health Care
More INSTANT stimulus….or not.
and4) NEW infrastructure.
Ok so 5% of the construction companies can do this type of infrastructure work and most of those are Gov’t jobs or have already paid off someone IN gov’t to get the bids on those jobs.
Infrastructure construction employees…far less than even 1/2 of one percent of the American work force.
Good one BHO, good one.
Priorities??????
You have GOT TO BE FRIGGIN KIDDING US!!!
This is all a very bad cartoon gone sour.
Bush didn’t duck the shoe, he staggered and it missed.
Follow the money, same o, same o. Someone, somewhere, someway made out like a bandit…political corruption.
Our side?
…and you say you love your country. Cuba? Iran?
I thought the same thing so;
I second that.
Ilove(hate)mycountry, your dumb ass comments don’t deserve a response, be gone with you.
Still waiting for lgm’s Palestinian solution.
It’s easy to find problems, It’s not so easy to solve them. To paraphrase one of our trolls:
We’ve just experienced the dumbest, drunkest, most insecure, laziest liberals ever.
psst – don’t feed the trolls (I know it is amusing, but it keeps them coming back.)
How much stock can one put in the words of a poster(liberal of course) who actually voted for a presidential candidate that does not even know how many states are in the UNION? Is it 57 or 58 I forget…what a dumb a$$. or how about Biden that thinks television was around in 1929, another dumb a$$…all you supporters of the Zero, don’t forget “birds of feather…” saying, you know where that puts you.
We’ll be better off if Obama only works weekends, between 9 and 9:15 a.m., Saturdays and Sundays, but not at all during the months ending in the letter y, h, l, e, t, and r.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/county-park-inmates-2267896-state-report
Unfortunately, I doubt that we will ever again have a debate on First Principles.
Our energy needs will be filled by the glow on the workers faces as they chant:
Obama-Yes we can
Dear Leader-Yes we can
The individual is nothing-yes we can
The collective is everything-yes we can
The Minister of Re-education, William Ayres, will have full details at a time to be announced.
Now be aware-Dear Leader has enemies everywhere-be prepared to informed-yes we can.
But no I won’t Barry. Need ALL the American people behind you you say? Ice water would be popular in Hell.
I suppose Obama wants to share in the Sacrifice us Peasants will have to endure.
Big Difference.. he will sacrifice a couple of Sat/Sundays, while the rest of us have to sacrifice 2 generations of American prosperity.
That picture, is it from the movie “01″?
I could have gone all day without seeing bho without his shirt. Gads, it is hard on my eyes!
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That pic is the opposite of this:
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and we need to work just as hard to stop it….give them money directly to the taxpayers in the form of tax cuts, tax holidays, and tax cuts for business to give them more incentive to hire American workers (and none of them foreigners they so much love and use as slave labor)….
I was thinking more of “Zero”.
The One will bring prosperity and opportunity for all. As for me at 50 years of age, I’m gonna learn how to install solar panels on top of houses and turbines out in the middle of no-freaking-where.
Thank you oh great one…
Does this mean being POTUS is a 24×7 job? Wonder if B.Hussein read the job description before he applied?
What amazes me is the number of people with college degrees who buy into this stimulus nonsense.
People who keep harping on about how bad Bush was for the economy and how great Clinton was, keep forgetting two things. The most obvious is 9/11. The other big thing that most people forget is the dot-com boom of the 90s that went bust just as Bush was taking office.
The fact that the economy isn’t in tatters is in itself pretty amazing.
Is that the pic that all the libs are drooling over?
My 50yr old husband has him beat by a long shot. The Gubenator was right. He needs to workout.
Ah, hate to break this to you, Mr. Obama, but Presidents don’t have weekends, or holidays, or vacations. It’s a 24/7 job. Even vacations, are working days. What were you planning to do? Clock out Friday at 5 p.m, saying, “TGIF”? But maybe he knows that; the American public doesn’t. It’s like me “giving up my lunch hour”. Sure would impress some people. Make me look real sacrifical. But I don’t have a lunch hour (eat on the run).
As my good friend Bear1909 said:
Pure poetry!
That is because the best thing bush did was let the free market economy work it through. It was tough for a lot techies back then but the market sorted it out. Now every idiot pol (who couldn’t balance a checkbook much less run a business) is interfering with the market principles in an attempt to prop up the system. I can always be had that limited intervention is not bad if the proposals are well designed. But they are now just throwing everything against the wall in hopes something sticks. What they will do is either A) run up the deficit with no results or B) temporarily prop up the markets but in the process create inflation not seen in decades. THe economy must be handled delicately. It is easy to overshoot your goals due to lag times.
Obama checking his schedule….
— Monday
8-12 (do president stuff – figure out later)
12-2 (lunch at Denny’s – bet I’m served now)
2-5 (Change slogan to “Yes – we are”)
5 – (off)
— Tuesday
8-12 (spend a trillion – figure out later)
12-2 (Lunch with Michelle – Denny’s)
2-5 (
call Blago- buy some smokes)5 – (off)
– Wednesday – Friday (replace appointees involved in scandals – damn that Richardson)
Saturday (
work on pecsAfter the chosen ones speech today I had to fight depression. A most unusual feeling. His vision is so bleak he would make a terrible football coach. Can you imagine Parcels saying “Its going to be so long for you to win, like a long long time. Don’t worry though. The front office will save you.”
Michelle:
MY EYES! THE GOGGLES DO NOTHING!
Why do you do that to us?
We needn’t see the half-naked emperor.
I don’t want to look at any more pictures of Obama without his clothes on. It’s bad enough I have to look at ANY pictures of Obama.
I second that emotion.
On January 8th, 2009 at 4:49 pm, vickisoup said:
I don’t want to look at any more pictures of Obama without his clothes on. It’s bad enough I have to look at ANY pictures of Obama.
#84On January 8th, 2009 at 4:54 pm, nlebou said:
On January 8th, 2009 at 4:49 pm, vickisoup said:
I don’t want to look at any more pictures of Obama without his clothes on. It’s bad enough I have to look at ANY pictures of Obama.
I second that emotion.
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Me three.
May you all find some comfort in this:
http://obamaclock.org/
On January 8th, 2009 at 12:00 pm, hunter said:
“The power of
ChrObamessiah compels you!”How can anyone gush over that pic? Pics like that make me want to go straight. Ewww…
This country desperately needs to move toward a more egalitarian society: the same opportunities for all of its citizens, and a much better distribution of wealth. Taxing more heavily the wealthy is a good beginning. We also need to transfer more funds to poorer cities / neighborhoods, impose mandatory health insurance for all, levy more taxes on gasoline (min 20¢/Gal), tobacco, spirits, replace sales tax with VAT at 15% (reduced rate for foods at 5%). Finally all Interstate highways must become toll roads (except urban ones) so that we can rebuild the damn crumbling roads and railroads.
On January 8th, 2009 at 5:45 pm, CleanGuy said:
How can anyone gush over that pic? Pics like that make me want to go straight. Ewww…
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Or me want to go celibate!
If this was any other poster, I’d be looking for the sarc tag, but sadly I know you are in deadly earnest.
I was getting bored today, so i guess edelschizer’s post will have to do for the moment.
Let’s see here..
Because that has worked wonders in places like China, North Korea…and who doesn’t have opportunities? You’re going to have to clarify that point a little, if you can.
The people considered “wealthy” already bear the brunt of the tax system. It’s not about taxing people who are productive MORE..its about making the government SPEND less than it takes in. I mean, crap…err…schizer…people can balance their checkbooks that way. You bring in X amount of income. In order to not go into the red, you spend less than that amount. Taxes keep going up for everyone, and government sees that as creative license to go spend more. Again, simplistic principle.
Some of these “poor” cities…get more subsidies than any other location. I would take washington d.c (both as a clear example of their own back yard, as well as an example of what throwing money at say…schools does…for instance). Per child, D.C spends more per kid than almost anywhere else in the country. And yet…their schools are still in the crapper. Throwing money at the problem there didn’t fix it. That example repeats itself all across the country, where places that have the most money thrown at them by the government are still in such poor shape.
Explain to me why forcing me to have health insurance that I’m going to have to pay for (in an already strained economy + you want me to distribute wealth, be taxed more…all this cash has to come from somewhere!) is a good idea? What if, for example, I can’t afford it now (before your self-imposed changes), how am i supposed to afford that as well? “Oh, abstract…well, the government would issue credits or vouchers!” But isnt that from the taxes they’re taking from me…so i’m paying for it myself anyway? Seems silly to me, and it certainly doesnt play out in the numbers well.
Again, more taxes on an already strained economy and populace. When is taking more from people who have little to give already a good idea?
Just as a FYI, the taxes from gasoline, etc…are what are supposed to be paying for road repair and the like. State lotteries are another example of where funds for these types of repairs, along with federal funds, come from specifically. I dont have a problem with toll roads per se, but…placing a toll booth on every road is again just another of draining the public dry.
How about something more responsible? How about keeping taxes low so people have more disposable income, which is injected back into the economy in the form of spending?
How about making taxes fair for everyone, such as a flat tax? you said 15%. i like that number. i believe it was close to what Forbes actually suggested years ago. And it would be equal, so no one could say rich people were getting away from their taxes.
How about stop throwing money into failing government programs, and trying to throw more money at problems already existing that writing a check doesn’t cure?
Curb wasteful spending. Be fiscally responsible in Washington.
THAT is change you can believe in.
Asking the American people to put more burden on their backs is simply the wrong answer, no matter how you approach the problem.
its astounding such stupidity can exist…this is beyond mere ignorance, and extends to spiritual darkness…evil…because the effects of these policies make people suffer and die.
the breakdown of the family that AFDC and the ‘war on poverty’ has caused, has made the crime rate skyrocket.
I hope this person gets the full ‘benefits’ of their hellish policies….