Obama: We Need to Get a Handle on Long Term Debt So We Can Pay for Jobs Programs Now
**Written by Doug Powers
The Obama administration is fully aware that the unemployment rate needs to drop if the president is to have any hope of re-election, so brace for more artificial measures to push down unemployment (besides increasing food stamp usage and extending jobless benefits). What will Obama propose? Mobilizing for a space alien attack? Possibly. But most likely, should the president’s spoken “plan” ever make its way to paper, more “stimulus” could be in America’s near future:
As he prepares to give a major speech with fresh ideas to jump-start the economy, President Obama told a Kansas City television station Tuesday that he wants to rein in the deficit in the long term in order to spend on jobs programs “here and now.”
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“I think that we’ve got to take a longer term view — how do we deal with our deficit and debt in a long-term way? If we get that under control, we can actually pay for some additional job programs in the here and now,” Obama told FOX 4 in Kansas City. “It’s that kind of combination that I want to be able to present to Congress when they come home.”
John Boehner’s Press Secretary responded to the “another plan delivered via speech” approach (h/t HAP):

The CBO has said they can’t score speeches — so naturally another speech it is!
In other “Jobs Tour” news, the bus itself has helped create jobs. Well, in Canada, but it’s a start:
WASHINGTON — President Obama is barnstorming the heartland to boost US jobs in a taxpayer-financed luxury bus the government had custom built — in Canada, The Post has learned.
The $1.1 million vehicle, one of two that Quebec-based Prevost sold the government, has been tricked out by the Secret Service with state-of-the-art security features and creature comforts.
At least the Canadian buses would explain the recent appearance of all the hockey sticks.
Also, a couple of days ago, President Obama told the auto industry, “You can’t just make money on SUVs and trucks.”
Judging from his Midwest motorcade, you certainly can if you sell to the administration’s Motorcade Czar:
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They were going to include a Volt in the motorcade for “green” promotional purposes, but TOTUS refused to share its extension cord. That’s probably for the best anyway, because this guy was scheduled to drive.
**Written by Doug Powers
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Oh great – The Beavermobile.
GPS: “Your re-election campaign is going off a cliff – recalculating.”
I think that was less an observation and more like an admonition, threat or order.
In other words, “I’m telling you, you must make the vehicles I demand you make, not just SUVs and Trucks, even if you make money on them.”
Redistrubition of resources in vehicle manufacturing Obama style.
‘BamasHOserBus, eh?
Caution: The following link contains dark sardonic humor…
How Barrack Obama could win in 2012
did anybody notice the empty pallets behind chairman obama during his propaganda session today? when business is good they are loaded up with products to be shipped all over to waiting customers. but a perfect backdrop for obama is that there were piles of empty pallets just sitting there, perfect backdrop.
Obama: “Anything on the Wagyu detector yet?”
Secret Service: “No beef anywhere but the bullsh$t detector is off the charts.”
GADS, will this ever stop? Well, with the help of God maybe 2012 it will stop.
There is zero reason for bho to get his face on the tube to give us his ‘earth shattering’ ideas on saving our nation! EVER single word has been said every time bho opens his lying mouth! I could go into what will be said, but most here have read or heard it since bho was elected.
Oh well, many here are all bent out of shape there is not a ‘Perfect’ person running now. Well, people, there was One perfect Person and He hasn’t been around for over 2000 years!
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“Save money on someone else’s watch…I need to buy my votes NOW!”
Secret Service: “I’m sorry Mr President – the million dollar TV only seems to get soccer – Kenya vs. Indonesia. I think it’s broken.
Obama: “No, no, it’s working perfectly.”
More like ‘earth numbing’, I tell ya.
TOTUS wouldn`t share his extension cord ? Now that`s just stingy !
Brendan_Buck: “…No podium required. …”
Won`t need TOTUS either. TOTUS is gonna be p*$$ed !
And the chart showing the deficits tripled since Bush…..lovin` it !
It looked to me there were more MN State Troopers than well-wishers and only the Tea Partiers had flags. Why no American Flags on any of the caravan vehicles ?
Obama: “Ok everybody – sing with me! ‘If I had a hammer and a sickle, I’d hammer and sickle in the mo-or-ning, I’d hammer and sickle – all over this land!”
Easy. Its our flag, not his.
Hey, if your job was escorting the Marxist around on his “Check out my Commie Red Beavermobile Re-election Palooza Tour”, you be drunk too.
Everything wrong with politics today is caught right here in this quote. Washington DC is NOT their home. They should be working citizens…representing other working citizens. Never was it intended for there to be career politicians. These people should have to come back out and live with and face the people they are screwing!
Wimpy Obama says: “I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a jobs program today.”
Buy Now Pay Later is the Democrat mantra that has gotten us into this mess in the first place. Doing the same thing is not going to get us out.
I’m convinced DC was purposely built on a swamp, just to make staying there so miserable, CONgress would work fast to get its job done so it could end its sessions quickly while inhaling as little swampgas as possible and go home.
People complain he doesn’t have a plan, but I don’t want to see BHO’s plan. They seem to have a way of making things worse.
FIFY
Making things worse for ordinary, patriotic, taxpaying, working Americans is BHO’s plan.
Is that big, ol’, honkin’ bus a hybrid? If not, then my big, ol’, honkin Silverado burns less fuel in a month than that bus burns in just his 3-day tour.
Instead of his making another speech about job-creation, have the news organizations assemble all the sound bites of every other time he claimed that he is laser-focused on job-creation. TOTUS deserves a vacation, too. (Although I fear he’s taser-focused on job creation – zap!)
This is disturbing.
I can see Obummer ramping up hiring for government jobs just so he can point to the jobs numbers… like he did with the Census workers. He could re-constitute the WPA and put people to work building park pavilions.
What, more unemployment benefits? Food stamps?
Have you noticed that when bho gets his face on the tube during the day, most times the stock market turns to a down mode? Lets see how it does when bho and family are on their numerous vacations starting tomorrow.
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also, did anybody notice the difference between obama’s funeral vehicle to sarah’s flag draped bus?
Doug Powers said:
Those are some… charts you got there Dougster! God love Grag Mankiw btw, nice work exposing The Mess Obama Made. Yeah sorry dude, no more jobs ‘programs’ for you!
(Racism alert) Wasn’t Trini Lopez an illegal?
Greg Mankiw btw.
Obowmao: Food stamps are “Stimulus” , but we need more! Lottery tickets! Yeah, that’s the ticket! Lottery tickets!
So at the end of the “commie midwest bus tour”, we’re going to get the “haven’t a clue just hire somebody” jobs plan followed by the “we’ll solve the debt by draining the paycheck” plan. And the moron of the month goes to …….. the next person I see with a bho 2012 bumpersticker!
Didn’t Obowmao pick Vancouver for the Stanley Cup? Yeah Boston Broons!
THIS
I don’t know, but Peter, Paul and Mary weren’t.
Let’s see..
Long term debt plan = Raise Taxes!
Jobs program = Spend those taxes on expanding AmeriCorps!
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Those don’t look like hockey sticks as much as they look like rocket launches. Straight up (or down).
Huh, I didn’t know Peter Paul and Mary did a cover of it a year before Trini. I only remember the Trini Lopez cover. It reached #3 in the US.
Spock did one also.
You won’t believe this survey in PDX.
This is an AFLAC duck moment, but expected.
Sure:
Obama – Anti-American.
Palin – All-American.
Hope they have AAA in case they run out of gas or get a flat
jrgdds,
Wow, 45% UN-fave Rating in Portland!? Better watch it Barky. You’re no longer safe behind the Firewall.
And look at all those Undecideds. If split down the middle, it looks like he couldn’t even bank on Ol’ Reliable BS OR.
If it continually gets worse, the Dems could throw Barky under his own bus….literally.
This may be what the blacks might be up against, their own in dc?
http://nation.foxnews.com/congressional-black-caucus/2011/08/17/anti-obama-outrage-erupts-congressional-black-caucus-when-you-unleash-us-we-re-ready
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So true. Nice catch.
It’s not their money either.
That’s the problem. TOO many think it is.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but did The Won fly Air force one to the bus depot and then travel from there, then fly onto Marthas Vineyard from the last stop? He didn’t actually ride the bus all the way from D.C. did he?
The evil, white, racist half of Barack Insane Obama has taken over. he prefers to vacation on the segregated, white, rich island of Marthas Vineyard.
He should be taxed.
Too many flags, small businesses, homes, farms and patriotic Americans between Iowa and DC for him to stomach that trip.
As usual, he tells us what he intends to do in September, when it should have been done last September. Actually, he’ll tell us in September 2011, that he expects the Republicans to work with Democrats to get something done that he can sign by mid 2012. It would be nice if he would at least tell the Democrats to work with the Republicans for a change. In any event, he will continue to campaign and watch the gridlock continue so he can blame Republicans in October 2012.
hawkeye54 said:
What’s worse is once you get outside of Portland Metro, Barky’s numbers -really- start to fall off. If this is how voters feel in PDX I’d love to see similar surveys in Eugene and Corvallis.
bho’s problem is that utopia costs too much.
…has tires that can handle the shock when OweBowMao throws his flunkies under the bus.
It’s too bad Khrushchev is dead – the two of them would have a great time riding around Iowa.
He is shallow and predictable. I can gaurantee %100 that his “plan” in September will contain no real negotiable solutions. It will merely be another instrument to attack his opponents and deflect to straw men for the next few months.
I guarantee it. Obamas’ September plan will be nothing but empty rhetoric.
Iowa is better off without hi-glam rock stars toolin’ around the state.
Really, that’s all he has. Arouse and inflame the rabble. That’s about all you get out of a community organizer.
We need to starting counting the number of times he has repackaged the same speech.
New blanket each day on the same lame mule.
He’s made it so often, by now he should be able to drone on blindfolded with TOTUS tied behind his back.
It’s official, BHO is taking financial advice from Marion Barry.
I was thinking it is about time he rolls out his proposal for his civilian protection force that is armed as well as the military. He can use all the recent flash mobs and the union thugery as justification and can claim it will instantly create x number of jobs.
Admit it. Your going out on a limb a bit. Aren’t you?
On August 17th, 2011 at 4:16 pm, Truesoldier said:
Anyone else notice how they worded question 5?
To the uniformed they might actually think that Obama served in the military.
It’ll probably be armed better than the military.
That is what I meant to say.
Not yet, he is still trying to gain support to replace the M4 with a NERF gun, but so far no luck.
I’m hoping to land a gig as a lamestream media commentator with this bold and amazingly accurate prediction.
Have you noticed the MSM, even local TV stations will refer to Obama, even if the story is about non-military issues as “The Commander in Chief.”
That is blatantly being orchestrated by the Left.
You didn’t say that when you were sitting on the ground with that bottle of MD20-20 in your hand at Wadena in 1970.
But not as well armed as us.
Well, he is “The Man Who Shot Osama Bin Laden”, after all. I hear a movie’s being made about it, signing Robert Downey Jr. to portray our heroic president.
I think it’s already been made, with Johnny Depp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHm5-av1Uks
Obama’s idea of economy is to borrow so much and spend so much now that his phony predictions of how good it will be in the future when all the new “jobs” are producing income tax revenue will pay down the deficit then. Exactly how stupid does this man think we are? Don’t answer that. It’s obvious.
Perfect!
Well, it’s obvious he’s annoyed that not nearly enough of us recognize or appreciate his awesomeness.
Thats one reason he has to keep scolding us in speeches on TV to remind us.
Not only use them for justification; those are his troops.
Pretty much…..and just getting warmed up.
That’s what I was thinking.
Notice how D’Obama and the Justice Department are silent on both flash mobs and union thugs.
They’re too busy putting out propaganda that Tea Partiers are terrorists. We truly are living in Orwellian Times.
I defy you, Big Brother.
I think there are some shovel ready jobs available now.
A shovel job to clean up all the b.s. left behind by this bus tour. The trail leads to D.C.
Thanks for that. Now I’m cleaning off my keyboard and monitor.
I doubt he would play Obama, surprising enough he is a Republican.
LOL
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For me it was Annie Green Springs “Plum Hollow”. Yep, nuthin` but the best, I`m sayin` !
Kirk Lazarus: I know who I am. I’m the dude playin’ the dude, disguised as another dude!
As I understand it, TOTUS is being fitted with BDUs and full web-gear as we speak.
Kirk Lazarus: Well to the man’s credit, he has eased up on the retard throttle.
One night in college, we all overindulged in Boone’s Farm Tickled Pink…or as we dubbed it – “Tinkle Pink”. Never drank a cheap wine again…ever.
Thirty-four years later, it still brings forth a shudder.
Think: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance song by Gene Pitney (tells you somewhat how old I really am):
Everyone heard two shots ring out, a shot made
LibertyOSAMA fallThe man who shot
Liberty Valance,OBL, he shotLiberty ValanceOBL. He was the bravest of them all.Stupid enough to not stop him from assuming an office which the Constitution says he is ineligible for.
Native born is not natural born.
Why is he using someone elses Social Security number?
Who Is Barry Soetoro?
This is how Obama can create 2 million jobs SERIOUSLY FAST.
Obama:
“Effective today, I am resigning the office of the President of the United States.”
Biden:
“Effective today, I am resigning the office of the Vice President of the United States.”
’nuff said.
Well, maybe if played as biting satire.
yeah T-Bone, whenever the circus rolls through my town, they have a sweeping/shoveling crew following the main donkey to pick up all the crap he disgorges. Shovel ready democrat jobs, for Maxine Waters caucus.