There has been a lot of talk about the unconstitutional method by which Congress is planning to pass the unconstitutional health care plan, and there has been a good bit of discussion about lawsuits, and sending this to the Supreme Court. President Obama and the leadership of Congress seem unperturbed by this and are determined to pass the legislation this weekend any way.
This got me to wondering: With Presidential and Congressional approval numbers in the basement, and threats of legal action on the horizon, why are the executive and legislative branches pushing for this thing that so many are opposed to? Aren’t they afraid of losing seats in the upcoming election? This is very unusual for election year politics, where Congress usually stays away from unpopular legislation in an election year.
Are they going to pass amnesty for illegals to get more voters? Probably not in time for the election.
Whatever happened to the “HOPE” boy? Teleprompt this: “You can’t stop this, OTP.” You’re gonna feel it when I vote, boy Cuz you gotta go, ya gotta go, yeah MOLOTOV CHORUS Fool me once, shame on me, shame on we United States of America Fool me twice? It’s not gonna happen, G One term president, OTP
VERSE 1 (MOLOTOV) Fool me once, it happens all the time! Public education made me dumb, man Barack Obama done beat me like a drum, man Thought I was votin for hope, I was votin for a bum, man I used to be a pie baker Look into my eyes, all you’ll see is pies I could make a french apple cobbler with a greyerre crust r-a-double u, fat girls are lovin dude That was then, nowadays find me on the corner with a Mac 10 I lost my job at the bakery, Obama faked me, so I turned criminal I’m sellin dr*gs at the terminal B. Hussein, baby where’s my job? Just words just speeches, ya weakless
OTP, angry mob reppin 2-0-1-2 Karma’s gonna get you
DJ DOLCE MELODY Whatever happened to the “HOPE” boy? Teleprompt this: “You can’t stop this, OTP.” You’re gonna feel it when I vote, boy Cuz you gotta go, ya gotta go, yeah MOLOTOV CHORUS Fool me once, shame on me, shame on we United States of America Fool me twice? It’s not gonna happen, G One term president, OTP
VERSE 2 (CONSTITUTION KATE)
Why am I still up in Iraq, man? Whats the holdup? I’m still duckin rounds in the sand, man. I’m sick of smellin like a mosque after Ramadan While you smellin like some prawns and filet mignon We on the battlefield, camouflage khakis and M4’s Blood, sweat and tears for Iraqi’s But then I look at you, sittin in the West Wing, won’t do anything but polish up ya Nobel Peace Prize You dropped charges for terrorists, (WHOA) You think ya Fergie, ya glamorous (WHOA) You roam the world to apologize, bowin to Saudis, investigatin G.I.’s But pretty soon, you gonna pay the piper and I don’t mean a sniper, My vote’s got a teflon coat Jeremiah Wright, say it for the troops: “ya chickeeeeennnnssss…comin home to roost”
DJ DOLCE MELODY Whatever happened to the “HOPE” boy? Teleprompt this: “You can’t stop this, OTP.” You’re gonna feel it when I vote, boy Cuz you gotta go, ya gotta go, yeah MOLOTOV CHORUS Fool me once, shame on me, shame on we United States of America Fool me twice? It’s not gonna happen, G One term president, OTP
VERSE 3 (THE MZA)
One term President? Naw, I’m not feelin that Hardcore birther here, let me make it clear fo ya Barack Hussein, he isn’t even president, we ain’t seen a BC He’s sealed up all the evidence OTP on my Camry, but I put a slash through the O He’s a zero term pansy Before Obama got elected, I was disrespected, all of my best predictions were rejected But now they all come to the MZA, I’m runnin five Tea Parties, flanked by these freedom fighter hotties I’m a right wing extremist, can I get a witness? You ain’t down if you ain’t on a watch LIST Socialist medicine, I told ya Spendin trillions on nothin, I told ya Payin for abortions round the world, I told ya Reppin OTP, even Angelina’s feelin me
DJ DOLCE MELODY Whatever happened to the “HOPE” boy? Teleprompt this: “You can’t stop this, OTP.” You’re gonna feel it when I vote, boy Cuz you gotta go, ya gotta go, yeah MOLOTOV CHORUS Fool me once, shame on me, shame on we United States of America Fool me twice? It’s not gonna happen, G One term president, OTP
March of 2010 brings us another milestone in the Obama Administration’s reign. Checking out the Government website, the public debt of the United States, this morning, you will see that we are in debt to the tune of $12.507 trillion as a nation. On January 20, 2009 when Obama took office, we were $10.626 trillion in debt. That means that this month the President will have officially borrowed two trillion dollars. All told, he has spent nearly $6 trillion.
That is right- it took this nation over 210 years to borrow two trillion dollars. Obama did it in only 25 months. He has spent more money than our first 39 presidents combined, and only GW Bush spent more, but give Obama some time, Bush took 8 years to spend $5 trillion, Obama can do it in 3.
To put that in perspective: Obama has spent nearly $11.5 million every minute that he has been president. For you visual people, here is a picture of $1 trillion worth of $100 bills (note the little guy in the lower left corner)
Two trillion dollars (in $100 bills) if laid flat on the ground would be enough to pave a road 244 feet wide that stretches from the Earth to the moon.
The stimulus that Obama pushed for and then signed into law was enough money to pay off half of EVERY MORTGAGE in the country. The $6 trillion dollars spent on his watch is enough to mail a check for nearly $20,000 to every man, woman, and child in this country.
In fact, it is mathematically impossible for this nation to pay off its debts, because the amount of the debt is more than the total of every dollar that exists. According to the Federal Reserve, the M2 money supply is currently $8.452 trillion.
How can you pay off a debt that is equal to a sum that represents more money than exists? The answer is, you can’t.
So where does that leave us with respect to Obama’s spending?
Pictures courtesy of http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html
An Orlando Sentinel article about setting captive whales free got me to thinking. Isn’t supporting an animal for its entire life, giving it everything it needs, destructive to the animal’s ability to hunt and survive on its own? The article itself says this:
Keiko preferred the company of people to other killer whales. He preferred a handout to catching his own food.
Isn’t the Welfare program the same thing? People who have spent their entire lives on the government dole have lost the ability to hunt. They have also lost their freedom, for in accepting the handout, you become dependent on the handout giver, as captive as any killer whale.
Is it any wonder that people, like animals in captivity, occasionally lash out and kill?
Looking at the GDP of the nation in 1980 (when Jimmy Carter left office), it was $2.725 trillion dollars, or if you want to adjust them to the year 2000 inflated dollars, $5.221 trillion. Government spending that year was $531 billion, ($1.017 trillion in 2000 dollars), or about one fifth of the economy.
In 2000, the year Clinton left office, the GDP was $9.629 trillion and Federal spending was $1.8 trillion (still about 1/5 of the economy).
In 2008, the GDP was $14.373 trillion ($13.366 in year 2000 dollars) and the FedGov budget was $2.9 trillion (still 1/5 of GDP).
Now look at what we spent in 2008, by turning to page 90: Social Security and Medicare is 37% of the budget, Social giveaway programs like Medicaid, welfare, and food stamps were 29% of the budget, and the stuff that the FedGov is actually supposed to be doing (provide for the common defense, yada, yada) was less than 25% of the total budget.
This means that we are pulling dead weight in our economy to the tune of $2 trillion a year, and it makes me wonder how long before the whole thing simply stops working.
When I was young, just got out of college, I had to buy auto insurance. I had a beat-up old car. And I won’t name the name of the insurance company, but there was a company — let’s call it Acme Insurance in Illinois. And I was paying my premiums every month. After about six months I got rear-ended and I called up Acme and said, I’d like to see if I can get my car repaired, and they laughed at me over the phone because really this was set up not to actually provide insurance; what it was set up was to meet the legal requirements. But it really wasn’t serious insurance.
Now, it’s one thing if you’ve got an old beat-up car that you can’t get fixed. It’s another thing if your kid is sick, or you’ve got breast cancer.
The president is an idiot. Since he had just gotten out of college, he was a lawyer. One would guess that any competent lawyer would know the difference between liability insurance and collision insurance. One would also assume that an attorney would know that being rear-ended means that the person doing the rear-ending is liable and should pay for repairs.
This quote, and his story, illustrates the problem with government mandated insurance- the companies will offer the minimum amount of coverage under the law, whether it is worth a crap or not, and many people who can’t afford the good coverage will buy that minimum coverage. Of course, the insurance the president really wants to mandate would not be able to refuse you for a preexisting condition, meaning that you will not have to buy insurance to fix your car until AFTER you have an accident. How anyone thinks the insurance companies will be able to stay in business under those conditions is beyond me.
I am still undecided as to whether any human being can be as stupid and naive as Obama is, or of this is a deliberate attempt to destroy the country.
I was sitting in a restaurant yesterday when I overheard the table next to me talking about the Chile earthquake. One of the women at the table said that it seems like lately there have been a lot more earthquakes than usual. The other responded that it is because the earth is mad that we are creating so much pollution, so it is trying to show its displeasure.
or the Eye in the Sky. Rockwell. Alan Parsons Project. Whatever.
They are watching you. So, since even a teen who sends a nude picture of herself to a boyfriend via her cell is considered under the law to be distributing child porn, and the boyfriend in possession of child porn, then someone needs to explain to me how the school officials are not going to jail.
Not only that, but isn’t this a violation of the Third AND Fourth amendment rights of the children and their parents?
What does this mean? The government paid $383 billion in interest on the debt in 2009. If rates were to rise to pre-recession rates at say 4.188% (the rate for September 2008) interest payments on the debt would rise to over $550 billion. Obama’s projected deficit of $1.5 trillion would balloon to $1.7 trillion, further increasing interest rates and the nation’s debt.
