Jen Kuznicki
Byron York’s article in the Washington Examiner is great! He listened to an Obama speech and typed it up so I don’t have to.
Like most of America, I’m getting pretty sick and damn tired of hearing Obama speak.
In “Entering stretch, Obama campaign running on empty,” York includes Obama’s five-point plan for his second four years.
I wouldn’t say it’s a lot like the first four years, I’d say it’s an application of theory that they tried to implement but were rejected by nature or the common sense of the American people.
“I will not be satisfied until everybody who wants to work hard can find a job,” the president told the crowd. To make that happen, he promised to do five things.
Headline: President unsatisfied with first term, wants a mulligan.
First, he would “send fewer jobs overseas [and] sell more products overseas.” He proposed to “reward companies that are investing right here” in order to “create good jobs and provide security for the middle class.”
How many fewer? Five? Ten? 165? How many more? 35? 115? I can hear the manufacturers in their shops now, “hey, if we make products and sell them overseas, Mr. Obama promises to reward us, Oh, Happy Day!” How does a President do any of this? He doesn’t, he hasn’t, he can’t.
Second, he would “control more of our own energy and how we use energy” by “investing in the energy sources of tomorrow.” This will not only make America more energy-independent, Obama said, but will also help stop global warming, which leads to “droughts and floods and fires.”
He didn’t say produce more energy, he said control it. That means, “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.”
Has the American resistance to cap and trade legislation and anger toward the EPA for implementing it without congressional oversight gone away? No. Have children warmly embraced the First Lady’s attempt to make them thinner by restricting their food intake at schools? No. How’s that Chevy Volt workin’ for ya?
Third, the president would create “the best education system in the world right here in the United States.” He proposed to hire new math and science teachers and provide job training in community colleges. He also said he’ll “work with colleges and universities to keep tuition low.”
I’ve heard this before, almost verbatim from four years ago. You should click that link, because just reviewing it now, I had forgotten how Obama had pushed so hard the ‘march as one’ social and economic justice, community commune crap. And here we are, still deficient on math and science teachers. By the way, four years ago, Mr. Obama wasn’t “working with colleges to keep tuition low,” he was promising free college. oops.
Fourth, Obama would “cut the deficit by $4 trillion over the next 10 years.” He has already “cut spending that we didn’t need,” he said, and will do more in the future, but vowed not to cut any funds in areas like education and research.
Oh, please. This isn’t funny.
Fifth, Obama would raise taxes on higher-income Americans. “We can’t get this done unless we also ask the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on their incomes above $250,000,” Obama said. “That’s how you do it.”
The whole Obama agenda for the next four years hinges on raising taxes.
And that’s it. “That’s my agenda for change,” Obama told the crowd. “That’s what we need to do. … That’s why I’m running for a second term.” The president offered no specifics on how he would accomplish any of it.
Because it’s all leftist theory on how to control the public.
It’s awful depressing to realize that if he gets a second term, high energy prices, low enthusiasm for America and repression is the new normal.
Obama never talks about the goodness of the individual, or the freedom to follow your own dreams and your own passion. He doesn’t say these things because he doesn’t believe in the individual American citizen. He wants to put us into groups, divided by class, color, sex, it’s very discriminatory. What we need is a color-blind president, someone who does not see my outward appearance and think that I think a certain way.
We need a president who believes in our ability as Americans to overcome hardship, not one who promises more of the hardship we are enduring.
Obama’s five-point plan is a promise of misery, control, and more division.
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You know how to improve the prospect for more American domestic jobs? Not by using American tax dollars to subsidize them; not by punishing them either. Stop taxing and regulating our people and then a stable government will become a magnate for international investment which will hurriedly relocate to America just the way corporations once did in Ireland.
Furthermore, I have never seen an energy policy as dumb as what we are currently advocating. When you release available American energy, when you open it up you not only make it cheaper domestically, thereby strengthening American purchasing power by lowering manufacturing costs and their respective retail produce but you improve exports the same way. Our dollar goes further and it becomes stronger; not only do our businesses do better but international businesses will relocate smack into the middle of the good old USA to produce goods and wares as well. That means jobs and associated prosperity. Most of all it has alternative benefits, explained below which may be the most significant of all.
We will be able to retain some energy for domestic use, by creating contracts requiring that some American energy not be exported, thereby lowering domestic energy costs. This could be meagerly subsidized far less than the subsidized cost of ethanol production because it has a basis in security beyond even energy independence. Doing so, along with increasing international supplies by a mere 3-5%, will cause international cartels to crack and succumb to competition that will instantly lower energy costs worldwide. The price of oil will be driven down by quick to respond speculators which works to the betterment of our foreign policy. America becomes richer and Iran becomes poorer so that sanctions along with falling oil prices curtails their efforts to enrich uranium to a virtual standstill. In other words forgoing green for conventional BTU rich oil has the effect of preventing Iran from bartering any future oil contracts for the necessary centrifuge enrichment technology to produce any near future fissionable uranium. This is as simply as it gets and yet seems to remain completely outside the grasp of any western policy.
And we do not now need any additionally educated electorate (except to vote). How many college grads are standing around with degrees that are not being hired? We need employers and the only reason they don't exist or are not hiring is because our government feels that it is their job to interfere with your life, your liberty and your pursuit of happiness so that business, which used to be the business of America either leave the country or go on strike. When our government shuts down businesses will open their doors and eventually the market will determine just the type of education our employees will pursue for the jobs that will become available. That is how a free market works.
And you cut the deficit by cutting spending; not increasing it. The only spending that is really necessary is by the private sector where real wealth is created as opposed to the government where its' production is inhibited if not outright destroyed.
The job of government is not increasing taxes on the wealty in order to exercise some type of social justice. The job of government is to protect the property of the poor man the same way it must protect the property of the wealthy man. That is the true meaning of equality under the law. To do otherwise is contrary to our Declaration and Constitution. It is contrary to the rights of man and is exactly what the Declaration meant when it stated "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government…". Hopefully this is what our current election will achieve.
So Barry officially has a 5 point plan for the next 4 years. The template for this plan must have been the idiotic "Cinco (5) de Quatro (4)" comment that Mr. Soetoro proclaimed in celebration of "Cinco de Mayo," in '09.