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Things to
consider on November 6
By Jana
Kolling
Note: This
is the most thorough, complete condemnation of the current
administration that
I believe I have ever seen. Editor
My friends, I have a lot to cover so I’ll try to keep this
concise. If you are an Obama supporter or undecided, you either
think he has done well or if re-elected may do well. Let’s first
review some stats from what he has done (with the first 2 years having
a Democratic majority in the House and Senate):
• Number of people on food stamps increases from 32 million to 47 million.
• 10 million more people on welfare.
• 1.5 million more people on SSI disability (a program set to go bankrupt in 2018).
• 8.6 million people have dropped out of the labor force.
• When he took office the unemployment rate was 7.6%, it’s now 7.8%.
• Our credit rating was downgraded for the first time since 1917.
• Obama added $5.5 trillion to the debt in 4 years (Bush added $5.04 trillion in 8 years).
• Debt as a percentage of GDP is 100% (Greece is 137%).
• We have 5 million fewer jobs than when the recession began.
• 1 out of 3 people get some sort of government check.
• Median annual income has dropped $3040 (double what it did during the “recovery”).
• Health Insurance premiums up by $2370 for the average family.
This is obviously a record of failure. But for those of you who
think that Obama inherited the worst economy ever, and we should just
be glad he avoided an all-out depression, let’s continue:
• When Bush took office January 2001 we had growth of
1.1% the previous 3 quarters. This recession did not begin in
2000 because the negative growth in Q3 2000, Q1 2001 and Q3 2001 were
not consecutive.
• Bush’s recession technically began in March (8 weeks after he took office). It lasted 8 months.
• The dot.com Nasdaq burst preceded this recession
the final year under Clinton, and after Bush’s first 8 months we had
the 911 attacks.
• Bush’s average overall GDP grew at 2.5%, Obama’s has been 1.46%.
• Even with his 1st term beginning with a recession
and ending with one, Bush’s average unemployment rate was 5.3%.
OK, now I know there are liberals who don’t care about the above (the
facts be damned) because they like the idea of “fairness and
equality”. Republicans only care about the wealthy, and the poor
are on their own. “We are our brother’s keeper” is their battle
cry, and therefore the rich should pay more. Obama’s central
message is to raise taxes on the rich, so let’s cover that one next:
• Allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire on those
making over $250,000 equals 2% of Americans. The revenue gained
from this tax increase equals roughly $70 billion per year, or 5.3% of
the yearly deficit.
• Obama adds roughly $1.3 trillion to the debt each
year. With the tax increase on the rich he wants so badly, he
would then be left with about a $1.2 trillion per year deficit.
We all know that mostly includes SSI, Medicare and Medicaid. How
much of these do you think he would cut? Me too.
Alright, as we continue to hear how badly Democrats want to raise taxes
on the rich let’s ask the $16 trillion dollar question. Obama
still had control of Congress in December of 2010 (lameduck), when he
extended the Bush tax cuts (OMG the liberals went nuts).
Why? Apparently he had an economist on his staff who told him the
dangers of raising taxes in a bad economy (yep, it’s in the
textbooks). Obama said the tax cuts would “create jobs and boost
the still-struggling economy”. By all stats the economy during
Obama’s recovery is worse than the recession, and he still wants to
raise taxes.
OK, speaking of tax rates, we all heard the liberal media and others
attack Romney. Bear with me while we put that one to bed also:
• Romney paid 13.9% taxes in 2010 and 14.1% in 2011
(sorry Harry Reid, he’s not wanted for tax evasion as you claimed)
• John Kerry, also a millionaire, paid 13.1% in 2003. Jimmy Carter paid 12% in 1976.
• When Kerry ran against Bush, does anyone remember
Chris Matthews, David Letterman or Jon Stewart ranting about Kerry’s
unpatriotic and shameful tax rate? Didn’t think so.
And another quick note on taxes (the centerpiece of Obama’s
campaign). In May of 2011, gas prices were high and yes we were
in the middle of a “recovery”. What else can the administration
do when they can’t fix anything, but haul the top oil executives into
Washington for a Congressional tongue-lashing? Let me set the
stage. CEOs from hugely successful companies producing a vital
commodity that we all need were being lambasted by politicians who
couldn’t operate a concession stand profitably. The charges
brought before them? They were following the tax code as written
by Congress. Yes, they were taking all lawful deductions
available (and suggested by accounting textbooks), nothing different
than other businesses, large or small, would do. If the Democrats
thought these deductions were so bad, again we ask the $16 trillion
dollar question. With 2 years of controlling Congress, why didn’t
they simply change the tax code?
Continuing the “brother’s keeper” discussion, let’s look at the idea of
giving. Again Republicans are thought to be cold-hearted, mean
and greedy. Consider this:
• Romney donated $4 million to charity in 2011, almost 30% of his income.
• The 8 states giving the highest percentage to charity in 2008 voted for McCain.
• The 7 states donating the lowest percentage to charity in 2008 voted for Obama.
• Obama donated less than 1% of their income from 2000 to 2004.
• Obama donated 5.9% in 2006, 2007 and 2009, and 6.5% in 2008.
• Joe Biden donated 1.5% in 2011 (wasn’t he the one screaming about patriotic giving?)
• John Kerry, the 2nd richest person in Washington, gave nothing in 1995 and 11% in 2008.
• Al Gore gave $353 to charity in 1998, and .2% in 2000.
• Ted Kennedy gave 1% when he ran for president in the 70’s.
Folks, don’t get caught up in the liberal lie that republicans don’t
care about the needy, the stats prove otherwise. The fact is,
liberals are generous as hell as long as it’s someone else’s
money. And far be it for any of them to admit that George Bush
was credited by the Washington Post for doing more for AIDS Relief than
anyone else in history. In 2003 his PEPFAR program provided less
than 50,000 HIV-infected people in Africa with treatment. When he
left office, nearly 2 million were receiving antiretroviral
drugs. But I digress.
Obama told us while running in 2008 that he wanted to “spread the
wealth”. This is a socialist system with government controls as a
means to redistribute money. How’s it working?
• In search of the perfect “fair” economy, generous
entitlements and high taxes are the desired combination. Note to
liberals, California is the poster child for this system and they just
had their 4th city declare bankruptcy.
• New York, a very liberal state, has even begun austerity measures to avoid bankruptcy.
• Red/Republican states have seen incomes rise 4.6%
since the recession began, while blue/Democratic states rose .5%.
OK, I saved the last argument for the hard-core liberals who will
support the Democrat ticket regardless because they just don’t like
this country or the capitalist system. You can tell who they are
because they hate Columbus Day and Thanksgiving, squirm on the 4th of
July, and had a mid-life epiphany that Christmas was actually the
winter solstice. They hold the constitution in contempt because
it was written by white, racist slave-owners, and will routinely cite
Germany as the model society. This evil, greedy nation has blood
on its hands, and uses a disproportionate amount of the earth’s
resources. A few stats to put this in perspective:
• The high estimate for early Indian-American deaths in the US is around 1 million.
• The estimated casualties attributed to the atomic
bombings in Japan are 200,000 (btw, a democrat president pulled the
trigger on that one).
• The number of deaths attributed to Nazi Germany is
potentially 20 million of the 40 million killed during WWII.
• The President of the Confederate States of America
(11 southern slave states) was Jefferson Davis, a democrat.
• Thomas Cobb, a southern democrat, was a founder of the Confederate States.
• President Lincoln, a republican, signed the
Emancipation Proclamation and promoted the 13th amendment to free the
slaves.
And so while we are addressing the issue of America, the supreme evil
nation under Bush, let’s talk about Obama’s attempt to “normalize”
relations with our enemies and present the US as a more tolerant and
loving country.
• Obama immediately changed the war on terror to
“Overseas Contingency Operations”. What the hell does that mean?
• Terror attacks will now be called “man-made disasters”. Like a 7-car pile-up?
• After elected, Obama told the French that we have “shown arrogance and been dismissive”.
• June 2009, Obama gives a speech in Egypt called “A
New Beginning”. Cairo was chosen because they represented the
heart of the Muslim world and a key player in the peace process.
• Cairo today is where a mob stormed the US Embassy chanting “We are all Usamas, Obama!”
• Obama cannot say for sure that Egypt is still an ally.
• Our Ambassador to Libya is dead.
• Mobs are storming embassies in Yemen, Kuwait and Tunisia, and Syria is in civil war and firing on Turkey.
• Suicide bombings increasing in Iraq.
• Iran is closer to a nuclear bomb.
Probably nothing exemplifies this president’s desire to convince
Muslims that we really have changed since the damaging, intolerant Bush
years was the Fort Hood massacre. To make up for years of
discriminatory practices, the Defense department decided that Arabic
people who presented a danger should be overlooked. Case and
point:
• Nidal Hasan, a US army major, had justified Muslim
suicide bombings and said that non-believers would be sent to hell,
decapitated and set on fire.
• Hasan sent 18 e-mails to al-Awlaki (the radical
cleric we killed by drone), and said that he couldn’t wait to join him
in the afterlife.
• Hasan had business cards initialed SOA (soldier of Allah).
• He was given poor reviews and described as “paranoid, belligerent and schizoid”.
• 3 days before he killed 13 people, he told
supervisors that soldiers returning from Iraq should be prosecuted.
• Before the killings he yells, “Allahu Akbar”, or Allah is Great.
• The San Diego joint terrorism task force told
Washington this guy was a threat. They noted that the Washington
office didn’t question Hasan because it was “politically sensitive”.
• The slaughter was labeled “workplace violence”
(like if I were to throw a jammed printer across the copy room).
Even though everyone knew Hasan was a ticking time bomb, we let it go
so as to not offend Muslims. And we just saw the same thing in
Libya, as the White House pulled out security in order to “normalize”
relations. Our ambassador had pleaded for help, even the day he
died, and we ignored it. Obama wanted so badly to believe that if
only we were nicer to Muslims they would like us more. After all,
it’s our fault they hate us anyway. Unbelievably, Obama and
Hillary apologized afterwards to Muslims for someone having made a
video that made them so mad they had to kill people. Let me
repeat that. We apologized to Muslims for them having killed our
ambassador. On a side note, a live film of the killings was
viewed by our government within 24 hours that proved otherwise.
No demonstrations about a film, this was al-Qaeda. So Obama did
what any great leader does in times of trouble, he sent a woman out to
take the fall. I have to wonder how the feminists felt watching
Hillary accept blame for an incompetent man’s mistakes.
Folks, I’m totally for our democratic system and trust that even though
voters sometimes screw up, we usually come back and fix it. For
those of you who know the last four years have been a train wreck,
thank you. And for those of you who think that this is the best
we can do? I’m astonished.
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