WALKING EAGLE

BARACK OBAMA was invited to address a major gathering of the American Indian Nation in upstate New York . He spoke for almost an hour about his plans for increasing every Native American’s present standard of living. He referred to his time as a U.S. Senator and how he had voted for every Native American issue that came to the floor of the Senate. Although President Obama was vague about the details of his plans, he seemed most enthusiastic and spoke eloquently about his ideas for helping his “red sisters and brothers.” At the conclusion of his speech, the Tribes presented Obama with a plaque inscribed with his new Indian name, “Walking Eagle.”   The LIAR-IN-CHIEF then departed in his motorcade to a fundraiser, waving to the crowds. A news reporter later asked the group of chiefs how they came to select the new name they had given to the President. They explained that “Walking Eagle” is the name given to a bird so full of shit it can no longer fly. .

Liar-in-Chief Promotes His Economic Fantasy...

...while the reality of his efforts is killing the country.   WHAT A TWO-FACED HYPOCRITE!

Obama is pro-growth (of government)
Examiner Editorial
July 11, 2010

President Obama and his top officials embarked on a public relations blitz last past week evidently designed to portray him as "pro growth." All such political PR pushes tend to bear tenuous relationships with reality, but in this case the gulf between the truth and what the politicians are saying is about as wide as the Grand Canyon. Say what he will, Obama's actions since his first day in office have made clear that his business is growing government. On all three basic measures of the size of government -- work force, spending, and taxes -- Obama has stimulated tremendous growth.

Take employment. In the private sector, unemployment stays stubbornly near 10 percent. Obama promised his $859 billion stimulus program would keep private sector unemployment below 8 percent, but his failure to reverse the direction of the economy on this score has been so dismal that he is now left to plead with audiences to remember that "it could be 12, 13 or even 15 percent." The president might as well have conjectured a 20, 22 or 25 percent unemployment rate; it would still just be conjecture. What is real is that, while the jobless rate rises or falls slightly from week to week, there are 7.9 million fewer working Americans today than there were in December 2007.

The story for public sector employment, however, is quite the opposite. At 4.4 percent, the unemployment rate among government workers is almost exactly half that of the private sector. But the insulation of government workers from the market realities that private sector workers face is far from the whole story. The federal work force is expanding, not contracting, thanks to Obama initiatives like a health care program that adds 16,000 new Internal Revenue Service enforcers to ensure compliance with the individual mandate. Between December 2008 and December 2009, the federal government added nearly 100,000 new positions.

And being a government worker in the Obama era can be quite lucrative, too. According to data obtained by the Asbury Park Press via a Freedom of Information Act request, last year, 1.3 million federal employees received bonuses totaling $408 million, up $80 million over 2008. Complete data for the remaining federal workers was not available, but in 2008, the Department of Defense gave $92 million in bonuses to its 687,000 civilian employees. On the salary side, the average annual federal salary is now just under $120,000, compared with $59,909 for the private sector, according to the Census Bureau of Economic Analysis. It is cold comfort to millions of unemployed Americans to hear Obama say he is pro-growth.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Obama-is-pro-growth-_of-government_-98138724.html#ixzz0tfRlsFrW
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Which failed more, capitalism or government?

 Aside from the humorous content of this article, this is a very serious look at the outrageous bureaucracy that we, the U.S. Taxpayers, are shelling out for every April 15th!    OBAMA, UNIONS, LOBBYISTS, REGULATIONS....these are all words that disgust me in context with this corrupt and ineffectual gang of Democratic whores in D.C. now.

Which failed more, capitalism or government?

from Ronald Hart - Columns and News

June 10, 2010  

The inevitable pictures of pelicans covered in oil finally surfaced, solidifying this oil spill as the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. We have not seen this many pictures of unintelligent animals covered in oil since the first season of "Jersey Shore."

Now we ask the bigger question: Which failed us more, capitalism or government?

Since they are partners in this crime against nature, it is hard to say. The Minerals Management Service (I always love the way government attaches the word "service" to agencies like the Postal Service and Internal Revenue Service; it just shows they have a sense of humor) siphons $10 billion a year from oil companies that drill. This is not counting the roughly 30 percent tax per gallon at the pump. This cut, or "partnership," is supposedly for the MMS's fine safety oversight – much like the pimp gets paid to regulate his sub-contractors.

All I know is that, so far, the only solutions to this problem have come from the private sector. While they have not yet been successful, it shows that our government has no better ideas to offer. "Top Hat," "Junk Shot" and "Top Kill" sound like rejected titles of Bruce Willis movies. When BP says it's going to try all these crazy ideas, the Obama administration basically says, "Ok, anything you try is still better than anything we've got."

All Obama knows how to do is give a speech, tax his political adversaries and threaten more regulation – otherwise he really has nothing. Even his speeches have waned; at this rate, he may have to lay off three teleprompters.

Does anyone find it curious that the areas of business we have the most problems with are the ones most "regulated"? The financial sector, banks, health care, automobile manufacturing – and now energy – fall into this category. "Regulated" in America just means you have to hire more lobbyists and pay more politicians to protect you – from the government.

It seems we never have any issues with the truly free enterprise sectors of our economy, represented by Wal-Mart, Coca Cola, Caterpillar, FedEx, Google, Intel, Starbucks, Proctor & Gamble, Taco Bell and Apple. Hmmm – I wonder if there is a reason for that?

When an industry is forced into bed with the government over regulation, they come out as slimy as those birds in the Gulf now. The result is that the customer and society are forgotten in favor of "pay-to-play" politics and the buying of political cover for anything that might go wrong.

BP gave the most money to Obama. Ditto for Goldman Sachs. And, in fairness to Obama, if the Republicans had not lost power for becoming Democrats, BP and Goldman Sachs would be their largest contributors. These folks have no political ideology. They are just buying indulgent politicians, which is their best use of capital expenditure dollars when they are that heavily regulated.

BP had 97 percent of all flagrant violations found in the oil business by government safety inspectors, including 759 citations for "egregious, willful" violations, compared to only eight for the two companies tied for second. So BP was clearly spending their money on politicians, not safety.

If you buy Obama's stern speeches threatening the very businesses that donate heavily to him, then you believe that WWF wrestler who makes bravado based predictions about the demise of his opponent before their "wrestling" match. In reality, they go out for drinks afterwards and laugh at us for believing them.

BP has and will pay for this. And they should. At least when a business pays for its mistakes it does it with earnings, not like the federal government that does it by borrowing money that future generations will have to pay back. I am sure Obama will make BP pay money on this, probably to the thug SEIU or unions in Detroit so hurt by Gulf of Mexico spill.

What Obama fails to realize that his constant blame game is wearing thin. Events continue to unmask the fact that government does not have real answers.

Blame is not a solution Mr. President. "Plug the damn hole," are words, not a fix. You need to understand the difference between rhetoric and competence.

Sadly, at the end of the day, you and your beloved government had fewer resources and ideas to plug this oil leak than a company that attempted to put a "top hat" on it and considered shooting old tires and golf balls at it. That says it all.
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