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 #8 The Border Fence is CompleteWhen BO said this in 2011, just 36.3 miles (5%) of the 700 mile double-layer fence that Congress had approved in 2006 had been built. And, just 4.3 miles of the double-layer security barrier had been built since he took office. He has since halted work on the physical and the virtual border fence. Despite sending 1,200 unarmed National Guard troops to the border to help with intelligence and reconnaissance, he has done nothing else to protect our borders, stop incursions, and catch terrorists. (Janet Napolitano admits that terrorists are crossing our border "from time to time"). And, of course, we all know that BO has filed a lawsuit against Arizona for trying to do his job. When Iran gets the nuke and it walks across the border into the USA, remember his lack of courage here, in these days. |
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Sure soft, but There's also the matter of our now 1+ trillion annual accumulated interest debt- increase-motor. |
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and yet www.realclearpolitics.com |
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right on zorro! |
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jan What is certain, whether Bush's last budget was "only" $465B or $1 + Trillion is that the Obama budget spending deficits have averaged $1.3 TRILLION for going on 4 years now. And, the Democrat controlled Senate has NOT produced even one budget, so the BO administration is trying to run the largest economy in the world without any budgeting process. Hello... does anybody see how ludicrous this is? We have the world's largest economy being run by somebody who has never even taken an accounting class, has never worked in a grocery story, never has run any business, and never taken an economics class, has never paid anybody with a payroll check. He can't even name the seven generic basic business accounting functions. Can you? |
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mo-oneandmore 09-Aug-12, 04:38 |
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The 2008 defect was 1+ tril and I doubt that Romney ever worked at a grocery store either. The Democs haven't produced a budget, but they haven't gotten much help from the Repus either. There's no doubt that this country is approaching a massive financial crises for many reasons, including poor revenue, inefficiency, excessive debt, insufficient revenue to cover expenses, and a demonstrated willingness of Congress to simply lay around and watch it happen. And: Let's not forget that big business has had their big dirty hands in just about all of this countries financial woes. |
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jan He obviously doesn't know about accounting (same for most government officials) as he has had unbalanced books for over three years now at about $1.3 TRILLION per year and had grown the national debt to almost $16 TRILLION. I agree that Republicans have fought BO tooth and Nail on most of his agenda, but in the fiscal area, they have been most helpful passing several budgets. It is the Democrats in the Senate that will not even debate budgets, let along pass one. BO has not yet signed an official budget passed by Congress. Does that sound like fiscal responsibility and leadership? |
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#9 Green Jobs The Obama administration has spent $90 billion in an attempt to generate "green" jobs. It hasn't worked. According to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, we have received "little return". There was a $500 million stimulus grant program to "train and prepare individuals for careers in green jobs", but that has so far led to no economic benefit. After training 53,000 of the allotted 125,000 workers called for in the grant, just 8,035 had found jobs and only 1,033 were still working after six months. The IG report recommended the remaining unspent money be returned to the treasury. And, of course, we know how several of the loan guarantee programs fared... the friends of BO got loan guarantees for the investments and the taxpayer gets screwed. Several companies have gone bankrupt to nearly $1 billion dollars and thousands of jobs have been lost. The New York Times said "Federal and state efforts to stimulate creation of green jobs have largely failed....". |
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#10 "Five Day Public Review" This was the first pledge to be broken, in the first nine days. In his first year in office only six of 124 bills Obama signed into law were posted on the White House website for a five day review. The American Recovery Act was kept out of view before passage, while written behind closed doors by Democrats, and approved and signed by the President without any Republican support or input into the process. A five day review would not have changed the outcome but it would have shed light for the public on the last-minute add-ons such as an amendment giving AIG executives a honey-pot of bonuses worth millions. The CATO Institute reports that after three years just 247 of 478 bills signed by the President were put up on the White House website for a five day review. That is 52.4%. It seems the put up for review those bills that are not controversial but omit those that might get a dissent. |
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#11 Health Care Talks on C-Span And, in January 2008, BO said: "That's what I will do in bringing all parties together, not negotiating behind closed doors, but bringing all parties together, and broadcasting those negotiations on C-Span so that the American people can see what the choices are....". Well, as we all know, that never took place. Obamacare was written behind closed doors, with no Republican input. It was sprung on the Congress with little warning and was passed with no Republican support. At first, it was going to simply be "deemed" passed, not even voted upon. Then after the "Cornhusker Kickback" and the "Louisiana Purchase" bribes, it had enough votes to pass, I believe on Christmas Eve. |
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Niall Ferguson: Obama’s Gotta Go Despite having been—full disclosure—an adviser to John McCain, I acknowledged his opponent's remarkable qualities: his soaring oratory, his cool, hard-to-ruffle temperament, and his near faultless campaign organization. Yet the question confronting the country nearly four years later is not who was the better candidate four years ago. It is whether the winner has delivered on his promises. And the sad truth is that he has not. In his inaugural address, Obama promised "not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth." He promised to "build the roads and bridges, the electric grids, and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together." He promised to "restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost." And he promised to "transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age." Unfortunately the president's scorecard on every single one of those bold pledges is pitiful. In an unguarded moment earlier this year, the president commented that the private sector of the economy was "doing fine." Certainly, the stock market is well up (by 74 percent) relative to the close on Inauguration Day 2009. But the total number of private-sector jobs is still 4.3 million below the January 2008 peak. Meanwhile, since 2008, a staggering 3.6 million Americans have been added to Social Security's disability insurance program. This is one of many ways unemployment is being concealed. In his fiscal year 2010 budget—the first he presented—the president envisaged growth of 3.2 percent in 2010, 4.0 percent in 2011, 4.6 percent in 2012. The actual numbers were 2.4 percent in 2010 and 1.8 percent in 2011; few forecasters now expect it to be much above 2.3 percent this year. Unemployment was supposed to be 6 percent by now. It has averaged 8.2 percent this year so far. Meanwhile real median annual household income has dropped more than 5 percent since June 2009. Nearly 110 million individuals received a welfare benefit in 2011, mostly Medicaid or food stamps. Welcome to Obama's America: nearly half the population is not represented on a taxable return—almost exactly the same proportion that lives in a household where at least one member receives some type of government benefit. We are becoming the 50–50 nation—half of us paying the taxes, the other half receiving the benefits. www.thedailybeast.com |
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#12 Earmark Reform BO pledged to return "earmarks to less than $7.8 billion per year", the level they were at before 1994. Taxpayers for Common Sense reports that Obama approved 9,499 earmarks costing $15.9 Billion in 2010. The $787 Billion Stimulus Bill had numerous earmarks. His commitment to not spending money unwisely is laughable. Boondoggles, graft, corruption, government gone wild parties and conventions, backroom deals, bribes and payoffs make this one of the most corrupt and most inept administrations in history. |
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