Missing the Point: Obama to Propose New Spending Initiatives
by PubliusFrom the Wall Street Journal:
President Barack Obama will call for new government spending on infrastructure, education and research in his State of the Union address Tuesday, sharpening his response to Republicans in Congress who are demanding deep budget cuts, people familiar with the speech said.
Mr. Obama will argue that the U.S., even while trying to reduce its budget deficit, must make targeted investments to foster job growth and boost U.S. competitiveness in the world economy. The new spending could include initiatives aimed at building the renewable-energy sector—which received billions of dollars in stimulus funding—and rebuilding roads to improve transportation, people familiar with the matter said. Money to restructure the No Child Left Behind law’s testing mandates and institute more competitive grants also could be included.
While proposing new spending, Mr. Obama also will lay out significant budget cuts elsewhere, people familiar with the plans say, though they will likely fall short of what Republican lawmakers have requested.
In arguing that U.S. competitiveness is at stake, Mr. Obama plans to use his nationally televised speech to try to frame the spending debate with Republicans that is expected to dominate Congress in the coming months. “We seek to do everything we can to spur hiring and ensure our nation can compete with anybody on the planet,” Mr. Obama said Friday after touring a General Electric Co. plant in Schenectady, N.Y. He cited clean-energy manufacturing, infrastructure and education as keys to competitiveness.
Previewing the expected theme of his speech, Mr. Obama on Friday appointed GE Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt to lead a new President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.
Commenting on the new advisory panel, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) said that unless its “first recommendations are to reverse the damage the policies of the last two years have done to the business climate, job creation and the exploding national debt, I fear it will do more to create good public relations for the White House than good jobs for struggling Americans.”
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This President only knows three things. How to campaign, spend money, and make judgement calls before he has all of the information!
United we stand, divided we fall.
Aesop
Greek slave & fable author (620 BC – 560 BC)
Cut spending. This is just another ploy to buy votes in 2012. Tell me again how this dud cares about America. I don't buy off on his BS.
I'm going to cut the deficit by implementing spending initiatives…….
Yeah…..
…..and I'm going to pay off my credit card by writing checks, cuz…..
I still have blank checks in the checkbook.
Voonderbar.
In related news, Tea Party membership expected to grow by 30 %.
And for the past week or so a lot of pundits have been saying that Obama has moved to the center. Suckers!
If BO were truly serious, he would stop the EPA from regulating industry out of business, he would repeal the oil moratorium, and he would be for cutting corporate taxes to compete both nationally and internationally. He's just pandering to his base. Talk is cheap; he has no desire to reduce spending where it needs be cut – in govt agencies, USAID, EPA, DOE, FCC, etc.
Obama still intends to spend OUR tax dollars toward the Fundamental Transformation U.S. into Marxism.
This will help those working to remove him form Office!
Use the 25th Amendment, Sec 4. – Unqualified to serve in Office, OR outright Impeachment for:
- High Crimes against a Nation
- Abuse of Power,
- Dereliction of Duty by leaving the Borders open and refusing to deport ILLEGALtrespassers who are DISPLACING and REPLACING US Citizens in jobs and in school seats!
- Getting 11 Latin Countries to join him and Holder in suing Arizona!
- Partnering with Hillary Clinton to report the U.S. to the, mostly Communist U.N! Tell me how that's not treasonous
Take your pick. These are all prosecutable. He's shown himself to be Anti-American, to say the least!
Don't clutter his mind with facts; it conflicts with his marxist agenda and campaign rethoric to placate his base and buy votes with false promises.
Another promisory note of a speech. Promise goodies that will never come. Every time government spends a dollar they are hurting the private sector.
More Pelosian logic
We have to pass the bill to see what's in it
We have to spend our way out of debt
The healthcare takeover bill will create millions of jobs.
The engine of economic growth is food stamps and unemployment benefits.
We will cut the deficit by budgeting 10 years worth of taxes and 6 years worth of new spending.
The trouble is too many zero liability voters still do…
And he also will endorse a new program that will encourage virginity through orgies.
The lunatic-left d-crat socialists are nothing more than a TWO TRICK jackass:
Trick 1: SPEND, SPEND, SPEND. SPEND, SPEND, SPEND, SPEND, SPEND, SPEND, SPEND, SPEND — ON BONUSES, BAILOUTS, PORK AND SOCIALIST WELFARE
then
Trick 2: TAX, TAX, TAX, TAX, TAX, TAX, TAX, TAX, TAX, TAX, TAX, TAX, TAX, TAX, TAX, TAX, TAX, TAX, TAX — THE HARD-WORKING, RESPONSIBLE AMERICAN CITIZENS
As plagiarist-joe biden said: "Raising taxes is patriotic"
D-crats love to tax you to death, then tax your death, while wasting your tax dollars on bonuses, bailouts, pork and socialist welfare. But, like lunatic-left liberal d-crat TAX CHEATS geithner, rangel, olbermann, daschle, kerry, killifer, solis, kirk, sebelius and millions more, they hate to pay taxes, and they'll cheat the government out of every penny they can.
Spend, spend, spend. Thanks for listening Oboring,
Obama's dreams require money. Lots and lots of money. He has to sell this to the American people somehow.
The Republicans are lying about cutting spending, no doubt. But Obama is truthful, he truly, sincerely cannot stand America the way it is and is set on bankrupting it and going to a new world government. He is a disgrace to our nation and should be impeached.
The 112th congress may have something to say about this spendthrift egomaniac.
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The Cloward-Piven Strategy
http://frontpage.americandaughter.com/?p=1878
http://frontpage.americandaughter.com/?p=1999
http://frontpage.americandaughter.com/?p=2114
If this marxist is reelected in 2012, we as a nation are lost. However, BO, soros and their minions will be ecstatic with the destruction. The house has to stop this insanity or at least refuse funding for all these grandiose ideas this mental midget has until we can get more conservatives into the senate. Remember 22 dims slots are up for grabs. We must absolutely gain majorities.
A second term for the BO will be nothing more than a worsening continuation of his failed ideas except to turn the US into the USSR.
HEY REPUBLICANS. It is fake to sit intermingled with Democrats! Obama's strategy is to lower the cheering from the Republicans because Obama has been publicly rebuked by the House of Representatives passing the Repeal of ObamaCare! (being un-American, he forgot that we have elections & votes here in the free world!)
It is not traditional and it is a farce to sit together! The socialist Democrats are hoping to mute the Republicans. Don't take the bait! We didn't work for you to let Team Obama manipulate you into subservience!
Back to the printing press Obamaman!
Excellent links. Thanks.
You don't have to be an Einstein to appreciate his logic.
▹ Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
▹ Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
~Albert Einstein~
Stay the course Obama, 2012 is just around the corner.
''He (o) cited clean energy (China) manufacturing, infrastructure (UNION jobs) and education (UNION jobs)
as keys to competitiveness."
Same song, second verse…
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Obama is an insult to the people who voted for him, and an embarrasement to the rest of us who did not. The depths of Obamas moral character are about as deep as a sheet of paper, his "knowledge" is from Socialist teachings. He is an imposter, of whom we know next to nothing as all his supposed records from birth to present day are sealed. For Obama to say anything is disgusting and should be treated as coming from a person who is nothing more than an imposter.
We are broke….what part of that do you not understand
"President Obama will call for new government spending on infrastructure, education and research."
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Same story, over and over again. High speed rail system, 21st century blah blah blah. Laser like focus. Shovel ready. Yeah, I have my shovel is ready for your speech Mr. President! ROFL
They stole and spent all the gas tax money that was supposed to maintain our roads and bridges. They pump hundreds of millions to subsidize Amtrak, then tell us we need a "high speed rail" line. Yeah, that's what we need more government money pits.
I wonder what a train, subway or bus ticket would cost if the passenger had to pay the true cost of operation? Enough with the transportation/union welfare system.
United we stand, divided we fall.
Aesop
Greek slave & fable author (620 BC – 560 BC)
I guess people still believe that Obama is just simply missing the point. How about the idea that he is using the old Cloward Piven strategy to overwhelm and revolt?
Spend. Spend. Spend. Make sure you back the Union jobs and the sectors the govt is trying to gain complete control of–energy.
Gut the federal government, it's fire sale time, everything must go!
Close everything, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Food Stamps, Socialist Insecurity, EPA, FDA, FCC, USDA, BLM, USAID, Dept of Ed, NSF, NEA, PBS/NPR, IHA, TVA, REA, BPA, DARPA, NASA and USOMP.
Time to dump out the whole pot of alphabet soup and start making pies at home again, get rid of federal "central management" and replace it with local entrepreneurial enterprise!
ENOUGH!
So Obama wasted $1 trillion for nothing. But this time his spending binge will be different, this time it will do something. Just let him spend another $1 trillion and everything will be great. Obama is truly thick. Only an idiot can believe like he does, this is phenomenal. Thank god for the GOP congress. That is the only thing keeping us from more economic disaster.
Gentle Readers,
Pres. Obama want to create an economic stimulus by spending billions on roads, and then he wants us to conserve energy, BY NOT DRIVING ON THEM!
Billions for Road for NO ONE TO DRIVE ON!
LOL!
Don't laugh! This really is policy!
- John Lepant Brighton CO
Obama money, Obama money. O B A M A MONEY!
No matter what Obama will never move to the middle, he doesnt know how.
This is a repost from fifty eight weeks ago……
Is Barry the Economic Manchuian Candidate?
As we all know the definition of insanity is doing something that is bad, (painfull,damaging, does not work) over and over again. So, is this administration insane? I doubt it. Than what is going on here?
A closer look at the administration through their collective writings, the speeches, and backgrounds reveals them to be very far left leaning. Many of them openly quote some of the many architects of the leftst movement. People like Saul Alinsky, Cloward and Pvien, etc..
These are the some of the people who have created the blueprint for tearing down the hated free market system. What else could explain what is being systematically done to this country?
I hope I’m wrong
But all the jobs for manufacturing "clean, renewable energy" such as wind mills and solar are in China. So where are all the potential jobs?
His stimulus bill which advocated "shovel ready jobs" to rebuild the country's infrastructure never materialized, so now he's going to throw billions more of non existent funds at it. BTW, how are these funds to be mysteriously generated? Magic is in storybooks, which begin with once upon a time. Me thinks this toddler 'n thief has been looking at too many pictures in those fairy tales while sniffing pixie dust.
I have one more to add to your list. Start selling all of governments assets to the public. Land, buildings, supplies, and everything else I do not have the space to add here.
Don't they realize that the Tea Party is the Majority of America and that's why the socialist Dems are desperate to "adopt" the Illegal Aliens. They're playing a numbers game!
"must make targeted investments to foster job growth and boost U.S. competitiveness in the world economy."
You mean like we've been told we have to do this for 40 years now?
The idiot statists don't even bother to come up with new rhetoric. They just regurgitate it.
Truer words were never spoken. Anyone who believes that Obama has moved to the center is already a solid Socialist or marxist Democrat, or oblivious to a treasonous presidential administration!
That falls under the Bureau of Land Management, US Office of Military Procurement and US Federal Asset Procurement Administration but yes I totally agree!
'Every time government spends a dollar they are hurting the private sector'
And that is exactly what the Obama Administration intends to do. How else can he take U.S. over!
I feel he's going to get back to his campaign of "I'm gonna…we're gonna…it's gonna!" And all this GONNA is going to come about from blowing tax payers money and writing up volumes of new laws and regulations.
his GONNAs bring us to the GOTTA! We gotta get a real President, soon as possible!
See right at the beginning you were right 'IF' obama were truly serious! We know that he isn't.
He's an invader from the world of Communism. He said he will 'Fundamentally Transform US' but he forgot that, in the free world, we have voting and elections! He's still mad about US actually voting his buddies out! How dare we exercise our rights.
What an idiot. His poll numbers were going up because he looked like he was going to stop the socialist spending.
Once a marxist, always a marxist. Every time he spends he steals money from the value of the dollars everyone has stored up in their bank accounts, by dilution. I don't care if government does get shut down, we need to shut down Obama.
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And that train of lies by Pelosi was brought to an abrupt halt by a pesky little American custom called voting and an Election! The Toxic Triumverate is slammed by a free Country with very smart forefathers who made provisions to stop Dictators from taking US over!
Each of the primary agencies, offices and commissions I listed above also have hundreds of agencies, offices and commissions that fall under their control and budgetary largess.
The overlap and waste is mind boggling to say the very least!
Hey F' Off I have checks and we are not broke….YET
So true TeaPartyNation! and they never expected the hard working American people to stop them with one mid-term election!
Since the Tea Party is growing by 30% , we can't let the Dems continue to play the numbers game by trying to keep Illegals here and pander to them in a racists way.
Right. Make us disband the Federal Reserve. 12 men should not be able to manipulate our Economy at will!
Or using the muslim technique of "taqqiya," which I believe he uses daily. He knows no other way.
Guy can't help himself. This is all he knows.
Agreed. Obama is an imposter.
He is also trying to use Rules for Radicals combined with his muslim anti-American belief system to collapse U.S. and sell US off to the highest bidders with himself as King for the next 40 years!
He and Moochelle have lots of parties and adoration ceremonies planned for themselves. They forget that in one simple election he will be carrying his own dog's poo in a plastic bag himself, instead of a secret service agent doing it for him Reality is a bear!
That is truly a great analysis. Great job.
Oh, Obama understands alright. That is his objective! to use Cloward and Piven to collapse our economy, and install his Dictatorship! however elections have consequences, such as this past mid-term one that kicked his arse! Now we will use our forefather's legal system to de-throne the Dictator and his accomplices! …..tick-tock obama!
The first one didn't work very well for him, the $250 one time SS payment to buy votes, he lost the House to the Republicans and after that there was no more talk about the $250 payment, wonder how high he will go to buy our votes next election? Bet we get a good COLA in 2012 but it wont do him any good the seniors do have good memories and cannot be bought off.
Good one Washington76! Let them think we are that stupid. um um um…
Great help Missy, I am glad we have you to help us here. Or to help me here. Thanks' again.
It's the Lame Stream Media that's trying to sell that, the man's as transparent as a plate glass window.
He's got to be on drugs, this makes no sense at all!
Were going to at least gain the Senate before anything can happen and by then he will be voted out of office.
Everybody thought he was smoking cigarettes behind the White House. I think it is more powerful than nicotine.
Exactly shipley130! Obama and his team of marxists know exactly what they are doing. Trying to install marxism in America!
That's why we need to remove every single Illegal from America. Obama & his Socialists are playing the numbers game!
- First we need to remove Illegals because they are draining our Health, Ed and Welfare system & DISPLACING and REPLACING our American Citizen's jobs in carpentry, landscaping, etc, and our children's seats in schools!
Secondly because the Illegals will be forced into Unions and will be put on Welfare, and given Amnesty and will have to vote Democrat in order to keep the Welfare checks coming for life!
PS: There are Free Health Clinics in American Hospitals! Why does no one ever mention that simple fact? Hmm… Those with lower salaries or no Health Insurance can go there. It's the American way, and it's been going on for a long time. Oh, and did I mention that it's free.
LOL, you do just fine without me, I'm just a nobody with a lot of opinions.
I know I'm stating the obvious, the government tree is just too big and we need to do some pruning for a change before we are overrun with more offshoots and weeds…
The ship is sinking and he wants to bail more water into the boat? I guess the logic is that if we take in the whole ocean we can all walk back to shore on dry land.
I sincerely hope the RINO's don't sit with the dems for the speech. I want to se a whole bunch of folks not standing while Obama spreads his BS.
Everybody is somebody. Well, I am glad you are a friend. See you are a friend. We all have opinions, that is why we are here, beside seeking knowledge and information.
Agree Red47! These Obama Socialists are obsessed with their agenda. They will never stop. We have to remove and replace them!
The push for Soros' vision continues. An insolvent, bankrupt America. A liberal utopia.
Nancy Pelosi thinks extended (forever, it seems) unemployment insurance is the best way to keep the economy rolling.
Everyone in the Administration thinks like her….Surprise.!! ? !! Hope you like being under-employed and/or poor..
I wonder if they will have enough left over "Together We Thrive" tee shirts for all the seats?
Ah Missy8s…. You post made me smile! .. If we chopped the Govt Agencies and the Govt Regulations in half, the only thing that would change is that we'd become prosperous and free agian!
Clinton tried that already.
I do what I can to do the most I can no matter how meager the attempt may be to change the things that are.
Yes, I think about that everyday. A trillion dollars went where? Also, the Republicans taking control of House of Representatives was like a valentine from our forefathers who framed our Country! …..and it was like a harpoon for a marxist like obama! Ha.
Communists lie.
"Just one more trillion……just one more trillion, that'll work! I can feel it! ………….if I can just get another trillion….."
I'll be so glad when this man is out of office so I don't have to look at him anymore.
Dear Washington76,
Thank you, Sir!
As the movie character said,
" BE AFRAID- BE VERY, AFRAID! "
Because, this really is policy!
Sincerely,
John
More economic policy from a guy who has never run anything but a campain! Crackhead math will not pass muster with the new congress and if it does we will get a newer one in 2012 along with a new resident for the white house.
"Targeted investments" lol…more libspeak for borrow and spend
Jackson thats genius! could make an excellent tee-shirt
i'd buy one
Steal it.
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This is a godsend for the Republicans. If they can't capitalize on this foolishness then they are not worth a 2012 vote.
I see a lot of comments in this thread saying that what Obama is doing makes no sense — that he's stupid — that he doesn’t understand etc. You are wrong. What Obama is doing is exactly what the socialist playbook calls for, it all moves him closer to his goal and Democrats in general closer to their goal.
The goal is to destroy the economy and cause financial crisis and/or collapse. Then use the chaos that ensues as an excuse to snatch away all American liberties and plunge our nation into a totalitarian state.
He's not stupid, he's not dumb, he's following the playbook. Everything Democrats do, and have been doing for nearly a century, suddenly makes perfect sense once you realize this.
That's what they want us to THINK !
I like your quote in your avatar. Nice choice, and a smart man.
Gop House, Senate, Presidency in 2012 and we can REPEAL EVERYTHING he has done..No more Marxists Czars….Soros and Andy Stern, Trumpka, New Black Panthers BANNED from the White House….Justice Department PURGED in 2012……Makes me wish I had a Time Machine…..
The usual Smoke and Mirrors..
I heard Pelosi is now off Botox and now on Embalming Fluid……..
Rep Anthony Weiner of NY says when you die it's no longer YOUR MONEY, you are DEAD…..But it becomes the Governments Money ? Mr. Weiner and Barney Frank : SCREW YOU ! My Family comes before you…..
The means justifies the end.
In the 2010 Congressional Pig Book, CAGW uncovered 81 anonymous earmarks worth $6.5 billion. In direct contravention of the House and Senate rules, these earmarks had no identifiable requester. The FY 2011 Defense total listed here includes a $450 million anonymous earmark for the Joint Strike Fighter Alternate Engine. Additional anonymous earmarks are likely to be uncovered and counted.
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As far as rebuilding our infrustructure, EVERY State in the Union recieves taxes from every Gallon of Gas, Fuel Oil sold and collects ever increasing Tolls for roadways( Ask ANY Truck Driver what the ROAD FEES ARE ) and Bridges and Most Authorities are corrupt using the Agencys for political patronage jobs, using MOST of the Revenue for FAT CAT BENEFITS and PENSIONS leaving little to properly matain roads and bridges and putting off maintenance…Out Of Control Pensions are wrecking EVERY City, Municipality and State Budgets because that's where all the money goes……And they say the Mafia is Bad….
Already exists, also as a bumper sticker.. But my favorite is "BUCK OFAMA"…
Basically Obama is going to give the same speech he gave last time,Obama is a failed president and congress is now exerting it's rightful authority,whats going to happen when Obama files papers in states to run again and he will be required this time to show proof of citizenship?
Except when the USSR existed they were STRONG , America under obama is Not…
He should open his address with "Once Upon a Time", His whole administration is a Fairy Tale..
I sent Mr. Boehner an email message of rejection as soon as the "bipartisan, kumbayah sit together, clap along" suggestion came forward. No response. Not even an acknowledgement! I guess our votes really counted for something, huh? Sickening…. and i'm getting really disgusted with these spineless, selfish career politicians!!!!!!!
Isn't it obvious that the only thing he knows how to do is "more of the same?" He's a "one trick pony." Those who insist he's "brilliant" must be dummer than a bag of hammers.
Quote of the year from the LSM,
"Listening to Obama Again, Matthews Professes "the Same Thrill…All Over Me"" by clicking here http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=hd6U...
"Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find – nothing."
Aesop, The Goose with the Golden Eggs
Greek slave & fable author (620 BC – 560 BC)
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