Feb 25 2009
Delivery vs. Content
President Obama is obviously a great orator. This works well for his position because most who watch are taken by delivery, not content. If he makes the majority feel bad enough, then his solutions have to be done because it is a desperate situation. Unemployment was three times worse in the great depression but if Obama makes it seem as bad now, “anything” is better.
If you were to spend $2 million dollars a day, every day, and started 2,009 years ago, you would not have spent as much as Obama’s cronies have spent in the last two months. TWO MONTHS!! Staggering! More is yet to come. The solution is to give business incentive to grow and to stop talking about how bad it is which only makes it worse. Neither has been done in all of this.
Speculation is based on fear. Fear moves the markets down, the price of oil up. This might happen or that might happen. Ninety-eight percent or more of everything we worry about, NEVER happens. God addresses our anxiety in scripture for a reason. One of the reasons is so that we are not susceptible to fear mongering and as a result allow bad decisions to be made on our behalf. Unfortunately, we are allowing the bad decisions. The President hedges his bets by saying it’s going to take time and it will be a while before we see the results. He’s just hoping that it will take at least four more years before the public realizes we’ve been sold a bill of goods that will result in nothing. He’s a carnival barker, more eloquent perhaps, but the medicinal product he’s trying to sell is just as worthless and unfortunately more harmful. Absolute power still corrupts absolutely. The balance of power is gone. Gridlock is far better than this. If we did nothing, in the end, the capitalistic system would eventually right itself. If we did the right things it would happen faster but these wrong things are going to do nothing but slow it down. Since he obviously wants to be re-elected, perhaps that’s the design anyway.
So I take it you had a problem when the republicans controlled all three branches of government?
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We have been doing nothing, did you hear about deregulation. Thats letting the market decide. Look where its got us. And am I confused about the date? Has Obama been in office for 2months? Look, I am not defending Obama his policys SUCK. But be honest about the discourse. Both dems and reps got us where we are, all this partisan bickering is just bullshit. We just had 8 yrs of a republican president and look where we are. Partisan politics is a dog and pony show for voters, it obscures the fact that both parties are guilty of betraying the public trust. We are divided, ergo, we are ruled not represented.
I have to say; I got much more out of the philosophical content than the rest of the post. “The balance of power is gone. Gridlock is far better. If we did nothing, in the end, the capitalistic system would eventually right itself’. What a load!! As far as the balance of power being gone, you are inferring it was present prior to President Obama. I suppose that would explain the Patriot Act and the invasion of Iraq. Gridlock-that’s what we had during Bush’s second term-fantastic results!! I love the “do nothing” approach-another stroke of genius by the Bush regime. They deflected the impending economic crisis we are now faced with by using patriotic rhetoric and having us focus on the troops. Unfortunately, the President is forced to spend an exorbitant amount of money in order to energize the economy that Bush “did nothing” about. In order for capitalism to flourish; credit must be made available. There is no chance of that if we allow AIG and Citi Group to go under. Please try to remember who got us in this mess and made no attempt to fix it other than non-regulated funds dispersed to “the chosen few”. God bless us all-we’re going to need it. Thanks GW.