Showing posts with label Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obama. Show all posts
Thursday, October 4, 2012
10 Responses I Yelled at My TV During the Debate
1) Romney was asked if there was anything he
would like to ask President Obama.
Mr. President you enjoy making the claim
that I would like to resort back to the same old top down economic model that
President Bush used, which you say is “how we got into this mess”. I assume you
are talking about tax cuts for the rich. Can you explain to the American people
how the Bush tax cuts caused the collapse of the housing market and “the worst
recession since the Great Depression”?
2) In response to the $5 trillion in tax cuts
claim:
Closing loopholes will make up for the lost
revenue from lowering rates because more income will be taxed at the lower rate
than at the higher rate. Loopholes that he wants to cut will not be written in stone
because then he cannot work with Congress to pass legislation. The loopholes
need to be debated and discussed on the floor of Congress, not it backrooms like
Obamacare. Also, I look at the economy in a dynamic way. I know that cutting rates
will grow the economy and increase revenue because more people will have jobs
and pay taxes. The study you are quoting does not take that into account. The $5 trillion claim is a static way of
looking at the economy.
3) President Obama uses President Clinton as a
crutch to fall back on:
Clinton worked with a Republican house
because he had leadership experience as a Governor, President Obama lacks that experience.
Clinton lowered the capital gains tax rate, Obama want to raise it. Clinton served
during a relatively peaceful time as compared to previous Presidents, so
defense spending was being decreased. Clinton’s economy was a result of a booming
technology sector due to the “dot-com” bubble. The “dot-com” bubble was not a
result of Clinton’s policies. Clinton never left Bush a surplus. Clinton
borrowed the surpluses coming into the Social Security Trust to pay down the
public debt. However, the intergovernmental debt (money that the government
borrows from itself) went up. It was an accounting trick. Also, the “dot-com”
bubble burst went Bush took over, so the “surpluses” that were on paper never
actually amounted to anything. Bush inherited a recession not a surplus.
4) $10 of spend cuts for every $1 of tax
increases:
Every time that proposition is accepted the
tax increase happens immediately and the spending cuts happen gradually over 10
years, or never at all. Ask Bush Sr. or Ronald Reagan about that.
5) Big Bird and PBS:
Big Bird does not need PBS, PBS needs Big
Bird. Sesame Street brings in millions
of dollars and could survive without government help. Since they are successful
I feel confident that they would survive in the private market. If PBS cannot
survive in the private market, then that means customers do not want it. So the
government should not pay for it.
6) Medicare and “vouchers”:
The premium support model is the same model
that members of Congress use. The private companies must structure a policy
that meets the needs and the requirements of Medicare in order to participate. Competition will create perks like it does in
any industry so it can win over new customers. Look at how cable companies use
perks to get new customers. I’ve never heard someone say they wish there was
only one cable provider. The only complaint I hear is that there is not enough competition.
7) Healthcare costs:
Romney should have stated that his healthcare
place includes tort reform and competition across state lines. In order to
bring down costs doctors need to stop duplicating tests to avoid medical
malpractice lawsuits. People would be shocked if they knew how much a doctor
pays for liability insurance every year. Also, competition always reduces cost.
There is no reason someone in Ohio shouldn’t be able to buy insurance from a
company in Colorado. This is allowed with car insurance, why not medical? The
President was offered these solutions from Paul Ryan and turned them down.
Instead he thinks reducing the reimbursement to doctors and raising taxes on
medical devices will bring down the costs.
8) Dodd-Frank:
Big banks hire lawyers to get around these
regulations, but small community banks get tied up in red tape. Chris Dodd and
Barney Frank are not only the authors of this bill, but they are also
responsible for the crisis in the first place. We need to be honest about what
caused the housing collapse and the recession. It was Liberals in Washington
who thought that it was Big Government’s responsible to help people own a home…even
when they couldn’t afford to do so. The problem in this case was over regulation
that forced banks to lend to people, using Fannie & Freddie to prop up
those subprime loans, which then packaged them together. Like always, it was
Big Government that caused crony capitalism. Most importantly, the Dodd-Frank bill
does not even address Fannie & Freddie in the legislation.
9) Role of government:
Government can only promise us equal
opportunity, not equal outcomes. President Obama wants to micromanage the
American economy to create his idea of social justice, yet he has never managed
anything before in his life. The free market works better with Adam Smith’s invisible
hand not Uncle Sam’s.
10) Federal government’s role in education:
Colorado should not send its tax
dollars to Washington D.C. so it can give them to New York because their
schools are failing. They should keep their money and use it for their own
schools. Secondly, who in America would be content if they could only use the
gas station in their own town, or grocery store, movie theater, or shopping
mall? If we would be outraged over the lack
of choices for those things, then we should be applauded that we allow that to
happen with our public schools. If you want more teachers to be hired, create
more schools for them to work in. If you want teachers to be paid more, then
allow districts to fire poor teachers. Our public schools are a small microcosm
of Socialism. Government controlled, no choice, mediocre pay because it must be
fair for all workers meaning no rewards or incentives for excellence, benefits promised
that can’t be kept, and it results in failure. Allow each school district to create a system
to test their students, grade their schools, and evaluate their teachers.
Parents and students need choice and they need it now.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
A Belated Obama Vetting
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1. President Obama is alleged to have began his career in the living room of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Bill Ayers is considered a domestic terrorist for his work with The Weather Underground. It was also rumored that Ayers was a ghostwriter for Obama's book Dreams of My Father. He is know a Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The following videos and posts will outline Bill Ayers' radical past, and his affiliations linked to President Obama.
II. FBI agent talks about the motives behind the Weather Underground and their mission after being undercover in the organization.
III. NYPD detectives share their knowledge of Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground.
VI. Although his radical past, Bill Ayers is considered an accomplished professor of education, and is even invited to speak at other Universities. Pittsburgh Tribune Review reports on Bill Ayers' visit to the University of Pittsburgh's Council of Graduate Students in Education.
V. Recently a controvery has sprung up with the denial of request for Ayers to be awarded emeritus status at the University of Illinois.
Bill Ayers denied emeritus status at UICSon of RFK — now U. of I. board chair — rips prof for dedicating book to his father’s assassinWhen retiring University of Illinois at Chicago professor Bill Ayers co-wrote a book in 1973[sic], it was dedicated in part to Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Robert F. Kennedy.That came back to haunt Ayers when the U. of I. board, now chaired by Kennedy’s son, considered his request for emeritus status Thursday. It was denied in a unanimous vote.Before the vote, an emotional Chris Kennedy spoke out against granting the status to Ayers.“I intend to vote against conferring the honorific title of our university to a man whose body of work includes a book dedicated in part to the man who murdered my father, Robert F. Kennedy,” he said.“There is nothing more antithetical to the hopes for a university that is lively and yet civil, or to the hopes of our founding fathers for their great experiment of a self-governing people, than to permanently seal off debate with one’s opponents by killing them.”
While this topic did come up in debates, and one or two interviews, I think in retrospect the scrutiny does not compare to today's vetting intensity. The connection between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers is a controversy up for debate. The following continues Barack Obama's ties to Chicago's radicals .
2. Reverend Jeremiah Wright was the pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. President Obama fell into a controversy once information surfaced about Obama's legacy at the church for 20 years. The reason this became a big deal was the fact that Rev. Wright is considered a radical who preaches black liberation theology, and white supremacy's influence on racial politics in American. The following elaborates on this narrative.
I. ABC News does a segment explaining Rev. Wright's past and his ties to the Obama's.
II. During the 2008 election Wright began preaching politics from the pulpit, and Hillary was outspoken about it.
III. Interview with Barack Obama discussing his book, and his appreciation for Rev. Wright.
IV. The connection between Barack Obama and Rev. Wright are as follows.
- Barack Obama first met Wright in the late 1980s, while he was working as a community organizer.
- Wright officiated at the wedding ceremony of Barack and Michelle Obama,
- Wright also conducted the the Baptism of their children
- The title of Obama's 2006 memoir, The Audacity of Hope, was inspired by one of Wright's sermons, which was also a theme of Obama's 2004 keynote address to the Democratic National Convention.
- Wright was scheduled to give the public invocation before Obama's presidential announcement, but Obama withdrew the invitation the night before the event.
- In 2007, Wright was appointed to Barack Obama's African American Religious Leadership Committee, a group of over 170 national black religious leaders who supported Obama's bid for the Democratic nomination.
- On May 31, 2008, Barack and Michelle Obama announced that they had withdrawn their membership in Trinity United Church of Christ stating that "Our relations with Trinity have been strained by the divisive statements of Reverend Wright, which sharply conflict with our own views".
(These facts are not cited, but they can easily be researched and backed up)
3. Once the Obama Presidency began one controversy that arose was the alleged racial influence throughout the Justice of Department (DOJ). The narrative that is being told is that the Obama Administration only sees racism as White on Black, not Black on White. Attorney General Eric Holder came under fire with the incident of voter intimidation in Philadelphia with the New Black Panther Party (NBPP). The following clips explain who the NBPP is, and how the DOJ threw out the case due to racial motives.
I. The background of the NBPP and their views on whites.
II. Raw video of the incident where two lead members of the NBPP stood outside a polling location with a knight stick. Voter intimidation was accused of these two members.
III. After this incident occurred, a case was built against the NBPP members under the Bush DOJ, but it was later dismissed after alleged orders from within the Obama DOJ. Christian Adams, a whistle blower, spoke out about what he claimed was happening within the DOJ and how race was a main factor. Megan Kelly of Fox News was a key character in breaking the full story.
IV. Christian Adams speaks about other racial elements to the DOJ under Eric Holder.
4. While most of what we've heard so far shows the radical side of people President Obama has been associated with through different connections, many began to wonder what influences have been made on his own views. It is alleged that Obama also has the same views of the world that come through a racial lens. While many would argue most black Americans have a right to see the world and race differently, others claim that this Chicago radical view is far more extreme. It follows more of a Malcolm X narrative rather than Martin Luther King Jr's. The following clip discusses the incident of when professor Gates was arrested in his house by the Cambridge Police after calls of a break in. With Gates being a friend of President Obama's, he made comments that stirred up a controversy of how Obama views race in the world. This later led to what is now known as the "Beer Summit".
I. The Q&A at the press conference that set the controversy off.
II. Professor Henry Louis Gates tells his side of the story
III. Sgt. James Crowley tells his side of the story and expresses his opinion on the President's comments.
III. This video references the infamous "beer summit" that was arranged at the White House to mend relations after President Obama's comments. While the "Beer Summit" was a minor incident that exploded over a bad statement by a new President, many claim it does fit the narrative of Obama's mindset.
5. The new edition to the Obama narrative is the release of video that shows then Harvard law student Barack Obama speaking at a protest in support of a alleged radical Harvard Law professor. These tapes have been hyped and released by the late Andrew Breitbart and his coalition of citizen journalist at Breitbart.com. Here is how the narrative is shaping and connecting to past narratives.
I. Andrew Breitbart speaks at CPAC 2012 and reveals he is in possession on tapes of Obama in his college years.
II. After the unexpected death of Andrew Breitbart at the age of 48, the tapes were released. The following narrative is being laid out and will lead into the 2012 Presidential election. The following videos are contributions to the conversation across the media outlets.
(The best example of the main stream media covering for Obama and being called on it)
III. Some earlier quotes of President Obama regarding the civil rights movement and the Constitution.
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