Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 118: “Liars, Cheats & Hypocrites”

Bottom of the bottle sure makes you feel good
I'd like you better that way
So clap your hands and make up a song
I hear every word that you say

Cause the pot can't call the kettle black
Cause the train's all runnin' on the same ole track
Can't feel nothing but your life flyin' by
You got trouble on your hands, trouble on your mind Pot Can't Call the Kettle Black, Jerry Jeff Walker

Most if not all politicians are natural born liars, cheats and hypocrites. The current occupant of the White House is just et up with all three with a particular shine for hypocrisy at a level seldom if ever displayed by an American President.

Don’t seem to matter at all on each and every issue, policy and initiative advocated by this Administration there’s a strong prevailing attitude of “Do as we say not as we do”. The arrogance, disdain and contempt this crowd has for We the People is truly alarming.

Examples of Mr. Obama’s unabashed hypocrisy are more abundant than white on rice. Following is a representative list of his extreme hypocritical behavior:

• THE WAR IN IRAQ. Obama – “When it comes to the war in Iraq, the time for promises and assurances, for waiting and patience is over. Too many lives have been lost and too many billions have been spent for us to trust the President on another tried-and-failed policy, opposed by generals and experts, opposed by Democrats and Republicans, opposed by Americans and even the Iraqis themselves. It is time to change our policy. It is time to give Iraqis their country back, and it is time to refocus America's effort on the wider struggle against terror yet to be won”.
After taking office the Administration claimed our victory in Iraq was one of their greatest successes to date. Even the Obama adoring left wing media elite press corps refused to support this Fairy Tale

• OBAMACARE. Over one thousand exceptions have been granted for the most part to Obama supporters and constituents including unions and other major donors. For a program proclaimed by supporters to be the greatest piece of legislation in the history of the Union does seem a tad peculiar so many Obamaites got a pass

• TAXES. In 2010 President Obama earned just north of $1,700,000. This wasn't gross earnings, this was adjusted earnings, the amount the president is responsible to pay taxes on. The actual amount of taxes he forked over was $450 thousand, 26% or there abouts. Almost every day for weeks now the President has enthusiastically claimed that millionaires like him should pay their fair share which in his way of reckoning is closer to 39%.

The IRS is tickled pink to receive donations so anytime you and your under taxed comrades are feeling cheated feel free to cut a check to make up the difference. Chances this would actually happen – When pigs fly; Hell freezes over; and the Obama gang doesn’t blame W for their criminally negligent fiscal policies

• GETTING A HANDLE ON THE SKYROCKETING COST OF GASOLINE. Senator Obama and his Socialist Secretary of Energy both advocated the need to increase the cost of a gallon of gas to $6-$7 bucks to force the end of our dependence on foreign oil and push us into a green energy economy come hell or high water prior to taking office.

Their moratorium on any domestic drilling, suppression of clean coal and shale exploration, and demonization of big oil and evil speculators has prices heading north while the empty rhetoric about punishing those responsible will have absolutely no effect on controlling cost. So far their devious plan to force feed us on their radical green agenda is working as well as a well oiled machine.

• LIBYA. Obama’s criticism of W’s Iraq policy - In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.

• BIPARTISANSHIP. Attending a National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, Obama said his faith has deepened during his two years in the White House and he urged members of Congress to rely on their own faith to build a spirit of civility in Washington. He said that at a time of bitter partisanship, lawmakers must find a way to be open to the ideas of others, while staying true to their core principles.

"I pray that God will show me and all of us the limits of our understanding and open our ears and our hearts to our brothers and sisters with different points of view, that such reminders of our shared hopes and our shared dreams and our shared limitations as children of God will reveal a way forward that we can travel together," the president said.

This is the same man who recently made these remarks about political opponents – “If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, we’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us, if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it’s gonna be harder and that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on November 2.”

• CIVILITY IN OUR POLITICAL DISCOURSE. Obama –“Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions. And that's what we have to change first. We have to change our politics, and come together around our common interests and concerns as Americans.”
And then had the following to say several days later - "So if you can't find a job or you can't afford college or don't have health insurance, tough luck -- you are on your own," Obama continued. "Now, if you're a Wall Street bank or an insurance company or an oil company like BP, come on in, help us write the regulations”

• SPENDING OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY. After a relatively short 118 weeks in office the Obama regime has increased spending by a big ass 86%. Their proposal to freeze spending at current levels claiming it was a major sacrifice on their part and a serious dent in the deficit is the ultimate hypocritical gesture. Recent comments about the GOP’S honest effort to advance real spending controls and deficit reduction have been greeted by a level of unprecedented hypocrisy extreme even for the Obama propaganda machine.

Obama - “Their vision is less about reducing the deficit than it is about changing the basic social compact in America,” He added: “There’s nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending a trillion dollars on tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. And I don’t think there’s anything courageous about asking for sacrifice from those who can least afford it and don’t have any clout on Capitol Hill.”

• The President also personally invited several of his political opponents, including the author of the GOP Budget Proposal Congressman Ryan, to sit in the front row while he gave his 2012 campaign kickoff speech by making partisan attacks at Ryan's recently unveiled deficit-cutting proposals and Republicans in general during a 43 minute class warfare and race baiting diatribe

This most recent action is not only hypocritical but also just downright tacky. Business as usual for a Chicago political thug Yankee lawyer.

After 118 weeks, millions in legal fees to keep it secret, and no apparent good reason the President finally made his Birth Certificate public primarily in response to pressure from “The Donald” who’s made Mr. Obama’s citizenship a major campaign issue of late. God bless him he’s not only a natural born liar, cheat and hypocrite he’s also a natural born American citizen sure enough.

Good to know. Doesn’t change the fact that he’s a Marxist/Socialist, Islamic Jihadist sympathizer, and the worst President in US history but good to know just the same.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

A special message: Our thoughts and prayers go out to all our fellow Alabamians and Americans whose lives were adversely impacted by yesterday’s catastrophic storms.

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 117: “There is no such thing as a good tax” Winston Churchill

Income tax is overdue, I think she is too
Been busted and I'll probably get busted some more
But I'll catch it all later, can't let em stop me now
I've been down this road once or twice before

Just gettin' by on gettin' bys my stock in trade
Living it day to day
Pickin' up the pieces wherever they fall
Just letting it roll, letting the high times carry the low
I'm just living my life easy come, easy go
Just Getting By, Jerry Jeff Walker

Monday of Week 117 of the “Ain’t never met a new tax we didn’t welcome with open arms and a big ole sloppy wet kiss” Obama Administration marked the most holy, sacred, and celebrated day on the Democrat’s political calendar, National Tax Day. The annual ritual in this great but sometime so willingly misguided country that serves as the catalyst for the most massive redistribution of wealth in the history of the wealth redistributing world.

Why all of us poor dumb pilgrims not only tolerate but actually participate in this insane legalized extortion year after year is sure enough a real head scratcher. Ain’t no never mind about it our dutiful willingness to continue to throw good money after bad is a strong indication how successful the left wing propaganda machine, spearheaded by the main stream media elite, have been in setting the terms of the debate when it comes to taxes.

FDR, a Socialist with a strong Capitalist streak, started all this insanity with his New Deal back in 1930’s establishing a tax payer funded safety net for old folks that has absolutely no Constitutional legitimacy. The next big surge to the extreme left fringes was LBJ’s, a rare breed indeed being the only devout Marxist/Socialist from the great state of Texas to ever get himself elected to high office, Great Society that was the start of Uncle Sammy’s hostile takeover of the US Healthcare industry

Now we have our first bona fide Marxist/Socialist/Communist holding court at the White House, Barack Hussein Obama, who along with his merry band of tax cheats; illegal Presidential Czars; Green energy radicals; unabashed, open, out of the closet Bolsheviks; Union bosses; Criminal Community Action Organizations; and Chicago political thugs who have in the relative short period of time of only 117 weeks increased annual deficits by $1 Trillion every year since taking office with future deficit spending projected for as far as the eye can see at these same immoral levels.

So far the results achieved from this criminally negligent deficit spending is record high and prolonged unemployment; an at best extremely precarious recovery with economic growth as slow as molasses; skyrocketing oil/gas and food prices; and a $14 Trillion national debt that’s projected to double or even triple over the next ten years. The President’s response to this fiscal disaster – class warfare. Increase taxes on million and billionaires, actually every hard working individual or married couple making over $250 thousand a year.

In full campaign mode since delivering his so called Economic/Budget priorities address last Wednesday when he remarked all of us need to pay our fair share especially those wealthiest amongst us who have benefitted the most and in his opinion are chomping at the bit to cut Uncle Sammy a big fat check beyond and above their legal tax liability. We have it on good authority from highly placed sources at the IRS that to date the only check received of this nature was from Willie Nelson with a note attached requesting the proceeds from said check be credited to any future delinquent payments.

After reviewing the actual financial status of US tax payers the so called wealthy not only already pay a fair share they fork out an an extraordinary disproportionate amount of greenbacks to keep this country open for business. Consider the following:

• THE TOP 1% OF WAGE EARNERS PAY 38% OF THE TAXES
• THE TOP 5% PAY 59%
• THE TOP 10% PAY 70%
• THE TOP 25% PAY 86%

According to a recent Wall Street Journal Study if Uncle Sammy confiscated all the taxable income of all the millionaires and billionaires Mr. Obama claims are so eager to pay their fair share the revenue generated would only amount to $938 billion or there abouts. With a proposed $4 trillion White House budget, including a $1.65 trillion deficit, an additional $938 billion doesn’t even come into shouting distance of breaking even with no chance In hell of putting even a frog’s hair worth of a dent in our accumulated national debt.

Truth be told anyone who advocates that taxing the rich is the path to fiscal Nirvana is either lying like a cheap rug or crazier than an outhouse rat. It would seem the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue resides in both camps.

In our way of reckoning every fellow citizen who currently pays income tax is getten gigged by Uncle Sammy. If the Lord only wants 10% what in the name of Moody’s Goose gives the Feds the right to seize 15%-38% of our annual earnings.

We do agree with our “Tax Collector-in-Chief” that everyone should pay their fair share. That being said it’s high time for the 47% of wage earners at the lower income levels that don’t pay a thin dime of income taxes to belly up to the bar and join the party.

It’s seems only fair to us if you live here, work here and generate income an annual contribution along with all your fellow tax payers is more than appropriate. We all have a stake in this grand political experiment and no wage earners should be excluded from participating.

Besides, including the victim class along with a low flat rate for everybody would not only interject some much needed equity in the system it would also generate more than enough revenue to allow the Fed to meet its Constitutional obligations. A similar revision to corporate and business income taxes would eliminate the need for growth and job killing measures the likes of the capital gains tax while adding trillions to the Federal treasury.

We certainly agree with Sir Winston Churchill’s viewpoint that “There is no such thing as a good tax” but reluctantly acknowledge the necessity of some form of taxation so we can keep the lights on and fund other Constitutional imperatives up in DC. Sharing the pain equally with the mostly Obama constituents in the victim class and simplifying the tax code sure enough doesn’t create a good tax but it would possibly make um a tad bit more tolerable to live with.


I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

• Week 116: "A Spending Binge of Obamic Proportions"


• Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late The cannons don't thunder, there's nothin' to plunder I'm an over-forty victim of fate Arriving too late, arriving too late I've done a bit of smugglin', I've run my share of grass I made enough money to buy Miami, but I pissed it away so fast Never meant to last, never meant to last A Pirate Looks at Forty, Jimmy Buffett


• Our record breaking “Spender of Other People’s Money-in-Chief“ has sure enough taken the wealthiest country in the history of the civilized world on a 116 week spending binge of historic and unprecedented proportions. With more than enough revenue coming in to the Federal treasury to meet all of our Constitutional obligations plus some the Hope, Change, and Believe gang have brought us to within a frog’s hair of financial ruin since infesting the White House a tad north of two years ago.


• Having failed to pass a budget for fiscal year 2011 last fall the previously Democrat controlled House, Senate, and Presidency left it up to the new GOP controlled House to clean up their mess and avoid a government shutdown. After some serious political theatre and grandstanding primarily by the likes of ultra left wing head cases including Senate Majority Leader Harry “the Mormon Enforcer” Reid; Senator Chucky “No Shame Whiner Boy” Schumer from New York; VP Uncle Joe “Dumber Than a Bag of Hammers” Biden; and the lead big spender hiself Barack “Money Bags” Obama our Liberal brethren “caved” and agreed to $40 Billion or so in budget cuts for 2011.


• Akin to a thousand lawyers found dead and buried at the bottom of the sea, it’s a good start; cutting $40 Billion from a projected $1.6 Trillion shortfall (Loss/deficit) for FY 2011 is a move in the right direction but a moral victory at best. The reality is we need to slash the FY 2011 budget by $1.6 Trillion, from a total budget of $3.6 Trillion or there abouts, break even this year and commit to not only balancing but creating a surplus allowing us to pay off our $14 Trillion dollar accumulated national debt in the next five years or less.


• We fully appreciate the political establishment from both ends of the spectrum consider our balanced budget initiatives as an extreme, radical, wild eyed, economic and political impossibility. Reckon they just might be right but when compared to the abundantly more and more likely possibility of Mr. Obama and his fellow Socialist comrades doubling or even tripling of our accumulated debt to $28 - $42 Trillion over the next 10 years our so called extremist and/or Draconian cuts (trimming the fat, eliminating waste, letting go of all the dead weight) appear to be the epitome of fiscal responsibility and sound financial planning.


• To put our current economic train wreck and looming fiscal catastrophe in perspective all courtesy of the Obama Administration’s criminally negligent spending binge a brief review of the Country’s recent financial performance in several key areas might just provide some valuable insight on our pending bankruptcy.


• Consider the following:


• NATIONAL DEBT


• • 1950 - $257.3 Billion • 1980 - $907.7 Billion • 2000 - $5.8 Trillion • 2008 - $10.07 Trillion • Current - $14.5 Trillion


• NATIONAL DEBT BY PRESIDENT STARTING WITH REAGAN


• • Reagan – $1.7 Trillion increase • George H.W. Bush’s One Term – $1.6 trillion increase • Clinton – $1.5 Trillion increase • W – $4 Trillion increase • Obama’s first two years – $4 Trillion increase • Obama’s remaining two years - $4 Trillion additional for the truly criminal grand total $8 Trillion increase


• FEDERAL REVENUES


• • 1950 - $39.4 Billion • 1980 - $517.1 Billion • 2000 - $2 Trillion • 2008 - $2.5 Trillion • Current - $2.2 Trillion


• FEDERAL SPENDING • 1950 - $42.6 Billion • 1980 - $591 Billion • 2000 - $1.8 Trillion • 2008 - $2.9 Trillion • Current - $3.8 Trillion


• LARGEST ANNUAL FEDERAL BUDGET DEFICITS


• • 2011, Obama - $1.65 Trillion, EST. • 2009, Obama - $1.4 Trillion • 2010, Obama - $1.3 Trillion • 2012, Obama - $1.25 Trillion, EST.


• Ain’t no never mind about it Barack Husain Obama is one world shaking spending fool. Under his stewardship Government spending has exploded to the record level of $3.8 Trillion and all we got to show for it is anemic growth, historically high rates of private sector unemployment, a housing market that can’t seem to dig itself out of the 7th level of hell, and the transformation of our country into the world’s largest Socialist Nanny state.


• Mr. Obama has also generated the four highest annual budget deficits in our nation’s history, is in the process of doubling our accumulated National Debt and has seen Federal revenues nose dive to Fiscal Year 2000 levels. This is a record of dubious achievement unparalleled in our Nation’s history.


• If W or any other Republican turned in such a dismal performance the left wing media elite along with a healthy number of conservatives would justifiably run their happy asses out of town on a rail. President Obama gets a pass instead of the public ridicule and condemnation his dangerous and failed fiscal policies so richly deserve.


• On Wednesday our “Great Orator of Empty Rhetoric-in-Chief“ made his second address to the nation outlining his proposed FY 2012 Budget priorities and alleged plans to get our arms around his unsustainable spending and deficits. A fiercely partisan speech that offered absolutely nothing new or productive to the national debate.


• Classic Marxist tactics right out of the Communist Manifesto the President accused the GOP of evil intentions and stressed the following points:


• • Class warfare- tax the rich even more and protect the victim class


• • Generational warfare – starve Granny, cutoff Pop’s meds and take back his walker


• • Blame others, W, for his failures and take credit for others achievements, some positive movement in job market after W era tax rates were extended


• • Falsely describing GOP budget proposals as extreme, radical, mean spirited and deeply pessimistic


• President Obama’s criminal, record shattering, downright irresponsible and just plum insane spending binge will hopefully be brought to an abrupt halt by the Republican controlled House. Bless his heart, let’s hope going cold turkey on spending other people’s money without restraint doesn’t push him over the edge from Progressive Socialist too hardcore Communist.


• I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”


• Ron W. Garikes

• Thoughts of Obama From Bama




• Week 115: "Words Have Meaning and Names Have Power.




• " Well, I was drunk the day my Mom got outta prison.


• And I wnt to pick her up in the rain.


• But, before I could get to the station in my pickup truck


• She got runned over by a damned old train.




• So I'll hang around as long as you will let me


• And I never minded standin' in the rain.


• No, You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'


• You never even call me, I wonder why you don't call me


• Why don't you ever call me by my name


• Perfect Country Western Song, David Allen Coe.




• “Some people think that if they change the names of things, the things themselves will have changed, too” David McKay




• “Dear Mr. and Mrs. Fuller,




• I regret to inform you that your next generational relations (son), Major T.S. “Cobra” Fuller, was relieved of his secular eternal life force (killed) during a Kinetic Military Action (bombing raid) in our ongoing Overseas Contingency Operation (War) in our UN (International Corruption Club) mandated humanitarian intervention (Act of War) Odyssey Dawn (editorial remarks to follow ). Major Fuller served with distinction under a NATO, French, German, and Canadian Command and Control structure (Obama’s MIA US strategy resulting in a genuine Mongolian C.F.) costing the U.N. Coalition (A Group Mongolian C.F.) precious time, resources, and lives.


• Please be comforted in the knowledge that your son’s U.N. sanctioned demise (blowed up or burnt alive doing MACH 2 at 10,000 feet above the Libyan desert) did nothing to enhance our National Security interest (Apology, Appeasement, Bend over grab our ankles, Thank you sir may I have another Muslim foreign policy) or eliminate any “Clear and Present Danger” to our Nation. Cobra’s ultimate sacrifice did reinforce our commitment to stand in unison with our fellow Global Citizens (Marxist/Communist/ Socialist brethren) as just another country amongst equals (American exceptionalism, leadership, values and interest be damned)…..


• …. In closing, I’d be just plumb tickled pink if you would provide us with your email address, the same from ten friends, and a minimum of a $100 contribution for my reelection campaign. I’m sure Cobra would enthusiastically appreciate your support.




• Respectfully yours,


• Barack H Obama


• Commander-in-Chief


• What a sure enough pathetic state of affairs. Placing US Armed Services in harm’s way in an overseas conflict that our Secretary of Defense publically declared is no threat to our National interest or security while testifying to Congress.




• To add insult to injury the Administration refuses to acknowledge this is an Act of War, refer to it as a Kinetic Military Action, and named the mission Odyssey Dawn. A truly sad and misguided attempt to trick us all into thinking this commitment of US troops is actually anything but a combat mission.




• Amazingly, President Obama and his gang of Socialist propagandist at the White House, seemingly have bought into the philosophy so eloquently stated by Mr. McKay, “Some people think that if they change the names of things, the things themselves will have changed, too”, hook, line and sinker and have employed this strategy to promote their radical left wing agenda. From their government takeover of healthcare to the most recent absolutely absurd mission name for the Libyan conflict the Presidential wordsmiths arrogantly believe a simple name change will effectively hide their true intent from all of us poor dumb pilgrims.




• Starting with Odyssey Dawn following is a list of the Obama Administration’s attempts to fool We the People with misleading and distorted names/titles to advance their Marxist policy initiatives:




• 1. Odyssey Dawn – Now there’s a name that’s sure to strike fear in the hearts of the enemy. What the hell does it even mean?




• An odyssey is defined as “a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune or an intellectual or spiritual wandering or quest”. “Dawn is to begin to grow light as the sun rises, begin to appear or develop and to begin to be perceived or understood”.




• So is this the beginning of a long wandering or quest in Libya? Not according to the President who declared the exact opposite.




• A sure enough pitiful attempt to disguise an Act of War by the US with a farce of a name that makes the President of the United States look like a big ole fool and further diminishes our standing in the world. Besides, it just ain’t fitten to name a combat mission after a Vegas stripper, New York hooker and/or a recreational cruise ship.




• Compared to previous mission names Odyssey Dawn certainly draws a stark comparison. When stacked up against Desert Shield; Desert Storm; Desert Saber; Desert Strike; Desert Fox; and Enduring Freedom it just don’t even come close to getting the bulldog fed.




• This may also be a direct result of the appeal of DADT. Only an openly gay Army PR Officer would ever name a major combat mission Odyssey Dawn.”




• 2. Overseas Contingency Plan – War on Terrorism




• 3. Man Made Disaster – Domestic Terrorist Attack




• 4. Obamacare – Socialized Medicine




• 5. Economic Stimulus Package – Massive, Unprecedented, Redistribution of Wealth




• 6. Financial Regulation Act – Unconstitutional seizure of US Banking and Financial Services industry




• 7. Undocumented Immigrants or Displaced Foreign Travelers - Criminal Illegal Immigrants




• 8. Pollution Reduction and Investment - Cap & Trade Bill




• 9. Global Climate Disruption - Global Warming




• 10. Obama Tax Cuts – Extension of Bush Era Tax Rates




• President Obama hasn’t even a fog hair’s worth of respect for the American people. His continued attempts to hoodwink the public with this name change insanity is a strong indication of his conviction that we are all nothing but a bunch of ignorant yahoos.




• One name change we do enthusiastically endorse is the next occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. President Obama to “One Term Loser” sure as hell would be the finest kind of change anyone with a lick of sense could hope for and strongly believe in.




• I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”




• Ron W. Garikes