Thoughts of Obama From Bama
Week 127: “If You Ain’t the Lead Dog the View Never Changes”
As the son of a son of a sailor
I went out on the sea for adventure
Expanding the view of the captain and crew
Like a man just released from indenture
As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man
I have chalked up many a mile
Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks
And I learned much from both of their styles
Son of a son, son of a son
Son of a son of a sailor
Son of a gun, load the last ton
One step ahead of the jailer “Son of the Son of a Sailor”, Jimmy Buffett
“If You Ain’t the Lead Dog the View Never Changes”, a quote attributable to the late Southern Humorist and author Lewis Grizzard, defines Barack Husain Obama’s approach and philosophy for governance much more accurately than all of his empty campaign slogans including the likes of “Yes We Can”, “Change We Can Believe In” and all manner of other lies he heaped upon us. The late Mr. Grizzard’s now famous quote truly captures and expresses the President’s boneheaded “Lead From Behind” philosophy to almost every issue confronting this Administration.
Examples of this absolutely absurd approach to management and governance abound including:
• Abdication of the fiasco in Libya to NATO which has greatly extended the time frame of this conflict resulting in thousands more killed and wounded, billions of additional expense, and further erosion of our standing in the world
• Deferring to political expediency instead of military requirements in Afghanistan compromising the mission, endangering our troops and providing aid and comfort to the enemy publically announcing a date certain when our forces will be withdrawn
• Refusing to publically support Democracy movements in Syria, Jordan and Iran
• Totally AWOL on any serious efforts to reform Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid choosing instead to conduct class and generational warfare leaving it to the GOP to lead and provide solutions to assure the viability of these massive entitlement programs
• Avoiding direct involvement in Congressional negotiations on the Federal debt ceiling and balancing the budget deferring leadership on this pending financial catastrophe to the House and Senate
• The execution of a stealth, undercover, secret assault, “Leading From Behind”, on our capitalist, free market, open society with the ultimate objective of establishing a Marxist/Socialist nanny state.
Our “Leader From Behind-in-Chief” held court at a Press Conference this week further advancing his “Barackasswards” Governance philosophy. Following are several excerpts from this most recent Obama propaganda fest:
THE PRESIDENT: Opening Remarks – …Today, our administration is trying to take those steps, so we’re reviewing government regulations so that we can fix any rules in place that are an unnecessary burden on businesses
(Repealing Obamacare and calling off the EPA would be a great start Mr. President so anytime the spirit moves please proceed by all means)
Right now, Congress could send me a bill that puts construction workers back on the job rebuilding roads and such…
(All those shovel ready projects the President his self recently confessed didn’t work with the first stimulus and he proposing the same failed policies again)
There’s been a lot of discussion about revenues and raising taxes in recent weeks, so I want to be clear about what we’re proposing here. I spent the last two years cutting taxes for ordinary Americans, and I want to extend those middle-class tax cuts. The tax cuts I’m proposing we get rid of are tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires; tax breaks for oil companies and hedge fund managers and corporate jet owners.
(Classic class warfare tactics as described in this gang’s “Owner’s Manual” the Communist Manifesto)
Q They don’t want any tax increases, as they put it. And the House Speaker says not only that he doesn’t support that, but that plan won’t — will not pass the House. So my question is will you insist, ultimately, that a deal has to include those tax increases that you just laid out? Is that an absolute red line for you? And if it is, can you explain to us how that can possibly get through the Congress?
THE PRESIDENT: Look, I think that what we’ve seen in negotiations here in Washington is a lot of people say a lot of things to satisfy their base or to get on cable news, but that hopefully, leaders at a certain point rise to the occasion and they do the right thing for the American people. And that’s what I expect to happen this time. Call me naïve, but my expectation is that leaders are going to lead.
(The President and his Congressional comrades haven’t submitted a budget for the last two years. “Leading From Behind” in all its incompetent glory)
Now, I just want to be clear about what’s at stake here. The Republicans say they want to reduce the deficit. Every single observer who’s not an elected official, who’s not a politician, says we can’t reduce our deficit in the scale and scope that we need to without having a balanced approach that looks at everything.
(Every single observer? Reckon that just might be a little bit of a stretch. Actually it’s an absolutely ludicrous statement that cries out for condemnation and ridicule)
Q Thank you. Your administration has laid out four different dates by which you’ve said that the debt ceiling must be raised or the U.S. would face potential dire consequences. Three of those dates have come and gone and we haven’t faced financial calamity. Some of your critics have argued that these are then scare tactics to force a deal. So why should the American people believe that the August 2nd deadline is the final deadline by which a deal must be raised? And would you also spell out for us what you believe will happen if the debt ceiling is not raised by that date?
THE PRESIDENT: And last point I want to make about this. These are bills that Congress ran up. The money has been spent. The obligations have been made. So this isn’t a situation — I think the American people have to understand this — this is not a situation where Congress is going to say, okay, we won’t — we won’t buy this car or we won’t take this vacation. They took the vacation. They bought the car. And now they’re saying maybe we don’t have to pay, or we don’t have to pay as fast as we said we were going to, or — that’s not how responsible families act. And we’re the greatest nation on Earth, and we can’t act that way.
(Professor Obama’s lack of knowledge about Economics and Finance is truly appalling. So is his total disrespect for the truth. His analogy about Congress and spending, cars, vacations and such demonstrates a degree of ignorance on the subject never before seen in a US President)
THE PRESIDENT: talking about his daughters meeting deadlines - It is impressive. They don’t wait until the night before. They’re not pulling all-nighters. (Laughter.) They’re 13 and 10. Congress can do the same thing. If you know you’ve got to do something, just do it.
(Not only an extremely condescending remark but also chock full of mistakes. For the record the President’s oldest youngin is 12, not 13 years old. We can only imagine the left wing media elite’s response if a Republican misstated one of their yougin’s ages. If Sarah Palen, Newt, W, Michele Buchmann, Boehner, Cheney, and/or Mitt Romney similarly misspoke liberal anchors the likes of Chris Mathews, Anderson Cooper, Matt Lauer, Ba Ba Walters and Katie Couric would wet themselves on live TV in their enthusiasm to get the story out)
“If You Ain’t the Lead Dog the View Never Changes”. Mr. Obama’s “Lead From Behind” strategy assures his Socialist views ain’t gonna change any time soon.
I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”
Ron W. Garikes
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
Thoughts of Obama From Bama
Week 126: “Obama & Boehner Light Up the Course”
Bet a five dollar nasaw
And all you got's two
Well a five foot gimme
Make a man out of you
Well I got my dreams
And they just don't stop
Well a big man, big shot
Make her on top
Well, there's a place for you if you're just like me
Armchair greens chillin' at the TV
Have another cool one
But it won't hurt
Got myself a big stick
Swingin in the dirt “Big Stick”, Bruce Hornsby
Last Saturday while most of the golfing world was glued to their flat screens watching a 22 year old youngin from Northern Ireland blow away the field at the U.S. Open at Congressional Country Club in our nation’s capital the real action was going down across town on the links at Andrews Air Force Base. Turns out the three highest ranking officials in the Federal government, the President; Vice President; and Speaker of the House along with the Republican Governor from Ohio were playing their own match for much higher stakes than the U.S. Open Championship.
In the balance the future working relationship between the President and Speaker, White House and Congress, and our Country’s financial security. Possibly of even more importance the bragging rights and ego boost afforded to the victors.
Instead of the expected Dems vs. Repub; conservative vs. liberals; capitalist vs. socialist; free enterprise vs. humongous government ; good vs. evil match up in a surprise move the President insisted he and Speaker Boehner would team up against VP “Uncle Joe“ Biden and Governor Kasich. The decisive factor having nothing at all to do with politics or even golf but solely on the basis of smokers vs. nonsmokers.
President Obama also wanted some one on one face time with Speaker Boehner. Reckon he figured some serious male bonding over smokes and a few libations just might win the Speaker’s favor that could be exploited in future political confrontations.
With everybody in agreement with the teaming arrangements the President packed up a carton of KOOL Menthols, the Speaker stacked up several packs of Camel no filters and with the leader of the free world squealing “smoke um if you got um” the two pillars of American politics were off to the first tee in a cloud of smoke and burning rubber from the golf cart tires. The VP and Governor were close behind with a cooler filled with a case of beer, wine spritzers for the “First Golfer-in-Chief” and a bottle of Irish whiskey for Uncle Joe.
For purposes of full disclosure “Thoughts of Obama From Bama” is tickled pink to inform our faithful and most sophisticated readership of our unbelievable good fortune to have obtained an audiotape recording of last weekend’s Presidential golf outing. Following are some extremely illuminating, informative and entertaining excerpts from this power foursome’s historic round of golf.
As most every golfer knows the wager is more often than not won on the first tee during preround practice swings and trash talk which is precisely where we will begin our coverage of this high level high stakes match:
• THE SPEAKER: “All right ladies, what’s the game? Skins, an automatic 2 down Nasaw with trash including greenies, birdies, sandies, and Obamies – hitting your ball OB left, Wolf or straight up Match Play?”
• UNCLE JOE: Right after his first shot of Irish whiskey of the day, “Don’t f…ing matter to me. Whatever strikes the boss’s fancy count us in.”
• HACKER-IN-CHIEF: “Match Play sounds good to me boys, as long as I get my fair share of strokes.” The anointed one replied between lighting up another KOOL
• GOVERNOR K:”With all due respect Mr. President, stroke this. With Boehner on your team y’all should be giving us a few strokes.”
• HACKER-IN-CHIEF: “No strokes, $2 dollars per hole”
• UNCLE JOE: “Sure you can afford that boss. Michelle hold back on your f…ing allowance this week?”
• THE SPEAKER: “So that settles it ladies. $2 dollar a hole match play, $2 dollar trash, two man best ball, no strokes. We’ll take the honors, let’s tee it up.””
With the game and amount agreed to the four gentlemen took full advantage of the customary first tee mulligan and then proceeded in a cloud of tobacco smoke, a pile of crushed beer cans, a fast growing collection of empty wine spritzer bottles, and a soon to be empty bottle of Irish whiskey to navigate the 18 championship holes of golf at Andrews Air Force Base. To avoid boring y’all to tears with the full transcript of their 4 hour conversation we are delighted to provide examples of some of their more colorful remarks below:
• HACKER-IN-CHIEF: After hitting another weak, short, pop up 130 yard drive in the left trees the President asked the Speaker for some help, “John, any advice how to fix that would be most appreciated”
• THE SPEAKER: “Happy to Mr. President. You might try standing farther away from the ball, especially after you hit it.
• UNCLE JOE: Merrily doing a shot per hole, “Nice f…ing shot Gov”
• GOVERNOR K: “I wouldn’t hit Nancy Pelosi that hard.” Addressing the Speaker after he hit a 300 plus yard drive on the fourth hole.
• THE SPEAKER: “I sure as hell would”
• UNCLE JOE: “Nice f…ing shot Mr. Speaker”
• THE SPEAKER: “Nice putt Alice. Did a gust of wind blow your skirt up over your eyes?” directed to the President after leaving a 10 foot put 3 feet short.
• HACKER-IN-CHIEF: “Thanks pard. Thought we were on the same team.
• UNCLE JOE: “Nice f…ing shot Mr. President”
• GOVERNOR K: “Run like a scalded dog.” Encouraging his low hooking tee shot on the 15th.
• THE SPEAKER: “Enjoyed it ladies. Always a pleasure taking your money.” Right after sinking a ten footer for par on 18 to win the hole and the match.
• UNCLE JOE: “Nice f…ing shot…” slurred the VP as he downed his last shot of whiskey and proceeded to pass out on the 18th green.
When all was said and done the President and Speaker clipped Uncle Joe and Governor Kasich for the staggering grand total of $2 dollars. Other notable accomplishments resulting from the day’s outing included 3 packs of Kools and 2 packs of Camels smoked; 24 beers consumed; 6 wine spritzers inhaled; and 1 bottle of Irish whiskey polished off by our VP flying solo.
To our knowledge the President and Speaker still don’t particularly care for each other, Governor Kasich has no idea why he was invited in the first place, and Uncle Joe has absolutely no recollection at all of the entire day. All things considered a relatively successful day for this Administration.
I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”
Ron W. Garikes
Week 126: “Obama & Boehner Light Up the Course”
Bet a five dollar nasaw
And all you got's two
Well a five foot gimme
Make a man out of you
Well I got my dreams
And they just don't stop
Well a big man, big shot
Make her on top
Well, there's a place for you if you're just like me
Armchair greens chillin' at the TV
Have another cool one
But it won't hurt
Got myself a big stick
Swingin in the dirt “Big Stick”, Bruce Hornsby
Last Saturday while most of the golfing world was glued to their flat screens watching a 22 year old youngin from Northern Ireland blow away the field at the U.S. Open at Congressional Country Club in our nation’s capital the real action was going down across town on the links at Andrews Air Force Base. Turns out the three highest ranking officials in the Federal government, the President; Vice President; and Speaker of the House along with the Republican Governor from Ohio were playing their own match for much higher stakes than the U.S. Open Championship.
In the balance the future working relationship between the President and Speaker, White House and Congress, and our Country’s financial security. Possibly of even more importance the bragging rights and ego boost afforded to the victors.
Instead of the expected Dems vs. Repub; conservative vs. liberals; capitalist vs. socialist; free enterprise vs. humongous government ; good vs. evil match up in a surprise move the President insisted he and Speaker Boehner would team up against VP “Uncle Joe“ Biden and Governor Kasich. The decisive factor having nothing at all to do with politics or even golf but solely on the basis of smokers vs. nonsmokers.
President Obama also wanted some one on one face time with Speaker Boehner. Reckon he figured some serious male bonding over smokes and a few libations just might win the Speaker’s favor that could be exploited in future political confrontations.
With everybody in agreement with the teaming arrangements the President packed up a carton of KOOL Menthols, the Speaker stacked up several packs of Camel no filters and with the leader of the free world squealing “smoke um if you got um” the two pillars of American politics were off to the first tee in a cloud of smoke and burning rubber from the golf cart tires. The VP and Governor were close behind with a cooler filled with a case of beer, wine spritzers for the “First Golfer-in-Chief” and a bottle of Irish whiskey for Uncle Joe.
For purposes of full disclosure “Thoughts of Obama From Bama” is tickled pink to inform our faithful and most sophisticated readership of our unbelievable good fortune to have obtained an audiotape recording of last weekend’s Presidential golf outing. Following are some extremely illuminating, informative and entertaining excerpts from this power foursome’s historic round of golf.
As most every golfer knows the wager is more often than not won on the first tee during preround practice swings and trash talk which is precisely where we will begin our coverage of this high level high stakes match:
• THE SPEAKER: “All right ladies, what’s the game? Skins, an automatic 2 down Nasaw with trash including greenies, birdies, sandies, and Obamies – hitting your ball OB left, Wolf or straight up Match Play?”
• UNCLE JOE: Right after his first shot of Irish whiskey of the day, “Don’t f…ing matter to me. Whatever strikes the boss’s fancy count us in.”
• HACKER-IN-CHIEF: “Match Play sounds good to me boys, as long as I get my fair share of strokes.” The anointed one replied between lighting up another KOOL
• GOVERNOR K:”With all due respect Mr. President, stroke this. With Boehner on your team y’all should be giving us a few strokes.”
• HACKER-IN-CHIEF: “No strokes, $2 dollars per hole”
• UNCLE JOE: “Sure you can afford that boss. Michelle hold back on your f…ing allowance this week?”
• THE SPEAKER: “So that settles it ladies. $2 dollar a hole match play, $2 dollar trash, two man best ball, no strokes. We’ll take the honors, let’s tee it up.””
With the game and amount agreed to the four gentlemen took full advantage of the customary first tee mulligan and then proceeded in a cloud of tobacco smoke, a pile of crushed beer cans, a fast growing collection of empty wine spritzer bottles, and a soon to be empty bottle of Irish whiskey to navigate the 18 championship holes of golf at Andrews Air Force Base. To avoid boring y’all to tears with the full transcript of their 4 hour conversation we are delighted to provide examples of some of their more colorful remarks below:
• HACKER-IN-CHIEF: After hitting another weak, short, pop up 130 yard drive in the left trees the President asked the Speaker for some help, “John, any advice how to fix that would be most appreciated”
• THE SPEAKER: “Happy to Mr. President. You might try standing farther away from the ball, especially after you hit it.
• UNCLE JOE: Merrily doing a shot per hole, “Nice f…ing shot Gov”
• GOVERNOR K: “I wouldn’t hit Nancy Pelosi that hard.” Addressing the Speaker after he hit a 300 plus yard drive on the fourth hole.
• THE SPEAKER: “I sure as hell would”
• UNCLE JOE: “Nice f…ing shot Mr. Speaker”
• THE SPEAKER: “Nice putt Alice. Did a gust of wind blow your skirt up over your eyes?” directed to the President after leaving a 10 foot put 3 feet short.
• HACKER-IN-CHIEF: “Thanks pard. Thought we were on the same team.
• UNCLE JOE: “Nice f…ing shot Mr. President”
• GOVERNOR K: “Run like a scalded dog.” Encouraging his low hooking tee shot on the 15th.
• THE SPEAKER: “Enjoyed it ladies. Always a pleasure taking your money.” Right after sinking a ten footer for par on 18 to win the hole and the match.
• UNCLE JOE: “Nice f…ing shot…” slurred the VP as he downed his last shot of whiskey and proceeded to pass out on the 18th green.
When all was said and done the President and Speaker clipped Uncle Joe and Governor Kasich for the staggering grand total of $2 dollars. Other notable accomplishments resulting from the day’s outing included 3 packs of Kools and 2 packs of Camels smoked; 24 beers consumed; 6 wine spritzers inhaled; and 1 bottle of Irish whiskey polished off by our VP flying solo.
To our knowledge the President and Speaker still don’t particularly care for each other, Governor Kasich has no idea why he was invited in the first place, and Uncle Joe has absolutely no recollection at all of the entire day. All things considered a relatively successful day for this Administration.
I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”
Ron W. Garikes
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Thoughts of Obama From Bama
Week 125: “A Fox in the Hen House”
A little spending money
Money to burn
Money that you did not necessarily earn
Rainy days seem to wind up sunny
Long as you got a little spending money
I got no financial conscience
Can't worry where it went
A lasting treasure a moment of pleasure
Worth in every cent
Coin or paper, silver or gold
All Denominations nouveaux or old
Can't have a turkey without oyster dressing
It's the root of all evil the sum of your blessings “Spending Money”, Jimmy Buffett
President Obama issued an executive order this week creating an oversight board to eliminate wasteful government spending. Talk about the proverbial “Fox in the Hen House”; “blind leading the blind”; Arnold “I’ll be back” serving as a spokesman for population control; and Congressman Anthony “Little” Weiner teaching online ethics classes to teenage girls.
Keep in mind this is the first Administration to pile up Trillon dollar plus annual deficits. Mr. Obama and company have never met a dollar of other people’s money they didn’t greet with a warm embrace and a big sloppy wet kiss.
They also have the most dubious honor of accumulating more debt in one term, over 4 Trillion dollars, than each and every one of his predecessors combined. A truly astonishing fiscal catastrophe that only a bunch of pointy headed, acamaditions, community organizing, Marxist/Socialist would orchestrate and consider a great accomplishment.
To add insult to injury our “Fiscally Challenged Criminal Spender of Other People’s Money-in-Chief” has appointed his second in command, “nobody messes with Uncle Joe”, Vice President Biden to head up this farce. A man that, bless his heart, makes Sarah Palin look like a certified genius and really is dumber than a bag of hammers.
Over the course of his corruption riddled 40 plus year political career Uncle Joe has shown his lily white, arrogant, elitist, plagiarizing, tacky Yankee ass early, often and with total disregard for the Constitution he has sworn to uphold. Following is a representative list of Uncle Joe’s most outrageous, downright stupid, possibly illegal breaches in decorum and conduct that strongly suggest the man is crazier than an outhouse rat and/or duller than a knife that can’t even cut through hot butter:
• "People, when I say that, look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?" he said at a stop in Virginia. "The answer is yes."
• In an interview with ABC's "This Week," Biden conceded that the White House team "misread how bad the economy was." His confession came as unemployment hit 9.5 percent, despite the administration's insistence that it would hold to 8 percent with the stimulus plan.
• On April 30, 2009, Biden gave advice on dealing with swine flu that seemed to contradict President Obama's warning not to panic. Speaking on NBC's "Today," Biden, a longtime Amtrak rider who has commuted for decades daily from Delaware to Washington, D.C., said he wouldn't advise family necessarily against going to Mexico, the source of the H1N1 outbreak, but he wouldn't tell them to get into any small area like a subway car, automobile, classroom or airplane.
• Biden addressed a former Senate colleague by saying, "An hour late, oh give me a f**king break," after he arrived on Amtrak at Union Station in Washington, D.C. The vice president's expletive was caught on a live microphone. As we all will be subjected too later this is obviously one of his favorite words
• During a 2009 interview on CBS' "Early Show," Biden encouraged viewers to visit a government-run Web site that tracks stimulus spending. When asked for the site's web address, Biden could not remember the site's number.
• At a swearing-in ceremony of senior White House staff, Biden mocked Chief Justice John Roberts for his presidential oath blunder on Inauguration Day. "Am I doing this again?" Biden said, after Obama asked him to administer the oath. When Biden was told the swearing-in was for senior staff the vice president quipped, "My memory is not as good as Justice Roberts," prompting a stern nudge and a toothy grin from President Obama.
• When criticizing former GOP nominee John McCain Biden said, "Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs."
• "When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed”. He said, 'Look, here's what happened," Herbert Hoover, not Roosevelt was president in 1929, and television had not yet been invented.
• During a speech in Columbia, Mo., Biden called for Missouri State Sen. Chuck Graham, who is wheelchair-bound, to "stand up." “Oh, God love ya," Biden said, after realizing his mistake. "What am I talking about?"
• Vice President Joe Biden dropped an F-bomb on live television when he turned to Obama and said, "This is a big f…ng deal." Referring to the passage of Obamacare
• Biden called a Wisconsin custard shop manager a "smartass" after the man refused to take payment and said he'd prefer a tax cut instead.
• VEEP Biden while attending a recent event held at George Washington appears to be racked out like a fat baby while the president is speaking on financial issues.
• Biden lifted Neil Kinnock's, a British labor leader’s, precise turns of phrase and his sequences of ideas for use in his stump speeches during the 1988 Democrat Presidential primary. A degree of plagiarism that would qualify any student for failure, if not expulsion from school. But the even greater sin was to borrow biographical facts from Kinnock that, although true about Kinnock, didn't apply to Biden. This blatant act of plagiarism forced Biden to withdraw in shame from the Presidential primary race.
During the last 125 weeks President Obama has handed Uncle Joe several high-profile assignments. “Stupid is as stupid does” has brought his bull in a china shop and strong hankering for bending the truth approach to each and every special Presidential request.
VP Biden demonstrated a level of incompetence, indifference, and ineptitude in the execution of each assignment that is only tolerated within the confines of a humongous government bureaucracy. So typical for a 40 plus year so called public servant that would have been sent packing so fast in the real world private sector as he’s ushered out with a warning of not letting the door knob hitting him in the arse on his way out.
A summary of Uncle Joe’s record of historic failures follows:
• Point man on the President’s signature legislation the 1Trillion dollar Stimulus Package – A classic example of over selling and underperforming under the VEEP’s criminally negligent direction unemployment soars to a sustained 9% plus level for months with prospects for improvement any time soon few and far between. The only beneficiaries Obama political constituents including the likes of corrupt labor unions, public sector employees, and other Socialist activist.
• Iraq War – Biden attempts to steal credit for success from W claiming our victory one of their Administration’s greatest accomplishments. Even their adoring dominions in the main stream media elite passed on this pathetic attempt at revisionist history
• New START Treaty with the Ruskies – Uncle Joe blackmailed and extorted just enough members of Congress to get this totally lopsided give away of our nuke advantages over the Ruskies as directed by Comrade Obama
• 2010 Budget Deal – VP Biden napped through negotiation sessions leading to extension of W tax rates and substantial spending cuts
• Debt Ceiling Increase Discussions - VP Biden is currently napping through negotiation sessions with Congressional GOPR’s that will hopefully lead to several Trillion in spending cuts and a first right of refusal on several future draft picks.
Uncle Joe’s most recent assignment is sure enough the easiest to accomplish to date as opportunities to eliminate wasteful government spending are both close at hand and more abundant than white on rice. Starting with the resignation of the man sneaking a smoke in the Rose Garden and working his way down from there to every Marxist, Socialist, Communist, radical left wing extremist Presidential appointment made by the Obama Administration, including his own immediate departure, would cut untold Billions if not Trillions of wasteful government spending faster than a scalded dog running home to Momma.
Knowing the chances of the metaphorical Obama foxes making an early departure from the hen house are at best slim to none maybe the best we can hope for is the discovery of a secret texting relationship between the President and Representative “Little” Weiner from New York City. Doubtful but with this bunch of social, political and ethical degenerates such acts of moral depravity can never be 100% ruled out of consideration.
Obama: “Weiner my boy, how you holding up tonight son?....”
I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”
Ron W. Garikes
Week 125: “A Fox in the Hen House”
A little spending money
Money to burn
Money that you did not necessarily earn
Rainy days seem to wind up sunny
Long as you got a little spending money
I got no financial conscience
Can't worry where it went
A lasting treasure a moment of pleasure
Worth in every cent
Coin or paper, silver or gold
All Denominations nouveaux or old
Can't have a turkey without oyster dressing
It's the root of all evil the sum of your blessings “Spending Money”, Jimmy Buffett
President Obama issued an executive order this week creating an oversight board to eliminate wasteful government spending. Talk about the proverbial “Fox in the Hen House”; “blind leading the blind”; Arnold “I’ll be back” serving as a spokesman for population control; and Congressman Anthony “Little” Weiner teaching online ethics classes to teenage girls.
Keep in mind this is the first Administration to pile up Trillon dollar plus annual deficits. Mr. Obama and company have never met a dollar of other people’s money they didn’t greet with a warm embrace and a big sloppy wet kiss.
They also have the most dubious honor of accumulating more debt in one term, over 4 Trillion dollars, than each and every one of his predecessors combined. A truly astonishing fiscal catastrophe that only a bunch of pointy headed, acamaditions, community organizing, Marxist/Socialist would orchestrate and consider a great accomplishment.
To add insult to injury our “Fiscally Challenged Criminal Spender of Other People’s Money-in-Chief” has appointed his second in command, “nobody messes with Uncle Joe”, Vice President Biden to head up this farce. A man that, bless his heart, makes Sarah Palin look like a certified genius and really is dumber than a bag of hammers.
Over the course of his corruption riddled 40 plus year political career Uncle Joe has shown his lily white, arrogant, elitist, plagiarizing, tacky Yankee ass early, often and with total disregard for the Constitution he has sworn to uphold. Following is a representative list of Uncle Joe’s most outrageous, downright stupid, possibly illegal breaches in decorum and conduct that strongly suggest the man is crazier than an outhouse rat and/or duller than a knife that can’t even cut through hot butter:
• "People, when I say that, look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?" he said at a stop in Virginia. "The answer is yes."
• In an interview with ABC's "This Week," Biden conceded that the White House team "misread how bad the economy was." His confession came as unemployment hit 9.5 percent, despite the administration's insistence that it would hold to 8 percent with the stimulus plan.
• On April 30, 2009, Biden gave advice on dealing with swine flu that seemed to contradict President Obama's warning not to panic. Speaking on NBC's "Today," Biden, a longtime Amtrak rider who has commuted for decades daily from Delaware to Washington, D.C., said he wouldn't advise family necessarily against going to Mexico, the source of the H1N1 outbreak, but he wouldn't tell them to get into any small area like a subway car, automobile, classroom or airplane.
• Biden addressed a former Senate colleague by saying, "An hour late, oh give me a f**king break," after he arrived on Amtrak at Union Station in Washington, D.C. The vice president's expletive was caught on a live microphone. As we all will be subjected too later this is obviously one of his favorite words
• During a 2009 interview on CBS' "Early Show," Biden encouraged viewers to visit a government-run Web site that tracks stimulus spending. When asked for the site's web address, Biden could not remember the site's number.
• At a swearing-in ceremony of senior White House staff, Biden mocked Chief Justice John Roberts for his presidential oath blunder on Inauguration Day. "Am I doing this again?" Biden said, after Obama asked him to administer the oath. When Biden was told the swearing-in was for senior staff the vice president quipped, "My memory is not as good as Justice Roberts," prompting a stern nudge and a toothy grin from President Obama.
• When criticizing former GOP nominee John McCain Biden said, "Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs."
• "When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed”. He said, 'Look, here's what happened," Herbert Hoover, not Roosevelt was president in 1929, and television had not yet been invented.
• During a speech in Columbia, Mo., Biden called for Missouri State Sen. Chuck Graham, who is wheelchair-bound, to "stand up." “Oh, God love ya," Biden said, after realizing his mistake. "What am I talking about?"
• Vice President Joe Biden dropped an F-bomb on live television when he turned to Obama and said, "This is a big f…ng deal." Referring to the passage of Obamacare
• Biden called a Wisconsin custard shop manager a "smartass" after the man refused to take payment and said he'd prefer a tax cut instead.
• VEEP Biden while attending a recent event held at George Washington appears to be racked out like a fat baby while the president is speaking on financial issues.
• Biden lifted Neil Kinnock's, a British labor leader’s, precise turns of phrase and his sequences of ideas for use in his stump speeches during the 1988 Democrat Presidential primary. A degree of plagiarism that would qualify any student for failure, if not expulsion from school. But the even greater sin was to borrow biographical facts from Kinnock that, although true about Kinnock, didn't apply to Biden. This blatant act of plagiarism forced Biden to withdraw in shame from the Presidential primary race.
During the last 125 weeks President Obama has handed Uncle Joe several high-profile assignments. “Stupid is as stupid does” has brought his bull in a china shop and strong hankering for bending the truth approach to each and every special Presidential request.
VP Biden demonstrated a level of incompetence, indifference, and ineptitude in the execution of each assignment that is only tolerated within the confines of a humongous government bureaucracy. So typical for a 40 plus year so called public servant that would have been sent packing so fast in the real world private sector as he’s ushered out with a warning of not letting the door knob hitting him in the arse on his way out.
A summary of Uncle Joe’s record of historic failures follows:
• Point man on the President’s signature legislation the 1Trillion dollar Stimulus Package – A classic example of over selling and underperforming under the VEEP’s criminally negligent direction unemployment soars to a sustained 9% plus level for months with prospects for improvement any time soon few and far between. The only beneficiaries Obama political constituents including the likes of corrupt labor unions, public sector employees, and other Socialist activist.
• Iraq War – Biden attempts to steal credit for success from W claiming our victory one of their Administration’s greatest accomplishments. Even their adoring dominions in the main stream media elite passed on this pathetic attempt at revisionist history
• New START Treaty with the Ruskies – Uncle Joe blackmailed and extorted just enough members of Congress to get this totally lopsided give away of our nuke advantages over the Ruskies as directed by Comrade Obama
• 2010 Budget Deal – VP Biden napped through negotiation sessions leading to extension of W tax rates and substantial spending cuts
• Debt Ceiling Increase Discussions - VP Biden is currently napping through negotiation sessions with Congressional GOPR’s that will hopefully lead to several Trillion in spending cuts and a first right of refusal on several future draft picks.
Uncle Joe’s most recent assignment is sure enough the easiest to accomplish to date as opportunities to eliminate wasteful government spending are both close at hand and more abundant than white on rice. Starting with the resignation of the man sneaking a smoke in the Rose Garden and working his way down from there to every Marxist, Socialist, Communist, radical left wing extremist Presidential appointment made by the Obama Administration, including his own immediate departure, would cut untold Billions if not Trillions of wasteful government spending faster than a scalded dog running home to Momma.
Knowing the chances of the metaphorical Obama foxes making an early departure from the hen house are at best slim to none maybe the best we can hope for is the discovery of a secret texting relationship between the President and Representative “Little” Weiner from New York City. Doubtful but with this bunch of social, political and ethical degenerates such acts of moral depravity can never be 100% ruled out of consideration.
Obama: “Weiner my boy, how you holding up tonight son?....”
I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”
Ron W. Garikes
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Thoughts of Obama From Bama
Week 124: “Obama’s Weiner Exposed Stepping Out On Twitter”
When the telephone woke me this morning,
I'm sorry was the first thing I said
From that point it get's a bit fuzzy, thinking with half a head
Putting the pieces together, it's shocking to flash on the past
'Cause when you are known as a rascal, you can bet you showed off your ass
I was so bad last night, I'll be good for the rest of my life
Now I'm telling you and this is the truth
I have finally seen the light
From now on I'm going to act right, I was so bad last night
The harder I try to remember, the quicker my brain starts to hurt
It really is funny, unwadding the money, that's been stuffed in my pants and shirt
But tryin' to make sense of phone numbers, scribbled on the backs of old cards
I guess we ought to be thankful, nobody knows who we are
I was so bad last night, I'll be good for the rest of my life
Now I'm telling you and this is the truth
I tore up the bar, lost a pretty nice car
It's a good bet I ticked off my wife
I never intended to do it, I dropped in for a drink or two
But all of the chicks were so foxy, I wanted to marry a few
The place was more crowded than usual, and everyone there was my friend
Franny and Snake and Bunky and Jake, and somehow the night never ends
I Was So Bad Last Night, Jerry Jeff Walker
Congressman Anthony Weiner, a Democrat from the 9th District of New York, has been one of the most visible; outspoken; in our face Obama advocates in the US House of Representatives since the first day this corrupt regime infested the White House. As President Obama’s lead Congressional attack dog Representative Weiner done raised the roof in support of Obamacare, Cap and Tax, financial stimulus (massive wealth redistribution), eliminating the use of fossil fuels, and the creation of a Socialist Nanny State.
Little Weiner, as he is affectionately referred to by close friends and associates, sure enough is one of the most arrogant, belligerent, obnoxious, elitist, sanctimonious, dishonest, disingenuous, just downright rude tacky Yankees currently serving in the US Congress. A man being groomed and promoted as an up and comer destined for senior leadership and some serious progressive/liberal/Socialist world shaking in the Democrat Party.
Finally having achieved Rock Star status in the Democrat Party and with his comrades in the mainstream media elite press young Little Weiner literally got caught with his britches down in another sex scandal involving a prominent politician. Following in the footsteps of his hero and mentor “Saturday Night” Bill Clinton Little Weiner has done “screwed the pooch” when it comes to his most promising career as a rising star of the left wing Marxist/Socialist political class.
Turns out the recently married Little Weiner is a full fledged cyber sex perv who gives an entirely new meaning to the terms “backdoor firewall”, “hand held device” and “joy stick”. He’s also proved to be a gifted and creative liar at a level that rivals his before mentioned mentor and his pathological tall telling little woman, “She of the Butt Ugly Traveling Pants Suit Klan”, Hillary (who just so happens to be an old friend and current employer of Little Weiner’s new bride).
Following is a brief chronology of the public, self inflicted, self destruction of Representative Anthony “Little” Weiner:
• May 27 – An image of a man’s crotch in his under drawers is uploaded too little Weiner’s Twitter account and sent to 21-year-old Gennette Cordova. Little Weiner realizes his mistake and takes the photo down and claims he was hacked.
• May, 29 -- Conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart exposes little Weiner on his website biggovernment.com. Weiner blames Breitbart and insist he was the victim of a hacker.
• May 30 – The college student tagged in the photo says she never met Little Weiner. Weiner’s office said they were “seeking legal action” to investigate who hacked the account.
• May 31 – When reporters in Washington, D.C. questioned Little Weiner about the tweet he belligerently responds he will not answer any questions saying he had already put out a statement. “I’m not going to allow this to be what I talk about all week”.
• June 1 – Little Weiner spends all day in media interviews. His repeated ludicrous reply, "You know, I can't say with certitude. My system was hacked. Pictures can be manipulated. Pictures can be dropped in and inserted".
• June 2 to June 5 – Little Weiner lays low and avoids public appearances.
• June 6 – After Andrew Breitbart announces he is in possession of more incriminating photos of Little Weiner, including a full Monty, he does a press conference at 4 p.m. where he admits the originally tweeted photo was not in fact the work of a hacker but his own. He apologizes to his family and his constituents, and admits to 6 inappropriate cyber relationships.
President Obama’s Little Weiner, his point man, go to guy, political pit-bull in the Congress seems to be just another low life degenerate scoundrel like so many of Mr. Obama’s other past and current associations. The President’s attraction to these deviant, often criminal, and always radical left wing extremist is certainly cause for great concern and consternation.
Reckon we can just add Little Weiner’s name to the President’s long list of Marxist/Socialist, racist, and elitist circle of friends that includes the likes of Reverend Jeremiah GD America Wright; domestic terrorist Bill Ayers; the always understated and reserved former Illinois Governor Elvis the Blago; political mentor Fidel Castro; golfing and clubbing compadre Tiger Woods; and political soul mate current Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez.
As for President Obama’s Little Weiner’s ultimate fate so far no word from the White House and other Democrat leaders, with a few notable exceptions, calling for the perv Congressman’s resignation. Considering the Democrat’s idolization of the consummate horn dog former President Bill Clinton and lionization of Ted Kennedy, who literally got away with the murder of Mary Jo Kopechne, uploading an image of your full Monty on Twitter seems almost trivial in comparison.
I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”
Ron W. Garikes
Week 124: “Obama’s Weiner Exposed Stepping Out On Twitter”
When the telephone woke me this morning,
I'm sorry was the first thing I said
From that point it get's a bit fuzzy, thinking with half a head
Putting the pieces together, it's shocking to flash on the past
'Cause when you are known as a rascal, you can bet you showed off your ass
I was so bad last night, I'll be good for the rest of my life
Now I'm telling you and this is the truth
I have finally seen the light
From now on I'm going to act right, I was so bad last night
The harder I try to remember, the quicker my brain starts to hurt
It really is funny, unwadding the money, that's been stuffed in my pants and shirt
But tryin' to make sense of phone numbers, scribbled on the backs of old cards
I guess we ought to be thankful, nobody knows who we are
I was so bad last night, I'll be good for the rest of my life
Now I'm telling you and this is the truth
I tore up the bar, lost a pretty nice car
It's a good bet I ticked off my wife
I never intended to do it, I dropped in for a drink or two
But all of the chicks were so foxy, I wanted to marry a few
The place was more crowded than usual, and everyone there was my friend
Franny and Snake and Bunky and Jake, and somehow the night never ends
I Was So Bad Last Night, Jerry Jeff Walker
Congressman Anthony Weiner, a Democrat from the 9th District of New York, has been one of the most visible; outspoken; in our face Obama advocates in the US House of Representatives since the first day this corrupt regime infested the White House. As President Obama’s lead Congressional attack dog Representative Weiner done raised the roof in support of Obamacare, Cap and Tax, financial stimulus (massive wealth redistribution), eliminating the use of fossil fuels, and the creation of a Socialist Nanny State.
Little Weiner, as he is affectionately referred to by close friends and associates, sure enough is one of the most arrogant, belligerent, obnoxious, elitist, sanctimonious, dishonest, disingenuous, just downright rude tacky Yankees currently serving in the US Congress. A man being groomed and promoted as an up and comer destined for senior leadership and some serious progressive/liberal/Socialist world shaking in the Democrat Party.
Finally having achieved Rock Star status in the Democrat Party and with his comrades in the mainstream media elite press young Little Weiner literally got caught with his britches down in another sex scandal involving a prominent politician. Following in the footsteps of his hero and mentor “Saturday Night” Bill Clinton Little Weiner has done “screwed the pooch” when it comes to his most promising career as a rising star of the left wing Marxist/Socialist political class.
Turns out the recently married Little Weiner is a full fledged cyber sex perv who gives an entirely new meaning to the terms “backdoor firewall”, “hand held device” and “joy stick”. He’s also proved to be a gifted and creative liar at a level that rivals his before mentioned mentor and his pathological tall telling little woman, “She of the Butt Ugly Traveling Pants Suit Klan”, Hillary (who just so happens to be an old friend and current employer of Little Weiner’s new bride).
Following is a brief chronology of the public, self inflicted, self destruction of Representative Anthony “Little” Weiner:
• May 27 – An image of a man’s crotch in his under drawers is uploaded too little Weiner’s Twitter account and sent to 21-year-old Gennette Cordova. Little Weiner realizes his mistake and takes the photo down and claims he was hacked.
• May, 29 -- Conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart exposes little Weiner on his website biggovernment.com. Weiner blames Breitbart and insist he was the victim of a hacker.
• May 30 – The college student tagged in the photo says she never met Little Weiner. Weiner’s office said they were “seeking legal action” to investigate who hacked the account.
• May 31 – When reporters in Washington, D.C. questioned Little Weiner about the tweet he belligerently responds he will not answer any questions saying he had already put out a statement. “I’m not going to allow this to be what I talk about all week”.
• June 1 – Little Weiner spends all day in media interviews. His repeated ludicrous reply, "You know, I can't say with certitude. My system was hacked. Pictures can be manipulated. Pictures can be dropped in and inserted".
• June 2 to June 5 – Little Weiner lays low and avoids public appearances.
• June 6 – After Andrew Breitbart announces he is in possession of more incriminating photos of Little Weiner, including a full Monty, he does a press conference at 4 p.m. where he admits the originally tweeted photo was not in fact the work of a hacker but his own. He apologizes to his family and his constituents, and admits to 6 inappropriate cyber relationships.
President Obama’s Little Weiner, his point man, go to guy, political pit-bull in the Congress seems to be just another low life degenerate scoundrel like so many of Mr. Obama’s other past and current associations. The President’s attraction to these deviant, often criminal, and always radical left wing extremist is certainly cause for great concern and consternation.
Reckon we can just add Little Weiner’s name to the President’s long list of Marxist/Socialist, racist, and elitist circle of friends that includes the likes of Reverend Jeremiah GD America Wright; domestic terrorist Bill Ayers; the always understated and reserved former Illinois Governor Elvis the Blago; political mentor Fidel Castro; golfing and clubbing compadre Tiger Woods; and political soul mate current Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez.
As for President Obama’s Little Weiner’s ultimate fate so far no word from the White House and other Democrat leaders, with a few notable exceptions, calling for the perv Congressman’s resignation. Considering the Democrat’s idolization of the consummate horn dog former President Bill Clinton and lionization of Ted Kennedy, who literally got away with the murder of Mary Jo Kopechne, uploading an image of your full Monty on Twitter seems almost trivial in comparison.
I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”
Ron W. Garikes
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Thoughts of Obama From Bama
Week 123: “Mediscare Tactics ”
Had a dream last night took a time travellin' ride
Back to my childhood where those monsters reside
They snack on innocence and dine on self-esteem
But I like to be in touch with what makes me scream
Vampires, mummies and the Holy Ghost
These are the things that terrify me the most
No aliens, psychopaths or MTV host
Scares me like vampires, mummies and the Holy Ghost Vampires, Mummies and the Holy Ghost, Jimmy Buffett
Democrats are employing their tried and true tactics that have worked for years scaring hell out of the old folks about the demonic Republicans who want to kill Medicare and Social Security so they can give more tax breaks to their greedy wealthy friends, criminal oil companies and immoral Insurance provider cheats and scoundrels. The warm hearted, compassionate, socially conscience liberals would have us believe if the GOPR’s had their druthers every elderly individual would be called home to Glory way before reaching the age of eligibility for these social welfare programs.
To advance and promote this absolutely dishonest, misleading, and just downright Marxist/Socialist leftist propaganda President Obama and his Democrat comrades will say and do most anything, the truth be damned, to advocate their disingenuous position on the subject. No lie is to audacious, scare tactic too unscrupulous, exploitation of our senior citizens too demeaning for our pointy-headed liberal brethren when it comes to advocating these massive entitlement programs.
A current Democrat National Committee political advertisement goes as far to depict a Paul Ryan, the GOP Budget Chair who is proposing significant changes to Medicare in his 2012 Budget to reverse the course of this soon to be insolvent social welfare give away the farm Federal subsidy, look alike literally rolling Granny off the cliff in her Medicare issued wheel chair. Can’t be certain but Granny sure enough has a strong resemblance to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid dressed in drag.
Sadly far too many seniors succumb to the President and Democrat’s scare tactics and buy into the great lie that they can save the program, keep current benefits, and control cost by maintaining the status quo. No way, no how, no sir.
If you consider two simple facts about significant changes to the program since its implementation over 50 years ago it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know Medicare as we know it just ain’t sustainable:
(1) When first started there were over 10 workers paying into the program for each beneficiary. The current ratio is less than 1 – 1.
(2) The life expectancy of Americans has increased by more than 10 years.
These two variances alone dictate major revisions to keep both Medicare and Social Security viable. White House scare tactics for political expediency are just another example of this gang’s class, economic, and race warfare strategy for the 2012 elections.
A few historical points about the two social welfare programs that are literary sucking this country dry with the enthusiastic support of the Obama regime and their Congressional Comrades follows:
• The Social Security Act of 1965 was signed into law in 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson as amendments to existing Social Security legislation
• Medicare is financed by payroll taxes. The tax is equal to 2.9 of compensation in connection with employment
• The costs of Medicare doubled every four years between 1966 and 1980. Medicare cost were $256.8 billion in fiscal year 2002
• Total Medicare spending reached $440 billion for fiscal year 2007 or 16% of all federal spending and grew to $599 billion in 2008 which was 20% of federal spending.
• According to the 2008 report by the board of trustees for Medicare and Social Security, Medicare spent more than it brought in from taxes for the first time in 2008
• The Republican controlled House of Representatives recently passed legislation converting Medicare to a voucher based payment system that also subsidies lower income participants
• President Obama and his humongous government cohorts have offered no viable alternatives and true to form have also made claims scaring seniors senseless including the GOP changes will result in untold disasters and catastrophes of Biblical proportions. The standard Granny relegated to surviving on dog food; Grandpa being denied of medicine, food, and shelter; and tales of roving bands of Republicans roughing up old folks have been told early and often.
• FDR, America’s first Socialist in the White House, started Social Security back in 1930’s. Initially participation in the Program was completely voluntary. That changed quickly once Uncle Sammy realized the untold potential trillions of other people’s money to be confiscated
• For starters participants only had to pay 1% of their first $1,400 of annual Income. That amount has increased to 7.65% on the first $90,000
• Income subverted into the Program was deductible for
income tax purposes, That ain’t the case no more
• Money put into the independent 'Trust Fund' rather than into the
general operating fund was only to be used to fund the Social Security
Retirement Program, and no other Government program. Under LBJ the money was moved to the General Fund and Spent
• The annuity payments to the retirees weren’t supposed to ever be taxed
as income. This changed under Clinton & Gore with up to 85% of Social Security income now being taxable
• Led by Jimmy “the Peanut” Carter the Congressional Socialist/Democrats started providing SS benefits to criminal illegal immigrants. A truly unconstitutional and immoral act carried out by our Government
We might need to seriously consider adding the Obama regime to the list of things that scare us the most - mummies, vampires and the Holy Ghost. As for their dishonesty in spooking all the seniors it’s high time to bring an immediate halt to this despicable behavior.
As for all us rapidly approaching old geezer status and for those already there no one, including those wild eyed demonic Congressional Republicans as they are so lovingly referred to by their Democrat counterparts, is gonna touch even a frog hair’s worth of our Medicare or our precious Social Security neither. Why any of us even support these Socialist initiatives is sure enough great fodder for future columns.
I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”
Ron W. Garikes
Week 123: “Mediscare Tactics ”
Had a dream last night took a time travellin' ride
Back to my childhood where those monsters reside
They snack on innocence and dine on self-esteem
But I like to be in touch with what makes me scream
Vampires, mummies and the Holy Ghost
These are the things that terrify me the most
No aliens, psychopaths or MTV host
Scares me like vampires, mummies and the Holy Ghost Vampires, Mummies and the Holy Ghost, Jimmy Buffett
Democrats are employing their tried and true tactics that have worked for years scaring hell out of the old folks about the demonic Republicans who want to kill Medicare and Social Security so they can give more tax breaks to their greedy wealthy friends, criminal oil companies and immoral Insurance provider cheats and scoundrels. The warm hearted, compassionate, socially conscience liberals would have us believe if the GOPR’s had their druthers every elderly individual would be called home to Glory way before reaching the age of eligibility for these social welfare programs.
To advance and promote this absolutely dishonest, misleading, and just downright Marxist/Socialist leftist propaganda President Obama and his Democrat comrades will say and do most anything, the truth be damned, to advocate their disingenuous position on the subject. No lie is to audacious, scare tactic too unscrupulous, exploitation of our senior citizens too demeaning for our pointy-headed liberal brethren when it comes to advocating these massive entitlement programs.
A current Democrat National Committee political advertisement goes as far to depict a Paul Ryan, the GOP Budget Chair who is proposing significant changes to Medicare in his 2012 Budget to reverse the course of this soon to be insolvent social welfare give away the farm Federal subsidy, look alike literally rolling Granny off the cliff in her Medicare issued wheel chair. Can’t be certain but Granny sure enough has a strong resemblance to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid dressed in drag.
Sadly far too many seniors succumb to the President and Democrat’s scare tactics and buy into the great lie that they can save the program, keep current benefits, and control cost by maintaining the status quo. No way, no how, no sir.
If you consider two simple facts about significant changes to the program since its implementation over 50 years ago it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know Medicare as we know it just ain’t sustainable:
(1) When first started there were over 10 workers paying into the program for each beneficiary. The current ratio is less than 1 – 1.
(2) The life expectancy of Americans has increased by more than 10 years.
These two variances alone dictate major revisions to keep both Medicare and Social Security viable. White House scare tactics for political expediency are just another example of this gang’s class, economic, and race warfare strategy for the 2012 elections.
A few historical points about the two social welfare programs that are literary sucking this country dry with the enthusiastic support of the Obama regime and their Congressional Comrades follows:
• The Social Security Act of 1965 was signed into law in 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson as amendments to existing Social Security legislation
• Medicare is financed by payroll taxes. The tax is equal to 2.9 of compensation in connection with employment
• The costs of Medicare doubled every four years between 1966 and 1980. Medicare cost were $256.8 billion in fiscal year 2002
• Total Medicare spending reached $440 billion for fiscal year 2007 or 16% of all federal spending and grew to $599 billion in 2008 which was 20% of federal spending.
• According to the 2008 report by the board of trustees for Medicare and Social Security, Medicare spent more than it brought in from taxes for the first time in 2008
• The Republican controlled House of Representatives recently passed legislation converting Medicare to a voucher based payment system that also subsidies lower income participants
• President Obama and his humongous government cohorts have offered no viable alternatives and true to form have also made claims scaring seniors senseless including the GOP changes will result in untold disasters and catastrophes of Biblical proportions. The standard Granny relegated to surviving on dog food; Grandpa being denied of medicine, food, and shelter; and tales of roving bands of Republicans roughing up old folks have been told early and often.
• FDR, America’s first Socialist in the White House, started Social Security back in 1930’s. Initially participation in the Program was completely voluntary. That changed quickly once Uncle Sammy realized the untold potential trillions of other people’s money to be confiscated
• For starters participants only had to pay 1% of their first $1,400 of annual Income. That amount has increased to 7.65% on the first $90,000
• Income subverted into the Program was deductible for
income tax purposes, That ain’t the case no more
• Money put into the independent 'Trust Fund' rather than into the
general operating fund was only to be used to fund the Social Security
Retirement Program, and no other Government program. Under LBJ the money was moved to the General Fund and Spent
• The annuity payments to the retirees weren’t supposed to ever be taxed
as income. This changed under Clinton & Gore with up to 85% of Social Security income now being taxable
• Led by Jimmy “the Peanut” Carter the Congressional Socialist/Democrats started providing SS benefits to criminal illegal immigrants. A truly unconstitutional and immoral act carried out by our Government
We might need to seriously consider adding the Obama regime to the list of things that scare us the most - mummies, vampires and the Holy Ghost. As for their dishonesty in spooking all the seniors it’s high time to bring an immediate halt to this despicable behavior.
As for all us rapidly approaching old geezer status and for those already there no one, including those wild eyed demonic Congressional Republicans as they are so lovingly referred to by their Democrat counterparts, is gonna touch even a frog hair’s worth of our Medicare or our precious Social Security neither. Why any of us even support these Socialist initiatives is sure enough great fodder for future columns.
I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”
Ron W. Garikes
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