I was hopeful but the blah blah blah crushed it.Posted Tuesday, March 24, 2009, at 11:57 PM
My opinion: I was tired from working overtime and wanted to just veg-out so I was tempted to channel surf without a care in the world. That is what I wanted, Lord knows it, but I didn't. No, I kept the channel fixed, grabbed a notepad and pen, poised for note-taking, while Obama sauntered to the podium. He looked so calm and spoke with an authority that actually reminded me of teachers that I had in school. Well, those teachers always got my attention and sparked my desire to rebel. I felt my spine stiffen and my ears perked with the need to hear something that would sway my distaste. Just give me something, please! Some tid-bit of hope that what I know deep within myself is overwhelmingly false. I want to think that the doom and gloom that has darkened my country is not real. I whispered, "Can't you help me out?" to the screen as Obama kept repeating the same thing over and over as if the teleprompter was stuck like a broken record. He kept saying: Strategy to create jobs, help homeowners, get credit going...blah blah blah! Give me something!
Then the record skipped to: renewable energy, I like that! Yes, I want our country to tap into it's own resources, natural gas, oil, alternative energy is a wonderful thing! I want wind power, solar energy, hydrogen power....yes, I want that! Is that the hope? Then it all got cancelled out when he said, "buying up assets...reformed health care...a budget of 7 trillion...renewable source, clean energy jobs, reformed healthcare, ...regulating big companies that affect our economy! What! Is that free-enterprise? He wants to ensure we never go back to the past by allowing the government to take control of businesses that they deem to be "too big to fail" and "have the power to restructure a company that effects the economy" Oh, this is exactly what I've been worried about. Now, the government will take control and dictate what a business can pay their employees and how to run it. And this is from a President who has never ran a business before! Record skipped again and he repeats over and over the same thing, "buying up assets...reformed health care...a budget of 7 trillion...renewable source, clean energy jobs, reformed healthcare. Everytime a reporter asked a question, he gave the same answer which wasn't even an answer to their question. He was dancing around everyone! Droning on and on. He couldn't give a direct answer to a simple question like, "If there is not a tax cut for the middle-class or cap n trade in the budget, will you sign it?" He evaded the question and repeated...blah, blah, blah, broken record! Then the reporter asked it again. Obama said, "blah, blah blah!" So like a good informed researcher, I went and read other sources before I made my decision to blog. Here is what I found. Let's go over a few points. Let's call this, Fact or Blah blah. OBAMA Blah Blah: We will get out of this recession. We see a steady increase of growth. The budget predicts solid 3.2 percent growth for 2010, followed by three years of more than 4 percent growth each year. FACT: Who can say when the recession will end? There are so many things that can happen in a year. We could be worse and we could be in a depression worse that ever. I mean, how much sense does it make to try and get us out of recession by putting us deeper into debt? Then, the budget predicts solid 3.2 percent growth for 2010, followed by three years of more than 4 percent growth each year. Who has the crystal ball? It's all a wing and a prayer except that prayer wouldn't be allowed since there's a separation of church and state. OBAMA Blah Blah: "In this budget, we have made the tough choices necessary to cut our deficit in half by the end of my first term even under the most pessimistic estimates." FACT: Not all credible estimates foresee a deficit halved in that time. The President's forecast of a deficit of $530 billion by 2013 (if we're around then, the Mayan's didn't think so) That would cut the budget in half but in order for that to happen, a lot of magic must occur. I wonder if this President has a Merlin in his cabinet. His own Congressional Budget Office forecasts it would leave a deficit of $672 billion by the end of 2013. He contradicted himself by explaining the differences between his projections and CBO's by saying that he projects a higher growth rate. Magic! Well, I want some of that cause I have decided to project that I will be debt-free by 2010! Sweet! OBAMA blah blah: "Our assumptions are perfectly consistent with what blue-chip forecasters out there are saying." FACT: The Blue Chip projection: 1.2 percent versus 1.9 percent. Then it foresees growth of 2.1 percent next year, instead of 3.2 percent, and less than 3 percent in each of the next three years versus 4 percent or better. OBAMA blah blah: Responding to critics in Congress who say his proposed budget is irresponsible, Obama said, "I suspect that some of those Republican critics have a short memory, because, as I recall, I'm inheriting a $1.3 trillion deficit, annual deficit, from them." FACT: Republican President George W. Bush did leave a huge deficit. But people, rememeber: The Democratic-run Congress, which authorizes spending is not blameless in driving up deficits in the last two years. Now that's the facts, nothing but the facts! No more blah blah blah! Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] |
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Who can say when the recession will end?
Who can say when it WONT end? Im so tired of the Obama bashing it makes me sick! You people are paranoid freaks! GIVE THE MAN A CHANCE!
Give him a chance? Look what he's done ALREADY in just 2 months. Our grandkids will never forget it.
Bailouts..........half of his own cabinet has "bailed-out" on HIM!
They passed an 1100 page package without even READING it, and NOW have to go back after these bonuses they WOULD have caught if they HAD read it.
Obama is shutting down the guns-in-cockpits for airline pilots program. He obviously doesn't remember 9/11.
He wanted to make active duty military take out their own health care policies!
He wants the government able to seize corporations that don't produce to the government's standards.
They now CONTROL 40% of the banking industry.
Nancy Pelosi wants a new jet, and wants the ATF to cease and desist raiding worksites and taking these "poor illegals" from their families and deporting them
She also wants part of YOUR 401K to help those "new immigrants" to get off to a good start in our country.
Obama wants to "reach out" to those who engineered 9/11, and to the Iranians as well.
He appoints, as head of Homeland Security, an ex-governor who wouldn't even keep the borders secure in her OWN state....now she has charge of all FIFTY!
Over 40 BILLION of our "bailout money" has left the country to help others overseas.........(and you silly people thought that was for US, eh?)
ALL THIS so far....in just two months!
So...........how much "chance" do we have to GIVE him before we say something about it?
Bashing?............we'll give Obama the same respect you guys gave Sarah Palin.
If a Republican President with a Republican Congress had done HALF of what Obama and crew have done so far, the media would be running absolutely wild with it!.....But, Obama still gets a fairly "free pass" from CNN, NBC and others.....just as he did during his campaigns.
See his "conference" last night? No tough questions really and he skirted around like a fox avoiding the hounds.
He's smooth............I'll give him that. But he's not MY president!
Neither was BUSH, but he got bashed by you people everytime he made a mistake in pronunciation................so deal with it. I guess it just goes with the job. Obama wanted that job. He lied, tricked, deceived and mezmorized the sheeples into following him like the pied pipier.
Now, he's appointed tax cheats in his cabinets, he HIMSELF was the Number Two man on the Fannie Mae benefactor list, he pushed his fellow Democrats into signing a nearly trillion dollar package without reading it first...........he's committed some very BLATANT goof-ups......
And he's being CALLED on it...........people are mad all over this country....he tries to hide for a little while on Jay leno, where he makes that "Special Olymics" remark..........(if a Republican had done that, he'd have been castrated).
Whenever BUSH screwed up, there was a virtual FEEDING FRENZY.............now the shoe is on the other foot, and the DEMS don't like it...................tough.
Obama tap-danced his way into the Oval Office. B.S. is over and so is the honeymoon. Now your boy has to deliver. He has to WALK THE WALK.
And everytime he stumbles, he's gonna get the same respect from our side, that Bush got from yours. Count on it.
Oh, and mhg starts things off with name calling! If you do not like her blog---DO NOT READ IT. Paranoid freaks? Better to be "paranoid" than blind and ignorant on the issues! I can only imagine where we will be in less than 4 years. Then it will be...give him more time. Ugh.
You do not even live here anymore! Why comment? Do you not have a local paper or local issues that you can work on? Maybe volunteer for the local hospital or teach kids to read at the elementary school. Certainly you must have something you COULD do where YOU live.
Nice blog Kim as always. We need to start a book club for the "paranoid freaks" and keep you away from any more "Obamanation" freak TV. It just is not healthy to watch. You can pick the first book and Mike and Ken can read and animate for us! It could be a great time. Wine and popcorn and sweet treats from the CoOp (in Boise). Great blog Kim. You are a smart lady and always present great info (since I cannot even stand to watch him on TV). Keep up the good work.
*News Flash* I just wanted to let you know the election is over, and instead of complaining all the time why don't you Bazookaman, MHBouncer, and Opinion Missy actually come up with some original thoughts, because obviously you must have some idea on how you want things done (and please Bazookaman lets not talk about guns for the billionth time)...
Kim, you are obviously a talented writer, but this blog is becoming masturbatory.
The government must be doing something right, the stock market is starting to go up. The housing market it starting to improve, in Boise it is up 14%. It might be nice to look at some of the positives instead of only the negatives.
Oh Mrs. Bell---we should have reminded you of the very same thing some time ago. You always have the choice NOT to read. If it angers you to read what the paranoid freaks think---DO NOT READ IT.
"Masturbatory"...funny I thought what Kim wrote was about Obama as opposed to herself.
Main Entry: mas·tur·ba·to·ry
Pronunciation: \ˈmas-tər-bə-ˌtȯr-ç\
Function: adjective
Date: 1864
1 I deleted this as I was afraid my post would be deleted due to content.
2 : excessively self-absorbed or self-indulgent
And yes, Obama does fit the definition well. Thank you for pointing that out.
OM-
I can read what I want, and respond as I want, just as you do yourself! And paranoid freaks fits just fine :) Yet again, just another example of your loveliness.....
MH is my home OM!I will eventually get back there and raise my family, you can count on it!...MY home for 22 years, MY roots are in MH.....MY entire family! I read the MHN, I post on the MHN because I can and I will...You have been asked many times to shut up and stop blogging/posting, but you dont because you do not have to and have ALOT to say, neither will I. Kim blogs and writes becasue she is good at it and loves it, but, all blogs/posts are open for opinions, right Missy? Right! I am obviously an Obama supporter and trust in MY president! I will defend him. Just as you are not a supporter and you will defend that as well. As far as volonteering , I have 1 full time job, as well as 1 part time, so, I am unable to do much of that. Stating my opinion here on the BB has nothing to do with volunteering. Just as usual, you can dish it out over and over again but you cannot take it at all! Have a great day being your usual miserable self! Couldnt imagine it any other way.
mhg4316
I've noticed how she always seems to bring up the fact that you don't live here. There are MANY other people who post that live out of town, or out of state, for that matter, that she doesn't comment on. You keep blogging...I don't give a flip if you live in Timbucktoo...you have just as much right as anyone else.
Yes Sas, everytime with the "you dont live here" crap! So irritating. As we can all see from past posts, repetition is definently the way she likes to go, same crap, every single day...And you can bet I will not stop posting here! You take care Sandy....
Sonya
I am not an Obama supporter, I believe he is leading us down the path to a socialist state and that was the plan all along. (I like that OBAMA - One-Big-Ass-Mistake-America bumper sticker) But I'm really tired of people who are intolerant of other people's opinions on this site. You try to state your opinion and they say just stick to facts, or use name-calling, or say you're not from here so you can't post here blah, blah, blah. Or they say the election is over so you can't say anything negative. I welcome other people's opinions; that's why I get on this website. It would be such a boring world if everyone thought alike. Can we all just quit attacking and using cheap shots on people whose opinions don't agree with our own?
OK, Mrs Bell..... I want the GITMO prisoners to be TRIED, not freed.
I want every bailout dollar used for US.
I want the marines on our borders with full authority to shoot anybody trying to cross over illegally
I want the illegals deported.
Let the banks fail, if WE got into something over OUR heads, nobody would bail US out
I want the U.N. out of here
Fancy nancy can fly commercially, like the rest of us.
I want all forms of foreign aid stopped
I want the Federal Reserve and IRS abolished and our Constitution followed to the letter
How's THAT for starters, Mrs Bell? And notice I didn't mention guns............after all, if our Constitution WAS followed................
There's one other reason we had better stand and save our country............and nobody has mentioned it yet.........
There's no place else to go.
Think on that awhile.
Oops......I forget to mention, there is a huge internet drive to put our tax point across to the thieves back east. On the 1st of April, everyone mail a single bag of tea to the White House at 1600 Pensylvania Ave, Washington D.C. 20500
There need not be a note enclosed or even a return address. If everyone who knows about it sends one, it'll definitely make a statement about how we feel about our tax money being wasted.
I've got mine sealed and stamped.....may do a few more just for good measure. If they're all mailed on the 1st, they will arrive in D.C. over a spread of 3 or 4 days, depending on where they originate from.
Once again, the debate is spirited. My post was written point by point with facts. Although I did make a few comments about magic and crystal balls, it was strictly facts. I don't care who takes the time to blog. Whether they are citizens of MH or not, makes no difference to me. Apparently, I am clueless because I don't know which people who comment live here or not. I just write what I think after reading alot of other media and facts. If that is self-absorbed, then so be it.
Masturbatory? The fact that I evoked such a nice-sized word out of someone makes me smile. I'm just tickled pink that someone thought of it. I loved it so much that I think I'll write the word on posterboard and make a cute collage of pictures around it. It's going on my wall! That's what I'll do! Wow, I can look at it everyday while I write. It is a badge of honor and it makes me smile. Masturbatory just makes me giggle. It's almost naughty, yet isn't. Thank you so much for providing me with such a perfect descriptive word. I will enjoy it for many days to come. Have a great day everyone. I gotta go. Right now, I need to do my hair and look at myself in the mirror, practicing expressions. No more time for serious things.
Now how's that for self-absorbed?
Pretty cool..........keep up the good writings Kim!
Arent we suppose to go way up yonder past the caution light and ask Mrs. Bell for some of her sweet tea?
Good one AD. Great post MHB and Mike. Kim, it never hurts to focus a bit on yourself. Enjoy the sun today!
Great post Bouncer, but it'll never fly. It requires doing the RIGHT things, and we've got the WRONG people in charge.
Americans first?..........Are you kidding? Not with THIS bunch.
It will take a united voice and the crack of muskets...........which the Dems mean to reduce us to if they can. Seen that piece on the border? All these weapons used by the cartels are supposed to be filtered in from HERE...................nice lead-in to try to re-vive the Clinton Assault Ban, which would eventually cover EVERYTHING.
Personally, I'd love to know which gunshops or gunshows are selling the handgrenades, bazookas, RPG's and belt-fed machineguns the bad guys are using down there. Must be one of those infamous "loopholes" we hear about but never seem to find when WE attend these events.
Ray of light..........here in Mountain Home anyway. Talked to two more cops this morning, one city and one county..........When Obama attempts to add this to the rest of their current power grab, the ATF will get no help from our local peace officers, who are private gun owners themselves and consider it "suicidal" to go door-to-door with so many citizens so fired-up about what's going on.
Smart move on their part. The Obama administration's process of government takeover is quickly becoming the "transparency" he DIDN'T want.
Stand by.
Oh..........and the "green tea" is gonna be more than a quotation, AD..........there's gonna be tons of it mailed to the White House on April 1st, and large Tea parties in about 300 cities on the 15th.
Funny...I thought all liberals drank Kool-Aid who'da thunk it....LOL
Yeah, but it won't be the liberals mailing in the tea. Let's see how well they read it! They couldn't seem to read a stimulous package before they signed it....maybe they can recognize a tea bag, and just wait until the 15th!
Palin got bagged on because she knew next to nothing about foreign policy and issues that need more than one view to sort out. There is not just one way to run the circus known as Washington D.C.
Scary how government/obama is now "dictating" how the auto makers should run. He is hiring and firing now. This is government control no matter how you turn it. To think that those companies fell into the trap. How many state and local governments have done the same? Who is using the bail outs? If they are being used, then the user is going to be controlled.
I like how an AP news article even used the word "dictating". That is almost unheard of from the leftist news. I think they are actually seeing through the curtain also.FINALLY someone is seeing the light.
obama has set a pattern. Remember how he kept stating the economy was so terrible, and we were getting deeper and deeper into trouble as a country. Also, it was self-fulfilling prophecy: the worse he said it was the less and less people spent. obama kept saying that only government could get us out of this.Wow!! Well, it came around and bit him in the butt. Other countries, China, Japan, Ger, England were all becoming fearful of a US failure. He finally had to begin to say that things may not have been as bad as thought, and that we will probably come out of it in 2009.
Then, obama showed absolute shock over the bonuses to AIG. Yet he voted for them back in 2008. Oh My!! Anyway - now it is atrocious, the companies can't handle themselves. OOPS. Word is out that it was voted on earlier and is beginning to bite his backside again. Let's get off of the subject everyone. Move on to something else.
Do I see a trend here? Can I recount other instances?
Remember; we're going to help you, we're going to get you going again, we're going to make sure that you all have --- and blah, blah, blah!. But at what cost? We have only yet to see.
Nothing is FREE. Not even gov't bail outs. Once the money is taken and used - then that company or state or city is now "owned", and will follow the obama plan.
Yes, but we are "not" falling into a socialist way of thinking/doing things (yeah right). The Obamanation will control the banks and insurance industry and own portions of a great deal of homes. Government control. I do believe his "plan" is about complete. If he could ask the CEO of GM to resign...why not also demand the same of the yahoo at AIG? Why "honor" contracts when the people should have just been fired for doing a reallllllllllllly crappy job? He knew about the bonus bucks all along...it was probably on page 639 in small print---IF he would have READ the darn document. Who in the heck signs things, in this day and age, without reading the document? Obamanation's outrage is at himself and the fact that the "secret" is out that he knew all about it. That is where the outrage is from. So much for no bonus bucks from stimulus money! And, do not even think this is the first time or the only company that has done it. I am sure anyone that got money paid bonus bucks to their sub-standard heads. We will never know who got what and when. Now, they have their hand out again. If they could not make a go of it with what they got, why GIVE them more. They should all be allowed to go out of business. Guess my next car payment should just be sent to DC as they own it all anyway to include a big piece of each and every one of us. We shall all be "slaves" now to DC and their great ideas.
Palin knows enough about the ECONOMY to have turned down the stimulous. Besides running her state in a healthy manner, she also knows that "assistance" from THIS government also means intrusion and being dictated to.
Met a lady at Wal-Mart this morning who is down here on vacation from Alaska, and said she hopes Sarah Palin NEVER gets into the White House, because that would mean they'd lose her as governor up there.........I THINK that was meant as a compliment.
Obama is a dictator! He has lied and now he walks into a private company and fires people. It has never been done before. The american people would have never allowed this years ago. I am sick sick sick!
This government needs to be stopped.
Well if you know the economy so well, why dont you give a solution that will not be one-sided and will maximize benefit to all parties. I know again that you will dodge that question.
Well if you know the economy so well, why dont you give a solution that will not be one-sided and will maximize benefit to all parties. I know again that you will dodge that question.
There IS no solution, as long as excessive government spending is allowed to run amuck, and the democrats are still in control.
We cannot spend our way out of this. All pork, foreign aid, and catering to other contries must stop.
America must rid itself of the U.N., Federal Reserve and 12+million illegals who drain on our economy. We need to return to a fair tax/flat tax, basically the TARIFF our country was built around.
Nothing I could recommend would be beneficial to ALL parties, because there are many who don't INTEND to ever get off their butts and provide for themselves...............not as long as they have "Uncle Sugar" to provide the handouts for doing NOTHING.