Obama Warns Mayors; So where was he when the Dems Kept Adding Pork? President Obama is wasting no time in letting Americans know what kind of President he will be. After pushing forward the biggest “Wasted Pork” bill in the history of America he tells the Mayors to be good little boys and girls.
“President Obama warned the nation’s mayors today that he will “call them out” if the federal stimulus money is wasted on pork projects that do not generate jobs for the struggling economy.
“If a federal agency proposes a project that will waste that money, I will not hesitate to call them out on it and put a stop to it,” Obama told a gathering of 80 mayors at the White House. ” (By Michael D . Shear Washington Post)
Obama is the “Do as I say, Not as I do” President.
“Obviously none of this matters to a true Obamanite. And possible it doesn’t really matter to the average “swing” voter who just pulls the lever for the MSM candidate of the day. But for people who really pay attention and truly care for America and want America to continue to prosper his words and actions tell a bleak tale.
A tale of disaster for the American economy, American freedom, and American Exceptualism . The great American experiment has taking our country to highest level ever economically, socially, and in helping the rest of the world. Make no mistake when he says, “I will not hesitate to call them out on it and put a stop to it”, he means it. He will not hesitate to wield his power and make executive decisions that will promote the increased centralization of our government and solidify his power in Washington. President Obama is swiftly tearing down the great Shining City Upon a Hill that has been a shinning light to the world for two hundred years. He is trying single-handedly to use his power to undermine what has taken two hundred years to build.
President Reagon was right when he called America
the “Shining City Upon a Hill”.
From Reagan’s Farewell Speech:
“And that’s about all I have to say tonight. Except for one thng. The past few days when I’ve been at that window upstairs, I’ve thought a bit of the “shining city upon a hill.” The phrase comes from John Winthrop, who wrote it to describe the America he imagined. What he imagined was important because he was an early Pilgrim, an early freedom man. He journeyed here on what today we’d call a little wooden boat; and like the other Pilgrims, he was looking for a home that would be free.
I’ve spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don’t know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That’s how I saw it and see it still.
And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was eight years ago. But more than that; after 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she’s still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.
We’ve done our part. And as I walk off into the city streets, a final word to the men and women of the Reagan revolution, the men and women across America who for eight years did the work that brought America back. My friends: We did it. We weren’t just marking time. We made a difference. We made the city stronger. We made the city freer, and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad, not bad at all.
And so, good-bye, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.” From Reagan’s Farewell Speech.
President Obama Please stop tearing down our city!
I agree with President Reagon, God Bless the United States of America!
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A Millage Tax Might Just Send U.S. Over the Edge:
He is opening the thought now, watch for this one to surface in the future.
Obama throws Transportation Secy nominee’s mileage tax plan under bus
President Obama just recently called GOP Transportation Secretary nominee Ray LaHood one of his “favorite Republicans.”
LaHood goes under the bus on mileage tax
posted at 10:50 am on February 21, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Treasury Secretary Roy LaHood got tossed under the bus by his boss after suggesting that the Obama administration would roll out a mileage tax on American drivers. The White House hurriedly denied any intention of pursuing a mileage tax, which would require massive intrusion into privacy and set up a Big Brother-like mechanism to track the movement of citizens (via Michelle):
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Are Americans Ready to Stand Against Impending Socialism?…
Maybe!
Tea Party U.S.A.: The movement grows
Seattle on Monday. Denver on Tuesday. Mesa AZ on Wednesday. Overland Park, Kansas today. What a week, huh? We got the anti-stimulus, anti-entitlement protest ball rolling — and now the movement, spurred further by CNBC host Rick Santelli’s call for a “Chicago Tea Party,” is really taking off.
David Hogberg at Investor’s Business Daily has a nice piece out today spotlighting the growing taxpayer revolt the rest of the MSM won’t cover. He interviewed our registered commenters Liberty Belle Keli Carender, who spearheaded the Seattle anti-pork protest, and HuskerGirl Amanda Grosserode, who organized today’s anti-stimulus demonstration against Democrat Rep. Dennis Moore in Overland Park, MS. (More Malkin on Rebelion)
Now here is where a picture is worth a 1,000 words!
Photoshop of the day: Schmucky says “Let them eat pork”
Our wonderful friend and Photoshop guru Tennyson Hayes has returned with yet another delicious take on Beltway snobs. In response to Sen. Chuck Schumer’s derision of Americans who care about the pork in the porkulus, Tennyson powders up Schmucky and tops him off with Marie Antoinette’s big white wig.
Perfect:
Philly to Obama: Hey, you owe us money, too!
This morning, I mentioned Team Obama/DNC’s unpaid bills in Chicago.
Guess what? The Team of Deadbeats owes the City of Brotherly Love, too (hat tip -David R): (Malkin)
Everything everywhere from the beginning of time to the present day has a beginning and an ending, nothing lasts forever. Change is the only constant on our planet and in the universe. This being a proven fact of all that exists, I am persuaded to ask this question. …Why attempt to prevent necessary change from taking place? …Is it because of unscientific dogmatic bias? It is unscientific bias to hold onto that which no longer has relevance and has been rendered by the passage of time no longer useful, and consequently out of step with existing circumstances, situations and conditions. That which is no longer a positive influence inside the surroundings of our existence should be replaced by that which is a positive influence, … and it will always come to pass when the only change possible to take the place of that what exists, … is the diametric opposite of what already exists.
The diametric opposite of an economy that is market oriented and not planned is an economy that is planned, … and designed to profit not individual capitalists of our planet, …but rather.. profit equally, all of the people of our planet, without discrimination or prejudice.
What makes this economic change possible and necessary is the change in our means of producing goods and services. The technological revolution on our planet has made it possible to satisfy all of the needs of everyone everywhere on our planet. No one no longer needs to not have what is needed to live well and survive well because of our scientific and technological advances.
Those that are concerned about our tanking individual unplanned capitalist economy, should give some thought to the opposite view of an economy that is social and planned so as to profit the mass of people in the world without discrimination or prejudice.
By: despicable on February 21, 2009
at 3:42 am
despicable,
Thank you for your comment. Your post only serves to reveal the true wishes and goals of the typical Obama supporter. Your picture tells your tale well. Marx and Lenin would be proud of you.
It seems like I am ready one of my old high school social studies Jerry Rubin inspired papers from the 60s when I read your comment. Yours is a very sophomoric rhetorical style. I am guessing that you are either a tenured College professor, or a starry eyed high school student with wealthy parents.
This is the same tired old Marxist logic that gave us the USSR, Cuba, and every other failed communist country. If you recall China only started to move up the ladder of success after they took over one of the biggest free market economies ever in Hong Kong. India only started to have an economy that their people could survive and thrive under when they adopted a capitalistic free market economy.
Human nature is such that people want to improve their position in life and give their children a chance to improve their lives even more. Communism, Socialism, Keynesian economics create a world with little or no chance of allowing for reward for ingenuity, hard work, and self determination. These systems create people who look only to government for their solutions to life. These systems stifle the human spirit and create a slump-shouldered workforce. When people are encouraged to sit back and be spoon-feed by the nanny Centralized Government….they will accept the feeding and lose their ability to fend for themselves.
When a person is given rewards for doing less work and being less creative the whole of society steps back. When all step back and wait for the centralized government to supply their needs even the poor suffer more.
On the other hand when a human is rewarded for hard work, creativity, entrepreneurial excellence, ingenuity, diligence, and integrity the work force, the leadership, the entrepreneur thrive and lift up the common man and the whole of society.
This is no longer a struggle between Democrats and Republicans, Conservatives and Liberals. This is a struggle between ideologies of Capitalism against Marxism, Free Market society against Totalitarian Governments, Freedom against Serfdom.
Socialism, serfdom, and centralized powerful tyranny are the dinosaurs, free market economies and self-determination are the new age.
Thank you for presenting the “new” Obama Socialist view point so well
God Bless,
riggword
By: riggword on February 21, 2009
at 7:23 am
Another sockpuppet? The anti-captialist shitck is getting very old.
“The technological revolution on our planet has made it possible to satisfy all of the needs of everyone everywhere on our planet.”
Do you think the girls who live in Swat, Pakistan agree with that statement? You know Swat, Pakistan just ceded that area to the Taliban so they could implement strict Islamic law. School for girls is now forbidden and punishable by death, amongst other things now. So much for the needs of an education, other than to be taught to fear the sword. Swat, once a very popular tourist area for citizens of Pakistan will now be turned into a hell hole for its remaining citizens.
Gotta love change, right?
“No one no longer needs to not have what is needed to live well and survive well because of our scientific and technological advances.”
Would the people of Zimbabwe agree with that statement? Zimbabwe, once one of Africa’s biggest agricultural producers. Then they got your “Change” when your hero Dictator Mugabe took over.
Look where Zimbabwe is now. Runaway inflation, people starving, massive unemployment. Of course there was the massive crackdown on dissent and opposing polictical parties.
Be careful of what change you wish for sock puppet, you might just get it.
By: RightWinger on February 21, 2009
at 9:08 am
Great Points RightWinger.
Do you have a post or some links about the Taliban takeover of the Swat area?
I’d like to read more, link up, and get more information out.
Thanks again for your contributions.
riggword
By: riggword on February 21, 2009
at 10:19 am
Hi Riggword,
Glad to contribute, thank you for the opportunity to do so, you have a good site and good, informative posts. I found your site initially through a trackback on Michelle Malkin’s blog.
Here is a news link from this morning….
http://abcnews.go.com/International/WireStory?id=6928082&page=1
If you do a news search on Swat and the Taliban, you’ll find a lot of articles.
I love these left-wing utopians who think that the root of all evil on this planet starts and ends here in the United States. They have their heads buried so far in the sand they have no idea of what is happening the rest of the world.
The situation in Swat will be a classic example of why appeasement with crazy, evil people never works. The Pakistan Govt thinks if they just give over some territory, there will be peace. The taliban will not rest until they own all of Pakistan. Which of course means the terrorists will then have unfettered access to nuclear weapons.
While that very plausible scenario might be scary to most sound folks, tin-hatters like dispicable will be sleeping well knowing Lil’ Barry is doing his best to wipe out the evil scourage known as Capitalism.
By: RightWinger on February 21, 2009
at 10:56 am
The idiot right wingers in the republican party, the Libertarians and most democrats do not have a clue as to what is happening in our nation or in the world! Their thinking amounts to a crazy mixed up paranoid fantasy. A fantasy that is the consequence of not understanding the inevitable movement of historical change. Cause and effect relationships within a particular environment remains a foreign language, to those that are a part of this movement, of dogmatic unscientific blind and prejudiced thinking! The global economy and the development of modern technologies has created a world that most people refuse to try to understand! If you can’t or won’t try to understand and adapt to this inevitable change in the world environment, you will remain stupid and eventually you will not be able to cope, and you will die stupid. Most americans at this point in time, are looking for a scapegoat to blame for their frustration and fear of a necessary change. A change that is now happening, and consequently changing all that you were comfortably familiar with. People are lining up on the side of the public sector or the private sector, so as to survive, and to live another day. The truth is that what is happening today and what will happen tomorrow, is and was predictable. The enemy is not the government, or the private sector or communists or socialists or whatever. The enemy is the people that refuse to understand what was, is and will be, the nature and character, of a predictably changing world.
By: despicable on February 22, 2009
at 12:08 am
Yawn.
“If you can’t or won’t try to understand and adapt to this inevitable change in the world environment, you will remain stupid and eventually you will not be able to cope, and you will die stupid.”
Basically what “despicable” is saying here is that if you don’t submit to the change in the world environment (aka: Islamic Fascism & Sharia Law) you will face the blade because you were too stupid to accept change.
Change for the sake of change is not necessarily a good thing. Adapting from the horse & buggy to the automobile was a good change. Adapating from radio tubes to transistors was good change.
Changing from a captialist society to a wealth/resource draining socialist society? No.
Why? First off, there is not one case of socialism/communism working any place in the world. Not one. Outside of Heaven, there are no perfect utopias.
The only way such a system could work is if everybody was a good worker and ready to contribute for the greater good. Except this country is chalk full of freeloaders and bums who would rather reap what others have sown through the force of the ruling class (Govt.) who is basically looking out for themselves.
People like dispicable talk about others living in a fantasy world, yet forget to look in the mirror when they themselves preach about change in order to create “utopia”.
By: RightWinger on February 22, 2009
at 3:33 am
dispicable,
Thank you for continuing to represent the Leftist view. I hope that my younger readers are examining all that you say and then following up with their own history lesson for what happens to countries that take on a leftist ideology.
If you are truly an open thinker and new age visionary than perhaps you would like to visit my post for today,
“Perseverance and diligence through times of tribulation”
Reading it may help you to understand what others think. After all isn’t it new and enlightening to be open to all beliefs and points of view.
Thank you for your open mindedness and willingness to understand my world view and belief system.
God Bless,
riggword
By: riggword on February 22, 2009
at 2:54 pm