Obama is increasingly resembling the errant husband, who, when caught in bed with another woman by his wife blandly asserts, “What woman? Who are you going to believe – me or the evidence of your own eyes?”
Obama is asking Americans to ignore the evidence of their own eyes and believe him. After all, he is the President of the United States, which implies honor, integrity, and character. Or used to.
Calling the president a liar is a serious charge. But either Obama is lying to America or he is seriously misinformed, which is even scarier.
With a straight face, President Obama recently stated, “I am seriously committed to fiscal responsibility.” Hey, maybe the left redefined fiscal responsibility while I was asleep last night, but Obama’s claim just doesn’t accord with reality. Obama has added more to our national debt than all other U.S. presidents — combined. And is in the process of adding another $50 billion that we don’t have, as you read this.
Adding insult to injury, Obama then went on to say, “I believe government should be lean; government should be efficient. I believe government should leave people free to make the choices they think are best…”
That statement is at serious odds with Obama’s actions. In Obama’s 19 months in office, the government, under his direction, has taken over the auto industry, the banking industry, the health care-industry, the student loan industry,etc. This means that the government will be making the choices consumers used to make. (Can you spell Chevy Volt?) How in the world does this equate with lean government and more consumer choice?
Obama promised consumers that they would be able to keep their own doctor under his health-care overhaul. Oops. He mis-spoke. Obama promised that ObamaCare would reduce health care costs. Oops Wrong again. A new government report just confirmed what most regular people knew all along: The nation’s health care tab will go up — not down — as a result of ObamaCare. Insurers plan to raise premiums on some Americans as a direct result of the health overhaul as soon as next month.
The president of the United States is either lying or suffering a severe case of cognitive dissonance.
And he is not alone. More and more of our public servants are severely undermining trust in government by making bald statements that have no basis in truth. Case in point: Harry Reid stated yesterday that he “had nothing to do with” the bad economy. Hmm… Inquiring minds want to know, well then whose fault is it? Answer: George Bush’s. Adding insult to injury, Reid fully expects us to believe him.
Outright falsehoods by our elected officials are so numerous as to become the norm. People joke that, “You know a politician is lying when his lips move.” Ha, Ha.
Maybe this behavior is the norm inside the beltway, especially since the media and fact-checkers are mostly absent. But for the majority of Americans, a lie is a lie. And just because most politicians lie, does not make it right.
We the people have the right to enough information to make informed decisions. And we’re not getting it. Instead, we’re getting false information. Remember Barney Frank telling America thatFannie Mae was in good shape, just before it crashed, taking down our economy with it? If Frank were in the private sector, he could be criminally liable.
Obama is doing the exact same thing. As our economy continues to sink, Obama is out on the stump touting “Recovery Summer.” And because he is the president, millions of Americans will take him at his word. To their detriment.
Here’s a newsflash. The economy is not recovering. The U.S. Federal Reserve reports “widespread signs” that the economic recovery is slowing and economic growth for the rest of this year and next was revised down for a third month in a row by a panel of about 50 economists. My question is, what recovery?
In a court of law, being caught lying just once is enough to call into question the whole of a person’s testimony. In the court of public opinion, lying is just another political tactic. Yawn.
By not calling a spade a spade, the media is complicit is enabling the torrent of untruths that daily issue forth from our leaders. By blindly accepting what Obama says, Americans are enabling him. Enabling a man who is deliberately telling us that black is white and if we don’t believe him then we are racists, homophobic, stupid, or Republican meanies. This is not acceptable.
I do not trust Obama. And I will continue to point out why my fellow Americans shouldn’t trust him either. He has broken faith with us too many times. And for that, I believe he is not fit to govern us.
Crossposted from Right Bias
Just irresponsible. The guy is still running for office. It readily appears that he was not ready to govern. May I add economically illiterate as well? 😉
Well I can assure you he is not “seriously misinformed”.
Economic success: if you measure using the criteria of jobs lost, success is building as those numbers continue to climb.
The statement:
“I believe government should be lean; government should be efficient. I believe government should leave people free to make the choices they think are best…”
is clearly a lie. He has never believed that and I doubt he recently discovered Milton Friedman and it caused the scales to fall from his eyes.
You could write a book on O’s distortions, deceptions and flat out lies (I’m sure someone will)!
A Freeper listening to the press conference dubbed BO “the human vuvuzela”
One note; annoying; requires no talent to play
Neo…
I hope that goes viral, ‘The human vuvuzela’, classic!
53% did just that, and 41% still do that. Idiots.
My guess is by now. most have figured out what a shuck and jive act is. The BeeGees has an old song that refreshes your memory called “Jive Talking” worth a listen, as it describes Obama to a tee.
I’m sure that “promoting slavery” plank really helped Democrats forget about this chapter of their Party.
I am truly sorry, Nancy.
Zippy cannot lie.
Lying assumes that there is truth to be contradicted.
Zippy does not know about truth.
He cannot tell the truth, either.
What he says is whatever he wants to say at any particular moment. His remarks are unrelated to anything he has said before; his remarks have nothing to do with what he will say or do at any time in the future.
His published remarks are solely a function of whoever is controlling the teleprompter at the time, and that entity changes from time to time.
Politicians in the past have been able to talk out of both sides of their mouth, as Pres. Clinton could. Politicians in the past have been able to stonewall, and make it sound as if they were answering a question, while saying nothing, as the late Sen. Dirksen did.
But what you see in Zippy is an empty suit. There is no one there. He exists in some sort of numinous fog, following the dreams of his Father, the teachings of Saul Alinsky, the instruction of Frank Davis, and the leadership of his Marxist friends.
He owes payment to whatever group paid for his life, and continues to pay the attorneys who protect all his records (birth, schooling, legal, employment, legislative).
Stay tuned.
It will get worse.
Obama hasn’t told the truth since his first day in office.
Lying, scamming, conning and ducking have worked for Hussein throughout his LIFE! His every job, every position, every career advancement has been created by someone other than himself. He was simply the RECIPIENT, because he presented well, speaks good English and is, of course, a dependable America hater and Marxist thug. Do you really expect him to start working for a living NOW?? Expect him to begin telling the truth, to understand how economies actually WORK, to be anything but the ever-willing front man for the powerful? Hussein knows nothing but meaningless, useless banter, tripe, generalities, “Hope and Change.” These represent the sum total of his life experience! Why do you thing his college records are off limits! His years in the Illinois senate. His entire history!
So, a republican president and a republican-majority congress that cut taxes for the wealthiest while enormously expanding federal spending are somehow fiscally responsible?
They managed to double the total national debt during a period of economic prosperity. What’s their excuse?
Much of Obama’s deficit can be attributed to greatly diminished federal tax revenues resulting from the worst and most prolonged economic downturn since the Great Depression–a downturn which was, by the way, already underway before he entered office. So was the federal bail-out approach to dealing with the problem.
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As a direct result? Horse hockey. We seem to conveniently forget that insurers have been steadily and rapidly raising their premiums for well over a decade, keeping ahead of rapidly escalating healthcare costs. Has anybody got personal story about a decade of steadily falling insurance premiums?
Upcoming increases in total premium costs are generally modest, by the standards set during the past decade. What’s actually happening is that employers are shifting a higher portion of the total cost of health insurance plans to their employees. The national average increase in the total premium cost is about 3 percent.
Maybe republicans should try sticking to the truth.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/200068.php
The other day I saw a graph of job growth/loss.
The categories were:
Private Sector
Local Gov’t
State Gov’t
Federal Gov’t
The Private sector line went down under Obama.
Local and State gov’t jobs were relatively flat under Obama.
But Federal Government hiring was through the roof!
The average federal worker now takes home $120,000/year.
This is an unsustainable situation.
Pretty soon, when Obama talks about taxing the wealthy, he is going to be faced with the fact that those wealthy workers are his own government employees!
“The average federal worker now takes home $120,000/year.”
A widely stated figure, but incorrect.
Actually, the median gross pay for federal workers nationwide was $60,636 for 2006, while the average for U.S. federal employees worldwide was $63,125. Many gross much less. As with everyone else, take home is lower still.
Those figures haven’t doubled since 2006. With the official inflation rate so low annual cost of living adjustments have been meager, hardly keeping up with increased payroll deductions.
http://www.fedsmith.com/article/1023/debating-average-federal-salary-figures.html
Higher figures can be stated if you focus only on some specific geographical areas having high locality pay adjustments and unusually high concentrations of employees with upper GS pay scale levels. Washington DC would be a perfect example.
You’re right, Greg…..
They don’t take it all home with them:
The average federal worker is compensated at $123,000 a year, including $42,000 in benefits — more than twice what the average private worker gets. (State and local government employees don’t do as well, but still beat private-sector pay.)
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/their_feast_our_famine_l4AlbMStL0ZEfdONzdUVdJ?offset=8#comments#ixzz0zB45cL5V
I think, however, this set of figures is more recent than your 2006 ones.
So says Stephen Meister. I’d like to know where he came up with those figures. Subtracting $42,000 from $123,000 suggests the average federal worker’s gross pay is $81,000 a year. Maybe he could cite a source, or explain how that grossly exaggerated average was calculated? Probably not. I’ve yet to see any such article do so. Their sources, if mentioned, are other articles.
The average federal employee receives $42,000 per year in benefits? $3,500 per month? My guess is that the average federal employee would be shocked by this news. An itemized breakout would be nice, along with a source.
Meister heads his anti-federal employee rant with Their feast, our famine–
Gov’t workers sucking us dry. I guess he considers civil servants overpaid parasites.
That’s harsh criticism, coming from a republican lawyer.
@Greg:
Only in the government do ‘some’ get something for nothing, private industry can’t give their product away for free and stay in business:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703720004575478200948908976.html
@Greg:
There were articles out last spring noting recent increases in federal workers pay widening the gap further while the private sector is dealing with loss of hours and paycuts if they are lucky otherwise, unemployment.
Hard to deny benefit packages government workers receive surpass those in the private sector. Tax payers living in Illinois, California, New York, etc. are currently suffering the impact of state government employee retirement packages run amok. But, you will be happy to bail them out, won’t you? We have already taken a $28,000 hit in hubby’s pay and our health insurance, state taxes, state fees, etc. all going up and now we hear the government is looking at our retirement benefits. I guess the government needs to dip into the private sector moneys to pay for the benefit packages and wages of their employees aka, voters.
This USA Today article used 2008 statistics:
Federal pay ahead of private industry
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-04-federal-pay_N.htm
@ Missy, #19: “Hard to deny benefit packages government workers receive surpass those in the private sector.”
Indeed, since the trend in the private sector has been to progressively eliminate jobs through downsizing, outsource manufacturing and technical work overseas, cut real wages, reduce or eliminate employee benefits, and eliminate private pension plans–often after employees have already worked in expectation of their promised retirement packages for years. Those trends continue across corporate America, in many cases while the corporations in question are showing the highest annual profits and the highest cash reserves in years.
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/31/ceo-crybabies.html
Maybe the private sector should show its employees a bit more of the respect the federal government shows for public employees who work on behalf of the nation.