It’s the curse of having sat through too many local town council meetings and too many speeches by politicians; it’s taking notes as they speak because you want to keep what’s said fresh in mind.
Regular folks don’t do this, but anyone who has spent any time as a reporter will tell you it is a hard habit to break.
So, on Tuesday, January 11, I found myself taking notes as New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie, gave his first constitutionally required State of the State speech. He will be back in February with a speech about his budget.
A Jolly, Fat Buzz-Saw
Christie’s State of the State speech was delivered to the members of the New Jersey Senate and Assembly, mostly Democrats; all of whom had learned in the previous year that the Governor was a jolly, fat buzz-saw who just loves a good fight.
Gov. Christie was preceded by two of the worst Governors in current times, Jim McGreevey who discovered he was gay after he put his boyfriend on the payroll and the whispers in the statehouse became a raging storm. He was followed by Jon Corzine, a limousine liberal. Together they increased taxes and fees 115 times in eight years! In a single term in office, Corzine raised taxes $9 billion! Read the rest of this entry »
We keep hearing the socialists (formerly Democrats) claim in their typically shrill and whining voices that Republicans are not setting forth any ideas. To hear Democrats tell it, Republicans are just a bunch of obstructionists.
Paul Ryan’s Roadmap for America’s Future is a compelling and sensible treatise our friends Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and even our President, Barack Obama should read and apply to our current national economic situation.
“We have a fundamental difference of opinion with the Democrats…They believe through all of their policies that people are stuck with their current station in life and that it is government’s job to help them cope with it. We don’t believe in that. We believe in the American idea…And the idea of this country is that the government helps to promote equal opportunity so that people can make the most of their lives and reach their potential and their destiny…If we do not turn our fiscal situation around…we will see the best century in America be the last century of America.”
- Paul Ryan (R – WI)
Ryan calls for getting America back on track using real numbers, data and even legislation. He is the strongest positive voice in laying out the solutions required for curing the national debt and saving America from economic collapse.
Health care reform, social security, tax reform and the national shift from personal responsibility to dependency upon government for our solutions are all addressed.
In many of America’s real estate markets homes, once the primary facilitator of middle class American retirement, are worth on the average about 67 pennies of what they were five years ago.
The American currency…our once powerful dollar…is now worth pennies of its former value and the erosion shows little sign of abatement as gold and silver continue their march toward record per ounce prices.
Under the new Federal Budget, each American man, woman, boy and girl will be saddled with 4,000,000 pennies of personal and, although owed to the IRS, uncollectable debt ($40,000 each). That is $200,000 for a family of four! Does this make cents to you? Read the rest of this entry »
There’s a song, “Smooth Operator”, sung by the incomparable Sade that kept running through my head as I listened to Barack Obama conduct an hour-long press conference Tuesday evening.
At the very end, he referred to the American government and economy as “a big ocean liner” that doesn’t turn around swiftly and the last image that passed through my mind was that of the Titanic sinking beneath the waves of the chill Atlantic.
One is reminded why the crowds loved him as he campaigned for the presidency, their hearts beating as one, seeing before them the man who would bring “change” when elected.
Delivering on Promised “Change”
He has brought change. His proposed budget would triple the national debt. According to the Congressional Budget Office, Obama’s proposed budget would generate deficits averaging almost $1 trillion a year in red ink over 2010-2019. Moreover, the deficit would never go below 4% of the size of the economy, which an Associated Press report noted were “figures that economists agree are unsustainable” The figure cited was $9.3 trillion over the next decade, “more than four times the deficits of Republican George W. Bush’s presidency.”
None of this seemed to perturb Obama.
The Democrat Euphemism – Invest
What was most noticeable, if one was actually paying attention to the substance of what he was saying, was the repeated use of the word “invest”. Democrats never “spend” money, they “invest” it.
Obama wants to “invest” lots and lots and lots of money, most of which will have to be borrowed. He is focused on “long term growth” scanning the far horizon from the bridge of the USS Obama, plowing through a dark night of financial distress.
By Alan Caruba
We keep hearing the socialists (formerly Democrats) claim in their typically shrill and whining voices that Republicans are not setting forth any ideas. To hear Democrats tell it, Republicans are just a bunch of obstructionists.
In many of America’s real estate markets homes, once the primary facilitator of middle class American retirement, are worth on the average about 67 pennies of what they were five years ago.
Post by Alan Caruba