I Never Promised You A Rose Garden … gave you thorns

Obama’s State Of The “Un”union:

‘I Never Suggested That Change Would Be Easy’

“I campaigned on the promise of change – change we can believe in, the slogan went. And right now, I know there are many Americans who aren’t sure that they still believe we can change – or at least, that I can deliver it,” ... “But remember this – I never suggested that change would be easy, or that I could do it alone. “

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As I type this, I see no comments up before mine so if this is posted under other comments, my response in this post is strictly to the speech and not to any other comments. I would not have the time or space to respond to each point that Obama made that was either a half truth or a lie or a deliberate misdirection from what the focus should be. But just about every line, falls into one of those 3 categories.

Some of the main flaws in his speech are (not necessarily in order):

Obama claims to have stepped into a bad economy and inherited it from before he took office. Before he was president he was a senator and as senator he voted for all the liberal scams that helped destroy the economy.

It was not the “evil CEO’s” or the “greedy bankers” that ruined the economy.
For one thing it was Obama as soon as he took office who forced the banks and car companies to take the money that they did not need or want from him just so he could later take them over and claim he was “doing it for the people”.

He told successful auto dealerships he was forcing them out of business and he cared nothing for the 50 people each (on average)was being forced to permanently lay off.
When the economy was still at better then full employment (full is 5% or lower unemployment and) of 4.5%.

The liberal media started attacking it (even before Bush got in office) and after Bush had been in office awhile and it was at 4.5% the media was saying what a terrible recession we were in (when we weren’t) and used as an excuse the fact that it had gone from 4.5% to 4.6% (still well below 5%, which again, is considered “full employment”) and started scaring people into not buying things.

So someone now does not buy that new furniture they were going to get and many others get the same scare. So now the furniture store lays people off (and appliance stores etc…) and those people cannot now pay their mortgages and the collapse starts caused in part by the media’s lies in order to attack Bush.

He said several times that he wanted “clean energy jobs” and emphasized the idea that other jobs would not be funded or supported. He specifically said that he was going to make sure that the ‘clean energy’ jobs would be the most profitable.
He also specifically said he wanted all tax benefits to oil and coal companies to end. So obviously he intends to make the ‘clean energy’ jobs the most profitable not by lowering costs either to the business or to the consumer but by creating and artificially unlevel playing field where only the politically correct jobs will benefit.

This in turn will raise the cost of living for all of us and Obama’s claims of lowering taxes are bogus because the other areas of cost will go up for more then any savings from any lowering of taxes he claims to be giving us.

He further wants to destroy the family by his support of those who believe in certain forbidden practices between two men.
It is not about as he falsely claimed “peoples right to be who they are” but about their untznius unkosher activities, that he is supporting along with changing the definition of what the word marriage, means.

If the government would get out of regulation our lives and get out of the banking and insurance and health care business, prices in all these areas would drop like a rock.
I have heard from a few people who said they were paying cash for their own health care and because it was cash with no insurance or forms etc…the price was at least 35% less then it would have been.

In one case I heard about a woman who had to pay $250 for a procedure and paying cash; after shopping around found a qualified fully licensed doctor who did an excellent job for $50.

Now imaging how much less it could have been if there were no excessive government regulations about excessive taxes the doctor must pay to cover “public insurance” or for any of the myriad regulations and frivolous (not reasonable lawsuits for real negligence or malpractice, but all the foolishness like how the patient hurt themselves at home after the procedure and then found an excuse to lie that it was the doctor’s fault for example) lawsuits the doctor must worry about.

I am chalishing to go on and on and point out oh so many more lies and flaws in this speech, but this post is already quite long and this should give people at least some idea how bogus this president and his plans, are.

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