Our Wretched Economy - Is it Due to Character and Competence Issues?


Our Country is going Bankrupt for the following Reasons:

A)  Welfare/Unemployment Benefts Recipients:  Many people on welfare (foodstamps/housing subsidies) and on unemployment choose to sit at home rather than go to work at the "Walmart"'s of this world.   Comment:  This is one of the major factors relating to our current economic woes.  In order to get people off the dole, and save at least some of the billions being poured into these entitlement areas, we need to do one of the following:

     a.)  Directly reduce entitlement dollars:  Make the pay/benefit differential between "Walmart", and welfare/unemployment greater by reducing the entitlement payments, and/or reducing the timeframes that the entitlement payments are allowable, or

     b)   Enforce Entitlement Rules:  We need to ensure enforcement of the Clinton era requirement for people on welfare or unemployment to actually look for/accept semi-suitable employment, or

     c)  Supplement low wage earners by removing tax burden:  As an inducement to work (vice draw entitlement dollars), set a dollar amount, below which no taxes of any amount are deducted from the pay of a wage earner

B)  The Incompetent (or Punitive?) Economic Policies of Obama:

     a) The Deficit: Soaring way out of hand. We stand on the precipice of becoming the next Greece - riots and all.

     b) GNP:  Growing at an anemic 2%/year.  NOTE:  During the Reagan recovery, the GNP grew at 7%/year.

     c) Entitlement Programs:  Changes need to be made to social security, medicare and medicaid. In the first four years of Obama's Presidency, he hasn't taken any actions to fix the long term problems inherent in our entitlement programs - and to ensure their viability into the future. Solving the entitlement problem is the most significant issue in resolving the deficit problem.

     d) Unemployment: The President's actions - Obamacare and Dodd Frank, stifling (through the EPA) the utilization of our energy resources, and his general demonizing of the rich with such comments as "you didn't build that", have inevitably lead to a lack of confidence in the future, and slow/no growth (and no new jobs) through lack of investments. 

    e) Trend toward greater and greater dependency: Support for a lifestyle/culture of dependency - making it easier to get and stay on food stamps, extending uneployment benefits way beyond the amount of time originally intended, contribute/lead to a culture of dependency and sadly restore the state of affairs that existed prior to Bill Clinton's signing of the Welfare Reform Act which helped alleviate this situation back in the 1990's. While having people become/remain dependent garners the Democratic Party votes, it breeds a culture of hopelessness and despair, and helps keep people in a downtrodden (unemployed) state. 
    
While all of the above would have been fixed under a Romney Presidency, under Obama, the deficit will continue to snowball, we will be downgraded by lending agencies, and we will continue to march down the path to becoming the new Greece - riots and all.   I suspect it will take us a generation to recover - much as it took West Germany a generation (or more) to recover from WW2.

Unamerican Thinking:  Some would argue that our current sad economic state of affairs is intentional, that Obama has been sabotaging our economic recovery due to his deep seated hatred for this country - that the words "Great Satan" proclaimed by such luminaries as Ahmadinejad does not echo hollow on his ears. Consider the following:

Birds of a Feather:  You're typically known by the company you keep:

     Reverand Wright:  Otherwise known as, Mr. "Not God Bless America, God Damn America".  Obama sat in his church for 20 years, and he called him his mentor.    Listen to Obama's June 2007 speech at Hampton University (available on Youtube), where the "Great Uniter" praises Wright, and spouts class warfare, sounding like either a devisive panderer or a racist.   Relevant comment:  I certainly would not have sat in a church headed by a "man of God" espousing white supremacy views for 20 minutes much less 20 years.

     Michelle Obama:  On Feb 18, 2008 Michelle Obama said that for “the first time” in her adult life,” she was proud of America, as she spoke during a rally to support her husband’s first presidential bid.  Sounds an awful lot like a black American with a really big chip on their shoulder.

     Bill Ayers:  The person from whose living room Obama's first political campaign was launched.  Ayers is the former fugitive of the law, and leader of the Weather Underground, which was an American radical left organization whose goal was to create a clandestine revolutionary party for the violent overthrow of the US government.

     Marshall Davis:  Through Frank Marshall Davis, Obama had an admitted relationship with someone who was publicly identified as a member of the Communist Party USA CPUSA). The record shows that Obama was in Hawaii from 1971-1979, where, at some point in time, he developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis, listening to his “poetry” and getting advice on his career path.

Federal Security Clearance:  Was a DOD manager for most of my thirty year career.  Based on my knowledge of background checks that are required to get security clearances, Obama - based on who he has associated with (see above), could not have gotten a secret security clearnance much less a top secret security clearance.................. This is the guy we have running our country?

Redistribution of Wealth:  Obama's favorite tactic (other than demonizing Romney) was demagouging the Republicans over the issue of taxing the rich.  As the self professed "champion of the middle class" he campaigned on making sure that the rich pay their "fair share".  Of course, what is the "fair share"?  Is the fact that the top 1% of wage earners already pay 40% of the income tax bill not enough - particularly when you consider the fact that the bottom 47% of wage earners of this country pay nothing?   In fact, worse yet, these days the bottom 47% are using the ballot box to vote themselves "free stuff" from funds that they country doesn't even have.  NOTE:  Democrats like to say that low income earners are paying taxes - the social security tax.  Wrong - the social security tax is people's contribution to their own retirement program.  It is not like the income tax - the tax that pays for the running of this country.

Obama's children's book: - Within this book he states that one of his 13 inspirational characters is Sitting Bull - the Indian Chief largely responsible for the defeat of Custer at the Little Big Horn.  My suspicion is that anyone who think's that Custer's Last Stand was orchestrated by a "inspirational" person has a real problem with this country, fitting right in with the left's view of our country through a dark spectrum - as an evil country that has inflicted unfair/inhumane treatment on both internal/external peoples. Specifically, that our misdoings are largely related to our evil capitalistic society's quest for resources, land and power.  

Class Warfare:   Obama's 2008 pitch about not red and blue states, but the United States has rung hollow. Instead of being the "great uniter", he has turned out to be the "great divider". His entire campaign was based on playing different portions of the voting populace against each other. People are more alienated and ostracised from each other than ever. 

Sometimes I wonder is this guy actually the "Manchurian Candidate"?