And to think, I was told that things are getting better.
Of
course if I were Joe - non-self-educating, lemming-like, sheepish –
Public, I too would have fallen for the rhetoric that most today seem to
be falling for.
Things are indeed getting better, but only when you compare "bad” to "worst.”
The Obama Administration would like Americans to believe that "bad” is in fact "good” and "worst” is not of their making.
Be that as it may, both bad and better are subject assessments of
condition as compared to a "normality” that is based upon a set of
personal values.
The idea in this
case is to lull the public into overlooking the larger and more
important picture – Obama’s actual performance as POTUS.
Here is what the Obama Administration is selling as better:
- Americans in poverty increased 6.4 million from 39.8 million to 46.2 million
- Home values dropped from $193,000 to $172,600 – an 11% loss in value
- The U.S. has fallen from 1st to 5th in global competitiveness
- As
a direct consequence of Health Care Reform, health insurance premiums
increased some 23% skyrocketing from $3,354 to $4,129 annually
- Food stamp recipients jumped from 35 million to 45 million, an increase of 45%
- Federal debt increased from 10.5 trillion to more than 15 trillion with no supporting federal budget
- Gas prices jumped 85%
- 2 million more people found their way into unemployment despite POTUS boasts of an effective multi-billion dollar stimulus
- Unsurprisingly, the Misery Index increased 65% under the Obama regime
What’s
worse; while the Obama administration has not passed a budget in well
over 900 days, it uses this failure in rudimentary functionalism to
rationalize the blaming of Bush, who passed a horrid budget that spanned
into the Obama presidential tenure.
Had
the Obama Administration passed a budget in the three years Obama has
been in office, their culpability in continuing the economic fascism of
the Bush Administration would be irrefutable to even the most biased
Obama supporter.
Instead, they
use their inability to pass a budget as an excuse to both blame Bush and
continue Bush spending policies which could have all been mitigated by
more current fiscal budgets and defunding practices.
Simply
put, America’s economic outlook could be considerably different today
if the Obama Administration had actually wished to improve America’s
overall solvency.
Here is a way of looking at one aspect, perhaps the largest aspect, of the Obama Administration.
If your household is consumed by debt, you do not seek to correct the problem by assuming even more debt.
Yet,
America is being told things are getting better in areas where it is
completely impossible for them to improve given the Obama
Administration’s refusal to assume a role of fiscal responsibility that
would be of benefit to the people.
But when you look at it from the Progressive (anti) American position… I guess things are getting better.
America has fallen in almost all measurable areas making America more a global norm than an exception to a failing world.
This
is after all, want progressives have wanted all along; a land of equal
outcomes and denied opportunity to be more accepted by a lesser world.
It is not that supporters are unaware of Santorum’s or other candidate’s fiscal histories; it is that so many are actually indifferent to fiscal history while staking claim to the call for a fiscally responsible president.
As of late, the Right insists on challenging the norm of America’s political elite.
Fewer than half of Americans pay taxes, forcing more than half to now pay taxes while disposing of the income tax return economically imperials more than 50% of a nation which has a suffering economy; 70% of which is driven by consumer spending.
