How unpatriotic!

It’s the American people that are hunkering down, rolling up their sleeves, restructuring and making it work. They have no choice. Obama gives absolutely no credit to the hardworking, American people. Is he blind or what? No wait, it’s all about him – I forgot, duh.

I think since the government hasn’t monkeyed around with new stimulus plans lately is why we’re seeing things maybe get a little better. When they kept doing that, things were not getting better. We kind of had to wait for the dust to settle to get working. So Obama not doing anything has helped more than anything.

I have a small business. The stimulus money has not helped us. If anything, it has done the opposite. Some customers of ours have had to close their doors. What we did to get through this was roll up our sleeves, trim some fat, work harder and find more creative ways to bring in business. As I recall, Obama was not here guiding us through any of that and he did not make any of those decisions for us. So how can he take credit?

I’m sure I’m not the only one that can say that.

-Tony

200 Days In, Vice President Biden Touts Recovery Act (voices.washingtonpost.com)

Vice President Biden declared Thursday that the $787 billion economic stimulus program is playing a major role in lifting the nation’s economy out of the worst financial downturn since the Great Depression.

Offering an assessment of the program 200 days after its enactment, Biden said that the legislation has moved the country from the edge of a financial abyss into what increasingly looks like an economic recovery.

“The Recovery Act has played a significant role in changing the trajectory of our economy and changing the conversation about the economy in this country,” Biden said in a speech at the Brookings Institution in the District. “Instead of talking about the beginning of a depression, we are talking about the end of a recession.”

…”I am optimistic that their report will show that we met or exceeded” the goals set for the program, Biden said. The administration said the law would create or save 3.5 million jobs over two years.

So, ok… a few things.

First, so it was the government that “saved” the country, not the hardworking American people. Hmm.

Second, it’s better? Lots of people are still losing their jobs every month. Here in Wisconsin, we’ve lost manufacturing (partly thanks to our sorry governor and very high taxes here in Wisconsin). So this – right now how things are – is what they call success? It’s over? This is it? That was their plan? This was their goal?

-Tony

$1,000,000,000,000.00

That’s a big number (it’s a thousand billion!). Thanks, Mr. Obama, we’re in the poor house now but that’s all part of your plan to make us even more dependent on the government, I know.

US deficit tops 1 trillion dollars (www.google.com/hostednews)

Yeah, it is like Obama hit the accelerator when he should have hit the brakes with spending. Well, we knew this but apparently the Obama Administration didn’t see it coming:

The Economy Is Even Worse Than You Think (online.wsj.com)

- The average length of official unemployment increased to 24.5 weeks, the longest since government began tracking this data in 1948. The number of long-term unemployed (i.e., for 27 weeks or more) has now jumped to 4.4 million, an all-time high.

…It may have made him unpopular in parts of the Obama administration, but Vice President Joe Biden was right when he said a week ago that the administration misread how bad the economy was and how effective the stimulus would be.

It’s like I said, Obama knew the state of things when he was running for the job of President and when he walked into office. There’s no blaming he can do. That’s pretty wimpy. Man up, dude. We’re not idiots out here even if the media repeats the same thing 500 times – well, I can speak for 58 million of us, at least – not the rest, although some in the middle seem to be seeing the light and regret who they voted for. Oops.

-Tony

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FACT CHECK: Obama disowns deficit he helped shape (AP/apnews.myway.com)

It explains about how Obama didn’t take responsibility in his speech about deficit spending but he was in Congress where this spending under Bush originated… so yeah, it was him.

So Obama is deliberately misleading and flat out lying. Obama is a liar. This isn’t news to me but maybe people who just believe what they hear in the big media haven’t investigated the other side of the story real well or even considered checking the facts. No wait, most people don’t do this, that’s right. What am I thinking?

Don’t get all up in my grill about listening to Rush Limbaugh. It’s the other side of the story. You need balance. Not listening to him makes you more narrow minded than if you do. The big media groups are liberal. People believe that if you hear the same thing a lot, it must be true. Really? Are you that much of a drone?

Hear both sides, do your fact checking and make up your own mind. Don’t cheat and take the easy way out by just listening to big media. Get a brain. Yeah, Obama sounds… uh… um… ah… educated (when he’s… um… on prompter) but go beyond that and see what he is really about. Scary.

So his first 100 days grade from me? A “C-”. He didn’t get anything he wanted at the G20. He’s visiting our enemies, apologizing for America, puts all kinds of tax cheats in his cabinet, can’t handle pirates, fails to bailout Chrysler, spends more in 60 days than Bush spend in 8 years (with a war) and turns the country into a Socialists empire. He got a lot done, so that’s why my score isn’t a “D” but he got all the wrong things done, so in that respect he has failed miserably.

-Tony