{"id":545,"date":"2012-09-10T12:16:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T19:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/?p=545"},"modified":"2012-10-15T21:45:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T04:45:17","slug":"lies-and-half-truths-the-engine-doesnt-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/lies-and-half-truths-the-engine-doesnt-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Lies and Half Truths- The engine doesn’t run"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obama, the Car Salesman?<\/span>
\n Have you ever bought a car?… and actually liked the salesman?\u00a0 Maybe even almost fell in love with him?\u00a0 He was kind, funny, sincere, mesmerizing; you just knew; you could tell<\/em><\/strong> he was different.\u00a0 You even thought about introducing him to your sister? \u00a0There was just something about him\u2026 \u00a0he would not lie to you.\u00a0 Even if all the others did\u2026<\/em> you just knew you could trust this man!\u00a0 You gladly bought what he was selling and went on your way confident, even excited knowing your travels were going to me smoother, safer, more reliable, more comfortable.\u00a0 The future looked so bright! \u00a0\u00a0Then the engine blew up.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Click Here for A partial list of Obama’s list of lies, half truths and broken promises.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

We were sold a bill of goods; a defective product.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t it time to invoke the lemon law and get a new car?<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Obama is the salesman that sold us that crappy car that will NEVER live up to the hype\u2026 and the Democratic Party is his dealership.<\/em><\/span>\u00a0 The only thing they sell is a enormous, bloated, job killing, over bearing, stifling, controlling government.\u00a0 They advertise and market their products as compassion and fairness; things that we all want.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span> But just as with a beautiful car, you always have to look under the hood.\u00a0 What they are selling sounds is what we all want.\u00a0 Even I want it\u2026 everyone does. It looks and sounds so beautiful\u2026 even inspiring, but when we look under the hood; an open aware mind sees an engine that works nothing like what we are told.<\/span><\/p>\n

I want what they are selling to work.\u00a0 I want to eliminate poverty, hunger; I want to feed and educate all children<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 I want a country and yes, a world of peace, happiness and prosperity.\u00a0 And I believe, that as the most powerful country in the world we should do everything possible to achieve these objectives.<\/span><\/p>\n

But none of this can be accomplished unless we institute policies that can actually get the job done.\u00a0 I don\u2019t care how inspiring the sales job is\u2026 a bad engine is a bad engine.\u00a0 A bad policy is a bad policy. \u00a0Lies and misdirection are simply deceit.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

His words are almost always perfection; a constant stream of inspiring rhetoric.\u00a0 But we all know this\u2026 it\u2019s what you do\u2026 not what you say that matters.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 He gives a GREAT speech, is a great salesman, but like the car salesman above\u2026 it\u2019s smoke and mirrors.<\/span><\/p>\n

A direct quote from a speech given on about 9-10-12.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\n \u201cThe path we have chosen may be harder but it will lead to a better place.\u00a0 I\u2019m asking you to choose that future.\u00a0 I\u2019m asking you to rally around some goals; concrete achievable goals in manufacturing, in energy, in education, in cutting the deficit that will lead to more jobs and opportunity and it will rebuild our economy on a stronger foundation.\u00a0 That\u2019s what the next 4 years are about.\u00a0 That\u2019s why I\u2019m running for president.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Isn’t<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0this what he said he was going to be doing the first four years?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s quickly dissect it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe path we have chosen may be harder but it will lead to a better place.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t this exactly what the car salesman does?\u00a0 It\u2019s perfectly analogous to \u201cthe payments may be a bit higher, but you\u2019re going to have such a nice ride\u201d.<\/span><\/em> We all know that the the hard path is doing<\/strong> what MUST BE DONE! \u00a0Not just talking<\/strong> about what we want<\/strong> to accomplish.<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 Spending must be cut.<\/strong>\u00a0 There is no option.\u00a0 See Tax the Rich?<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look at his stated goals.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Manufacturing<\/strong> <\/span>\u2013 as part of his class warfare argument, he rails against the greedy corporations that move jobs overseas.\u00a0 The fact of the matter is that is substantially a direct result of his tax policy.\u00a0 The United States has the highest corporate tax rate in the world.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Energy<\/strong><\/span>– Does Solyndra, Evergreen sound familiar?\u00a0 With these and other \u201cgreen companies\u201d, we, the tax payers, lost hundreds of millions of dollars because he decided to pick and choose which industry and which companies would win in the game of government handouts.\u00a0 The money co-incincidentally seems to go companies that have close ties to his administration or from companies that made HUGE contributions to his campaign.\u00a0<\/em><\/span> I\u2019m sure that\u2019s just a coincidence.<\/span><\/p>\n

We should not just be mad as hell about the loss of OUR money, but this should be a stark lesson in the inefficiency and incompetency of our government.\u00a0 The main reason these companies went under?\u00a0 They could not compete with the Chinese competition!<\/em><\/span>\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0Shouldn\u2019t the people who are throwing away our tax dollars have known that?<\/em><\/span>\u00a0 Actually, there is overwhelming evidence that they did, but handed our cash out to these contributors and well connected companies, nevertheless.<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 Why couldn\u2019t they compete?\u00a0 It\u2019s not just \u201clower wages\u201d as the administration likes to tout\u2026 as noted above, we tax our corporations more than any company in the world.\u00a0 Additionally, our regulatory system is almost impossible to traverse.\u00a0 Our own governmental tax structure and policies make it impossible to compete.\u00a0 Our government is costing our people jobs.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Lie<\/strong>– Speaking of energy\u2014what about oil.\u00a0 He states that under his administration drilling and production has never been higher.<\/span>
\n Fact<\/strong>– Virtually, every time he had the opportunity to stop drilling in the US offshore, he killed it.\u00a0 Virtually, every drop of production is the direct result of Bush policies opening up markets and fields.\u00a0 The only reason they weren\u2019t shut down is that it was not politically expedient to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n

Education<\/strong>– His solution to education is what it is for all democrats\u2026 give the teacher unions more money.<\/em><\/span>\u00a0 We all know it doesn\u2019t work.\u00a0 In spite of raise after raise, our children are still being failed by this system.\u00a0 How can he not realize what everyone with a brain understands.\u00a0 The key to better education is to have better educators.\u00a0 You don\u2019t accomplish that by giving an across the board pay increase to effective and<\/em> ineffective teachers.\u00a0 Good teachers must be rewarded and bad teachers must be either helped to improve\u2026 or fired.\u00a0 It may be harsh, but it\u2019s also true.\u00a0 Don\u2019t our children deserve that?<\/span><\/p>\n

Cutting the Deficit?<\/strong>–<\/span> This is actually laughable.\u00a0 In spite of the inspirational words, he has proven to have no interest in deficit reduction. \u00a0The one budget that he actually proposed was so insane that it received not even 1 vote\u2026 from anyone!\u00a0 Not even his tax and spend democrats would touch it with a 10 foot pole.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lie- Obama has had the lowest rate of increase in spending since World War II.<\/span>
\n Truth- He speaks of lowering the budget but the facts are that, in spite of the actual gargantuan budgets that he signed, in every case he had actually had asked for more!\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> As to the \u201cslow\u201d rate of growth, although technically accurate, it is again, smoke.\u00a0 When stated as a percentage of growth from one year to the next, to the degree it\u2019s almost<\/span> true,<\/em> it\u2019s not because of any restraint, but rather because he actually made the historically high budgets created by the \u201cstimulus\u201d package the new \u201cbaseline\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Example<\/strong>:<\/span>
\n If last year\u2019s budget was $1,000 and this year I spent $1.500, I increased the budget 50% but actually only spent an additional $500 dollars.\u00a0 Probably not anything that will bankrupt me.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, if last year the budget was 1 Trillion Dollars<\/em><\/strong> and this year I spent 1.3 Trillion Dollars, I actually lowered<\/em> <\/strong><\/span>the rate<\/em> <\/strong><\/span>of growth\u2026 hooray!\u00a0 But I just spent an additional THREE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS!<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 This is the kind of numbers game (half truths) that Obama is playing.<\/span>
\n For those that want to wade through the data see\u2026 http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2012\/05\/25\/wapo-three-pinocchios-to-wh-over-their-defense-of-obama-spending\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

How does an economist trying to determine what the numbers really mean, see it?<\/em><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 They look to the percentage of increase in government spending to Gross Domestic Product (GDP).<\/span>
\n In FY2008, federal spending equaled 20.8% of GDP.\u00a0 In FY2009, it jumped to 25.4% \u2014 an increase of 22%<\/strong> in the rate of spending.\u00a0 In the post-war era, federal spending as a percentage of the U.S. economy has hovered around 20 percent, give or take a couple of percentage points. Under Obama, it has hit highs not seen since the end of World War II \u2014 completely the opposite of the point asserted by the administration.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obama can spin the numbers any way he wants but in what world can any rational human being oversee and sign into law the most staggering deficits in the history of the world<\/span><\/em>, borrow forty cents of every dollar spent<\/span><\/em>, while at the same time bragging that he has slowed the rate of government spending????<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We need to understand; this country\u2019s problems cannot be solved by good speeches.\u00a0 It requires good effective policies.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n