IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY I TYPE IN CAPS, IT IS TO MAKE MY POSTS MORE READABLE TO PEOPLE WITH LOW VISION LIKE MYSELF. THAT SAID I HAVE PONDERED ON THE MYSTERIOUS WAY OBAMA INSERTED HIMSELF INTO THE NATIONS' CONSCIOUSNESS ENOUGH TO GET ELECTED AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. FIRST OFF, OBAMA IS NOT AFRICAN AMERICAN HE IS, MULATTO; HE COULD CALL HIMSELF WHITE BUT, THIS WOULD NOT BE TRUE EITHER.
OBAMA CAME FROM WHAT I CALL, " A SKETCHY BACKGROUND". WHY THE MAJOR JOURNALISM ORGANS IN THIS COUNTRY GAVE OBAMA A PASS ON HIS PAST, I WILL NEVER COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND. THE CONSERVATIVE MEDIA ATTEMPTED TO DO SO, BUT HAD AS ITS' MOTIVATION TO DEFEAT HIM WITH SLANDER, INNUENDO AND MADE UP CRAP INSTEAD OF A STUDIED, RESEARCHED AND WELL LAID OUT EXPLANATION OF WHY HE SHOULD NOT BE ELECTED OR IN THIS CASE, RE-ELECTED.LET ME EXPLAIN.
DO I THINK THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE IS AN ISSUE? YES. DO I THINK THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE ISSUED THIS SPRING IS A CLEVER FORGERY? YES. COMPUTER EXPERTS HAVE EXAMINED THE METADATA OF THE DOCUMENT AND IT HAS SERIOUS ISSUES.THAT SAID, I AM NOT A BIRTHER, I JUST THINK WE HAVE BEEN HOODWINKED BY SOME CLEVER AND VERY SMART PEOPLE.
HERE'S THE PROBLEM I HAVE WITH OBAMA. HIS CAREFULLY STAGED BACK-STORY THAT HAS BEEN CHOREOGRAPHED BY AGAIN, SOME VERY SMART PEOPLE.
LET ME BEGIN BY GOING OVER SOME MAJOR POINTS OF HIS BIOGRAPHY THAT ARE EXTREMELY TROUBLING TO ME ALONG WITH MY OPINION.
IN 1979, OBAMA STARTED AT OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE, A PRIVATE LIBERAL ART COLLEGE IN L.A.. OBAMA WAS CANDID ABOUT HIS 2 YEARS THEIR WHERE HE EXPERIMENTED WITH A VARIETY OF DRUGS. HE WAS A DRUGGIE. THIS FACT ALONE, WOULD DISQUALIFY HIM FROM MANY SLOTS IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT, MILITARY, INTELLIGENCE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT. THESE AGENCIES DO NOT WANT AN EMPLOYEE WHO HAS SCRAMBLED HIS BRAINS ON DRUGS. BUT LETS BE REAL, MANY AMERICANS HAVE DONE THE SAME SO ITS' NO BIG DEAL, RIGHT?
OBAMA SQUANDERED HIS TIME AT OCCIDENTAL. TODAY TUITION AT OCCIDENTAL IS NEARLY $42,000 WITH ANOTHER 16-18K FOR LIVING EXPENSES.source HOW THE f*** DID OBAMA SWING THAT?
THIS BRINGS ABOUT MY FIRST SET OF QUESTIONS. IF, OBAMA RECEIVE STATE AND FEDERAL FINANCIAL AID, INCLUDING STUDENT LOANS: DID HE RECEIVE AID AS AN AMERICAN OR FOREIGN STUDENT? WHY HASN'T OBAMA RELEASED HIS STUDENT RECORDS?
OBAMA STATES HE DID NOT APPLY HIMSELF, THAT'S WASTING A LOT OF MONEY DONCHA THINK BARKEY? BUT SINCE HE HAS, "A BRILLIANT MIND", OBAMA WAS PROBABLY A QUICK STUDY AND WAS ABLE TO SLIDE THROUGH. DURING THIS TIME HE HAD 2 PAKISTANI ROOMMATES, MUHAMMAD HASAN CHANDOO AND WAHID HAMID.
DURING THE SUMMER OF 1981 AFTER 2 YEARS AT OCCIDENTAL HE MADE AN, "AROUND THE WORLD TRIP" WITH WHAT FINANCIAL RESOURCES? HIS AMERICAN EXPRESS CARD? BARKEY STOPPED IN INDONESIA
TO SEE HIS MOTHER, NEXT, HYDERABAD IN INDIA AND THEN 3 WEEKS IN KARACHI, PAKISTAN WHERE HE STAYED WITH HIS ROOMMATES' FAMILY.
THEN OBAMA TOOK OFF TO VISIT HIS FATHER' FAMILY IN AFRICA. BARKY THEN SOMEHOW TRANSFERRED TO COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY WITH HIS LESS THAN STELLAR ACADEMICS. AGAIN, OBAMA MAKES MO
NEY APPEAR OUT OF NOWHERE TO GO TO ANOTHER HIGH TUITION INSTITUTION OF HIGHER LEARNING LOCATED IN ONE OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE CITIES IN THE UNITED STATES?! WTF?! BARKEY CHANGES HIS NAME FROM BARRY TO BARACK, GRADUATES COLUMBIA WITH A BA IN POLISCI AND GOES TO WORK FOR BUSINESS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, A REPUTED CIA FRONT ORGANIZATION. see www.bibliotecapleyades.net/archivos_pdf/obama_company.pdf...,BARKIE THEN WENT ON TO WORK FOR THE NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP. I CAN'T IMAGINE HE COMMANDED A LARGE SALARY AS A POLISCI GRAD EVEN FROM COLUMBIA. SO HOW DID HE MANAGE TO PAY OFF HIS AX CARD, STUDENT LOANS, BUY A CAR AND MANAGE TO LIVE AND EAT? WHILE IN NYC OBAMA MEETS SYRIAN BORN ANTOIN REZKO, A CHICAGO REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER NAMED "ENTREPRENEUR OF THE DECADE" BY THE ARAB-AMERICAN BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION. OBAMA THEN MOVES HIS BASE OF OPERATIONS TO CHICAGO, TURNING DOWN WHAT MAY HAVE BEEN A LUCRATIVE JOB WITH REZKO TO BECOME "A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER" AND "CONSULTANT". AGAIN THIS PROBABLY DID NOT CURE WHAT IS PROBABLY NOW, A DIRE FINANCIAL SITUATION. I WOULD LIKE TO READ BARKEYS' FINANCIAL BIOGRAPHY. DURING THE SUMMER OF 1988, HE TRAVELS TO EUROPE FOR 3 WEEKS AND THEN OFF TO KENYA FOR 5 WEEKS BEFORE ENROLLING IN HARVARD LAW SCHOOL IN THE FALL OF 1988. AGAIN THIS IS ANOTHER VERY EXPENSIVE ACADEMIC PURSUIT, BUT BARKEY HAS NO PROBLEM PUMPING CASH TO PAY FOR THIS EITHER.BARKEY GOES ON TO BE THE STEALTH EDITOR OF THE HARVARD LAW REVIEW AS ITS FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT, GRADUATES MAGNA CUM LAUDE AND HEADS BACK TO THE FREEZING WINTERS OF CHICAGO. IMAGINE THAT A TROPICAL KID ON THE GREAT LAKES!
BARKEYS' CHICAGO YEARS ARE WELL DOCUMENTED, HIS TIES TO REZKO AS HIS MEANS TO ENTER THE MAINSTREAM AND SLICK DEALS WITH IRAQI BORN BILLIONAIRE NADHMI AUCHI, TO HIS CAREER AS A LAW PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.HE BECAME BUDDIES WITH TRUST FUND BABY AND ACCUSED COP KILLER BILL AYERS. THIS CAUSED CONSIDERABLE CONSTERNATION AND WORRY AMONG SWING VOTERS IN MIDDLE AMERICA.
BARKEY BEGAN HIS POLITICAL, ahem, "legislative career" IN 1996 BEING ELECTED TO THE UPPER HOUSE OF THE ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE.THERE HE SERVED UNTIL 2004 WHEN HE WAS ELEVATED TO THE US SENATE BY THE CORRUPT DEMOCRAT CHICAGO POLITICAL MACHINE. BARKEY SERVED AS US SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS FROM 2005 UNTIL HIS ELECTION AS PRESIDENT IN 2008.
I AM NEITHER AN HISTORIAN NOR A JOURNALIST, BUT I DO HAVE QUITE AN INTEREST IN CURRENT EVENTS AND HAVE AN UNHEALTHY INTEREST IN POLITICS AS I AM CONCERNED WITH THE DIRECTION THAT THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE HAS TURNED TOWARDS AFTER 8 DISASTROUS YEARS OF THE GEORGE W.BUSH PRESIDENCY.
IN SUMMARY, OBAMA IS AN "EMPTY SUIT", IN MY OPINION, BEREFT OF IDEAS. HE IS AN UNREMARKABLE MAN IN A REMARKABLE TIME IN THIS COUNTRY'S HISTORY..., I AM CALLING FOR HIS OUSTER AS THE DAMAGE HE HAS DONE, IS DOING AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO IF REELECTED WILL FINISH OFF THE JOB THAT "W" STARTED. THAT JOB..., TO DESTROY AMERICA! BARACK, IF YOUR GOING TO BE A LEADER..., YOU BETTER START NOW AND LEAD!
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES ARE PROVIDED WITH FULL ATTRIBUTION COURTESY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE SOURCES...,
Few Americans needed Standard & Poor to confirm the mismanagement of the United States government and its finances. The downgrading of American credit will raise interest rates on America’s huge debt and ultimately on all Americans. Popular polls say that most Americans blame Congress—but that’s too simplistic. As much as Barack Obama would like to shift that blame onto Congress, the fault lies squarely on the shoulders of President. It is first and foremost a leadership problem that is crippling America—and the leader is President Barack Obama—not the many members of Congress.
No matter how many speeches he makes, the conclusion is clear: Obama’s greatest failure is spending America into enormous deficits, and being clueless about how to get the economy to recover. His speeches, riddled with “I” and “We” are mostly serving to indict him for his failings. Appearing on TV more than any other sitting president, Barack Obama is constantly “explaining” why things aren’t working, when he should be working on what to do different and better.
Instead he is “campaigning,” which is the only thing he knows how to do reasonable well. But he can’t fix the economy; he has neither the experience nor the knowhow to do it. His failed, misguided policies have only exacerbated the size of his mistakes and shortcomings.
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“I didn’t say ‘Change we can believe in tomorrow.,.’ I didn’t say, ‘Change we can believe in next week…’ “We knew this was going to take time.” —Barack Obama, Aug. 4, 2011.
Obama has surrounded himself with academics, theoreticians and politicians and all of their solutions are wrong, flawed and ineffective. Don’t take my word for it. Look at the evidence. Nobody in his inner circle has meaningful business experience. He not only doesn’t understand business, he dislikes businesses; they are only useful as a way to collect taxes to redistribute.
For Barack Obama’s first 18 months, and occasionally even today, he and his loyalists try to place the lion’s share of the blame for America’s problems with George W. Bush. There is little doubt that Bush erred seriously on several counts: he initiated two expensive wars and then saw the Iraq war mismanaged for at least 2-3 years.
Then Bush failed, along with the (then) GOP led Congress to rein in spending to compensate for the cost of these wars. Finally, he reduced tax rates and created the Medicare prescription drug program (which turned out to work better and cost far less than was feared). Coincidentally, the much-maligned TARP initiated by Bush actually staved off a financial collapse and is largely being paid back by the banks and insurance companies involved. In perhaps his greatest mistake, Bush failed to veto a single spending bill sent to him by Congress.
Bush’s mistakes were clearly serious errors, but they pale in comparison with Obama’s failures since he took office. The Democratically controlled Congress was complicit with Obama’s failures. They have not submitted, and Obama has not submitted a realistic budget for the country in over 800 days—a clear failure to meet their responsibilities. (Exception: Obama’s irresponsible Feb. budget, which was voted down 97-0 by a Democratically controlled Senate.)
To chronicle Obama’s failures and his shortcomings is impossible within the length of a simple blog post. A few of them are most notable. Obama aided and abetted by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid rammed the new health care legislation down the throat of America—and Obamacare was created. Parts of it are well-intentioned, but much of it is feared by Americans and especially small businesses. Arguably some of Obama’s greatest damage to the economy has been done by his appointees in the EPA, NLRB, CPSC, et. al., and the Justice Department. American business is oppressed by regulation. Sadly, Obama barely realizes this.
Next came the $840 billion “stimulus” package, (mostly pork and patronage), which worked poorly or not at all—unless you consider creating jobs at $275,000 each to be a good solution. Not enough “shovel-ready” projects were really “shovel-ready” Obama admitted recently, chuckling awkwardly at his naiveté. Obama and his experts (now mostly gone back to finance or academia) predicted a drop of unemployment to under 8% when the number of jobless went the other way—upward. Now, more Americans have been out of work, for longer, than any time in the past half-century.
Obamacare not only violated many of his eloquent campaign promises; e.g., Taxes on Americans earning less than $200/$250,000 per year will no increase one penny—except for the new Obamacare tax to 3.8% applied to investment income—which will hit millions of Americans. When faced with his party’s impending losses in 2008 elections, Obama dispatched Rahm Emmanuel to attempt buying-off candidates in the 2008 primaries with a promise of high-level jobs, a legally questionable practice at best, and unethical one at worst.
During Obama’s term in office the deficit has grown astronomically as he continues, even to this day, to insist on more spending and more taxes (especially those on “millionaires and billionaires” a category that most Americans earning $200-250,000 per year hardly imagine including them.)
Those who point to his achievements name “bailing out” GM & Chrysler—but many experts feel that was done by using executive power for further illegal actions, denying legal bondholders their rightful returns. There is also a strong belief that ordinary bankruptcy could well have accomplished the same result at a cost of almost $20 billion less of taxpayers’ money. But then spending too much of taxpayers money has never bothered this White House.
To make Obamacare’s outrageous financial claims, Obama & his Democratic Congressional minions desperately needed to cut its cost. Thus, buried in the 2000+-page bill, Obama and his accomplices Reid and Pelosi cut $500 billion out of Medicare. Now he pretends to worry about seniors while ignoring Medicare’s impending insolvency. After all, even if Obama could win a second term, he will be gone before Medicare fails, and be able to blame it on his successor.
Barack Obama was going to close Gitmo—until he realized that it was as unrealistic as much of his campaign rhetoric. Obama has violated the law, which requires the president to act within 15 days after the Medicare commission advises him of a financing problem. His Democratic allies gave him a waiver in his first year, but this year—he simply ignored the law.
Obama followed Bush’s foreign policy and even left most Bush appointees in charge, until recently. Obama’s vanquished primary opponent Hillary Clinton has precluded him from making as big a debacle of foreign policy as he has on domestic policy. He tried, early in his career, kowtowing to foreign dictators and despots, apologizing for America instead of protecting and defending it.
The ultimate failure of President Barack Obama is that he is unable or unwilling to lead; to define anything more than vague generalities as a solution to America’s daunting problems. Even his own allies in the GAO state, “we can’t value a speech.” In his desperation to run for reelection, Obama continues to abdicate his responsibilities. The debt ceiling was a showcase of his failings as he periodically jumped in and out of negotiations until he literally neutralized himself.
The president made himself an outsider in the decision, even as he tried to sound like a voice of reason, making speech after speech, saying less in each successive one. Senator Harry Reid and House Speaker John Boehner finally fought through massive partisan problems to reach a compromise agreement—but it was clearly too little, too late. Kicking the hard work down to a twelve person “super-committee” was not enough to settle financial markets.
While Barack Obama campaigned, making still more speeches at his 50th birthday celebrations, the Wall Street voted with its money and the Dow-Jones average dropped over 500 points and the S. & P. dropped even more—5%+. 117,000 jobs created in July don’t even approach the number needed to offset new entries to the workforce. The drop in unemployment from 9.2% to 9.1% signals more unemployed Americans giving up, not more of them being hired.
Happy Birthday Mr. President. You have accomplished something no other president has done. You’ve spent America into a hole that will take a decade to fix, and kept more Americans out of work longer than anyone in recent history, and you’ve accomplished all this in record time, only 2-1/2 years. Who knows how much harm you can do given still more time.
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John Mariotti is an internationally known executive, consultant and an award-winning author. His book, The Complexity Crisis was named one of 2008’s Best Business Books. In a recent novel, The Chinese Conspiracy, he merges an exciting fictional thriller with the factual reality of America’s risk from Cyber-Attacks. (www.thechinesecomspiracy.com). Mariotti does Keynote speeches, serves on corporate boards and is a consultant/advisor to companies. He can be reached at www.mariotti.net .
Have You Had "Enough" of Obama Yet?“Ridiculous, disgusting, stupid, frustrating, poor, terrible, disappointing, childish, messy and a joke,” were just a few of the words used by Americans to describe the recent fiasco that enabled a higher (more astronomical) debt limit for the USA: $14 Trillion wasn’t enough. Coincidentally, that is about the size of the deficit!
If that isn’t “Enough,” then recall that the Democratic Congress has not passed a budget for over 800 days—more than two full years. But the country keeps on spending, at the rate of about $1.40+ for every dollar of revenue that comes in. That’s right.
We have about $2.5 Trillion of revenue coming into the government; a bit over $200 Billion a month (but obviously from the panic stricken pleas from President Obama and his Treasury Secretary Geithner, they couldn’t manage to operate the government on “only $200 Billion a month.” It’s just not “Enough!” Why? Because spending is about $3.6 Trillion—40% higher than income.
Now we have this long arduous process, caused almost entirely by the desires of responsible Republicans in the House. They insisted that some sort of fiscal sanity be included in a bill that raises the debt ceiling. Well, they got “some sort,” but it wasn’t “Enough!”
The budget cuts included in the debt ceiling increase bill will make virtually no difference in the deficit or the economy. They are just too small ($21 Billion in 2012, and $2.4 Trillion over 10 years, $24 Trillion per year—both less than 1%). Both are dependent on a group of 12 House and Senate Power Brokers agreeing on cuts—and then relying on future Congresses who cannot be bound by past ones, to approve another couple of trillion over ten years. Fat chance of that happening. We have a 40% spending problem and we agree to cut 1% That is not Enough—not even close!
Or perhaps, worse yet, the new “group of 12” might agree—on a massive tax increase so they can keep spending like drunken…”fools.” Put this all in perspective: The deficit is now over $14 Trillion as is the debt ceiling to cover it. The country is running Trillion dollar deficits every year! That means by 2020, the deficit will be $20 Trillion—maybe more.
This bill plans to cut (at most): $2.4 Trillion in cuts over a 10-year period. Wow. That’s just great. It will “rein in the 2020 deficit” to maybe $18 Trillion or so. Stupid. I can’t think of any other word.
If you run out of money at home, and maxed out your credit cards, what do you do? You quit spending; you allocate the money you have to necessities—food and shelter—or at least most Americans do. If a company runs out of money, it files for bankruptcy, during which it must “reorganize” to spend less and become solvent, and fiscally responsible—or else it is liquidated—and ceases to exist. Maybe it would have been better to force the country into default; to force a crisis; and to strike down the irresponsible growth of government, whatever the cost to the economy. Sooner or later, that is going to be the outcome of this stupidity.
The economy is already moribund: 1.3% growth in 2Q of 2011, after 0.6% growth in the 1Q. Those numbers are precursors to a (technical) recession. Of course jobs are not being created. Why? No demand and no confidence that anyone in Washington has a clue about fiscal responsibility. Obama, the “Pretender in Chief” just wants to rail about taxing private jet owners and oil companies and millionaires and billionaires. That won’t fix anything!
Neither Obama nor his staff have ever managed a business, made a payroll or tried to create jobs in a truly free-enterprise way. They are all academics, politicians, elected officials who studied political science in college, or lawyers (who argue over how to divide up the spoils and collect a fee), and a smattering of bankers (looking out for their own kind).
The problem is you can’t just “create jobs” (not lasting ones anyway). You have to create a positive environment in which businesses see the opportunity to risk the capital and time to create growth—and growth creates jobs—if it’s in the USA that is. You can’t spend your way to more jobs. When a business is over-spending a wise Owner or CEO simply “cuts” the spending down to an affordable level—by either managerial skills or by edict. Take away the checkbook. Put limits on the account.
But not the American government; it just keeps on spending. Throwing money it doesn’t have (and must borrow) at every theoretical possibility—all to now avail. Every frivolous spending excuse has supporters, lobbyists, and elected members who insist that it is essential. Fund everything. Wrong! Stupid! Irresponsible! It should be illegal, but then who’d enforce it, when the worse offender, the guy in the White House just ignores the law anyway.
There are documented examples of waste and fraud in Medicare and Medicaid, that amount to Billions of dollars. They have been documented over and over. If you don’t believe it, go see this: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/271006/entitlement-bandits-michael-f-cannon?page=1 . You will see specific citations of enormous waste that no one in government cares about. Simply cracking down—hard—on these frauds could save $50-75 Billion each year. That would trim a lot off the budget deficit without pushing any “grandmas off the cliff in their wheel chairs,” unless of course they were fraudulently obtained. That might be a bit of a problem.
The Defense department is ripe for a hug cut. It has evolved to be the “travel agent” for dignitaries, Congressional junkets and assorted other nonsense. Its administrative ranks alone are certainly over-staffed, probably over-paid and in some cases largely redundant. CBO studies have identified rampant redundancy in governmental bureaucracy, amounting to tens of billions of dollars.
In the private sector, we’d bring in a turnaround or restructuring specialist who would find and chop these out. Do you ever wish that the government would open its doors and files to a private sector turnaround group with the objective of cutting costs 25%? Meanwhile, we all know that the $50 Trillion deficit that faces Medicare and Medicaid’s future cannot endure.
Social Security was passed when life expectancy was 63, two years below the retirement age chosen. If that rule were applied now, Social Security eligibility would be 75, not 65. Of course doing that would add millions of new people to the already huge unemployment problem.
OK. That’s “Enough.” I’ve had “Enough.” Enough of what? Enough of a government that takes our hard earned money and spends it irresponsibly on a plethora of wonderful sounding but simply unaffordable things. Cut the Cabinet spots to eight, and abolish all of those other departments. Absorb a small fraction of the functions into one of the eight remaining cabinet level departments. E.g., Why again to we need Departments of Agriculture and the Interior? Isn’t agriculture done in the “interior?” Why Veterans Affairs and Health and Human Services both? Aren’t veterans humans whose health and services we care about? Why Energy and Transportation. Don’t those overlap a lot? Aren’t both of them all about infrastructure, and power, and moving around the country? Get the idea.
I’ve had “Enough” government. I’m sick and tired of its growth and intrusion in the name of “watching out for us.” Government was created to work for the people—American citizens—and not vice versa. Isn’t it time we got back to that premise. I think so.
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John Mariotti is an internationally known executive and an award-winning author. His book, The Complexity Crisis was named one of 2008’s Best Business Books. In his recent novel, The Chinese Conspiracy, he merges an exciting fictional thriller with the factual reality of America’s risk from Cyber-Attacks. (www.thechinesecomspiracy.com) Mariotti does Keynote speeches, serves on corporate boards and is a consultant/advisor to companies. He can be reached at www.mariotti.net .
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