Obamas Economy

You know what I was going to write tonight about, Obama, I was going to take a quote from one of his speeches and then use a statement from his website to counter his quote for example:

Obama Said:

“I believe that America’s free market has been the engine of America’s great progress. It’s created a prosperity that is the envy of the world. It’s led to a standard of living unmatched in history. And it has provided great rewards to the innovators and risk-takers who have made America a beacon for science, and technology, and discovery…We are all in this together. From CEOs to shareholders, from financiers to factory workers, we all have a stake in each other’s success because the more Americans prosper, the more America prospers.”

Now what I was going to do was take from his website and write how his plans would harm not help the country. Here are four examples all taken from his issues on the economy. I had to stop at four just because ran out of time.

1.As president, Obama will initiate a strategy to encourage all 50 states to adopt paid-leave systems. Obama will provide a $1.5 billion fund to assist states with start-up costs and to help states offset the costs for employees and employers.

2.Obama will create a fund to help people refinance their mortgages and provide comprehensive supports to innocent homeowners. The fund will be partially paid for by Obama’s increased penalties on lenders who act irresponsibly and commit fraud.

3.Barack Obama will raise the minimum wage, index it to inflation and increase the Earned Income Tax Credit to make sure that full-time workers earn a living wage that allows them to raise their families and pay for basic needs

4.Obama will invest in rural small businesses and fight to expand high-speed Internet access. He will improve rural schools and attract more doctors to rural areas.

now I am going to write my response and number it with the corresponding number from above.

1. Paid leave system. Clinton paved the way for this with the family medical leave act. 6 weeks leave when you have a baby or some major family crisis. Okay, I will admit when my son was born we took advantage of it. But we didn’t get paid for. We had to set aside 6 weeks worth of pay before he was born until my wife went back to work. Now I am being told that we shouldn’t expect people to do what I had to do. The 1.5 billion dollars to fund this program is going to only escalate very quickly, every one is going to be taking advantage of this. And who is going to pay. Me the idiot who played by the rules. You who work for a living and don’t take the week off because you got a cold. They call it a “paid leave system” I call it a “tax” a tax that means the American people will have 1.5 billion dollars less to spend in the private sector where the countries wealth is generated. So my question for Obama is: How is this going to strengthening the economy? Its a tax on the middle class people.

2. I feel bad when people lose their homes but you know what, if I lost my home tomorrow the government isn’t going to save me. I think that we forget the government is their to allow for the pursuit of happiness not to prop up the poor and the ignorant. Lets face if these people getting foreclosed on could only afford a house using these “creative” financing practices. They shouldn’t have been buying in the first place. The good news for the people who are getting foreclosed on is now they can rent a house and have it be affordable. Thats basically what they were doing with these “creative” loans they were renting most didn’t have any equity in the house. Increased penalties on lenders Obama says, that means higher closing costs for you and me. That hurts the average person. Less money for spending on new things for that new home. That hurts business. Its a tax on the middle class people.

3.Okay so would the minimum wage in New York City be higher than a little town in Georgia. Now why I don’t like the minimum wage is that it tells Americans. “no you can’t do better, so here is a pay increase now go on and be a good little worker.” I love how the liberals call us “workers. Yeah we are workers but we are also free thinking human beings who are more than workers. Maybe a low wage would be the incentive someone needs to go out on their own and start a business, go find a better paying job for a better company. I think setting a minimum wage is inhumane quite honestly. It keeps people complacent and complacency breeds despair and hopelessness. That is why we end up with high welfare roles, people get used to relying on government for everything from a raise (and no matter how high the raise it wouldn’t ever be enough) to food. Besides a higher minimum wage would mean less people get hired. It would hurt small business the most and we would all pay for it when we go shopping. It is a stealth tax on the middle class people.

4. how is the president going to get doctors in rural areas and is he going to run the cables himself for their high speed Internet access. Mr. Obama if you want to help the rural areas leave them alone. How much of my tax dollars going to pay for their schools and how much are you going to invest in their businesses. I am sorry but this is nothing more than pandering to the rural Americans trying to buy thier votes. Besides if you do this it will cost taxpayers money, money we won’t see a return on. And that is a tax people a tax on the middle class.

I am more convinced everyday that the liberals want to destroy the middle class, and the way they do it is by making the fairly well to do in this country feel guilty, and while they feel guilty, they gladly give their money to the government to give to the poor. The Government has become a big charity. The problem with all of this is it is unconstitutional. It is socialism. We are on a road to communism in this country and socialism is the first stop. Mr. Obama will get us there as fast as we let him.