Obama the Moderate

As Rep. Wilson shouted "You lie!" during Presidential health care address to a joint session of Congress most people had an opinion whether he actually lied about illegal immigrants being covered by Obamacare. Is it really a lie if you change the law to grant amnesty to all the illegals that are going to be covered? Maybe the lie that Rep Wilson was talking about was all of the campaign promises that Obama made and hasn't come close to fulfilling. I'm not talking about all the promises all the politicians make when campaigning, I'm talking about Obama lying about the type of person he was during the campaign. Let's take a look at what Obama said or didn't say during the election and if had told the truth would he still have been elected?

If we start with the most common, had he told us we would appoint nearly 3 dozen czars, reporting only to him, not vetted by Congress or even approved in a constitutional way. That among these czars there would be a self proclaimed communist, a czar that believes forced abortions should be used for population control, a czar that believes that state should control the media. If Obama told us the truth about his plan to socialize the auto industry and replace the CEO with a campaign contributor. If Obama campaigned on shutting down thousands of auto dealerships whimsically choosing which ones stay open and which ones get closed. If Hugo Chavez said Obama would end up politically to his left, and talks shows warned against a socialist takeover would the Obama stream media attack them as domestic terrorists. If Obama told us he would spend $3 billion on "Cash for Clunkers" that uses taxpayer money to buy foreign cars. If he told us the stimulus bill was a joke, that it doesn't create jobs and the unemployment rate would soar. If he told us that his nomination to the Supreme Court was an activist judge that believed in legislating from the bench or State Department lawyer is a transnationalist who wants to use foreign law binding to US citizens or his regulation czar wants the right for animals to sue humans. If we knew that he would be a flop as a commander in chief and not speak to the field commanders for months, even after being sent a critical report. If Obama had told us the he would guarantee 90% of mortgages, imposing trillions in debt on US taxpayers who pay their mortgages and pay 80% of student loans at a cost of $1 trillion. If Obama told us he was going make the government a major shareholder in Citigroup. What if Obama's healthcare plan was the same as Hillary Clinton's, which Obama attacked in the campaign; that it would force everyone to buy insurance, tax good policies, business and insurance companies and use federal money to pay for abortions, grant health care benefits to illegal aliens. If Obama had told us that he would increase federal spending and debt from the multibillion to multitrillion and told us he would spread the wealth from the rich to the poor causing the budget deficit to balloon. If Obama had told us that his first speech abroad would be in Muslim Turkey apologizing for America and proclaiming that we don't consider ourselves a Christian nation. If we had known any of these things, maybe we would have known that when he said days before the election that he was days away from fundamentally changing this country, he was talking about socializing the country. Would he have been elected President of the United States. Obama campaigned on being a fiscal conservative and has proved to be anything but, spending more in the first year of his presidency than all other Presidents combined. He campaigned on creating a transparent government and the transparency is as clear as a brick wall. Obama campaigned on working with both parties and has shut the opposing party out. Obama said to judge him by who he surrounds himself with and if you look at his czars, you can see that he surrounds himself with radical, left wing extremists bent on destroying the America we know and our fore fathers build.

It gets even worse, would we have elected Obama if we knew that he didn't understand mathematics? When I was teaching and training to be a teacher we were learning about what was called new math, I wasn't a math teacher, so I didn't bother paying attention to "new math". I think I might need to explain. Edmunds.com released a study concluding that "cash for clunkers" cost taxpayers $24,000 per vehicle. Of course the White House accused Edmunds of using cars sales data on Mars. The study compared historical sales data during the recession to conclude that the $3 billion program only generated 125,000 new sales (sales that wouldn't have normally occured). "The Administration"'s rebuttal didn't include any figures, just the "excitement" generated by the program and failed to mention the number of foreign cars sold. That's not the only instance of "new math". Lets look at the stimulus program. "The Administration" issued a report claiming the stimulus created or "saved" 640,000 jobs (I have yet to find an economist that can measure a "saved" job) and quickly revised the report to 1 million jobs. If you take the 1 million jobs by the $160 billion (amount allocated by Sept 30) it cost taxpayers $160,000 per job created or "saved". VP Bidens aide accused reporters of calculator abuse and didn't include the jobs the White House hoped to create or "save" by the end of the year. The abuse of math with the White House doesn't end there, lets look at the first time home buyer program. $8,000 tax credit for 1.9 million people who qualified equals $15 billion in government subsidies. 350,000 sales generated by the program means that it only cost taxpayers $43,000 per house. These house were already built and didn't create or "save" any jobs. Obama's new math program must have been created to avoid releasing real information that shows how poor of a job "the administration" on trying to fix the economy.

The stimulus package is not intended for the United States citizen, it's intended for the the United States Government, to pay for all the new bureaucrats and federal agencies created to oversee these wasteful programs. It's designed to see if anyone is paying attention, just a small tax, a prelude to many more to come. All non governmental economists warned that a stimulus package would create a "W" recession, where there is a small recovery followed by another recession. You can't spend your way out of a recession.

"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
Winston Churchill