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Originally Posted by
rb336
examples of these, please.
They should be obvious and I don't want to write a book so I will limit myself to three items in each category.
Disingenuousness:
1a) Taking credit for getting the troops out of Iraq. In 2008, the Iraqi parliament had ordered us troops out of Iraq by the end of 2011. Obama kept them in until a month before the deadline after trying to keep them in longer through negotiations. 1b) Campaigning in 2008, Obama had promised to end the war immediately if he became president. He didn't and hundreds of young Americans died in Iraq in the interim.
2a) There was a lot of verbiage in his speech about bringing jobs back home. Going back to his 2008 campaign, he promised to address NAFTA. He didn't. Instead, he set up at least three new free trade agreements including one with S. Korea putting US auto workers, and other US union workers, in direct competition with Korean pay scales. Let's see how that works out. Probably like NAFTA. 2b) Need I mention Chinese job czar Immelt and GE Medical which transferred the headquarters of it's 155 year old X-ray division to China?
3a) All the talk about making rich people pay their share after Obama had extended Bush's tax cuts of the rich and 3b) acting like he was going to get tough with bankers after he voted for Bush's Wall Street bailout, transferred worthless assets from mega-banks to US taxpayers on Christmas Eve, 2009 and crammed his administration with Goldman Sachs personnel after GS donated almost $1M to his campaign.
"Crony capitalism is a term describing an economy in which success in business depends on close relationships between business people and government officials. It may be exhibited by favoritism in the distribution of legal permits, government grants, special tax breaks, and so forth":
1) The Crony capitalism arrangement between the federal government and GM and Chrysler. That was the second time the federal government has bailed out Chrysler. Leaner competitors were discouraged by federal deep pockets bailing out dinosaurs. If leaner suggests foreign, Chrysler is now Italian owned anyway. I had so wanted him to mention Solyndra.
2) A scheme to save mortgage holders $3,000 a year which is in large part another bankers' bailout. Banks will be charged with a fee but let me guess will the banks cut profits and executive bonuses or reduce savers interest to pay for this program?
3) More tax breaks for corporations. Republicans will probably offer bi-partisan support on that one.
Constitutional considerations:
1) Blatant disregard for 10th Amendment limitations [[ I know, I know, your DNC copy fo the Constitution edited out the 10th because there was no space to include it because 'the general welfare clause' and 'commerce clause' were in such big font) regarding the powers of the federal government. Many of the new federal government spending programs proposed could instead be carried out by states if they so chose to. There must have been ten new spending programs mentioned.
2) One of Obama's little dictator moments came last night was when he mentioned, "With or without this Congress, I will keep taking actions that help the economy grow." I think this is a reference to similar recent declaration and actions in which he uses executive orders to both legislate and spend money.
3) Bragging about taking out Khadafi, and bombing Libya by extension, without a Congressionally declared war, paying any attention to the war powers act, or otherwise consulting Congress. Did I mention having dictator moments?
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Gannon, Did you catch the mention of some sort of new cyber war fighting bill the President said he had passed on to Congress. What bill was he referring to? Right now there are SOPA/PIPA, ACTA, and 1981 floating around in various states. Was he referring to one of those bills or something else?