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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (701232)	2/26/2013 9:58:47 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574093

IOW you're switching topic away from o&g "subsidies" to something else. I'm not changing any topics till you admit you lost the argument on your stupid o&g deduction claims.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (701232)

2/26/2013 10:49:45 PM

From: jlallen

1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1574093

Worst President ever.................

Obama, creator of the sequester crisis, decries crises created for political gain

To hear President Obama talk about the so-called budget cuts known as sequestration, his two-year-old idea of those required slashes in federal spending didn't turn out to be such a good idea after all.

As usual with President Obama, however, the failure of his own plan is not his fault.

The president, his Cabinet secretaries and his press secretary are describing a veritable fiscal Armageddon for the country if the cuts he proposed in 2011 start taking effect on Friday, as legislatively required. And conveniently forgetting that in late 2011 Obama vowed to veto any attempts to disarm the sequester cuts he now raises alarms over.

Remember now, these aren't real cuts in current spending. These are cuts in the future increases of current spending. We'll still be spending more and more and more each year, as we have since Obama took the throne. In fact, he's been spending more than $1,000,000,000,000 above what the government takes in every single year.

We'll just be spending a little bit less of the usual annual federal budget increases. Only 2.3% less, as a matter of fact. Could you cut $23 in spending out of a $1,000 raise you might get someday if you ever find a job during this Obama economy? See?

But to hear Obama describe the ugly upcoming scenario you'll probably have to send your kids to school unfed, maybe even naked. See how awful Republicans are?

"Thousands of teachers and educators will be laid off. Tens of thousands of parents will have to deal with finding child care for their children. Hundreds of thousands of Americans will lose access to primary care and preventive care like flu vaccinations and cancer screenings.....workers will sit idle when they should be repairing ships."

Obama made these claims to the nation's governors Monday and urged them to contact their congressional delegations. These are 50 men and women chief state executives, every one of whom balances every one of their government budgets every single year. And the White House Democrat has the nerve to seek their help avoiding modest trims that still add to his existing historic deficits.

Today, Obama takes his OMG Tour to Virginia's coastline, where he might mention some awful alleged things those Republicans will force him to do to our once-proud Navy.

He probably won't have time to explain that the Republican House has twice passed measures to address the sequester challenge but the Democrat Senate is too busy to take them up, as it has been violating the law and not passing federal budgets for the past four years.

Obama loves these 2014 midterm campaign outings bashing the opposition with the help of a compliant media. Maneuvering for political advantage is all Chicagoan Obama has ever known as a legislator.

And campaigning against stuff is so much easier than governing or displaying leadership to bring people together and actually accomplish something, as most chief executives do.

This has become SOP for Obama, who deserves the 2013 Nobel Prize for Cynicism. And this one he would have earned.

Whether it's taxing the richest 2% to pay more of their "fair share," already at the 45% level. Or throwing gasoline on the fiscal cliff crisis. Or creating the sequester idea, denouncing attempts to change it and then warning of the awful consequences if it isn't changed.

Monday the Democrat rose to a new level of cynical achievement, warning governors of the consequences of his own sequester idea:

"Certainly," Obama said, "what we can't do is keep careening from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis."

Who would know better?