Saturday, April 4, 2009

NYTimes: Obama's Economic Ideas Great... Just Like Hitler's Were?


"For The New York Times economic scene section for March 31, David Leonhardt came across with one of the most amazing admissions about Obama that I've ever seen in the Times. Namely that Barack Obama is just like Hitler. Now, many of you may be solemnly shaking your head in agreement, but in so doing you would be missing why the Times was comparing Obama to Hitler. You see, Leonhardt didn't mean it as an insult. He was saying that it was a good thing that Barack was being like Hitler at least in an economic sense.

"Here Leonhardt is taking the trains-on-time track with his Hitler angle by saying that, despite that whole Holocaust and World War II business, Hitler's policies were good for Germany. So good, in fact, that he celebrates the ways he sees that Obama is emulating the mustachioed mad-man's economic prescriptions with the massive takeover of the economy and bloated government spending on "stimulus."

"You know the left has lost it when they are invoking the 'success' of Hitler to prop up The One!"

Earmarks: Another One Of Obama’s Broken Promises

“I will not raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000.

  • The largest increase in tobacco taxes took effect despite Obama’s promise not to raise taxes of any kind on families earning under $250,000 or individuals under $200,000.
  • This is one tax that disproportionately affects the poor, who are more likely to smoke than the rich. Obama signed a law raising the tobacco tax nearly 62 cents on a pack of cigarettes, to $1.01. Other tobacco products saw similarly steep increases.
  • Now, maybe you think that Mr. Obama only meant income taxes. Not so, in his own words: “I can make a firm pledge,” he said in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12. “Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”
  • Just for the record, I actually support cigarette taxes. But not because they produce revenue; actually studies have shown that overall they don’t. But they do reduce use of cigarettes, and as a doctor I am fully in support of that.

“I will allow 5 days of comment on any bill before signing it.”

  • Obama broke this pledge within the first few days of his presidency. In fact, he has broken this promise on virtually EVERY BILL HE HAS SIGNED.

“No political appointees in an Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulations or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for two years. And no political appointee will be able to lobby the executive branch after leaving government service during the remainder of the administration.”

  • Great idea in concept, except it has a loophole.
  • There is a waiver clause that allows former lobbyists to serve. That waiver clause has been used at least three times, and in some cases, the administration allows former lobbyists to serve without a waiver.
  • And in actuality they may have to use this waiver more, because they are having trouble filling their posts with the current restrictions, especially in the Treasury Department.

“During 2009 and 2010, existing businesses will receive a $3,000 refundable tax credit for each additional full-time employee hired.”

  • Died a quick death during the Stimulus negotiations with Congress.

G-20 Ends US Economic Sovereignty

Thanks, Mr. President!

Moe, Larry, and Curly get Married


You all recognize Larry, Curly, and Moe, right?

Let's pretend Curly and Moe were not brothers. Let's also pretend they were all gay. Let's also pretend they all are in a committed relationship.

(Reference "The state of gay unions: Just the three of us": "If having one partner is good, having two must be even better -- right? Well, because love is a lot more complicated than mathematics, the answer to this question is the subject of debate (to say the least) among gays and straights. The fact is, most modern people in the Western world believe that romantic love happens only in pairs. But as gay men have become freer to live the lives they want to live, some of those men have used this freedom to further redefine terms such as 'love,' 'relationship,' and 'family.'"

http://www.gay.com/news/roundups/package.html?sernum=1258&navpath=/channels/health/mental/)

Let's pretend they all wanted to marry each other: Larry to marry Curly and Moe, Moe to marry Larry and Curly, Curly to marry Moe and Larry.

Gay marriage advocates say that two gays have the civil right to get married. Why don't they say that three or more people of the same sex have the right to be married? Is that not discrimination? If two have the right, why not at least three?

What does the 1972 Gay Rights Platform say?:

"Repeal of all legislative provisions that restrict the sex or number of persons entering into a marriage unit; and the extension of legal benefits to all persons who cohabit regardless of sex or numbers." http://www.rslevinson.com/gaylesissues/features/collect/onetime/bl_platform1972.htm

Splain.

Does this make me an accessory to murder?

"President Obama has allowed federal money to be provided to international groups that perform abortions.

"I pay my taxes, so therefor, however small, a portion of that money comes from me.

"Since when an abortion is performed, at whatever stage that original zygote has progressed to, no matter how many cells it has become, cells that contain the DNA of an individual human being are being destroyed. It is ending a human life. Regardless of what stage it has developed to, it is a human life. It isn't going to be a cat. It isn't ever going to be a fish. But if its growth and progress weren't stopped, it would become a human.

"So if a human life is ended in a program that uses tax dollars, and if I have payed my taxes, does that make me an accessory to murder?"

Oba-Media Crush Shows Signs of Crashing as Obama Defers to Everyone Else in the World…

"CNN anchor Fareed Zakaria has also spoken up:

"In an interview on CNN.com on Friday titled 'Zakaria: Obama disappoints as world leader,' author and CNN anchor Fareed Zakaria threw cold water on the media’s laudatory coverage of President Obama’s trip to Europe: “Although he brought a lot of star power — the talk of the week — at least in certain circles in Washington, New York and London — has been that President Obama is failing in his role as leader of the free world.”'"