I continue to learn the news for myself, and as usual I like to keep
track of the patterns and actions of this Administration over time.
With that in mind, I wrote the following well researched column. It
always amazes me as to how much this President is trying to do to
America. - Conservative Corner
Observations of Obama and Democrats in Congress since his
reelection:
1) President
Obama touted Obamacare as the cure for some “folks” not having health
insurance. In truth, it is fraught with
problems, including the recently learned fact that due to a “glitch”, many
families who can't afford the employer coverage that they are offered on the
job will not be able to get financial assistance from the government to buy
private health insurance on their own. In addition about 7 million Americans will just lose their employer-provided insurance. Unions which back Obama are now surprised to learn that new
health care premiums are surprisingly high. Our government is having trouble finding
people who will agree to sit on the 15-member Death Panels mandated by
Obamacare. Who would want to be underpaid
to have their names on the regulations that ration care? The law states that taxpayer-financed
subsidies can only be funneled through state-based exchanges, and not through
federal ones. Since 26 states have refused to create the health care exchanges
upon which the whole law depends, the whole law is in trouble.
2) President
Obama formed his Jobs Council so that he could look so caring and so involved
in job creation during the election cycle.
He has now disbanded the Jobs Council after having met with them only
once in the last year, even though unemployment remains high (youth
unemployment is 13%) and economic activity is so low as to have some predicting
a double-dip recession. As companies
either reduce employees’ hours to part time, or only hire part time workers in
order to avoid the Obamacare tax, employees are being harmed and our President
will once again pretend to care. He
does, however, continue to expand the number of government jobs.
3) In
the recent fiscal cliff deal, Obama crowed that he got the Republicans to back
down by raising the amount Americans can earn without being “evil” from
$250,000 to $400,000. He thereby got a
lot more money to spend without having to outline proposed budget cuts or
passing a budget. He seems not to have
noticed the Republican victory: the “evil” Bush Tax Cuts are now permanent for
99% of Americans.
4) During
his first month in office in 2009, Obama signed an Executive Order to close
Gitmo within one year. Following his
reelection, he has closed the office which was tasked to close the prison down.
5) President
Obama hid from us one of the first items on his agenda if he were to be
reelected: gun control. His approach,
however, will not keep guns from the hands of criminals, but will infringe on
the Constitutional rights of law-abiding Americans. As former Detroit News columnist Bill Johnson
wrote, “The unintended consequences of weapon-control requirements could
actually trigger a reduction in registrations and increase guns purchased via
the underground market. They would not affect the criminal use of guns, or the ability
of the criminally insane to get their hands on a weapon of their choice.
6) During
his gun control speech, Obama said that if it keeps just one child from dying,
gun control is necessary, that it is the number one duty of a President to
protect children.
We should ask, however,
why it is not his duty then to prevent the killing of hundreds of thousands of
children via abortion.
He defends the
practice of partial birth abortions, as well as letting those children who
survive abortion attempts to just be put in a hospital closet and left to die,
as his votes as an Illinois Senator prove.
I will add that it is my understanding that the first job of a President
is to keep America
safe from its enemies.
7) This
President also hid from us the fact that one of his first orders of business
would be to attack Global Warming as manmade, in spite of there having been
warming cycles every 10,000 years during our planet’s history. Democrats on the Capitol Hill Climate Task
Force are asking more than 300 companies, including the NFL, Wal-Mart, and the
NBA, to submit suggestions for federal actions.
At the same time, the UN has admitted that solar flares are responsible
for much of global warming, while much of the scare tactics employed by Obama just simply are not true, including that wild
fires and hurricanes are more prevalent over the last decades.
Currently Obama is proposing to approve the Keystone Pipeline, but only
in exchange for Cap and Trade taxation and fees.
8) While
spouting that Border Control is of utmost importance, President Obama will on
March 15 shut down the Air Force’s Air Defense Radar Systems along the U.S./Mexico
border, leaving it more vulnerable to attacks from low flying aircraft and low
altitude missiles. This move comes
months after his Executive Order which provided amnesty to millions of
illegals, in direct conflict with the vote of
Congress.
9) During
the debates and his campaign, Obama and Democrats pictured the good and decent
Mitt Romney as the devil, the filthy rich jobs killer who enabled the death of
a woman with cancer. As it turns out, a
“filthy rich” man was just named by him to be Secretary of State, John
Kerry. Another “filthy rich” man, Jack
Lew, was named by him to be Secretary of the Treasury despite the fact that he
has bank accounts in the Caymans, just as the evil Mitt Romney does. The jobs Romney “killed” allowed many
thousands more to keep their jobs via his Bain Capital investments. While earning money in America never before
was evil, it is now evil when done by the “wrong” people. Consider the irony of the Democrats sharing a
$40,000 per plate dinner hosted by George Clooney to castigate the evil rich
Republicans! During the campaign Romney
divulged that GM, which we bailed out, was to be exporting many of its jobs to China. Obama in effect called him a liar. Two months later, it is now public knowledge
that GM is outsourcing many jobs to China. Obama’s second largest raiser of funds is
the CEO of a company much like Bain - Ariel Capital Management, which owns a
large stake in Accenture, which is the nation’s best outsourcer.
10) President
Obama, who made radical union-loving appointments to the National Labor Relations Board
while Congress was still in session, has just been told by a Federal judge that
those actions were unconstitutional. He
is ignoring the edict, of course. In
jeopardy are not only those people appointed, but the hundreds of regulations
they have passed which benefit the unions in America. Many lawsuits, for which we the people will
pay, will ensue.
11) President
Obama has championed the cause of Muslims while in office. Just this week he
and the Democrat Senate approved the sale of F-16 fighter jets, along with the
scientific technology inherent in them, to our enemies – the Muslim Brotherhood
which largely controls Egypt. This puts the Jews in Israel in much
more danger of being annihilated, as Ahmadinajad and other Muslims consistently
pledge to do.
12) Federal
agencies are required in April and October to release an accounting of proposed
legislation which will have a significant economic impact. This President’s administration did not do this
until late in December, 2012, thereby hiding from voters what he intended to
do.
13) Avoiding
disclosure prior to the election, while the law requires a budget to be passed
each year, no budget has been passed for three years, because the budget
choices in it might have diminished Obama’s and Democrats’ reelection chances.
14) On January 31, 2012, the White House declared
that they would now allow non-profit organizations like churches to NOT provide
birth control against their religious beliefs.
In a move that will fool few people, our government said that the
churches will buy the insurance policies and it will be the insurance companies
which will provide birth control, not the churches. What?
This new edict leaves out the companies owned by Christians, like Hobby
Lobby, having to provide coverage or face $1.3 million a day in fines. Lawsuits are proceeding, probably going to
the Supreme Court.
15) President Obama has declared that it is
ethical and moral for him to have a kill list which includes American citizens,
with absolutely no oversight. While his American targets who have become enemy combatants should have no
protection from our Constitution, neither should the enemy terrorists
who are not American citizens, but that is not how Obama see it. Beyond that, he believes that Congress has no
right to approve or judge his decision-making process. Obama condemned in the strongest language the
“enhanced interrogation” techniques used at Gitmo, but then declared it is
moral to instead just kill possible terrorists without having the chance to gain information from them.
16) The Fourth
Amendment to the United States Constitution protects us against unreasonable
government searches and seizures. However, now within 100 miles of the U.S. border the U.S. government can take an
electronic device, search through all the files, and keep it for a while for
further scrutiny – without any suspicion of wrongdoing whatsoever. As described on Electron Frontier Foundation: “for doctors, lawyers, and many business
professionals, these border searches can compromise the privacy of sensitive
professional information, including trade secrets, attorney-client and
doctor-patient communications, research and business strategies, some of which
a traveler has legal and contractual obligations to protect. For the rest of
us, searches that can reach our personal correspondence, health information,
and financial records are reasonably viewed as an affront to privacy and
dignity and inconsistent with the values of a free society.”
17) A
further reach into the right to privacy of
Americans, the Obamacare regulation which encourages our doctors to be
able to
even ask us if we have a gun in our house, will allow our government to
put
that information into their data base, assisting in this case Barack
Obama to
add to what Representative Maxine Waters describes as “an organization
that
contains the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life.
That's going to be very, very powerful.” At this time many school
systems are adding the gun question to student surveys. We should warn
our children not to answer that question.
18) Barack
Obama has now declared that it is the duty of Americans, the “evil rich” to
provide for everyone not just a home, but a safe place to live.
He says we don’t have a spending problem, we
have a revenue problem. Federal agencies shall adopt a consensus on the basic
concept of a healthy home: “building off eight characteristics, including dry,
clean, pest free, safe, contaminant free, well ventilated, and well maintained
and thermally controlled – and encourage adoption of this consensus across
federal agencies, tribal governments, state and local governments, and
non-governmental organizations.”
The
evil rich are not through paying.
It is
only FAIR, don’t you know.
19) Just this week Obama also declared
that every 4 year old should have free daycare, even though the
statistics prove that Head Start has really not done much good. But so
what? It is just the money of the evil rich which will pay for it.
It's that income redistribution, and fundamentally changing America
agenda.
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