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As Barack Obama loves to tell us (and most Independents and right of center citizens are tired of hearing) he inherited a mess from President George W. Bush, who somehow managed to keep the Ship of State straight and the economy percolating for most of his eight years in office—despite a terror attack on New York, Pennsylvania and Washington DC.

As we all know from high school civics classes, the president proposes and the Congress disposes. This is not to say Bush didn’t waste taxpayer dollars while in office. The last two years of the Bush presidency were years controlled by a Democratic Congress. If Bush asked for additional war funding for our troops sent to Iraq and Afghanistan, he had to pay the price by allowing the pork-laden bills that were sent to him or he never would have gotten the funding needed for these two wars on the terrorists out to destroy our country and what it stands for.

Before that, the Republican Congresses spent a lot of pork and Bush signed that legislation, which is why the Democrats won the last two election cycles.

Obama claims he was not aware of the severity of the problems this nation faced until he took office. This despite the fact that Bush included Obama and McCain on any decisions he was making regarding the financial meltdown prior to the election, and consulted with Obama after he was elected.

Bush went so far as to say if Obama wanted Bush to be the one to pull the trigger on TARP monies he would do so and let everyone blame him instead of hamstringing the new president. Obama and McCain both voted for TARP when they were still campaigning and were still Senators.

Enter Obama at high noon on January 20, 2009, and he has been blaming Bush for everything that has gone wrong in this country ever since. Hardly a day goes by that he or one of his spokespeople doesn’t mention what a “mess” they “inherited” and weren’t prepared for it until they actually saw it.

He knew jobs were being lost by hundreds of thousands shortly after he took office, but instead of putting his priorities into finding ways for businesses to succeed and be able to keep or hire new people he decided to go for his pet social projects.

He took over two car companies, gave loans to large banks, passed a “stimulus” bill that was just a pork-laden bill that had no stimulating effect, pushed for universal health care for a year despite the rejection of the legislation as written, pushed for Cap and Trade to “reduce” carbon emissions, campaigned for two failed governorships and one failed senate seat, held secretive meetings in the White House with just the leadership of the Democratic Congress over health care, and generally never gave jobs a second thought.

He made it abundantly clear to Congressional Republicans that he “won” and their input wasn’t necessary for any programs he wanted to pass, so they could be bi-partisan and agree with him or he’d do it without them anyway. Republican input into the “bipartisanship” was not needed.

After a few illegal ballots and a court fight in Minnesota for a Senate seat, the Democrat (who was behind in the original count) was finally seated and good old Arlen Specter saw the writing on the wall and figured out he’d never get the Republican nomination for Senate from Pennsylvania so he jumped parties, giving Obama his 60 vote “filibuster-proof” Senate.

Now, everything would be clear sailing. No matter that the people back home raised Cain about the health care bill all of August, Nancy Pelosi was able to finagle her way into the right amount of votes to pass health care “reform” in the House, with two votes to spare.

Now it was up to Harry Reid to easily pass a bill through the Senate and go to conference with the House Democrats and get the bill to Obama’s desk in time for him to brag about its passage during the State of the Union address.

There was no logical reason for him to not have health care “reform” passed by the end of December, 2009. He had the numbers and with a bit of bribery by Harry Reid the necessary amount of senators required to break a filibuster was there and did his bidding.

Then came the Massachusetts Massacre in January and the Democrats lost their crucial sixtieth vote in the Senate, meaning health care would have to be worked over in private with Democratic leadership, Obama and Rahm Emmanuel to make it palatable to the Democrats in each of the two legislative Houses.

Suddenly, Obama got a brain storm and decided maybe he’d better at least give lip service to jobs and the creation of jobs.

Congress has passed a new debt ceiling increase of $1.9 trillion. This money will have to be borrowed and soon we won’t be able to make even the interest payments to China and other countries still giving us credit. Except for the fact our paper bills say “Legal Tender” the dollar is really worth nothing. Try to take a dollar bill to the bank and get a silver dollar for it. Or try to take a $5 bill to the bank and get gold for it. It is worth about 1.6 cents, the amount it takes to print the bill.

Instead of taking TARP money paid back by banks (if they were so desperate last year how can they pay the money back so soon?) and using it to retire the debt, the Administration wants to put it back into circulation and have another “stimulus” bill for jobs when the original TARP money was supposed to do that and still has about 2/3 of the funds still available.

The only entity hiring any significant amount of employees has been the federal government. No one is being treated equally in this country, as those making over $250,000 combined household income are to be taxed for everything you can imagine until they are at the poverty rate, waiting in line for their food stamps.

Work is not being rewarded, but earnings are being robbed. At least Robin Hood robbed from the rich to give to the poor, but Obama and his Congress are robbing from the middle and upper class to make everyone poor.

The one person who has had the most access to this president at this White House has been the president of the SEIU, the service employees union. That’s why the so-called Cadillac health plans had an exemption from taxes for several years built into the bills.

Until Obama and his band of Merry Men realize cutting taxes for all Americans and all businesses will actually increase jobs and bring in more revenue, since more people will be working and paying taxes, our unemployment rate will stay at least where it is now and probably climb higher. Housing prices will continue to drop like a rock (but your property taxes won’t) and new homes will not be built.

Presidents Kennedy and Reagan realized tax cuts would bring the economy around and raising taxes during a recession was a stupid idea. It worked both times. Real jobs were created and not some government “make work” jobs that were dead ends to nowhere.

Obama is singing a new tune in public now. Health care isn’t the big emergency it was (but he’s still trying to figure out how to get it passed by hook or by crook behind the scenes) and jobs are the number one priority of his Administration. That’s the outward appearance. Actions speak louder than words and, judging by his performance in his first year and his defiance after the Massachusetts Senatorial election, I wouldn’t bet the house on the fact he is actually hearing the people.

This is why we shouldn’t put community organizers in charge of the country. He’s never held a private sector job in his entire adult life and his political background is sketchy at best.

May God bless America in spite of her stupidity.

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