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LIKE if you are tired of Obama complaining about the greed of the rich when he just raised $15 million at George Clooney's home.
Hypocrisy. Let's not forget about the $70,000 a plate fundraiser dinner Warren Buffet threw for him several months ago or the $100,000 per couple fashion show fundraiser his wife worked last month in North Carolina or the numerous 1%ers from Goldman Sachs and other Wall street bankers who have already given him untold millions of dollars or the million dollars Bill Maher donated to an Obama PAC...
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Several people commented on my "Like" and associated comment. One person strongly stated that he would vote for Obama since Romney was "too rich." Another stated that he would vote for Obama in November because Obama overcame more hardships in his life than Romney did.
Since I did not think that we should vote for anyone for President who is "too rich" or had had a rougher upbringing than their opponent, that we should vote for the candidate best qualified to resolve our many problems today, I offered the following reasons why Obama should not get a second term (the only difference from the Facebook post is better formatting options):
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Ron, Thanks for reading and commenting. You and I obviously have different criteria for who to vote for, neither one right and neither one wrong. I really could not care less from what background a President came from, I would prefer to look at his or her record of accomplishment and problem solving and how well that past record translates to fixing what ails the country today, not in the past.
I am not a big fan of Romney but he at least has a track record of problem resolution with big organizations including private industry, the Olympics, and as governor. To my knowledge, his wealth had nothing to do with illegal tax evasion, illegal business actions, or anything in private industry that Democratic supporters like Warren Buffet, George Soros, and Goldman Sachs do everyday, create wealth.
Given that understanding, I could care less where he keeps his money [note: there was a reference that Romney was bad because he allegedly keeps some of his money in Swiss bank accounts, an assertion that I do not know is true or not]. My only criteria is problem resolution and I believe we have a better chance of that under anyone else but Obama.
Given that the Democrats have controlled the White House and Congress 80% of the time since the midterm elections in 2006 and that in his first two years in office Obama had sky high approval ratings and large Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate, his economic problem resolution record is horrid:
- Record high food stamp enrollment
- Record high long term unemployment
- Record low labor participation rate
- Record levels of deficit spending
- Trillions added to the national debt
- Some MONTHLY deficit spending numbers that were higher than some of Bush's ANNUAL deficit spending numbers
- Many failed but expensive economic programs (Cash For Clunkers, Cash For Appliances, Cash For Caulkers, HAMP, etc.)
- Failure to prod Harry Reid to do his job and have the Senate actually produce a budget after three years of not producing a Senate budget, etc.
And worse of all, I see nothing from this administration that tells me he has an economic plan or the knowledge to remedy these failures in the near future. I think football coach Jon Gruden once said: "You are only as good or as bad as your record." Under my criteria of problem resolution ability and history of accomplishment or non-accomplishment, Obama's record fails miserably.
But my disdain for the Obama administration does not end with his economic failures. It is pretty apparent that government dysfunction and waste have not been addressed by this administration even after three and a half years:
But my disdain for the Obama administration does not end with his economic failures. It is pretty apparent that government dysfunction and waste have not been addressed by this administration even after three and a half years:
- The recent GSA and Secret Service embarrassments are just a couple of examples of government and government waste gone wild.
- Reputable sources, not Fox News, have quantified the waste lost to inefficiency and criminal fraud in the Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid programs to be about $200 billion a year.
- The IRS fails to collect more than $300 billion a year due to the Feds from the tax code.
- This administration is still hitless when it comes to "betting" taxpayer money on alternative energy busts (Solyndra, Evergreen, Beacon, Spectra, ENER1, all failures).
- Iran and North Korea are three and half years closer to being nuclear powers.
- This administration via Eric Holder is covering up the failed Fast and Furious gun running operation that was illegal from a domestic law perspective, illegal from an international treaty perspective, and has resulted in human beings, both Americans and Mexicans, being killed with Fast and Furious weapons.
- For simply having a different opinion from this administration on some major issues, myself and other Americans have been constantly demeaned and slandered by Democrats (Unpatriotic-Nancy Pelosi, Racists- Charles Rangel, Ku Klux Klan Members - Shelia Jordan Lee, Racists - Howard Dean, Terrorists - Pope and Biden, A**h***s - Van Jones, Knuckle Dragging Neanderthals - Alan Grayson) while Obama has remained silent in the face of ordinary Americans being insulted and verbally attacked.
- He violated the Constitution with an illegal military action regarding Libya and he has violated domestic law by ignoring a judge's court order regarding Gulf oil drilling.
As with the economic issues discussed above, I see no plans, no ambition, and no ability of this administration to address any of these other problems. I do not think we can take the chance with him for another four years, under my criteria of problem resolution, given his lack of success and problem resolution the past three and half a years, regardless of his background and upbringing.
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It was a very good Facebook exchange of ideas, information, and positions. It was an exchange which reinforces my long time opinion that Americans are really good, civil people that are abused and incited by very uncivil and unproductive politicians.
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It was a very good Facebook exchange of ideas, information, and positions. It was an exchange which reinforces my long time opinion that Americans are really good, civil people that are abused and incited by very uncivil and unproductive politicians.
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