Last night President Obama made his State of the Union speech. I have to admit that I don’t agree with everything he says or does, but I do like him as a public speaker. He’s got that skill down perfect. I mean this dude can sell an apple computer to bill gates, he’s that good at delivering speeches…
So I watched the State of the Union speech, I initially was sitting on my couch upright focused on what our elected president was saying, and through the speech I found myself getting irritated it was exhausting and by the end of the speech I had fell over and was sleeping, so yes I missed the end but that’s ok.
So why was I irritated? It’s simple. I like our country, I think we have a great thing going for us. See we live in a free market system… Or at least we used to where when an in-balance happened in time the market would straighten itself out. There are tons of case studies and examples in history on how if you let the free market work, it will restore balance to itself through choices people make. So when I heard Obama talking about how he didn’t want to do the bank bailout but he had to because without doing it things may have gotten worse, more jobs lost, more homes foreclosed. But you see he uses the word “MAY” which means he doesn’t know, how can he? No one really knows what would have happened. So saying that he through billions at banks and because of that we saved X number of jobs is all fake information. It’s that info that is spread to make everyone feel all warm inside, where they can pat themselves on the back saying “we did good.” But the truth is, the bank bailout in my opinion should have never happened. I do believe in the free market system working itself out and who’s to say the recovery of our society ISN’T the free market system at work? I’m wondering if the money even did anything or if the fact it’s been a while since this whole thing happened if the free market corrected itself, and we threw money down the drain…
In fact I’m pretty sure we threw money down the drain. Let me explain why. See when Obama bailed out the banks he did so using money that we don’t have, if you have any debt you don’t have any money because every dollar you have is actually someone else’s you borrowed. So we lent all this money we don’t have and said “this is for banks and we are going only use it for that.” So fast forward a year or however long it’s been and listen to the State of the Union speech where Obama says that he wants to use this money that was repaid and spend that billions on small businesses now so banks will lend to them…… WTF just happened here? Taxpayers were opposed to the bank bailout and now the money’s been returned and rather then pay off the debt that it created were just going to spend that money somewhere else?
But don’t worry, Obama has a plan for that, see he’s also wanting to put fee’s on the big banks that are giving massive bonuses because “they can afford it” if they can afford to give bonuses. But if my theory on greed is correct and from what I’ve seen in retail worlds the government is going to impose these fees on these big banks, etc and who do you think is going to pay those fees? The business? Heck no, they will just raise their rates to the customers like individuals and small businesses which means YOU tha taxpayer are paying the fees levied by the government to these big banks which got YOUR money to stay in business….. Just how many stupid things can we do at one time?
And I am sentimental towards businesses closing. I lost my job last year after the company I worked at for over 7 years filed bankruptcy and shut down without giving me any notice, severance, etc and I had to move several hundred miles to find a new job. That meant I had to sell my home at a tremendous loss because Wall Street and the banks got greedy so chalk up another large amount of money I am paying because of their errors. And we bought a small, modest house well within our means. I mean our mortgage lender we had was saying we could afford a $250,000 house and we knew we couldn’t so we only bout a $120,000 house. We were smart and still got our heads taken off. So yes I know the pain when your business shuts down and you are out of work. In my case my wife and I made large sacrifices to sell our home and move on with our lives. So many people I know refuse to move to where jobs are. They want to stay close to family and yet stay out of work. So many people I worked with at my last job are still out of work over a year later and hardly any of them want to move out of the area like I did.
But in life you have to make sacrifices to succeed. This attitude that “I deserve” is bogus. You don’t deserve anything, As a society we need to grow up and realize what’s going on. Because the heads in Washington really are out of touch. I applaud what Obama was saying in some areas I think he had some great points like giving tax breaks to companies in America that have jobs over here and impose extra levies on those that outsource. Yes those fees will be handed down to the customer in the forms of higher prices for goods, but that will make the outsourced products the same price with quality American made. So in that regards it works.
I don’t know, I feel like I’m starting to ramble here and it just really irritates me to listen to these speeches and hear so much and be sitting there going through my head the countless ways it isn’t going to work. But Mr. President if you are confident that bailing banks MAY have saved jobs then good for you, that is where we disagree.
And I’m sick of this “don’t ask don’t tell” B.S. If your gay or straight I couldn’t care less. I applaud you for being in our military no matter who you are or what you desire. But I honestly don’t think our tax money, or our time should be spent on such an idiotic policy as “don’t ask don’t tell.” In my eyes this is a policy that should never have been put into place. To steal a line from one comedian this goes on the page right after “are we eating to much peanut butter as a people.” I mean is “Don’t ask don’t tell” really that critical in our nations interest or security? Sometimes I just can’t believe how crooked the priorities are……
And don’t get me started with party lines… Oh it just irritates me to see half the room applaud and the other half sitting pissed off in those state of the unions. It’s like no one can think for themselves and we wonder why NOTHING ever comes out of the government. You ever watch the British house of parliament? I used to watch that for a few hours when it was on a station I had and I loved how things were done. Everything was swift and people just stood up yelling and cheering. But stuff appeared to get done. In our land you can’t get anything done… Why can’t we just have everyone in the government have their own minds and vote for whats right based on ohh say the peoples will and NOT politics. It’s so freaking childish it’s ridiculous.
I should run for president… We need like Ty Pennington to take his extreme makeover crew to D.C. and just tear down the current people and let’s just restart from scratch. We have far to many people in places holding up progress. Some are so old they aren’t in touch with what needs to happen and some are just to owned by the lobbyist who pays them to make the right decisions…
I need to stop otherwise I’ll have a novel the length of war and peace on my gripes.
So I’m listening to the Michael Jackson coverage….. And I’m hearing all these black celebrities talking about Michael Jackson is responsible for Obama being President….. Come on now. I like Jackson, and Obama isn’t too bad either. But I think the reason Obama is president is not because of Jackson, it’s because the other candidates were far worse then Obama and Obama had some great ideas. At the time everyone said Obama had one of the best advertising campaigns of all time in presidental history which is what got him elected. His staff knew what they were doing and sold him to the country. Not once was Jackson mentioned during the Obama campaign and as far as I can remember he wasn’t invovled or solicited for his support so it’s very funny now to hear so many people saying Jackson was responsible for Obama. Come on people. Let’s give Obama credit for his accomplishments and give Jackson credit for his, but the two are unrelated in my eyes, as Colbert says “I don’t see color.” Even Michael preached that with Black or White. And if the reasoning is because they are (or were) both black then what about the other famous musicians like Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, BB King, Fats Waller, etc. And I know he was the biggest but these other musicians were not chumps they were all famous as well.
Barry………. Listen…… I didn’t vote for ya, in fact I didn’t vote for anybody cause the whole selection of people to vote from really wasn’t what I was looking for and didn’t like any of you. But you won… And you won on a ticket of “change.” So what is one of the first things you do? You allow the passing of a bill, in fact you insulted those in congress and the house to pass the bill quickly.
I’m really hoping that tomorrow is a new day and president barrys bailout does the trick. But I wouldn’t bet the lint in my pocket that this bailout would do a darn bit of good. Cause you never know, if the economy keeps tanking lint may become a form of currency. That would be fun times.
I heard a quote that I love the other day. It says that “history does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” Now it took me a few minutes to totally appreciate that quote. I’m not a history buff, but I do know that every 4 years during election years there is always volatility in the economy. Jobs are lost, stocks waiver and reporters tell us how the world is going to end if the person they don’t like doesn’t win. I’m not sure about you but when I was a child I was read a story about Chicken little who went around telling everyone “the sky is falling.” Isn’t this the same thing? Fox news who claims they are fair and balanced was behind McCain and every chance they had would bash Obama. CNN who backed Obama would support him and bash McCain when they could. You almost have to watch both channels all the time to get a truly “fair and balanced” perspective. 
So now Obama won by a landslide, and I think it’s for two reasons. First because he had one heck of a campaign. I mean this guy sold himself like no other. McCain on the other hand didn’t sell himself. It’s like he was running the worst campaign ever. I wonder if he even wanted to win. You would think that he would have been more visual, he would do more to get his name and face out. Did you know that Obama even went so far to create an iPhone/iPod touch app for his campaign? That was genius! You can tell which candidate was more knowledgeable with current technology by how it was utilized in the election. And with both of them wanting to digitize health records to save costs perhaps it is more beneficial to have someone who can actually use a computer. Heck Obama has several quotes showing he uses Youtube. 
You can see the picture here that shows why businesses fail. It’s because they quit trying, they quit working. CEO’s get greedy, workers quit caring.
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