The Obama Way: Selling Failure as Success.
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2012/07/14 11:14:30
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Bob Dylan once wrote, "There's no success like failure [we learn from our mistakes], and failure is no success at all." So what has Mr. Obama learned from his mistakes? Admitting to no mistakes during the past three years, "success" is exactly the way the Obama administration explains away the more than 5 trillion taxpayer dollars that have so far been spent. While "success" is most often measured by its return, benefit, or gain, with no way to prove otherwise, this administration chooses to measure its success by "how much worse the recession might have been" if they had not spent the $5 trillion. In fact, as we get closer to the election, these same experts are now telling us that the $5 trillion they spent actually saved the world from another Great Depression. They base this conclusion, of course, on...well, their failure.
How noble?
Having gained nothing from our $5 trillion somehow proves that they were right to spend it and save us all from "much worse."
The last time such success was measured by the depth of its failure was The Great Depression. As my friend Alan the Liberal recently told me, "if there's one thing we learned from the Great Depression, it's that we need to spend more." The fact is that in 1933, unemployment was 18%. By 1938 (just prior to the WWII draft), despite billions of dollars injected into the economy via the First New Deal, the National Recovery Act, the various federal work programs, and the Second New Deal, unemployment was 12.5%, while the federal government, through its various work programs, was employing an additional 10.5%. Despite all the government spending, unemployment had effectively increased. Compare that to the Marshall Plan, during which some $26 billion, or 10% of our GDP at that time, was spent through private industry. Unemployment during those years (1946 to 1952) ranged between 3.9% and 5.3%, despite millions of our servicemen and women returning home from the war and joining the work force.
Barak Obama, in 2008, won the presidency on the platform that (among other things) he understood the country's economic problems and, more importantly, knew how to solve them. Three-plus years later, the administration is now telling us that "The economy turns out to have been far worse ... than we knew at the time," "we are moving in the right direction," and that he now "needs more time to fix the economy."
"The economy turns out to have been far worse ... than we knew at the time" simply tells us that Mr. Obama never understood the problems to begin with.
"Moving in the right direction"? Despite more than three years and some $2 trillion spent on bailouts, handouts, and so-called stimulus, there are approximately three million fewer people employed today than were employed in 2008. Approximately three quarters of a million fewer women are employed today than were employed in 2008. Several million others have given up looking for employment entirely, gone into retirement, taken permanent disability, or taken jobs in the underground economy. Few if any of these people will ever again contribute to our tax base.
Despite the failure of this administration's policies, Mr. Obama now claims to "need more time." Having no plan in hand while simultaneously claiming that we are moving in the right direction, Mr. Obama is clearly telling us that if he is re-elected, we can expect more deficit spending to pay for the same failed policies over the next four years.
If these three statements tell us anything, they tell us that Mr. Obama campaigned in 2008 with no understanding of the problem, has chosen the old liberal solution of throwing money at the problem while hoping things improve, and worse yet, cannot come up with a new plan because to do so would not only admit failure, but concede that he never had a clue to begin with.
Only in the liberal Democratic world is failure proof of success. We see it not only in the White House, but in Congress, at our universities, and in increases in compensation for fewer hours and less productivity demanded by our municipal unions.
Dylan told us that "There is no success like failure," but in fact, Mr. Obama has learned nothing from his failures during more than three years of on-the-job training.
And failure is no success at all.
Lawrence Wolfe
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/the_obama_way_selling_...
How noble?
Having gained nothing from our $5 trillion somehow proves that they were right to spend it and save us all from "much worse."
The last time such success was measured by the depth of its failure was The Great Depression. As my friend Alan the Liberal recently told me, "if there's one thing we learned from the Great Depression, it's that we need to spend more." The fact is that in 1933, unemployment was 18%. By 1938 (just prior to the WWII draft), despite billions of dollars injected into the economy via the First New Deal, the National Recovery Act, the various federal work programs, and the Second New Deal, unemployment was 12.5%, while the federal government, through its various work programs, was employing an additional 10.5%. Despite all the government spending, unemployment had effectively increased. Compare that to the Marshall Plan, during which some $26 billion, or 10% of our GDP at that time, was spent through private industry. Unemployment during those years (1946 to 1952) ranged between 3.9% and 5.3%, despite millions of our servicemen and women returning home from the war and joining the work force.
Barak Obama, in 2008, won the presidency on the platform that (among other things) he understood the country's economic problems and, more importantly, knew how to solve them. Three-plus years later, the administration is now telling us that "The economy turns out to have been far worse ... than we knew at the time," "we are moving in the right direction," and that he now "needs more time to fix the economy."
"The economy turns out to have been far worse ... than we knew at the time" simply tells us that Mr. Obama never understood the problems to begin with.
"Moving in the right direction"? Despite more than three years and some $2 trillion spent on bailouts, handouts, and so-called stimulus, there are approximately three million fewer people employed today than were employed in 2008. Approximately three quarters of a million fewer women are employed today than were employed in 2008. Several million others have given up looking for employment entirely, gone into retirement, taken permanent disability, or taken jobs in the underground economy. Few if any of these people will ever again contribute to our tax base.
Despite the failure of this administration's policies, Mr. Obama now claims to "need more time." Having no plan in hand while simultaneously claiming that we are moving in the right direction, Mr. Obama is clearly telling us that if he is re-elected, we can expect more deficit spending to pay for the same failed policies over the next four years.
If these three statements tell us anything, they tell us that Mr. Obama campaigned in 2008 with no understanding of the problem, has chosen the old liberal solution of throwing money at the problem while hoping things improve, and worse yet, cannot come up with a new plan because to do so would not only admit failure, but concede that he never had a clue to begin with.
Only in the liberal Democratic world is failure proof of success. We see it not only in the White House, but in Congress, at our universities, and in increases in compensation for fewer hours and less productivity demanded by our municipal unions.
Dylan told us that "There is no success like failure," but in fact, Mr. Obama has learned nothing from his failures during more than three years of on-the-job training.
And failure is no success at all.
Lawrence Wolfe
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/the_obama_way_selling_...
US debt is over 15 trillion dollars and counting. He tripled the debt. We had a party and our children will have to pay.
The budget is not yet balanced and 60 percent of the money goes to entitlements
Change did not come. and After the initial honeymoon with international leaders, the global community respects him only for his title rather than his ability to lead.
Increased taxes.and Stagflation.
It is showdown of Big Government vs the US citizens, I am pulling for the Americans
A score of other broken promises too many to list. This does not help his credibility
Hollywood crowd that were his darlings in the 2008 Presidential elections are not as zealous in the 2012 Presidential elections.
Obama is soft on crime.
Has an extreme anti-life voting record
Relief for the middle class never materialized and many stimulus injections of cash were temporary and favoring a few rather than the majority who will pay with taxes.
Obama wants a European style social economy which does not fit the American spirit
Unemployment benefits have run out of federal money for chronically unemployed and people underemployed and out of work are looking for new ideas and answers rather ...
US debt is over 15 trillion dollars and counting. He tripled the debt. We had a party and our children will have to pay.
The budget is not yet balanced and 60 percent of the money goes to entitlements
Change did not come. and After the initial honeymoon with international leaders, the global community respects him only for his title rather than his ability to lead.
Increased taxes.and Stagflation.
It is showdown of Big Government vs the US citizens, I am pulling for the Americans
A score of other broken promises too many to list. This does not help his credibility
Hollywood crowd that were his darlings in the 2008 Presidential elections are not as zealous in the 2012 Presidential elections.
Obama is soft on crime.
Has an extreme anti-life voting record
Relief for the middle class never materialized and many stimulus injections of cash were temporary and favoring a few rather than the majority who will pay with taxes.
Obama wants a European style social economy which does not fit the American spirit
Unemployment benefits have run out of federal money for chronically unemployed and people underemployed and out of work are looking for new ideas and answers rather than government money and temporary fixes.
Bailed out Wall Street not Main street I will not vote for him
Attorney General Eric Holder is being cited for contempt after operation fast and furious and Obama is asserting executive priveilge? Please this is one more reason not to vote for Obama.
Fact: Gas has more than doubled since 2009. How about that?
Fact: Secretary of Energy Chu and Interior Secretary Salazar want gas to hit the $8 to 10 per gallon range.
. Soros is the individual that devastated the UK with manipulation the British pound sterling (made millions off of that manuever. The POTUS is surrounded with not just progressives but people who have been committed communists such as Van Jones. Ms Anita Dunn who thought Mao was the neatest thing since sliced bread. Andy Stern head of the SEIU who took American tax payer dues overseas instead of helping his constituents here.
The POTUS does not accept responsiblity/ownership for any of the current mistakes made/economy. Continues to blame the previous administration. Obama always blame someone else or not my fault. That is not a leadership quality.
Citizens mount an all out attempt to dethrone Obama in 2012 as they see it as an attempt to save the USA.
. Most jobs are created by small companies, close to 70% as well as innovation, but the large dinosaurs got the funds.
Jimmy Carter lite. He was elected to restore trust in the office of the Presidency, but ineffective as a leader
Too many vacations at critical times.
Too many bailouts of big US businesses.
Special interest president.
Mysterious past from which passport he used to got to Pakistan to college records, to fake social security number and drug use.
Illegal immigration problem never solved or Borders secured.
America is slipping more as an economic leader and relative standard of living is in decline.
Blatant unrepentant globalist, putting America second.
Trade deficit is worst.
Substance wins over symbolism the second time around.
The Obama presidency is polarizing the country.
Arizona, Colorado, Ohio, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Missouri, Oregon, Washington ,Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Illinois, California, Nevada, are bankrupt and cannot meet their obligatory payments. The last drips of Federal money will expose the dire economic situation of these states
Inflation is picking up. He is allowing the currency to be inflated.
The housing market is far from recovered.
China is rising faster than the USA.
US jobs are going overseas and Still no real business experience
Pro family Americans question Obama’s core values.
He accepted the Nobel peace prize for nothing.
I will not vote for him