Mar 30 2009
Could President Obama do much worse than now?
The GOP seems to have a case of it when it comes to errors of accuracy behind what they call President Obama’s desire to “spread the wealth” from rich to poor, which in their case means, overall, from white to black. My former employer, a deep south lawyer with some very 1960s ideas about this nation, was overheard telling a group of his constituents, “Obama can spread the wealth all he wants; we’ll have it all back in two years anyway.” And they all laughed.
I knew what he meant, even if he was not saying it directly. That “some of us” can’t handle money, and it was a direct statement that he made after asking me why “we” insist on voting for “socialists” and “liberals.” At the time that he said it, he didn’t know who I was voting for, or even IF I was voting at all.
I received the following email, which I am tired of hearing about:
Can you guess how many numbers are in the glossy new GOP budget? The answer is zero. As Congress prepares for a crucial vote on President Obama’s budget this Thursday, Republican leaders have been plotting an all-out effort to block it without offering a single specific idea of their own. But we can’t allow them to obstruct progress with hollow rhetoric. Watch this video and donate $5 or more to help us air an ad exposing the GOP’s petty politics before Thursday’s important vote: The President has proposed an honest budget that focuses on our most pressing national priorities — renewable energy, affordable health care, and a better education for our children. Change won’t come easy, but President Obama knows that we can succeed if we come together around a truthful budget rather than a phony one that lacks any numbers or specific ideas. With your donation, we can use the next two days to show members of Congress and all Americans that shiny budget report covers simply won’t cut it — we need a real budget that can offer us real results: https://www.democrats.org/numberzero. You helped elect President Obama because you rejected partisan rancor and empty promises. Now it’s time to follow through and show what real leadership looks like. Thank you, Jen / Jen O’Malley Dillon, Executive Director, Democratic National Committee
My Notes:
It never ceases to amaze me how quickly the GOP tells everyone how “wrong” the President is about any and everything that he has put forth in his two months in office–now going on three months. Yet, how short they come up when it comes to real answers.
Why? Because they don’t have any answers themselves. And the answers they gave us before were a total crock.
Their proposals are dead set on “business as usual,” which is what hurled this nation into an economic crisis, and Obama’s policies are dead set on “since you were the cause of the problem in the first place, let’s try another way and see if that works.” They try to use FDR’s “gifting through white guilt” as an excuse for saying Obama can’t “tax and spend” our way out of this crises, but the racism in saying that is in their heartfelt belief that Obama is simply trying to “spread the wealth” from rich whites to poor blacks when it’s not that cut-and-dried or as simple-minded as some of them seem to believe.
Their biggest problems with Pres. Obama’s budget plan is that the point is not to ’give all of the money (ours and theirs) to them because they are the more FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE AND MENTALLY CAPABLE of our society who will *trickle it down* to others in the proportions that ‘we’ [they] think ‘we’ [us] are worthy of and capable of handling.
Their other problem is that the national deficit tipped the already-broken scale when Pres. Obama decided the costs of war should not be hidden from the public at large. His budget takes into account the spending that was done by them kind on a war defalcation that had no justification whatsoever for happening.
That said, in the final analysis, all they can do is criticize Pres. Obama, who at least HAS a plan — most of which doesn’t involve keeping trillions of dollars flowing into their personal pockets in the hopes that they can turn the economy around for the rest of us who “don’t know what to do with money” in their estimation.
Bottom line: We’ve already tried it their way. It didn’t work. It’s up to us to fall for it again. If drastic measures are not taken (the kind that may not benefit them personally any more, but should benefit all concerned), things can only get worse going forward.
So who’s money is it, and what does Pres. Obama hope to accomplish that the GOP is saying “can’t” be done. I am of the mindset that it takes money to make money, so it’s going to get spent anyway–just not on what the GOP thinks it should be spent on.
Government (regulations) the size of a “pinhead” (as the GOP suggests) only opens the door for and causes rampant and wantonly bad (selfish and greedy) behavior out of those who seek to control the masses.
They talk ’bootstrapping’ and ’survival of the fittest’ knowing that their own fortunes depend on the less fortunate remaining poor, ignorant and unprotected by the laws.
