The State of The Union: Big Problems Demand Bold Lies

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Obama is the most blatantly anti-business and anti-growth president in American history

The State of The Union: Big Problems Demand Bold Lies

F. Swemson  Tuesday, January 31, 2012
 
For the last 5 months or so we’ve been hearing the same thing over and over again from the Obama White House, and we heard it yet again as the central theme of last Tuesday’s State of the Union address. The root cause of all of our problems, and especially our out-of-control national debt, is the fact that the wealthiest Americans are not paying their fair share of our national tax burden.

Listening to it reminds me of the painful screech of a shrill harpie who ran for mayor of NYC in 1997, a socialist named Ruth Messinger, whose entire platform could be summed up by her campaign slogan “Let’s make rich real-estate developers pay their fair share of taxes.” If there’s a class of people more overtaxed than NYC real estate developers, I’m not aware of it. Her platform, of course, was a time honored and proven Democratic party standard, based on one of the oldest of legal principles dating back to the Code of Hammurabi: “Thou shall hate thy landlord”. Fortunately for New Yorkers, they had a strong incumbent named Rudy Giuliani who trounced her quite handily.

The missing co-star of Obama’s most recent theater of the absurd was Warren Buffet, who, despite his great wealth, apparently doesn’t yet understand the workings of a true free market economy. I suspect they’ll also be saying the same thing about Mitt Romney, now that he’s released his recent tax returns showing that his average tax rate for the last 2 years was about 14%. What we’ll never hear, of course, when the left talks about Mr. Romney’s taxes, is the fact that he actually paid about $3 million in taxes for each of those 2 years. That’s close to 500 times what the average American who filed a return actually paid. It seems to me that the least they could say to him is “thank you”.

But getting back to the Obama / Messinger platform, let’s do the math and see if the numbers actually bear him out. For the 2009 tax year 138 million Americans filed returns. The average tax rate paid by ALL of them was 11.06%. The top 1% of earners, paid 36.7% of the total tax revenues, ($318 billion), at an average tax rate of 24.01%. The idea that the rich don’t pay their fair share is already looking a bit suspect, isn’t it? So let’s assume for the moment that Obama’s twisted view of reality is correct, and that the richest 1% really aren’t paying their fair share. Obama’s talking about a 5-6% surtax on them, and a raise in the capital gains rate from 15% to 20%. If that’s the case, I say let’s screw the greedy bastards and double their overall average tax rate, from 24% to 50%. That should really solve the problem, right?

Well, not exactly.  When you do the numbers, you’ll see that the total added revenues of $159 billion gained from soaking the rich to that extent are barely enough to cover Obama’s deficit spending for 10 weeks. Hmmmm…. Yep, he lied again!

So, to summarize, Obama was LYING about what percentage of their income the top 1% actually pays in taxes. And since the bottom 36% of all Americans who filed a return paid ZERO taxes, while the top 50% paid 97.7% of all taxes, Obama was LYING when he says the rich aren’t paying their fair share of taxes. Of course by implying that this non-existent problem is the cause of our economic woes, anyone capable of doing the basic math can see that Obama was LYING once again.

Of course that’s not the only issue Obama lied about discussed during the address. He also made it a point to stress how his administration was going to focus on bringing back manufacturing jobs to America. And he spoke of how his administration was opening endless square miles of federal property to oil & gas exploration. Now these are two things that America truly does need. There’s only one problem, however. Obama was LYING through his teeth when making these claims, because as the last 3 years have clearly demonstrated, Obama is doing everything he can to prevent a rebirth of American manufacturing, as well as everything he can to prevent America from becoming energy independent by exploiting our own enormous energy resources.

Obama is the most blatantly anti-business and anti-growth president in American history

Obama is the most blatantly anti-business and anti-growth president in American history. The facts speak for themselves. He’s the 1st President to violate bankruptcy laws by turning over control of privately owned companies to his union supporters. He’s the 1st President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state they’re allowed to locate a factory. He’s the 1st President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, while loaning a foreign oil company (Brazil’s Petrobas), that’s partly owned by his puppet master George Soros, billions of dollars of the American taxpayer’s money to develop Brazilian offshore reserves. Obama’s the 1st President to threaten medical insurance companies if they publicize the reasons for their rate increases., and he’s also the 1st President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago. Since we know that the only way to get the American economy growing again is to get the federal government the hell out of the way of what’s left of our free enterprise system, the only rational conclusion to be drawn from this is that Obama is indeed intentionally trying to destroy our country’s economy. Talk about high crimes and misdemeanors…. Wow!

To cut to the chase, Barack Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, aka Harrison J. Bounel, aka Bari M Shabazz is a congenital LIAR. He’s a Marxist radical and a dedicated follower of the teachings of Saul Alinsky. Anyone wondering why he’s done some of the crazy stuff he has, need only read Alinsky’s “Rules For Radicals”, and the “Cloward Piven Strategy” for a step-by-step guide to all of Obama’s actions since he moved into the White House. And lest anyone think that he is unique in American politics, we should all be aware that the progressive’s relief pitcher, Hillary, still waiting patiently in the wings, is also an Alinsky disciple, as her senior’s thesis at Wellesley in praise of Alinsky proves to all willing to take the time to read it.

Since socialism has only failed every time it’s been tried, one wonders what the history books will eventually say about the Obama regime when our great grandchildren are taking their first American history class. It won’t be something worthy of great drama or romance, in the way that Dr. Zhivago romanticized the Russian Revolution. After all, they only had one czar. My guess is that it will wind up as a sad, pathetic and dirty little footnote to the record of the early 21st century, something akin to what happened to America while Woody Allen’s character Miles Monroe was in cryo-stasis in the movie Sleeper. When the film began, he woke up to learn that America had been destroyed when a fellow named Albert Shanker got hold of a nuclear warhead.

Let’s do everything we can to prevent that prophecy from coming true.

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