THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XIV, Issue # 89, April 22, 2012
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
BLAMER-IN-CHIEF
By Alan Caruba
PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA & THE CURRENT STATE OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY: OBAMA'S REFUSAL TO ACKNOWLEDGE & ACCEPT BLAME
FOR THE DAMAGE HE & HIS COHORTS HAVE DONE TO THE AMERICAN ECONOMY -- FAILURE TO RECOGNIZE THE REAL REASONS FOR AMERICA'S PRESENT
ECONOMIC STAGNATION, NAMELY, OBAMA'S FAR-LEFT LIBERAL IDEOLOGICAL BIAS & HIS EFFORTS TO IMPLEMENT THE LEFTIST POLITICAL AGENDA --
OBAMA'S INSISTENCE ON BLAMING THE PRIVATE ECONOMIC SECTOR, FEDERAL TAX CUTS, & PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS FOR PRESENT U.S. ECONOMIC DIFFICULTIES --
OBAMA'S LIES & DISTORTIONS
FULL STORY:
We teach children to acknowledge and accept blame when they do something wrong. It is an important and useful trait in life. Those who do not learn this remain
emotionally stunted children their entire life. I am, of course, speaking of President Barack Hussein Obama, and I shudder to think of the continued damage he can
do to the American nation during his remaining months in office.
As Fox News’ Doug McKelway wrote in August, 2011, “Obama has suggested that blame for the stagnant U.S. economy lies in places other than the Oval
Office." The latest example occurred Monday, when the President said, “There will always be economic factors that we can’t control, earthquakes, spikes in oil
prices, slowdowns in other parts of the world.”
The greatest slowdown for Americans has been at home. That slowdown is the national economy, and is of overriding concern to Americans. Three and a half
years into his first (and hopefully last term), Obama is still blaming it on former President George W. Bush.
As recently as April 18, Obama returned to his favorite theme. Urging a tax increase on millionaires, Obama said that tax cuts enacted “eight years before I took
office” had contributed to a “global economic crisis.”
It is worth recalling the financial crisis occurred in September, 2008, in the final months of Bush’s second term.
At the time:
The Dow Jones closed at 12,621.77
The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%
The Unemployment rate was 4.6%
George W. Bush's economic policies set a record of 52 straight months of job growth. So, Obama is not only trying to distract voters from the actual facts, but lying
about them as well.
In point of fact, the Democrats had taken control of Congress on January 3, 2007, at the start of the 110th Congress.
In December, 2011, Investors Business Daily opined that Obama was “no longer content to blame President Bush for the country’s economic ills,” but was
accusing “his Democratic predecessor of being a co-conspirator.” That would be former President Bill Clinton!
In a “Sixty Minutes” segment, Obama had said the economy was suffering from “structural problems that have been building up for two decades.” Most observers
concede that both Clinton and Bush43 did a good job in guiding the economy during their terms, but not Obama.
The segment also included his prediction that “If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition.” The likelihood that Obama
can be reelected with 8.6% unemployment, $4 gas at the pump, massive housing loan foreclosures, and a still stagnant economy grows smaller by the week.
Consider the many ways this President has found everyone else to blame for his failures. Oil prices were blamed on the “uncertainty about what’s going on in Iran
and the Middle East,” but prices stayed moderate during all the years of conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Despite the horrid waste of taxpayers' money on the various green energy firms that keep failing, Obama blamed the Solyndra debacle on the Chinese who “were
subsidizing their solar industry and flooding the market in ways that Solyndra couldn’t compete.” That was well known before the Solyndra half billion dollar loan
guarantee was made, followed by still more to other solar companies.
Even the deficits that have grown under the Obama administration weren’t Obama's fault. In November, 2011, he said: “Obviously, this (reducing government
waste) is even more important, given the deficits that we’ve inherited and that have grown as a consequence of the recession.”
The key word here is “inherited.”
Of course it was inherited and Obama knew that as he campaigned to be the President who would solve the financial crisis. In February, 2010, he said: “If we had
taken office during ordinary times, we would have started bringing down these deficits immediately.” Instead, his stimulus program tripled the national deficit in
his first year in office
Regarding the debt, Obama, in March, 2011, said, “I inherited a big debt.”
In April, 2011 he said, “much of it I inherited when I showed up.”
In August, 2011, he said “I inherited a big debt.”
The message, repeated ceaselessly, is that the increase is not his fault.
No matter what the problem is, it is NEVER his fault. This isn’t just habitual. It’s pathological. And it bodes ill if he is reelected.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
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Alan Caruba's commentaries are posted daily at Warning Signs, his popular blog -- and thereafter on dozens of other
websites and blogs. His monthly report on new books is posted at Bookviews.
A business and science writer, Caruba is the Founder of The National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information
about "scare campaigns" designed to influence public opinion and public policy.
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