STATE OF THE UNION

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There is one person one American among the 300 million of us who are not to blame for the state of the union. Everyone else, each of you, in some small or large way, bears some share of the blame, but not this guy. Not one little bit.

This guy is Barack Obama. He is not the least bit to blame for the dismal state of the U.S. economy. George W. Bush is, for sure, and that evil Dick Cheney, oh, no doubt. House Speaker John A. Boehner evil, too is, of course, to blame. But guess what? So is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, and every Democrat in the House and Senate.

Now, President Truman made it very clear: The buck stops with him. No passing the buck for that guy. But Mr. Obama blames everyone but himself. Mr. Bush, he says, left the nation in a ditch, a deep ditch, and he been digging out since he took office. And Congress? Those guys are just plain awful, he says. So mean. Wah, they wont do anything I want done! Mr. Obama feels so sure about it that he’s basing his re-election campaign on bashing Capitol Hill.

But with the president delivering his State of the Union speech to Congress Tuesday night, lets pause here to take as hard look at the real state of America, by the numbers, using only cold, hard facts.

The unemployment rate when Mr. Obama was elected was 6.8 percent; today it is 8.5 percent at least that’s the official number. In reality, the Financial
Times writes, if the same number of people were seeking work today as in 2007, the jobless rate would be 11 percent.

In addition, there are now fewer payroll jobs in America than there were in 2000 12 years ago and now, 40 percent of those jobs are considered low paying,
 up 10 percent from when President Reagan took office. The number of self-employed has dropped 2 million to 14.5 million in just six years.

Regular gasoline per gallon cost $1.68 in January 2009. Today, its $3.39 that’s a 102 percent increase in just three years. (By the way, if your keeping score at home, gas was $1.40 a gallon when George W. Bush took office in 2001, $1.68 when he left office a 20 percent increase.)

Electricity bills have also skyrocketed, with households now paying a record $1,420 annually on average, up some $300.

Some 48 percent of all Americans 146.4 million are considered by the Census Bureau either as low-income
or living in poverty, up 4 million from when Mr. Obama took office; 57 percent of all children in America now live in such homes.

Since December 2008, a month before Mr. Obama took office, food-stamp use has increased 46 percent. Total spending has more than doubled in just four years to a record high of $75 billion. In 2011, more than 46 million people about one in seven Americans got food stamps. Thats 14 million more than when Mr. Obama took office.

Median household income has dropped nearly 7 percent in the last six years, taking inflation into account. What’s more, nearly 20 percent of males age 25 to 34 now live with their parents.

Low- and middle-income Americans 65 and older now hold more than $10,000 iin credit card debt, up 26 percent since 2005. The average age of the American car is 10 years; in 1990, it was 6.5 years old (by the way, in 1985, Americans bought 11 million cars; in 2009, less than half that, 5.4 million).

On the macro side, Americas annual budget has jumped to $3.8 trillion and yet the United States brings in only about $2.1 trillion in revenue. The U.S. trade deficit for 2011 was $558 billion. Americas total public debt stands at $15.23 trillion; in January 2009, the debt was $10.62 trillion. Mr. Obama is on pace to borrow $6.2 trillion in just one term more debt than was amassed by all presidents from Washington through Bill Clinton combined. The debt is rising by $4.2 billion every day $175 million per hour, nearly $3 million per minute.

So, America,that is our State of Your Union. But remember, Mr. Obama had not one thing to do with it. So don’t blame him when you go to the polls. Blame everyone else, especially yourself.
 
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Everytime i watch it i see the three stooges
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I have no idea who wrote it..I am kind of new to this, the only other board I post on is www.raginbull.com and when you cut and paste you can always tell..sorry
It was copied from here.

I found it in a few seconds by highlighting the first sentence and using Yahoo search.

Articles should not be cut and pasted in their entirety. Just paste a pertinent paragraph or two and add a link. Pasting the whole thing could violate copyright laws, and no one takes the time to read them anyway.
 
It was copied from here.

I found it in a few seconds by highlighting the first sentence and using Yahoo search.

Articles should not be cut and pasted in their entirety. Just paste a pertinent paragraph or two and add a link. Pasting the whole thing could violate copyright laws, and no one takes the time to read them anyway.

Thanks PLC. Nice to know that someone is interested in the sources. The origins of articles are extremely important to determine bias.
 
My non-rino state of the union response.

The art of crafting a speech is to butter the opponent's bread and then gradually build points. Rinos believe this, I will now show you how imo it should have been done.

Mr. Obama, thank you for your latest campaign stump speech; Unfortunately in your effort to please unions, unwed mothers, and the association of illegal aliens for more robust gov. handouts, your Aunt and Uncle included, you failed to mention the name of the 16 trillion dollar gorilla clamped to the back of the US economy.

More than any other of your massive achievements including presiding over a nation where close 40% of families are on food stamps and government cheese, or literally driving American multi-nationals to China to avoid Obamacare taxation, your crowning achievement and the one for which voters will best remember you in November is reaching the milestone where you have personally contributed to the 16 trillion dollar deficit, more debt than the sum total of all presidents from George Washington through Ronald Reagan.... Combined.

It is the deficit Mr. Obama which has sunk the country. For every dollar of tax that IRS collects, you have borrowed one dollar and thirty cents just to cover your annual budget and the 127 million dollars of Mrs. obama's frugal recession vacations taken in the past there years... [I hope the Accommodations aboard Air Force One, met your approval] We thank you for eating your peas on our behalves.

But there is a wakeup call coming Mr. Obama. You never once in your hard left turning speech mentioned even a hint of the word deficit. You never never mentioned the deficit. Over 16 trillion dollars and growing, you never mentioned it.

So common knowledge tells us that this debt is going to be carried forward to the children and grandchildren and their children as long as one could stare into that obama utopia. But that is a lie.

The US Constitution provides that no citizen shall be liable for the public debt created by politicians or anyone else. So those children of the present and future don't owe a penny to your 16 trillion dollar deficits. The good news is they are not liable for single penny of it. And clearly you didn't think it was important because you never mentioned it. It is now sucking close to 100% of the nations GDP just to pay the interest on the gov. debt. And you are the single largest contributor to the debt. You are a one man debt ceiling demolition team and already the greatest individual contributor to the deficit of anyone in the history of humanity on this earth. What I want to know is how you intend to pay it off? The citizens down't owe a dime.

Even if you were to tax ALL the income from all working Americans you could only pay the interest on the debt. The Government would still be underwater.

The fruits of your mismanagement have resulted in the longest lasting recession in history. In your first year, you ignored the economy to foster another agenda. This was the Obama utopia.

But the leaked Memo of Larry Summers indicates that you and your administration knew your projections were lies but you still stumped them like a political speech cheerleading as unemployment deepened. You paid off your political cronies and you expanded Gov by 33%. How lovely it has been for the overpaid gov. employees that have not missed any cost of living increases or bonuses in the last three years of your term. Only the productive sector has been ravaged and continue to be ravaged today. The government employee has enjoyed a marvelous financial crisis. Mrs. Pelosi's net worth as well as your own has nearly doubled over the last three years. In Ms. Pelosi's case she is marvelous inside trader.

So there really is no necessity to mention the grab bag of goodies in your wonderful speech. None of them have any merit or context in face of a 16 trillion dollar debt tsunami. But it does surprise me that it was never mentioned in your speech of the state of the union, because the debt is the state of the union. Mr. Obama, the state of the Union is underwater and aside from the government employees living on the Obama credit card, this nation has drowned while you have been on vacation for the last three years. It I could paraphrase Bill Clinton... "Its the Deficit stupid..."




[So that is how I would have done it. It would have been short, aimed between the horns and without complements and fluff]


 
again his speach raised the serious question of whether Obama is capable of offering anything more than gifted oratorical skills that made him an accomplished community organizer and enabled him to leap frog to the White House without a record of any significant legislative accomplishments. One would expect and hope that, having now spent three years as the President during a period of debilitating stagnation and pain, Obama would use a State of the Union address opportunity to dial down the artificial hype and get serious and honest about the unprecedented challenges that our nation faces at this critical juncture. But it didn't happen.
 
again his speach raised the serious question of whether Obama is capable of offering anything more than gifted oratorical skills that made him an accomplished community organizer and enabled him to leap frog to the White House without a record of any significant legislative accomplishments. One would expect and hope that, having now spent three years as the President during a period of debilitating stagnation and pain, Obama would use a State of the Union address opportunity to dial down the artificial hype and get serious and honest about the unprecedented challenges that our nation faces at this critical juncture. But it didn't happen.

gifted orator ? not really maybe good telepropmtor reader
accomplished commorg ? he sai in his book he wasn't

so all he really has are two autobiographies one of which experts seem to believe was ghostwritten.
 
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he was a pre-fab politician and it amazes me that people fell for it.
he was the least qualified candidate who tossed their hats in the ring in either party.
It was Bush and McCain who helped get Obama elected. Now, it's Obama's turn to help get someone else elected, probably Romney. Meet the next president, Barritt Obomney:

 
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