[h=1]Obama Urges New Spending, Says Deficit Reduction Alone Not a Plan :shoot:[/h]Communist Dictator in the making...All you suckers who voted for this nut job should be forced to watch the Obama movie 2016! :btj:
State of the Union Address headline
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Re: State of the Union Address headline
Rubio and Boehner have it all wrong.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who was delivering the GOP response, said Obama’s solution "to virtually every problem we face is for Washington to tax more, borrow more and spend more." More government, he said, will “hold you back.”
BO won’t tax more, he’ll raise revenue, he won’t borrow more, he’ll meet the countries obligations and last but not least, he won’t spend more, he’ll invest.
House Speaker John Boehner also panned what he called the president's "go-it-alone-approach," accusing him of pushing "stimulus policies that have failed to fix our economy."
The number of people on welfare is rising. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124562449457235503.html
The number of people unemployed is estimated at 4.7 million.
The number of people collecting SSI Disability is over 8 million.
The number of people receiving food stamps is 45 million.
The number of people who stopped looking for work is over 4 million.
How dare Boehner say that BO’s stimulus policies have failed to fix our economy?
BO seems hell bent to prove Einstein wrong.
:shoot:
Rubio and Boehner have it all wrong.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who was delivering the GOP response, said Obama’s solution "to virtually every problem we face is for Washington to tax more, borrow more and spend more." More government, he said, will “hold you back.”
BO won’t tax more, he’ll raise revenue, he won’t borrow more, he’ll meet the countries obligations and last but not least, he won’t spend more, he’ll invest.
House Speaker John Boehner also panned what he called the president's "go-it-alone-approach," accusing him of pushing "stimulus policies that have failed to fix our economy."
The number of people on welfare is rising. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124562449457235503.html
The number of people unemployed is estimated at 4.7 million.
The number of people collecting SSI Disability is over 8 million.
The number of people receiving food stamps is 45 million.
The number of people who stopped looking for work is over 4 million.
How dare Boehner say that BO’s stimulus policies have failed to fix our economy?
BO seems hell bent to prove Einstein wrong.
:shoot:
Re: State of the Union Address headline
Some curious statements were made in the speech.
“After shedding jobs for more than 10 years, our manufacturers have added about 500,000 jobs over the past three.”
These numbers are accurate, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data—though Politifact does make sure to point out that those jobs are a fraction of the number that were lost in the preceding decade, which includes Obama’s first year in office. The New York Times goes a bit further, noting that not only are there nearly 3 million fewer manufacturing jobs in the U.S. than there were 10 years ago, but that economists don’t foresee a revival of the American manufacturing industry any time soon.
“Real reform means strong border security, and we can build on the progress my administration has already made—putting more boots on the southern border than at any time in our history and reducing illegal crossings to their lowest levels in 40 years.”
This is not the first time Obama has claimed to have brought down illegal immigration from Mexico to its lowest point in 40 years, and Politifact has already rated the claim “half true.” Yes, there are more Border Patrol agents on the ground now than ever before and the flow of immigrants from Mexico into the U.S. has reached an all-time low—but President Obama alone cannot take credit. Politifact argues that the expansion of Border Patrol that has cracked down on illegal crossings began under the Bush administration. It’s also noteworthy that the slowdown in illegal immigration coincides with a drop to zero net immigration from Mexico, according to Pew, which attributes the plunge to a variety of factors, including the “weakened U.S. job and housing construction markets.”
“Democrats, Republicans, business leaders, and economists have already said that these [budget] cuts, known here as ‘the sequester,’ are a really bad idea.”
Obama explicitly blamed Congress for the sequester, which would trigger severe automatic spending cuts, during his final debate with Mitt Romney, but Politifact has deemed that claim “mostly false.” During the summer of 2011, as Obama negotiated with House Speaker John Boehner over a “grand bargain,” they agreed to empower a “supercommittee” of lawmakers to find $1.2 trillion in spending cuts. To make sure that happened, they agreed to an unusual provision, the sequester, in which across-the-board cuts, including the Defense budget, that neither party wanted would kick in automatically if the committee failed to agree on cuts—which is what happened. Politifact notes that Obama’s negotiating team came up with the idea to cut the Defense budget in the first place.
“We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas."
THE FACTS: Not so fast.
That's expected to happen in 12 more years.
Under a deal the Obama administration reached with automakers in 2011, vehicles will have a corporate average fuel economy of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, twice the 27 miles per gallon, on average, that cars and trucks get today. Automobile manufacturers won't start making changes to achieve the new fuel economy standards until model year 2017. Not all cars will double their gas mileage, since the standard is based on an average of a manufacturers' fleet
As I’ve said many times, when you can’t justify your record all you can do is spew forth half truths, and if that’s fails, just plain lie.
Some curious statements were made in the speech.
“After shedding jobs for more than 10 years, our manufacturers have added about 500,000 jobs over the past three.”
These numbers are accurate, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data—though Politifact does make sure to point out that those jobs are a fraction of the number that were lost in the preceding decade, which includes Obama’s first year in office. The New York Times goes a bit further, noting that not only are there nearly 3 million fewer manufacturing jobs in the U.S. than there were 10 years ago, but that economists don’t foresee a revival of the American manufacturing industry any time soon.
“Real reform means strong border security, and we can build on the progress my administration has already made—putting more boots on the southern border than at any time in our history and reducing illegal crossings to their lowest levels in 40 years.”
This is not the first time Obama has claimed to have brought down illegal immigration from Mexico to its lowest point in 40 years, and Politifact has already rated the claim “half true.” Yes, there are more Border Patrol agents on the ground now than ever before and the flow of immigrants from Mexico into the U.S. has reached an all-time low—but President Obama alone cannot take credit. Politifact argues that the expansion of Border Patrol that has cracked down on illegal crossings began under the Bush administration. It’s also noteworthy that the slowdown in illegal immigration coincides with a drop to zero net immigration from Mexico, according to Pew, which attributes the plunge to a variety of factors, including the “weakened U.S. job and housing construction markets.”
“Democrats, Republicans, business leaders, and economists have already said that these [budget] cuts, known here as ‘the sequester,’ are a really bad idea.”
Obama explicitly blamed Congress for the sequester, which would trigger severe automatic spending cuts, during his final debate with Mitt Romney, but Politifact has deemed that claim “mostly false.” During the summer of 2011, as Obama negotiated with House Speaker John Boehner over a “grand bargain,” they agreed to empower a “supercommittee” of lawmakers to find $1.2 trillion in spending cuts. To make sure that happened, they agreed to an unusual provision, the sequester, in which across-the-board cuts, including the Defense budget, that neither party wanted would kick in automatically if the committee failed to agree on cuts—which is what happened. Politifact notes that Obama’s negotiating team came up with the idea to cut the Defense budget in the first place.
“We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas."
THE FACTS: Not so fast.
That's expected to happen in 12 more years.
Under a deal the Obama administration reached with automakers in 2011, vehicles will have a corporate average fuel economy of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, twice the 27 miles per gallon, on average, that cars and trucks get today. Automobile manufacturers won't start making changes to achieve the new fuel economy standards until model year 2017. Not all cars will double their gas mileage, since the standard is based on an average of a manufacturers' fleet
As I’ve said many times, when you can’t justify your record all you can do is spew forth half truths, and if that’s fails, just plain lie.