Obama is asking us to make “sacrifices.”
Sacrifices such as higher taxes (due to his policies), higher inflation (due to his policies), higher unemployment (due to his policies) and more government spending (due to his policies). All of which are crowding out real economic growth.
Even though his policies are proven economic failures, Obama is sticking to his rigid and destructive ideology. Via The Hill:
“At a time when we are going to ask folks across the board to make such difficult sacrifices, I don’t see how we can afford to borrow an additional $700 billion from other countries to make all the Bush tax cuts permanent, even for the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans,” the president said. “We’d be digging ourselves into an even deeper fiscal hole and passing the burden on to our children.”
I particularly love Obama’s wealthiest 2%, $700 billion straw-man argument. Who’s stupid “Stimulus Bill” cost $900 Billion? Who’s “Health Care Reform” is going to cost all of us a fortune? Who stopped offshore oil drilling? Who is devaluing our dollar?
Speaking of inflation, have you noticed the price of gas lately:
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Meanwhile, as Obama and his liberal cohorts are plunging the United States into an economic black hole that will take decades to recover from, Obama is living it up like a king. Via the Daily Mail (UK):
Probably not since the days of the Pharaohs or the more ludicrous Roman Emperors has a head of state travelled in such pomp and expensive grandeur as the President of the United States of America.
While lesser mortals – the Pope, Queen Elizabeth and so on – are usually happy to let their hosts handle most of the security and transport arrangements when they venture beyond their home shores, the United States creates a mini-America on the move to ensure that nothing is left to chance.
Obama arrives in India at the start of a ten-day tour of Asia. At the heart of the White House caravan is ‘The Beast’, a gigantic, ‘pimped-up’ General Motors Cadillac which security experts say is, short of an actual battle tank, probably the safest road vehicle on the planet.
But an outlandish car is only the start. Mr Obama will fly, of course, on Air Force One, the presidential private jumbo jet, which, boasting double beds and suites, is fitted out more like a luxury yacht. Some reports suggest it costs around $50,000 (£31,000) an hour to operate.
Of course threats can come from any direction, so a squadron of U.S. naval ships will patrol offshore. Some reports have claimed that 34 ships, including two aircraft carriers, will be involved (not far off the size of the Royal Navy’s entire Surface Fleet) but the White House has denied this.
On land, as well as The Beast, Mr Obama’s entourage will travel in a fleet of 45 U.S.-built armoured limousines, half of which will be decoys. He will also travel with 30 elite sniffer dogs, mostly German Shepherds.
The White House has, according to some reports, booked the entire Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai, the city’s most luxurious. It is not uncommon for the grander heads of state to reserve a floor or two, but a whole hotel is unprecedented. This hotel was the main target of the 2008 attacks by Pakistani militants which left 166 dead.
If it is so dangerous and the need for security is so great in Mumbai why go?
This whole excursion would be much more palatable without his calling for “sacrifice” from average American’s while he brings new meaning to the term “extreme vacationing.”
Remember the trips to Spain, Paris , Martha’s Vineyard and the endless rounds of golf? And who could forget their ‘date night’ in NYC?
As an added bonus, by staying home, Obama would avoid embarrassing himself.
