If You Don't Agree With Obama You Are "Peddling Fiction"
Submitted by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com,
If you’re not watching it purely for the entertainment value, sitting through a State of the Union speech ranks somewhere between a colonoscopy and a root canal.
Every year I opt for the former (entertainment value, not colonoscopy).
But because I live overseas, one of the added entertainment benefits is that I’m surrounded by foreigners who are seeing this highly ritualistic propaganda for the first time.
The absurdity starts almost immediately.
The Sergeant-at-Arms introduces the President of the United States, and he receives a massive, five minute standing ovation as he walks across the water to the podium.
The applause finally dies down briefly, until, immediately after, the Speaker of the House formally introduces the President. And then the applause begins anew.
Try explaining that to a foreigner who’s never seen it before.
Foreigner: “Why is everyone clapping again for the President as if they weren’t just clapping for him 30 seconds ago?”
Me: “Because that’s just the way they do it.”
Foreigner: “But why?”
Me: “… ummm… because they’re all trained monkeys?”
But it is at this point that the real propaganda begins, where the President of the United States tells his fellow Americans that they are prosperous and free.
He cited, for example, the 14 million jobs created since he took office.
Of course he failed to mention the more than $8 trillion in debt (77% increase) that has been accumulated since he was inaugurated seven years ago.
If the President truly wants to take credit as the job creator-in-chief, the basic math works out to be nearly $600,000 in government debt for every single job created.
Zerohedge showed yesterday, in fact, that while debt in the US has increased 77% over the last seven years, GDP has only increased by 13%.
Now, you’d think that for each additional dollar the US government was spending and indebting future generations, there would be at least $1 in GDP growth.
Ideally you’d get more than $1 in GDP growth. Duh. Businesses have to do this every single day.
If I borrow $10 million to buy and develop agricultural farmland, obviously the net effect once I’m finished should result in a property that’s worth MORE than $10 million.
But that’s not how it works when governments spend money. It took them $3.71 of debt to buy just $1 of GDP growth.
Yes, the overall result may show that the economy is technically bigger than it was in 2009.
But this ratio is completely screwed up, and it is not indicative of “the strongest, most durable economy in the world.”
In the meantime, there have never been more pages of laws, rules, and regulations ever in the history of the United States than there are today, January 13, 2016.
Just this morning, in fact, the federal government published another 369 pages of regulations. Tomorrow there will be even more.
Should you find yourself out of compliance with any of them, the government can summarily deprive you of your freedom, your property, and even your family.
And it can do so administratively, without a fair and speedy trial in front of an impartial judge and a jury of your peers.
This is not what freedom and prosperity are all about.
President Obama is undeniably upbeat about America. And he’s right, there are a lot of amazing people doing great things in the US.
The United States is a wonderful country. It’s clean. Modern. Reasonably safe. Standard of living is very high.
But decades of insane regulation, government debt, and astonishingly destructive monetary policy have resulted in a society where it is now easier to consume than produce.
Prosperity is not complicated. People figured out thousands of years ago that if you wanted to do well, you had to produce more than you consumed.
But the American system is the exact opposite, favoring those who recklessly borrow and spend, rather than those who work hard and responsibly save.
The President of the United States boldly accused everyone who doesn’t share his view as just making things up.
In his words, “Anyone claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction.”
This is an extraordinary (and delusional) statement.
The government’s own numbers show that they are completely insolvent, to the tune of nearly $18 trillion.
The annual reports for the Social Security trust funds show that they are rapidly running out of money.
The Federal Reserve’s own balance sheet shows that it is precariously undercapitalized, with net capital less than 1% of total assets.
The Census Bureau’s data shows that the earnings for middle class Americans are stagnating.
The Labor Department’s numbers show that the number of Americans who have dropped out of the work force hasn’t been at this level since the Carter administration.
USDA figures show that the number of food stamp recipients is near an all-time high, simultaneously when the number of homeless children in America is at a record high.
And all of this, at a time when trust in government is near an all-time low.
These are all facts, not fiction.
The only fiction is pretending that this story has a happy ending.
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"Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America." (1995)
I love your comments....they border the bizzarre and barely intelligible...and yet they always makes sense and make me laugh.
Starting to think this guy is a narcissistic psychopath,a legend in his own mind. correction...i have allways felt that way.
Anything but delusional. The United States is one big "bust out" operation. Obama is evil personified, a person with no real background who claims to have the right to kill anyone, including Americans. The organ grinders who control Obama and Buffet and all the rest know that the United States is a vast gulag with some amenities like cable TV. Get on the wrong side of these secret rulers and you wind up blown to bit or murdered along with your family (refer to Michael Hastings and Philip Marshall). That is the way it is now with Saudi proxy rulers in charge of America.
Saudi proxy rulers? 'Facsinating' {SPOCK arches eyebrow}
And then finally, when there's nothing left, when you can't borrow another buck from the bank or buy another case of booze, you bust the joint out. You light a match.
Whenever we needed money, we'd rob the airport. To us, it was better than Citibank... ;-)
He would have trouble even running a lemonade stand (and he'd probably have his own goons shut him down so he wouldn't have to show that he couldn't turn a profit) much less an entire country. What a clown.
"Ted Cruz Didn’t Disclose Loan From Goldman Sachs for His First Senate Campaign"
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/us/politics/ted-cruz-wall-street-loan-...
The Establishment really doesn't like Cruz do they? ;-)
I think it's a tit-for-tat/both sides get slapped kinda thing going on..
They are going to bust Hillary.
So one half of the office squeals: " IF you are gonna do that to 'Us' we are going to drop the dime on Cruz being a Wall St. puppet who lied about the funding of his last campaign by GS & Citi !"
The other side says: "We have too much on Hillary we can't hide anymore. Do your worst..."
Well, Teddy's wife Heidi, enjoys a high position in the Goldman Sachs investment banking hierarchy.
And he conveniently did not show up to vote down the Federal Reserve transparency Bill today. Sorry T. Cruz'ers, he's not the one...
P.S. Goldman Sachs also was one of the top supporters of his first run for office... Again, know who you are voting for, do your homework...
Let us try and avoid another debacle at 1600 Pennsylvania.
They're warming up to Cruz.
He's the only viable Republican candidate who isn't named Trump.
Thanks, they really ARE all the same.
Incidentally in Russia ideas are floated that public servants' spouses should not be in private enterprise etc . I was going to say that that would go too far. It doesn't read well, but when I read about Heidi I think the Duma people in Moscow might be onto something.
That empty chair in the chamber represented all the Mexicans killed by Eric Holder in the Fast & Furious "gun violence program" and the Syrian national attending represented his current & past ME foreign policy.
Any questions?
Some people just look at things differently.
F&F has resulted in 1000s of hispanics to take dirt naps, and it boggles my mind how any black American, or hispanic American could vote for the communist KILLING democrat party.
no dude, im totally cool with working a job so someone else can fuck a woman i never knew and claim welfare on the kid, it makes total sense. otherwise i'de just be homeless and some other retard would jump at that 9-5.
im an entitled shit though, that's why ill die with nothing and no one.
Negative voter needs to move to France
Barry Soetero combined with the Deep State government did so much damage in 7 years. So much damage......it's breathtaking. I thought shrub was bad with the Patriot Act and a measly 4T in debt....I thought that asshole Clinton was bad with repealing Glass-Stegall...and Bosnia....
Nope.
This shitbag + deep state takes the cake.
I remember when they passed the Patriot Act thinking "In a generation I won't recognize this country." I was wrong. Only took about 10 years.
There are so many things that strike us all, and some more profound than others... and for me, one of those is the fact that the guy who drafted the original PA, and loved to admit it, is Joe Biden. To think back on 10-12 years ago, and the vitriol by the left toward GWB (much of it deserved), and clearly see that these folks have no earthly idea who it is that they support, always strikes me as truly incredible. Unfortunately, I feel that it is now even more out of control. They're even going after each other on uni. campus'... it's quite intriguing, actually.
Yep, perv boy slick willie repealing Glass-Stegal rigged the entire stock market to the failed casino we have today.
Buck Ofama.
Its an Eric Blair world.
more nigga pleaze, please!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYpnINrZM_M
I will say it again those generals and admirals at the whats left of the union speech looked like they where ready to jump up there with a kbar and gut and field dress that sob. Something wicked this way comes inho
Don't worry.
All those Generals went home to change for their next ritual for when they get to see who rapes and sacrifices and eats another child at their black magick rituals.
The demons must give them their directions.
You think all those reptilian/human generals got to where they are by helping the poor, sick, and needy?
This was a black magick ritual, you are only seeing what you want to see.
These people are all having orgies and eating babies right now.
Those people don't give a fuck about you!
Wake up and smell your own self induced bullshit.
+1 for the brutal honesty! Some people arent like the rest of us. But then there are also some people that arent like anyone at all.
Its almost sad in a way: As a sociopath he is incapable of comprehending the notion that people do not agree with him no matter how profoundly correct and just he believes his positions are. Nope, everyone in the world who does not agree with him must be mentally defective: That is the only train of thought he can seem to entertain without having his head explode.
100 x +
I will be the first to predict that when Trump wins the left will engage in terrorism
especially gays with Joker colored hair.
What came out of the Kremlin propaganda department in Soviet Times was not any different.
The difference is, though, you don't get sent to the Gulag if you expose the untruths now and here, although they deal with you in other ways that leave no proof.
Before you say that what comes out of the Kremlin these days are the same lies, I would say I don't subscribe to that. Of course they tend to publish only what's positive for them (so unique!) but what they do publish is properly sourced and if you are inclined to check it over, it stacks up.
The legacy of Obama's Presidency is the debt of course plus having mastered the propaganda.
Oily Obama the snake oil and gun salesman.
Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot
GET TO WORK, GOYIM!!
Oy vey give us shekels and submarines and F-18's and Tanks and morters and howitzers and chemical weapons and armored vehicles and m-16's and fire from the sky and helfire missiles and your first born and your daughters as well and invade more countries for us and 3 billion a year and apachees and boats and reparations and secret high tech and NSA meta data and food aid, and cover up our crimes and die for us and kill for us and....
....get back to work and pay taxes for us goyim!
"The Inmates are running the asylum" it's not just a saying anymore, it's what we have allowed. There is a fix for that too though.
> He cited, for example, the 14 million jobs created since he took office.
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>Of course he failed to mention the more than $8 trillion in debt
Yow! That's nearly $600,000 per person even if the job numbers are accurate.
Every bomb dropped has cost government money but did not yield.
What did you expect.......?
Make sure you have evacuated your bowels BEFORE you watch this satire on Obama.
I damn near soiled myself!......Enjoy and give me up arrows, or down is even better! Down arrows get more views!
https://www.facebook.com/gregorybrothers/videos/vb.46060559283/101538848...
Fiction, BTChez.
Obama's Mother is a Whore (Pastor Steven Anderson)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEGPEAj9CGI
Sermon: "Why I hate Barrack Obama"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9zyLRaX7jQ
Yeah it's really bad. After the big State of the Union, the White House is putting out emails and Tweets today about "National Cheese Day"...look it up, you can't miss it.
To borrow a word from Zero Hedge it was nothing but a speech promoting "Hopium". It's the algorithms and their makers that are running this country and Obama and his White House are drunk on algorithms. They don't get it.
I posted about Zeke Emanuel yesterday and the Center for American Progress was all over it as I exposed a lot of who owns it (John Podesta who's now Hillary's campaign manager). It is the think tank that HHS uses to write healthcare policy. Zeke Emanuel who's the big policy writer over there for HHS Secretary Burwell, who herself is a one time Bob Rubin Chief of Staffer, gets her policies from the the CAP. Does anyone think this is a conflict of interest? Instead the ugly media did the big Jonathon Gruber thing for weeks and by the way he's a member of the CAP and works with Zeke, ok.
The whole dog and pony show over Gruber that was already a done deal did nothing, however, Zeke Emanuel is at the CAP writing policy for HHS and Burwell every week and it's policy that touches doctors and consumers every day. Do people get it? Nope. There's your power and conflict of interest and something the press will never bring out as the news gets rigged more every day. Only one other site, Retraction, made notice of this, so it appears the lost public steered by the press after their ad click revenue and ratings sucked in the public's emotional jugular once again. Here's the post and take notice.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2016/01/zeke-emanuel-joins-venture-capital.html
The CAP is heavily populated with executives of United Healthcare and some of those folks worked for Hillary at the State Department too. Of course when it comes to insurance fraud or bad practices, Loretta Lynch will never do a thing as she used to represent United Healthcare with their antitrust lawsuits and I don't know how many she won for them. It's rigged.
http://youtu.be/vD94dVu8lqQ
On 13 Jan 2016 an american tourist , Caitan Vholte, was chased and beaten to death in Goa, as he was misbehaving with local women who were scared by him. Some ppl thought that he was a thief as many thefts had taken place recently.
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Thats the worth of america
& americans now
all due to cabalA$$LickerLiarAddictObamma
"The job numbers are contained". Enough said.
There was a cartoon today in the NY Post that epotimized Obama's speech. A family is watching his speech on TV. An announcer breaks in saying, "we interrupt this program with a message from Donald Trump."
i hear he promises to cure cancer and save earth from global warming by the end of his last term.
Don't forget: Three years ago Obama changed the way GDP is calcuated. So his 13% GDP growth claim is doubly bullshit. First, he starts with 2008 numbers, which were extraordinarily depressed thanks to the financial meltdown that summer. Secondly, he rejiggered the GDP formula, bumping it up by fiat.