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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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.
SOTU aka A monkey performing in a zoo. And monkey watchers waiting for their turn to catch the shit he throws at them.
Always look on the bright side of life.
From a casual observation of the rule of opposites I see a World War as a certainty. We WILL go in for Assad right through the Russians. The battles will be vicious and global. From the Spratleys to the Crimea, American soldiers will be dying by the thousands. It seems the quickening fall of the economy will speed up the war-making business. Young Americans WILL face a draft. There's no other way to supply the needed cannon fodder. You'll be ordered to fight enemies whose evil was made up in a public relations office. I wonder what this generation will do about that.
I am not of this generation - but let's listen to Nancy Reagan. 'Just say No'.
Let's remember the people from East Berlin and their needleprick tactics 'they cannot put us all in the clink'.
Let's give the wounded veterans more space in the media, so that people and their kids see what it means to say 'yes'.
Let's study Ghandi and what passive resistence is.
Let's discard religion because it conditions people to be subservient, bow, and say 'yes'.
PS" didn't mean two, but the unpredictability of digital communication ....
I am not of this generation - but let's listen to Nancy Reagan. 'Just say No'.
Let's remember the people from East Berlin and their needleprick tactics 'they cannot put us all in the clink'.
Let's give the wounded veterans more space in the media, so that people and their kids see what it means to say 'yes'.
Let's study Ghandi and what passive resistence is.
Let's discard religion because it conditions people to be subservient, bow, and say 'yes'.
BHO is the most fictional POTUS this country has evey had in the twilight zone.
The UTOPIA that the American people have had the pleasure to experience under BHO, has resulted in many dirt naps for eternity. Especially in Democrat utopian strong holds.
I want to make an snarky remark, but Zero Hedge posters have covered every single aspect of my potential sarcasms, Bitchez
Eric Cartman
You're quite right to mention that. Someone counts the pro/con posters and we need a lot because (as the people in East Berlin used to say)''they cannot put us all in the clink'.
Start the wheel turning, mind overloaded on the thought.
ISIS want a caliphate for themselves, can not all ZH minded people grab one bit of landmass and call it the nation of ZeroHedge. You are only allowed to enter if you renage all the eonomic bullshit as an oath of allegiance.
I was waiting for someone to yell "You lie!"
I think Captain Barry Zero has lied so regularly the last 7 years to brainwash dumb unthinking voters that he really doesn't know how to stop. Facts don't matter when you believe that image trumps them.
I am not in the US, but my weltanschauung has turned upside down since 2008. This guy is a serious fraud.
"This guy is a serious fraud."
I do not intend to single you out especially given that you are not even here on Team Amerika but your choice of words is too perfect. This is really directed at the legions of mind numbed, willfully ignorant self indulgent fools who somehow did not see this long before even a single vote was cast in the 2008 primaries.
So exactly WHEN did this relevation actually come to you? Did it take when The President of The United States ASSAINATED TWO US CITIZENS by drone?
Or did you rationalise THAT away saying "they wuz terrorists!"
Was it when you found out the JUSTICE depart ment was covertly sending guns into Mexico on some covoluded sting operation?
Or was it when this Nobel Peace Prize winner expanded the PNAC wars in the Middle East to include Libya, Yemen, Syria, Egypt, et al?
Shall I go on?
I think I shall. Was it the unholy alliance with the Bankster Lobby, the Fed, the Medical Cartel?
There is so much from which to choose. Funny thing is that ALL of it was easily accessed and undertandable from the get go for anyone WHO CAN READ or CHOSE TO ACTUALLY LISTEN TO THE WORDS THE MAN SAID leading up to th election of 2008.
Of course there have been populations as supposedly as educated as ours who have fallen for similar bullshit with even greater devastation. See Germany in the 30's.
For anyone to not have seen this sociopath, narcissist, racist, bigoted, self-absorded, facsist, empty suit demogogue for what he IS back in 2007 is simply an idiot or was in a coma at the time.
These people do not operate in secrecy. They are so comfortable in their position that they typically flat out state their intentions for anyone awake enough to listen.
At least you wrote 2008. Most people are still waking up and most likely will make the same mistake again going forward.
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I think the Secret Service guards the formr POTUS after he is out of office but do they guard the kids too? I mean when his kids are off at college and not in their "safe spaces", can some kid walk up to them and tell them he was the worst president in the history of the former United States and that they will work all their lives to pay ff student debt as they clean the robot that is flipping hamburgers at the soy repacement burger shack?
Good question. And what about after Michelle divorces Barry? (Gawd,she looks unhappy!) Do they each get an SS squad? Don't know the answer.
I wouldn't think Chelsea Clinton gets secret service protection but who knows? Janet Reno is really her father anyway.....
After Michelle dumps barry, she is planning to go back to her old job as co-pilot of the Millenium Falcon.
'President Barack Obama on Thursday signed into law H.R. 6620, the Former Presidents Protection Act of 2012, granting lifetime Secret Service protection to all former presidents, their wives (unless they remarry), and their children under the age of 16.'
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/10/president-obama-will-have-sec...
Thinks it's cool that I can now add Peddler of fiction to my resume.
Just get your pop corn ready, because BHO is just getting warm up. Hopefully we will all survive to see him leave the WH.
BO's living proof of what happens when you inhale.
I still have my money on Diebold Jeb. I know this seems like an impossibility at this point but they may find a way to make it happen. If he ends up a vice his partner will be Reaganed. Seriously, they have the election systems and the CIA. They can destroy Hillary and Trump with treachery at their leisure. If Hillary is prosecuted it will be because of them. Hillary is a member of the club but they pull rank.
Don't ever underestimate the unscrupulousness of a Bush.
The strongman leader of Russia’s Chechnya republic says Russian opposition activists should be considered traitors and punished for their “subversive activities.”
The statement by Ramzan Kadyrov drew harsh criticism on Wednesday from rights activists, including Russian human rights ombudsman Ella Pamfilova.
The opposition has come under increased pressure since the mass protests in Moscow that accompanied Vladimir Putin’s return to the presidency in 2012.
Kadyrov told Chechen journalists that opposition activists were trying to use Russia’s current economic difficulties to shake up the political situation and should be brought to judgment as “enemies of the people” and traitors.
His comments were seen as ominous because rights activists have accused Kadyrov of ordering the killings of some who oppose him or Putin. Kadyrov has denied the accusations.
For those who don't know Chechnya is part of Russia Federation and Kadyrov is big supporter of putin and putin support Kadyrov.
https://youtu.be/t9DCStgJyMo
BTW
Chechen Controversial Wedding: Kadyrov congratulates Chechen police chief marriage to schoolgirlObama is on track to set a new world record. The first man to complete his presidency without ever having told the truth about anything.
Math is not complicated. People figured out thousands of years ago that if everbody produces more than they consumed - well that's impossible. Unless, of course, part of that production is for free.
Zero Hedge is not just peddling fiction it is racist too.
Racist is stating that people are different based upon their genetic endowment. Statement of the Obvious causes the Deluded much anguish
perhaps, but usually racism goes further, with generalizations. often based on simple markers. the simpler, the better
I would not be surprised if we find out eventually that every human has a certain chance of developing as xenophobic or xenophilic based on genes, and that every group of people has some of both
I'm hinting at those genes that are transmitted, but "fix" themselves in one or the other way for the individual bearer of those genes
if any group of 100 has ten xenophobes and ten xenophiles, it might be a hint of that
interestingly, it means that if there is a minority of 10 in a group of 100, you might have this relation:
of the majority of 90, 9 are xenophobes, while in the minority of 10, 1 is xenophobe... and the one in the shittiest position of the whole. but... he has 9 xenophiles that try to defend him from the bigger group. all leading to very interesting "group activities"
dangerous stuff, those genes. the real philosophical question is if we aren't just carriers for them, the bastards. oh, and if our very brains aren't just carriers for memes
There are plenty of racists posting, but I don't see any evidence that ZH is racist.
+1, but consider this: for some xenophiles, the very toleration of racist expression is already racist
that's The Conundrum of The Tolerant. you go and tolerate... and suddently you are surrounded by the Intolerant
then you have those who combat those Intolerants attacking the Tolerant for symphatizing with the Intolerants
then you have a time watching The Tolerant defending the Intolerants from the sworn enemies of those Intolerants, which are Intolerant themselves...
... and the whole might, at times, devolve into a war between The Tolerants and all the Intolerants of all stripes and persuations
The Tolerant ought just preempt the whole and start his war on the Intolerant right from the beginning. but he is... Tolerant
and so you have to wait until the various factions of Intolerance have degressed the whole to the point that the Tolerant becomes intolerant of Intolerance
might sound funny, but it's really sad, actually
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Merriam Webster's definition of Tolerant:
"willing to accept feelings, habits, or beliefs that are different from your own
: able to allow or accept something that is harmful, unpleasant, etc."
Nicely done. It reminded me of the old Abbott & Costello routine "Who's on First"
Who is "ZH"?
ZH is not one person. It's a website with a bunch of contributing ghost writers that is not just seething with racism, but clearly condones it,as shown by the material that regularly washes through
And I'm willing to bet they've never deleted a racist post, but insted laugh when they receive a complaint
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Fuck off Snitch! People have been thrown out of the Hedge for comments. I hope they do laugh when somebody complains. If you can't stand an open debate on issues that isn't censored get out of the kitchen. If your offended go comment on MSNBC. Racism is part of reality and thus part of what shapes our world. It cannot be ignored and censored into non-existance.
Probably too late for me to comment but that snitch stance is annoying. I'll give you credit for stating your opinion in the open. The worst type of snitch wont say a word as they attempt to wield power that they have no right to from the shadows and then appear innocent or even to be against the snitches themselves.
I may not agree what you have to say but I will die for your right to say it. They used to call the right to freedom of speech.
Thumbs up to ZH
ZH is not CNN website (CIA News Network)
Its becuz of sites like ZH that truth shines
becuz all most western media is sold out & has planted stories from their puppet masters
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An example : All the bullshit , the western Propaganda 'Assad kills his own people' , 'Assad gassed his own people' etc has brainwashed so many people that many youngsters have left their homes and joined ISIS to fight Assad regime , and when they did , america declared ISIS as rogue & terrorists while these people from west have now become criminals & terrorists in the eyes of law, totally fooled.
Sounds like you're bigoted against racists. You see, tolerance is but a mere illusion. If you think that not liking a group of people because of one set of characteristics is not ok, but some other set of characteristics is ok, then you're not only a hypocrite, but delusional.
I've never met anyone that doesn't hold malace towards some group of people. If you think that a government sponsored list of who you can't hold malace towards defines good vs. evil, then you fit in nicely to our political spectrum.
The Big Short was way more entertaining than the SOTU address.
I went to the movies instead of watch that crap.
But you all have to consider how exceptional we are and how much these people do to make our lives so pleasant all of the time. This is not an easy task by no means!
Someone actually watched this retarded nigger? Why? If you want comedy there's an entire channel for that.
US System is based on Montesquieu misreading C18th England and the Us ended up with an Elected King George III; the Prince of Wales as Vice President; and The Executive ie The Crown embodied in the Elected Monarch.
See why no other British Colony chose this system - because it was a Frenchman's misapprehension about English Constitutional Structure.
Oh, State of the Union is The Speech from The Throne
+1 Sandmann, terribly entertaining. tantalizing, I'd say. but could you explain to this continental what exactly Montesquieu did misread?
tangentially, not long ago I was writing here in ZH about France being a very secular nation. and the reaction was baffling. later, I found out - again - that the very word "secular" is used in a completely different manner in all the US websites that come up in a search "secularism in America". so yes, misreadings abound
Like Obama or hate him, he is just a president, ditto congress, 3 points in the article of worth and affecting all nations. They are ordered in reverse because ordering them in the article the other way makes you a keynesian fan on how you see importance in my mind.
First is the cause, nothing been been done to address this, the currency wars are to position yourself in this area and if you can't make it you do the QE dance! This I term production max and there is no way out it only gets worse.
3.) that if you wanted to do well, you had to produce more than you consumed. This is the best one, if everybody produces more than they consume we have a glut of overcapacity and now let the machine run or the oil flow. The market starts to get smashed by suppliers needing to sell to earn an income with not enough buyers. Now printing dollars does sweet FA to consume excess oil supplies it is a physical thing of people actually consuming the shit and ditto for all those nice flat screen tv's. Free with a packet of cheerios soon.
The GDP bullshit, in a low growth world, real growth based on production has virtually collapsed the only growth is how much central banks print to inflate values. This all stems from producing too much, now you cut production in half, demand for that item rises, natural price increases start to happen and no printing. You just shafted people in work though so you print and hand it to them instead. Either way you print! Why do politicians need +ve GDP, well this is supposed to be excess in output that everybody is doing and allows them to positin themselves AND THEN ROB THE SYSTEM BLIND cutting everything ordinary people need in the process. THIEVES THE LOT OF THEM...
2.) GDP has only increased by 13%. It happens in a low growth world and tbh GDP is a maeasure of output and exactly how are we drivign this output when every other nation in the world seems to have a +ve GDP ratre. Like who is buying the output? who is selling this output? Then you realise the GDP is now being driven by money the money printers to maintain the previous point. You never seen this low growth world coming? Nope you never because thev money printers have been concealing the truth using the money printers to pretend it was all good. We should have been adapting to this low growth world 40 years ago but in a low growth world, little excess YOU DON'T PAY FOR POLITICIANS DO YOU!
So how does a politician / elite get their entitlement, Keynes ... Keynes ... excess income reinvested you never fall especially if you a TBTF and get the handout like a poor person on welfare just way more. The debt as per the game they have been playing, with little real growth leaves only the money creation. Fact is that this debt was always going to rise but government has been deceiving you under Keynes. Every 10 years all my life the price of everyday things doubles. The price should have been falling through the first point enabling them to hide an even larger deficit way exceeding the 2% every economist like Krugman spouts. Deflation if say -2% is in operation whilst needing the +2% growth you print +4% so now you put in the $5 to only get a nominal $1 out.
1.) $8 trillion in debt (77% increase) in seven years ago. Only a touch fast for the Keynesian mechanism because the values of things doubles every 10 years through the forced inflation that is the driving engine of the debt. You could only ever hold this down, republican or democrat if you had a massive surplus to pay some of it. Truth now you don't so next president, same old problem no way to pay hold this in check. The reason they discuss the deficit is so as not to put it in the face of the population who would go into a rage. The deficit never goes negative it is always +ve, when the poiticians talk of getting the rate down it is not < 0% for sure.
Keynes was the solution to the puzzle but it never directly tackled the cause that Keynsians like to ignore because their charade of creating $5 for $1 dollar output to overcome a $2 dollar delofation when they needed $2 dollar growth.
Problem for them now is how to keep this going, imagine a $10 deflation from over production to needing a $2 nominal growth, you end up creating $13 dollars to get $1 output. NOW THAT I CALL BEING JAPANESE.
In other words, everything has been paperized.
Paper oil, PMs, money, it's all just paper- or 1s & 0s.
People, who never understood, who really holds reins of power regard this self-satisfied puppet the most influential person in the world, but even in US it is not him. He has much more less real power than Putin or China´s party top, who are real leaders, not just his master´s voices.
China and Russia both feed from the Bankster's paper "money" trough. They look like leaders now until the day the Bankster's show them who is reallythe boss.
We pedalled some folks - We bullshitted some folks - now we intend to destroy some folks !
Said the pot to the kettle.
Today, politicians and TPTB not only get away with peddling ridiculous, ficticious, promises, they never have to prove their claims of what happened in the past either.
Notice the similarity to the behavior of Wall Street? Hey Janet, how’s that interest rate hike working out for ya?
Bary has lied his whole fuckin life and he seemed believing them,what a sicko.
Here i am coating a bible verse about the father of lies A.K.A
DEVIL,SATAN,LUCIFER,SON OF PEDETION,LITTLE HORN,..
"You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies." John 8:44 KJV
A collection of lies quotes, lies sayings, lies proverbs as well as lies thoughts to make you be on the alert. Enjoy!
Figures don’t lie, but liars figure. ~Mark Twain
Truth is a bitter medicine. That’s why many can’t take it. Many are adapted to sweet things especially the sweet poison of lies and compromises. ~Godwin Delali Adadzie
Lies that build are better than truths that destroy. ~West African proverb
A lie can be halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on. ~English proverb
People will pay more for lies than for the truth. ~Unknown
The biggest liar in the world is They Say. ~Douglas Malloch
There are Five kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, Politicians quoting statistics, and Novelists quoting Politicians on Statistics. ~Stephen K Tagg
One man lies, a hundred repeat it as true. ~Chinese proverb
A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. ~William Blake
I’m not smart enough to lie ~Ronald Reagan
Beware: some lairs tell the truth! ~Arab proverb
A half-truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish proverb
I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
If you lie and then tell the truth, the truth will be considered a lie. ~Ancient Sumerian proverb
Lying is done with words and also with silence. ~Adrienne Rich
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. ~Pietro Aretino
The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we’re afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we’ll lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be unhappy. ~Richard Bach
The end of an ox is beef, and the end of a lie is grief. ~African proverb
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. ~Eric Hoffer
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen. ~Maimonides
Liars need good memories. ~French proverb
The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie. ~Ann Landers
Even a lie can at times be necessary. ~Japanese proverb
People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to. ~Malcolm Muggeridge
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. ~Adolf Hitler
A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity. ~Baltasar Gracian
The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off. ~Ernest Hemingway
Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men. ~Hasidic proverb
The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies. ~Thomas Jefferson
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. ~Henry Louis Mencken
Great liars are also great magicians. ~Adolf Hitler
Hear no lies. ~American proverb
One witness one liar; more witnesses, all liars. ~Greek proverb
I am a lie who always speaks the truth. ~Jean Cocteau
From long journeys long lies. ~Spanish proverb
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. ~Otto von Bismarck
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms. ~Giacomo Casanova
It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie. ~Austin O’Malley
If lies were Latin, there would be many learned men. ~Danish proverb
Never lie to your doctor or lawyer. ~German proverb
The one who lies will likewise steal. ~German proverb
One who lies for you will also lie against you. ~Bosnian proverb
Read more: http://www.gadel.info/2011/04/lies-lies-and-lies-quotes-and-proverbs.html#ixzz3xDvBiN8G
he may actually believe what he's saying. it's not like people like to deliver bad news to the king. if you think about 08 people all up & down the foodchain from consumers to banks to govt didn't mearly fail to see the iceberg till it was too take to steer around it, they ignored the collision & water until it was chest high & rising. I'm certainly not defending him/actions of last 7 yrs (or last 50 for that matter) but it's entirely plausible he & his team (/fed/etc) sincerely believe they know what they're doing & everyone who's not on board is either a "red", racist or just eeyores...