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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Obama knows the jew run FED Plan is to destroy America, and he is gleefully going along with it. You read his book before you voted for him, right?
8 years ago I was a racist. A racist for telling everyone at work that Obama was a serial lying, homosexual, racist muslim from kenya who would work at fundamentally transforming America for the worse.
Now I am retired, and every so often I get a call from one of my ex- co-worker friends who calls to tell me that once again, I was the topic of a lunchtime conversation....for being right!
"Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies."
To the author with this read and the question(s) he raises regarding POTUS and the "health" of the Union as a delusional pyschopathic slum lord... I give you some answes as to what I think I saw and how it was made possible from a post I made yesterday...
Only for the few that have been of voting age for the past 30+ years of there lives witnessing dozen(s) of SOUs have I ever seen anything more surreal than what I saw last night with this!
The applause he got for having the audacity to say the things he (the POTUS) actually said?!!!...
Was it "canned"?... Or did they actually have people in the audience they imported from Langley to provide it on queue as part of there yearly pay increase and promotion???...
For those that know anything about the DOS/CIA you get awarded in those two places for dropping the biggest "gator" in the bottom of the toilet once a month and for perfect attendance -exaggerating a smidge but not much!... If any of you ever visit Washington D.C. and happen to be in Northern Virginia between the hours of 6:30am and 9:00am to watch the sheer volume of lemmings entering the gates of the "mothership" know what I'm talking about!...
Or...
Was it simply the work of heavy antidepressants and booze before the festivities got underway of which I'm sure more than 99.999999% are on in order to do the job they do!!!!
We've taken all you've given
It's gettin' hard to make a livin'
Mr. President, have pity on the working man
We ain't asking you to love us
You may place yourself high above us
Mr. President, have pity on the working man
I know it may sound funny
But people ev'ry where are runnin' out of money
We just can't make it by ourself
It is cold and the wind is blowing
We need something to keep us gong
Mr. President, have pity on the working man
Maybe you're cheatin'
Maybe you're lyin'
Maybe you have lost your mind
Maybe you only think about yourself
Too late to run, too late to cry now
The time has come for us to say good-bye now
Mr. President, have pity on the working man
Mr. President, have pity on the working man
Songwriters
RANDY NEWMAN
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Read more: Randy Newman - Mr. President (have Pity On The Working Man) Lyrics | MetroLyricsAs Americans we really need to congratulate ourselves for actually allowing this President (as well as his predecessor) and Congress to "accomplish" the political high jinks that they have since 9/11.
The collapse of 3 high rise buildings and more than 2800 deaths that became the pretext for wars and occupations of choice in the Middle East without an investigation only lies going on 15 years...
The Patriot Act(s) I and II and NDAA Section(s) 1021 and 1022 which were the spawn of those "alleged attacks" on lower Manhattan and Washington D.C.
The bailout of the largest most corrupt banking institutions on the planet in 2007 that helped further finance without limit the sponsorship of Al Qaeda/Al Nusra/ISIS/ISIL/Daesh around the globe and helped to destroy the economies of Eastern Europe and fuel a civil war in Ukraine.
So to all Americans...
Congratulations for making that speech by the 44th President a reality. You've accomplished so much in your short history and you should be proud of taking it to extremes that no one else could have fathomed.
Take your pick for analogy(s)?...
It's either the Marians Trench or Mount Everest that you are 2/3 of the way to your appointed destination and you have only yourselves to congratulate!!!!
We're all Jackpot Lotto winners Now!!!