Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Something Happened Las Night...

Because I woke up in an unfamiliar world where the Associated Press was fact-checking Obama's SotU speech...

FACT CHECK: Obama and his imbalanced ledger
WASHINGTON (AP) — The ledger did not appear to be adding up Tuesday night when President Barack Obama urged more spending on one hand and a spending freeze on the other.

Obama spoke ambitiously of putting money into roads, research, education, efficient cars, high-speed rail and other initiatives in his State of the Union speech. He pointed to the transportation and construction projects of the last two years and proposed "we redouble these efforts." He coupled this with a call to "freeze annual domestic spending for the next five years."

Oh come on now. Everyone knows that the money for all those projects will come from major cash-pooping unicorns taxing teh ebil rich! We'll just raise the tax rate on anyone making over $250K a year to 90%; that'll solve all of our money problems, right? It's all the fault of those evil Rockefellers and Vanderbilts not paying their "fair share" of taxes, right? Why, if only we confiscated all pay above $XXX,XXX we could fund every program we could ever dream of, right? It certainly wouldn't stop people from working hard to get the kind of job where you can make that money to know that after a certain, arbitrary number the remaining fruits of your labor will be stolen from you at gunpoint, right?

But hey, they've got votes to buy, and they're certainly not going to use their own money, right?

That is all.

5 comments:

Mike W. said...

We'll just raise the tax rate on anyone making over $250K a year to 90%; that'll solve all of our money problems, right?

The sad thing is there are plenty of stupid fucking people who actually think such a proposal will work.

Anonymous said...

I read that same report and was actually a tad surprised, seems the media is always pro-Obama. Hardly ever see them write anything even slightly negative.

BobG said...

Politicians lie; it's in their job description.

Bubblehead Les. said...

I try to avoid the Political Dog and Pony shows whenever possible. Better for my digestion. But when it comes down to the "Sausage Making" in the Congress, whatever Barry sends to the Hill, it'll be so out of sync with the House that the Talking Heads will have months of Fodder to justify their existence. This,of course, relieves them from their responsibility to report REAL News, like the collapsing Middle East and North Africa, the Iranian-Sponsered Terrorist group Hezbollah taking over Lebanon (and the upcoming War with Israel when they do with $150 a barrel Oil as a result), food shortages looming to the weather disasters in Russia and Australia, you know, stuff that might cause lots of people to die and add extra strain to the fragile state of Civilization. But wasn't it great to see Whigs and Commies sitting next to each other at the SOTU! What a bunch of Fiddle Playing Neros.

Old NFO said...

OPM, that is the key phrase... dammit...