Government Motors not selling their cars ~ the news media putting out that the reason their cars aren’t selling is that people are waiting for the new lines. My opinion is that people are sick of the unions and the fact that the President sees to it in every program that the unions are rewarded at the expense of everyone else – in the auto buyout, the health care program, the stimulus – now Saturn is being discontinued and more union jobs are gone. Saturn, until the union came in, was performing well. Wherever the unions go in our economy, they destroy. Now Obama wants Card Check so the unions can destroy other industries. I am 77, have owned many cars – all were General Motors except one, but I will NEVER buy another one.
I honestly believe Obama is using the unions to destroy our country. He used ACORN in the same way until IT got caught. Most Obama czars are criminals and low-lives out to destroy our country as well. If Card Check is put into place, the country will probably be destroyed completely in 20 years and Obama will have succeeded. Obama is in bed with Jeffrey Immelt. He gives a large campaign fund by hook-or-crook and Obama gives him access to government funds and all kinds of contracts. Obama and Immelt are bigger crooks than Cheney’s previous employer (Halliburton) EVER was… by 10,000 percent. However, the media and Michael Moore do not notice their actions or motives. I do not buy General Electric products anymore. At one time, GE was a reliable, honest company. I used to listen to Ronald Reagan hosting GE Theater and enjoyed it very much – no more. GE, with Jeffrey Immelt’s blessing, have been helping Iran with their plans against Israel to aid in their destruction, and Obama and this administration could care less.
Even the Jewish people in the Obama administration have no concern for Israel. Why the Jewish people are so enamored with Obama, when his concern is for the Palestinians, is way beyond me. Let’s take the black people voting by a vast majority for the Democrats… even though it was the Republican party’s actions that freed them and voted in the Civil Rights programs when the Democrats were against them… does that make sense? And not too long ago, with one of the Democrats (Byrd) voting against Civil Rights and was an officer in the Ku Klux Klan and now being a senior member of the Senate, make sense?
While Chicago has no shanty towns like Rio, but they have murders and rampant crime, Valerie Jarrett’s housing is worse than shanties. I would rather live in a shanty town in Rio. Since the Olympics are not coming to Chicago, Valerie Jarrett and more of Obama’s crooked friends will not make billions after all.
Isn’t it nice that two million dollars of the tax payers’ money from the stimulus package was given to Clinton’s library? That means American tax payers gave almost as much as China, but not anywhere near the amount given by lobbyists. I liken Obama to Icarus. His wings were burned off by the Olympic committee. His (Obama’s) other set of wings – health care, climate change, Cap and Trade, and Card Check will be burned off as well. I think the Creator may be protecting the United States for all the good they have done, regardless how Obama and Michelle put us down. All the liberals are not like Letterman, even though a good many are.
My previous article made an inference that Obama was like a Punch and Judy character when you watched him speak with the tv sound muted. This brings to mind the fact that Punch and Judy require someone behind the curtain doing the thinking and talking. We don’t know who writes the words on his teleprompter. Could it be David Axelrod – surely not Biden with his history of plagiarism. In any event, he seems to be unable to speak without the use of his teleprompter. You never see the teleprompters in the pictures supplied by the media. Reminds me of how they never showed FDR in a wheelchair or on crutches. I guess Obama’s use of teleprompters is the same as crutches. What I would dearly love to see is some sort of glitch that shuts down his teleprompter in the middle of a speech. It would be like a Punch and Judy show in progress would be if its handler all at once shut up. Who is really behind the curtain?
Obama’s lyrical promises don’t ring true.
The stock market this week had a slight correction and many liberals were in newspapers, radio, and tv touting how Obama was turning around the economy. How droll. I hope this week is a trend and the stock market and people’s 401k continue to improve, however… I have doubts. During the election and during the first two months Obama played down the economy and now he is saying how everything is going to be fine. But who can count on anything he says? His promises were not made to keep.
Obama racks up list of broken promises Just 2 months into term, president abandons numerous commitments
After only two months in office, President Obama may have fallen short on a number of his campaign promises.
As a candidate, he promised to allow public comment before signing bills, eliminate capital gains taxes for small businesses, provide tax credits to businesses for hiring new employees, allow Americans to withdraw funds from 401(k) and retirement accounts without penalties, ban lobbyists from serving in his , reform earmarks, bring all combat troops home from Iraq in 16 months, sign the “Freedom of Choice Act,” give Americans $4,000 in credits for college and run a “transparent” administration.
However, after giving his word to the American people on so many issues, Obama has yet to fulfill many commitments.
WND has compiled the following extensive list of those abandoned promises:
Broken promise No. 1: ‘Sunlight Before Signing’
When Obama campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination in Manchester, N.H., on June 22, 2007, he announced his “Sunlight Before Signing” promise.
“When there is a bill that ends up on my desk as the president, you the public will have five days to look online and find out what’s in it before I sign it,” he said.
He repeated that promise on :
“Too often bills are rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them. As president, Obama will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White website for five days.”
However, Obama signed his first bill, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, on Jan. 20 – only two days after its passage.
He signed a second bill expanding the State Children’s Insurance Program just three hours after Congress passed it.
Again, on Feb. 17, Obama signed his 1,000-page $787 billion stimulus aimed at jolting the declining U.S. economy. He did so only one day after it passed through Congress – without allowing for five days of public comment.
Broken promise No. 2: Capital gains tax elimination
According to his , Obama promised to “eliminate capital gains taxes for small businesses.”
Just weeks prior to the election, Obama advisers Austan Goolsbee and Jason Furman told the Wall Street Journal that Obama planned tax cuts that included “the elimination of capital gains taxes for small businesses and start-ups.”
People who invest in small businesses have only been allowed to exclude 50 percent of that gain from capital gains taxes. While Obama’s $787 billion economic-stimulus package reduces that tax liability – raising the exclusion to 75 percent – it does not eliminate it.
Broken promise No. 3: New American jobs tax credit
During his transition, Obama’s promised to provide a $3,000 refundable tax credit to existing businesses for every additional full-time U.S. employee hired in 2009 and 2010.
“If a company that currently has 10 U.S. employees increases its domestic full time employment to 20 employees, this company would get a $30,000 tax credit – enough to offset the entire added payroll tax costs to the company for the first $50,000 of income for the new employees,” the . “The tax credit will benefit all companies creating net new jobs, even those struggling to make a profit.”
Obama’s promise was never included in the stimulus package.
Broken promise No. 4: Hiatus on 401(k) penalties
Many unemployed and financially strapped Americans have considered early withdrawals on 401(k) and retirement accounts to survive the current recession. However, the IRS imposes strict penalties of up to 10 percent plus federal, state and local income taxes on such advances.
Workers who have taken $10,000 in early withdrawals from retirement plans have lost as much as 40 percent to taxes and penalties, depending upon tax brackets.
In October 2008, Obama released his “Rescue Plan for the Middle-Class” in which he promised to allow financially distressed Americans to withdraw up to $10,000 from their 401(k) accounts and retirement savings without having to pay penalties. They would only pay income taxes on the amount.
“Since so many Americans will be struggling to pay the bills over the next year, I propose that we allow every family to withdraw up to 15% from their IRA or 401(k) – up to a maximum of $10,000 – without any fine or penalty throughout 2009,” . “This will help families get through this crisis without being forced to make painful choices like selling their homes or not sending their kids to college.”
However, Obama’s promise was never included in his recent stimulus package.
Broken promise No. 5: ‘No jobs for lobbyists’
William J. Lynn III
Obama promised America he would loosen the grip of lobbyists on Washington.
In his Nov. 10, 2007, speech in Des Moines, Iowa, Obama declared:
I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more than any other candidate in this race to take on lobbyists — and won. They have not funded my campaign, they will not run my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president.
During his campaign, Obama also said, “I have done more to take on lobbyists than any other candidate in this race. I don’t take a dime of their money, and when I am president, they won’t find a job in my White House.”
However, Obama’s campaign fundraising team included 38 members of law firms that were paid $138 million in 2007 to lobby the federal government.
William Corr
“Those lawyers, including 10 former federal lobbyists, have pledged to raise at least $3.5 million” for Obama’s campaign, the report states. “Employees of their firms have given Obama’s campaign $2.26 million.”
It wasn’t long before he allowed and broke his promise.
Obama’s own ethic rules barred officials of his administration from lobbying their former colleagues “for as long as I am president.” He also said former lobbyists would be prohibited from working for agencies they had lobbied within the past two years. President Obama later waived his rules for at least two of his nominees – William J. Lynn III, undersecretary at the Department of Defense and recent lobbyist for Raytheon, and William Corr, deputy secretary for the and Human Services and anti-tobacco lobbyist for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
Broken promise No. 6: Earmark reform
As WND reports, at the ., Obama declared, “[W]e need earmark reform. And when I’m president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.”
However, in February, Obama passed his $787 billion stimulus aimed at jolting the declining U.S. economy. Before a joint session of Congress, Obama declared: “Now, I’m proud that we passed a recovery plan free of earmarks.”
Some chuckled in amusement when he claimed the bill contained no pork.
“There was just a roar of laughter – because there were earmarks,” Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., told CNN.
found at least eight earmarks in his stimulus bill.
Obama also signed a $410 billion omnibus bill for 2009. More than total an estimated $7.7 billion.
Even though the Democrat-controlled Congress crafted the bill after Obama’s election, the administration claims the added pork is just “unfinished business” from last year.
The states, “Obama and Biden will slash earmarks to no greater than 1994 levels and ensure all spending decisions are open to the public.” However, watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense reports that the omnibus pork alone already totals $7.7 billion – just less than the total of $7.8 billion in earmarks in 1994 – and the figure does not include $6.6 billion in earmarks contained in three previous spending bills Congress passed amid the bailout crisis last year.
During his three years in the Senate, , according to the group. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has 16 earmarks – worth approximately $8.5 million – in the bill.
Broken promise No. 7: Bring troops home in 16 months
On his campaign website, Obama promised he would “remove one to two combat brigades each month, and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months.”
His commitment to bring combat troops home by May 20, 2010, and end the war gave him an edge among Democrats over candidate Hillary Clinton.
However, on Feb. 27, Obama declared, “Let me say this as plainly as I can: By Aug. 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end.”
If Obama adheres to his plan, combat troops will return home months later than originally promised. , Obama will withdraw only two of the 14 brigades before December.
As part of a “new era of American leadership,” he also said he would leave behind a residual force of 35,000 to 50,000 troops and remove all U.S. soldiers from Iraq by Dec. 31, 2011 – the same deadline the Bush administration negotiated with the Iraqi government last year in its Status of Forces Agreement.
Additionally, some combat units would remain in Iraq beyond Obama’s declared August 2010 withdrawal. Rather than returning home, they would simply face reassignment as “advisory training brigades.”
Even as combat troops are brought home, Pentagon officials have said fresh units will continue deploying to Iraq.
Broken promise No. 8: Sign ‘Freedom of Choice Act’
On July 17, 2007, Obama told the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, “The first thing I’d do as president is, is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That’s the first thing that I’d do.”
Obama expressed his support for the sweeping plan that would repeal all national and state of abortion passed over the last 35 years.
His is posted on the White House website. It states, Obama “has been a consistent champion of reproductive choice and will make preserving women’s rights under Roe v. Wade a priority in his Administration.”
Obama chose radical pro-abortion Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to serve as the Health secretary, moved to void job protections for health workers who oppose abortion and repealed a ban on U.S. taxpayer funding of foreign abortions. While many pro-life advocates consider it a blessing that Obama has no fulfilled his promise to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, he has made no mention of the legislation since he took office.
Broken promise No. 9: $4,000 college credit
Obama pledged to make college “affordable for all Americans” when he announced his American Opportunity Tax Credit.
His read: “This universal and fully refundable credit will ensure that the first $4,000 of a is completely free for most Americans, and will cover two-thirds the cost of tuition at the average public college or
and make college tuition completely free for most students. Recipients of the credit will be required to conduct 100 hours of community service.”
While the American Opportunity Tax Credit was included in the recent stimulus bill, it offers a credit of only $2,500 for up to two years and requires no commitment to community service.
Broken promise No. 10: Transparency
, the Obama administration claims it will be “the most open and transparent in history.
The administration released a memo on Jan. 21, stating:
My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.Government should be transparent. Transparency promotes accountability and provides information for citizens about what their Government is doing. …
However, Congress and the administration hurried the $787 billion, 1,027-page American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to a vote after allowing lawmakers just a few hours to read the bill. It was also available online in a form that could not be keyword searched.
While former administrations immediately posted transcripts of presidential speeches – including some remarks before delivery – the White House website often waits until days or even weeks after an event to release transcripts.
Also, some say recent reports of tax evasion by Obama nominees is evidence that the administration is not as transparent as promised.
Timothy Geithner
Just before Obama named Timothy Geithner to be his treasury secretary, the president of the New Federal Reserve Bank quietly paid $26,000 in back taxes and interest due since 2001 and 2002.
Obama characterized the eight-year tax evasion as “an innocent mistake.”
But as many as five of his picks defaulted on taxes, including former nominee for health and human services secretary, Tom Daschle; former nominee for chief performance officer, Nancy Killefer; U.S. trade representative nominee Ron Kirk and Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis.
Furthermore, while the president posted his own weekly “fireside chats” on YouTube during the campaign, many journalists report that he has a history of being less than welcoming to the Fourth Estate.
noted Obama’s treatment of the press: “During the campaign, reporters’ access to Obama was severely limited. On-the-record conversations with the candidate were even more so. Indeed, Obama’s overall treatment of the press – not just in his general rejection of the day-to-day news cycle, but also in his tendency to shun his national traveling press corps … created the impression that its members were, to him, a buzzing nuisance. Instead of the voice of the people.”
WND’s correspondent at the White House, Les Kinsolving, that most of the reporters recognized for questions in the briefing room were among the same handful over and over again. Some of them had been given four or even five opportunities for questions while other reporters were not recognized at all.
Kinsolving, a senior journalist in the White House press corps, was not allowed to voice his questions on issues on which millions of WND readers have expressed an interest. There were also complaints about the time of the November election that not only did Obama rely on a few key reporters for questions, those reporters were chosen ahead of time.
And, finally, The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President.”
Obama’s alleged Certification of Live Birth is not his original 1961 birth certificate
However, Obama has refused repeated calls to publicly release his Hawaiian birth certificate, which would include the actual hospital that performed the delivery. His campaign posted an alleged “Certification of Live Birth” online, but it is not the same as a Hawaii birth certificate. COLBs have been issued by Hawaii to parents whose children are not born in the state.
Instead of providing the documentation to end the lawsuits, a series of law firms have been hired on Obama’s behalf around the nation to prevent any public access to his birth certificate, passport records, college records and other documents. – even after demanding that he live up to his promise of transparency by releasing the certificate to the public.
Nonetheless, during his campaign and after he took office, Obama maintained that his administration would have an unyielding commitment to transparency.
“The American people want to trust in our government again – we just need a government that will trust in us,” he said in a campaign speech. “And making government accountable to the people isn’t just a cause of this campaign – it’s been a cause of my life for two decades.”
The White House declined to respond to WND’s request for comment on Obama’s promises.
Obama does have his cheerleaders and proponents of anything he does or says. They are the “Promote Obama” PR firm of Chris Matthews, Jon Stewart, Steve Colbert, Jay Leno, Keith Olbermann, and David Letterman – assisted by ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, NPR, CNN, and PBS. Detractors have the whole firm giving them hell and taking them to task similar to anyone, even scientists saying global warming caused by humans doesn’t exist. They are soundly and quickly trounced. Even Bush and McCain were taken in with this propaganda war.
As far as I am concerned, the greatest threats to this country are Al Gore, Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid. I dread their actions against this country more than I do al-Qaeda. The carbon tax pushed by Al Gore and being one of Obama’s aims will lead to more outsourcing than this country has ever known. There will no longer be any steel production in this country, electricity will be limited, at times, as in Iraq. The cost of gas for average Americans that have to commute will destroy them, and the country will be more of a class divided country and poorer than it ever was in its history – by poor I mean in spirit, outlook, and drive towards the future. I really don’t want this to happen to my country.
Isn’t it nice that Obama’s children will not have to go to school with those poor children? Obama saw to that.
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, although they deny this, are the Hatfields and McCoys of Congress.
Knowing who would follow Obama in the Presidency if he were to be unable to perform that duty scares the hell out of me!
Summers and Volcker have sold their principals and character to ride the Obama express to financial ruin for the country, but at least they paid their taxes.
Obama may hate Churchill but FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, and JFK thought he was a man of heroic stature.
Make Wednesday, party day for Obama, become your “Check on your 401K day“!
My frustrations consume me. I see things every day in the news I have no control over – unions being encouraged by the Democrats, even though they destroyed the auto and steel industries – I can’t stop this even though I know it will eventually destroy my country – my ability to control this is ZERO. The only thing I can do is pray that the Republicans and my Senators and Representatives do all they can in the way of filibustering to stop this, and if they don’t try vote against mine with no way to vote against those in other states destroying my country. Is there any reason why I should not feel frustrated?
Watching the clean energy hearings with Gore sitting there, the biggest crook ever who somehow got this global warming fiasco going, he reminds me of the pied piper leading his idiots to destroy my country. How many years of global cooling will we have to go through before all these global warming idiots are subjugated to criticism and scorn? In the meantime, they have been able to enforce costly projects and hurt businesses. They, with all their underhanded methods, will destroy my country. Is there any reason I should not feel frustrated?
There was ole Harry with his bare face hanging out saying how we had to get clean energy because of having to buy oil from foreign sources. To get this clean energy in sufficient amounts to replace the energy we have from other sources now will bankrupt my country. He didn’t mention that the environmentalists and Democrats won’t allow drilling in areas of this country that have vast amounts of oil so we don’t have to depend on these foreign sources. He is a phony hypocrite. Is there any reason why I should not feel frustrated?
Then there is T. Boone Pickens saying that oil will return to $140 a barrel soon. Of course T. Boone, that wouldn’t happen if drilling was allowed by drillers in our own back yard. Is there any reason why I should not feel frustrated?
The Democrats in the House have complete control of the business before it and make laws, and if the Senate can’t stop these by the actions of faux Republicans, we just have to watch our country go down. Is there any reason why I should not feel frustrated?
Seeing and hearing Joe Biden show his stupidity time after time, day after day, and he could become President… that scares the hell out of me. Is there any reason why I should not feel frustrated?
Barney Frank holding hearings on the financial problems facing this country, even though he was one of the few people who caused this financial meltdown, is ridiculous. Is there any reason why I should not feel frustrated?
I read where Houston is considering paying off people’s credit cards so their credit score would be increased and they could buy homes. I guess this is so this financial meltdown can continue. This stimulus package is supposed to help people to stay in their homes if they are facing foreclosure because of no reason of their own. The government was supposed to look at any who obtained their mortgage through lying or skulduggery. Now they say it would require too much effort and they are not going to investigate. Is there any reason why I should not feel frustrated?
We must kneel to our dear leader!
The fact that so many people vote on demand in the Democratic party and say what their leaders want them to say, and even a Catholic Cardinal says that in the USA a spirit of adulation towards Obama exists bordering on servility, when someone not in government can see this and the fact exists without any effort to squash it, it scares the hell out of me. Is there any reason why I should not feel frustrated?
The globe gettng green - Press getting greener (with envy) - poor Bill!
Fairness in broadcasting and talk of balance is the censorship bill and is the plan of the Democrats to do away with free speech. I hate to tell these liberal radio hosts, but they just can’t build advertising and an audience as long as their radio is tilted towards the Democratic base who watch Jerry Springer, Hospitals in General, As the Worm Turns, and all the thinking programs their base has the capacity, intellectually, to handle. They don’t listen to liberal talk radio because, first of all, liberal radio hosts, themselves, are intellectually challenged. Nonetheless, they are complaining that no one listens to them. Between their stupidity and their Democratic base’s limited mental capacity, they haven’t a chance.
The American people, as of now, have free choice and as long as they do, you liberal radio talk show hosts must count on government to give you jobs, as your own limited abilities are incapable of gaining an audience. Bill Press apparently just got let go and he is out trying to get all the Democrats to protect him and give him a job. I rather feel sorry for him, or do I – I guess because I value my free speech too much, I don’t!
If you will remember, during the election, free speech was taken away in Missouri where no one was allowed to say anything about Obama – and he got away with it. The liberal radio talk show hosts can’t get through to their liberal base because they are all watching soaps, Jerry Springer, and so forth. But come election time, they will come to the polls like lemmings, vote Democratic, then go back to their lives lived through television lives and wait until they are called out for the next election – such an exciting, stimulating existence.
After voting, they must get back to their "lives"
Now let’s talk about the BIG $13 a week that voters will get from this stimulus package. Just another way the Democrats cloud the issue. In relation to what working people are getting from the lower gas prices is more than the dole Obama and his “stimulus” is going to provide. People commuting to work for 15 miles one way are saving $15 a week. People commuting 20 miles one way are saving $20 a week. People commuting to work 40 miles one way are saving $40 a week, and in some cases two people working in the same family and commuting also save a lot more.
Our heavy, brilliant thinkers can’t understand how there was more consumer spending in January. Makes me doubt their mental capacity. The Democrats stand in the way of drilling anywhere in the U.S. and want us to depend on foreign oil and pay high prices for our gas – a bunch of environmental KOOKS! At the moment, the price of oil is WAY down – so was the gas, but now it’s on its way up again. WHY? Whether it’s speculators or the oil companies that are raising the price on gas, either or both should be tried for treason. Countries such as Iran, Russia, and Venezuela that have been working against us in any way they can are hurting badly since their economy is based on oil revenue. They are seriously hurting now and who could ask for anything more?
Whether it’s the Democrats, speculators, or the oil companies that try to drive up the price of oil, they should be tried for treason and working for foreign governments. Obama, keep your $13 a week. Just don’t raise our gas prices and consumer spending will continue DESPITE YOU.
Now that the unions have destroyed the auto and steel industries, now with card check they seek to destroy other industries such as retail stores, small businesses, increase their funds to buy Democratic politicians, and increase their hold on Congress. After that, what will their motive be? I hesitate to think that it will be something good for the country. Can you imagine if they were in every industry sucking up that dues money? They will be able to lock down the country as happens in France. I fear them in that capacity more than I do al-qaeda. Power is their aim and skulduggery is their game. Card check is dangerous to any democracy – don’t let it happen!
Workers who have taken $10,000 in early withdrawals from retirement plans have lost as much as 40 percent to taxes and penalties, depending upon tax brackets.
Some chuckled in amusement when he claimed the bill contained no pork.
