Pedro's Podium: October 2011

For years the military has served a breakfast item know to many a Solder, Sailor, Airman, and Marine, as “SOS or SHI*…eh...Stuff On a Shingle.” I've also heard it called Same Old SHI*...eh…Stuff. Of course most people should know that SOS is the international distress code. Well if ever the US needed to send out an SOS it is now. But what we don't need is the SOS that the President and his Progressive allies are giving us.

It has now been a month since the President started his reelection campaign with a heaping pile of SOS. I've waited a month to write anything about the President's plan. As any veteran will tell you: There is nothing worst than warmed over SOS that is over 3 years old. But that is what the President wants. This new plan that he presented and tells us will fix all of our problems is nothing but his old plan using new terms and new spin. After waiting I realized that Obama's new plan is the same as the old plan.

In his speech he talked about an American compact. He asked whether the government could do something to help the American Economy. He asked that the government can restore some of the “fairness and security that has defined this nation since our beginning.” That he was sending Congress “The American Jobs Act” that has everything paid for, and will cut taxes for all “working American” in half. He claimed that this bill will give a jolt to the economy and encourage business to invest and hire new workers. The President also promised more tax loopholes for businesses, when he said that businesses would be able to “write off” their investments.

The President then talked about more “investments” (spending) that could be done to “put American workers back to work” without saying that most of those tasks are the responsibility of the local and state governments. He once again talked about how they would better control the spending while saying that they would cut red tape to speed up the approval of projects. (Does Solyndra ring a bell?) He talked about a ladder out of poverty.

Over and over again he called his speech the “American’s Jobs Act.” He then said that the bill was paid for, as he passed the way to do it off to the future. He then launched into his standard class warfare talk while talked about reforming Medicare. Then he went back to class warfare just after he promised to give more loopholes to businesses. The majority of his speech was filled with the duplicity he is famous. He denies class warfare while attacking a whole class of Americans.

The President claims that he wants to create a climate that will make American more competitive. He wants companies to invest and help startup companies get off the ground, but he has done everything to discourage businesses to start or invest. While he talks about trade agreements, he has sent nothing to the Democrat controlled Senate for approval.

His entire campaign speech was an attack upon the American system. He continues to promise that he will cut regulations and wasted spending, while he has unelected czars sitting around writing new regulations. His Health and Human Services Secretary was given the task of writing thousands pages of healthcare regulations as part of ObamaCare.

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This man can not present a balanced picture and can not compromise. His view is a all or nothing view, his way or the highway. (Of course that highway must be paved with Federal money.) He still plays upon the fears of the uninformed. He refuses to admit that regulations hurt business. That the government cannot cure poverty, spend the nation into prosperity, or eliminate risk and make everyone equal.

After his highly hyped and staged reelection kick off speech before a joint session of Congress, the President started a series of speeches telling the American people to demand that “Congress pass his bill.” The only problem with this demand was that at the time there was not a bill only a speech. It took him over a week to present a bill. As of this writing there are no Democrats in Congress that have sponsored the bill. While he still demands that Congress pass the bill and the DNC is running commercials claiming that the Presidents plan is the cure all and should be passed, not one Democrat in Congress is willing to put it up for a vote.

So this “new plan” from Mr. Obama is nothing more than the old plan reheated and served on a new plate with new names. In the time that has passed this speech has become just another rehash of his old plan of more tax and spending. He wants to spend more money on green and shovel ready jobs, have targeted tax credits, continue to pay people to not work, raise the Capital Gains Taxes, and punish the “rich.” But we’ve seen through the Solyndra mess that stimulus money hurriedly spent on so called green jobs only waste money.

It is clear that many who collect unemployment really need the help, but that far too many abuse it, while those out of work for too long become disconnected from work. Employers need people to do work not just draw pay checks. A healthy company needs every employee to make more money for the business then the cost of their employment. Without profits there will be no companies, no jobs, and no tax revenues.

Mr. Obama knows that raising the Capital Gains Tax will lower revenues to the treasury, but his sense of “fairness” tells him that raising the rate would be good for his reelection chances. He is depending on dividing and conquering tactics. He still thinks that as long as one person has more that another, that the nation as a whole is unfair. His Socialist ideals will not allow him to really understand that the Federal Government did not make this country great. Or that the government can not spend its way out of debt. He still thinks that the same old plan will work and that bigger is better as long as it is the government is bigger.

Tax credits don’t work. They are not tax cuts, but only targeted spending. Too many times these tax credits only open up new ways to defraud the government or redirect money that would be better spent in other areas. The idea that small businesses (who the Obama says create the majority of jobs) can create new jobs based only on a $1500 tax credit is beyond belief. Mr. Obama tells us to do the math, well it appears that he has a problem with math. No one with any business sense is going to create a job, even at minimum wage, that will cost the business at over $20,000.00 to get a $1500 a tax credit. Sure there will be a few examples of die hard supporters that will create token jobs to allow bragging rights, but this is just bad business.

Will the American people once again be able to stomach this attempt to impoverish the nation through his ideas of fairness and wealth redistribution? Will the uninformed in this nation once again fall for a speech full of contradictions and empty promises? Will the Socialist, Marxist, and Communist in this nation gain even a greater foothold? Will our Constitutional Government fall into anarchy with the collapse from this uncontrolled spending and crony Capitalistic/Socialistic leadership in Washington? Is it too late to save our nation? The Progressives have complete many of the things that they needed to collapse the system. We must work to defend our Constitution and throw out the corruption in Washington. I don't believe that sending out an SOS will get us much help from the rest of the world.