I know that I saw this coming a long time ago, how did Obama get elected anyway? Read this article from February, I have that bad feeling in the pit of my stomach, kind of like that feeling you get when you know that you made a mistake, only, this was not my mistake!
Notice the hand shake, does that look like a “professional” hand shake? No, that is more of a “hey buddy, whats up?” handshake! There is more to even than that, I may be mistaken, but it looks to me like Obama is pulling Chavez’s hand in toward him, that is what you do when you shake the hand of an old friend, someone that you know well, have maybe not seen for a while, you know what I mean, it is a form of “manly” affection, letting the other know that you care, that is NOT how you shake the hand of a dictator! Unless, maybe you are an aspiring dictator yourself? Follow the link above and see what I said then.
Take a look at the guy in the middle between them, is that an evil snicker or what? To me, it seems like the three of them are more familiar with each other than the world knows.
Just take a look at the second photo, notice the same grin on Chavez’s face? I guess in public Obama can only shake Chavez’s hand, I wonder how long it will be before the three of them start hugging?
Personally, this whole thing scares the beans out of me. Why? Because over half of our wonderful country has been deceived, tricked into believing in this man, Obama, just like those poor people in Venezuela, funny thing is, they still don’t know they have been taken over!
This whole thing does not paint a pretty picture, I just hope that those that voted for this guy wake up from the trance soon! I hope that a real candidate, one that we all can believe in, one that will not be more of the same ole same ole, one that will live by the U.S. Constitution and defend it! I don’t care if it is a Republican or an Independent, all I care about is taking our country back and fixing the mess that Washington has created over the last few decades!
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U.S. Representative Michael McCaul
10th District of Texas
5929 Balcones Drive, Suite 305
Austin, TX 78731
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For Immediate Release
February 13, 2009 |
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The $1,000,000,000,000 Mistake
By Congressman Michael McCaul |
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(Washington D.C.)- {For a time when the nation is full of talk of change, the Democrat leadership in Washington seems committed to repeating the mistakes of the past.
The so-called stimulus package presented to us this week is no stimulus at all. In reality, it’s a Trojan Horse for billions of dollars in pork barrel spending. Democrats have said repeatedly that there is not a single earmark in this bill. In fact, the stimulus bill itself is one giant earmark, a massive collection of unnecessary spending, pet projects, and kickbacks to well-heeled contributors.
While I do support some provisions of the bill such as the tax relief and investments in infrastructure, only 17% of this $1 trillion bill provides new tax relief and less than 10% provides new roads and bridges.
This economic crisis demands leadership. It demands immediate tax relief for working families, and help for America’s small businesses, giving them the funds they need to stop the layoffs and hire more employees. It demands that we stabilize home values, and yes, give assistance to the unemployed. All these goals are fulfilled in an alternative plan that I support, but to which the Democrats gave little consideration.
We cannot spend our way out of debt. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says that long-term, this package will do more harm than good. And the President’s own analysts and economic advisors say the Republican plan, which institutes long-term, meaningful tax cuts for individuals and small businesses, will create twice as many jobs for half the cost of the stimulus package. According to their calculations, this alternative stimulus would create an estimated 490,000 jobs in Texas, compared to only 204,000 in the final bill.
At a critical moment in America’s history – when our nation desperately needs strong, principled leadership – Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid are bent on taking advantage of this crisis and manipulating the fears of American taxpayers to their own ends. Instead of creating jobs, they’re focused on pushing through massive overreaches of government.
Consider Welfare spending. One measure in the bill seeks to take limits off of Welfare spending that President Clinton imposed 12 years ago. University of Texas professor and former assistant Health and Human Services Secretary Benjamin Sasse, explains that, “Through a little noticed provision of the stimulus package that has passed the House of Representatives, the bill creates a fund that is open-ended.” Sasse explains the provision would essentially remove the five year limit on federal benefits and jeopardize the requirement that recipients begin working after two years of government support.
The stimulus package also includes a step toward government-run healthcare. It creates a new entity of bureaucratic oversight, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, to monitor your treatments. Thanks to this stimulus package, government will be looking over the shoulder of your doctor, preventing him from giving you any treatment they deem “not cost-effective.”
How does putting a bureaucrat in Washington in charge of your health care stimulate the economy? How does it create jobs to roll back welfare reform, unleashing an endless stream of government handouts?
Perhaps my favorite line item in this stimulus package is for $300 million to purchase golf carts. Something’s wrong with this picture when an economic stimulus package includes $300 million of hard-earned taxpayer money for buying $40,000 apiece golf carts. No one seems to know where they’ll even be used!
In times of crisis, history should be our guide. It’s worth remembering an old statement from Henry Morgenthau Jr., the famous Treasury Secretary under President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression, who confessed, “We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before, and it does not work.”
Printing money we don’t have will only result in inflation thereby increasing interest rates on credit card purchases and home mortgages.
Spending the equivalent of a million dollars a day for the next three thousand years is not a solution, and it is not leadership to saddle our children with the cost of our poor decisions. It’s time to get Americans working again, and working for themselves – not for paying off the salaries of more bureaucrats and the costs of pork barrel spending.
Michael McCaul represents the 10th Congressional District of Texas
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