Ok, so let me see if I have this right because it really is getting a little difficult to keep up with all of Barry's lies. Apparently we now have the very guy who dreamt up this whole idea of the much talked about "sequester" thing now out there telling just about anyone who will listen to him about how unfair it all is, and about how he had absolutely nothing to do with coming up with it. According to Barry, and others of his ilk, it's all the fault of those Republicans who only care about protecting those greedy rich folks. Have I got it right? So now we're all supposed to believe that the mandatory reductions in anticipated federal spending required by the Budget Control Act that Barry "Almighty" signed into law are, why, they just are "not fair." That's what he said on Tuesday. "They’re not smart. They’re not fair. They’re a self-inflicted wound that doesn’t have to happen," Barry told workers at Newport News Shipbuilding. Well, he must have thought that they were was smart and pretty fair when he came up with the idea. Don't you think? Now all he wants to do is to run as fast and as far away from it as he can all the while blaming the whole thing on the Republicans. Typical!
In trying to make his case Barry invoked the concept of fairness twice in what was essentially nothing more than yet one more campaign speech. The second time, he used it to, of course, buttress his argument for even more taxes on the wealthy: "We can’t just cut our way to prosperity," Barry told the shipbuilders. "We can't ask seniors and working families like yours to shoulder the entire burden of deficit reduction while asking nothing more from the wealthiest and the most powerful. We're not going to grow the middle class just by shifting the cost of health care or college onto families that are already struggling, or forcing communities to lay off more teachers or cops or firefighters or shipbuilders, and then folks who are doing really well don’t have to do anything more. That’s not fair, and it's not good for the economy." Ya know, the stuff that comes out of this guy's mouth just doesn't surprise me anymore. I've been listening to his crap for more than five years and it's always the same. He maintains that he’s trying to grow the middle class when, in actuality, he’s trying to destroy it. It's my understanding that Barry has some discretion in making required cuts and that he intends making them cut as painful as possible for no other reason than to make a political point.
So what is it that Barry sees as being the only acceptable alternative to the automatic and indiscriminate spending reductions, otherwise known as the sequester? It’s pretty simply really. Because, as is always the case with this guy, Barry sees the solution to the entire problem as being nothing more than to, again, raise taxes on those, he says, can afford it. Now as we all know that's something Republicans, at least so far, have refused to go along with. And one reason for that is that they just approved tax-rate hikes demanded by Barry and his fellow Democrats as way to delay this "sequester" until 1 March. As Republicans back in Washington railed against the president's constant campaigning instead of negotiating, Barry "Almighty" told shipyard workers to "keep up the pressure" on Congress. "If you stand up and speak out, Congress will listen," he said. But on the subject of taxes, I do think that there is one segment of our population who could pay more than what they're currently paying. That would be the 50 percent that are currently paying no income tax and who can still manage to receive a rather substantial 'refund' every single year. THAT'S what's not fair! But I digress.
And something that I found to be absolutely hysterical is the fact that Barry actually described himself as being open to compromise and negotiation. Sounding ever the used car salesman, Barry said, "If the Republicans in Congress don’t like every detail of my proposal, which I don't expect them to, I’ve told them my door is open. I am more than willing to negotiate. I want to compromise. There's no reason why we can't come together and find a sensible way to reduce the deficit over the long term without affecting vital services, without hurting families, without impacting outstanding facilities like this one and our national defense." Barry also told those assembled, "I'm not interested in spin; I'm not interested in playing a blame game. At this point, all I'm interested in is just solving problems." Excuse me? But spin is all that this pathetic liar is interested in. He's only interested in playing politics, as he goes about repeating that we do not have a spending problem. And he seems to expect that even though he got his tax hikes back during the last go around, he can still demand more. Now is the time for spending cuts, significant spending cuts.
Shortly before Barry made the claim that he's not at all interested in playing a blame game, he indicated that Congress should be blamed if the sequester produces another recession: "Now, all of you, the American people, you’ve worked too hard for too long rebuilding and digging our way out of the financial crisis back in 2007 and 2008 just to see Congress cause another one." Barry said after four years as president, "you get pretty humble." Right, like every time somebody looks at Barry they see a humble guy. Not even close! "You’d think maybe you wouldn't, but actually you become more humble. You realize what you don't know. You realize all the mistakes you’ve made. But you also realize you can't do things by yourself. That's not how our system works. You’ve got to have the help and the goodwill of Congress, and what that means is you’ve got to make sure that constituents of members of Congress are putting some pressure on them, making sure they’re doing the right thing, putting an end to some of these political games." I find it as being more than just a little ironic that Barry speaks of "political games."
Barry certainly is not generating any goodwill among House Republicans. House Speaker John Boehner said on Tuesday he doesn't think the president wants to find a solution to the sequester: "The president has been traveling all over the country, and today going down to Newport News in order to use our military men and women as a prop in yet another campaign rally to support his tax hikes," Boehner told a news conference on Capitol Hill. "Now the American people know if the president gets more money, they’re just going to spend it. The fact is is that he’s gotten his tax hikes. It’s time to focus on the real problem here in Washington, and that is spending. "The president has known for 16 months that the sequester was looming out there when the super committee failed to come to an agreement. And so for 16 months the president’s been traveling all over the country holding rallies instead of sitting down with Senate leaders in order to try to forge an agreement over there in order to move a bill. We have a moved a bill in the House twice, we should not have to move a third bill before the Senate gets off their ass and begins to do something."
More and more over the course of the last few weeks I heard, and from various sources, how it is that the American people are becoming sheep, choosing to except all of this drivel as being inevitable instead of fighting against it. That just seems to be so un-American. Because if "We the People" don't pull our collective head out of the sand, and soon, and at least for long enough to recognize the fact that we on the receiving end of one of the most well orchestrated con jobs in our history, then I'm afraid we're done for. A con job, by the way, being executed by one of the most divisive and most corrupt politicians ever to hold his office. Certainly the most divisive in recent history. And if we refuse to recognize what’s going on right before our eyes Barry will have had more than enough time to complete what he once described as being the "fundamental transformation" of our country. But I wonder if there are still enough of us who actually see that as being a bad thing. I mean, I'd like to think so, but I'm nowhere near as sure as I used to be, that for sure. When I listen to people around me, I'm absolutely amazed at some of the stuff that I hear. It's scary!
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