Obama’s priorities are not America’s priorities
Almost three years ago, finding a coupon in my mailbox for discount maid service, I called the company and secured a special rate for two hours cleaning. When the women arrived, I specifically requested that they first clean the bathroom and kitchen and once those were done there, move on to other priorities.
After they had begun their work, I returned to mine, researching a paper for my graduate program. When I needed a certain book, I went to my bedroom to fetch it, finding one of the women languidly dusting the windowsill there. I tried to explain to her that I wasn’t interested in having the windowsill cleaned, but wanted her to first clean the bathroom (her colleague was hard at work in the kitchen). Unable to speak English, she nodded her head, then returned to further polish the sparkling windowsill.
To get her to work on the bathroom, I had to ask her colleague (who spoke English as well as Spanish) to instruct he co-worker on my priorities. Now, the first woman may well have been the world’s best windowsill washer (I grant she did do a good job), but I didn’t hire her to clean my windowsills, but to first tackle the bathroom and kitchen.
So, it is right now with Barack Obama. He may want to focus on health care and cap and trade, but the American people have other priorities. They first want him to address the job situation and federal spending, then to move on to other issues, much as I wanted my windows cleaned, but only after the kitchen and bathroom were spotless.
No wonder Scott Rasmussen’s “latest telephone poll found that 71 percent of those surveyed are at least somewhat angry at the current policies being pursued in Washington, with fully 46 percent ‘Very Angry.’” Obama’s priorities are not America’s priorities.
As Mark Tapscott points out in commenting on the poll:
Three-fourths of the public looks at the nation’s capital and sees special interests feasting with their friends in government at the public till, according to Rasmussen. Nearly as many, 68 percent, believe Big Government and Big Business work together against the public interest.
Obama didn’t bring change; he just brought us more of the same. And as his poll numbers continue to sink, he, like that expert windowsill washer, doesn’t seem understand the complaints on those who hired him.
Alas that we booked him for a term of service considerably longer than two hours.
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Let’s bear in mind that today’s ‘job situation’ (unemployment) is in large part *caused* by Obama’s spending. All government spending is paid for in one or more of the following ways:
1) Taxation – Reduces private spending; thus a job-killer.
2) Borrowing from banks and other private or private-oriented actors – Reduces private spending; thus a job-killer. (At the moment, banks are buying Obama’s endless new Treasury bonds instead of making loans to businesses or consumers.)
3) Printing money from thin air – Taxes people covertly by commandeering or destroying the value of their savings; thus a job-killer.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — December 2, 2009 @ 7:44 pm - December 2, 2009
I hate your use of the word “we”
Well, each day brings us to 2012. Let’s hope that the American people will take the Who’s song as inspiration and not get fooled again.
Comment by chad — December 2, 2009 @ 9:53 pm - December 2, 2009
I grew up on a Reservation in Southern California (if you need to know the name, just ask). The Bureau of Indian Affairs would have “projects” for the reservation. Unfortunately, the BIA Personnel never asked the residents (at that time me and my family of 4) of the reservation for suggestions. So…on the dirt road of maybe 2 miles, we got downtown traffic signs…Stop, Curve Ahead, Speed Limit Signs, etc. installed by the Bureau. On another project, the BIA paved the first mile of road into the Reservation but, failed to get permission from the State to actually connect the road to the main highway – this resulted in about 50 of dirt that would get muddy, etc. People would almost get stuck in this muck. Finally, the Bureau built an earthen dam – but didnt ask anyone where it should be built – hence, it didnt actually catch any water when it rained. Can you see the parallels between what Obama is doing and what is actually needed in the USA???
Comment by Duffy - Native Intelligence — December 2, 2009 @ 11:07 pm - December 2, 2009
Duffy – Native Intelligence:
The Great
WhiteBlackMixed Father in Washington loves the little children,All the children of the world.
Red and yellow, black and white,
All are precious in His sight,
The Great
WhiteBlackMixed Father in Washington loves the little children of the world.The BIA lends a helping hand and creates a shovel ready mud track for you as a message to stay where you are and praise The Great
WhiteBlackMixed Father in Washington.If you are out of work, consider how fortunate you are. You don’t have to worry over losing your job. You don’t have co-workers engaging in hate speech or glass ceilings keeping you from maximizing your potential. You see the glass as half empty, but The Great
WhiteBlackMixed Father in Washington sees the glass as something you are lucky to have. After all, you could be drinking from a mud puddle.Now, give praise to The Great
WhiteBlackMixed Father in Washington and be joyful that he has risen to such heights on the gossamer wings of hopenchange.Comment by heliotrope — December 3, 2009 @ 10:42 am - December 3, 2009
As Mark Tapscott points out in commenting on the poll:
Three-fourths of the public looks at the nation’s capital and sees special interests feasting with their friends in government at the public till, according to Rasmussen. Nearly as many, 68 percent, believe Big Government and Big Business work together against the public interest.
What about big labor? ………EG………….SEIU
Comment by Bill Nola — December 3, 2009 @ 10:43 am - December 3, 2009
People don’t realize helping “big labor” is the same as helping “big business”, the health “reform” bill has an 80 billion dollar handout to “big pharma”, “big insurance” helped write the bill and people are being forced to buy from them, and huge regulation and barriers are being put in place to make sure new small competing insurance cannot get off the ground. We are paying off “big banks” and “big auto”. Not to save the industry, but to save particular “big” companies, even though in the long run it hurts the very industries.
Even though some of the above started under Bush, it really doesn’t matter, because the current President and Congress are in a feeding frenzy with the big spending campaign contributors.
It seems like this Congress is doing more paying-off of “big xxx” than any in history. And of course they are always going on with their populist rhetoric saying how against “big” whatever they are, we stupidly are fooled while in back rooms they are having orgies in piles of money.
Comment by plutosdad — December 3, 2009 @ 4:33 pm - December 3, 2009