Presidential Double-Talk

Boy did Samuelson ever hit the nail on the head! Not once, not twice, but all the way. They called Reagan the Teflon President. BO cannot talk without a telprompter. No wonder his campaign speeches were so smooth. His lack of experience and judgement is reflected in his troubled nominees. The biggest joke is his press secretary. The guy can't answer questions and his continual "ah", "ah"s are annoying. He'd flunk every speech class I took.

Subject: Easy Economy Fix

Patriotic retirement:

There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force - pay them $1 million a piece severance with the following stipulations that they must do:

1) They must leave their jobs.

Forty million job openings - Unemployment fixed.

2) They must buy New American cars.

Forty millions cars ordered - Auto Industry fixed.

3) They must either buy a house/pay off their mortgage - Housing Crisis fixed.

Can't get any easier than that!

Why all the personal attacks. "Great pretender" "Obama's conceit" "his cockiness". Methinks that Mr. Samuelson has dipped into rhetoric at the level of Fox news. The claim that Obama is the one that is not seeking bipartisanship is laughable in the face of a republican policy that consists of one word, "No". I find it interesting that Mr. Samuelson does not write about the impact of the partisan agenda of the Republicans on the confidence of the financial markets that solutions will be found. That seems to me (and others who have commented here) to be fodder for discussion.

Spot on regarding Obama's use of double-talk. Calling a cow a horse does not make it so...no matter how much Kool-Aid you drink. Obama et. al are taking this age old political game of believe what I say but ignore what I do to a whole new level of brazenness. Of course, it helps to have MSNBC, NBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, the NY Times, and much of this rag openly and proudly supporting you.

Give Obama a chance. Bush was given two terms.

IMPEACH Obama for lieing to us. Biden couldn't be worse.

STRAIGHT TALK:

1) Reduce permanently 10% of the federal and state work force - those left need work harder like most workers still working are forced to do,

2) Make all government employees INCLUDING senators, house of reps & the President /VP give up earning any more pension benefits (like most americans no longer have), INSTEAD give them a match of 50% on up 6% of their annual wage they contribute into a 403B plan - USE the TAX savings resulting from the dropping of new pension TO PROPERLY FUND SOCIAL SECURITY FOR THE TAXPES SINCE THATS 10 year from going BROKE

3) Have the FEDERAL government stop paying 80% for federal employee families health premium - drop it to 50%,

4) Increase the FEDERAL employee health insurance deductible to $1000 like most private employers now have,

5) make all senators and house of representatives serve NO MORE than 2 term limits - ends the power of long term senators, etc to force senators, etc to approve EARMARKS on bills alreday released from committee

6) Go to a flat tax Federal tax program so the IRS audits can stop (laying off 50% of that organizations tax payer supported staff)

7) after 1st child's birth to a single mom STOP paying for single mom's child birth , offer free sterilization - more than 1/2 the baby's being born in the US now being paid for by the government (TAXPAYERS in other words) and don't give these single mom's, who are abusing the free childbirth /single mom welfare system by having child after child out of wedlock, money to support more than 1 child

8) NO Social Security, Medicaid or Medicare benefits to ANYONE NOT A US CITIZEN even if their "citizen" child brings them into the US - as are all being done now for NON Citizens!

9) Give the President Line Item Veto rights

10) Give life in prison to ANY politician find guilty of any abuse of power or corruption while in office

11) OUR prisons - lower the taxes to care for the Prisoners - no more coffee or juice, let them drink water at ALL MEALS, feed them oatmeal/toast for breakfast, peanut butter/jelly sandwiches with crackers for lunch and inexpensive stew (easy to make and serve requiring less kitchen labor) And for medicines make them pay the FULL COST of medicine - why reduce their costs out of taxpayers pockets ? I didn't unjustly put them in prison THEY BROKE the law - suffer the CONSEQUENCES


STOP THE MADNESS


P.S. Anyone running on the above platform will WIN any FUTURE elections, so Go for IT you TRUE AMERICANS!

Samuelson is--forgive the pun--is precisely on the money on this one. The mainstream press has consistently given Obama a "pass"--He surpasses Reagan as "The Teflon President."

Samuelson's article is actually a stinging indictment of our educational sytem--it's total failure to teach and to promote critical thinking.

Samuelson says:

Is it in the public interest for the well-off elderly (say, a couple with $125,000 of income) to be subsidized, through Social Security and Medicare, by poorer young and middle-aged workers? Are any farm subsidies justified when farming seems no more insecure than countless other sectors (say, the news media) and subsidies aren't essential for food production? We wouldn't starve without agricultural subsidies.


Obama???s Budget proposes to means test Medicare Part D and to end direct payment to the largest farmers and cut back on other farm subsidies. (http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/assets/fy2010_new_era/Department_of_Agriculture1.PDF )

Whose double-talking now?

mathpol, aka Greg Bachelis

None of his rhetoric matches fact. He doesn't get called out by the media for his lies. His appointees are a disgrace. If Bush had appointed these kind of people the media would have had fits. When are they going to call him out on his massive energy tax proposals that are going to slam the lower income earners? He is the most skilled liar in American history.

Posted By: buckwuz @ 03/12/2009 12:03:04 PM
I'm a Republocrat (i.e. I like aspects of both ideologies but I dont like either one completely) and I'll make just one comment - effectiveness of communication.

Posted By: buckwuz @ 03/12/2009 11:57:54 AM
I'm an independent and I'll make just one point - effectiveness of communication.

NO YOU ARE JUST CONFUSED! LOL!

"If Obama were "responsible," he would be leading a candid conversation about government's size and role. Who deserves support and why? How big can government grow before higher taxes and deficits harm long-term economic growth? Although Obama claims to be doing this, he hasn't confronted entitlement psychology???the belief that government benefits once conferred should never be revoked???and asked whether some significant spending no longer serves any "public interest." "

Samuelson well knows that it is impossible to have a candid discuss today -- as long as the political parties AND the herd of industry lobbyists AND ideological media attack first and think later (or never), legislation and government here will be by sound byte. I think the reason President Obama struck a chord in so many Americans is that he actually TALKED to them and with them about issues for most of his campaign speeches, rather than just attacking his opponent.

President Obama inherited a HUGE mess, and cleaning it up isn't any easier when political maneuvering remains more important than helping our country and the rest of the world.

I ought to go back five or ten years and read some of Samuelson's columns then -- to see how well he's done in analyzing economic issues. Or perhaps I'd find, like Jon Stewart has so beautifully illustrated with CNBC's Jim Cramer, that noise and bluster and chest-pounding don't have anything to do with the quality of the comments.....

I'm an independent and I'll make just one point - effectiveness of communication. Here's what works - properly thought through and well-phrased opinions. Here's what doesnt work - what Robert Samuelson wrote. He's writing in anger, repeats banal talking points that turn people off the moment they see them, and finally he somehow doesnt realize that credibility is earned, not assumed. If you're message is not effectively communicated, its meaningless. I'm not commenting on who's right - Republicans or Democrats. I'm just saying I stopped reading Mr. Samuelson's article after a couple of paragraphs because it was ineffective in communicating its message.

And what other perceptions are new from the Republican Party?