Headlines you won’t see on Obama’s sequestration…:
1) Mommy…you didn’t raise my allowance as much as I wanted…!
2) Honey…we (only) shrunk a spending increase!
3) Don’t worry…less government spending means more economic growth.
4) With sequester, this year’s spending still more than last year.
5) Why can’t Harry legislate?
…for all the obvious reasons…
Here’s a story that warms the heart…
A shoeshiner at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh has donated all his tips – over his 32 years of labor – amounting to $200,000, to the Children’s Hospital Free Care Fund.
Albert Lexie…an example of a man among men.
BlueCollar to the rescue!
Obama wrings his hands and gnashes teeth, wailing over ‘painful’ spending cuts he laid out in his sequestration proposal.
Journalistic malpractice has perpetuated Obama’s manufactured crisis, and hidden the fact that there are no ‘spending cuts’…simply a lowered spending growth.
The mainstream media also hides the fact that the House of Representatives passed not 1, but 2 bills that offer common-sense alternatives to Obama’s sequestration.
HR 5652 Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act of 2012 passed May 10, 2012.
HR 6684 Spending Reduction Act of 2012 passed December 20, 2012.
Not reporting these facts serve to conceal Democrat Senate intransigence. Harry Reid refuses to bring those House bills up for consideration, abetted by a deceitful media.
So how do you solve a non-problem, Obama-manufactured crisis?
BCP has the answer…just hide Fed Ben Bernanke’s checkbook for a month.
He’s been writing an $85 billion check every month in a bond-buying effort to keep US interest rates low. Some say it should be scaled back anyway, to avoid inflation.
Hide the Federal Reserve’s checkbook so Bernanke can’t write the March check, and it becomes ‘one small step’ to ease inflation fears…
…and ‘one giant leap’ to quell Obama’s crocodile tears.
(Don’t worry Ben, we’re sure your checkbook will be found by April.)
NEWSFLASH! Obama’s team threatens to add 800,000 federal civilian Pentagon jobs to the underemployed ranks, by furloughing them 1 day a week through September.
Meanwhile, a search for objective journalism has resulted in failure…even on the much-revered Drudge Report!!
On that website, under a photo of Obama, is the headline “800,000 Pentagon Layoffs”.
Message to Matt Drudge…Obama has enough help from ABC-CBS-NBC-CNN…why would you be assisting with such a misleading headline?
Panetta advised ‘furloughs’…that means employees would work 4 days a week, not 5.
What part of that is a ‘Layoff’, Matt?
Obama forced his sequestration format down Republicans throats over a year ago, yet now, using Emergency Responders as backdrops, demagogues against his own plan!
Even the premise is flawed: there’s no ‘spending cut’! It’s a partial reduction in growth!
But the media plays along, and now gets a boost from, of all places, Drudge.
Lost in all the Obama sequestration-hysteria is a simple fact…this is an Obama-manufactured crisis…even CNN knows that, and admits it publicly.
Why isn’t THAT link on your website, Matt?
Save your panic-button pushing, people – it’s about to get much worse.
PREDICTION – Obama and media minions have veiled the underemployed for 4 years in reporting the unemployment numbers…pre-election, it wasn’t a good optic.
But now, post-election, with this latest Pentagon-worker furlough, that percentage of underemployed is about to climb, and you can bet it will become public in a big way…
…’cuz now, Obama can try to use this as a sledgehammer against the GOP.
You gonna help him with that too, Matt?
If you had 48 years and a $180 billion budget, think you could help kids do better in school? Maybe a program with a catchy title, like ‘Jump Start’ or ‘Gi-PhD-ed’…
After 2 studies, looks like anything would be better than the Head Start program.
According to the latest study, “…By third grade, Head Start had little to no effect on cognitive, social-emotional, health, or parenting outcomes of participating children.”
Oh, did we mention it was a federal (translation: Obama Administration) Health & Human Services study? There’s just one tiny problem…someone forgot to tell Obama the results, ‘cuz according to his website he wants to double down on this fairy tale.
And, as usual, it’s doubtful the mainstream media will ask the relevant question. So it looks like, once again, BCP must boldly go where ABC-CBS-NBC-CNN fears to tread.
Mr. Obama, sir, your HHS study from 2010 followed 3 & 4-year old kids through Head Start, kindergarten, and the 1st grade. Your HHS study in 2012 followed them through the 3rd grade. Both studies reveal no benefits compared to non-Head Start kids.
When did ‘no benefit’ become the acceptable norm for multi-billion dollar programs?
Or, is reality the problem here?
Your autobiography and 2012 campaign reveal a penchant for composite girls… is it possible they went through a composite Head Start program that was successful?
If that’s the case…could we suggest you use composite tax-payer funds to pay for it?
Maybe with the next $180 billion your composite Democrat team will get it right…?
Otherwise, we’re assuming your compositie Julia’s life was totally dependant on federal government largesse BECAUSE she went through the failed Head Start program…
…and she’s giving you a snow-job now…
…compositely speaking.
Obama attacks Obama…in a rant against Obama-authored sequestration!
You can’t make this stuff up.
Can you spell ‘manufactured crisis’?
In a speech today, Obama said: “…these cuts are not smart. They are not fair. They will hurt our economy. They will add hundreds of thousands of Americans to the unemployment rolls. This is not an abstraction — people will lose their jobs. The unemployment rate might tick up again.”
So, a responsible media should be asking…
…if the cuts are so bad, why did you author them?
Bottom line: Democrats own the Senate and White House, and should be presenting their specific alternatives to the Obama sequestration, if such a measure is so harmful.
Republicans hold the House, and as Speaker Boehner reminded everyone today, they’ve passed legislation TWICE to replace Obama’s sequestration plan with common sense cuts and reforms – contrary to his claim, Obama’s offered no credible plan.
So…maybe Obama should give his Senate buddy Harry Reid a call?
A responsible media would ask the obvious followup: if it’s so urgent, why hasn’t the Majority Leader sent the House bill back to Boehner with his Senate changes?
After all, that’s the usual procedure when Congress works together. Especially now.
You know…it being so urgent and all…
Imagine your income is payment from federal funding for a special program you run.
It’s a modest annual income that pays you $1000 per week, and it’s linked to annual increases projected to be about 10% – that means, next year you’ll get $1100/wk.
But then, a federal spending cut forces the projected 10% increase down to 7.7%. Now that means your weekly income of $1000 will only increase to $1077 next year.
Would you call that a cut in pay?
Democrats do. That’s the ‘sky-is-falling’ crisis they try to create as ‘sequestration’.
The federal government spent $3.6 trillion last year. But with sequestration, they can only increase spending to $3.877 trillion this year…$277 billion more.
OMG…the sky is falling!
Only in the Land of Stupid (and need we say, with help from a deceitful media) can a Democrat get away with this level of absolute fraud…
BlueCollarPerspective accepts Obama’s challenge, and submits the following proposal for his State-of-the-Union goal to ‘cut in half energy wasted by homes, businesses’…
(Note to Obama team – please send promised federal funding support for this ground-breaking concept asap; reserves are running low due to higher gas and food prices.)
BCP proudly introduces SKAM – Simply Keep Americans Moving – a unique solutions oriented proposal which any reasonable politician can justify supporting in their usual wholehearted, I’m-not-in-it-for-the-money, what’s-best-for-America fashion.
The concept is simple: HUGE energy consumption occurs based on seasonal cycles. Northern Winters demand more energy to keep us warm (at work and at home), and Southern Summers demand more energy to keep us cool from the heat and humidity.
SKAM breaks through that cycle! And the concept is simple: during the cold winter months in Northern states, move populations to the more temperate Southern ones.
And vice versa – during hot,humid summer months in the South, move populations and businesses to Northern states, utilizing Vertical Deployment (VD) if you will.
During each annual VD cycle, families share home, work, and school facilities.
After all, in working-class school-age families, homes are only occupied part of each day. And many businesses have only 1 or 2 shifts, leaving them vacant for large sections of each day, and – unless retail-oriented – completely closed on weekends. Schools too.
This creates a huge opportunity through home- and work-sharing space efficiencies!
The Smith family can occupy the Jones home during the day while the Jones’s are away at work and school; the Smith parents go to work in the evening at shared-shift manufacturing facilities, and the Smith kids go to school on that same schedule.
Using this VD concept liberally, we can accomplish a Naturally Occurring Movement-Adaptive Design (NOMAD) which ends the necessity for Spiking Energy eXcess (SEX). Homes, businesses, and schools are used more efficiently, reducing energy needs.
Let’s face it – once a NOMAD accepts VD as the norm…who needs SEX…?
This is SKAM…a concept any reasonable Liberal should be willing to embrace…!!!
(Who knew that VD could be such a useful, cost-saving approach?)
An article this morning titled “Press waits on ‘Party Bus’ as President golfs today” struck an ironic chord, remembering Obama’s oft-stated comment that he ‘will not rest until (insert usual tripe and/or demagoguery here)…’
‘Party bus’… ‘Golfs today’… Really?
We Googled ‘Obama, I will not rest…’ and came up with 241 million links, including this ‘The Obama Golf Counter’ doozy as the first.
We can pretty much assume what the 48% of America’s electorate who voted ‘Romney’ think of his hypocrisy. But, we have to wonder what those 11,642 per day food-stamp qualifiers, hundreds of thousands of monthly job-losers, 15% unemployed blacks, and 25% unemployed recent college grads think of Obama’s vacationing extravaganzas.
Ahhh well, they’ll probably cut him some slack…
‘Cuz…you know…being ‘down with the struggle’ is a tough gig…
(Besides, if he’s resting, that pretty much means those struggles are over, right?)
(Right?)
Fueled up at your friendly neighborhood gas station recently?
For all of those gullible ‘yes, we can’ voters, refueling their car on a weekly basis should be a constant reminder of their lousy choice, since they re-elected the primary cause.
(Too bad the rest of us have to pay as well.)
To be gullible is to be ‘easily deceived’; no word more appropriately defines voters who chose to go down the ‘forward’ path one more time, voting for Obama and Democrats.
(Ironically, when referencing Dictionary.com for the word ‘gullible’, at the top of that page is a picture of Obama, and a banner “Support President Obama’s Agenda”!)*
America’s economy lives on fuel. Obama’s energy policies drive up fuel costs. And no act drives up prices faster than those which reduce supply. Nothing creates artificial shortages as fast as restricting domestic oil drilling.
‘Gulling’ voters into believing Republicans are in the pocket of Big Oil has worked to the Democrats’ advantage for decades. To gull is to deceive, and as an art-form, Obama’s boys have taken deception to new heights.
So next time you see a Liberal at the pump, remind them that it’s the Democrats (led by their anointed one) who drive up gas prices, by restricting domestic supply and creating artificial shortages. If anyone is in Big Oil’s pocket, it’s Obama and his Democrat cohort.
And when a Liberal replies ‘Obama can’t control that’, remind them oil prices dropped like a rock when President George W. Bush opened up offshore drilling in July (and challenged Congress to do the same, which they did), before Obama’s election in ’08.
Gas prices that Christmas: $1.65 per gallon – having fallen 60% after W. acted and demanded Congress do so. A month later, January ’09, Obama was sworn in to office…
…and gas prices have never been the same.
Wouldn’t it be great if only the Gullible-Island dwellers had to pay for their bad choices?
(*NOTE: the link to Dictionary.com should work, but ads on that site will probably change from time to time, so the ad picturing the anointed one with the banner asking to support his agenda may not appear all the time. We’ve saved a copy of that page, with that ad, as a jpg, and will post on the BCP website asap.)