You signed trade agreements with South Korea, India and China, and plan to sign more with Panama and Costa Rica, in order to boost jobs in the US? WTF? These agreements, like the ones before, notably NAFTA, demonstrably destroy American jobs.
He said we're going to cut Medicare and Medicaid. WTF? The huge Baby Boom population is just heading into retirement age, with the first Boomers just now reaching 65 and eligibility for Medicaid, and you think you're going to cut the program? Over my (our) dead F bodies! Just try it Barry! That's a fantasy. You think those mobs in Cairo look scary? Wait until you try and cut Medicare! The streets of Washington will be jammed with people armed with walkers and canes.
But my biggest WTF moment came when Obama came to the deficit. He has bought into the Republican argument that something has to be done right now to stem America's decades-long bleeding of red ink, and to do that, he proposed freezing the "domestic" budget for five years at the 2008 level. WTF!!!
First of all, that's sure to push this foundering economy right back into a deeper recession. Already, state and local governments, having burned through the federal cash they got in 2009, are starting massive layoffs of public employees--including teachers--which will have a tsunami effect on further slumping demand and killing off business recovery and private hiring. This will make that situation even worse. But the real joke is that by using the code word "domestic," the president was exempting the military. Oh sure, the White House previously announced it is "cutting" $78 billion in Pentagon spending over the next five years, but in a budget that is about $1 trillion a year, counting debt for prior wars, veterans' benefits, and intelligence agencies, $16 billion a year is pocket change--not even close to the annual rate of inflation. Besides, it's all BS, since Obama is certain to turn around and ask for more supplemental budget requests from Congress to fund the endless wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and--the way things are going--in Pakistan, Yemen, Iran, maybe Egypt, and who knows where else?
WTF?
You cannot hope to restore the US economy to health, and to repair our shameful education system, our decrepit infrastructure, and our country's position in the world, unless you confront the rampant militarism that has gripped and bankrupted the nation since the end of WWII.
We're "shaping a world that favors peace and prosperity?" WTF!!! America is the biggest threat to peace and prosperity in the world today. And by the way, the insurrections that are spreading across the Middle East are against regimes that the US has been propping up with military weapons and training for decades. It's all coming undone now and you're talking about our great military successes?
Sarah Palin had it right:
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