"America once had Johnny Cash, Steve Jobs and Bob Hope. Now we have Barack Obama, no cash, no jobs and no hope.
Tip o'the hat to Joachim" [1]
"Top Twenty Five Features of ObamaCare
...
1. Medical degrees from Devry.
2. Mandatory organ donor cards.
3. Lighters used to sterilize syringes.
4. Stomach stapling done at Office Max.
5. Coin operated morphine dispensers.
6. Tap water is a plasma substitute.
7. Homeless people all have only one kidney.
8. Free cremation with any major operation.
9. Bunkbeds in the Intensive Care Unit.
10. Your first dose of narcotics is free.
11. Special "showers" for the elderly.
12. Tongue depressors taste like Popsicles.
13. None of the nurses speak English.
14. The hospital cafeteria failed its health inspection.
15. Ambulances have meters.
16. Hospital walls are infested with "lab" rats.
17. Do-it-yourself heart bypass kits.
18. Wind up pacemakers.
19. You make up your own hospital bed.
20. Anesthesia comes in a bong.
21. Patients' meals are MREs.
22. Leeches make a comeback!
23. Hospital TVs are all turned to MSNBC.
24. Sears surgical tools.
25. A visit to the hospital will automatically cancel your life insurance policy." [2]
{1]http://sites.google.com/site/barackobamajokes/
[2]http://sites.google.com/site/barackobamajokes/thebarackobamajokeswebsite-obamacarejoke
Showing posts with label Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obama. Show all posts
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Stop Whining Mr. President
I used to think it was grossly unfair for the right-wing republicans to blame President Obama for the debt crisis and all the ills in the economy, and when he defended himself by reminding his critics that he had inherited the entire economic disaster from GW Bush, I would agree completely.
Not anymore.
With all due respect, Mr. President, you knew in 2007 that GW Bush's economic bomb had exploded yet you continued to run for the presidency, confident that you can bring change to Washington and hope to a world ruined by GW Bush. On the day you were sworn in, you inherited all of GW Bush's ruins that became a growing cancer that you had to excise. Instead of cleaning up GW Bush's failures, you together with your democratic Congress added to them by listening to the same voices that spoke to GW Bush and spending money that the United States did not have. Today, you own all of his failures and those of yours. Therefore, please show your courage and as a leader accept the responsibilities that you ran to undertake and admit your failures.
Your only defense is time, that it takes time for the economy to recover, except that time is not on your side. The next election is about 15 months away. I have been harsh in my criticism, but I have been also been fair. Perhaps history will be kinder and I believe it will.
If there is any hope left for a second term, and if my vote for you can still have meaning for me, then you have to take that bold gamble as commander-in-chief and disengage from involvement in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan, not years from now but now, and don't even think of meddling in Syria or the Mid-east. If worse come to worst, drop a tiny nuclear bomb. It's fast, it's easy and it's a game changer. Of course, people will be upset but people are upset now, so what difference does it make?
Not anymore.
With all due respect, Mr. President, you knew in 2007 that GW Bush's economic bomb had exploded yet you continued to run for the presidency, confident that you can bring change to Washington and hope to a world ruined by GW Bush. On the day you were sworn in, you inherited all of GW Bush's ruins that became a growing cancer that you had to excise. Instead of cleaning up GW Bush's failures, you together with your democratic Congress added to them by listening to the same voices that spoke to GW Bush and spending money that the United States did not have. Today, you own all of his failures and those of yours. Therefore, please show your courage and as a leader accept the responsibilities that you ran to undertake and admit your failures.
Your only defense is time, that it takes time for the economy to recover, except that time is not on your side. The next election is about 15 months away. I have been harsh in my criticism, but I have been also been fair. Perhaps history will be kinder and I believe it will.
If there is any hope left for a second term, and if my vote for you can still have meaning for me, then you have to take that bold gamble as commander-in-chief and disengage from involvement in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan, not years from now but now, and don't even think of meddling in Syria or the Mid-east. If worse come to worst, drop a tiny nuclear bomb. It's fast, it's easy and it's a game changer. Of course, people will be upset but people are upset now, so what difference does it make?
Friday, July 29, 2011
What I Like About President Obama
I think President Obama is a good man, but I don't always agree with him. I also think that the presidency is a job that at times is beyond his ability to handle. Thankfully, he is not idiotic and arrogant like his predecessor.
He passed the health care bill in honor of his mother who died without the money to pay for health care. What son cannot identify with such an act? What mother would not be proud to have such a son? But at what cost when the country was carrying a huge deficit and on the verge of a depression and could not afford such a huge burden?
He extended his predecessor's tax cuts. That was good for the rich but as it turned out, it is adding to the deficit while unemployment remains high.
He approved the $787 billion stimulus package that stabilized the financial markets. Unfortunately, it did not stimulate the economy to grow as fast as everyone, especially he had hoped.
He found Osama bin Laden in Pakistan within 3 years of his presidency when GW Bush could not find him anywhere in 7 tortuous years.
He is unwinding GW Bush's mistake in Iraq, a sitting duck of a nation that GW Bush invaded for no good reason and found its leader, Saddam Hussein, in a gutter, lol, at a cost of 3 trillion (see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090302200.html) and counting, countless lives and immeasurable, and on-going, human suffering, not funny at all (nfaa). It's unconscionable, it's devilish and it's repulsive.
He repealed Don't Ask, Don't Tell, paving the way for equality for gay military personnel. It's about time. There's nothing more threatening than having a bitter, sex-deprived soldier carrying a big gun, ready but forbidden to shoot even when fully loaded.
He passed the health care bill in honor of his mother who died without the money to pay for health care. What son cannot identify with such an act? What mother would not be proud to have such a son? But at what cost when the country was carrying a huge deficit and on the verge of a depression and could not afford such a huge burden?
He extended his predecessor's tax cuts. That was good for the rich but as it turned out, it is adding to the deficit while unemployment remains high.
He approved the $787 billion stimulus package that stabilized the financial markets. Unfortunately, it did not stimulate the economy to grow as fast as everyone, especially he had hoped.
He found Osama bin Laden in Pakistan within 3 years of his presidency when GW Bush could not find him anywhere in 7 tortuous years.
He is unwinding GW Bush's mistake in Iraq, a sitting duck of a nation that GW Bush invaded for no good reason and found its leader, Saddam Hussein, in a gutter, lol, at a cost of 3 trillion (see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090302200.html) and counting, countless lives and immeasurable, and on-going, human suffering, not funny at all (nfaa). It's unconscionable, it's devilish and it's repulsive.
He repealed Don't Ask, Don't Tell, paving the way for equality for gay military personnel. It's about time. There's nothing more threatening than having a bitter, sex-deprived soldier carrying a big gun, ready but forbidden to shoot even when fully loaded.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Debt Crisis - The President Has No Plan
A lot of republicans who had gone On the Record with Greta Van Susteren on Fox had complained that President Obama had not presented a plan to solve the debt crises. Even the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) director Douglas Elmendorf remarked, "We don't estimate speeches. We need much more specificity than was provided in that [April 13, 2011 budget] speech for us to do our analysis."
In President Obama's defense, I say that it is not the duty of the Office of the President to come up with a budget that would pass both houses of Congress. It is the Congress that holds the nation's purse strings. Having said that, I also maintain that President Obama could be dollar-specific with his budget in leading this country out of its $14.5 trillion public debt, see http://www.usdebtclock.org/
The reason that President Obama is unable or unwilling to be specific is that he does not want to his executive decisions to be limited by a budget. After all, who can renovate a home without money or credit?
Republicans do not want this President to spend anymore money the Unites States does not have. They want to cut spending and refuse to raise taxes.
To cut spending means no new spending. No new spending means no new programs, and it is new spending for new programs that define a presidency, positively or negatively.
In the case of GW Bush, his recklessness in spending is still costing the United States and world today in terms of economics and human suffering. In the case of Barack Obama, the verdict is still out, even though it is not looking good for him. This debt crisis impasse, even if resolved next week, may mark the beginning of the end of his one-term presidency.
President Obama can probably hear it already: No budget. No leadership. No jobs.
Perhaps there is a speech that he could give. Better yet, a prayer that he could say.
In President Obama's defense, I say that it is not the duty of the Office of the President to come up with a budget that would pass both houses of Congress. It is the Congress that holds the nation's purse strings. Having said that, I also maintain that President Obama could be dollar-specific with his budget in leading this country out of its $14.5 trillion public debt, see http://www.usdebtclock.org/
The reason that President Obama is unable or unwilling to be specific is that he does not want to his executive decisions to be limited by a budget. After all, who can renovate a home without money or credit?
Republicans do not want this President to spend anymore money the Unites States does not have. They want to cut spending and refuse to raise taxes.
To cut spending means no new spending. No new spending means no new programs, and it is new spending for new programs that define a presidency, positively or negatively.
In the case of GW Bush, his recklessness in spending is still costing the United States and world today in terms of economics and human suffering. In the case of Barack Obama, the verdict is still out, even though it is not looking good for him. This debt crisis impasse, even if resolved next week, may mark the beginning of the end of his one-term presidency.
President Obama can probably hear it already: No budget. No leadership. No jobs.
Perhaps there is a speech that he could give. Better yet, a prayer that he could say.
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