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Deception at Core of Obama Plans From Real Clear Politics 

By Charles Krauthammer

WASHINGTON — Forget the pork. Forget the waste. Forget the 8,570 earmarks in a bill supported by a president who poses as the scourge of earmarks. Forget the “$2 trillion dollars in savings” that “we have already identified,” $1.6 trillion of which President Obama’s budget director later admits is the “savings” of not continuing the surge in Iraq until 2019 — 11 years after George Bush ended it, and eight years after even Bush would have had us out of Iraq completely.

Forget all of this. This is run-of-the-mill budget trickery. True, Obama’s tricks come festooned with strings of zeros tacked onto the end. But that’s a matter of scale, not principle.

No one says it better!

All presidents do that. But few undertake the kind of brazen deception at the heart of Obama’s radically transformative economic plan, a rhetorical sleight of hand so smoothly offered that few noticed.

The logic of Obama’s address to Congress went like this:

“Our economy did not fall into decline overnight,” he averred. Indeed, it all began before the housing crisis. What did we do wrong? We are paying for past sins in three principal areas: energy, health care, and education — importing too much oil and not finding new sources of energy (as in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Outer Continental Shelf?), not reforming health care, and tolerating too many bad schools.

The “day of reckoning” has now arrived. And because “it is only by understanding how we arrived at this moment that we’ll be able to lift ourselves out of this predicament,” Obama has come to redeem us with his far-seeing program of universal, heavily nationalized health care; a cap-and-trade tax on energy; and a major federalization of education with universal access to college as the goal.

This next part lays at the feet of Barney Frank and Chris Dodd.

Amazing. As an explanation of our current economic difficulties, this is total fantasy. As a cure for rapidly growing joblessness, a massive destruction of wealth, a deepening worldwide recession, this is perhaps the greatest non sequitur ever foisted upon the American people.

At the very center of our economic near-depression is a credit bubble, a housing collapse and a systemic failure of the entire banking system. One can come up with a host of causes: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pushed by Washington (and greed) into improvident loans, corrupted bond-ratings agencies, insufficient regulation of new and exotic debt instruments, the easy money policy of Alan Greenspan’s Fed, irresponsible bankers pushing (and then unloading in packaged loan instruments) highly dubious mortgages, greedy house-flippers, deceitful homebuyers.

The list is long. But the list of causes of the collapse of the financial system does not include the absence of universal health care, let alone of computerized medical records. Nor the absence of an industry-killing cap-and-trade carbon levy. Nor the lack of college graduates. Indeed, one could perversely make the case that, if anything, the proliferation of overeducated, Gucci-wearing, smart-ass MBAs inventing ever more sophisticated and opaque mathematical models and debt instruments helped get us into this credit catastrophe in the first place.

It just gets more abundantly clear each day that Pres. Zero does not have a clue about running a country. Or this is all part of his plan to reduce this country to the point that he can get ALL of his radical programs and plans into law, all in one term, because I doubt he will have a second.

And yet with our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will be the transformation of health care, education and energy. Four months after winning the election, six weeks after his swearing in, Obama has yet to unveil a plan to deal with the banking crisis.

What’s going on? “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” said Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. “This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before.”

Things. Now we know what they are. The markets’ recent precipitous decline is a reaction not just to the absence of any plausible bank rescue plan, but also to the suspicion that Obama sees the continuing financial crisis as usefully creating the psychological conditions — the sense of crisis bordering on fear-itself panic — for enacting his “Big Bang” agenda to federalize and/or socialize health care, education and energy, the commanding heights of post-industrial society.

Clever politics, but intellectually dishonest to the core. Health, education and energy — worthy and weighty as they may be — are not the cause of our financial collapse. And they are not the cure. The fraudulent claim that they are both cause and cure is the rhetorical device by which an ambitious president intends to enact the most radical agenda of social transformation seen in our lifetime.

There you have it from the pen of one of the smartest men in the country. 0bama is a fraud, liar and we can add, crook.

Barack Obama is the Community Organizer-in-Chief, he is a sad example for a President.

He, and his cohorts try to blame the oncoming train wreck for the economy on the Bush administration. Nice try, but no balloon. Since his coronation, which cost millions, every time he makes one of his endless speeches, we see the stock market drop like a stone. His 3.4 Trillion budget add more to the Federal debt more than all the previous Presidents combined. The deficit is going to be five times larger than that. 0bama is the engineer driving this train towards the cliff.

Home prices have dropped and people still can’t afford them. The Heritage Foundation has a very good article on home prices. The very restrictive land use policies in most of the larger urban areas of California, Nevada, Florida and Arizona. “No new houses, just rabbit hutch style high rises”. Who the hell wants to live in one of those? I suppose there are some who prefer living in a place like that, I just don’t know any. I refuse to live in a gated community or in an area that has a Nazi style Homeowners Association. They tell you what color your house has to be, what kind of plants you can have in the yard you own, how many cars you can have and where you can park them. Then they usually restrict Christmas decorations. But I degrees, back to 0bama.

Since the day he was elected, the Dow has dropped over three thousand points. At 6500 it is at its lowest in over a decade. He has cut defense spending to the level of pre world war two. I can just see the terrorists smacking their lips.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited 0bama in The White House, as is in history they exchanged gifts, the Prime Minister presented 0bama with a pen set and holder made from the wood of a slave ship that will sit on his desk that was made from the wood of a slave ship. A very classy and appropriate gift. 0bama gave Prime Minister Brown an assortment of DVDs the the Prime Minister could easily rent in England, he also returned the bust of Winston Churchill that has sat in the Oval Office for years.

His rabid supporters are bragging that the 0bama policies are driving the last nail into the coffin of Reagan politics.

Perhaps a better gift for the Prime Minister would have been the original Constitution of The United States, since he has no plans to let us live by it.

God help our country and all of us!!!!!!!!!!