Since you won't go away. i'm gonna be nice one more time:smile:. I did not bring up race in this thread. All i did was reference a post by silverstone. You keep posting to me bringing up race. i have only posted points in relevant threads, I don't go around asking for for someone to listen to my black points. When i want to hear about how YOU feel i'll pm you.
Get some business!
I am sorry but you did bring race into it. You had made comments that black people voted for him because he was black, and to go ask your 10 closest black friends why they voted for Obama.
The point is, that alot of people who are ignorant to politics, the government, the economy, and foreign affairs voted for someone because he is black. That in itself is just wrong.
Obama is a media driven elected President, nothing more. He will do nothing to help this country. So far he has only hurt it. What GW Bush and the democratic congress did to hurt the economy in 2 years, BHO and the prodominant democratic controlled congress has done it in his first 50 days. Congrats for that achievement.
Since we are talking about BHO, lets see how many promises he has broken thus far since being elected:
1. Sunlight Before Signing:
He Said: “Too often bills are rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them. As president, Obama will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.”
What He Did: Obama signed the Lily Ledbetter bill, the SCHIP/cigarette tax hike, and the stimulus bill all with far less than a five-day waiting period that he promised–and continues to promise–on his campaign Web site.
2. Lobbyist Revolving Door
What He Said: “No political appointees in an Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulations or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for two years. And no political appointee will be able to lobby the executive branch after leaving government service during the remainder of the administration.”
What He Did: Obama appointed Goldman Sachs lobbyists Mark Patterson chief of staff at the Treasury Department, where he directly oversees his former employer, a recipient of $10 billion of taxpayer funds from the TARP. Obama also appointed Raytheon lobbyist William Lynn to be an undersecretary of Defense.
3. No Tax Hikes on the Poor
What He Said: “I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”
What He Did: By signing H.R. 2 into law, Obama happily signed onto the idea that smokers should pay for a $35 billion expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP). Cigarette taxes are going up 61 cents a pack starting April 1. Obama signed this bill knowing that the majority of smokers in the United States are working poor, and one in four lives below the federal poverty line.
What He Said Next: “If your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.”
What He Did Next: Ignored the already-hiked cigarette tax at the time of the statement and then this restated promise was broken just two days later, when the Obama’s budget proposal was released. His new budget raises 45 percent of its revenue from energy taxes that will be paid by everyone who fills a gas tank, pays an electric bill, or buys anything that was grown, shipped, or manufactured.
4. Pork Barrel Earmark Reform
What He Said: “The system is broken. We can no longer accept a process that doles out earmarks based on a member of Congress’ seniority, rather than the merit of the project. We can no longer accept an earmarks process that has become so complicated to navigate that a municipality or non-profit group has to hire high-priced D.C. lobbyists to do it. And we can no longer accept an earmarks process in which many of the projects being funded fail to address the real needs of our country.”
What He Did: The White House has signaled that it intends to sign the $410 billion Omnibus Appropriations bill, which according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, contains 8,570 earmarks totaling $7.7 billion, including dozens of wasteful pork-barrel projects. These earmarks were awarded based on seniority, not on merit, and were mostly the result of high-priced lobbying, precisely the process that Obama promised to end. When the omnibus reaches his desk later this week or next week, we’ll find out if this is one more broken promise.
5. Big Government
What He Said: “Not because I believe in bigger government — I don’t."
What He Did: Obama proposed a budget that is breathtaking in scope, a blueprint for the biggest permanent expansion of government in history right on the heels of a sweeping trillion dollar stimulus plan. The budget lays the foundation for a government takeover of the health care and energy sectors and dramatically increasing spending across the board, other than defense weapons programs. Spending as a percentage of the economy under this budget will reach the historic level of 27.7 percent this year. The deficit as a percent of the economy, at 12.3 percent, is set to be the biggest in the entire history of the country outside of the four peak years of World War II. Anyone who offers such a budget can only fairly be described as a believer in bigger government.
Would you like for me to list more? I can on and on about broken promises or lies to the American people that BHO has committed in his first 50 days in office. If a conservative or republican would have this many lies in his first 50 days someone would be looking to impeach him. But, since the media elected this joke of a President, they leave him alone.
So, why dont you go get some business? Whatever the hell that means anyway. And please by all means dont be nice to me. I could care less if you are mean. If you want me to go away, then come on over to Nashville. But you can keep putting in those little
in your posts if you makes you feel more like a man.
Get some facts first, then come at me.....son.
