Your Rhetoric is Failing, Mr President
Line number one from the article below.suggests Mr President that you refer to your budget as including reforms. Two things Mr President, first, what is your definition of reform and second, what exactly is reforming about your budget proposal? What you may want to ‘correct’ because you think it is wrong may also be wrong. And claiming the ‘country’ demanded the ‘change’ you suggest immediately separates those who voted for you and those who did not. You are the President of the United States. All of it not just the part that may agree with you. Your own Speaker of the House has differences with you now and pursuing this imaginary mandate you describe would require you to do her bidding, would it not?
This post would have included a transcript of your weekly address if only one could be found on www.whitehouse.gov. Ooh, the flash video is there. But there does not seem to be a transcript. Are you just too cool to leave any of the long standing government websites alone? The White House website is not nearly as useful as it was before you got there. For instance the OMB was more useful when they had their own site and were not swallowed up by your’s. It would appear you are slowly controlling all what is available from the government via the net. And not in a good way. So much for your transparency and some other promises you made.
Lobbyists and special interest are not the only ones who will oppose your plans. You love to use rhetoric and appeals to emotion such as fear as well as gloom and doom to convince some that your plans are righteous. If you were sincere about listening to people with other ideas, although you limited those other ideas to good ones and whatever your definition of that is, do you expect anyone to believe you have not been presented with better ideas than those you have promoted?
The biggest blunder you made if trying to convince people to accept ‘your’ plans deals with promising to let the public view your recovery legislation before it was voted on and to submit comments. You did not even leave time for legislators to read the 1000 plus page document. How does that make any sense if you were not trying to force your agenda on the nation?
But for one who has been so secretive about his past it is not a surprise that pattern would be present in the White House. You have learned how to play on the weak to get them to follow you and then accuse the strong of wrongdoing because they reject your scam. Prove that this is wrong, Mr President.
Stanford Matthews
MoreWhat.com
Obama Says He Is Ready for Budget Fight
Washington 28 February 2009 |
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| President Obama’s broadcast address, 28 Feb 2009 |
U.S. President Barack Obama is calling on lawmakers to pass his huge federal budget, and says he is ready to fight for the reforms it includes.
President Obama admits that it will not be easy to persuade Congress to pass his $3.5 trillion spending plan for the 2010 fiscal year. In his weekly broadcast address, the president says lobbyists and special interest groups will oppose his plans to reform the health care, banking and energy industries, among others. But he says he will not back down.
“I know these steps will not sit well with the special interests and lobbyists who are invested in the old way of doing business, and I know they are gearing up for a fight as we speak. My message to them is this: so am I,” he said.
Mr. Obama says his budget fulfills promises he made during last year’s presidential campaign. Among them was a pledge to end tax breaks for wealthy Americans. His plan would have the wealthiest five percent pay $1 trillion in higher taxes over the next decade, while most others would get tax cuts.
“I did not come here to do the same thing we have been doing or to take small steps forward, I came to provide the sweeping change that this country demanded when it went to the polls in November. That is the change this budget starts to make, and that is the change I will be fighting for in the weeks ahead,” he said.
The White House predicts the United States will enter the new fiscal year with a budget deficit of $1.75 trillion - the largest since World War II, and four times the size of this year’s deficit.
In the Republican Party response, Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina criticizes the cost of the budget. He says Washington is “in a state of denial” about government spending.
“This week, the president submitted to Congress the single largest increase in federal spending in the history of the United States, while driving the deficit to levels that were once thought impossible,” he said.
Mr. Obama proposed his first federal budget on Thursday, and pledged to bring the deficit back down over several years.
March 2nd, 2009 at 7:21 pm
It is clear that Obama intends to swallow up as many offices as he can. The intent is to hide the real agenda. I am not a right wing kook, but I do believe he is trying to quietly socialize this country. We need to put the information out there so that this cannot happen in the dark of night. This administration has one single minded goal; to convert this country into a socialist utopia. Nevermind the fact that is has failed everywhere it has been tried.
March 2nd, 2009 at 7:55 pm
With that comment you will find no argument here. That you announce you are not a ‘right wing kook’ emphasizes that those who speak to issues as you outline here are often labeled in that or a similar manner. To be fair, those who lean to the left are sometimes unfairly characterized for what they express.
I found it odd that some on the Sunday News shows, including George Will, suggested we already have socialist style programs and other activities as if that means we are not heading there or more is not on the way. Many like to dismiss the warning of socialism. Cannot decide if that is to downplay what is happening or a sincere belief it will not happen.
Thanks for stoppin’ in and the comment.