President Obama’s State of the Union Address revealed five crucial failures in his competency as President.

Failure to understand basic economics. He advocated demolishing the foundation of our economy when he called for financial institutions to be banned from taking risks. Risk is part of the free market! Eliminating risk requires total government control of the economy, including private property and capital, and correspondingly the abolition of liberty.

After condemning President Bush’s tax cuts as contributing to the federal deficit by not being “paid for,” he failed to explain how his would be. The truth is that Bush’s were paid for, by net increases in revenues as the economy grew under their – ahem! – stimulus.

President Barack Obama

Failure to understand responsibility. He decried the deficit he inherited and lied about its origins. After increased tax revenues had halved the deficit, it expanded because of unrestrained spending and the present recession – which some say was induced by the growing likelihood of an Obama presidency. Be that as it may: It is now far worse because of the trillions of dollars in new spending that Obama signed into law. Yet, to him, the resulting deficit is solely the responsibility of his predecessor.

Conversely, he took responsibility for what he did not do. He claimed responsibility for the bank bailout, which his predecessor signed into law.

He claimed that Americans are upset that “Washington has been unable or unwilling to solve any of our problems.” Which leads to another failure – to understand that, to paraphrase President Reagan, too much government is in itself a tremendous problem. The responsibility of government is to safeguard our liberty, not to solve our problems.

Failure to be truthful. He profoundly shamed himself when he not only lied about the Supreme Court’s recent free-speech ruling, but also publicly humiliated and embarrassed the justices for daring to defy him. Presidential? This was the stuff of a petty tyrant.

Either he lied when he said that he cut taxes for 95 percent of working families, or my wife and I are part of the five percent. My federal income tax went up 0.56 percent effective my check of January 12, which exposes another lie: That no one’s income tax was increased, unless you take that claim at the strictest meaning of “a single dime on a single person.”

He lied in touting his proposed spending freeze. On the face of it, a freeze would be to his credit. But freeze it where? At the massively expanded level to which he’s taking it? And the lie was compounded as he boasted of the billions he will save – after spending trillions, more than all his predecessors combined.

He lied when he said his deficits will be paid for on his watch. Our grandchildren will be paying for his deficits. His idea to “invest in our people without leaving them a mountain of debt” was laughable.



Failure to respect and obey the Constitution. He wants to overrule Congress when it fails to do his bidding. The Senate, with its Democrat supermajority, failed to pass a desired bill. So he will simply issue an executive order to compensate for his ineffective leadership by making it so anyway. So much for the role of Congress.

From health care demolition to overriding Congress and beyond, we have a President to whom the Constitution is merely something to be bent, shaped and molded to his whims. Uphold and defend? Fold, spindle and mutilate.

Failure to appreciate the intelligence of the American people. Popular opposition to health care demolition has become so virulent that even Congressional Democrats are standing down for fear of their political careers. Yet he called on them to do the suicidal and support it for the sake of their Leader’s agenda.

In sum, this speech was just a campaign rant against his predecessor. It is little wonder that he’s been so ineffective in addressing national problems, when his need to exalt his ego is his central concern. Then had the gall to claim that we’re frustrated because we think that, in Washington, “every day is election day!”

He rightly identified what he called a “deficit of trust.” But it’s not because of lobbyists, such as those who populate his administration in droves, as he claimed. Americans are angry, but most certainly not because we don’t understand what’s happening in Washington. It’s because we understand it all too well.

We’re being governed by statists who want three things and three things only: Enrichment and power for themselves and their friends; expansion of government power; and diminishment or elimination of our liberty. That, and the agenda of an arrogant, narcissistic braggart in the White House, is why we are angry.

Thomas Berry, for the Children of Liberty, http://thechildrenofliberty.ning.com.

Local Man Claims Responsibility For Own Problems
By Opiate of the People



In an odd exposé that has left the worlds of politics and academia abuzz, a local homeless person revealed yesterday that he only blamed himself for his failures. The incident occurred near the dumpster behind the Shop Rite store in Brooklyn, when Willard Kookish, formerly of 435 Subprime Lane in Nutly, NJ, casually told a reporter that "my problems are my own fault." The veteran New York Times reporter Ken McLiar, who has been searching area dumpsters for a 3,785-part series on people who are homeless due to the evils of American capitalism, admits he was astonished by Mr. Kookish's bizarre confession. When asked to elaborate, Mr. Kookish went on to say, "I went through college drinking and smoking dope and never learned anything. I've had many job opportunities but didn't bother to show up. My family left me a nice house to live in but I took out home equity loans on it and spent the money on hookers and gambling. When the housing boom collapsed I lost everything. I made bad decisions and here I am bearing the consequences."
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The startling revelation has left many in the community troubled by what it may portend for society at large. "It should be illegal to talk like that", said Marge Stumpko, an angered low-wage waitress from Lower Skunkworks, NY. "Aren't we all our brother's keepers? Is that all you're leaving for my tip, turdface?"

Floyd Grabbuck, a community organizer from Chicago, furiously described Mr. Kookish's statement as "un-American and downright traitorous," suggesting that "If that ungrateful rat-bastard doesn't like how we do things in this country, maybe he should move to a place like Russia where the government doesn't care for its subjects and see how he likes it there."

Eddie Fuppish, a mismarked ballot corrector from Franken, Minnesota, sounded more conciliatory: "The poor man needs help. Anybody that takes responsibility for his own actions is certifiably insane. Just look at all the big businesses selling you stuff for money. Don't tell me you are in control of your own spending or anything else for that matter. You're not. That's why I vote Democratic and make sure other people do the same, even if they didn't mark their ballots that way. It's the right thing to do. People need to be protected."

Experts, on whom the incompetent depend to explain the complicated world they fail to understand, are unanimous. "It's Reagan's fault," says Professor Wilton Chumpley, a consulting sociologist from the University of Twerp in Belgium. "Remember how in the 1980s that actor-president mislead people into thinking they could spend their own money and run their own lives without expert help? And then you had that crackpot economist Milton Friedman falsely claiming that the government shouldn't be responsible for directing people's existence. It made less sense than the UFO stories, at least for smart people like myself. But, tragically, some fools took it seriously; it ruined their lives."

President Obama has not commented publicly on the controversy but has privately told aides that "former President Bush is not getting off the hook for the economy, the War in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina or Willard Kookish's failures on my watch." Sources speculate that Kookish's mortgage default will be added to the list of indictable offenses against former Bush Administration officials.

Reverend Al Sharpton excoriated Kookish's "arrogant fantasy," calling it "blame the victim" rhetoric from the right and predicting that the incident would set race relations in the US back fifty years, even though Kookish is white. "It don't matter who the victim is, it's who's doing the blaming that makes it wrong," Sharpton said.


Regardless of the troubling short-term fallout from the incident, the long term trends are clear. "We need to make people understand they don't matter," stated House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "Having become cogs in the huge state machine, they can't be allowed to think independently and control their lives; that's what we're here for." Pelosi stressed the inevitability of new taxes and government programs in order to liberate people from such delusions. "People like Willard Kookish better get this through their thick skulls: it's not their fault, it's society's. And that's why they need President Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress to subdue this country in order to fix it."