> A Tweep alerted me to this. He visited the WhiteHouse.gov website and
> took a look the SCOAMF’s schedule for yesterday. Here .. you can look
> at this for yourself. You will note that Dear Ruler and Boy Blunder
> first attended their Presidential Daily Briefing at 10:45. Then, 45
> minutes later, this is what showed up on the schedule:
> :11:30 AM
> :
> :The President and the Vice President attend a meeting with members of
> :the labor community and other progressive leaders to discuss the
> :actions we need to take to keep our economy growing and find a balanced
> :approach to reduce our deficit.
> :
> :The Roosevelt Room
> Closed Press
> Now do you see anything odd about this? Does anything just leap off the
> page at you? The purpose of the meeting was to discuss some ways to
> keep our economy growing and to find a “balanced” approach to reduce our
> deficit, right?
> Okay … first point. Where were the business leaders? Isn’t a big
> component of economic growth encouraging the expansion of the business
> sector? Wouldn’t it be nice if business owners would invest more in
> growth and expansion and perhaps hire more workers in the process?
> You’re right, I’m no economist --- but it seems to me that any meeting –
> especially at this level – would include business owners.
> Next point: What about people from the financial sector? Don’t these
> people also have a role to play in economic growth? Perhaps a business
> would need to borrow some funds, or reorganize some debt to facilitate
> an expansion. Where was the financial sector in this meeting?
> But just who DID Dear Ruler meet with? Labor unions and liberals.
> That’s it. No businessmen. No business finance experts. Nobody
> representing the free market. Just labor unions and liberals.
> Now look again at the last seven words of that meeting description. “… a
> balanced approach to reduce our deficit.” Study these words for a while
> and something will slowly dawn on you. The phrase addresses reducing
> the deficit, not reducing spending. Obama, you see, is an all-time
> champ when it comes to spending. Even with increasing tax revenues he
> has managed to rack up the four greatest deficits since World War II;
> over $1 Trillion each and every year. But government spending is the
> Holy Grail to Obama. He flat-out stated that it is government spending
> that makes this country great, and if you’re a president who believes
> that moose squeeze you are not going to willingly going the allow the
> very thing that makes America great – government spending – recede.
> So .. the focus is not on spending but on reducing the deficit. And
> just how do you do that? Of course! By raising taxes! At the end of
> the meeting Richard Trumka, a leading union goon, announced that the
> rich need to “start” paying their fair share of taxes. START? You mean
> that group, the evil 1% that earns about 18% of all income, yet pays
> almost 38% of all income taxes, needs to START paying their fair share?
> And after the meeting Obama, of course, once again bleated about raising
> taxes on the rich.
> Today Dear Ruler will have a press conference. There is not one ounce
> of doubt that he will once again preach the mantra of tax increases on
> the rich. This has been the focus of his political life since he was a
> Senator. Raising taxes on the rich is and has been the be-all and
> end-all of Obama’s life right now.
> Meanwhile .. that jobs council that Obama formed at the beginning of
> this year? Hasn’t met in more than nine months.
