Thread: State of the Union 2015

compare and contrast....

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Tiairris Woodward, of Warren, Michigan. Woodward started a second job working on Chrysler's assembly line in 2010 to help support herself and three children, including one with special needs. She eventually began working only for Chrysler and after a year had saved enough money to buy a car and rent a new apartment. The company's tuition assistance program is aiding her pursuit of a bachelor's degree in business management. The White House says her story is possible due to the comeback of Detroit and the U.S. auto industry.

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Originally Posted by Jolie Rouge

American Express to cut 4,000 jobs this year
CNBC on MSN.com · 4 hours ago
The announcement Wednesday came as American Express reported quarterly earnings that slightly beat analysts' expectations.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/compa...ocid=anscnbc11

EBay Job Cuts: E-Commerce Giant Announces It's Axing 2,400 positions
Jan 22, 2015 ·

Ebay announced job cuts this week of 7 percent of its staff in order to streamline its structure and boost profits

http://www.wsj.com/articles/ebay-ann...act-1421875868




but ... but ..... Obama said everything was great


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Kiss of Death: Obama Mentions Company in SOTU, Then This Happens
January 22, 2015 By Jennifer Burke

During the State of the Union address on Tuesday, Barack Obama worked hard to make Americans believe that job growth is great, despite that fact that 92 million Americans are out of the workforce and no longer looking.

As part of his attempt to snow over the public, Obama cited what he said are the millions of jobs that people are working in that didn’t exist 10 to 20 years ago. One of the companies he specifically mentioned as a success story in the creation of these jobs was Ebay, the popular online auction site.

Less than 24 hours later, Ebay announced a layoff of 2,400 people, or 7% of its workforce. Response to the announced layoffs by investors was positive with the company experiencing an increase in their stock by more than 4%.

Like most of the other companies touted by Obama as success stories to brag about the economy, Ebay overwhelmingly donates to Democrats. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Ebay CEO John Donahoe has not only given $90,000 to Democrat candidates and committees, but has also contributed thousands to Obama’s 2012 presidency.

Free Beacon http://freebeacon.com/blog/ebay-lays...union-address/


Video at link http://www.tpnn.com/2015/01/22/kiss-...-this-happens/

Kurtz: Obama YouTube Interview Was ‘Beneath the Dignity of the Office’

http://video.lauraingraham.com/Kurtz...ffice-28417805



Chicago Blacks UNLEASH on Obama’s SOTU in Viral Video
Thursday, January 22nd, 2015

Although President Barack Obama was elected twice with an overwhelming majority of the black vote, many black Americans are finally beginning to speak up and question Obama over what he has, and hasn’t, done to help them.

When it comes to issues like jobs and the economy, and especially his amnesty for illegal immigrants, some blacks are demanding that Obama focus on them instead of foreigners http://conservativetribune.com/love-...like-illegals/ and are calling him the “worst President ever elected.” http://conservativetribune.com/black...rs-slam-obama/

Last year, a group of black activists in Obama’s hometown of Chicago got together and put out their own rebuttal to Obama’s State of the Union address. http://conservativetribune.com/black...turn-on-obama/ This year, they have done it yet again, and they are holding nothing back. (H/T Rebel Pundit http://rebelpundit.com/theyre-baaack...e-union-video/ )

The Chicago activists gathered together in Wallace’s Catfish Corner, a restaurant on the West Side of Chicago frequented by Obama in the past. But that is about all that these activists feel they have in common with Obama now.

“In my world, on the South Side of Chicago, on the West Side of Chicago, everything you spoke of in your speech, it doesn’t affect us. The stock market is at a record high, at 17,000. I can’t invest in the Dow Jones.”

“The country is more racially divided, you haven’t corrected that.”

“Never once since you’ve been president have you talked about the working poor. We don’t even exist in your administration. What kind of person are you?”

“Everybody needs to be on your case, about that you got on national TV talking about a middle class economy works. For who? Who it work for? Why, it’s not even working for the middle class people. They losing they houses. What middle class economy you talking about?”

“We’re not middle class here. We’re poor and very poor. We don’t even meet the median area income towards middle class, so everything you say does not include us.”

“Mr. President, I don’t feel that you are relating to us, as poor people in our communities. I think that you are just bribing us to stay in office, or however you doing what your doing. You’re doing a good job at it, but now it’s time to stop.”

“Give me some straws, something to grasp at…you are giving me nothing. Your swag is not doing anything for me right now.”

“The last mid-terms show, point blank, that a lot of people ain’t listening to what your talking about, cause they voted in the opposite direction. That means that you should’ve been listening to what the people were saying.”

“We hope that Congress defunds Obamacare. We pray that Congress do away with your amnesty executive order, giving and providing illegal aliens and immigrants work permits to make sure that black men don’t get jobs in their own community.”

“Was it all about using us? Was it all about getting all the people behind you so you could get in the White House?”

Simply put, this is awesome. It is so refreshing to here former supporters of Obama finally coming around to the realization that he is a horrible president who doesn’t care about the little people. http://conservativetribune.com/black...y-think-obama/

Of course, some of us here have been saying these same things for years now, but we are certainly glad to see more people coming around to our point of view. Reality has a way of opening even the blindest of eyes.

Video link at http://conservativetribune.com/chica...n-obamas-sotu/

Originally Posted by Jolie Rouge

John Stossel ~ Obama translation ‪#‎SOTU‬

Barack Obama hit the campaign trail this week after his State of the Union address to sell his new pet phrase "middle-class economics," a phrase he's working to ingrain in the political lexicon. According to the president, speaking at Boise State University, middle-class economics "means helping folks afford child care, and college, and paid leave at work, and health care, and retirement." But beware of statists bearing gifts.

Middle-class economics is nothing more than a cradle-to-grave welfare state paid for through wealth redistribution. It will ultimately stifle economic growth and require -- wait for it -- more government welfare spending.

Obama latched onto this middle-class economics concept as a way to set the Democrats' class warfare theme for the 2016 election. He spent much of 2014 trying to convince the public that, thanks to his policies, the economy was on the mend. Few believed him. So he came up with a clever new name for wealth redistribution and is now trying to rewrite history from the campaign trail.

Going on the road, giving speeches and lambasting Republicans as the enemies of the middle class are parlor games for Obama. This strategy guided everything that he, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid did when Democrats ran all of Washington. Now that Republicans control Congress, it's a bit more difficult to label them obstructionist -- not that Obama won't try. Republicans have the power to set the legislative agenda, but that's not going to stop this imperial president.

"I know there are Republicans who disagree with my approach," Obama told the Boise crowd. "And if they do disagree with me, then I look forward to hearing from them how they want to pay for things like R&D and infrastructure that we need to grow. They should put forward some alternative proposals."

Of course, Obama doesn't want to hear ideas that aren't in lockstep with his agenda. Indeed, he's already threatened to veto just about every Republican bill under consideration. Yet he has the audacity to declare, "Work with me. Don't just say no. You can't just say no."

Obama and his fellow statists assume the government should be involved in every aspect of the American economy. There is no debate about the constitutional role of government, only over how to pay for all the goodies. And that's where class warfare and wealth redistribution come in.

Democrats hope to regain control in 2016 by appearing to be champions of the middle class. And they want to do it with "free" gifts paid for with higher taxes on the "wealthy."

Unfortunately, this strategy often works.

The welfare state has greatly expanded over the last 50 years because people can't say "no" to "free" stuff. Political analyst George Will explains, "More than twice as many households receive 'anti-poverty' benefits than receive Social Security or Medicare. Between 1983 and 2012, the population increased by almost 83 million -- and people accepting means-tested benefits increased by 67 million. So, for every 100-person increase in the population there was an 80-person increase in the recipients of means-tested payments. Food stamp recipients increased from 19 million to 51 million -- more than the combined populations of 24 states."

This cycle of government welfare only perpetuates itself. It has become a way of life that is truly changing the American character. In the last 50 years, the number of men 25 to 34 who are neither working nor looking for work has almost quadrupled. The percentage of children born to unmarried women was nearly six times higher in 2012 than in 1964. And the percentage of people living under the poverty line hasn't budged in 30 years.

Former New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a lifelong liberal, warned, "The issue of welfare is not what it costs those who provide it, but what it costs those who receive it." Even he saw the inevitable. Today's Democrats don't care, however, as long as they can win elections.

Claude G. McNew
-- PatriotPost.us

Allen West : Yesterday at 10:19am ·
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Today at 3:30pm ET President Obama will make a statement asking for authorization for use of military force against ISIS.

I find interesting that Obama didn't see the necessity of doing so for the ill-conceived venture into Libya -- how a hotbed of islamist activity.

As well, it was a year ago at the State of the Union address that Obama took a victory lap lauding the withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq.

My, what a difference a year makes. I wouldn't grant President Obama this authority based on his giving a "statement". Say what you wish, President George W. Bush went before a joint session of Congress to make his case and received Congressional approval. Therefore, it he can find the time, President Obama must go before a joint session of Congress and articulate his vision for defeating Islamic terrorism -- not just ISIS.

Since the topic didn't fit into his SOTU address last month, perhaps he can provide a strategy, and not on climate change, but rather the pressing issue of Islamo-fascism. Congress shouldn't grant any authorization based on a "statement" which is a dismissive disregard by the Commander-in-Chief.