Why is Obama so unpopular even while the MSM Media tells us otherwise?
The mainstream media has told us we are being governed by the most popular president in history. This is a lie. The truth is Obama’s popularity ratings are only one point higher than those of the least popular president, Bill Clinton, since ratings began 40 years ago. At the 100 day mark, President Clinton’s approval ratings were at 55% and President Obama’s are at 56%. In contrast, President Reagan, the most popular president had approval ratings of 67%, George H. W. Bush’s ratings were at 58%, George W’s ratings were at 62%, and even Presidents Carter and Nixon enjoyed higher approval ratings. Carters ratings were 63% and Nixon’s were 61% at this milestone point in their presidencies.
Why is BO so unpopular?
1.He promised to cut government spending and reduce the size of the deficit. He ran as a moderate but is governing from the left. President Obama is the second least popular president because he is more partisan and divisive than his predecessors – including Richard Nixon.
2. He promised to cut taxes for the poor and middle class. In fact, he has increased the tax burden for the poor and middle class. While he may have made minor changes to the income tax laws, he has increased tobacco taxes which primarily affect the poor and middle class. He wants to increase the costs of carbon based fuels which will impact the poor more than the rich. He advocates increasing the gas tax, again impacting the poor more than the rich.
3. He advocates raising taxes on business. Fact, business DOES NOT pay taxes. Like all other expenses, tax is simply passed on to the consumer.
4. He has more than tripled the deficit in less than 100 days. I thought he was going to cut the deficit. Wait, he has decided to cut a bunch of programs to save money. What the media fails to tell us is he is just going to spend that money on other things. Net spending reduction from these cuts, $o.
5. He has told his Cabinet members to find ways to cut their budgets. The cuts he wants amount are comparable to a typical person cutting out a cup of coffee a week. Again these are not real cuts because he plans on spending the money somewhere else.
What American’s want, regardless of what Colin Powell claims, is less Government and lower taxes. We need to get back to the Constitution. I contend that most Cabinet offices are unconstitutional. I challenge anyone to show me in the Constitution the authority for ant departments other that State, Homeland Security, Defense and possibly Commerce. Even the office of Attorney General is hard to justify under the Constitution. The Department’s of Education, Veteran’s Affairs, Agriculture, and almost all others defy the Constitution.
A wise use of taxpayer money
An April 23rd Toledo Blade editorial praised the recent passing by Congress and signing by the president of the new “National Service Bill.” I am so glad our elected leaders are making such responsible use of our tax money. We are really getting a bargain here. For the measly sum of just $5.7 billion we will see an additional 175,000 “volunteers” a year for 8 whole years. Please do the math. These new “volunteer” members of AmeriCorps will only cost the American TaxPayers a little over $4 million dollars each. I wonder where all that money is going. The “volunteers” sure aren’t getting paid that much. The “volunteers are doing things like mentoring children, cleaning up parks and weatherizing the homes of the poor. There should not be a whole lot of overhead in these programs. I wonder how many new “civil servant” government jobs this program is going to create to oversee the “volunteers”, decide on what projects are appropriate, do the paper work generated by the program, interface with other volunteer organizations and state and local governments and the many other tasks needed for the government to make sure the program is run according to the rules. These civil servant employees will make much more than the volunteers along with the benefits of governmental employment. This is a perfect example of an effective government program.
Taxes and Democrats
When are Democrats going to realize businesses really do NOT pay taxes? Taxes, like transportation costs, labor costs and material costs are all calculated into the Cost of Goods Sold. Like all other costs, taxes are passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices.
While Obama claims to be giving the middle class a tax break, the reality is his increased taxes on business along with his schemes to increase the costs of Carbon Based fuels with the so called Cap and Trade legislation are simply hidden tax increases. These impact the poor and middle classes harder than they do the wealthy. Remember, Obama promised to bankrupt the coal industry and his policies are headed that way. The same union members who supported Obama and the Congressional Democrats are going to wonder where their jobs went. While claiming to be for the working man the Democrats continue to pass laws that result in job loss and increased costs to those same working men. Someone once said you can fool some of the people all of the time but you cann’t fool all of the people all of the time. The Democrats are proof that you can fool a lot of people all the time.
When will the rest of America learn from the failure of the left’s policies in California? The only reason California is growing is illigal imigration. The state is loosing its businesses and the productive members of society in droves. Dispite having some of the highest taxes in the nation California has a budget deficate larger than the budget of most states.
Name calling
Have you ever noticed how often the left resorts to name calling? Why is it that when someone on the right makes a reasoned argument that they can not refute the left almost always resorts to name calling? This action shows how bankrupt the left really is. They are all in favor of free speech as long as you agree with them. If you disagree they call you stupid or worse and demand you shut up.
Now Congress has decided to pass “Hate Speech” legislation. Look at how similar legislation has been used in other countries, like our neighbor to the north. If a Christian minister speaks out about the gay lifestyle or abortion he is charged with hate speech. Some have even been jailed. Speak out against radical Islam and you are guilty of hate speech. Call Christians names and that is not hate speech.
embers of congress and the President swear to protect and defend the Constitution and then pass blatantly unconstitutional legislation like this. Their definition of hate speech is anything the left disagrees with. I wonder if I should stop blogging here for fear of being charged with a hate crime.NO!!! Let them come after me. I am not ashamed of what I believe in. Like a former president said “If you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen.” It is time for the left to stop trying to silence those of us who disagree with them and come up with rational reasons we should agree with them. I am open to intelligent disagreement but I will fight to the death any attempt to shut me up in violation of my Constitutional freedom.
