I watched President Obama’s news conference tonight and it was almost as if I had mapped it out on my WOAI show just a couple of hours earlier.  Feel free to check out the podcast at radio.woai.com keyword podcast.  It was almost like “I say it here and it comes out there.”

     As predicted the president — now six full months later — squarely blamed what “he inherited” on the why we’re in the economic position we’re in.  And, he had the audacity to claim to have fixed things.  Here’s just some of it:

     “I took office amid the worst recession in half a century.”  REALITY: Why don’t any of these network stooges ever call him out on this?  Why does this president and all democrats get to forget about Jimmy Carter — the founding father of the misery index?

     “We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month…” REALITY: CNN Money, in a report from January 9, 2009 says, “ A sobering U.S. Labor Department jobs report Friday showed the economy lost 524,000 jobs in December and 1.9 million in the year’s final four months, after the credit crisis began in September.”  If I’m doing my math correctly, that’s a little more than 400,000 per month for the final four months.. just over half as many as our president cites.  Further, the article puts the total job loss for 2008 at 2.6 million.  Again, my remedial math tells me, that’s on average a little more than 200,000 per month for the year.

     “…we’ve been able to pull our economy back from the brink.  We took steps to stabilize our financial institutions and our housing market and we passed the Recovery Act that has already saved jobs and created new ones.” REALITY:  The  economy is closer to the brink now than ever.  The budget deficit has ballooned to over a trillion dollars, the president cannot quantify these imaginary jobs he’s saved or created and if throwing hundreds of billions of dollars at financial, automotive and insurance institutions in order to control their every move is synonymous with “stabilizing” them, please don’t “stabilize” anything else!

    “The Recovery Act will continue to save and create jobs over the next two years, just like it was designed to do.”  REALITY:  Again, the unemployment rate has gone from the 7s to almost 10 percent.  Do you think we’re stupid?  That means there are FEWER jobs now than there were six months ago.  I got that insight from my EIGHT YEAR OLD DAUGHTER!!

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     “The fact is, even before this crisis hit, we had an economy that was creating a good deal of wealth for those folks at the very top, but, not a lot of good-paying jobs for the rest of America.”  REALITY — HUH?  Mr. President, who is it that you think creates those good-paying jobs?  It’s the folks at the very top.  Why so much disdain for the employers and entrepreneurs?

     “This is not just about the 47 million American who don’t have any health insurance at all…” REALITY:  I’ve talked about this a lot on my shows.  There are NOT 47 million Americans without health insurance.  Resource after resource readily available to the president show of the 47 (or nearly 50 million most democrats cite) upwards of 10 million are illegal aliens, as many as 14 million are eligible for the S-CHIP program but haven’t yet signed up, many more millions are between 18 and 30 years old and just don’t want it.  The source for the previous numbers is healthmadeeasy.com.  How many does that leave us — the true number of Americans without insurance?  Quick mathshows, depending on the actual number of those who simply choose not to have insurance, it could be 10-20 million American who want but, can afford insurance.  I’ll bet with a large number like that, we could outright purchase policies for them at a sizable discount and spend a ton less than the estimated 1.3 trillion the president’s plan would cost.

     From here he just listed off a bunch of half-truths about keeping the plan you have if you like it.  Keeping the plan if you change jobs and the government is not going to get involved in the decision making for your health care.  Sorry, I misspoke.. they aren’t even half true.  Then he gave us this:

     “if you don’t have health insurance or you’re a small business looking to cover your employees, you’ll be able to choose a quality affordable health plan through a health insurance exchange; a market place that promotes choice and competition.”  REALITY:    This is patently false.  The end result will be no choices, period.  How exactly can private industry, private insurance companies which must make a profit to survive take on the federal government which does not?  Further, how do the president and other liberal democrats feel about other competition when it comes to tax dollars.  Hmm.. when’s the last time you heard someone of his political ideology tout the praises of the school voucher program?  Case closed!

     “…that’s partly why I inherited a 1.3 trillion dollar deficit.”  REALITY:  Again, I get that you’re in the bag for him, but White House Press Corps.. can’t you just act like you’re there doing a job?  Can’t you call him on that number, just once?  Dozens of sources, governmental and otherwise, put the deficit our president inherited at 400-480 billion dollars.  It’s now more like 1.3 trillion after the disastrous policies put in place since January 20th!

     I have to stop.. seriously.  My head is really banging.  He just said that his health care plan will not increase the deficit.  Amazing.

     In conclusion, president Obama said nothing new.  He was predictable in his blaming of the Bush administration for the “crisis” we’re in.  He was equally as predictable in blaming the republicans in the congress for standing in the way of this legislation.  Fact is, and this is as verifiable as all I’ve said here, if he’s so confident it’s the Rs that are stopping this from going through, why doesn’t he call for a vote in the House and Senate?  He’s got vast majorities in both houses AND a filibuster proof Senate to boot.  He won’t because the political party stopping his “reform” starts with a D.  But, what do I know?

 

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