Posting #1301 or The Failure Presidency

We didn't realize until this morning that A&G passed the 1300 posting mark yesterday...

One Thousand Three Hundred individual posts on this dreadful sham of an economic 'recovery' in less than three years of our site's operation..

Just doing our best to inform our readers of a real world beyond the corporate media facade that all is well and people are back to normal..

Five years ago, people elected a man they embraced as Hope and Change and instead have gotten five years of utter bullshit..

~ The President loves celebrities.. They're wealthy (donations, anyone?) and sway young voters...  Such a sweet eyes-closed embrace with Ben Affleck

This will anger liberal leaning readers..

We understand this but it is true nonetheless and if one takes off their partisan glasses and really looks at this President as who he is versus who you thought you were getting, you'd be infuriated as well..

We read yesterday in the New York Times that Obama is once again seeking to revive an old proposal to lower the corporate tax rate from 35% to 28%  (and 25% for manufacturers).

~ President with Springsteen.. He had enough time to write a song dedicated to Trayvon but was too busy in 1985 to perform Live Aid to feed sick and starving Ethiopians

Interestingly. Obama felt small businesses should be paying more tax because he raised their rates to 39.6% last year..  Yep, gotta crush those individual entrepreneurs and up-starts..

Is that something a liberal would do..  or a cold-calculating, cut-throat fiscal conservative Bastard would do?

Some corporations like GE and Facebook paid Zero in taxes last year... Yes not a penny...

From Huffington Post:  "Facebook paid no net corporate income taxes in the U.S. last year, according to a new report from Citizens for Tax Justice, a left-leaning research and advocacy group.

Instead, Facebook will rake in $429 million in net tax refunds for the year... The company earned $1.1 billion in U.S. corporate profits last year."

That sounds like something George W Bush or Reagan would be very happy about doesn't it?

Could have sworn they were Republicans i.e. the contrarian party to the current Prez..

~ The President talking with George Clooney playing the role of someone who matters

Anyways... let's just say a corporation that generates $1 Billion in profit and Actually paid what they were supposed to had their rate lowered from 35% to 28%...

35% of $1 Billion = $350 million; 28% equals $280 million

Obama would save the greedy soulless corporation $70 million dollars when we are carrying annual deficits because our expenditures i.e. what government is spending is greater than the tax revenue we're bringing in..

~ Oprah with the Prez pretending She is the First Lady

And where would this savings go?  Job creation??

Ha!  Don't bet on it..  It would go with the rest of the unsavory profits generated via Quantitative Easing and a very weakened US dollar:

Either buying up more stocks to enrich shareholders or using the money to expand further into third-world markets where labor is incredibly cheap

Obama still talks a good game; makes people really think he cares about them and wants them to have opportunity.

~ Katy Perry; a classy dress from a classy woman

So where's the job creation programs?

The standard reply is to blame a do-nothing, obstructionist Congress...

Two responses to that weak defense:

1) The President has Executive Orders.. Any time he really wishes to supersede Congressional authority he can.  The only limitation is the Order can not be used to create new law.

2) Obstruct is Exactly what an opposition party is supposed to do!

~ Will Ferrell taking a moment out of his busy schedule of mocking George W.

Think of it this way..

Let us say you are firmly and passionately pro-choice..  So you vote Representatives and Senators who reflect your personal beliefs on this issue...

And they get elected..

Now..  A big piece of abortion legislation is being debated that would weaken the ability for women to have abortions without government interference..

~ Perhaps when Reese Witherspoon's husband was arrested for DUI a couple months ago she should have screamed at the officers that she was personal friends with the President...

What do you want from your elected leaders..  for them to dig in their heels and defend the principles they professed and which made you vote for them?  Or compromise and strike a deal?

We all know the answer..

And yet when its Conservatives in Congress with principle fighting the President its 'obstruction'...

~ Stevie Wonder with Obama; He said he's going to boycott playing in Florida due to the Trayvon verdict..  We didn't know he still toured..

But like we said often before, it really is ironic that Republicans would put up such a fuss when they have a fiscal Conservative in the White House...

How is the President very much like President Bush? Let's see:

*  Obama allowed the extension of the Bush tax cuts not once but twice..

~ Obama is happy to greet Marc Antony but really wished his ex wife J-Lo was there instead..

*  The President pushed for a payroll tax break that saved workers on average $20 while severely weakening the Social Security pot to which that money was supposed to go (and by providing the tax break, business owners did not have to match the funds so they saved much more... as intended)

*   Four years ago Obama re-nominated a fiscal conservative Republican to run the Federal Reserve (Bernanke) and without any proper checks and balances, has spent over $10 Trillion dollars propping up banks and corporations around the world while engaging in endless QE

~ Ryan Gosling wearing his 'Multi-Millionares for Obama' T-shirt

As we stated yesterday, the Federal Reserve spends in one calendar year the equivalent of over two years of Welfare spending by the government...

And the only reason Bastard Ben isn't re-nominated a third time is he doesn't want the job anymore...

* Obama also kept Bush appointee Robert Gates on until the end of 2010 and current Sec of Defense is Republican and former Senator Chuck Hagel.

~ Julia Louis-Dreyfus has her Tee on as well...

The Democrat President trusts Republicans to conduct the nation's military policy..  This includes keeping Guantanamo Bay open and using torture to get information from prisoners..

Personally we're not attacking the President for change of heart in this matter.  Just pointing out what he campaigned on in 2008 vs reality...

* He has neglected the economic plight of black Americans more successfully than any racist white man or woman ever could..  

~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt must have paid more for his; its in lovely red

Unemployment among black adults is near 14% while joblessness among black youth-- those of Trayvon's age up into early 20s (the ones that would have been his son) is at a horrific 40%.   Only 7 years ago, that number was 19.8%

Some 'Dad'...

In three years time Obama's term in office will end...  And he will get his glitzy Presidential Library via donations from all the corporations he's help enriched with plenty of shelve space to hold the commemorative plates, cups, saucers, spoons  and 14k gold-plated coins..

~ Ryan Phillipe wearing his "Out of work has-been actors for Obama' Tee

And will this nation be any better economically in 2016 than it is now?   And more importantly, will the success of Obama's two elections make Democrats afraid to nominate someone with Genuine liberal values and ideologies...

Or will they pick another fiscally conservative shill to counter the ultra-zealous, deeply out of touch Republican that's bound to be the '16 nominee?

~ "A toast.... To Me..."

All we know is this...

Reagan's financial policies were economically destructive and hurt millions upon millions of working people when the smiling, jellybean munching 'Gipper' was in charge back in the 1980s.

Its no less destructive with the smooth talking slickety-slick man currently in charge..

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Economic Plight of Blacks in the time of a Black President

This posting is going to be a bit controversial so we give warning now..

We're going to deal with a taboo topic... race.   Specifically the economic plight of blacks in 2013.

We probably will offend some sensibilities with the points we make so at any time we've touched a nerve, simply click off this post..

We promise you won't hurt our feelings.. sniffles~

And now we begin..

Its quite an interesting time to be black in America today..

The President is black.. Most of the wealthiest entertainers on the annual Forbes' list are black..  The vast majority of athletes who play professional and collegiate football and basketball are black...

Pop culture is predominately black or at least urban geared, every single commercial on TV has at least one black actor in it even if appearing for a fraction of a second...

And as the Paula Deen fiasco demonstrated, blacks (thanks mainly to white-guilters) still 100% successfully control the 'N' word and have the power to destroy others' lives and livelihoods at the snap of a finger when its ever uttered..

Bravo!

Still haven't controlled and circumvented the justice system yet though..

No worries... give it time.

At first you don't succeed in prosecuting someone for an alleged hate crime that wasn't race based, try, try again..  Just ignore that silly ole' law about 'double jeopardy' where someone can not be tried twice for the same crime...

Whatever it takes...

So blacks should be having it pretty good economically especially with a President who's just like them and completely understands what it is to be black and struggle..  And Obama has done Sooo Much for the black community too...

Like tell them if he had a son, he'd look like Trayvon..  That was pretty cool right?

Umm.. we're sure he's done other things too..  we think...

Let's go over some statistical Facts:

What is the the unemployment rate among blacks as of June?

13.7%  -- 1 out of every 7 out of work  (BLS.gov)

What is the unemployment rate among black teens?

43% as of Feb '13 -- 2 out of every 5  (BET.com)

What was the percentage 10yrs ago when Bush was Prez?

19.9% black youth unemployment in 2003 (CampusProgress.com)

What is the high school dropout rate among blacks?

48%.. this is basically 1 in every 2..  In addition, 1 out of every 4 black high school dropouts will eventually be incarcerated at least once in their lives (NPR.org)

What is the percentage of blacks who attend college and complete a 4-year undergraduate degree?

43%.  The other 57% will ultimately drop out.. (TheRoot.com)

What percentage of blacks possess doctorate degrees?

Less than 1%  (NSF.gov)

What percentage of doctors are black?

2.3% (Wisegeek.org)

What percentage of attorneys are black?

3.9% (TheFreeLibrary.org)

Hmmm, guess TV doesn't paint a realistic picture does it, when every medical show has at least one or two black doctors and every legal show has at least 1-2 black attorneys and of course, a black judge...

~ Baby: I wish I was with my real mother instead of this ugly white woman

What is the percentage of black babies are born to unwed black mothers currently?

A whopping 72% according to NBC News in 2010..

Pretty miserable numbers.. They just go on and on and on..

Guess when you have no prospect of a good future and have plenty of time on your hands, you tend to believe the lies the race-peddlers like Rev. Jackson, Rev Sharpton and the President push that its an 'us vs them' world...

That 'whitey' is keeping them down.. Preventing them from having a better life..

Of course the black President in the White House hasn't done jack squat to help his people..  Or is it really his people?

When a child has one parent who is African born and the other parent is white as snow, and then is raised by white grandparents, we wonder where along the way does one develop this deep love, kinship and empathy for the American-born black populace as is claimed...

So you have blacks without jobs.. without hope..  Fully dependent upon the system for everything-- welfare, food stamps, etc..  A bleak future..

By the way, even though blacks represent only 13% of the population, 22% are receiving food stamps (WashingtonPost.com)

Now you'd think they'd be angry and take to the streets en masse and storm Washington a couple million strong demanding.. no, Screamingg to their black President get off his bony ass; the one that 98% of black voters help put into office and do something to make their lives better...

Nope..

Rather idolize the do-nothing than criticize or dare to expect promises to be kept..

Rather use energy to martyr a pot smoking wannabe gangsta-thug delinquent with tears, eulogies, candle vigils, Facebook posts threatening violence and moments of silence...

Rather blame 'whitey' or refer to dark complexioned Hispanics as such..

We close with a quote we've used before from Congresswoman Maxine Waters back in 2011 when addressing students at Wayne University in Detroit (in blue font):

"We don't put pressure on the president...  Let me tell you why. We don't put pressure on the president because ya'll love the president. 

You love the president. You're very proud to have a black man -- first time in the history of the United States of America. 

If we go after the president too hard, you're going after us... 

The Congressional Black Caucus loves the president too.  We're supportive of the president, but we're getting tired, ya'll.  We're getting tired. 

 And so, what we want to do is, we want to give the president every opportunity to show what he can do and what he's prepared to lead on. 

We want to give him every opportunity, but our people are hurting. The unemployment is unconscionable. We don't know what the strategy is... 

 All I'm saying to you is, we're politicians...  We are trying to do the right thing and the best thing. When you let us know it is time to let go, we'll let go."

Two years later and blacks would rather cry racial injustice from a non-racially based confrontation than cry for economic justice to the man in the Oval Office who is supposed to be one of them and yet really doesn't give an F about them..

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