Mark Steyn wrote a terrific piece yesterday, raising awareness over Pennsylvania’s newest Awareness Day, “Diaper Need Awareness Day.”
Last Thursday was officially "Diaper Need Awareness Day" in the state of Connecticut. Were you aware of it? There are so many awareness-raising days, it's hard to keep track. Maybe we could have an Awareness-Raising Day Awareness Day.
At any rate, the first annual Diaper Need Awareness Day was proclaimed by Dan Malloy, governor of the Nutmeg State, and they had a big old awareness-raising get-together in New Haven.
It's not clear yet whether they've got an official ribbon. We're running a bit low on ribbon colors these days: It's not just pink ribbons for breast cancer, but also teal for agoraphobia, periwinkle for acid reflux, pink and blue ribbons for amniotic fluid embolisms and pinstripe ribbons for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
We could use a Ribbon-Hue Awareness Day to raise awareness about how we're falling behind in the race for more ribbon colors.
If you're wondering what sentient being isn't aware of diapers, you're missing the point: Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro is raising awareness of the need for diapers in order to, as Politico reported, "push the federal government to provide free diapers to poor families."
Congresswoman DeLauro has introduced the "DIAPER" Act — that's to say, the Diaper Investment and Aid to Promote Economic Recovery Act Act. So don't worry, it's not welfare, it's "stimulus." As Fox News put it, "A U.S. congresswoman in Connecticut wants to boost the economy by offering free diapers to low-income families."
And, given that sinking bazillions of dollars into green jobs schemes to build eco-cars in Finland and a federal program to buy guns for Mexican drug cartels and all the other fascinating innovations of the Obama administration haven't worked, who's to say borrowing money from the Chinese Politburo and sticking it in your kid's diaper isn't the kind of outside-the-box thinking that won't do the trick?
Don’t forget Cash for Clunkers, half a billion dollars to Solyndra, bank bailouts, and government takeovers amongst the many other brainy ideas Obama has implemented which haven’t yet succeeded in jump-starting the economy.
"At a million-dollar San Francisco fundraiser today, President Obama warned his recession-battered supporters that if he loses the 2012 election it could herald a new, painful era of self-reliance in America."
Oh, no! The horror!
"Self-reliance" is now a pejorative? Nice to have that clarified. And San Francisco, a city that registers more dogs than it has kids enrolled in its schools and in which adults are perforce the children they never bothered having, seems as good a place as any to make it official.
In less enlightened times, "self-reliance" was the great animating principle of the American experiment.
By the standards of the day, George III was one of the most benign, caring rulers on earth: You were his mewling charges, and he was the regal babysitter.
'Self-Reliant': A Bad Thing?
Then a bunch of settlers in small towns clinging to wilderness and thousands of miles from His Majesty The Nanny decided they didn't need him and they could stand on their own. What's the word for that? Oh, yeah: self-reliance.
Dan Malloy and Congressman DeLauro deserve the “most creative method to create more dependency on government” award, which is given yearly behind closed doors.
Though one can only wonder how Planned Parenthood would react to such a “stimulus” plan. One can already receive free food, free housing, free education, and free college. Adding free diapers to the list leaves one to wonder what excuse they can use to continue convincing the poor to abort their unborn babies.
Obama held a lavish fundraiser in San Francisco Tuesday, where he harshly criticized Republicans for voting down another millionaires’ tax which would be used as stimulus bill #3 using the following false information to build support for his bill.
Last week we had a separate vote on a part of the jobs bill that would put 400,000 teachers and firefighters and police officers back on the job. And it was paid for by asking people who make over a million dollars a year to pay one-half of 1 percent more in taxes. So for someone making $1.1 million a year, that’s an extra $500 that would save 400,000 jobs all across the country. And not just any jobs, but jobs that are vital to the well-being of our kids and our communities.
Most people I know who make more than a million dollars a year would make that contribution willingly. (Applause.) They’re patriots. They want to see America strong. But all the Republicans in the Senate, 100 percent, voted no.
Obama glibly peeled off the first digit of the correct figure, remaining with a total which is less than ten percent of the true total. A half a percent of 1.1 million is nowhere close to five hundred dollars; it’s actually $5,500. For those who are tempted in blaming the teleprompter for the glaring error, that excuse is no longer valid. With the TOTUS stolen, the buck stops at Obama. It therefore seems like the spender-in-chief needs to do some serious brush-up on all math including simple math equations, though perhaps he only needs lessons in how to speak the truth.
Let’s take a look at the facts. There are currently 3.5 million Americans who are millionaires. When calculating the cost to create a job using Obama’s figure of $500, his claims amount to somewhere between five and ten thousand dollars a job. Having thrown hundreds of billions to waste without creating any real jobs, he is now attempting to fool the public once again that he can create jobs with significantly less money.
Since the bill Obama proposed to congress dealt with the percent and not some misleading mathematical miscalculation, let’s take a look at the true figures. If we assume they each earn only 1 million dollar (although many obviously earn much more) the figures amount to the following; 19,250,000,000 or nineteen billion two hundred fifty million. In truth though, the figure would be much higher, probably at least double. I guess though, that when dealing with Obama standards of 800 billion dollars, 19 or even 40 billion isn’t that large of a sum to spend. It’s like increasing your ten-year old child’s allowance with one a single quarter.
When calculating using the lowest figure, each job would cost $48,125 to create, though it would more likely amount to approximately one hundred thousand dollars per job. I guess we should congratulate Obama in having mastered the ability to pretend being capable of creating jobs at half (and possibly a sixth) of its previous cost. At his first stimulus, Obama spent over 800 billion dollars to create or save according to the CBO somewhere between 1.3 and 3.5 million jobs. I guess the CBO doesn’t see too big of a difference between the two figures, much like Obama’s inability to correctly calculate what a ½ percent of 1.1 million dollars equals to.
According to the CBO’s figures, the stimulus cost us somewhere between $228,055 and $631,538 per job. Yeah, there’s a big difference between the two figures, but since it doesn’t involve their money (which Democrat politician pays his taxes?) they couldn’t care the slightest bit. Despite their claims of having created/saved so many jobs, unemployment continued to rise throughout all that time, thus making the creation of even a single job questionable even with these ridiculously high figures.
Although Obama has learned to adjust his mathematical figures so that his phony job creations should appear cheaper, his current bill would create as many jobs as the previous stimulus: Zero.
UPDATE:
It has come to my attention that the error lies in my research, not in Obama's math skills (at this current example.) When I heard talk about this speech I searched and read the speech which is linked above, and then wrote the article based upon the speech. It seems that the actual bill will only tax a 1/2 percent of every dollar earned after one million dollars, something Obama hadn’t mentioned in his speech. Thus, if someone earns 1.1 million dollars, only the .1 million will be taxed. This amounts to $500.00. If anyone has a link to the actual wording of the bill presented to the senate, please leave it in the comments, since all I found were liberal/MSM sites citing a Biden math lesson.
Throughout his jobs speech last Thursday, Obama demanded from both houses of Congress over two dozen times to immediately pass his nonexistent bill.
Obama laid out grandiose plans which included rebuilding this country’s crumbling infrastructure in order to finally get those shovel-ready moving. As for plans to pay for all this restorations of bridges, roads, and school buildings, Obama has proclaimed it wouldn’t cost us a single additional dime. It’s sort of like Obamacare which we know it achieved the status of saving money only after lots of false mathematical gimmicks.
The American Jobs Bill of 2011 which will be presented to Congress tonight, will supposedly be paid for in advance via spending cuts a committee will discover and implement within the next ten years. Yeah, right. It’s more likely to be paid for with future new taxes, via the hardworking hordes of new IRS employees, or will simply be further piled onto the backs of future generations. After all, the bill’s only $447 billion which is pretty small in comparison to the over $14 trillion of which we are currently in debt.
I found the sums mentioned pretty surprising. The White House announced the odd figure of 447 billion and not 450, 445, or 448 billion as the exact figure necessary to turn the economy around. The large figure was broken down into two smaller figures of 253 billion in supposed tax cuts and 194 billion in federal spending. Note again, 250 billion wouldn’t have done the job while 254 was one billion too many in tax cuts. Same for the spending; 200 billion must’ve come across as too large while 193 billion was one billion too short.
These figures must’ve been designed to appear real for the cool-aid drinking crowd for it is known that all government spending bills end up costing way more than originally promised.
By the way, does anyone remember the urgency of this jobs bill? So vitally urgent that Obama originally demanded to present his speech (without the actual bill) the very first night Congress came back from vacation which was “coincidentally” the same night as the debate of the Republican Presidential Candidates.
Well, surprise, surprise!
Most of the $447 billion package will be spent in 2012. Hmm. What else will be occurring in 2012?
Hint: think of November 2012.
Obama’s also promised in his speech to provide employers with a tax credit for hiring anyone unemployed over six month. This will be discriminating against those who’ve recently lost their jobs or those yet to be laid off. Instead of possibly regaining employment, unemployed individuals will automatically spend the next half a year on unemployment benefits without a chance in being hired. Why should a business hire them when they could receive four thousand dollars for hiring someone which meets the administrations’’ qualifications as someone considered to be truly in need of a job?
Obama’s passion for philanthropic endeavors paid for with taxpayer funds is an old story, as old as Obama’s presidency.
The day Obama took office the national debt had been at 10.6 trillion dollars. In the less-than-three years since Obama has become president, our national debt has increased with over four trillion dollars, currently standing at over 14.69 trillion U.S. dollars. Obama is constantly blaming the debt as an inheritance of Bush while he has added in a half a term more than half of what Bush added in 8 years! In Obama’s first 57 days, (not states) 400 billion dollars debt was added! The national debt is currently increasing at the rate of 2.95 million per minute.
Where do the all these green dollars disappear to?
Fear not my friends. Obama seems to have a generous streak in his personality, and has given and promised support for many in need. There hasn’t been enough focus on his giving nature, perhaps because of his humility, so I decided to compile a list focusing on his generosity.
Disclaimer: This list is incomplete since Obama’s humility has kept him from broadcasting his every kind deed, thus making this search extremely tedious and difficult. Any additional items discovered worthy to join the list are welcomed in the comments.
Stimulus:
Obama has stimulated the Chinese economy with his generous tax cuts aka handouts to all American citizens.
Now that you’ve all been made aware that you too have gotten at least a couple of bucks of the over four trillion spent in under one thousand days and owe Obama a heartfelt thanks, we can proceed down the rest of the list.
Acorn:
Acorn was given federal grants and stimulus money for their humanitarian efforts in bringing as many dead people as possible back to life in the voting booths.
Union Brotherhood:
Obama issued Executive Order 13502 which went into effect May 2010. It encouraged the use of project labor agreements in connection with large-scale construction projects thus promoting the construction trade union.
Additionally, at the start of his presidency Obama overturned a policy which forbade airport screeners from organizing, thus creating a future 63,000 new union members.
These acts are a small token of thanks to the unions for the sixty million dollars they’ve spent to get Obama into office. Of course their contributions to Obama were in appreciation of his promises before the election that “their agenda is his agenda” and that “he wants to paint the nation purple.”
Bailouts for the car companies:
The Republicans were outraged at the eighty five billion dollars Obama gave to car companies without requiring them to make any serious reforms such as touching employee pension plans amongst other issues which have put them into the red to begin with.
Now, after two years, Obama has declared the bailout a success because they actually returned a few billion of the eighty five billion dollars they had received!! To understand how this can be considered a true success, your name has got to be Barack Obama. How and when will they repay the rest? That doesn’t matter. Union Brotherhood is draining them from any profit they could hope of, while the endless environmental regulations squeeze the breath out of them.
Not to worry. The government will promote their cars by giving each individual purchasing the Volt, a car on batteries, a 10,000 dollar subsidy! This is but another example of the philanthropy of Obama, and this time he’s not even singling out who qualifies-race wise, income wise, party wise… as long as the buyer is an environmentalist.
Supporting Business in Foreign Countries:
Brazil is on the receiving end from the Obama administration for billions of dollars to explore offshore drilling. At the same time, the Obama administration is forbidding companies to drill in the United States even with their own money; never mind taxpayers’ money!
Recently, two luxury buses were purchased from a Quebec based company Prevost, courtesy of “The Citizen of the World.”
Islamic fundamentalists:
The U.S. at the G8 conference together with the other nations have pledged 40 billion dollars for Arab Spring occurring in the Middle East and North Africa to stabilize Egypt and Tunisia, and help fight for rights in Libya, Syria, Yemen and other nations in the region. Additionally Obama has given for Egypt, which is under partial control of the Muslim Brotherhood two billion dollars, by waiving a previous one billion dollar loan and promising an additional billion dollars! All this is despite the fact that all this money can very possibly fall into our enemies hands. In fact, it has been reported that there are currently over 400 Al Qaeda terrorists in Sinai.
Never mind the fact that we have to borrow this money from China in order to fulfill his generous gesture.
Illegal Immigrants:
Free health care, an amazing deed, indeed.
All the citizens struggling to pay their own insurance policies are positively thrilled to have their tax money and future tax money be used to pay interests for borrowed money which is then handed over to illegals that don’t even pay taxes. These illegals kids also get free education thrown into the package, from taxpayer money of course, crowding up the classrooms and creating a disadvantage to citizens and legal immigrants.
And if he’s so generous already, he might as well give them housing, food stamps and any other program available to Americans in the lower earning bracket. Forty seven million Americans are currently on food stamps and Gingrich dares call Obama “The food stamps president”?
Obama declared in El Paso that Republicans would never be satisfied with his actions to secure the border, even if he’d put a moat with alligators. As though Obama has done even a single act so that it would be less worthwhile or more difficult for illegals to smuggle across our borders. Obama has also told Latinos before the 2010 midterms to remember to punish our enemies and reward our friends.
Indeed, Obama has given them so much, but at whose expense? At the expense of the citizens’ in whose interest he’s supposed to be focused at! Obama seems to be of the mindset that no one minds his handouts and the endless stream of illegals pouring into this country, besides for those evil Republicans. Sure. All those looking for job, which amounts to over 10% of this country must be so excited to have another 20 million illegals to undercut them and compete with for jobs.
In the ultimate act of generosity; Obama has officially announced that illegals won’t be held accountable for their illegal action if they don’t commit any additional crimes or join an education center.
Health Care Reform:
Obama put his neck on the line in ensuring health care for all … at the expense of their employers, neighbors, and grandchildren who are already funding the healthcare of the illegals.
Savior:
Non-leader of the war in Libya, Obama has saved thousands of lives while barely costing us anything since Bush is still paying for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Worldwide Contraception:
Obama signed an executive order, overturning Bush’s previous order, to fund abortion groups worldwide. Nancy Pelosi, the former House Speaker, defended its inclusion in the stimulus explaining that fewer people born is equivalent to fewer dependents on programs listed above. Additionally, fewer people will result in less pollution to destroy the environment.
Now that a partial list of Obama’s great deeds has been compiled, surely Congress will jump to please His Majesty, while the rest of us will be cheering them on in approval.
Although it may seem to us that the decisions of how the country’s taxes shall be spent should focus on our needs, Obama’s focus on his reelection campaign is actually for the people’s benefit. For if Obama won’t win, who will continue his path of philanthropy?The fact that Obama’s philanthropy comes not only at the expense of the over 300 million citizens, but at the expense of their grandchildren and grandchildren’ grandchildren who will be paying off all the debt this country has accumulated in the spirit of his generosity, is simply irrelevant to him and the left.
