Day 40. Working

I don't know why, but for some reason I was working until the wee hours Saturday morning. I have no clue what Obama did today. I'm trying to make money to pay the mortgage and put gas in the car. Call me crazy, but I don't want Obama buying me stuff (OK taxpayers, really). It hurts that free-loaders will be taking some of my hard-earned money, but its a slightly lesser pain. Yeah, I guess I am a sucker.

Day 39. The war is over.

So that school girl's did will not be in Iraq for 100 years like her teacher said (youtube vidoe was removed--don't want public schools to 'look bad'). Obama is pulling ALL troops out of Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010. (Except for the 50000 that will have to stay back.) You hear that terrorists? Take the next 18 months to plot and plan.
Supposedly the brain trust of the democratic party is all upset by this plan. "Too many troops...". This talk seems like lip service to the anti-war constituents.

Day 38. Oh what a budget.

This is nuts. $634,000,000,000.00 for National Healthcare. $1,000,000,000,000.00 in new taxes, $1,750,000,000,000.00 deficit. What the hell?!?

Day 37. Finishing touches

Obama is putting the finishing touches on his huge budget, after detailing lots of spending yesterday. The government is out of control. A democrat senator (Byrd of WV) is concerned about all the czars for this and that in this administration.

Day 36. Sate of the Union.

Wow, is it just me or is anyone else annoyed by the president's reading a teleprompter. He moves his head too far, then his eyes have to drift back to the prompter. It seems like this guy was watching a tennis match... it's very distracting.

Then there is the head cheerleader, Nancy Pelosi. That woman could not wait to jump up and clap. When she wasn't jumping up, she had that forced smile. It looked very uncomfortable. I think it was to keep her cheeks tight so they would not end up in her lap.

Finally Joe Biden. That guy has a permanent frown, but when he was grinning--wow! Did he get some new teeth? I had to put my sunglasses on. If someone digs up a picture of him from back in the campaign days, with yellow teeth, please link to it here.

OK, finally the speech. I had to turn away to listen to it for all the distractions (see above). I began hearing his words near the end when he was talking about the Florida banker, the town in Kansas that is rebuilding on their own, etc. I guess I missed the inspirational story about the folks in New Orleans rebuilding without help from taxpayers. What a difference values, government programs and self-sufficiency makes in shaping our country. You know who will put us on the right track...those who do not have their hands out!

The way the president talked, everybody is going to get something...who the hell is going to pay for all this?

Savers, like me, that's who.

Day 35. Too busy.

Big project at work. No time to find out how we got screwed today.

Day 34. I'm resting.

Day 33. Raising taxes.

This article talks about the president's plan to trim the deficit.
To sum up, the president used his weekly radio address to say he is determined to get the deficit under control. How? Raising taxes. On who? Businesses and the wealthy.

Yeah, that'll work, especially with the economy in the state it is in.

Day 32. Mr. Mayor, you are my scapegoat

From this article...

Using his presidential pulpit, Obama demanded accountability, from his friends in local government as well as his own agencies. He said the new legislation gives him tools to "watch the taxpayers' money with more rigor and transparency than ever," and that he will use them.

"If a federal agency proposes a project that will waste that money, I will not hesitate to call them out on it, and put a stop to it," he said. "I want everyone here to be on notice that if a local government does the same, I will call them out on it, and use the full power of my office and our administration to stop it."

The president has started to identify his scapegoats for when the trichinosis sets in from the raw pork deal being shoved down our throats.

Flash forward May, 2010. He'll say, "Nope. uh, it wasn't, uh me that wasted the, uh, taxpayers money. It was those, uh, mayors and other local officials that, uh, I have been, uh calling out these, uh past few months".

Day 31. Oh, Canada!

The president went to Canada.

Day 30. Mortgage program

Now all Peggy needs is free gasoline.

Day 29. Domestic and foreign affairs...

Today the president saved out country by signing a giantic pork bill. Whoo Hooo. We're screwed.

On the foreign side, the president will be sending 17000 troops to Afghanistan. Someone tell me when the soldiers in Iraq will be coming home.

Day 28. Another day off?

Deciding to skip signing the urgent pork bill to avert a catastrophe, the president apparently took President's Day off, thinking that this was his holiday. There are many comparisons made between him and Lincoln.

Actually, I have no clue what the guy did today as I was busting my ass at work. Somebody has got to make some money to pay for this pork bill.

Day 27. Ah, the good life.

"catastrophe", "urgent", ..., the rhetoric was amazing...Bradley Schiller has a very good write-up on it.

But now its over. "I won". "Lets celebrate while the middle-class schlubs break out the Made in China chocolates they got at Wal-Mart because that's all they can afford."

"C'mon, baby. Let's go get some dinner at Table 52 and sleep in Sunday morning."

Overheard at Table 52 Saturday night?...
"Waiter! Bring me pork. I must have more pork!"

Ah, the good life. He's livin' it.