Is there anything more irritating on your morning commute than slow-moving drivers who refuse to extricate themselves from the passing lane? The answer is “no.” And so now we may have at least one good reason to consider moving to Georgia
…sorry for the teaser…still… hell yeah!
Bloomberg radio on XM reported this morning that that Jimmy II, palms sore from high fives all around, is hitting the road to sell his health care deform bill.
But sir! Isn’t it the law of the land now? Why does it need to be sold?
Again and again and again?
President Obama spent 14 months getting to this moment, but aides said Monday that he wouldn’t spend much time savoring it. He plans an aggressive campaign to clarify what the bill does and try to deflect a Republican counter-assault. And other policy goals he had postponed in favor of healthcare now jump to the front of the line.
We’ve heard that before.
Only a clinically delusional man could at this juncture think he can simultaneously campaign for his health care plan and move other priorities (it’s the economy stupid) back onto his desk.
Any expectations of bipartisanship or cooperation on the part of the now neutered Blue Dogs on any issue have dissolved in the caustic environment that is the residue of Madame Pelosi and President Obama’s pressure-cooker tactics. Nonetheless, it appears Obama has more to concern himself with than the GOP.
The President is facing an American counter-assault.
Republicans, right now, can feel they’re on the side of the voters, who polls show simply don’t like the overarching bill. A CNN poll Monday showed 59 percent of voters oppose the reform bill passed by the House late Sunday, compared with 39 percent who support it.
Iowa is only the first stop in what will be a concerted White House effort to explain a bill that many Americans don’t understand.
Mr. President; Mr. Emanuel, you arrogant, condescending pricks with all due respect, America understands a lot more…now.
In November they may have found dubious the GOP’s attempts to hang labels of extremism and socialism around then-candidate Obama’s neck, but sixteen months later an implicit “we told you so” is being met with nods of acknowledgment.
“If this is going to be turned into a real asset for Democrats, the president and others have to be out there in a continual effort to sell this plan,” said Mark Mellman, a Democratic pollster. “Just letting it lie is not good. It’s got to be sold, sold actively and sold vigorously.”
…and that will be their downfall, if we haven’t already witnessed it.
How obtuse can one pollster be, let alone an entire administration – nay an entire political party – to not realize the obvious fact that the more this cluster has been sold, the lower it’s popularity has sunk?
“I don’t think there’s any place that it’s going to be helpful to them,” Jesmer said, scoffing at Democrats’ assertion that they will be able to turn the tide of public opinion. “They have been selling this thing for 13 months — all they’ve been doing is selling it.”
That is the sole reason the Senate vote was conducted on Christmas Eve and the House vote in a hurry-up huddle on Sunday night – for fear sniveling, castrated Democratic lawmakers might escape to find themselves in a conversation with increasingly disapproving constituents.
The party hopes to make that case with a healthy dose of testimonials from Obama, who signs the bill Tuesday, then totes it on the road to Iowa on Thursday to sell it.
Speaking of Quinnipiac polls…
The health care deform bill has already lit up the tea partiers…which could be good…or could be bad for the GOP.
It depends.
…on how (truly) conservative the GOP wants to be next time around.
Americans say they’ll vote for a Republican over a Democrat in the November elections by a 44 to 39 percent margin.
But the addition of a Tea Party candidate to the ballot changes the dynamic: The Republican candidate drops dramatically to 25 percent and the Democrat only slightly to 36 percent, while 15 percent would back the Tea Party candidate.
It strains the imagination to think that there are still 36-39 percent left that would still vote for a Democrat yet at the same time this data shows it’s the GOP’s race to lose and a right leaning candidate won’t fly (again).
In light of this data, loyal readers, who do you think is our (Wo)Man?
The health care reform bill is making it’s way to the President (you know, the one where the people won and the insurance companies lost) and yet…
For the first time, a CNN poll has found that a majority of Americans disapprove of President Obama’s job performance.
How can this be? Didn’t we win? That’s what the President told us. Shouldn’t we be happy? Are we not good, obedient listeners?
I think the President should be telling us to be happy more. That way we’d be happy.
…and approving.
…keep the oven door closed, bake at 500 degrees for a whole weekend, and the result should be no surprise.
It is hard to imagine how much pressure they brought to bear on congressman Stupak to get him to accept a cynical, phony clearly illegal and unconstitutional executive order on abortion. The ruthlessness and inhumanity of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid machine was most clearly on display in their public humiliation of Stupak.
He did look like he was about to cry…or had “dropped the soap” in a prison shower.
…is hard to swallow…and it’s probably too late any way. Then again, why do we need that pill now any way? The federal government will pay for an abortion.
America is pissed off, but will anyone be made to pay?
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll (…of course if this were a Fox News poll, it would be thrown out by most liberals-JR) found that 59 percent of those surveyed opposed the bill, and 39 percent favored it. All of the interviews were conducted before the House voted Sunday night, but the contents of the bill were widely known.
…to the extent they’ve ever been widely known.
In addition, 56 percent said the bill gives the government too much involvement in health care; 28 percent said it gives the government the proper role and 16 percent said it leaves Washington with an inadequate role.
On the question of costs, 62 percent said the bill increases the amount of money they personally spend on health care; 21 percent said their costs would remain the same and 16 percent said they would decrease.
The poll’s results about the bill’s fiscal impact were particularly stark: 70 percent of respondents said they believed deficits would go up because of the bill; 17 percent felt they would stay the same and 12 percent said they would go down.
…not than any of this was ever about health care. This has always been about a transfer of power to Democrats by crafting a new middle-class entitlement.
Obama’s relentless push to “reform” health care misses the point – by a mile.
Health care costs in America aren’t attributable to not enough government involvement rather not enough freedom of choice (i.e. free market forces) and even moreso, an epidemic lack of personal responsibility.
Liberals aren’t real big on the personal responsibility deal, and most Americans are oblivious to the fact that a government “reform” of their health care system takes more than it gives – they’re too fat, dumb and happy.
Mostly fat though.
…and it starts with our youngn’s.
Extreme obesity affects about 6.4 percent of children, according to a Kaiser Permanente study that suggests overweight kids are getting even heavier.
What do you suppose the chances are that a fat kid ends up being a fat adult?
Several studies now indicate that obesity in young adult life is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Furthermore, excessive weight during adolescence predicts a number of adverse effects on health later in life, including increased mortality among men.
What are the results of obesity?
- Coronary heart disease
- Type 2 diabetes
- Cancers (endometrial, breast, and colon)
- Hypertension (high blood pressure)
- Dyslipidemia (for example, high total cholesterol or high levels of triglycerides)
- Stroke
- Liver and Gallbladder disease
- Sleep apnea and respiratory problems
- Osteoarthritis (a degeneration of cartilage and its underlying bone within a joint)
- Gynecological problems (abnormal menses, infertility)
Its a list of all the usual suspects of the most costly burdens to our health care system. Meanwhile Barack Obama is vilifying the health insurance companies while Michelle Obama (as much as it pains me to type this) might actually be on the right track in her mission to reduce childhood obesity.
It’s unfortunate that America is being sold the idea that the only solution to health care reform is a massive expansion of government entitlements when the massive expansion of Americans is one of the major factors in our health care “crisis.”
I wonder if the 55 MPH speed limit, a product of his protracted era of malaise, wasn’t more of a factor in retrospect, of the quick demise of his executive branch career?
Meanwhile, over thirty years later, the government is relaxing in favor of allowing citizens to use their own judgment.
The 55 mph national speed limit enacted in 1973 in response to the first Arab oil embargo was justified as a means of conserving fuel. In 1987, the law was changed to allow speeds up to 65 mph. But the Republican Congress elected in 1994 did few things more popular than repealing the limit altogether in 1995.
Virginia will become the 34th state to boost interstate speed limits to 70 mph or higher. In big, empty states such as New Mexico, Idaho and Nevada, posted limits on rural interstates can be as high as 75 mph.
I have noticed when traveling longer distances that no matter what car I am driving, I tend to feel most comfortable just above 70 mph. The roads and our cars seem to be designed for that speed.
Left to their own devices, American drivers confronted with an open stretch of interstate highway tend to drive at about 70 miles per hour—whatever the legal speed limit happens to be.
But doesn’t speed kill?
both fatalities and fatality rates on U.S. highways are declining even as speed limits rise. The U.S. Department of Transportation last week reported that its latest estimate of highway deaths in 2009 is 33,963—the lowest number since the government began keeping these grim records in 1954. The fatality rate is estimated at 1.16 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled.
Modern cars and light trucks have an average of 225 horsepower under the hood and sophisticated safety systems such as traction control. They are designed to cruise comfortably, safely and efficiently at between 65 and 70 mph—if not faster, particularly in the case of the autobahn-burners German luxury brands sell.
Anything above 75, I feel I almost have to be “too attentive” to the road and am unable to enjoy the ride.
Anything below that…I get bored.
How fast do you drive?
“The wars of the future may be fought on the internet” – Johnny Roosh
As a boy growing up in the Soviet Union, Sergey Brin witnessed the consequences of censorship. Now the Google Inc. co-founder is drawing on that experience in shaping the company’s showdown with the Chinese government.
The internet may be many things, for better or worse, but one would have to backtrack history to the invention of the printing press to find an innovation that has done more for the free flow of information, expression and commerce.
China will never threaten America’s dominance unless and until its people enjoy the same freedoms of speech and enterprise that Americans do.
Meanwhile, back at the Neanderthal Ranch…
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for regulation of the Internet on Saturday while demanding authorities crack down on a critical news Web site that he accused of spreading false information.
…because after all Chavez is an expert on falsities.
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. ~Sigmund Freud, 1933
…SITD wasn’t the first to take notice, but we smelled this a mile away.
A federal safety investigation of the Toyota Prius that was involved in a dramatic incident on a California highway last week found a particular pattern of wear on the car’s brakes that raises questions about the driver’s version of the event, three people familiar with the investigation said.
On Monday James Sikes, 61 years old, called 911 and told the operator his blue 2008 Toyota Prius had sped up to more than 90 miles per hour on its own on Interstate 8 near San Diego. He eventually brought the vehicle to a stop after a California Highway patrolman pulled alongside Mr. Sikes and offered help.
During and after the incident, Mr. Sikes said he was using heavy pressure on his brake pedal at high speeds.
But the investigation of the vehicle, carried out jointly by safety officials from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Toyota engineers, didn’t find signs the brakes had been applied at full force at high speeds over a sustained period of time, the three people familiar with the investigation said.
Multiple sites (ex. Fox News, courtesy Bill C.) are reporting Mr. Sikes is in financial trouble and my have simply been looking to get out of his obligations on the Toyota Prius.
Toyota’s unintended acceleration issue may be real, or it may be a combination of factors which probably include opportunism, a litigious society, and the fact that some people have big feet.
Who knows – it’s probably all of the above. One thing I do know is that if I were behind the wheel of a Toyota Prius (I know, I know, just try to imagine it if you can) and the accelerator seemed to be stuck, the first thing I would do is…
…call 911?
“I pushed the gas pedal to pass a car, and it just did something kind of funny … and it just stuck there,” he said at a news conference outside a Highway Patrol office. “As I was going, I was trying the brakes … and it just kept speeding up.”
[Jim] Sikes said he called 911 for help, and dispatchers talked him through instructions on how he might be able to stop the car. But nothing worked.
…or so he says.
Mr. Sikes, with all due respect, are you trying to tell us that you couldn’t put the car in Neutral, or Park, or turn off the ignition? …but you could pick up your phone and dial 911?
Calling 911 in this situation affords the citizen a calm, cool professional, at the ready to tell you what you already should know, but it also affords said citizen the opportunity to convert what should have been a thirty-second emergency (assuming it was real) into a matter of public record and with a little added drama, a spectacle. On a slow news day, you might find video of your melodrama on every channel and across the interweb.
Bing!
Alerted by emergency dispatchers, a California Highway Patrol officer was able to catch up to Sikes’ Prius and used the patrol car’s public address system to instruct Sikes to apply the brakes and the emergency brake at the same time.
The trooper said after the incident that he could smell the Prius’s brakes burning, even at that high speed.
I smell something too, but it’s not burning brakes.
Michael Moore is pledging to whip Obama and Democrats in Congress into shape – liberal shape – if he is named the next White House chief of staff. And Moore vows to sleep in the White House basement and work for $1 per year if the president hires him.
“Now, don’t get too giddy with excitement over my offer, because you and I are going to be up at 5 in the morning, 7 days a week and I am going to get you pumped up for battle every single day,” Moore writes in a letter posted on his Web site that he said was sent to Obama. “Each morning you and I will do 100 jumping jacks and you will repeat after me: “THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ELECTED ME, NOT THE REPUBLICANS, TO RUN THE COUNTRY! I AM IN CHARGE! I WILL ORDER ALL OBSTRUCTIONISTS OUTTA MY WAY! IF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DON’T LIKE WHAT I’M DOING THEY CAN THROW MY ASS OUT IN 2012. IN THE MEANTIME, I CALL THE SHOTS ON THEIR BEHALF! NOW, CONGRESS, DROP AND GIVE ME 50!!”
Okay, put aside for a moment the unrestrained use of all-caps…and the call for a dictatorship…before Michael Moore orders congress to do 100 jumping jacks and 50 push ups, I’d like to see Michael Moore do…just one…of either.
Just one.
One floppy man-boobs jumping jack.
“With or without Michael Moore, Democrats are in for a rude awakening in November”
…but with Michael Moore they’d be in for a rude awakening when they find two years’ worth of chicken wing bones and empty Snack Pack Pudding cups in the basement of the White House.
The post office wants to dump Saturday delivery.
The U.S. Postal Service, facing a crushing budget deficit, unveiled a sweeping cost-cutting plan Tuesday that apparently includes elimination of Saturday deliveries.
Who was it that once said in response to the question…
“Show me one thing the government has done well”
…The Postal Service?
Tangent notwithstanding, this should be no surprise. The fact is people are mailing less, emailing more, and if they need something sent quickly and reliably…there are other options, and people are willing to pay for the privilege.
Drop Saturdays. Fine with me. Why don’t you drop Tuesday through Saturday while you’re at it.
…in fact, lose Monday too. I’m sick of shovelling the snow away from my mailbox so I can empty it into the recycle bin every day.
Daily delivery of the mail is overkill.
You want to send me something? Make it an email.
He’s a sick man.
…and Dementia.
“an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.”
…just so you know, he’s talking about Man-Made Global Warming, not the Obama administration.
Thomas Sowell comments on the perils of an administration dominated by academics; intellectuals; elitists.
What do you think of the Obama administration…?
It’s very hard to answer that without using language that is totally inappropriate in polite society. But it is quite clear that they believe it is their job to take decisions out of the hands of the voting public.
So what is Obama’s area of competence? Does he step out of it every morning when he wakes up?
God broke off a chunk of ice and sent it out into the ocean. It’s so large it will solve the looming Global Warming Disaster (run for your lives!) for the surrounding area for decades to come.
An iceberg the size of Luxembourg split off from Antarctica and could disrupt global ocean patterns and weather systems for decades, according to scientists cited in The Times of London on Saturday.
Although the impact was not expected to be felt for decades, the iceberg could block the production of cold, salty water, known as “bottom water,” which could lead eventually to cooler winters in the North Atlantic.
In other news, Luxembourg is still a country. I checked.
Did you see this?
“Hiding spending does not reduce spending”
…it’s everywhere, but you have to see Ryan’s calm but complete takedown of the President and his policies regarding health care reform.
…through the invention of such a simple object know as the Frisbee”
Who hasn’t owned and thrown a frisbee, one of a handful of quintessentially-American inventions whose trademarked name became the descriptor of the entire category.
Fred Morrison put his World War II experience as a fighter pilot to peaceful use by inventing what became known as the Frisbee.
The Frisbee became the frisbee; Kleenex became kleenex.
Raised in Utah and California, Mr. Morrison began his fascination with flying disks as a teen, throwing popcorn lids and then cake pans on the Santa Monica beach. In a memoir, Mr. Morrison wrote that a stranger once offered to buy one of his pans for a quarter.
“At the time cake pans cost about a nickel,” Mr. Morrison wrote. “A business was born!” Mr. Morrison’s toy business was interrupted by World War II, during which he piloted bombers and fighters. He was shot down while flying a P-51 Mustang over Italy in 1945 and held as a POW. After the war, he used the knowledge he had gained in the Army Air Corps to design a more aerodynamic flying cake pan.
Because theretofore cake pans weren’t suitable for efficient flight?
Morrison died this week and we will remember him by these words:
“I never liked the name Frisbee…I thought it was stupid.”
…but it paid the bills.
….but I’m smarter than you.
Enough about about Health Care reform. What do you think about Health Insurance Reform?
Obama reminds me of the guy that says
“Enough talk about me. What do you think about me?”
There are many and several ways America has expressed it’s disapproval of reform of health care reform via an ever-expanding liberal government growth plan.
It’s been three weeks since Massachusetts voters elected Scott Brown to the Senate, in large part because of his opposition to the health care confusion Democrats have sown. It’s been even longer since Americans at tea parties and lawmakers’ town hall meetings plainly told Washington they wanted no part of the health care elixir that Congress was peddling.
Still, our political elites, impressed by their own intellects, insist that the public will get the health care system they want the public to have, not the health care the public wants.
This was confirmed by the president when he told Couric he would not throw out the proposals that are stalled in Congress and start over, even though public opinion (see chart) strongly indicates that he should.
Everyone’s heard the message loud and clear save one man.
Unfortunately he happens to be the President of the United States.
“Just in case there’s any confusion out there, let me be clear,” Obama said. “I am not going to walk away from health insurance reform.”
You see what he did there? He smuggled the word insurance into his monologue. Make no mistake, a man of words, and only words, chooses them wisely. Also of note, Jimmy II also threw in his signature and so very very tired “let me be clear,” mantra; a sure sign he intends on being anything but.
America cares about jobs and the economy at the moment and for the time being the majority are satisfied with their health care and are dissatisfied with the size of their government. Obama is increasingly making himself an island on both fronts.
There was immediate skepticism from Mr. Obama’s own party that the forum would break the impasse. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) said he had reached out to Republicans “on several occasions” last year to seek their ideas and feedback. “I was, however, disappointed that these meetings did not result in any serious follow-through to work together in a bipartisan fashion,” he said.
So, it’s the Republicans’ fault that health care reform is pushing up daisies?
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R., Ohio) said he welcomed the outreach. “Obviously, I am pleased that the White House finally seems interested in a real, bipartisan conversation on health care,” he said in a statement. “The problem with the Democrats’ health-care bills is not that the American people don’t understand them; the American people do understand them, and they don’t like them.”
At least someone’s listening.
Tangent warning!
Riddle me this: if you could remotely control the President and somehow direct his actions to further derail his Presidency, and really light up Americans who are quickly growing angry at their government’s expansion into issues no one believes in or cares about, what might you do?
This?
Amid the growing fight over the accuracy of climate data, President Obama is seeking to have the federal government put its imprimatur [screeeeeeeeeeeeeeechhhhhhhhhh!-JR]
…that means approval; consent. I had to look it up.
on the science by calling for the creation of a new federal office to study and report on global warming.
Rep. Edward J. Markey, Massachusetts Democrat: “This service will be a vital part of our growing body of knowledge on climate change, and will be held to the highest standards of scientific integrity and transparency”
Right.
Sir, is that the Nancy Pelosi definition of transparency or the Barack Obama variant?
…oh, and re the “highest standards of scientific integrity”…is that the IPCC definition or the Al Gore version?
I thought so.
Barack, we love ya. You’re making all the right moves…you know…for the one-term-and-out deal.
Sadly, you’ll be a one-term president, and a mediocre one. At best.
Okay, so I’m not going to make a habit of defending the President but…uhhh, Senator Reid, it already is.
I mean c’mon!
Read that quote.
Las Vegas is the poster child for where people shouldn’t be spending their money…by design!
A city whose mantra is “What happens in Vegas stays in VegasTM” isn’t aiming to be the wholesome venue where Pa Ingalls brings Ma, Half-Pint and the rest of the clan for a family vacation.
During the president’s town hall meeting in Nashua, New Hampshire, he discussed the need to curb spending during tough economic times. “When times are tough, you tighten your belts,” the president said.
True.
“You don’t go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage.
True.
You don’t blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you’re trying to save for college.”
True.
The president’s comments come nearly a year after he criticized companies that received federal money for taking corporate junkets to Las Vegas.
Should Americans not have a problem with that?
“You can’t go take that trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on taxpayers’ dime,
(unless your name is Nancy Pelosi)
” he said at the time. Local business leaders say Nevada tourism suffered last year in part because companies canceled trips to Las Vegas in the wake of the president’s comments.
Or I might respectfully offer another theory…maybe…just maybe…it was because….of a recession…that occurred…oh…give and take…all of last year?!
Not to worry: I think America has figured out that there is a very low correlation between reality and whatever the President says.
Besides…
President Obama is scheduled to visit Las Vegas this month.
…to apologize and find someone to bow to.
UPDATE:
President Obama seems to have realized that capital gains aren’t a chief concern of business owners and instead is now focusing on a $5000 per capita tax-credit to business that hire new employees.
WSJ: The details of the initiative, which Mr. Obama is expected to highlight when he visits Baltimore today, include a $5,000 tax credit for every net new employee in 2010. This credit would be retroactive to the beginning of the calendar year and could be received on a quarterly basis, if the business so chooses. In addition, employers would receive a tax credit to cover Social Security payroll taxes on wage increases.
As a small business owner that is in fact looking to hire someone in February, I can finally say that the President is proposing a policy that will
Tax cuts across the board would still be a better idea and the macro issues and effects related to this proposal have yet to be debated but I for one am pleased with the President’s initiative.*
…and she wasn’t popularized for her intellect…if you know what I mean.
Ettinger, 28, said that even though she doesn’t have health care — “I can’t afford it” — she still thinks Obama should have waited to tackle the thorny legislation that has been blamed for the devastat ing Democratic loss of Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat.
He did create some jobs, but most of them were government jobs and that doesn’t really help the middle class. But it helps a bit,” said Ettinger.
Apparently Hooters doesn’t offer health insurance.
The President’s teleprompter mentioned “jobs” twenty nine times by my count. Unfortunately for the citizens of the United States of America, where “when the Union was turned back at Bull Run and the Allies first landed at Omaha Beach” and blah blah blah, their President thinks creating a public sector job is something other than simply enlarging the government.
…and at the same time, is still hawking the now infamous “Two Million.”
Because of the steps we took, there are about two million Americans working right now who would otherwise be unemployed.
Who are these two million people?
200,000 work in construction and clean energy. 300,000 are teachers and other education workers. Tens of thousands are cops, firefighters, correctional officers, and first responders. And we are on track to add another one and a half million jobs to this total by the end of the year.
…and the other 1,410,000, sir?
All public employees, sir. With all due respect, we need jobs that “pay the bills,” sir.
The term “Clean Energy” or “Green Jobs” is a euphemism for “Government Subsidy” and “beauracracy”…and “Failure.” Sir.
The Obama administration’s call for green jobs as an economic savior initially sparked hope for economic recovery. But the federal funds have only dribbled into the sector
Among the victims: the plodding light-rail project in St. Paul; the massive layoffs at Suzlon’s wind turbine plant in Pipestone and the deep job cuts at New Flyer’s hybrid bus plant in St. Cloud, the site Vice President Joe Biden visited last year to herald the administration’s green initiatives.
…back to the teleprompter:
Now, the true engine of job creation in this country will always be America’s businesses.
…but not so much while Obama is President.
So tonight, I’m proposing that we take $30 billion of the money Wall Street banks have repaid and use it to help community banks give small businesses the credit they need to stay afloat.
More TARP? Jolly good idea, Mr. President, because the billions of TARP dollars already out there are getting lent out, right? The TARP that the banks that are lending, that are in good shape, are giving back to you with a “Thanks, but No Thanks”?
I am also proposing a new small business tax credit – one that will go to over one million small businesses who hire new workers or raise wages. While we’re at it, let’s also eliminate all capital gains taxes on small business investment; and provide a tax incentive for all businesses, large and small, to invest in new plants and equipment.
…like the health care reform you proposed? How’d that go?
Next, we can put Americans to work today building the infrastructure of tomorrow.
Read: grow government.
From the first railroads to the interstate highway system, our nation has always been built to compete. There’s no reason Europe or China should have the fastest trains
…ours will be faster because they will be empty!
or the new factories that manufacture clean energy products
…in China.
Tomorrow, I’ll visit Tampa, Florida, where workers will soon break ground on a new high-speed railroad funded by the Recovery Act.
…because if there is one thing Tampa needs, it’s a high-speed railroad.
There are projects like that all across this country that will create jobs and help our nation move goods, services, and information.
…how do you move a service? Sorry Mr. President, you were saying…
We should put more Americans to work building clean energy facilities, and give rebates to Americans who make their homes more energy efficient, which supports clean energy jobs.
…like this?
And let’s tell another one million students that when they graduate, they will be required to pay only ten percent of their income on student loans, and all of their debt will be forgiven after twenty years
Why don’t we just give them the money when they’re born like Hillary wanted to?
– and forgiven after ten years if they choose a career in public service.
…or you could tell them to skip all that and just give them the job.
From the day I took office, I have been told that addressing our larger challenges is too ambitious – that such efforts would be too contentious, that our political system is too gridlocked, and that we should just put things on hold for awhile.
For those who make these claims, I have one simple question:
How long should we wait? How long should America put its future on hold?
…apparently about three more years.
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