HERE’S YOUR NEW JOBS….$BILL

President Obama spoke before a joint session of Congress on Thursday, September 8, 2011. I did not watch his speech … I never do. That is because I have zero confidence in the man and the political party that he leads. The speech was touted as the unveiling of his new jobs programs and initiatives ...it wasn’t. What it was, was just another campaign speech. He spewed the same old class warfare rhetoric that he’s far too accustomed to using. In his speech he repeatedly told Congress to pass his jobs bill. A bill, that at the time of the speech, no one in Congress had seen. I doubt that even Barack Obama himself had seen the mystery bill. I had to jokingly say that not only had he and the Democrats started passing bills without reading them, but now they were going to pass bills without writing them! .... as I’m righting this blog (today is September 14, 2011) the jobs bill has been in congressional circulation a day or so.

As I said, I did not watch the televised speech, but that does not mean that I didn’t follow up on it. I was not surprised that the speech was long on words (just words) and short on details … that is not unusual for a Barack Obama speech. What did surprise me is that he did not have the presence of mind to acknowledge the upcoming tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Here he was in front of a joint session of Congress live on prime time television and he says nothing. I found that to be remarkable, but what I found to be even more remarkable than that, is that almost no one else in the US did.

I (as well as many others) have said that far too many of us have forgotten what happened on 9-11. We’ve become insulated from it. We don’t talk about it. We don’t hear about it. We don’t think about it. But our enemies do think about, talk about, and hear about it … the attack on our homeland was considered a victory in their eyes. What do most people do when they’ve suffered a defeat? … they avoid the topic. And we has a nation have been doing just that. Yes, we’ve taken the war to them but we’ve not defeated them. I’m a big Dallas Cowboys fan …. but just this past weekend, on 9-11-11, I watched them lose a game they thought they were winning. And I believe we as a nation are on the verge of losing a game we think we’ve won.

We’ve not ended the threat of Islamic terrorism against us and we have not ended the threat of our economic woes either. Recently my wife was very excited that we received a letter in the mail from our credit card company informing us that they were going to lower our interest rate. Isn’t that something! Just because we’ve been paying down our debt and then not adding to it they have decided to lower the interest rate. Now if only Barack Obama, the Democrats, and RINO Republicans would do the same with our national debt … pay it down and then stop adding to it.

Barack Obama’s latest bill does neither of those things. He’s going to borrow some more to pay for mostly government jobs and projects. He’s willing to mortgage still more of America’s future to pay for the mistakes of this and former generations rather than fix those problems today. Affixing a great debt on posterity is un-American and immoral. I cannot say it any better than my cousin Lonnie did and so I won’t …. so I’ll let you read how he felt after hearing President Obama jobs speech, “I was extremely disappointed, that, as we approach the tenth anniversary of the attack on our nation, our president would call for a joint session of Congress to declare to the world that the evil intentions of our enemies; to destroy our financial, governmental and military systems were accomplished. We are broke, leaderless, and our ability to defend ourselves is diminishing”. Lonnie Perez , Sept 2011.

There you have it.
Pass it on if you like or let me know if I don’t have a clue.

Eddie