Showing posts with label investment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label investment. Show all posts

SOTU Preview Part 2–Stepping Up Our Game

basketballObama will probably talk a lot about competition. How we have to step up our game in order to compete against other countries. This is like a coach just yelling at you to do better instead of giving you the tools, techniques and guidance to help you do better. He’s taking away our padding and yelling as us to get onto the field.

How can we “do better” when everything he does hobbles us at every turn? Simple. He has this sense that the only reason that the economy hasn’t done better and things haven’t turned around is that WE haven’t tried hard enough. That WE haven’t stepped up our game in order to defeat the negativity.

He has no clue that the reason why we can’t defeat this negativity is that he has actively done everything in his power to make things worse for the business community. He has done nothing to support us, and actively drags us down at every turn. And then he expects us to turn around and “do better”. For some odd reason, I think he thinks that nothing the government does really affects how the economy works, and that’s just idiotic.

Like an abusive spouse who simply thinks that shouting their message even louder will drive the more submissive spouse “back in line” – Obama tries to strongarm us to “out-do” other countries, while at the same time enacting policies to keep us from doing it.

Too bad he doesn’t realize that we are the ones in control. Release us, and we will soar, chain us down and we will flounder. It’s up to us to throw off HIS chains.

SOTU Preview Part 1–“Investment”, A Weasel Word For Spending

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More than likely, you will hear the words “invest” and “investment” a lot in today’s State Of The Union speech. It’s the same weasel word that Bill Clinton came up with back during his term to describe “spending” – as in government spending of the money it stole from us.

Don’t be fooled. The government never “invests” in anything. They don’t know how to invest. All they know is redistribution. Investment indicates putting your money into something expecting a return. The government does not care if it gets a return, since its not really their money that they are investing.

And a real investor expects a monetary return, whereas this government expects a societal return. Instead of actually “investing” most of the stimulus bill with small businesses, who could conceivably kickstart this economy, most of the money went to old, failing businesses which SHOULD have failed. Mostly Obama and Democrat cronies who helped propel him into office.

So when you hear him say “invest” think “spend”. It is unfettered, insane government spending which got us here in the first place. Everyone know that doing the same thing over and over expecting different results is one of the definitions of insanity, so how exactly is more spending going to solve anything? It’s not.