Political Poop, Positioning & Poppycock

The hype, political positioning, and basically CRAPOLA coming out from DC are nothing but nuggets of drama to keep a veil over the public's eyes, who can't seem to remember what happened the month before, much less last year.

Last week in an interview w/NBC's Ann Curry, Obama implied his family is fine with one term. “Michelle and the kids are wonderful in that if I said, `You know, guys, I want to do something different,’ they’d be fine.”

This is called positioning. Obama is not stupid, after all he is the President. He knows that he will likely win a second term, but he is just saying that to keep his opponents calm.

Because in the same interview, he said that one term is not enough and that he feels the work he started is not yet complete. What work would that be? Completely bankrupting small business in the country? Stimulus spending into oblivion that only benefits the banks and Wall Street? Expanding the wars and American empire even further into the middle east?

In March, we entered Libya. In his press conference on March 22 Obama said the activity we were getting into in Libya would be a matter of "days, not weeks."

So here we are 3 months later, and NATO (you might as well say the U.S.) is still there and the resulting civilian casualties are increasing. Nevermind they said the areas to be targeted were mainly *unpopulated*.

Then there's all this hype about Obama's speech the othernight about withdrawing 10,000 troops from Afghanistan. Big freaking whoop! There are nearly ten times that number currently deployed there. Is that what you call withdrawal? Again, it's more positioning, folks. A war that has cost over 400 BILLION (with a B) dollars and how many lives now? Does we really even know? Of course, there has been NO MENTION of Iraq lately from anyone.

The White House is in full campaign mode, and this positioning is intended to satisfy his unfufilled campaign promises made 3 years ago about ending the wars.

And on the economy & deficit? They've been supposedly hammering out this 'budget' since February. Remember, back in the first week of April, all the hype over the government will inevitably shut down if no agreement on the budget was reached?

Drama and political gaming continues while the little guy suffers.

While I'm on the subject, what has President Obama done to help small business owners recover from the "mess he inherited"?

He would likely respond to this question by referring to 'small business recovery plan' enacted 2 years ago - remember the one that was supposed to loosen up credit markets? Try asking any small business owners you know if that has benefited him or her in any way. You'll likely not get a favorable response.

It does appear however that he continued to help boost the small business bankruptcy rate. Business bankruptcies for the first quarter of 2011 were 12,376, double the amount compared to the same time frame in '07 (before the recession hit). And to top it off, the total annual business bankruptcy filings in '09 and '10 were the at the highest number since 1994.

I suppose we can call it the worst recovery since the great depression.

To his credit, Obama has not acted alone in the above *accomplishments*. His predecessor and Congress have been complicit, as well as the citizenry, for standing idly by and allowing this demolition of the American dream to continue.

There's an old saying, "That government is best which governs least". Corruption is rampant in our too-big-to-fail government, filled with scandal at every turn. Huge government sets the stage for this type of corruption.

While it's painfully obvious that some government services are necessary, the bureaucracy involved with various agencies to administer them could be shrunk drastically. Programs such as welfare and financial assistance could be done locally or at a state level and not require such huge institutions. One advantage of doing this would be that the recipients could be worked with more closely, and encouraged to become less dependent and more self-reliant.

And while the games in DC continue, we are involved in 3 wars (dont be surprised if another soon follows), NOTHING is being done to cut these expenses. People are broke, unemployed, homeless - and the guys & gals on the hill talk about cutting public 'entitlements'??

Government for the sake of government solves nothing.