Saturday, January 28, 2012

Your Random Saturday

Nice sum up of some of Obama's highlight fails here by the uneven John Hawkins:
1) Numerous Mexican citizens and an American citizen have been killed with weapons knowingly provided to criminals by our own government during Operation Fast and Furious. If Eric Holder was aware that was going on, do you think he should step down as Attorney General? Were you aware that was going on and if so, shouldn’t you resign?

2) In 2010 you said Solyndra, which gave your campaign a lot of money, was "leading the way toward a brighter and more prosperous future." Today, Solyndra is bankrupt and the taxpayers lost $500 million on loans that your administration was well aware might never be paid off when you made them. What do you say to people who say this is evidence of corruption in your administration??...

5) When you took office, gas was $1.79 per gallon. Since then, you've demonized the oil industry, dramatically slowed offshore drilling, blocked ANWR, and killed the Keystone Pipeline. Now, gas is $3.34 per gallon. How much higher do you anticipate driving gas prices?...

10) America lost its AAA credit rating for the first time under your watch. What do you think you should have done differently to have prevented that historic failure?...

14) Your stimulus bill cost more in real dollars than the moon landing and the interstate highway system combined. What do we have to show for all of that money spent?
Sorry, that was long, but worth it, and it's worth checking out some of the other. For a much more stimulating read, here's IBD praising Newt and Mitt for lashing out at Dodd-Frank:
"If you could repeal Dodd-Frank tomorrow morning, you would see the economy start to improve overnight," Gingrich asserted. "It is crushing independent banks" by clamping down on lending for both housing and small businesses...

"The Dodd-Frank Act and the related burdens are threatening not just our industry but our very banks," outgoing ABA chair Stephen Wilson last year wrote to FDIC chief Sheila Bair. "The most conservative estimates that we have seen predict that by the end of the decade there will be 1,000 fewer banks in the United States than there are today."...

He said the head of a large New York bank told him he has hundreds of lawyers working to comply with Dodd-Frank. "Community banks don't have hundreds of lawyers," Romney explained. "It's just killing the residential home market, and it's got to be replaced."

Dodd-Frank is also a job killer. ABA says it threatens to cost the U.S. economy 2.9 million jobs over the next three years alone — and that's without all the rules yet in effect.
Trying something new...just links:

It’s Working in Walker’s Wisconsin discusses the success the GOP reforms have had in WI despite the Chicken Little dire predictions and leftwing, violent, hate-filled protests. Teachers jobs saved, school district costs down, etc.

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