Obama Assails Romney On His "Victims" Comment, But...

Two weeks ago, the now infamous Romney tape was released where he said that 47% would not vote for him because they don't pay taxes and they probably feel like victims.  Of course, Obama is now using that statement to make Romney look like he's writing off half of the country and would only be the President of the other victimless half.  Further, Obama likes to say to the crowds at his campaign events: "I look out here and I don't see victims...I see hard working Americans".

The problem with Obama's words, like those of all Democrats, is that he has always seen certain Americans as victims.  According to Democrats, the blacks of this nation are always being victimized by whites.  The rich only got rich because they got that way off the backs of the poor.  The people losing their homes to foreclosure were victims of greedy Wall Street and greedy banks who steered them into bad mortgages.  People are out of work because greedy corporations are sitting on cash and not hiring.  The inner cities are poor because the wealthy have moved to the suburbs. Women are victims too, because the GOP has declared a war on women.  And, so it goes.

Identifying and politically creating victims is the mantra of all Democrats.  It's the basis of their belief in Social Justice (and Injustice) and income redistribution.  It's the rationale behind every single social program that the Democrats have initiated in this country.  It's how they build their political base and literally buy votes with taxpayer money. Quite simply, without a whole bunch of victims, the Democratic party wouldn't exist.

Obama's Neglect Of The Middle Class

Just recently, a Chicago-focused study on low-wage earners saw this group grow by 30% in just the last year.  More bluntly, this shows that the middle class is shrinking under Obama's stewardship; despite all his "bull" that he's growing and helping the middle class.  The fact is that most of the new jobs created in the private sector over the last 3-1/2 years have been low-paying; explaining why the mean family income has fallen by 8.2% over that same period.

References:

Chicago Sun-Times: Low-wage work force grows 30% as the number of jobs shrinks: http://www.suntimes.com/15379932-761/low-wage-work-force-grows-30-as-the-number-of-jobs-shrinks.html

Huffington Post: Job Market Recovery Led By Low-Wage Sectors: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/05/job-market-recovery-low-wage-sectors_n_1406102.html

Investor's Business Daily: Household Incomes Fall In Aug., Off 8.2% Under Obama: http://news.investors.com/092512-626958-household-income-down-82-under-president-obama.aspx

CBS/New York Times Swing State Poll: Rigged To Help Obama?

On Thursday, September 26, the New York Times and CBS released the results of their joint polling in three critical swing states: Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.  According to their polling, Obama now leads Romney by 10 points in Ohio; 9 points in Florida; and, 12 points in Pennsylvania.  My problem is that, in the case of each of those states, Obama is doing better in this poll than he did in 2008 when he beat McCain.  And, that's a little hard to believe with Obama's lousy record and lowered approval ratings.

In Ohio, for example, Obama won the state by only 4 points in 2008. Yet, the "Times" and CBS polling says that, if the elections were held today, he would win by 10 points.  In Florida, Obama only beat McCain by 2-1/2 points.  Now, in Pennsylvania, he did win big with an 11 point lead, but, can anyone really believe that the results will be better than they were in 2008?  In reality, my bet is that Romney is actually quite close to Obama in each of those states; if not leading in at least two.

These three polls just prove that, once again, those two liberal media outlets are in the tank for Obama.  The intent of showing him with such large leads is to discourage the Romney voter from wasting their time voting for someone that is going to lose, anyway.  It is a form of voter suppression.  And, it is disgusting.

References:

CBS: Poll: Obama opens substantial leads in key swing states: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57520341/poll-obama-opens-substantial-leads-in-key-swing-states/

New York Times: 2008 Ohio Election Results: http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/states/ohio.html

USA Today: 2008 Florida Election Results: http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/fl.htm

USA Today: 2008 Pennsylvania Election Results: http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/pa.htm

Obama's Delusional Stance On Terrorism

Ever since the attack on our Libyan consulate and the murder of our ambassador, President Obama has refused to call that bloody scene an act of terrorism.   In his U.N. speech, he continued to call the mob rioting across the Middle East and elsewhere, merely a response to the "film" that denigrated the prophet Muhammad; never once mentioning organized terrorism. 

No one should be surprised that the President ignores any references to terrorism because the delusional Obama seems to think that terrorism is simply a "tactic" being used by extremists.  His senior adviser on "counter-terrorism" made this position quite clear in August of 2009 -- just months after Obama took office:



So, for nearly four years, we've had a President who doesn't recognize terrorists as terrorists. In fact, in his  mind, the War on Terror is over.  The silliness of this is that Obama is playing with semantics in some obtuse effort to not offend Muslims by having them broadly painted as terrorists.  No one else has done that.   Everyone knows that terrorism is an extremist act being conducted by Jihadists who have declared war on this country.  But, this is so Obama.  He's terribly afraid that Muslims will be somehow offended. This prostrate position has gotten us nowhere.  He refers to world events by bad actors like Al Qaeda and Iran as "noise" and "bumps in the road."  To anyone else, this is seen as simply weakness. That's why today, Muslims all over the world are burning our flag and shouting "death to America"  and "death to Obama."  We need a President that is less worried about "offending" those who would kill us and more concerned about "defending" Americans.

I Would Hope That Harry Reid Is Not The Face Of Mormonism

According to several reports, Harry Reid has now come up with a new attack line against Mitt Romney.  As one Mormon to another, Harry has stated that Mitt is not the "face of Mormonism" and has even gone so far as to say that he has "sullied" the LDS Church.

I'm not a Mormon but, when looking at these two, Reid and Romney,  I would seriously hope that Harry Reid is not the face of the Mormon Church.   In Reid, I see nothing Christian.  I see a person that does not believe in that foundation belief of "do unto others" or "Thou shall not bear false witness".  At every opportunity he lies or presents deceitful statements in order to score political points.  For weeks, he has lied about Romney not having paid any taxes in the last 12 years.  Then it was 10 years. To justify his words, he claimed a credible source: A nameless Bain investor.  Now, this week, we know that Romney has paid hefty taxes in all of the last 20 years.

He has refused to walk across the aisle to work with Republicans on budgets, health care, or anything else.   He has treated them as lepers; not willing to hear any of their concerns.  He has facilitated Obama's destruction of this country by helping create a situation where millions of Americans are no longer employed and have lost thousands of dollars in salary over the last four years..   Reid was a pugilist by trade and has continued to act like he's still in the ring every day of his life.  I see a person that is constantly combative and unchristian; and, I would, hope, too, not Mormon.

Romney, to me, is more Christian than either Reid or Obama could ever hope to be.  He has helped many in need.  He has contributed his time and millions, each and every year, to his faith and other charities in order to comfort others.

Reid has gone too far, this time.  Hopefully, his words will backfire both on him and, as the Senate leader, and on the entire Democratic party for such a cheap-shot.

-- Politico: Harry Reid attacks Mitt Romney’s Mormonism: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81632.html

The Electric Car And Its Renewable Source Of Energy Joke

From the environmental left, all we ever hear is that we need to dump our dependence on finite energy resources like oil, coal, and natural gas.  To them, renewable electrical energy from wind and solar is the key to our future. Further, they envision a world of electric cars that would take advantage of all that wind and solar produced electricity.

But, there's a big flaw in their thinking, and, that flaw is the survivability of the lithium ion battery that is used to power the electric car.  You see, lithium is not renewable. It is finite; and, millions of more times more finite than the fuels that it was intended to replace.

Today, lithium is used to make batteries for everything portable.  Because of this, the current demand is growing at 25% per year while production is only increasing by about 4-to-5% per year.  This imbalance will eventually mean a shortage in lithium.  Some experts say this could happen as early as 2015.  The same experts say there's only enough high quality lithium product to produce 1.5 million electric cars like the Chevy Volt.  Because demand has been so high and production much slower, the price of lithium has tripled since 2000.  If by 2015, demand does outstrip production, expect prices to soar; and, when that happens, a replacement battery for your 2010 or later Volt could  zoom to $15,000 or more.  Of course, this high cost will just cause a used Volt's resale value to literally collapse. Then, too, a new Chevy Volt might cost $50,000 or more in just three years.

The only thing saving lithium from shortages is the fact that electric cars aren't selling as fast as expected.  Therefore, the doomsday of 2015 might have been pushed out to years later.

You see, the electric car isn't quite as renewably powered  as the environmental left would lead you to believe.

References:

IPad Boom Strains Lithium Supplies After Prices Triple: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-19/ipad-boom-strains-lithium-supplies-after-prices-triple.html

Electric Cars and Lithium Reserves: Only Enough For 1.5 Million Volts: http://gm-volt.com/2008/11/01/electric-cars-and-lithium-reserves-only-enough-for-15-million-chevy-volts/

Democrats Attack Romney's 2011 Tax Return

Within minutes of Romney's release of his 2011 tax return, Stephanie Cutter, Obama's deputy campaign manager, said this his about that return:

"confirms what we already knew - that people like Mitt Romney pay a lower tax rate than many middle-class families because of a set of complex loopholes and tax shelters only available to those at the top."

Of course the tone of that statement is intended to imply that the Romney's were getting away with murder when it comes to paying taxes.  But, what Ms. Cutter (and many liberals) don't seem to understand is that Romney does not have a salary.  Most all of his income comes from investments from which he receives dividends, capital gains, and interest income; and the tax rate for those types of income is much lower. The reason for the lower rate is that we want people like Romney to invest in America's stocks and bonds in order to grow the economy and support municipal building activity.  That's what investment income is all about.  At the same time, charitable giving gave the Romney's a lower rate.  Do we now want America's wealthy to stop giving money away the needy?

The fact is that the Romney's paid an effective 2011 tax rate of 13.9%.  According to the Tax Foundation's latest federal analysis from 2009, the lower 50% of all taxpayers with a positive tax burden* only pay an effective tax rate of 1.85%.  The average for all taxpayers is 11.06%; which is very near the 11.0% that the average middle-class family pays.   The average tax rate from the top 1% -- people like Romney -- is actually 24.01%.

This not paying "your fair share" class-warfare crap is really getting tiring.  People like Obama and Cutter want you and I to think that the rich aren't pulling this nation's wagon when, in fact, 50% of those at the bottom are riding in the wagon without hardly paying anything.  The top 1% of this country's taxpayers actually pay 36.7% of all taxes collected by the federal government while the 50% at the bottom only contribute 2.3%.  The top 25% of all taxpayers actually pay 87.3% of all taxes. How fair is that?

*Note: Some low income tax filers actually get more money back after taking credits than what they paid  due to something called Investment Tax Credit.  Therefore, these filers are considered to have a negative tax burden; and, in essence, this is another form of welfare.  But, this welfare is for people who are actually working and who do have some amount of income.

References:

Tax Foundation's Summary of Taxes Paid: http://taxfoundation.org/article/summary-latest-federal-individual-income-tax-data-0#table1

Associated Press: "Democrats: Political slant marks Romney tax return": http://news.yahoo.com/democrats-political-slant-marks-romney-tax-return-070444703--election.html