Lies and damn lies

The P-BO played the role of national mama soothing a nation of cowards whimpering in the corner, “It’s not fair.” Were he playing the role of dad he’d had told us, “Look life’s not fair. Now get up. Get out there and kick some butt.” Instead he comforted us by telling us it’s not our fault that we’re unemployed, under employed or make less than our neighbor. It’s the fault of rich Republicans. Why we’d all be living like Warren Buffet or at least Mitt Romney if things were just fair.


Here’s the take away line:

[W]e can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.

In a single line everyone from failed business man who worked 90 hours a week get his fledging business off the ground to the lazy no count whose biggest effort of the day is noon time stroll the mailbox to see if his thrice weekly government check has arrived, are relieved of any responsibility for their own situation. It’s not fair and there is no hope in America. That’s why things haven’t worked out for everyone who things haven’t worked for.

This is America. Who isn’t getting a fair shot? How long have they not been getting a fair shot? This is the land of the fair shot and by worldly standards always has been. By fair shot the divider-in-chief means achieving an equal outcome. Equal outcomes are achieved by “spreading the wealth around.”

Who is not doing their share? The rich? The top 25% are currently footing 86% of the income tax burden in this country. How is that “fair?” 46% PAY NO INCOME TAX AT ALL. How is that “fair?” “Fair” is code for socialized redistribution of assets.

Who isn’t playing the rules? We are the most taxed, most over regulated people in the history of the planet. When you set those conditions, you tilt the playing field toward entities that can afford to deal with an unwieldy tax and regulatory bureaucracy, i.e. big business. You freeze out the little guy who can ill afford a team tax lawyers or an environmental impact study that’s required to break ground on a new facility. The P-BO and the Libs set the conditions through tax and regulatory policies whereby only a few companies can afford to compete, then he complains that it’s not fair. When someone recommends leveling the playing field by easing regulations, the P-BO rejects that and favors more regulations to punish those still able to compete. The process ends when a particular industry moves completely overseas.

By contrast, Mitch Daniels told us more about the state of union in 13 minutes than the P-BO did in his hours long line of BS.