The Obama Watch
PAYGO PAYGO
Obama’s vacation from reality.
Barack Obama’s rhetoric about the economy in recent days has been a blizzard of excuses, euphemisms, denials, and scapegoating attacks. Notice that Democrats are more upset that he is caricaturing Las Vegas than Wall Street.
By telling people not to “blow” their money in casinos, Obama is killing business there, they say. But what about demonizing and discrediting bankers and “fat cat” employers? How is that good for business and job seekers who depend upon them? Obama’s sophomoric reliance on quasi-Marxist fragments, clichés, and favored villains in the place of real economic thought explain his ill-considered gibes at Nevada and New York.
Obama is hurting business all around, even for allies at his unofficial headquarters, MSNBC. Keith Olbermann’s ratings, according to reports, have plunged under the weight of anti-Obama ennui.
“You don’t blow a bunch of cash in Vegas,” says Obama. No, you do it with him in D.C. What’s “greed” in the private sector counts as “good government” in the public sector. It is always more virtuous to waste other people’s money than your own.
The mayor of Las Vegas calls Obama a “slow learner” now that he taken two swipes at the city’s economy. Left-wing ideologue would have been a more polite way of putting it.
Unfortunately, Obama’s problem goes beyond business-killing comments to business-killing policies. Hire more people, he urges businessmen while saddling them with new taxes and regulations. He wants companies to “invest” and “grow” while telling Americans to view them as polluting profit machines.
Forced by events to fake up an anti-Washington posture, Obama reaches out for the usual gimmicks — the PAYGO bill,” “spending freezes,” “earmark reform.” It all sounds about as credible as Al Gore’s plans in the 1990s to “reinvent” the federal government.
Unless Obama plans to adopt limited-government views, his “cuts,” “freezes,” and “reductions” have zero meaning. Has he suddenly seen the light? Does he now agree that the federal government should restrict itself to those few essential tasks beyond the capacity of state and local governments?
No, his view of the federal government is as unlimited and glib as ever. He sees no relationship between deficits and his party’s political philosophy. That excessive spending reflects its excessive view of the federal government’s competence and proper powers wouldn’t occur to him. Consequently, his idea of a solution to deficits is taxing anything that moves. According to the Washington Post, he wants to drop a $120 billion tax on multinational corporations over the next decade and squeeze another $300 billion from “high earners” by tinkering with itemized deductions.
He automatically equates economic growth with government growth. So the “spending freeze” has to be postponed until “recovery measures” have worked. Under Obama’s thinking, there are good deficits and bad deficits, good earmarks and bad earmarks, and they all happen to dovetail with his “priorities” of the moment.
The definition of words in D.C. grows ever more slippery. A “cut” by any other name is still not a cut. Would the PAYGO bill, for example, translate into reductions in the size of government? No, just shifting and sloshing of government funds. As Obama casually put it in a quote that appeared on cbsnews.com, the “concept here is very simple. You want to start a new program? Go ahead. But you’ve got to cut another one to pay for it. That’s how we make sure we’re spending your money wisely.”
Wouldn’t it be wiser not to start that new program in the first place? It is Obama’s glib “Go ahead” attitude that explains the ease of deficit spending, and since he views taxation as an instrument of wealth redistribution it is not “your money” but the state’s.
As Obama tells Americans not to go to Las Vegas, he presides over a city that more and more resembles it, with schemes instead of slot machines and farcical politics instead of shows.
About the Author
George Neumayr, a contributing editor to The American Spectator, is co-author, with Phyllis Schlafly, of the new book, No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom.
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Melvin| 2.4.10 @ 7:46AM
The mayor of Las Vegas is much, much to kind in his opinion of Barrack Obama.
For slamming Las Vegas a second time the mayor's opinion should be, "What the hell is that ignorant Jackass thinking?"
Some might think that my opinion might be crude especially in a forum such as American Spectator, but this Presidential moron is destroying this country brick by brick, business by business, and it will multiple generations of our children to rebuild if at all what that jug-head had destroyed.
As I have posted many times I'm tired of being nice and articulate with dainty forms of criticism aimed at our current body politic, and there are times that something needs to be called exactly what it is. And sometimes it won't be dainty and articulate, but crude, shocking and directly to the point.
I for one hold no solace or feel that we are going to get a reprieve in the 2010 midterm elections. The Republicans have no voice and are completely void of any ideas or action. The current crop minus Scott Brown is molded from the same block of bull squeeze that got us into this mess in the first place.
The Republican leadership should be ramping up pressure and ideas and should by this time hitting their stride, but they haven't even begun and are still floundering around and acting like well, Republicans instead of visionaries to get this Country back where it should be fiscally.
There is too much infighting and bickering in the Republican camp and the tea party movement is now having it's message fall down the crapper because of the latest fiasco of infighting and it's convention. The movement now has either been hijacked by the Republican Party or has been taken over my Madison Avenue types that make an organization loose it original grass roots.
I'm not sure of what the answer is, but I do have this deep feeling that the die has been cast and we have yet to see it, and when we do, it ain't going to be pretty.
bluecollarbytes| 2.4.10 @ 9:23AM
If Republicans intend on relying on Democrat missteps entirely, which seems to be the case, I think it's likely that we will be stuck with the Obamagenda that's already gone through when Republicans retake power.
Obama and Democrats need to be fought ideologically because the ideology provides the solid basis for a well-rounded fully-rooted Opposition. I'm looking to the next generation of conservatives.
Anthony| 2.4.10 @ 10:38AM
I agree with Melvin. I applaud the mayor of Las Vegas' willlingness to speak tough, while other timid pols and pundits merely hint and imply that this president is an economic illiterate and a leftist disaster.
The mayor and Republicans should hold a joint press conference and point out what private enterprise has created, albeit, Las Vegas' creation was a bit tainted by the mob. They should point out that Obama and his leftist academic friends have neither created a single private sector job nor helped build a single building. All that is Las Vegas speaks to the power of the private sector and its creativity; something government hacks will never comprehend, or should I say, resent.
All that is Obama and his ideological ilk is what the state can control.
crookedwren| 2.4.10 @ 11:17AM
Melvin,
I agree with you, and I'm having difficulty sleeping at night. There's a time when actual measures and actions MUST be taken to avoid a complete collapse. That time is possibly now, but everyone just keeps gabbing on. Including me.
I'm worried about my country, my state, my children, grandchildren, my mother, my husband -- we are not in a position to weather well the storm I see heavy on the horizon. It's close. Everyone's talking about it.
But this debt is not exactly like a weather-storm. Nor are these leftist policies.
Weather will happen. We can't stop that.
But, by the Heavens, we can and should and must do something about those.
And so, tea party folks, Republicans who are weary of being "Dem--Lite," and Democrats who are embarrassed now to admit being Democrats, to Independents, Libertarians, all who want a return to the Constitution, Checks and Balances rather than a centralized, nearly-all-powerful Executive Branch, all who want some fiscal responsibility, all who prefer free market principles to socialist/Marxist/Maoist systems of "redistribution of the wealth" (which results in economic disaster as well as a "redistribution of power" that always leads to bad ends), we need to continue to ACT, even if it means picking up the phone, writing an email, faxing something to those in our local, state, as well as federal government -- find out what your state govt. is doing to insure that the 10th Amendment is not completely eroded by the power grab that has occurred in D.C. Find out what your state govt. is doing to protect your second amendment rights. Even if you're not a "gun-type," take a gander at what has happened in the UK. Take a gander at California; the state has eviscerated the second amendment to some extent.
Even Justice Alito can understand why we're shouting back when Obama says something so egregiously false. When he crowed about not having lobbyists in important positions, I wanted to scream. He's got -- what --- more than 30???
He spouts off about fat cats and bankers and greed -- and then creates a board where everyone on it is from Goldman-Sachs.
But I'm preaching to the choir again. We all know the layers of hypocrisy in this Congress and Administration.
As I said, everyone's talking about. Especially me.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 2.4.10 @ 7:54AM
Obama is the progenitor of a Bolshevik plot.
Howard| 2.4.10 @ 8:30AM
Amity Shlaes wrote a book called The Forgotten Man. It deals with the "Capital Strike" of the mid to late 1930's. FDR similar to Obama was hyper critical of business. He proposed new taxes, regulations and was constantly mocking business. The result was a recession within the Great Depression. Unemployment rose to 18%. Now our liberal friends attribute that spike in 1937-1939 as a result of the government slowing down New Deal expenditures. As you see, there are many similarities between Obama and FDR as far as business bashing and poor economic results.
Tim| 2.4.10 @ 9:14AM
"It was necessary to save the economy in order to destroy it."
Pete| 2.4.10 @ 9:38AM
If I owned a business right now I would right-size and then sit on my hands and wait. The uncertainty caused by this administration in mind-boggling. Which industries will they vilify next? Did my competitor give more to the Dems during the election and if so what advantages will they be gifted? Is my competitor minority owned?More new taxes coming, healthcare mandates coming, and you want to send me a small check in the hopes I will actually hire in this environment? Get bent.
RAMIII| 2.4.10 @ 10:34AM
This is actually what is currently taking place.
Grzmlyk| 2.4.10 @ 12:03PM
Pete, all you have to do is listen to Bob, our resident troll and self-described "economist" who has run several Fortune 500 companies, been an entrepreneur and attended Harvard as well as discovered America, found a cure for AIDS and beaten Tiger Woods in a head-to-head round of golf. It is inexplicable to me why such an important muckety muck now devotes all of his time to throwing his dung at denizens of Amspec, but we are always grateful for his brand of wisdom.
If Bob could chew through his new restraints, I'm confident he would say this:
Pete, fret not. Your fears are based on your right-wing ideological fervor. Simply remember the following: 1) Taxes on corporations don't affect anything; 2) companies never make decisions based on tax policy; 3) rises in the minimum wage don't impact a company's bottom line because they can simply pass the costs along their customers with impunity; 4) GDP only goes UP! Up! Up! and therefore all this whining about our economy is simply right-wing vitriol.
So buckle down, Pete. From the comfort of his world of manipulated statistics and gossamer abstractions, Bob knows WAY more about running a business than any actual business owner, who has to meet a payroll, ever could.
Pete| 2.4.10 @ 1:39PM
Last I saw, Bob was twisted up in gayness on the military issue. He'll be along eventually.
Grzmlyk| 2.4.10 @ 1:53PM
I think I hear the trumpets blaring now.
I'm guessing Bob got beat up a lot as a child.
WRJonas| 2.4.10 @ 10:06AM
Who will trust anything coming from this administration? They have lied so much and so long that everything is now viewed with suspicion.
Plus there is the terrible matter of the "original Lie".
Once a person or an organization or source spreads a lie as a basic assumption, ALL subsequent conclusions or activity are the offspring of the lie and (are) is itself corrupted.
This administration has lied so much its complete record is a pile of deception and untruth.
Where will trust and belief find the earth to spread its roots and grow?
Will we trust ungodly men to bring virtue and truth to our governance ?
RAMIII| 2.4.10 @ 10:29AM
Sometimes when I watch President Obama speak, it appears to me that he is not really in there. When I watch his eyes they seem to have a sort of detached look about them.
This man is truly frightening, because he is able to make something despicable and evil sound so light and free. He appeals to the lower instincts of human nature and all that is corrupt when self-interest seeks to trump the rights and freedoms of others.
Hmm?
Pete| 2.4.10 @ 10:52AM
How can you see his eyes when is head is tilted back so condescendingly? Or have some networks started filming from a balcony to give you that view? In the time it takes me to change the channel, all I get a glimpse of is his chin. If I want to be lied to straight to my face, I will ask my 3yr old if he wiped properly after using the bathroom.
Grzmlyk| 2.4.10 @ 12:29PM
Uh oh, Pete: You shouldn't have brought up your three-year old's wiping issues. Now President Obama will vow to get to the bottom of the issue, so to speak, and appoint an ass-wiping czar, a new cabinet position and a $350 billion bureaucracy to ensure that Americans will never have to fear having uwiped asses ever again. And 0f course the czar and his staff, the cabinet and the "boots on the ground" required to enter every home, every outhouse, every port-a-potty, every fountain in San Francisco, will create or save thousands of jobs (which Bob will tell you are no different from private-sector jobs).
Seriously, though, the very first hint I got about Obama's megalomaniacal messianism and sophomoric thuggishness was his exaggerated chin thrust. Mussolini had nothing on this guy.
I forget, how'd it all end for Mussolini? Oh yes: hanging upside down at a gas station stripped, beaten, throat slit and stoned by an angry citizenry who just a few years earlier worshipped him for the the brave new world he promised to usher in.
Of course I don't wish any violence upon Obama - that would make a martyr of him, and he doesn't deserve even the one lousy statue of him in Indonesia that birds won't even poop on, and which in fact is about to come down in favor of a statue of Ronald McDonald.
But the fate of all would-be dictators awaits our adolescent in chief. I'm going to start calling him "D-cup" because he's just one big boob.
Pete| 2.4.10 @ 1:17PM
I like it...the poop czar idea...I would even give him the name "Il Deuce" if I hadn't already bequeathed SLT, aka the Turd, that nickname.
Grzmlyk| 2.4.10 @ 1:33PM
Funny how all things liberal sooner or later are on a par with human waste.
Perhaps some discerning bully back in Hawaii gave Obama a well-deserved swirlie - and the result is that an entire nation is subject now to his administration's fecal policies. Obama's revenge.
I love "Il Deuce!"
Pete| 2.4.10 @ 1:37PM
Feel free to use the term "liberally."
Grzmlyk| 2.4.10 @ 1:40PM
I will - after all, as Picasso said, "good artists copy; great artists steal."
:-)
Margie| 2.4.10 @ 2:33PM
Obama has nothing on Ronald McDonald. Why, good old Ronald has sold what-billions of hamburgers and all by free market enterprise!Not to mention his charitable giving~all of those Ronald McDonald houses. He is the "living"emblem of the American Dream! Yes, Obama could learn something from him if he wanted to. And just look at that smiling, always happy face of his! Never a frown or jutting jaw. No wonder they'd want to replace Obama's statue with his. They understand what freedom's all about. God bless 'im.
Grzmlyk| 2.4.10 @ 3:28PM
Very good points, Margie. If they want the equivalent of Obama, they should erect a statue of Wile E. Coyote, who never fails to fall over the cliff in pursuit of the Road Runner - not unlike what Obama's doing with the country in his pursuit of his "Utopian" vision.
Jobe| 2.4.10 @ 10:53AM
I realize that oversimplifying comples problems and situations usually marks one as " that guy at the end of the bar on his fifth beer", but we really can go back to what Ronald Reagan said in his 1980 campaign. He reduced the philosophical problem in determining what government should be to, " Some believe government is the solution and others, the problem." He, of course, saw it as the problem.
Melvin| 2.4.10 @ 12:12PM
Jobe, your somewhat correct, but in myself being a disciple of Reagan, he saw that it is the citizens that make a country what it is and not the government as you have alluded to.
Many decry that they want to relive Reagan. Ronald Reagan was a visionary, he realized that he was not immortal but he made sure that he gave us the tools to carry on the principles of personal responsibility, accountability, and not depending on government to cover our mistakes.
He made us see that this Country despite it's faults has done more good in the world than the opinion of the current administration.
I'll use DMV for example. There is no reason in why it should take 2-3 hours for registering a vehicle. Government's solution is to hire more people, Reagan's approach was to fire the lazy people that were already there therefor streamlining the process and showing the other employees that if you don't work, you don't get paid.
Air traffic controllers tried the punk card on Reagan and we all know who won that battle.
pugsley| 2.4.10 @ 3:06PM
Melvin-I think Reagans personal responsibility meme got trumped by Clintons 'you are our customers' bilge. Long about then the public started to get the message that they could look to big brother for all their needs and to fix all their broken dreams and it has been straight downhill from there.
Gerald Stephens| 2.4.10 @ 12:20PM
NB: American Thinker has a problem – censors submissions. This in comment on Obama's ego was recently rejected.
FIRST AMENDMENT...
I must be cautious with the following. This organization's (AT) monitor summarily rejected my last attempt at free speech.
So here goes...
Obama's underlying modus operandi instantly belies any remote suggestion of intelligence. The lethal mistake was assuming that he is more intelligent than We the People, the Bill of Rights, Constitution, and unparalleled history of the nation.
His collective conduct during the eleven month usurpation of the office of the president, tripling the national debt, derision of his person by foreign friends and foe alike, and the abject failure to 'change' America by mouth and mussel speak volumes.
And hats off to all those 'red neck racists' in Massachusetts !
Gerald Stephens
Hartford, CT
Mystery Poster| 2.4.10 @ 1:04PM
Hello Gerald:
I was approached about being a "moderator" at AT and, once I figured out the game there, I turne in my pass key and declined the dubious honor.
But I know a little of the "inside baseball" that goes on there. While many moderators are well-intentioned, the fact is that they want to sculpt the "comments" section to look like a well-manicured, meticulously landscaped garden that adorns the central edifice of the Web site, which is the articles themselves.
It is a pity because the guy in charge there, Thomas Lifson, posts some of the very best, most incisive conservative writers addressing issues today. I consider the articles posted there to be required reading for conservatives.
Unfortunately, his policy with respect to the commenters betrays a timidity that is very disturbing - he's afraid a heavy-handed, "fairness doctrine" spouting government official might shut them down if the site's denizens get too unruly.
Personally, I think this posture is intellecually dishonest - the truth is that he wants the appearance a pristine, bloodless and homogenous community of readers for its own sake and not the messy rough-and-tumble, no-holds-barred, let-it-fly back-and-forth that goes on here - and which is therefore infinitely more interesting to participate in.
Knowing your thoughts are, in some instances, being rearranged and changed to suit some moderator's desires may not be censorshop per se - after all, it's Thomas's site and he can dictate the rules as he sees fit - but it is distasteful to me in the extreme. I still read the articles, but I won't even delve into the "comments" section anymore.
By enforcing this policy, Lifson is in fact carrying water for the left's thuggish, dictatorial approach to human discourse and erecting a monument to the political correctness he professes to detest.
It's very odd and very sad.
Oldefarte| 2.4.10 @ 1:31PM
The morons running our government believe that PAYGO [which is essentially one step/program added requires one step/program eliminated] will solve the deficit/debt problems [which is ludicrous]. The only thing that will do so is serious/substantial governmental program/expense cutting either across the board [all departments] or priortized with cuts to foreign aid, space travel, farm aid, welfare/social services, and non-critical military hardware. Democrats don't want tot cut social services, and Republicans don't want to cut military expendatures; and the end result is that nothing ever gets cut. When private businesses are in an economic slump, they cut expenses; when the public governments are in an economic slump, they tax the incomes of taxpayers and maintain/add to governmental programs. When will Americans wake up to what is being done to them with this political con-game?????
macdaddy| 2.4.10 @ 1:55PM
The mayor of Las Vegas is obviously a racist. Calling Obama a "slow learner" plays into the racists' characterization of blacks as having inferior intellects. Where's the outrage?
Ken (Old Texican)| 2.4.10 @ 2:41PM
mcdaddy, heh
My outrage got lost somewhere a year ago.
Robert Pinkerton| 2.4.10 @ 6:59PM
The ideologically self-blindered cannot learn. If, to make a metaphor, intellect is the "hard drive" of one's "bio-computer" a.k.a. "wetware," the drive cannot "store" (retain) if it is chockablock full of gibberish.
Personally I think that wagering money or comparable value on a game of chance, any game of chance, is consummately foolish; and to wager borrowed money on such games (subsuming issuing an IOU for gambling losses one cannot cover then and there), transcends foolishness in the direction of outright perversity. Still, I see no reason to abrogate the right to do so -- as long as other social mechanisms for the rectification of the consequences are in place and functioning (e.g.: A gambler's wife divorcing him so their children should not starve)
I dislike it when my adversaries are "micro-right" within a larger context of "macro-wrong."
wbheff| 2.4.10 @ 2:44PM
1. Obama and his fellow traitors Reid, Pelosi et al, represent a clear and present danger to our country.
2. Take a second look at what those people have done and are trying to do, and ask yourself if you are sure there will be congressional elections this year.
Jeff Perren | 2.8.10 @ 2:11PM
As sure as reasonably possible, yes. Even in the colossally unlikely case that anyone tried to stop elections, the riots on both sides of the political divide would be massive.
Things are bad, but nowhere near that bad yet. Sure, they'll try to manipulate events to get re-elected, use ACORN and OFA to stuff the ballot box, etc. But the Progressives are - at this stage - much more subtle than to try and stop elections altogether. They give a patina of legitimacy to their dictatorial aspirations that is still essential to their goals.
Jeff Perren| 2.8.10 @ 2:16PM
Also, it's still true that democracy can be nearly as tyrannical as open Fascism, for quite a while. Look at Venezuela. Voting per se does not guarantee the protection of individual rights, by a long shot.
Flee| 2.4.10 @ 2:53PM
Paygo might work if we were at a zero deficit position. Then I could see ending one program and replacing it with another of equal cost. I still only want national defense, borders and immigration from the Feds. Everything else should simply be eliminated. Stop subsidizing colleges, grade schools, arts, useless green energies,etc... We do not need the Feds to take care of us. We need them to protect our sovereignty and not much else.
Bulwark| 2.4.10 @ 3:29PM
The message we are getting out of the Obama administration is anti-American and can be condensed to the following: business-bad, government-good, wealthy people and corporations who create jobs-bad, taxes-good, free markets-bad, regulation to the max-good, actual compromise-bad, regurgitating and disorting your opponents arguments-good. You get the point.
No politician has dumbed down the presidency this way in US history. If he doesn't stop, he's a goner. My question is: will Hillary challenge him in 2012 and is Bill Clinton on call to give him some much needed political advice?
Ken| 2.4.10 @ 8:46PM
When I saw this picture of Pago Pago harbor as taken from Afono pass, I assumed the article involved my old home of American Samoa and not just a play on words. Mr. Neumayr though missed an opportunity to note comparisons to the wasteful spending of ASG (American Samoan Government) to the federal government. ASG depends upon the federal government to bail itself out. I guess the US these days depends upon the Chinese to bail us out.
rms| 2.5.10 @ 12:32AM
Quote/joke from libertarian VP candidate in '08.
What's the difference between Vegas and DC?
In Vegas, the drunks are spending their own money.
That says it all - tho the Dims have shown the previous admin to be real pikers, even if the TARP grand theft robbery of the taxpayers was under the Repugs and McMussolini voted for it, as did Mugabe.
Call it bipartisan looting. Vote for neither of the above.
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Jeff Perren | 2.8.10 @ 2:05PM
"That's how we make sure we're spending your money wisely."
Of course, the CEO of Amerika would never for a moment consider the idea - longer than it takes to dismiss it with a wave of the hand - that it's not the Federal government's place to spend our money, wisely or otherwise, on anything but the bare minimum of Constitutionally legitimate functions.
Sue| 2.8.10 @ 9:45PM
The INCREASE in the Dept. of Education's budget, equaled the entire budget when Bill Bennett was agency head. Pass it on. The two political parties have been "power sharing" for decades now. We, the voters, have to end it once and for all by calling out each and every one of them and voting them out of office.
With the internet communication, the truth is readily discernible; facts can be brought up quickly, checked, source documented and cross checked. This is why both parties will want to tax out of existence the internet communications.
Watch for this along the way!
explosion proof light | 11.15.10 @ 8:59AM
Obama's stage props, the guys with the white jackets, are here to take you away, to the funny farm, where everything will be alright.
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Political Truth | 10.14.11 @ 1:55AM
lol what a funny name of this post, Pay and Go Pay and Go :D