1320 Obama - replace PM w/ POTUS ??

U.K. MEP Daniel Hannan: Transcript of His Attack on Gordon Brown

Prime Minister, I see you’ve already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate. You’ve spoken here about free trade, and amen to that. Who would have guessed, listening to you just now, that you were the author of the phrase ‘British jobs for British workers’ and that you have subsidised, where you have not nationalised outright, swathes of our economy, including the car industry and many of the banks? Perhaps you would have more moral authority in this house if your actions matched your words? Perhaps you would have more legitimacy in the councils of the world if the United Kingdom were not going into this recession in the worst condition of any G20 country?

The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around £20,000. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child. Now, once again today you try to spread the blame around; you spoke about an international recession, international crisis. Well, it is true that we are all sailing together into the squalls. But not every vessel in the convoy is in the same dilapidated condition. Other ships used the good years to caulk their hulls and clear their rigging; in other words – to pay off debt. But you used the good years to raise borrowing yet further. As a consequence, under your captaincy, our hull is pressed deep into the water line under the accumulated weight of your debt We are now running a deficit that touches 10% of GDP, an almost unbelievable figure. More than Pakistan, more than Hungary; countries where the IMF have already been called in. Now, it’s not that you’re not apologising; like everyone else I have long accepted that you’re pathologically incapable of accepting responsibility for these things. It’s that you’re carrying on, wilfully worsening our situation, wantonly spending what little we have left. Last year - in the last twelve months – a hundred thousand private sector jobs have been lost and yet you created thirty thousand public sector jobs.

Prime Minister, you cannot carry on for ever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit. You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. And when you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we’re ‘well-placed to weather the storm’, I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line. You know, and we know, and you know that we know that it’s nonsense! Everyone knows that Britain is worse off than any other country as we go into these hard times. The IMF has said so; the European Commission has said so; the markets have said so – which is why our currency has devalued by thirty percent. And soon the voters too will get their chance to say so. They can see what the markets have already seen: that you are the devalued Prime Minister of a devalued government.

1321 Obama - Bait and switch

Meet Larry, the dead fish, aka government printing $1 trillion and monetizing our debt

So what was in the news? Steve's bracket picks ....

Steve's rage at AIG bonuses ...

Steve debuts on Leno ....

citizens wanting to lynch AIG citiznes

youtube video

1322 Obama - TOTUS/POTUS

President Obama's press conference transcript, March 24, 2009

baracksteleprompter.blogspot.com

BARACK OBAMA'S TELEPROMPTER'S BLOG REFLECTIONS FROM THE HARD DRIVE OF THE MACHINE THAT ENABLES THE VOICE OF THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD

1323 Obama - One with nature

GJ daily sentinel, March 24, 2009

Humans must give up all to truly preserve nature

Stop it now! All this energy production is ruining our environment and it has to stop.

Everything we humans do is bad for the Earth and must stop. Turn off your electricity, turn off your natural gas, stop buying gasoline, diesel, kerosene, and jet fuel. And since farming and manufacturing are bad for the environment too, no more manufactured goods or food. The only option we have to protect Mother Earth is to become one with nature and let nature replenish.

Sexual reproduction spreads disease, leads to birth defects, overpopulation and promotes pornography. Run wild with the bears and the birds. Compete one on one for your food and shelter. No guns allowed either. Guns are evil.

But our intelligence is still and unfair advantage, so I suggest that we all become politicians. Only then will we be well suited to drive ourselves to extinction and the Earth will survive.

Lonnie Smith
Grand Junction

1324 Obama - Cupboards Bare

Rush claims he went from right 98.9% of the time to right 99% of the time.

Well, here's one thing he's right about - 46% of the US people did not vote for Steve. And they're buying stuff.

Sportsman's warehouse Feb. 2009