Obama's State of the Union Speech Will Be All Lies
By Alan
Caruba
On January
28, the President of the United States will stand before a joint session of
Congress and lie to them and to all Americans.
The
mainstream media will treat it as a serious presentation and make no mention of
the lies.
Following
the State of the Union speech (SOTU) there will be a formal response by a
Republican spokesman. It will be very polite and not likely to strongly expose
the lies and oppose the President.
The “low
information” Americans will take Barack Obama at his word. Nearly half of all
Americans who might listen to the speech or read about it are on some form of
government dole or entitlement program. They are interested in food stamps,
unemployment compensation, their disability status, and an older generation
will understandably want to ensure their Social Security checks keep coming and
Medicare will continue to underwrite their medical costs.
Whatever
Obama has to say about the Affordable Care Act—Obamacare—will be a lie. His
administration continues to lie about the number of those who have enrolled,
but we know they are mostly the elderly while the younger generation wisely
avoids it.
We live in
a nation where more than 90 million Americans are out of work, cannot find
work, or have given up looking for work. Anything Obama has to say about the
economy will be a lie.
When Obama
gives his speech, the total population of America will be 317,490,000 people.
It is the third-most populous nation in the world with 82% residing in cities
in suburbs as of 2011. Anyone who has driven throughout the nation knows that
much of it is nearly uninhabited. A mere 2% of the population are the farmers
and ranchers who feed the rest of us.
The two
most populous states are California and Texas. New York City has the largest
population of the nation’s cities. It just elected a Communist as its new
mayor. He has announced he intends to raise taxes.
There are
an estimated eleven million illegal aliens living in America and The New York
Times reports that number may be growing. Previous efforts at amnesty resulted
in not only endowing them with citizenship but their entire families, many of
whom joined them from their home nations. At a time of high unemployment among
natural born and naturalized citizens, increasing the population in this
fashion will only add to the economic problems the slowest recovery in decades
represents. In Congress Democrats favor an amnesty. Republicans are unsure of
whether to oppose or accept it.
In
addition to amnesty, the President will no doubt make some mention of tax
reform. The reform the nation needs is the elimination of the income tax in
favor of a fair tax based on consumption of products and services. You buy it.
You pay a national sales tax.
No doubt
the President will make some reference to gun control. He has been unable to
get any legislation about it and has relied on executive orders to impose
limits on the Second Amendment. Meanwhile, Americans are buying guns like
crazy. It’s about self-defense and the prospect of a President who may not want
to leave office. He will cite the Newtown slayings, but mass slayings in
America have not increased in decades. It is not common, though it is always
tragic.
It’s hard
to predict how much time Obama will devote to “climate change”, but this
greatest hoax of the modern era is very dear to him and the Democrats in
Congress. A group of them are signing a letter to be sent to the heads of the
network channels urging them to devote more airtime to lies about how carbon
dioxide is causing the Earth to warm and poses a huge threat. The Earth,
meanwhile, has been in a cooling cycle for seventeen years and many Americans recently
experienced record-setting cold weather. More of them—though only about
23%--are beginning to express doubts about global warming. Duh!
The
climate change agenda is being pursued outrageously by Obama’s Environmental
Protection Agency which is issuing regulations intended to continue shutting
down existing coal-fired plants that generate electricity and keep new ones
from being built. It is a direct attack on the nation’s economy which depends
on electricity. Whatever Obama says about it will be a lie.
No doubt
he will make reference to his latest scam, income inequality. If there is one
thing communists love it is class warfare. The best way to reduce income
inequality is well known. It is a
thriving economy that provides more jobs and higher pay. Meanwhile, there
may be a passing reference to increasing the minimum wage, a great way to deny
entry-level jobs to young workers and increase the cost of everything else to
the consumer.
Obama is
not likely to have much to say about foreign affairs. In general he has managed
to reduce America’s role as an international leader for democracy, justice and
human rights. We are running out of allies, especially in the Middle East where
Israel, Jordan, and a few Gulf states remain friendly.
When I was
a young man coming of age in the 1950s I could never imagine living in a nation
whose moral structure was such that a million unborn children are killed every
year by abortion. I would never have believed that some 40% of women would
choose to be single mothers. Or that the divorce rate would reach 50% and more.
I could never imagine young men and women graduating from college with huge
debts in an economy where jobs were not only fewer, but subject to an Obamacare
law that forces businesses to cut the number of hours they work, limiting their
earning capacity.
This is
not an America I envisioned, but it is one that Presidents and Congresses since
the Great Depression of the 1930s whose government they have expanded to the
point where many Americans regard Big Government as the biggest problem facing
the nation. They’re right.
© Alan
Caruba, 2014
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