DOn’t forget Lightworker lecturing us how we can’t keep our homes so warm and eat what we want and expect the world to accept it—-while he keeps the Oval office "so hot you can grow orchids"
Is that petty? Perhaps. Too f**king bad about it also. Lightworker’s Sanctimony lends itself well to pettiness.
Two more points about Ocarters slam on Wall Street:
1) It is laughable to hear that from someone who’s Secy. Treasury didn’t pay his taxes. It is doubly laughable to hear it from someone who’s pushing a porkapolooza of a spending bill, and who made sending $$$ for overseas abortions a top priority.
2) I believe VP Biden said something to the effect that "he’d like to throw them (Wall St. Bonus takers) in the brig". Anyone else believe that he actually means that literally, not figuratively? |
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"There will be a time for the to make profits...now is not that time".
So he wants companies to fail? |
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WASHINGTON — The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat.
“He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/us/politics/29whitehouse.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,”...
“That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen,” he added.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/19/obama-lets-eat-less-so-that-we-can-lead-by-example-on-climate-change-by-eating-less/
POTUS said he wanted to talk about something unrelated to the economy. "Can I make a comment unrelated to the economy?" — and launched into weather remarks (please check transcript): "My children’s school was canceled today, because of what? Some ice," he said, and all at the table started laughing.
"As my children pointed out, in Chicago school is never canceled," he said, joking about how kids go out for recess on snow days. More laughter.
POTUS said he would have to instill "some flinty Chicago toughness" into Washingtonians.
"When it comes to the weather, folks in Washington don’t seem to be able to handle things," POTUS said. Fighting words!
http://dcist.com/2009/01/obama_mocks_dcs_reaction_to_winter.php
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calling the payouts "shameful" and chiding the executives for a lack of personal responsibility at a precarious time for the nation’s economy. ANyone else ever watch the cartoon "The Venture Brothers"? Obama’s starting to remind me of the one alien who talks really loud, wishes only to observe, and constantly shouts "IGNORE ME!!!"
Rules for thee, but not for me.
Shared sacrifice - his sharing, our sacrifice.
I keep waiting for Obama to cry out, as he dines on fine dishes, "Let them eat Ramen!" |
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I’m waiting for MiniTru to tell us how important it is for the president to keep up the appearance of "normalcy" to "boost the nation’s morale" during difficult times (anybody remember the stories that came out during Slick Willie’s reign about how lying is actually sort of a good thing?). He’s not keeping the thermostat in Hawaii mode or eating expensive Japanese beef because he LIKES it, you understand: he’s doing it to remind us of the good times that are just around the corner, to keep hope alive. Yessir, the sacrifices TAO makes for us. Brings a tear to the eye, really."You have heard then, comrades," [Squealer] said, "that we pigs now sleep in the beds of the farmhouse? And why not? You did not suppose, surely, that there was ever a ruling against beds? A bed merely means a place to sleep in. A pile of straw in a stall is a bed, properly regarded. The rule was against sheets, which are a human invention. We have removed the sheets from the farmhouse beds, and sleep between blankets. And very comfortable beds they are too! But not more comfortable than we need, I can tell you, comrades, with all the brainwork we have to do nowadays. You would not rob us of our repose, would you, comrades? You would not have us too tired to carry out our duties? Surely none of you wishes to see Jones back?"
The animals reassured him on this point immediately, and no more was said about the pigs sleeping in the farmhouse beds. And when, some days afterwards, it was announced that from now on the pigs would get up an hour later in the mornings than the other animals, no complaint was made about that either.
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You really can’t appreciate the Wagyu steak thing without the link. |
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"When it comes to the weather, folks in Washington don’t seem to be able to handle things," POTUS said.
Nothing those of us who have lived up north have not said many times, every winter when the first (and sometimes only) snow falls. In addition, Washington DC is notorious for its inability to clear the streets of even a moderate snowfall. He could also have mentioned the DC school system, whose incompetence and inefficiency is almost criminal. |
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Now, unexplained is whether these are "bonuses" or actually commission on sales.
Now, I would assume, that Pres. Obama would have a problem with say, automakers or suppliers, keeping to a contract that had them in a profit sharing deal with their workers. |
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Now, unexplained is whether these are "bonuses" or actually commission on sales
There is that. And, there is the issue of how much of what was paid out, was required by contract.
But better, as Boortz yesterday pointed out:The state of New York is going to lose $1 billion in tax revenue this year. Any guess as to why?? That’s right .. cash bonuses to Wall Street employees decreased by 44% in 2008.When it comes to the city of New York, employees brought home $18.4 billion in bonuses last year. Sounds like a lot .. until you realize that the year before, they brought home $33 billion. That is going to cost New York City $275 million in tax revenue.
An analysis by the State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says that this is the largest tax revenue percentage decline in over 30 years. Before the financial crisis, tax revenue from those evil, greedy rich people on Wall Street accounted for 20% of the state’s tax revenues and 12% of New York City revenues. So, it’s all very PC to use ’the rich’ as punching bags, but what happens when you manage by whatever means to eliminate the rich from the picture?
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So he’s going to make sure none of the billions he wants to invest in green research will be profits or bonuses right? |
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