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February 22, 2012
Warren Richey: How Supreme Court ruling on Texas could reduce affirmative action across US
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Melissa Dribben: Jewish voters to play a key role in Florida's Republican primary
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Ali Safi: U.S. envoy gives Taliban terms for peace talks
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Frank J. Gaffney Jr.: No-kidding red lines: U.S. response to an Iranian nuke may be bluster, but Israel's won't be
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Tom Hussain: Pakistan -- recipient of more than $21 billion in civilian and military aid -- speeds pursuit of Iranian pipeline, defying US
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Stephen Ceasar: Oklahoma's Islamic law amendment can't go into effect, court rules
January 10, 2012
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January 9, 2012
Michael Doyle: Put through legal hell over dream home, couple fought back hard --- all the way to Supreme Court
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Jewish World Review
Jan 27, 2012/ 3 Shevat, 5772
Obama is like an Italian ship captain
By
Jay Ambrose
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com |
In his State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama reminded you of the captain of the Italian cruise ship that took a deadly dive. This seafarer keeps making up weird tales to justify his actions. Those rocks he crashed into? That was to avoid sinking. And he didn't abandon ship. He fell into that lifeboat.
Obama provides similar sleight of hand when he tells about helping to rescue the economy by such maneuvers as putting a 2009 tariff on Chinese tires.
"Over a thousand Americans are working today because we stopped a surge in Chinese tires," he said. The arithmetic must have been done in the dark. The tariff actually hurt small businesses that sold the low-price, low-quality tires that jumped from $39 to $69, according to a Wall Street Journal article. Whatever the reasons for American tire companies to increase employment a couple of percentage points, it had little if anything to do with less Chinese competition. These American firms make mostly premium tires.
Nevertheless, one tire dealer is quoted as saying that the firms used the tariff as an excuse to hike their own prices. The Chinese, meanwhile, retaliated with higher tariffs on various U.S. exports. At the end of the day, Obama had mainly cost consumers money. There could have been a net job loss, too.
The president also swelled his chest over oil imports being down, but they are down at least in part because of a bad economy that leads to less driving. Obama, meanwhile, thought it useful to say nay to a perfectly harmless, job-producing oil pipeline that could be part of an energy boom.
You might also look at how administration goons sought criminal punishments against North Dakota oil companies for the accidental deaths of seven birds. A judge threw out the case, asking in effect, "Are you kidding me?" Sadly, the administration seems very serious about ruining our energy future whatever absurdity it takes.
Obama also said he had made everything hunky-dory in Afghanistan and Iraq. He hasn't. Just watch.
He said he has given us fewer border crossings by illegal immigrants, and there's some truth to that: Mexicans aren't so eager to come to an economy he has been so inept at helping to recover.
He thinks he made General Motors the top auto producer in the world, but that's true only if he arranged the tsunami that crippled Japanese competition. He said the economy has been creating new jobs, and it has. But we have something like 5 million or 6 million fewer than before the recession.
Our leader told us the world stands as one in stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons. What? China and Russia are no longer part of the world? He said we can use money from ending wars to build infrastructure. All our withdrawal will accomplish fiscally is slower debt accumulation.
He barely mentioned his health-care plan, except to say it was private, not public. Half of it is Medicaid and the other half is ridden with government mandates. Though advising us about silly regulations in his speech, many of Obama's have been expensive, hard-hitting, wrongheaded abuses that shred liberty and thwart prosperity.
The main fault of his address, in addition to being a target-rich document for fact checkers whose own facts seemed to me pretty much right this time out, is that it virtually ignored the overriding domestic issue -- our nation's debt danger.
To get there, we had to wait for a televised rebuttal from Mitch Daniels, the Republican governor of Indiana, who had the honesty to address Medicare and Social Security, two crucial programs that will nevertheless ruin us and fail to survive themselves if not reformed.
There is this to be said about Obama's speech, however. It was well-delivered. That Italian ship captain might want to make use of his teleprompter techniques.
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Jay Ambrose, formerly Washington director of editorial policy for Scripps Howard newspapers and the editor of dailies in El Paso, Texas, and Denver, is a columnist living in Colorado.
Previously:
• 01/25/12: Newt Gingrich's first 100 days
• 01/20/12: Obama's Keystone pipeline lies
• 01/18/12: Critics worse than urinating Marines
• 01/13/12: Ron Paul is a cartoonish character
• 01/11/12: Newt Gingrich upset by Mitt Romney's brilliance
• 01/09/12: How about regulating presidents, too?
• 01/04/12: How America smothers itself
• 12/30/11: A tax break that helps break the nation
• 12/28/11: Watch out for the banana peel, Newt
• 12/21/11: A tale of two men
• 12/16/11: Strange happenings in Russia
• 12/14/11: Tim Tebow is a man of character
• 12/09/11: A populist, envy-mongering fraud divisively exacerbating resentment among different groups of Americans
• 12/07/11: Tax games threaten nation
• 12/05/11: Why Wal-Mart serves us better than Barney Frank
• 11/30/11: Not writing off Newt
• 11/28/11: Answers to the Iranian threat
• 11/23/11: Failure of the incumbency investment
• 11/18/11: Occupiers: Chop off their heads!
• 11/16/11: Obama asks jobless to sacrifice
• 11/09/11: Michael Moore's insufferable occupation
• 11/04/11: Political tipping point is coming
• 11/02/11: Idealogues versus 7 billion
• 10/28/11: Obama games on student loans
• 10/26/11: Wit and quick moves v. humanity and thoroughgoing honesty? It's no contest - or at least shouldn't be
• 10/07/11: Baptists, bootleggers and Wall Street protesters
• 10/05/11: Federal law will get you even if you watch out
• 09/28/11: Leftist bugbears on the march
• 09/23/11: Still hope for coal to help us
• 09/21/11: Obama's Madoff ploy
• 09/19/11: U.S. can't afford to wait until it happens
• 09/14/11: Defending -- and strengthening -- gung ho collectivism
• 09/12/11: A pipeline to better times
• 09/08/11: Obama just keeps destroying jobs
• 09/06/11: Ultra-feminists thwarting justice
• 08/31/11: Corporations are people? Yes, Count the ways
• 08/26/11: What an earthquake tells us about debt
• 08/25/11: The tyranny of scientific consensus
• 08/23/11: Fracking hardly a public health threat
• 08/17/11: Why Obamacare won't control births
• 08/15/11: Balanced budget amendment unbalanced idea
• 08/10/11: Kerry's war on citizen speech
• 08/05/11: Upside to the compromise leaving the door open for obnoxious maneuvers
• 08/03/11: The people who may save America
• 07/29/11: On making deals, Obama is no LBJ
• 07/27/11: The threat behind the debt
• 07/23/11: Mean opposition to means-testing
• 07/20/11: Leftist babble makes debt crisis even worse
• 07/18/11: Time to raise demagoguery ceiling
• 07/13/11: Obama treating treaties badly
• 07/08/11: Is decline of U.S. exaggerated?
• 07/05/11: Not math deficiency, but demagoguery
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