More AIG Bait-and-Switch Today

Here is more on President Obama's new medical plan for veterans.  We will get to this today.

 

Obama screwed up a speech yesterday by thanking himself when his teleprompter malfunctioned.  The guy is lost without a teleprompter.

 

The economy may be turning around, no thanks to the policies of the Obama administration.

 

The AIG bait-and-switch drama continues, as the government-appointed AIG CEO went to apologize to Congress for the bonuses.  Meanwhile, AIG staffers are actually defending their bonuses, saying that they deserve the money.  A lot of the fake outrage is over the executives who quit after earning their bonuses, but the point is that they earned them according to their contracts.  The Obama Administration, which claims that they didn't find out about the bonuses until this month, also had the teleprompter tell the empty suit that he doesn't want to "quell anger," but instead to "channel our anger in a constructive way."  Channeling it means using it to destroy capitalism.  We may get at least one good thing from this, though; Timothy Geithner might soon be out at Treasury Secretary.

 

While the fake outrage over the AIG bonuses is circulating, lost in the muck is the fact that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives are also getting bonuses, and the Obama Administration is giving a Treasury Department job to the guy at Citigroup who drove that company into the ground.

 

Check out the class warfare language coming from people over these bonuses.

 

Thanks to the last eight years and even before that, there is no reason to take the Republican Party seriously when they talk about smaller government.  Remember, President Bush increased government spending by almost half in his second term alone, and the national debt hit $11 trillion Monday.

 

The Republicans were bad, but not this bad.  Obama's health care plan will probably end up costing $1,500,000,000,000 over the next decade, and his cap-and-trade program could cost $2,000,000,000,000, including a $144 billion burden on American families.

 

ACORN could be involved in the 2010 Census.

 

President Obama could be threatening the air superiority of the United States Air Force if he scraps the F-22 program.

 

Here's something else from the Obama administration I can agree with:  The United States signed a declaration calling for the decriminalization of homosexuality.

 

Forty percent of all babies born in 2007 were born out of wedlock.  That means that you are their baby-daddy.

 

Georgia government school teachers may be looking at furloughs next year as a part of the budget crunch, which should prevent layoffs.  Another casualty could be the amount of money that the state sends to hospitals for Medicare reimbursement.  Without paying customers, you have to crawl to government.

 

The state House is also looking to cut half of the money for the State Ethics Commission.  Read into this what you wish.