Is the question being asked by many people in the forum. If you voted for Obama in 2008 to prove you're not a racist, you'll have to vote for someone else in 2012 to prove you're not an idiot.
A second term for Obama would be disastrous. The previous four years are a good indication of that. Here are the reasons he won't be getting my vote:
1. ObamaCare: Contrary to the belief of some, that health care is a basic human right, the opposite is true. Obama believes in the idea of an "Economic Bill of Rights", a brain-child of Franklin Roosevelt. These rights are:
1. The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation.
2. The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation.
3. The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living.
4. The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home and abroad.
5. The right of every family to a decent home.
6. The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health.
7. The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accidents and unemployment.
8. The right to a good education.
In the words of Ayn Rand: "A single question added to each of the above eight clauses would make the issue clear: At whose expense?
Jobs, food, clothing, recreation(!), homes, medical care, education, etc., do not grow in nature. These are man-made valuesgoods and services produced by men. Who is to provide them?
If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.
Any alleged right of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right."
The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life, such as health care.
The last thing our country needs is a new entitlement program. Instead, we need reform of our current system.
2. Job creation: Many on the left enjoy making the claim that Obama "has created 3.7 million jobs." What they forget to add, is that the majority of those jobs are in China.
They also like to compare his popularity with Bush 43 by claiming "the nation[...]created more jobs in 2010 alone than it did over the entire eight years of George W. Bushs presidency." This is also incorrect. Even if our unemployment rate drops to 7.7%, Obama will have created a net total of ZERO domestic, private-sector jobs.
Is this what "economic recovery" looks like?:
Unemployment is 9.1% based upon current unemployment insurance recipients. The real unemployment rate in the United States is estimated at between 16%-20%.
Tyler Durden over at Zero Hedge has just published a startling chart that shows how dismal the jobs numbers really are. According to him and his chart, the simple math indicates that for the US to return to its December 2007 unemployment[under evil-mastermind/bumbling idiot George Bush], when factoring in the natural growth of the labor force of 90k people a month, the economy
will need to add 250k jobs a month for the next 66 months.
This is what hes talking about:
That's what you get for your $850 billion, taxpayers.
3. Fuel prices: Obama has vowed to "get down to the bottom of" the cause of these high energy prices. Of course, anyone with a working brain can tell you that this call to arms is simply to deflect criticism from the real cause: his own policies.
If you think that speculators are driving up the price of oil, you'd be wrong. The job of a speculator is to predict the price of oil. They bid on it when the price is low, and sell it when the price is high - and they're only paid if they're correct. Their "speculation" that oil will rise in price is due to many factors. Among them:
Our dollar is the world's "reserve currency". What this means, basically, is that in order for any country to purchase oil, they must first purchase U.S. dollars. Oil cannot be purchased with foreign currency.
Our inflation rate has risen nearly 20% (meaning your dollar is now worth .80c) under the Obama administration, and is expected to rise dramatically higher over the next several months.
The following video is about an hour long, but aside from the author trying to sell you an investment solution,
keep in mind while watching it that S&P (Standard and Poors) has already threatened to lower our national credit rating in April:
[video=youtube;nI-BIVWlc7A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI-BIVWlc7A[/video]
4. Again, gas prices. I drive for a living so it's exceptionally frustrating for me, personally, to have to dump $60/day into my tank.
5. The 2012 budgets fecklessness
6. Massive deficits each and every year
7. The seizure of GM and Chrysler, the transfer of bondholder wealth to unions, and the dumping of the GM stock at a loss
8. Dodd-Frank
9. Hostility to Israel, including attack on apartment expansion and icing of Prime Minister Netanyahu in basement of White House
10. Failure to support Irans Green Revolution
11. Failure to support Syrian revolution
12. The Libyan Fiasco
13. The incompetent handling of the Gulf Oil disaster
14. The unnecessary permitorium in the aftermath of the Gulf Oil disaster
15. The shutdown of Shells Arctic oil exploration by EPA
16. The presidents push for cap-and-tax in the Congress
17. The presidents attempt to unconstitutionally impose cap-and-tax via EPA when the Congress wouldnt pass cap-and-tax
18. The presidents push for unconstitutional restrictions on free speech on his political enemies while keeping the unions free to spend money on campaigns via The Disclose Act
19. The presidents attempt to unconstitutionally impose The Disclose Act on his political opponents but not unions via Executive Order
20. The presidents use of unaccountable czars
21. The presidents refusal to accept Congressional direction vis-a-vis his czars contained in the last 2011 Continuing Resolution
22. The presidents verbal assault on the Supreme Court while the members of the Court sat before him in the state of the Union
23. The president and Eric Holders politicization of the Department of Justice, including the black panthers case and the refusal to defend DOMA
24. The presidents use of demonizing rhetoric towards his opponents, such as accusing doctors of performing unnecessary surgery for money
25. The presidents hyper-partisan approach to governing including I won, you lost in 2009 and the assault on Paul Ryan with Paul Ryan as an invited guest in the presidents April 2011 deficit speech.
26. Bowing to the Saudi King and the Japanese emperor
27. Returning the bust of Churchill to Great Britain
28. Removing the missile shield from Poland and the Czech Republic
29. Backing the would-be dictator of Hondorus when that nations Supreme Court rightfully removed him from office
30. Failure to push for quick ratification of free trade agreements with Columbia, Panama and South Korea
31. Indecision on Afghanistan surge coupled with announcement of eventual withdrawal.
32. Incoherence on Egypt, most obviously with the dispatch of Frank Wizner and then rejection of Wizners advice vis-a-vis Mubarak.
33. Appointment Craig Beck to NLRB via recess appointment
34. Appointment of FCC commissioners who are pursuing net neutrality without Congressional authorization
35. Failure to resume full water deliveries to Californias Central Valley because of the Delta Smelt
36. Attempt to close Guantanamo Bay
37. Attempt to try terrorists in New York City
38. Janet The System Worked Napolitano
39. Government takeover of the student loan program
40. Cancellation of virtual border fence project with no replacement or indeed concern for border security
41. The Beer Summit and the attack on the Cambridge Police Department
42. The Department of Justices attack on Arizona for that states exercise of its sovereign legislative authority on the issue of citizen identification rules
43. The attack on Scott Walker and Wisconsin for the governors and the state legislatures exercise of their sovereign legislative authority on public employment issues
44. Dabbling in basketball brackets while the Middle East fell into chaos and the gas prices skyrocketed
45. Arguing that American exceptionalism was the same as any nations sense of exceptionalism
46. Implying that Minnesota bridge collapse was the result of lack of infrastructure funding
47. Inserting himself into campaign for the Olympics
48. Attack on D.C. voucher program
49. Van Jones and a long list of other socialist/marxist/revolutionary friends/associates/appointees.
50. Teleprompter dependency and the worst run of presidential rhetoric since Millard Fillmore combined with testiness in the few interviews he grants.
and try to understand WTF is going on
