Everyone remember this Obama doozy from a year ago? (h/t Gateway Pundit)
Now, my administration has a job to do, as well, and that job is to get this economy back on its feet. That’s my job. (Applause.) And it’s a job I gladly accept. I love these folks who helped get us in this mess and then suddenly say, well, this is Obama’s economy. That’s fine. Give it to me. (Applause.) My job is to solve problems, not to stand on the sidelines and harp and gripe. (Applause.)
With four simple words — “Give it to me!” — President Barack Obama took possession of the economy.
For months, the White House and Obama’s economic team have laid the economic crisis at the feet of President George W. Bush. But there comes a point in a presidency when inheritance becomes ownership. Obama made that pivot Tuesday in Michigan, the state suffering the worst unemployment in the nation.
He most definitely has taken possession of the economy. But the “pivot” point was just a figment of our imagination seeing as how he is STILL blaming everyone else for the economy:
Throughout this year, Obama has blamed Bush and the criticism has intensified this month.
On Aug. 9 in Bush’s home state of Texas, Obama said the ex-president’s “disastrous” policies had damaged the economy, noting that Bush inherited budget surpluses and ended his time in the White House with a budget deficit.
During a fundraiser with Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) in Seattle this week, Obama said, “Eighteen months ago I took office after nearly a decade of economic policies that had given us sluggish growth, sluggish job growth, falling incomes, falling wages and a record deficit.”
Over a year and half after taking office, and a year in which he supposedly took possession of this economy, he is still blaming Bush. Take a look below, paying special attention to the time period after July 2009 (the date he said “give it to me”..26 seconds in) up to the present day.
Whose fault is this?
He and his party have control of both houses, he has run this economy into the ground, and he has the audacity to blame Bush?
Won’t last for long:
In a new poll by the Associated Press, just 41 percent of Americans approve of the president’s performance on the economy, his lowest in that poll yet. Sixty-one percent say the economy has gotten worse or stayed the same during the president’s term.
…a new Rasmussen poll shows that voters are just as likely to blame President Barack Obama for the nation’s current economic woes as they are to blame his predecessor, President George W. Bush.
Obama faces the most skepticism from Independents, who blame him by a margin of 52 percent to 44 percent margin.
Rasmussen asked 1,000 likely voters whether the actions of President Bush or President Obama were mostly responsible for the nation’s current economic problems. Forty-eight percent said the blame lies with the current president, while 47 percent blamed his predecessor.
Only 4 percent of voters said that they were not sure who bears the most blame.
We know who bears the blame. The whiny sorry excuse for a leader can point his finger at anyone he wishes but the American population can see through it.
What an embarrassment this man is.
The MSM is nothing more than a mouth piece for Socialistic Communistic Liberal elements here in the States! Just like it is mention correctly here how they called Bush “dummy”…..well what is so wise about them!
Personally I blame both parties both Republican and Democratic for the economy! They allow each other to screw us outside of a small hand full of people! I hope we can get some no BS people like Cain and West in Office, and begin to incorporate people who will not betray the American public! Listen the functioning part of our Government is not the elected officials anymore! If Cain and west were to get into office they would definitely begin to clean house by firing and dismissing all of these unnecessary money crunching power hungry committees and subcommittees! Is a real stream of insanity! Appoint a real committee to restrict State Department give away programs and begin to put people in the State Department which has turned in to nothing but a Liberal orgy that is draining our country!
READ BELOW GENTLEMEN AND TELL ME WHAT ORGANIZATION HERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN GETTING ANYTHING TO BEGIN WITH??????
These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy. $445 million annual savings.
Save America ‘s Treasures Program. $25 million annual savings.
International Fund for Ireland . $17 million annual savings.
Legal Services Corporation. $420 million annual savings.
National Endowment for the Arts. $167.5 million annual savings.
National Endowment for the Humanities. $167.5 million annual savings.
Hope VI Program.. $250 million annual savings.
Amtrak Subsidies. $1.565 billion annual savings.
Eliminate duplicative education programs. H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon, eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually.
U.S. Trade Development Agency. $55 million annual savings.
Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy. $20 million annual savings.
Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding. $47 million annual savings.
John C. Stennis Center Subsidy. $430,000 annual savings.
Community Development Fund. $4.5 billion annual savings.
Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid. $24 million annual savings.
Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half. $7.5 billion annual savings.
Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20%. $600 million annual savings.
Essential Air Service. $150 million annual savings.
Technology Innovation Program. $70 million annual savings.
Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program. $125 million annual savings.
Department of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization. $530 million annual savings.
Beach Replenishment. $95 million annual savings.
New Starts Transit. $2 billion annual savings.
Exchange Programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts .. $9 million annual savings. What the hell is this anyway…?
Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants. $2.5 billion annual savings.
Title X Family Planning. $318 million annual savings.
Appalachian Regional Commission. $76 million annual savings.
Economic Development Administration. $293 million annual savings.
Programs under the National and Community Services Act. $1.15 billion annual savings.
Applied Research at Department of Energy. $1.27 billion annual savings.
Freedom CAR and Fuel Partnership. $200 million annual savings.
Energy Star Program. $52 million annual savings.
Economic Assistance to Egypt . $250 million annually.
U.S. Agency for International Development. $1.39 billion annual savings.
General Assistance to District of Columbia . $210 million annual savings.
Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. $150 million annual savings.
Presidential Campaign Fund. $775 million savings over ten years.
No funding for federal office space acquisition. $864 million annual savings.
End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services. Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act. More than $1 billion annually.
IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the Treasury, instead of allowing payments to remain as part of its budget. $1.8 billion savings over ten years.
Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees. $1 billion total savings. WHAT THE HELL…!
Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees. $1.2 billion savings over ten years.
Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of. $15 billion total savings.
Eliminate Mohair Subsidies. $1 million annual savings.
Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. $12.5 million annual savings.
Eliminate Market Access Program. $200 million annual savings.
USDA Sugar Program. $14 million annual savings.
Subsidy to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).$93 million annual savings.
Eliminate the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program. $56.2 million annual savings.
Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs. $900 million savings.
Ready to Learn TV Program. $27 million savings.
Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress.
HUD Ph.D. Program. ????
Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act
TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years
My question, what THE Devil is all this doing in the budget in the first place…?
Is there anything listed you cannot do without…?
Bee,
I don’t like to mix religion with politics – though, the d’bags at Newsweak have already started the witch hunt against Romney for being a Mormon.
Newsweak is a disgusting rag – it has been for a long time now.
J V,
There’s always a lesser of two evils – fact is, Congress, by law, controls the purse-strings – every time the Dems control Congress the country gets shitted – financially and with foreign affairs. Add a Dem president, a rubber-stamp for their bills, and we’re in deep shit, as is the case now.
Bill, that is dirty, if they negative stamp on him for being a MORMON , BECAUSE THAT IS A GOOD PART OF HIS PACKAGE TO POSESS, AND IF THEY , NEWSWEAK ARE STUPID ENOUGH TO BRING IT
TO BE A NEGATIVE, IT WILL TURN ON THEM FOR SHOWING TO BE SO IGNORANT.
EVERYBODY KNOW THAT WHO IS RAISE MORMON HAVE A GREAT VALUE IN LIFE.
BYE
JV Hoffman, astronomic waste of funds right from the pocket of taxpayers.
I hope they pass this, and we haven’t seen the other concealed expanses,
thank you for copied it
What MUST be passed in order to stop their retarded spending is term limits.
The retarded things they spend on seem senseless, but a deeper look will find that it is done for someone(s) who is filling the coffers for their political machines in order to remain in power so they can repeat the vicious cycle year after year after year.
Term limits would put an end to their burning hard-earned tax dollars just so they can keep their jobs with perks beyond imagination.
Bill, they have shown to not represent the people of AMERICA AS OPPOSE TO REPRESENT FOREIGNER
A LOT MORE THAN THE AMERICANS VALUES WHICH ALL DERIVED FROM THE CONSTITUTION AND THE BILLS OF RIGHT, which took second and 3rd importance with their decisions to enact a law that went against the freedom of the people, they covered it naming for security, which is not doing a secure real effect but only an illusion of security, and that is a scary one applyed years ago by nazi to the jews in their country, under the same illusion of giving them secure place to live, we all know the following result,
that is where we see the danger of SOCIALIST REGIME BEGINNING THE SAME WAY TO ESCALATE TO TOTAL CONTROL OF THE MASSES, AND THE WORSE OF IT IS THE ALMOST NON PROTEST,
AND WHEN I saw a ceiling TAKEN picture of the crowd waiting already gatherd in that space ,to be check,ed by employee touching their body, IT hit me to the core, that it was wrong, to see that in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, A RACE PROUD AND SO BRAVE, WALKING TALL, TO BE SUBMIT TO BE IMPOSED TO BE GATERED AND PATIENTLY WAIT TO BE TOUCH ON THEIR MOST PRIVATE PARTS IN ORDER TO FLY THEIR PLANE,
The worst part is they hire fat ugly broads and faggy looking guys to do the pat-downs.
THEY SHOULD ADOPT A HOOTERS TYPE MENTALITY IN THEIR HIRING PROCESS.
You can blame the freedom-haters for ruining a good thing – delays suck.
BUT, AS LONG AS THEY CONTINUE TO RUIN THEIR DAY FOR WHAT THEY DID AND DO, IT’S ALL GOOD WITH ME – THE DELAYS ARE WORTH IT. YOU SIMPLY HAVE TO FACTOR IT INTO YOUR TRIP AND ENJOY THE RIDE.