In this story featured on Yahoo.com this morning, you’ll find today’s winner in the “What-gets-under-my-skin” contest.
President Obama and the members of his administration have been playing the part of angry boss pretty well lately, especially when it comes to the actions of certain AIG higher-ups. I enjoy seeing worms wriggle on the hook before being eaten by a monster pike. And that is just what those clowns are if they think they are going to take my money and flush it away like that.
However, I’m convinced that ‘acting angry’ is as far as the Obama administration is willing to go when it comes to fixing the economy. I mean, President Obama might know how to effectively turn the economy around but he can’t do it without pissing off one of his biggest constituency groups…Unions.
Here is an excerpt from the aforementioned story as evidence to my point:
On Monday, President Barack Obama refused further long-term federal bailouts for GM and Chrysler, saying the companies needed to get more concessions from unions, creditors and others before the money could be approved. He also raised the possibility of controlled bankruptcy for one or both of the companies.
So, the president is fine with acting puffed up when speaking of AIG bonuses (and supporting unconstitutional laws to tax the money back) and he’ll demand breaking legal contracts in order to get the bailout money back (the same money about which Congressman Chris Dodd swore he had no idea then later admitted he, personally, wrote into the bailout bill) but he’ll stop short of specifically demanding the annulment of the union labor contracts that have single-handedly crippled the American automobile industry?
Obama needs to stop lying to the American people.
If President Obama is serious about fixing the problem, then he can use the power of the office to get concessions from the unions himself. If he really wants to help the American people, he’ll refuse to bailout failed businesses and government programs like Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac and invest in successful businesses and programs.
He won’t. Victims are his biggest voting block.
So, forgive me if I don’t believe the campaign rhetoric President Obama is espousing. I’m just not buying it.
