My position is that of holding politicians accountable for their words and their actions, just like I would any other employee of mine, because they are hired through election to work for We the People. It’s great that the October 2012 new job numbers are up. Unfortunately, many other numbers are up as well.
"Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office.” President Barack Obama- Feb 23, 2009
Total % of net new jobs in the US since January 2009 is up only 0.15%
Total % of food stamp recipients in the US since January 2009 has increased by 46%
This means that for every one new job added, 75 Americans signed up for food stamps.
107 million people (more than 1/3 of the American population) are now receiving welfare
During this same time-frame, US debt has risen by $5.63 trillion.
Post-recession economic growth in 2010 was 2.4%, and dropped in 2011 to 1.8%. This year it has dropped again to 1.77%.
So let's say we give Obama a complete pass on his promises on cutting the budget in half, helping create new jobs and economic growth.......
"But I will also go through the federal budget line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work and making the ones we do need work better and cost less, because we cannot meet 21st-century challenges with a 20th-century bureaucracy." President Barack Obama
“Now, add it all up, and the plan that I’m proposing will cost around $900 billion over 10 years.” President Obama, presenting the Affordable Health Care Act to Congress
Congressional Budget Office predicts the actual cost of AHCA (ObamaCare) over 10 years is $2.6 trillion, almost triple what President Obama promised Congress.
ObamaCare fundamentally changes the relationship between the executive and legislative branches of government. The law creates a 15 member “Independent Payment Advisory Board” which is vested with the unilateral power to make and enforce laws, including rationing of health care and imposition of new taxes. Under ObamaCare, the IPAB proposals will have the force of law without the approval of Congress or the signature of the President. Congress may only block its edicts if the House and Senate pass, and the President signs, an alternative that achieves the same budgetary result.
After 2020, the law requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to implement IPAB’s “proposals” even if Congress enacts a substitute. Finally, the law gives IPAB and the Secretary “the sole authority to judge their own actions by prohibiting administrative or judicial review of the Secretary’s implementation of an IPAB proposal.”
Obama has upheld this promise he made 4 years ago: “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
Under his policies, the United States of America is well underway in transforming from a Constitutional Republic, to something that our Founding Fathers warned us of time and again, and sacrificed their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to uphold and protect.