President Obama: Hocus Pocus Superstar

I meet a lot of people as president of the United States and as a candidate for president of the United States and as a U.S. senator and as a state senator. I -- I meet a lot of people. And I can't -- I can't name a time where I met an American who would rather have an unemployment check than the pride of having a job. (Applause.)

By 'a lot of people' I'm sure the President means dignitaries, buddies in his golf foursomes, upper-class folks at banquets, state funerals and all that.

Actually, I'm betting a lot of people out there are pretty proud of the fact of having games the system in some way.

The Mainewire takes a look at widespread welfare abuse including EBT cards.

Not enough for ya?

80 police officers and firemen in New York arrested for Social Security fraud.

The figures are staggering.

Now. One can argue this is just a small percentage of people committing fraud. But that would mean supressing the more likely scenario (based on basic understanding of human nature) is it's more widespread. Funny. We often apply the word 'epidemic' for, say, a disease that hits us even if the numbers don't warrant it, yet when confronted with a social malaise in our welfare system it's treated as an 'exception.'

No it isn't.

I don't think it's normal or acceptable that in some cases cops get to retire at 42 with generous pensions while going to work doing something else.

Citing unnamed "independent economists," the President also asserted "extending unemployment benefits helps to create jobs." 

I can't even begin to disentangle this econotardish statement. A person sitting at home collecting taxpayer funded benefits somehow creates wealth because they go into the local economy and spend?

I knew the President was as illiterate as they come when it comes to finance and business, but it's more profound than I thought. This is just plain, plump left-wing mumbo-jumbo, voodoo poppycockish nonsense.



Argue that it can buy time for people looking for work in a chronically depressed market, fine. But don't pull that shit about creating wealth. That's just insulting. I also find his push for the extension is an indictment of his failed economic policies - rudimentary as they were.

Spend and stimulus and watch the unicorns fly over your homes sprinkling success dust upon people everywhere!

This is what it's come to, huh America?