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Obama's Calculated Deception
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spectator.org — Calculated deception as a central public manipulation strategy practiced by President Obama involves the President taking advantage of what he thinks the average person doesn't know and won't be told by a compliant media. Such calculated deception was central to last week's State of the Union Address. That address is useful only as an outline of the President's reelection strategy.

A powerful practical answer will come at the end of March in the form of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's 2013 budget proposal, which will be passed by the Republican-controlled House. That budget, which all the Republicans will run on, and the President's State of the Union Address will frame the 2012 election debate.

He Thinks You're Stupid

The Obama SOTU exhibited again Obama's core "progressive" conviction that the average American is hopelessly stupid. Obama bemoans America as "a country where a shrinking number of people do really well, while a growing number of Americans barely get by." You may identify with that statement, as it correctly applies to Obama's America today. But not to Reagan's America, or my America.

As Henry R. Nau explained in the January 26 Wall Street Journal, "the U.S. grew by more than 3% per year [in real terms] from 1980 to 2007, and created more than 50 million new jobs, massively expanding a middle class of working women, African-Americans and legal as well as illegal immigrants. Per capita income increased by 65%, and household income went up substantially in all income categories."

But Obama continued last week, "Long before the recession, jobs and manufacturing began leaving our shores." Mr. Obama, let me introduce you to Mr. Nau, who, unlike you, is a real professor. The 25-year Reagan boom from 1982 to 2007 added 50 million jobs. The recession began in December, 2007, and it is your policies that have prevented America from recovering from it.

Obama recalled, "[T]he basic American promise that if you worked hard, you could do well enough to raise a family, own a home, send your kids to college, and put a little away for retirement." He said, "The defining issue of our time is how to keep that promise alive. No challenge is more urgent. No debate is more important."

Actually, that debate is over, Barack. Reagan already showed us how to do it. As Professor Nau also explained:

Yes, "the middle class has shrunk," as Mr. Obama said while campaigning last month. But not because it's getting poorer, but because it's getting richer. According to Stephen Rose of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, fewer people live today in middle-class households with incomes between $35,000 and $105,000, while the percentage of households making less than $35,000 has remained the same. Where did the missing households go? They became richer. In the past three decades [1980 to 2007], the percentage of households making more than $105,000 in inflation adjusted dollars doubled to 24% from 11%.

Where were you from 1980 to 2007, Mr. Obama? Sleeping? In Indonesia? In an ideologically induced stupor?

But Obama continued to drone on with his fairy tale bedtime stories in the SOTU. He proclaimed, "But I intend to fight obstruction with action, and I will oppose any effort to return to the very same policies that brought on the economic crisis in the first place." One of Obama's top fairy tales is the calculated deception that he has been trying so hard to get the economy t

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In the past 27 years, while the number of poor in this country has remained basically the same and the middle class has shrunk, why is it bad to have so many more rich?
It's not bad, it's great!
35%
That can't be true; it would mean the President is trying to deceive me.
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This is interesting, let me check this out and get back to you.
57%
This is not a scientific survey, click here to learn more. Results may not total 100% due to rounding and voting descrepencies.
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lightdude
Posted 472 days ago
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My opinion is he is trying to push out the middle class. Only rich and poor. Majority of middle class will end up poor and dependant on the Government as he wants anyway. Makes sense to me.
hank10303
Posted 471 days ago
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@lightdude

Considering that your opinion is based and founded in fantasy its as useful as Donald Trumps. You're Fired!
945call
Posted 472 days ago
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Some people just always seem to miss the obvious options. This is a classic example. In fact, this article misses an important additional factor.

In the past 30 years, many of today's poor came here as illegal aliens. That means that the number of poor from 1980 has also been greatly reduced. For the most-part they went into the ranks of the middle class, meaning that the middle class of 30 years ago has significantly moved into the ranks of the wealthy.

Thank you Ronnie, Bill and the Bushes.
hank10303
Posted 471 days ago
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@945call

So if many of today’s poor came from the illegal aliens; where do the retired workers living on fixed incomes get put into your fantasy calculations and assumptions. You do realize that those that were 35-55 years of age, 30 years ago, have either died or are now retired on fixed incomes and no they aren’t rich and the majority aren’t middle class. Did your fantasy calculation include those 10’s of thousands of families that have gone from middle class to poor because of health crisis during the era of health insurance rejections in the name of profit? Republicans have done too many things to keep most Americans poor and to feed off of us like parasites. The percentage of poor increased because when republicans introduce the trickle down theory they deceitfully didn't tell us it wasn't going to rain money - they were planning to piss on us.

Do you ever get out or do you just watch Fox Noise every waking moment?
TopSpin
Posted 472 days ago
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You continue to distort facts, it is great to have people join the rich class.

They should do it with their ingenuity not with tax policies that favor them.
945call
Posted 471 days ago
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@TopSpin,

LOL

if the facts are distorted,do more than make the statement, "tort" them for us!
hank10303
Posted 471 days ago
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@TopSpin

945call doesn't use facts. He has never seen one that he actually liked.
gobat
Posted 471 days ago
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Your facts are not true, highest number of poor in 52 years.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/14/us/14census.html?pagewanted=all

Another 2.6 million people slipped into poverty in the United States last year, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, and the number of Americans living below the official poverty line, 46.2 million people, was the highest number in the 52 years the bureau has been publishing figures on it.

And in new signs of distress among the middle class, median household incomes fell last year to levels last seen in 1996.

Economists pointed to a telling statistic: It was the first time since the Great Depression that median household income, adjusted for inflation, had not risen over such a long period, said Lawrence Katz, an economics professor at Harvard.

“This is truly a lost decade,” Mr. Katz said. “We think of America as a place where every generation is doing better, but we’re looking at a period when the median family is in worse shape than it was in the late 1990s.”

The bureau’s findings were worse than many economists expected, and brought into sharp relief the toll the past decade — including the painful declines of the financial crisis and recession —had taken on Americans at the middle and lower parts of the income ladder. It is also fresh evidence that the disappointing economic recovery has done nothing for the country’s poorest citizens.

The report said the percentage of Americans living below the poverty line last year, 15.1 percent, was the highest level since 1993. (The poverty line in 2010 for a family of four was $22,314.)
945call
Posted 471 days ago
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@gobat says, "Your facts are not true, highest number of poor in 52 years."

Not true, as a percentage of total population.
945call
Posted 471 days ago
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@gobat, liars figure and figure.

your numbers are based on a 23% higher poverty line and a 92% higher population. Apples to apples, poverty is the same for the past 60 myears.
945call
Posted 471 days ago
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@gobat, look up median as in median income. It's not the same as average.

If more middle income people move into the ranks of upper income and the poor move into the middle and illegal aliens replace the poor, comparing medians make no sense. The full range is distorted. Have you ever heard of comparing apples to oranges? This is a classic example.

Liars figure and figures lie.
hank10303
Posted 471 days ago
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@945call

Actually, 945 you are the liar. The population did increase 92% which means all your fantasy figures didn't include that fact and are WRONG again. Might I suggest a calculator...LOL
hank10303
Posted 471 days ago
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WOW, you can't add and subtract either. Common sense implies, as per your poll question, that if the number of poor remained the same and the middle class has shrunk then those in the middle class either left the country or became rich. Because we know they didn't become rich and that the population growth has grown there is no way the number of poor remained the same. 27 years ago (1985) the countries population was 237,924,000 and today it is 312,780,968. See that's nearly an increase of 100 million people. You and those that beleived you are so dumb you think the country has 100 million new rich households? STUPID, very very stupid.
945call
Posted 470 days ago
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@hank10303

You'
re right, I misspoke, think percentages, not absolute numbers of people.

In 1952 19% of Americans lived in poverty. Today it's 17%. The number of wealthy was 11%. Today it's 24%. In 60 years nearly 10% of the poor have moved on to the middle class. It's actually higher than that because so many legal and illegal immigrants came to this country below the poverty line. In 1952 72% were middle class. Today it has shrunk to 59%. That's a reduction of 13 percentage points, including the 2 percentage points that moved from poverty to middle class.

The rich aren’t getting richer, more people are becoming rich!

Hitler and Nazi Germany invented the concept of the Big Lie; a lie so enormous and outrageous, no one could believe anyone would just make it up. Obama and the Democrats are perfecting it simply because there are so many gullible people on the Left.
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