Planning your vacation
to coincide with the "Obama-recovery"?
If you were seriously
ill, would you rather have your doctor lie to you...look you in the eye and
tell you what great shape you were in? Of course, your doctor wouldn’t do that
mainly because it would deny you the chance to seek a cure -- quite possibly
cost you your life. Also, both legally and morally he’d be violating his
Hippocratic Oath.
Wouldn’t it be nice if only our president had taken a similar
Oath? Instead, he has sold out his principles solely to satisfy his political
ambitions. I would have never before said this of one of the fourteen
presidents in my lifetime but this man doesn’t appear to have any
principles. He is a liar. Oh yes, he’s good at what he does -- he's an accomplished
liar. He has apparently lied all of his youthful and adult life, gotten away
with it, and it appears to have served him well. It is difficult to find even
ONE statement he has made to the American public in the past five years that
wasn’t fabricated to some degree to suit his personal agenda.
His statements on White House transparency, Obamacare, a balanced
budget, line-item veto, same-sex marriage, Race, Fast and Furious, the Benghazi
slaughters, his involvement in the IRS felonies, his instructions to AG Holder
with regard to the New Black Panther involvement in the election, his eagerness
to unilaterally circumvent established law, would alone make Ananias blush! Just
this week he focused in on the women’s vote by telling them that they are
making only 77¢ an hour -- 23¢ less than men’s $1 -- this while his own
government has contradicted his off-hand words with published numbers. They
tell us it is only 5¢ and even that is explainable. Yet he ignores the truth
and unhesitatingly lies whenever it serves his agenda. It is a shame that so
many Americans swallow his words without confirmation.
I'm reminded of Germany from 1938 until 1945 when Hitler set the
standard for lying. He did it so well, his army invaded Austria and just days
later, on April 10th, 1938, over 97% of Austrians voted in favor of being
occupied by Nazi Germany. He told them how good things were going to be under
his regime. Of course, he never delivered. Too many Americans of the 21st
Century remind me of those gullible Austrians.
You’re familiar with the endless array of “misspeaks” in the
recent past. Only the president's toadies and grovelers seem to be immune to
his blatant lying. Now the latest is how he’s blowing smoke about our
non-existent economic “recovery.” He is painting a false and rosy picture for
millions of innocent folks, introducing a "Twilight Zone" to his
gullible disciples. Wouldn’t they rather have the opportunity to protect
themselves knowing the truth? Following is the factual extent of the
president's “recovery.”
• USA Today reports that Quiznos has filed for bankruptcy and
could close many of its 2,100 stores. Sbarro, which operates pizza and Italian
restaurants in malls, is planning to close 155 locations in the United States
and Canada. That means nearly 20 percent of Sbarro's will be closing. The chain
operates around 800 outlets.
• Ruby Tuesday announced plans to close 30 restaurants after its
sales fell by 7.8 percent. The chain currently operates around 775 steakhouses
across the U.S.
• An unknown number of Red Lobster stores will be sold. The chain
is in such bad shape that the parent company, Darden Restaurants Inc., had to
issue a press release stating that the chain would not close down entirely.
Instead, Darden is planning to spin Red Lobster off into another company and
sell some of its stores.
• Ralph's Markets, a subsidiary of Kroger, has announced plans to
close 15 of its supermarkets in Southern California within 60 days. Safeway
closed 72 Dominick's grocery stores in the Chicago area last year.
• Radio Shack is going to close more than a thousand of its
stores. Staples is going to close 225 stores. Office Depot has seen same-store
sales decline for 13 consecutive quarters. JC Penney lost $586 million dollars
in the 2nd Quarter of 2013 alone. Sears has seen their sales numbers decline
for nearly 7 straight years. Target is going to eliminate 475 jobs and not fill
700 additional positions that are currently empty. Aeropostale will close about
175.
The list seems endless and this is just in the retail sector.
Economic weakness is widespread and growing across the entire spectrum. When
will the administration tell it like it really is? Can it be that he is totally
unaware of what’s going on? Wouldn’t it be comforting having a president we
could trust? One whose specialty was governance, economics and foreign affairs
instead of lying?
