Promises, Promises, Promises

There is no doubt that Barack Obama is a very charismatic speaker.  He talks a good game, but what about the substance of his messages?   Here is a link to one of his campaign speeches.  In under two minutes  he made six sincere sounding promises, and in less that two months of his administration he has already broken every single one. Promises, promises, promises -  broken, broken, broken – lies, lies, lies, and he ain’t alone in Washington!!   Don’t believe this based on what I say, here’s the link, go there and look for yourself.

Obama’s Promises

This administration has already shown it offers nothing more than smoke and mirrors, and the American people are suffering the results.  Six specific promises given here in this one speech, every single one a broken promise or an outright lie.  Here is the count:

1. “I will also institute an absolute ban so that no registered lobbyists can curry influence on my administration based on how much they can spend on  a fancy dinner.” Fact:  several of his top appointments in his administration are those same lobbyists and ex-lobbyists.  Several of these withdrew their names for top spots because it was shown they were tax cheats as well.
2. “I’ll make our government open and transparent.” Fact:  the “Stimulus Bill” was passed without even one congressman or senator having the opportunity to read it in its entirety, much less the public.  This 1000 plus page document was released after 2:00 a.m. Washing time and voted on first thing in the morning.
3. “I’ll make it impossible for congressmen or lobbyist to sneak porkbarrel projects or corporate welfare into laws when nobody’s looking. . .” Fact:   that same  “Stimulus Bill” alone contains over 8000 such porkbarrel projects that he encouraged and willingly signed.
4. “When theres a bill that ends up on my desk as president, you the public will have five days to look on line and find out what’s in it before I sign it.” Another promise broken in the “Stimulus Bill” and the “Omnibus Spending Bill”  The contents of both hidden from the public view until the last minute.
   
5. “When there are meetings between lobbyists and a government agency, we will put as many of those meetings as possible on line for every American to watch.” Nothing yet two months down.  Come on now  it ain’t that hard to put stuff on the internet!
   
6. “When there is a tax bill being debated in congress you will know the names of the corporations that will benefit and how much money they would get and we will put every corporate tax break and every pork barrel project on line for every American to see and you will know who asked for them and you will know if your representative is actually representing you.” Another promise broken in both major spending bills passed in under two months of his administration.  The largest spending packages in history!

We Americans have been too lazy to do the footwork to hold our politicians to task for their broken promises and downright lies.   We want to believe that although it is obvious the system is broken that “our politician” or “our representative” or “our candidate” is one of the good guys.  Washington is not full of “good guys”.  Good guys do exist, but they are in the minority.  If you want to know who they are look at who voted for the bills listed above.  If their vote is in they “Yea” column, they’re representing somebody’s  interest, but it sure ain’t yours!

You can’t hear what the truly “good guys”  in Washing are saying.  They are regularly being drowned out by the noise of a bunch of pigs feeding at the public tax trough.

Wake up Dorothy, you’re not in Kansas anymore! America is being played as a fool and it’s going to get worse unless we get off our fat lazy behinds and start contacting representatives telling them we are not going to sit by while they steal us blind!   This is a big money Washington power grab, nothing less.  Get involved or get ready say “goodby” to the freedoms we have enjoyed in this country for the last 200+ years.