Aside From Free Phones and Food Stamps… Obama’s Done Zilch for You.

By William Pauwels / 2 October 2012 / 21 comments

Honestly . . . What has Obama done for you, your children, your friends, your job, your employer, your community, and their futures? Please . . . think carefully about this.

Yes I know he has given phones to some people – and entitlements have increased substantially – but many of those on the dole would prefer to have a good job with fair pay. No one with an ounce of self-respect wants to be dependent on government “entitlements.” Most people have pride and want to contribute.

The facts are the government has done very little for the American people. We have been in a quasi-recession for over four years. Were it not for the independent Federal Reserve’s money creation, we would be in a depression rivaling the 1930s.

Obama has been totally ineffective in turning this situation around. He has tried to impose his de facto Marxist/Socialist/Quasi-Communist/Liberal-Leftist ideology on the economy and it has failed – as it always does. Marxism/Quasi-Communism by whatever name the Obama-Democrats call it – is an outmoded idea that has never worked wherever it’s been tried.

I am not making idle claims here. Since Obama became president, household income is down 8.2% ($4500). 12 million more Americans are on food stamps. In September, 83,000 more people signed up for Social Security Disability Benefits – bringing the total to 736,000 in this calendar year alone. The overall unemployment rate is over 8% for the 43nd month. The real unemployment rate (U6) is 15%. The teen jobless rate is 23.8%, and those between 18 to 29 are at 16.7%. The U.S. labor participation rate has declined to 63.7% and over 23 million workers are currently unemployed or underemployed. Health insurance has increased 18%. Gasoline prices have more than doubled. National Debt has increased from $10.6 trillion to $16.0 trillion. And the current and projected Gov’t Spending Deficit is over one trillion a year.

Needless-to-say, these are horrible numbers – not competitive with leading industrial countries – and indicate the U.S.A. is spiraling toward 3rd world levels – toward de facto insolvency.

So . . . what will President Obama do differently in a second term that he couldn’t do during his first two years when the Dems controlled both houses of Congress? And they still control 3 of the 4 branches of Gov’t. Obama clearly doesn’t know how to lead and solve the nation’s problems. Obama has had his chance and has clearly failed. It is time to give a proven performer a chance.

Selecting a president should be more than a popularity contest or support of a party affiliation! We are hiring a Chief Executive and Commander-in-Chief to manage and lead the largest enterprise in human history. We should hire a proven performer.

Romney/Ryan are the best of the best – a perfect combination – a proven CEO, leader, financial expert, and turnaround specialist – precisely what America needs today. Electing Romney/Ryan Means Rapid Recovery via . . . More Jobs . . . More Pay . . . More Gasoline . . . More Economic Growth . . . More Proven Experience . . . More Prosperity . . . More Honesty . . . More Proven Competency . . . Lower Taxes . . . Less Borrowing . . . Replacing ObamaCare . . . and the Restoration of Traditional American Values, Exceptionalism, and Global Respect.

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William A. Pauwels, Sr., born to a Belgian, immigrant, entrepreneurial family is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. He's served in executive and/or leadership positions at Thomson Industries, Inc., Dow Corning, Loctite and Sherwin-Williams and is currently CIO of Pauwels Private Investment Practice. He's been commenting on matters political/economic/philosophical from 1980 to the present.

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Jenny

Hope & Your Screwed, Morons.
Sal

With community service experience and almost a full term in the Senate, but a great speaker, saying what you want to hear and doing nothing. That should not make a good president, and it shows. Complete failure in everything he has tried to correct, except campaigning and good speaking, again. Fool me twice, shame on me…Sal
- Jana
  
  Agree. Except for the good speaking part. Off prompter, D. Otherwise, B-. Romney’s better. Really, he is. And Paul Ryan, I don’t even need to comment on what is self evident. Good post, Sal.
Barto

Yet there are millions who will go FORWARD with him right over the cliff to oblivion! He has done a good job of dumbing up people by giving them things and by “speech making” with nothing but lies and more promises!
daledubois

Too many people on Government handouts and they will vote for Obama. Then this free phone deal comes out for the ones on the poverty level, Obama just gained a few million more votes so these people can can get or keep their free phones. All of this has to end one way or enother, the best way is to vote Obama out. Do we have enough voters to do this, I think it’s getting mighty close to being more people on Government handouts than the working people. What will Obama do if he wins, he will become a Dictator and all of our freedoms are gone. But we the American freedom loving people will have an uprising and there will be a gun behind every blade of grass.
- Johnny
  
  What happens when those so-called free phones stop working? While we are on the subject of free phones — IF they were given to welfare people, who is paying for them to be used?
  - Nurse56
    
    They are real here is one website https://www.reachoutmobile.com/ there are many other ones. As long as you are on any type of government assistance you get one with a certain amount of free service each month, paid for by the dwindling number of working Americans who pay taxes. Just another freebie that started out as a lifeline for those who needed access to call for emergencies but has now turned into a massive government give away used by the Obama campaign to buy votes. By threatening that another administration would take away their phones Obama has bribed these morons to vote for him. I don’t know if they would take a job if it were offered to them but it used to be that being on Assistance was something to be used only in dire circumstances and true Americans got off as quickly as they could. People would look for a job and actually strive to improve their status. Now it is an actual voting bloc of greedy, lazy bums who only want more money from the government instead of trying to support themselves. WE NEED JOBS, not handouts. Give us a hand up, not bribe money to keep US in slavery to the government.
huddy

Mr. Pauwels,
King Hussien Obama quite well knows what he is doing. He fully intends to continue his destruction of the USA from within. Bankrupt, disarm and destroy.
Ciaran

Dear Mr/Miss/Mrs Conservative aka Whitey,
Word up Homies. Blacks are voting for Romney at zero percent.
ZERO percent.
After decades of Special Privileges, TRILLIONS of your dollars, boundless energy, and oceans of tears. You’ve created Cell Phone Woman. You’ve sacrificed your own children’s legacy, culture, and future for her. We could have bene to Mars, onthe energy and resources we’ve expended on Cell Phone woman. But you keep pandering to her. You have given her EVERYTHING.
And she wants more.
Why are you this?
Stop expending ALL your energy, hopes, and dreams for the day Cell Phone Woman decides to “wake up” and become a Jeffersonian Republican. This day wil NOT arrive. EVER. Why are YOU, Mr and Ms Conservative, SO invested in the well being of Cell Phone Woman? Don’t you care about your own people? At all? all other Races care about their own kind. But not YOU. “You are “Above Race”. You are better than that. How’s that working out?
Cell Phone Woman WANTS you to be her Tax Slave. You on on her plantation. That’s what she WANTS. Re: voting – “He Black” is the sole consideration for Cell Phone Woman, and millions like her. Stop lying to yourself, Conservatard. You are the real problem. Not her. You have been wallowing in your fantasies about Racial/Social Utopianism for decades. Why are you doing this? Will you ever stop lying to yourself about the nature of reality?
- Pakinpastor
  
  Dear Mr./Miss/Mrs. Liberal aka blackie,
  Word is, that blacks are jumpin the black bandwagon at an alarming rate and are going to vote for Romney/Ryan! I know, in your world it’s a black/white issue, but that’s not the real world. You see, people that have been made slaves all over again are getting pretty tired of being “used” and that fact is starting to rally through the black community. I know you hate to hear it, but it’s true.
  After just 4 years of being off the tit of big government, they are starting to see that the democrat party has just been using them to get more and more from the working man, and I don’t mean just ole whitey. From all working people, regardless of race. And say goodbye to cell phone woman. Her and her kind are not owed anything. It just has to stop, or all of us lose. By the way, to be a Jeffersonian Republican ain’t all that bad. At least he believed that no one has a right to someone else’s money for no good reason. If someone was starving, he let them. That’s cause it ain’t my responsibility to feed you or anyone else. I take care of my family and you take care of yours. Works real well. But when you come to take my stuff, because you are too lazy to go out and get a job and earn it, well we are gonna have a real problem. You see I’m also one of those people that cling to my God and my guns. And I ain’t afraid to rely on either of them.
  So this November 6th, when the avalanche hits, and you all are wondering, WTF? Remember, that America is still alive and well, just not the one you imagined… Oh yeah, you said all other races care about their own kind. I think you are full of some stinky stuff. Just show me how well the blacks care about their own, or mayne the Asians, wow, missed that one too. People are out for themselves and their own families. That’s how it works and how it’s supposed to work, oh, sorry, I forgot, you don’t understand the work part….
  - Ciaran
    
    Errr… I’ ma Constitutionalist, and a Realist.
    Blacks are voting for Obama at what 100%?
    Blacks are voting for Romney are ZERO PERCENT.
    I’m all for that Jeffersonian Republican Thing. That’s what made the USA GREAT.
    Marxist, and leeches are NOT.
    I’m just wondering why so MANY callng themselves “Conservatives” are still so depsrate to pander to Cell Phone Woman, and her Fellow Travelers.
    FYI – the Race thing – you can go into your little Search Engine, and type in the words “Black organizations/Hispanic/Latina/Asian/Race specific organizations” – ans variations there-in, and behold a plethora of organizations, groups, and special interest outfits – and see THOUSANDS of same, all covered with plaudits, awards, and love.
    Then type in “White organizations/groups/etc” – in a country founded BY Whites, on a piece of equipment invented BY Whites – and see what you find. Mmmkay, Princess?
Kenneth Russell

FACT: There isn’t a country in the world, that ever adopted a socialist agenda, and continued to be prosperous. NEVER! So why in the world would anyone, want to try introducing it in America? America, the greatest, most prosperous nation in Wold History?
The one shining star, that any nation could depend on to come, and give comfort, and aid in any number of natural, or man made disasters?
There is only one “LOGICAL”, answer,,, To bring America down, destroy it economically, to the point that we no longer are the greatest nation on Earth.
That brings us to the question, who else could step in, and “fill our shoes”, so to speak?
Interesting question don’t you think?
Any guesses out there?
- Pakinpastor
  
  It’s because he wants to destroy the USA….
Johnny

I see this election very simply. The democrat has absolutely no experience at leadership what so ever. Further, he has no idea how to run a business let alone and country.
The republican has years of experience at leadership. Years of experience at running businesses and making money.
Rachelrao

EDUCATION ………. lack of EDUCATION gives you a “gimme” society.
The demons are exploiting this and making their own millions.
1gentready

These people aren’t smart enough to see ahead a few months until they find that all of the “FREE” stuff that comes from Barrack Obama is far from “FREE” and what they are going to pay for it will be ten fold the market value of all of that “FREE” stuff. Jest like the Obamacare these people are unable to see that they can get “FREE” medical care now without Obamacare then go back in two days and do it again. When Obamacare takes affect they will be forced to pay a fee every month sick or not but once you go to the Doctor for whatever is wrong with you maybe in a month or two you will get help if the death panel approves anything. But now if you need to go back in a few days you again have to go to the death panel again and they will most likely than not tell you sorry you have jest been treated for that and you can’t be treated again for a year or two maybe even longer. Without Obamacare you can go to the Doctor and be treated the same day and if you need to go back in a few days you can be treated again without going through the death panel. But they believe it will be better with Obamacare and they believe anything coming from the mouth of this pile of Donkey Dung Barrack Obama.
Christine

IF obama is elected, we are doomed……so much the average American does not know. THIS path that America is going down has been in the plans for decades …….so the fools that vote him in deserve what they get….only bad thing, those of us that see through what this RADICAL is doing live here too.
lizaz

As our esteemed brilliant “vice-president” said yesterday, we have pretty much been “buried” the past six years (2 years of democratic House/Senate under Bush)…for instance, we have a diesel car…in March 2009 diesel averaged somewhere between $l.95 and $2.02…the other day we filled up at $4.29 a gallon. That’s the effect of the incumbent’s non-energy policy!!! We will vote for Romney/Ryan who will start energy production for real, not just mythical, in this country….the economy will be humming and we’ll be off our dependency on foreigners who hate us!!!! Vote Romney/Ryan!!!!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Barry-Levy/1091577549 Barry Levy

we need to remember Ben Franklin and his comments on the poor. “I think the best wasy of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poeverty, but leading or driving them out of it” 11/29/1766
http://www.facebook.com/people/Barry-Levy/1091577549 Barry Levy

Oct. 3, 2012 the debates, on the economy

Oct. 3, 1985 President Reagan on the Economy: :My friends, history is clear: Lower tax rates mean greater freedom, and whenever we lower the tax rates, our entire nation is better off.”
http://www.facebook.com/people/Bob-Higginbotham/100000261072379 Bob Higginbotham

The people that think getting a free phone or a few dollars without working for them cannot hold themselves in very high esteem. In fact, they have a very low opinion of themselves. Rather than sneer at them or hate them I truly feel sorry for them. I hope that they will, eventually, realize that they are being used by the biggest fraud in the history of the world.

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