Over the years, President Obama has told a few whoppers and has flip-flopped on more campaign promises than you can count with a TI-84 graphing calculator. The following are five "mistakes" just from his 2012 State of the Union address. The question remains, how long will so many Americans keep putting their faith in Mr. Obama?
1) Obama said in his address, "Our health care law relies on a reformed private market, not a government program."
This is only half true - or a half lie. About half of Americans without health care insurance will gain coverage through the government's program. Medicaid will also expand starting in 2014. Those enrolled in new state-based insurance will receive federal subsidies. Either these are government programs or they aren't - depending on whether you are a rational thinking being or you are a modern liberal.
2) Obama said about funding his scheme to create construction projects: "Take the money we're no longer spending at war, use half of it to pay down our debt, and use the rest to do some nation-building right here at home."
What money are we "no longer spending at war?" According to the first released details from Obama's proposed 2013 budget, he wants to reduce defense spending by 1% in 2013, then add 2% per year afterward. Accounting for built-in inflation adjustments, the total reduction would only be about 8.5% through the next 10 years. That's hardly an inspiring amount to shuffle around from the defense budget to pay off the national debt and to fund a make-work program.
Only a profoundly leftist mind could concoct such a scheme, hoping that Americans won't see that shifting money from one program to another cannot actually reduce the debt or help to create jobs.
3) Obama took credit for an unprecedented level of border patrol guards along the Mexican border and added, "there are fewer illegal crossings than when I took office."
The Border Patrol nearly doubled under George W. Bush, but Obama's contributions since then have been low, constituting an increase of about six percent. While it is true that arrests for illegal border crossings have decreased since Obama took office, immigration experts have said that the U.S. economy was the number one reason that illegal immigration has slowed.
I guess if we blame the economy on Obama, then we have to give him credit where credit is due and thank him for slowing the tide of illegal immigration by immiserating the country.
4) Obama said, "in the last 22 months, businesses have created more than three million jobs. American manufacturers are hiring again, creating jobs for the first time since the late 1990s."
Yes, jobs have been created and manufacturing increased in 2011. What Obama didn't mention, however, is that total employment remains at nearly 1.7 million below where it was a month before he took office and more than six million below where it was at the best point during the Bush administration.
At what point will Obama claim failure because of the continued unemployment in the US? The world may never know. His solution to that pesky policy faily seems to be to blame the Republicans.
5) Obama said that, "the Taliban's momentum has been broken."
This is true, if by "broken" Obama means that the Taliban and warlords largely control the countryside since the Afghan government has yet to establish any kind of credibility. According to a national intelligence estimate, the Taliban will continue to grow stronger and wait until the US troops leave.
Tell me again why Afghanistan is "the right war," according to President Obama?
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