Talk Back to Barack
I follow @BarackObama on Twitter--for you, my fellow Ricocheteers. This morning's gem from the President's team:
FACT: If Congress doesn't act, small business lending will decrease by $540 million—eliminating financing to hire more workers. #JobsNotCuts
You just have to admire the government-as-center-of-the-universe axiom planted in this tweet. Instead of addressing the President myself, how would you reply to Mr. Obama, preferably in 140 or fewer characters?
UPDATE (3:30 p.m. Pacific): The Tweet I cite above is only the tip of the sequester iceberg. Have your young children left the room? If so, read on for additional prophecies of Armageddon from today's official POTUS Twitter feed.
Share why your family can't afford severe spending cuts to vital services for kids and seniors: OFA.BO/QxoFAf #JobsNotCuts
RT if you agree: It's time for Republicans in Congress to protect middle-class families—not tax loopholes for millionaires. #JobsNotCuts
FACT: If Congress refuses to act by Friday, more than 370,000 mentally ill children and adults will go without treatment. #JobsNotCuts
FACT: Automatic spending cuts would eliminate more than 4 million meals for sick and homebound seniors if Congress doesn't act. #JobsNotCuts
FACT: Impending spending cuts would end programs for nearly 1.2 million disadvantaged students if Congress doesn't act. #JobsNotCuts
FACT: More than 800,000 defense employees will be forced to take unpaid leave if Congress doesn't stop impending spending cuts. #JobsNotCuts
FACT: If Congress doesn't act by Friday, automatic spending cuts will threaten more than 30,000 teacher and school staff jobs. #JobsNotCuts
Michelle last night and now the President. We may look back and discern this as the moment the Age of Obama jumped the shark.
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Nov '10
Re: Talk Back to Barack
Dear Mr. Obama, I have only one question: Was this a calculation you made when you initiated the sequester in 2011?
Nov '11
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[expletive]
May '10
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How many workers could you hire without $65B spent on gov't reg compliance?
Aug '12
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Government doesn't create private sector jobs, only destroys them
Sep '12
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Thanks for taking one for the team and following this twaddle, George.
To BHO: If you don't quit borrowing, no one will be borrowing for any purpose whatsoever.
Aug '12
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Even Obama campaign donors in the "green" sector?
Aug '12
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Only one expletive? That seems wildly insufficient.
Aug '12
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In the 50's 1/20 workers needed permission in order to do his job, today it's 1/3. Fed reg compliance cost 1.13 Trillion in 2005, 10% GDP
Jul '10
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@BarackObama Yes, but are those 18 jobs worth the cost to our great grandchildren? Imagine how many more jobs could be created without all the federal hoops & "help". #TeaParty
Edited on February 25, 2013 at 8:31pmMar '12
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Mr. Prez, when will the US Government be eligible for a small business loan?
Jul '10
Re: Talk Back to Barack
Do you hire employees based on demand for your product or ability to borrow?
Aug '12
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$540 million? Is that about the same cost of Presidential vacations for 8 years?
Mar '11
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You're a braver man than I Mr. Savage.
George Savage
@BarackObama Is this the same kind of FACT where sequestration cuts $2 million from a nonexistent agency or a different kind of FACT? #BewilderedInMiddleAmerica
Oct '12
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George Savage
Granted, I may be revealing ignorance on this, but do you take out financing to hire workers? equipment, contract services (which I suppose are indirectly workers), etc. But do you show up to the bank/government agency and say "I need an assistant, can I get a loan?"
Sep '10
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Perhaps your wife shouldn't appear at the Academy Awards when they could have hired some poor out of work bus boy or dishwasher struggling to find work in Hollywood instead.
#BubblePeople
Dec '11
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FACT: A study by Ernst and Young projects that your 600 billion dollar tax increase will destroy 710,000 small business jobs.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/10/02/top-five-worst-obama-tax-hikes-on-small-business/
Mar '11
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FACT: No money available for business loans because some jug-eared knucklehead borrowed it all and spent it on high speed rail. #whoops
Oct '10
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This won't be short enough for a tweet but it got me thinking this morning. If the sky is gonna fall because of the sequester then how did he manage to "cut the deficit in half" without old people dying, lights going off, patients dying, children dying, women getting raped, neighborhoods pillaged, jobs lost (aka furloughs), and on and on? If this is the consequence of a measly $80 billion "cut" then how can we ever make any cuts ever?
Jul '11
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Barry, I can smell what you have stepped in. Spray your Narcisse cologne at will, but the stench of your policies shall linger for decades.
Re: Talk Back to Barack
Bereket, it's simple: Just plan to raise spending even higher and then refrain from implementing the increases. At my house we do this all the time:
"Hey honey, I'm going to buy that new BMW 335xi 6-speed I've been interested in."
"We can't afford that. We are barely keeping up with the college tuition bills."
"Remember the pool we decided not to put in the backyard? We can just spend that money instead."
"Oh, okay."
I'm sure this goes on in every household across America. Right?