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Health & Fitness

Obama's State of the Union Speech Will Be All Lies

By Alan Caruba

On January 28, the President of the United States will stand before a joint session of Congress and lie to them and to all Americans.


Pay attention and know the truth about the following:



Obamacare

  • His administration continues to lie about the number of those who have enrolled, but we know they are mostly the elderly while the younger generation wisely avoids it.

Employment
  • We live in a nation where more than 90 million Americans are out of work, cannot find work, or have given up looking for work.

Amnesty/Immigration Reform
  • There are an estimated 11 million illegal aliens living in America and The New York Times reports that number may be growing. At a time of high unemployment among natural born and naturalized citizens, increasing the population in this fashion will only add to the economic problems the slowest recovery in decades represents.

Tax Reform 
  • President will no doubt make some mention of tax reform. The reform the nation needs is the elimination of the income tax in favor of a fair tax based on consumption of products and services. You buy it. You pay a national sales tax.

Gun control
  • Americans are buying guns like crazy. It’s about self-defense and the prospect of a President who may not want to leave office. He will cite the Newtown slayings, but mass slayings in America have not increased in decades. It is not common, though it is always tragic.

Climate Change
  • The Earth has been in a cooling cycle for seventeen years and many Americans recently experienced record-setting cold weather. More of them—though only about 23%–are beginning to express doubts about global warming. 

Income Inequality
  • If there is one thing communists love it is class warfare. The best way to reduce income inequality is well known. It is a thriving economy that provides more jobs and higher pay. Meanwhile, there may be a passing reference to increasing the minimum wage, a great way to deny entry-level jobs to young workers and increase the cost of everything else to the consumer.

Foreign affairs
  • Obama not likely to say much here. In general he has managed to reduce America’s role as an international leader for democracy, justice and human rights. We are running out of allies, especially in the Middle East where Israel, Jordan, and a few Gulf states remain friendly.

Moral structure of the USA
  • This is NOT the America we once knew or envisioned.

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