Every Obama speech is fraught with lies and half-truths. He relies on his belief in the ignorance of his audience, and that Americans are too lazy and soft to recognize his dishonesty. When your record is abysmal, you can’t tell the truth.
Obama, hasn’t a clue on how to fix the economy. Instead, without ideas, he copied Teddy Roosevelt’s 100-year-old speech in Osawatomie. With Barack Obama, it’s always yesterday’s answers to today’s problems…and this is the man they told us was a genius. The president maintains that the rich get richer by making everyone poorer. Ah…bitterness and envy, the illegitimate stepchildren of hope and change.
The fix, of course, is higher taxes, but when the taxes to pay for ObamaCare go into effect in 2013 and the Bush tax cuts expire, everyone’s taxes will increase — not just the highest income brackets. People in the top 1%, while earning 17% of the nation’s income, already pay almost 40% of all taxes and are scheduled for an almost 20% rise even before the president’s proposed increases.
Geeks on Steroids has just launched a new Face Book Page.
Now it’s not finished yet and we are still working on it but it’s starting to take some shape. If you get the time and drop by and click the like button the page will let you see some really good content, that we will be adding to daily.
Sucks to be Obama, I guess. On Friday, the stock market dropped 300 points .. no not because of Dear Ruler’s speech, but the speech clearly did not inspire much confidence to counterbalance other issues in Europe.
But after a speech on jobs, who else should we really be asking other than the people who would be creating the jobs? Well if this headline in the New York Times doesn’t sum it up, I’m not sure what will: “Employers Say Jobs Plan Won’t Lead to Hiring Spur.” First of all, yes you read that correctly .. the New York Times published that article. Within the article it goes on to explain that employers believe Obama’s tax credits and payroll deductions are fine, but not enough to persuade them to create more jobs. Ouch. Wasn’t that the whole point of PrezBo’s lecture? So let’s take a look at how a few jobs creators view Obama’s proposals, shall we?
Roger Tung, the chief executive of Concert Pharmaceuticals, said the company, a privately held biotechnology firm with 45 employees, would save $150,000 a year from the proposed corporate payroll tax deductions.
But that is still not enough to cover the cost of hiring even one additional employee at the Lexington, Mass., company, Mr. Tung said, once benefits and other expenses besides salary are included. He can hire, he said, only when investors become confident again and the company can raise more money.
Or how about this one …
To the extent these measures could be used, many employers said they would most likely support people whom companies were planning to hire anyway.
Chesapeake Energy, one of the biggest explorers of oil and gas in shale fields across the country, for example, said it had 800 positions open, and had already received tax credits for hiring the long-term unemployed.
But Michael Kehs, vice president for strategic affairs and public relations, said in an e-mail that the credit “does not drive our hiring.”
So there are just two examples of how Obama’s ideas are off the mark. He doesn’t understand what drives hiring. In the first example, it shows how a tax credit is fine, but doesn’t even begin to cover the true cost of hiring an employee. In the other example, companies that were going to hire will still hire, but not because of tax credits. You can get a $2,000 tax credit for buying a new car … but you still aren’t going to buy the car unless (a) you need it for transportation, and; (b) you can still afford the monthly payments and maintenance costs after the tax credit makes its way to your bottom line. Simple economic concepts Obama just doesn’t understand. Obama couldn’t sustain a lemonade stand on a 95 degree day. He simply does not understand what drive companies to create jobs. But these job creators in this article do. So what do they believe they need in order to spur job creation:
I’ve said this for a while now. The focus should be on growing the size of our economic pie. Only then will our economy begin to improve and companies will begin to hire. Temporary programs and more government spending aren’t going to do this. Barack Obama is not interested in growing the size of our economic pie. If he was, he would understand that government spending is only killing our private sector’s ability to grow because every penny of government spending had to come from somewhere … the private sector! But in the world according to Obama, he knows how to better spend your money. For example, he would rather spend it on …
Online Marketing Gurus
Seems as if every time I turn around there is a new online marketing guru, wanting to sell me the next magic bullet.
My problem is that there is not a week that goes by that I don’t get an email from an online marketing Guru, needing a website. You know the kind…“How to Make a Million Bucks, With No Work, Secret Bullet” website. They all have two things in common.
1. They just stumbled across the secret of how to make money online.
2. “None of Them Have Any Money”
Having dealt with 100’s of online marketing gurus over the years I’ve yet to meet one that had enough money to purchase a website at the quoted price. You see the idea is to make money off you buying their crap that didn’t work for them. Or that they were unable to make work.
I know what you’re thinking…that might be true for the little guys but not the big guys like Frank Kern.
Watch this video for the truth about Mr. Frank Kern.
Now…here’s my problem with these online marketing gurus.
As they promote and sell crap into the market that’s all bark and no bite it makes it more difficult for honest online marketing guys and gals to convince clients that they aren’t full of the same crap as the online marketing guru crowd. These guys make millions taking advantage of honest hard-working people.
And they give everyone in the online marketing industry a bad name. Not to mention the fact that they’re stealing money. And now we have Frank Kern saying he’s getting out of the online marketing industry and is going to start doing SEO. Of course he’s finding his clients off-line because according to him that’s where the real money is.
How in the heck can someone sell a service to others that they can’t make work for themselves?
And REALLY, the real money is in offline marketing, cause I’ve got clients that do over $180,00.00 per month with their websites.
So…now we have Frank Kern, who has been selling get rich quick products online for years teaching people how to make money online, only to tell us that the real money is in off-line marketing.
WHAT???
Shouldn’t he refund all the people’s money he stole with crap products over the years?
NOTE to FRANK KERN:
Just because you can’t make money online doesn’t mean that others aren’t. And how can you feel good about yourself selling a product to hard working business owners that you can’t make work for yourself?
You and your buddies line up, group together and promote one another’s products regardless of how good it is or isn’t. And you work together to try and control the price in the market. Don’t believe me, another video of Frank teaching how to screw your customers.
We continue to hear this phrase, “Make Money Online.” These are the people who I like to refer to as our wannabe gurus. I think that’s fair considering the fact that about the best they could do without their get rich quick guides would be chief dog washers. “Don’t you love that word “guru”? Silly me … all this time I thought we were trying to create products worth a crap, but this time we’ve gone out created crap.
Anyway … our gurus do not believe that it is their job to learn how to make money online. Their job is to misrepresent themselves as gurus and try and blow enough smoke up our asses to make us believe the crap they are selling. They believe they are smarter than we are and they have a right to separate us from our hard earned cash.
It is no coincidence that those who imagine themselves so much wiser and smarter than the rest of us should be at the forefront of those who seek to erode the internet. How can our gurus impose their superior wisdom and virtue on us, without all the other wannabe gurus trying to overwhelm us with the same crap?
I’ve personally had enough and plan to use this blog to expose all the crap being sold.
And first on my list is http://autotrafficavalanche.com/.
The best part of this whole program is the sales page, the rest is pure crap. Which makes the sales page totally misleading, there is nothing about this program that generates traffic. It’s a php script that allows you to send Facebook admins to one site and those that click on your ad to a different site.
Of course once Facebook figures out what’s going on, your account will be banned.
These guys brag about being able to make $6.00 per day, what the heck, I can make that washing dogs.
The software to make the method work has to be bought in addition to the book that tells you how great the software is.
How do you like living in an age where government and not the free market is where money is to be made. This is why DC is currently booming – big government isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, so many people are jumping on the gravy train. This explains why DC’s unemployment rate is one of the lowest in the nation, not to mention the housing market is going strong (the second-strongest in the nation). Now we are getting this report from the Washington Business Journal that CEOs in Washington DC saw an average pay increase of 37%, while the nationwide average was 5.5%. Here are some of the details:
It found that the 25 top performing D.C.-area companies posted a median increase in shareholder returns of 85 percent, significantly lower than the median for top performing companies nationwide of 98 percent. Yet the CEOs of those local companies got a 37 percent increase in compensation, compared to just a 5.5 percent increase for CEOs of top performing companies nationwide. Local CEO pay hikes were second only to those of Atlanta CEOs, who received a 45 percent bump in compensation.
Make no mistake .. I am not demonizing the wealth earned by these CEOs. However, it is a bit odd that the CEOs surrounding Washington DC – the epicenter of our imperial federal government, ruled by a lover-of-all-things-government – are fairing far better than the rest of the country.
It is a town swarming with people like Fortney “Pete” Stark. I’m sure you’ve heard his quote by now. At a townhall meeting in California he declared, “The federal government yes, can do most anything in this country.” That mentality is pervasive throughout Washington. It is pervasive throughout the people who are making policy, influencing policy, enforcing policy and interpreting policy. Our federal government has managed to takeover entire industries and create laws that are not based on the Constitution but on what they deem to be “fair.” To people like Pete Stark, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank … government exists in order to do things for people, rather than simply protect the people and their inalienable rights. Once the job description for a politician became about redistributing wealth and resources, about promises of goods and services, that is the point when our government’s role changed forever. Who knows, it’s probably too darn late to change it again.
