I received an advanced copy of President Obama’s speech to the schoolchildren he will deliver this week. I was dumbfounded when I read various quotes out of it. What I had been hearing from Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News were all correct in their interpretation. . . . the President will spend a half an hour indoctrinating the country’s youth.
For instance, take a look at some of these inexcusable quotes from the text of his speech:
"We've been working to take an economy that was in bad shape and get it moving and growing again; take our national defense and make it first-rate again after a long period of decline; and to restore reason, respect, and reality to our foreign policy. And I think it's fair to say that we've made a good deal of progress."
Is the President insinuating that the former President left us with an economy in shambles, an under-funded national defense, and a less reasoned approach to dealing with foreign leaders?
"Only 5 years ago our economy suffered from high inflation, high interest rates, mushrooming government spending, and steadily increasing unemployment. A lot of people couldn't find jobs, and people on fixed incomes were finding it harder to buy the basics, such as food and shelter. Well, we got inflation down, interest rates down, and our economy created over 1\1/2 million new jobs just last year alone. The poor are now increasingly able to dig themselves out of poverty, and that's been good economic news."
Is the President taking all the credit in helping turn the economy around?
"The good news in defense is that our Armed Forces, which were suffering from neglect and low funding, have now made a comeback. Morale is up in the services, and the quality of our men and women in uniform has never been better -- and I mean never. As a matter of fact, we have the highest percentage of high school graduates in uniform today than we've ever had in the history of our nation, even back when we had the compulsory draft. In addition, our nation has encouraged a more realistic sense of defense needs."
Okay, so the President mentioned the previous administration’s neglect of our national defense at the speech’s outset, but to bring it up again and expand on it is unforgivable.
"In foreign affairs we've kept our friends close and the lines of communication with our adversaries open. We've tried to give the world the sense that the United States has a coherent and logical foreign policy that reflects our respect for freedom and our opposition to tyranny."
There President Obama goes again by talking to our enemies by opening up dialogue to our adversaries!
"We have to remain economically competitive, and that means being aware of two things: first, what makes economies tick, and second, what works in other societies. We've been trying very hard in Washington to make America even more economically fit by really overhauling our entire tax structure. When we came into office, the top personal tax rate that the Federal Government could put on your income was 70 percent. Now, you can understand, I think, that if you were getting up in those brackets -- there were 14 different tax brackets, depending on the amount of money in each bracket you earned. And when you could look and say, ``If I earn another dollar, I only get to keep 30 cents out of it,'' you can imagine the lack of incentive there. Well, we lowered it to 50 percent, and the economy really took off. Now we're trying to lower it yet again so that families can keep more of their money and so the national economy will be lean and trim and fit for the future."
President Obama, Sean Hannity keeps telling me my ‘taxes are going sky high!’ and yet you’re taking credit for tax breaks!
Well, this is just a snapshot of what we can expect our children will hear from the President. The remarks are loaded with liberal and socialist talking points. . . . wait, after checking my sources, I've just realized that the above is not from President Obama’s speech to the schoolchildren, but rather President Reagan’s remarks he gave to students at a North Carolina High School on May 13, 1986. Wait a minute, this can't be the great Ronald Reagan, he would never insert political ideologies into anything!