More Americans Now Understand The Record Of The Obama Administration Remains Unblemished By Success

The president decided the GOP is having a war on women, but domestic terrorists that kill Americans are not at war, it's workplace violence...Jay Carnie Tweet

• In the past, I've written several pieces proving the first impulse for the Obama administration, the progressive political class and their complicit media is to lie. And for the past 6 years, I've been awaiting more of the public to wake up and recognize this deceit.
• Well, it appears the public is finally waking up. A Fox News Poll last week found the following: 37% of those polled believe Obama lies most of the time. Another 24% said he lies some of the time. Twenty percent said he lies now and then. And 15% actually believe he never lies. (Who are these people anyway?). 
• But a question still remains. Why did it take so long for so many Americans to finally admit what was clearly conspicuous? Excluding those commonly referred to as "low information voters," it's becoming increasingly clear that Obamacare helped expose many of the lies and dishonesty coming out of the White House and its enablers in Congress. In addition, as much as the complicit media tried to suppress the impropriety, the countless other scandals from Fast and Furious to Benghazi to the IRS have certainly taken their toll on the credibility (or lack thereof) of the administration. Most polls reinforce this claim even among Obama supporters.

• In the last six years, Americans observed this administration taking its red pen to American healthcare, jobs, security, prestige, influence, the legal system and our exceptionalism. In the words of Pres. Obama's spiritual adviser: the chickens have indeed come home to roost. In fact, almost everything this administration, as well as the progressive class, promised has not come to fruition. More often than not, we've witnessed hyper-incompetence in almost all areas of government and a failure in leadership in Washington.
• Even more disturbing, the elites appear to take pleasure in flipping us the bird. Just this week, we found out the IRS is not only giving out bonuses (remember, they work on our dime), but they are even giving out bonuses to IRS employees who themselves owe back taxes. And the bonuses even extend to employees who have disciplinary problems.
• Like cold water thrown into the face of someone asleep, anger is soon replaced by a sense of awareness. To paraphrase Mike Goodwin of the NY Post, more Americans are coming to the understanding that this administration's record is unblemished by success.

Postscript: Since this was posted the VA Scandal broke

Our Beautiful Earth Unfortunately Inhabited By Too Many Environmental Hypocrites

450,000 Unsold Earth Day Issues Of  Time Trucked To Landfill...The Onion

• As I toked on an Arturo Fuente Rothschild this morning while blowing smoke rings into the air and thanking the Good Lord for creating such a beautiful planet, I couldn't help thinking of the self-righteous, arrogant and smug environmental hypocrites who also inhabit earth.
• Perhaps it's appropriate considering the founder of Earth Day---Ira Einhorn, Philadelphia's own Charles Manson---was convicted of murdering his girlfriend and then stuffing her body into a trunk in his apartment. He was on the lam for about 25 years. He was eventually caught in France and extradited back to the United States. His defense was that CIA agents killed his girlfriend because he knew too much about the agency's paranormal research. Einhorn was convicted and is currently serving a well-deserved life sentence. We don't know if he still celebrates Earth Day from his prison cell.

• Al Gore, usually invoked as the patron saint of many of these environmental, Earth Day phonies, was one of the first to expose his own fraud when the Associated Press reported Gore's Tennessee mansion used more than 12 times the average energy use for the typical household in his geographic area (there were some reports his energy use exceeded local households by a factor of 20). He used the same amount of energy as 232 homes. Tenn Center for Policy Research  By the way, considering his current body weight, it appears Gore likes to also take quite a few round-trips to his local, grease and fatty infused fast-food joints.
• Then of course there are the typical Hollywood nitwits who never walk their own talk. Many of these hypocrites counsel us on protecting the planet as they drive in gas-guzzling limos or fly around the planet in private jets where their carbon footprint for one year exceeds the footprint we use in a life time. A typical Gulfstream can gulp up to 400 gallons of fuel in one hour. In addition, these same phonies love traveling by sea in luxury yachts where one tank of gas can cost a cool $1/4 million with a cost of approximately $2 grand an hour to operate depending on the size of the boat.
• Or who can forget Barbara Streisand, another global warming phony, who spent over $20 grand a year just watering her lawn and air-conditioning her 12,000 square foot barn? Daily Beast

The Redistribution Scam Only Subsidized Poverty

Eight Million Americans Rescued From Poverty With Redefinition Of The Term...The Onion

• It was in the mid-1980's when the behavioral health care company I worked for sent me down to W. Virginia to do some new start-ups. At the time, I was responsible for the western half of Ohio for the company. We were in many states but not W. Virginia. And since I was the closest guy to the state, I was charged with developing the new program.
• As many of my regular readers know, I grew up in the South Bronx. I know how ugly poverty is. But even the South Bronx didn't prepare me for what I witnessed in W. Virginia. It was poverty entwined in poverty. Poverty was everywhere. Yet more than 50 years since LBJ started the War on Poverty and spending almost $20T to date, it appears we've lost that war in many areas of this great nation.
• We entered the war with a vast array of weapons from food stamps to Medicaid to Head Start and countless other anti-poverty programs. And while this current administration can't be blamed for the failures of the previous 6 or 7, it's policies only exasperated the problem. In the 1960's, about 1 in 5 lived in poverty. Today it's not much better. In fact, in the last two years, we've hit historical highs for the number of Americans living in poverty and using food stamp allocations.

• So how did we get to this place? One undeniable reason is that the federal bureaucracies don't have a good track record at least when it comes to dealing with this problem. The accountability is either lacking or simply doesn't exist. Again, we've seen that played out in just the last six years with the number of scandals in the government while few in government have been held responsible. In addition, one cannot be honest without mentioning the fact that many in poverty just made poor decisions.
• But the other side of this failed accountability coin is the creation of dependence on the government. Again, today we've seen this played out because of the poor economy and lack of jobs in addition to the lack of skilled workers for the good jobs that are available. For example, in many of the counties I saw in W. Virginia and Kentucky 25 years ago still have unemployment rates well over 40% with less than 10% of the population holding college degrees. As George Bush 1 said in his 1992 State of the Union Address: "Welfare was never meant to be a lifestyle, it was never meant to be a habit; it was never supposed to be passed from one generation to the next like a legacy." But that's exactly what it has become. Along with the failed progressive policies came false prophets, always promising the end to long-standing poverty only to have the programs fail---one after another.
• The progressive prophets also fail to mention another major reason for poverty.  As the Brookings Institute reported recently, 70% of all poor families with children happen to be single-parent families. In fact, poverty rates are six times higher for single-parent families than two-parent families. And over the years, progressives want us to believe that economic inequality is always the result of injustice. The fact is and the record shows clearly progressive policies have done more harm than good. And another $20T in the next 30 or more years will not solve this problem.