“Tonight,
President Obama once again showed that he does not represent the
fundamental change this country needs. Instead of offering solutions to
the problems our country faces, the President was intent on delivering a
campaign speech, further dealing in the typical Washington political
gamesmanship that has gotten us exactly nowhere close to improving the
lives of the American people.
“In a speech where much of the rhetoric was devoted to job creation, it
was strange that President Obama would brag about his job-destroying
national health care plan, Obamacare, and the Dodd-Frank bill, which,
contrary to the President's claims, guarantees future taxpayer bailouts
of large institutions. Unfortunately, President Obama's ‘job creation’
policies amount to little more than continuing to allow government
bureaucrats to pick winners and losers, which is a recipe for continued
economic stagnation.
“President Obama claims to want an economy where everyone gets a fair
shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set
of rules. Yet he remains committed to the same old system of debt,
deficits, bailouts, and cronyism that created our economic problems. The
President speaks of giving us energy independence from unstable
nations, yet he refuses to allow the type of development needed to
achieve this goal, while at the same time his administration hands out
favors to the politically connected – those given to the likes of
Solyndra, who fail to produce jobs or energy but succeed in ripping off
the taxpayers.
“Of course, President Obama refuses to even mention the role the Federal
Reserve plays in creating an economic system where some are denied a
fair shot or even to support my efforts at bringing transparency to the
Federal Reserve. Also not mentioned by President Obama is the very
crucial need for reining in spending and balancing the federal budget.
What is called by some 'the greatest threat to our national security'
seems not to be of great importance to this President, although I, like
many Americans, believe it to be cause for immediate measures, like the
$1 trillion in spending cuts that would take place in my first year as
President under my Plan to Restore America.
“In the area of foreign policy and civil liberties, President Obama's
rhetoric may be different, but the substance of his polices - as shown
by his administration's defense of the TSA’s treatment of my son,
Senator Rand Paul, is hardly ‘change we can believe in.’ No wonder more
and more Americans, especially young people, are rejecting the phony
alternatives of Obama and establishment Republicans and embracing my
campaign to Restore America Now.”
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