President Obama's year-end news conference

President Obama gave a year-end news conference as the 111th Congress finished its legislative business. In his remarks he said his biggest disappointment of the lame-duck congressional session was the failure to pass the DREAM Act, which provides a path to U.S. citizenship for certain illegal immigrants who were brought to the country as children. He also said if Congress had not passed the tax cuts and unemployment bill, the U.S. economy would probably have begun to contract in 2011.

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/PresidentialNewsConference93

Ya he got everything else he wanted. START which is a piece of poo Net nuetrality which will start controlling websites that have a different view of how government should be. Gays in the military which there was no ban on gays in the military they just could not flaunt it now they can. He got his middle class tax cuts.

Dream act was a piece of poo to.

OMG, he actually ADMITTED PUBLICLY that his original tax plan would NOT have worked! Will miracles NEVER cease?

He really didn't mean it.

Bad Chaz wrote:

President Obama gave a year-end news conference as the 111th Congress finished its legislative business. In his remarks he said his biggest disappointment of the lame-duck congressional session was the failure to pass the DREAM Act, which provides a path to U.S. citizenship for certain illegal immigrants who were brought to the country as children. He also said if Congress had not passed the tax cuts and unemployment bill, the U.S. economy would probably have begun to contract in 2011.

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/PresidentialNewsConference93

The piece of crap act is a slap in the face for every person like my wife who came here legally the correct way followed all the laws and earned citizenship. My sympathy and pity for these illegal people have ended many years ago and the stealing of my countries resources needs to stop. The parents of these children should have thought of consequences before they brought their children here in the first place. My opinion ship everyone back unless the kids brought here want to serve two four year tours in our military.


I dont believe this net neutrality is over. Their is to much at stake for two many people on the Internet and believe this will end up in the supreme courts also.

I agree net neutrality is a sham. It is nothing more then the liberals to control the internet. Actually the house is going to take this up in the new congress and try to stop it. The problem is the senate.

Pissedoffvulcan wrote:

I agree net neutrality is a sham. It is nothing more then the liberals to control the internet. Actually the house is going to take this up in the new congress and try to stop it. The problem is the senate.

It might prove illuminating to look on the Hegellian Dialectic of: Thesis--> Antithesis-->Synthesis. Or what is more commonly seen as PRS (Problem-->Reaction-->Solution)

It is how the gov't has been able to circumvent our Constitutionally guaranteed individual, inalienable freedoms and thrown off the shackles of limited gov't envisioned by the Founders.

Two examples for the sake of argument:

Let us say, *Gov't wants more heavy-handed measures in airport security*

so..


We just 'happen' to have an incident where the underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was not even going to be let on the plane because he had no Visa but some third party, 'sharply-dressed man' was able to talk to the ticket counter and get him access to get on the plane and on the flight, he (Abdulmutallab) proceeds to light his underwear bomb (Problem) ------------>

The American public is shocked at this new level of terror. This new PETN explosive device does not show up on metal detectors .. how will be combat this new threat Big Brother?? (Reaction) -------->

Gov't: Well it just so happens we have these body scanner machines that woudd just do the trick. We should now be able to screen and see the genatalia of any of the public wanting the priviledge of flying. Nevermind if we just stepped on your privacy. And don't ask how may body scanning machines were waiting in warehouses for this crisis to erupt. That was just coincidental serendipity. (Solution)


How about another one?

Let us say, *Gov't wants to rein in the Internet which up to now, has been an open system for the passage of information*

Pfc Bradley Manning working in Army Intelligence has amassed a large amount of data regarding our Armed forces and classified information of our gov't officials communication (more info than even high level ambassadors even) and has given it to Wikileaks so the whole world can know america's business (Problem) -------------->

Gov't says we can't afford to have Julian Assange and his Wikileaks organization compromise U.S. security. Nevermind if Assange was *truly* a problem, our well oiled dirty-tricks Dept. couldn't have made him disappear without anybody knowing or gotten hold of the Data somehow before it became a crisis. We engage in espionage with Nation states like China. The Stuxnet virus is a computer worm so sophisticated, it has stopped Iran's nuclear ambitions in its tracks. But a non-profit company like wikileaks is somehow able to thumb its nose at the U.S. huh? Hmm... Well anyway we can't let Wikileaks get away with this public, don't you want to be safe.. uhhh... ok? (Reaction) ------------------>

If we have firmer controls in place for the Internet, 'Control' will actually mean more 'Freedom' for all users, so say the FCC. So really, Net Neutrality is a good thing silly! (Solution)


You see, nothing truly big can happen in the darkness, in the shadows. You have to move in the open for the really big changes to take place and people will see it. But if you have a media that is compromised and is more propaganda than news reporting, if you unite the ideology of supposed objective news reporters along with the whacked-out entertainment industry in Hollywood to shape the perceptions of the public, you can control what the general public is perceiving right in front of them.

Problem. Crisis. Solution. Lather, rinse, repeat until America no longer looks like America anymore.