{"id":6169,"date":"2011-09-08T23:57:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T23:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=6169"},"modified":"2011-09-09T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T16:51:08","slug":"the-speech-hey-look-at-that-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=6169","title":{"rendered":"The Speech&#8230;. Hey, Look At That Chicken!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"The%20Speech....%20Hey%2C%20Look%20At%20That%20Chicken%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>After a while&#8230;.  looking at a chicken would have been more interesting.<\/p>\n<p>In a nut-shell:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to have tax breaks for people while we raise taxes on people. Corporations are bad because they take advantage of tax incentives we have given them. We&#8217;re offering tax incentives for companies to create jobs. We&#8217;re going to do three times as much as we did before, with 4\/10th less the money than the last stimulus!&#8230;. blah blah blah&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t hear all of the speech; I turned it off somewhere in the middle. In my defense, you can only get so far down the laundry list before you realize there just isn&#8217;t enough money at your disposal to do all the things you promise.<\/p>\n<p>We needed bold.<\/p>\n<p>We got nothing more than the same ideas that have gotten us into this mess in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>This was nothing more than the usual State Of The Union, complete with the empty promises that won&#8217;t \/ can&#8217;t be done&#8230; Just offered up without the lie that &#8220;This Union Is Strong&#8221; offered up at the beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"The%20Speech....%20Hey%2C%20Look%20At%20That%20Chicken%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>After a while&#8230;. looking at a chicken would have been more interesting. In a nut-shell: &#8220;We&#8217;re going to have tax breaks for people while we raise taxes on people. Corporations are bad because they take advantage of tax incentives we have given them. We&#8217;re offering tax incentives for companies to create jobs. 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