The Obama era-The 1st afternoon of the New era of Responsibility
I did not exactly listen to or read all of Obama’s speech today. I had a little work to do plus Theradio.com has a great classic country channel. I have seen that some of the press have picked on the BHO line of “New era of responsibility”. This new era of responsibility is needed to deal with all the terrible problems that we face. Let me put a new slant on this phrase and to expand on what Obama had to say this afternoon.
We need to be in a new era of Responsibility because we do face massive problems. Let me say that the solutions to these problems are “Y – O -U” and “M-E”. Forget all the rhetoric the solutions of America’s problems are right there in the palms of hands and in our  collective national wills.
I admire Barack for volunteering on MLK day.  I say everyone needs to do more to better mankind. On a personal level I gave blood several weeks ago (for the 90th plus time) and I give resources to help those who do not have what I am blessed with. I say go out there and make a difference.Â
On a personal level folks need to stop smoking, lose weight, exercise more and don’t set yourself up to be a drain on society due to one’s poor health habits. Lose those Abs for Obama. Be polite, be courteous, smile at people and try to look after one’s friends, family and neighbors. Â
If you are  a parent get  your child educated. If you are a student get the best education you can to be a productive member of society.   Let me say that means too , girls and guys, no children until you are ready to bring them up in a family situation.  I am  looking for a new era of personal responsibility and that includes making sensible personal decisions as to birds and bees stuff.
Finally there are two things over 140 million Americans do every day that change the way America for the better. Work hard  and work better. Be a more productive employee or better yet be an businessman and employ others. America will be restored to its greatness by Americans becoming productive in their work.   So work harder or better yet get a new skill to work smarter. I say to those who are unemployed that if you work harder and take those jobs no one wants we will be reading about thousands of unemployed laborers returning to Mexico.Â
Finally we Americans spend money every day. I don’t think as Americans we all need Wal Mart gift cards from the government to get us out of recession. I say “greed” is not just a Wall street abuse. Americans have borrowed too much money for houses, cars, education and things. I say spending money one does not have on things we cannot afford is the definition of greed.  I say Americans if you get your personal house in good  financial order you will be better able to fend for yourself and not rely on Government assistance.  That to me is what the new era of Responsibility should be all about.Â
The Messiah has come. Every head must bow to his greatness. Fall in line or be destroyed.
Any Executive Orders yet. Eager to see how he plays this.
General, you need to be busted to buck private with that drivel.
Hahhhh
I want my welfare check and Fannie and Freddie to loan me money that I can’t payback.
Anyone know where I send my house, car, and food bills to?
By the way, if Barry pays my bills, I don’t need a sweetheart deal like Chris Dodd, Byron Dorgan, and Barney Frank.
Well said Rdel, great post.
Nice post, rdel.
And guys, the man hasn’t even been in office for 6 hours. Today is his inauguration. So, lay off the right wing hate for just one day and be civil:axelrodofevil, American Thinker and Co.
Just makes the right look desperate.
Where is my welfare check?
Where is my food stamps?
How come Barry can’t paint my daughter’s room?
AND WHY ARE WE STILL IN IRAQ?????
WHERE THE HELL IS THE CHANGE????
rdelbov
Nice post – well said. We all must do our part, but government has a responsibility too. Not to earn everyone a living, but to create an economic climate where people can earn a good living and get ahead in life.
And government should not be responsible for our health – we all need to make better decisions in the care of our bodies. But government can create better conditions for good health by ensuring our food is safe, and that our air and water is clean. Also, government can make healthcare accessible and affordable to all.
kb
rdelbov,
for a change this year i am working with “troubled teens” instead of just children … (read that as mentally ill teens). they wanted someone with a lot of compassion and understanding — but those people were busy sooooo … they got me
anyway, i get to work with a paranoid schizophrenic (score!!!! result on my first troubled teen — usually you only get depressed teens and the are no fun at all).
in any case, they really are just like in the movies. they imagine the weirdest things, example (all actual):
teen: japanese ufo’s are using beams to control my mind.
lisab: no, that is not true, that is just a delusion.
teen: i have to sleep above the covers to prevent cameras that are in the tv set, lights, and computer from watching me.
lisab: no, that is not true, that is a delusion, and it does not even make sense.
teen: george bush is using the cia and fbi to follow me because i don’t have a boyfriend and i want to go to chicago to report him to the united nation’s human rights organization!
lisab: well … ok … that one could be true … but they might just think you are a terrorist, it probably is not because you don’t have a boyfriend.
Liberal posters telling us about hate and responibility.
HA!
Time to fall in line. No time to question the one the world has waited for. Must fall in line. Must not question.
#10
Besides think how many children could be fed with the money Barry is spending his festivities.
Oh well, starving children probably don’t like arugla and caviar.
jones,
you are responsible to pay for their healthcare …
and they get to hate you
there are pretty much no starving children in the usa … except among the mentally ill or criminal, that is a myth. no child, or person for that matter, is denied food stamps or the school food programs.
obesity among the poor in the usa is a serious problem, they get too many calories, not too few.
to be honest, i was surprised how many free health care options existed until i started working with the mentally ill (tm doesn’t count … i humiliate him pro bono publico)
however, you have to be pretty severely sick to access free health care. that is, there are people who are seriously deranged who do not get free health care — like tm — but the paranoid schizophrenic i talk with got help right away ….
The stock market fell over 300 points today. This was a very divisive and mean spirit – negative speech. They took their campaign speech and chopped it up into an inaguration address.
We are now down over 1,500 points since O was elected President. Elected but not selected.
I wanted to see and hear history today. Unfortunately, history was made on election day, but I did not see and hear a great speech – like an FDR, JFK, or Roosevelt.
It will not be a speech chisled in granite to quote CNN, but dog do-do dumped into the garbage can
Meant or Reagan.
Breaking News: English newspaper says its the worst Obama speech ever.
You guys just can’t stand being out of power. If you are so much in favor of responsibility, why is it the government’s responsibility when you ran things to help the rich?
Why do the comfortable need help and special laws passed by the government just for them?
Consistency is not a trait practiced by the right.
So just go away for 4 years and stop your whining about how awful government is and how wonderful the private sector is. These theories have been soundly rejected by the voters.
So, should I pay my mortgage this month? Obama is going to pay for my house, right?
Alan, The left changes its mind whenever it sees fit.
1992- change
2000- experience
2008 change
1986-
no debt
1996 debt
2006 no debt
2008 debt
Vet for pres
1992- nope
1996-nope
2004- depends
2008 nope
I could go on.
not taxing someone at 90% is technically not passing special laws to help the rich. it is letting people keep the money they have earned.
income taxes really only hurt the middle class, because rich people do not receive w2 forms.
now a wealth tax … like real estate taxes, or luxury taxes on cars over 60k or houses over 1 million … now those type of taxes do target the rich.
(obviously a $1 million house in some places in massachusetts or ny would not really be the rich, but you get the idea)
Lisab-
Have you seen the film “mongol.”
It is excellent.
#20….the comments by Alan are rich in so many ways. However, I’ll restrict my comments to the fact that we are being told to “go away” for four years, yet he is on a conservative website posting instead of out organizing communities for change. I’m starting to think the harsh reality that is soon to come for the faithful disciples really could be fun to watch.
“Have you seen the film “mongol.†”
no, but i heard it is excellent too.
i have been to mongolia … talk about NOT a place for me … eeeeeek
my husband loved it! he got to camp in the middle of nowhere, with no running water, dust storms, eat meat, … he was in heaven.
i stayed in the capital city, in an apartment, with running hot water and bought cashmere.
That is why I asked, I knew you had been.
He must mean rich like the bail out to Golman Sachs.
Oh, who remembers when libs were against “Corporate Welfare.”
When was the last time you heard that.
Great advice Dave…many have already lost their jobs. Reach out to help family first then people you know who are good citizens. Give to charities who have a good reputation for helping the poor. Start locally. Even if your giving is small…it will help. I am speaking to myself as I write this. Lord, help us all!
On the Money Trail: Lobbyists Are People Too, Reid Says
Obama Pledged to Ban Lobbyists, but Senate Leader Says They’re “Part of Washington”
By BRIAN ROSS. JUSTIN ROOD, and AVNI PATEL
Jan. 20, 2009
ABC
CHANGE!
Enjoy dupes!
Jones, good post in #22
Here’s my call for 2012
Dems campaign on EXPERIENCE
GOP campaigns on CHANGE
Gotta love it!
I need to do a self help post on a daily basis. Here are some self help/help others ideas
1. Take your foot off the acclerator
2. Reuse plastic/paper bags. (I should buy cloth grocery sacks, but re-using is the best I can do right now)
3. turn in those coins-roll a thing of pennies and save money & pollution(the mint makes more pennies as we keep stockpiling them at home)
4. go paper less with bills (save a tree and add to the profits of people)
I have this complaint with all pols. Please tell us that we have hard and difficult choices to make to solve our problems.
rdel,
I always admire your efforts to be frugal and to pass on your knowledge. Now the we have a president with 80% approval also telling us to do our part , maybe we’ll see a difference.
Sadly, I doubt it. The credit card ads will still be out in full force. Companies will still try to mislead the uneducated .. its a vicious cycle.
People really need to feel like they are empowered to take on this blitz. It’s a losing battle.
Rdelbov – do not buy lawn fertilizer for cutting the grass. Use/reuse some of the grass clippings.
I could add some more to your frugality lessons.
I always use the canvas bags. I feel so important when I do. Can not use plastic bags in SF though – they are now banned.
Meant applying lawn fertilizer after cutting, sorry.
Its been a long day – up since 2 AM. Its time for me to retire. I will not self ban myself for blasting Obama’s speech.
By the way, I still do not understand mellow yellow. I thought Coca Cola got rid of that drink years ago. Maybe they still stell in other parts of the U.S.
Tina
Several years ago I went through the keeping with the Jones and I hired chemlawn to fertilize and to kill weeds. The yard looked great but after several years I got frugal.
The nicely mowed lawn has some weeds, but no chemicals. The back portion of my backyard has too many trees to grow grass so I compost my leaves back there. My brother or I haul the leaves back there on a Tarp(It was cut out of an old pool cover from neighbor’s yard) I get exercise and mulch out of this process.
This jones lets Nature take its course. Less grass is less mowing.
I cut out more and more grass each year because of the water shortage here in CA. We just had 70 degree temps and no rain for the past week or so. Very strange. January is a month for big rain storms here. So, now everything looks dry and in need of water.
Will Obama help me?
Rdelbov, I now do all of my gardening from mowing to weeding to planting to laying sod to sprinklers. Saves $$$.
You guys got the spirit. I tell people all the time that going “green” can save you “green”.
I
Let me also say for you American 1st people I tend to pay one suit every 6 or 7 years. In the old days I could find an American made suit. My last one came from South America so that’s closer then the Philipines or Vietnam.
One thing I don’t scrimp on are my walking shoes. I usually buy two pairs a year from SAS
http://www.sasshoes.com/main/our_factory.php
Yup these shoes are not cheap, but they are great. Yup made right in the USA.
Anyone know which president has the highest drop in the Dow on his inauguration?
44- It is W’s fault.
Repeat as neccesary.
Never mind, I found the answer
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aOYw.awwsNSg&refer=worldwide
i go to walmart and ask them to double bag my stuff with plastic bags
the new plastic bags are so thin you need to double up on them
of course i make up for it by being a vegetarian which cuts the amount of pollution i create to one tenth of all meateaters
So when will be required to get the nark of the beast on our head or hand? Just wondering.
I eat meat to help the ranchers out. Like the King ranch down in Texas
“Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath”…Wrong, Mr. Speech Writer!
44 Presidents, BUT 43 Americans. Grover Cleveland is n. 22 AND 24.
Italian Television comment: “President Obama is wearing a red tie to testify his bi-partisanship, because red is the color of the Repubblicans”.
Ciao from Italy…I’m waiting 2012 too.
#8 – Key Bored – i actually liked this comment of yours. I must not be feeling too well.
Funny – now that a democrat (BHO) is telling people to be responsible the media and all the kool-aid drinking Obamabots are climbing on board. I’m glad they finally are embracing a CONSERVATIVE ideal.
In my career, I need to wear suits. Generally, at least 1 very well known men’s store will go out of business every 3 years. I can usually pick up 5 suits for about $500 and add another $150 for alterations. I figure I save approx a thousand dollar. I also have my shoes re-sold.
I bought my work case from a goodwill. It was still brand new and retailed for $120. I paid $4. Now that there is competition in cable TV, I am swithcing providers and saving money. I also buy the store brands where it is the exact same thing as a name brand. I need all savings since the stk mrkt keeps taking everything away.