I managed to get an outline of Obama’s jobs plan. What do you think?

Obama’s three-part jobs creation plan. A continuation of WTF (Win The Future)

1.       Quick Jobs© Stimulate Private Hiring
We will begin awarding private companies who hire a worker who has been unemployed for more than 73 weeks, has participated in a Federal, State, or local jobs training program, and has successfully been accepted into the Quick Jobs© program, with a 6-month membership in Amish Mart’s Jelly of the Month club. [counted as taxable income]

2.       Jobs-Jobs-Jobs© Green Jobs Program
We will start dumping all kinds of money into Green projects. Vote for this bill and some of this juicy cash will end up in your district.   Acceptable projects will include wind and solar farms. Once these farms are up and running, they will stimulate someone to start building the necessary electrical infrastructure necessary to actually bring power from these types of energy plants somewhere useful, which will create even MORE jobs.

3.       Fair Fees Service (FFS)
In order to fund Obama’s New Deal without more Bush-esc deficit spending, and to maintain his promise not to raise taxes on people earning less than $250k, we will institute Fair Fees. These fees will be accessed on hard work and good ideas.

Workers working more than 30 hours per week will be charged a 5% fee on all wages over 30 hours, and %8 on hours above 40 hours. In addition, anyone in an advanced position (obviously having worked hard already) such as management or company officer, will be accessed a yearly fee, in addition to hourly fees, of $1000. Salary employees will be assessed a 3% fee on all earnings. A yearly fee will be accessed on all professional degrees, excluding law and journalism degrees.

Fair Fees will be accessed on all good ideas by the newly created Fair Fees Service, a vast bureaucracy that will create thousands of new jobs. The fees will be calculated according to an adorably confusing algorithm that will require an advanced degree in accounting to understand, thus resulting in even MORE jobs, and will in all likelihood result in a new accounting specialty in schools, requireing new teachers, and EVEN MORE JOBS.

We will fund the FFS with fee calculation fees. These fees will be a flat rate of 7% accessed on all Fair Fees, as well as all other non-tax fees, non-tax penalties, non-tax taxes, and non-tax calculation service fees and non-fee payments and penalties.

Wow! We’re really getting excited about this new program! The more we talk to each other about it, the more we’re convinced it will ‘fix’ the economy. Too bad we have to worry about the Obama-hating Republicans and their deformed child The Tea Party slowing down Obama’s ingenious progress with their blind and ignorant Obama hate.

For students coming out of Michigan universities with start up companies, cover an increasing percentage of their student loan payments for every year they keep the company headquartered in Michigan.

Expand the current Cool Cities initiative. Detroit will take decades to turn around, when that process ever even starts. The state needs other grand locales it can point to. Which ties into the next one…

Belle Isle. Mackinac Island. Two of the most distinct features Michigan offers, yet when was the last time any of us were on either of them? Both offer significantly more community and tourist potential than they currently draw. Part of the problem – from my perspective – is there isn’t an interest in nature among the city dwellers. The Michigan state forest system is 3.9 million acres, the largest in the United States. But looking at the cities, you wouldn’t think three trees ever stand beside each other in the whole land. The feeling in Denver is different. It’s a major, major city engulfed by trees. The people would stand it no other way. Nature to them is not landscaping, it’s life. Buildings there are a necessity that people escape as often as possible. Michigan, however, was too successful at producing a production society. Southeast Michigan is nothing but blue-collar consumerism. Like in the Upper Peninsula, a passion for nature needs sweep through the southeastern Mitten population, as encouraged by the elected officials. This in time will help battle depression, obesity, and guide the population from consumerism to conservatism. That later mentality is necessary for a population to think better thoughts about which companies they want to work for and support, which kinds of jobs and buildings they want in their communities, the influences they want their children to have. And speaking of a change in mentality…

Put all of your resources into prying Detroit free from the Democrats. Seriously; think of how unbalanced the US would be if it was run by the Republicans for forty-eight years. It’s past time for a priorities shift.

So few in southeast Michigan take advantage of the forestry system because they’ve been educated by example and environment that nature has nothing to offer except raw materials for merchandise and stews.

The gray sky for a third of the year is wretched. Speaking as one with seasonal depression, when I bought a full-spectrum sunlight lamp last month, my life changed. It’s a drug. A happy one.  Whatever happens, full spectrum light bulbs should be a constitutional right–no, forget that; they are a right of humanity!

So yes, the gray skies contribute to depression and obesity. Another culprit is the consumerism. Whenever I’m in Michigan I walk the streets at night. House after house has that wicked blue glow of a t.v. flickering out the windows. No driveway is full of the cars of guests over for dinner. There’s no sound or sight of music being made, but only listened to –more consumerism!

The people believe their highest happiness will be found in consuming products other people make for them. Those who sell the products have done an excellent job of instilling that mentality. Don’t learn to make music, listen to what we make. Don’t cook, we’ve got whatever you want. Don’t think, we’ll do it for you. Even the Starbucks idea of a third space is being rubbed out as every new store now features a drive-thru. The idea of enjoying community is diminishing into ‘just buy the coffee and go.’

I’m viewing the problem from a pastoral angle. People will stay and work productively in places because of proper priorities and a sense of feeling valued in a soul-soothing community.

Detroit’s future will most likely be a different social group’s influx. The Oak Lawn area here in Dallas was similar to Detroit’s dilapidated, drugged out environment. Then Dallas’ gay community went house hunting. Being a minority group, they wanted to stay together. They basically bought blocks of houses at a time and one street after another, turned the area into one of the most swinging spots in Dallas.

Michigan’s Cool Cities program is actually designed to court homosexual populations for this same reasons. It’s in the front wording of the program; homosexuals, we want to be your community!

Pick a street downtown and start planning. Preferably within walking distance of the art institute.

Google or Macintosh could solve the issue in a decade like Ford did to Dearborn.

I still don’t have much love for the Creationist movement, but this Ben Stein movie is hilarious. It, among other things, follows scientists who were blacklisted for being associated with “intelligent design.” It’s pretty well done. Made me laugh.

F-me 72 minutes long.

I appreciate efforts to make positive comments. But holy horses ass don’t you hate being treated like you’re a stupid jerk who has no idea what’s happened in the past year?

Indeed, I love the idea of a capital gains tax cut on small business investment. But I’ll swear this right now – and let it be heard: If Obama and his Democrats pass such a tax cut, and actual cut and not in name only, the following Saturday, at the first strike of noon, I will cross my front street and take a shit in my mail box.

This address has amazed me. I wasn’t expecting Obama to be so brazenly and blatantly contradictory and – well – disingenuous. This address was one contradiction after another – and one skewed view of reality after another.

Seriously – he’s still trying to sell the Recovery Act as a jobs creator? Even MSNBC is calling that bill a big fat failure. No one with a brain is proud of that load of pork – Liberal victory party.

Seriously – he thinks there’s no support for this asinine health reform bill because he didn’t explain it well enough? Does he really think we’re that stupid??? Who the hell knows what is in that bill? The week before last his camp had locked themselves in a room, made dirty secret deals in order to grab votes for a secret bill. All the while Obama is constantly – on every channel every week – spouted poetry about vague ideas of health reform. Didn’t explain it well enough… Oh yeah – if only the American people understood the bill they’d all be on board. YOU KNOW DAMN WELL YOU KEPT IT A F****G SECRET BECAUSE YOU KNEW DAMN WELL IF AMERICA DID KNOW WHAT WAS IN IT THEY’D SHIT THEMSELVES OVER IT!!!!

Seriously – he wants to talk about putting old Washington politics aside? That’s what he spent the last bit of the address about, an emotionally calling for a start of new, and so on. Seriously? HE – Obama – was calling for an end to the perpetual campaign???  Come on – we aren’t all stupid. Obama himself IS that dirty style of politics – where you do [this] but talk [that]. That’s what this address IS!!!. He’s talking [$that] while doing [$this].

$that = nuclear, drilling, tax cuts, spending freeze, veto

$this = health takeover, redistribution, climate religion, command economics

I noticed something interesting. He claimed with regard to healthcare reform that he didn’t take it on to take a political victory. As he said it though, watch his body language. He didn’t believe what he was saying, or at least he wasn’t comfortable or confident saying it.

But the most honest thing he said was that he’d focus on job creation in 2010. No – I don’t believe he will focus on job creation in 2010. It’s just honest that he basically admitted that he sure as shit wasn’t focusing on jobs creation in 2009 – unless you count government jobs.

I’d get more detailed, but I’m just exhausted. Obama’s idea of sharing a cake is to take the whole damn thing up to his room. Of course his brother will disagree with that policy. So Obama will accuse his brother of “not sharing” by blocking his policy of sharing the cake.

I can’t believe a single thing Obama says anymore. I just can’t. It’s not partisanship either, or any of that blind religious belief in conservativism some would like to accuse me of, or racism, or prejudice against left handed people. It’s a simple fact I learned long ago: Some people lie.

Also, does anyone else find his narcissism a little off-putting? Shit, this whole speech was focused on Obama. I-I-I-I-I-I-I…

It is funny that every Democrat commenting on the speech has had something derogatory to say about Republicans holding up legislation. Those poor Dems… If they ever took a group trip to Baskin Robins we’d never see them again.

Come on Republicans. Get on board with our cake sharing policy! Don’t you believe we should share cake??? Why won’t you let us share the cake with you? You just want the whole cake for yourselves don’t you. Yeah, you’re selfish. Obama has bent over backwards to compromise with your guys and you’ll have nothing to do with it. It’s like – you expect Obama’s cake sharing policy to actually let you have some of the cake or something…

Shit I shouldn’t have watched this thing so early in the day. I was going to watch it last night but my connection got sick. Maybe I’ll have more detailed and less frustrated comments later.

When the last surrender finally ended World War 2 in 1945, another crisis was already staring the world in the face: stabilization. For six years humanity had bombed, burned, and bled their existence on Earth. From water pipelines to government officials, entire nations had to be rebuilt from rubble and debris. In that process some boundaries were redrawn and others were newly created. A part of this global reshuffling was the founding of the modern nation of Israel in 1948. The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine facilitated this national independence that against immense odds still endures today.

This modern story is said by some to have been foretold thousands of years ago. They believe that in ancient books of the Bible, Israel’s ancestors prophesied their 1948 declaration of independence. The passages most frequently appealed to as such prophesies are the following Old Testament excerpts. Other passages exist, but these suffice as characteristic examples:

Ezekiel 37:21-22
This is what the sovereign LORD says: “Look, I am about to take the Israelites from among the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from round about and bring them to their land. I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and one king will rule over them all. They will never again be two nations and never again be divided into two kingdoms.”

Ezekiel 34:13
I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them to their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the streams, and in all the inhabited places of the land.

Amos 9:14-15
I will bring back my people, Israel; they will rebuild the cities lying in rubble and settle down. They will plant vineyards and drink the wine they produce; they will grow orchards and eat the fruit they produce. I will plant them on their land and they will never again be uprooted from the land I have given them, says the LORD your God.

Jeremiah 31:10
Hear what the LORD has to say, O nations. Proclaim it in the faraway lands along the sea. Say, “The one who scattered Israel will regather them. He will watch over his people like a shepherd watches over his flock.”

These passages and others that refer to a scattering and regathering of Israel are from books of the Bible written by prophets preaching before and during Israel’s exile in the 6^th century BC. This is an important observation.

As part of God’s plan for that time, the kingdom of Israel was conquered and deported by Babylon. Later, the Israelites returned to their homeland under the protection of Persian King Cyrus. The Old Testament book of Ezra is the record of this feat.

It seems to me the above passages are promises from God to return his people to their homeland, and those promises were fulfilled with the proclamation of King Cyrus of Persia (see Ezra chapter 1).

To the best of my knowledge, no prophecies of another scattering and regathering of Israel occur in any Old Testament book written after the Babylonian exile. This is further evidence that the prophecies about Israel returning to their homeland were fulfilled circa 538 BC as recorded in the book of Ezra.

So while it is possible that the Bible could contain prophecies of Israel’s 1948 declaration of independence, the Old Testament passages normally appealed to as such prophecies were almost certainly already fulfilled 2,500 years before modern Israel was born.

Below is a chart that places the Old Testament writing prophets in their respective times. The chart shows how prophets like Ezekiel who prophesied about a regathering wrote during the Israelite exile in Babylon. The chart also shows the prophets like Haggai who do not prophesy about a future regathering wrote after the exile.

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