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Affirmative action President who’s never had a real job declares:

June 16, 2012 By Kathy Shaidle

That’s how we built this country – together. We constructed railroads and highways, the Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate Bridge. We did those things together.

Together, we touched the surface of the moon, unlocked the mystery of the atom, connected the world through our own science and imagination.

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But what has Obama accomplished?

Being President is Obama’s first real job. And like any typical 20-something in his or her first real job, Obama seems pretty annoyed about having to do his.

As Mark Steyn points out:

Between 2007 and 2010, Americans’ median net worth fell 38.8 percent – or from $126,400 per family to $77,300 per family. (…)

But these days we can’t build a new Hoover Dam, only an attractive new corner office for the Assistant Deputy Assistant Deputy Assistant Secretary to the Secretary of Deputy Assistants at the Department of Bureaucratic Sclerosis, and she’ll be happy to issue a compliance order that the Hoover Dam’s mandatory fish ladders are non-wheelchair accessible, and so the whole joint needs to close. That we can do! If only we dare to dream Big Dreams!! Together!!! (…)

Today our money-no-object government spends lot of money but to no great object. What are Big Government’s priorities now? Carpeting Catholic universities with IUDs. Regulating the maximum size of milk-coffee beverages.

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