obAMATEUR has been caught in a lie yet again.  A liar is a person who knowingly says false statements  if they know those statements to be untrue at the time they utter them.  This brings us to some usual class warfare screen from the obAMATEUR.  Was it ignorance (he has an adequate supply, after all) or was he lying.

On multiple occasions, the obAMATEUR has stated that he should not be paying a lower effective tax rate than a teacher.  Here’s just one specific example (among several):  At a recent town hall meeting in Mountain View, California, the obAMATEUR said, “Somebody who’s making $50,000 a year as a teacher shouldn’t be paying a higher effective tax rate than somebody like myself.”

That’s a pretty bold claim on the part of the obAMATEUR.  FactCheck.org did the math, and you don’t have to guess at what they found … obAMATEUR’s claim that he pays a lower tax rate than a teacher earning $50,000 a year is FALSE (not surprisingly).  Here are the details from FactCheck.org.

A single taxpayer with $50,000 of income would have paid 11.9% in federal income taxes for 2010, while the Obamas paid more than twice that rate — 25.3% (and higher rates than that in 2009 and 2008). And if the $50,000-a-year teacher were in Obama’s tax situation — supporting a spouse and two children — he or she would have paid no federal income taxes at all.

The outcome is the same whether we count payroll taxes or not, and even if we look at what the $50,000 earner will pay on 2011 income. Whatever the assumption, the rates Obama paid were higher — and usually much higher.

The obAMATEUR has made it crystal clear that his 2012 reelection campaign is going to be based on the exploitation of wealth envy.  He has and will continue to resort to flat-out lying in order to pander to the dumb-masses (liberal drones to you slow witted leftists) who don’t know any better.  The obAMATEUR is creating his own reality – a reality where the rich don’t pay their “fair share” and he pays taxes at a lower rate than middle-class Americans  (A reality where many liberal simple-minded drones reside – some of them post here).  None of his statments are true, yet he will continue to push these ideas until people actually believe that they are true.

Me personally, I will go with liar.  These statements are untrue, he knows them to be untrue, and he knows them to be untrue at the moment he makes them.  That makes him a liar.

The obAMATEUR’s own campaign team has acknowledged this strategy of focusing on wealth envy, because he has zero accomplishments when it comes to the economy (and most other aspects of his presidency).  His advisors say, “He needs to shift the focus from his stewardship of the economy to the stark choice confronting voters about the nation’s political leadership.”  Yep, he can’t run on “FOUR MORE YEARS” or “ARE YOU BETTER OFF NOW THAN WHEN I WAS ELECTED?”   So now jobs are no longer the focus for the obAMATEUR.  I guess he got tired of “not resting” until he fixed the economy and created the jobs he promised.  Screw jobs, because the obAMATEUR knows that he doesn’t know how to solve that problem.

Instead, let’s focus on his leadership (in reality the lack thereof).  An obAMATEUR campaign advisor says, “Most Americans are very concerned about the future and the direction we’re going to take.”  I don’t see how the obAMATEUR  administration thinks that this is going to work in their favor considering the latest Rasmussen polls show that just 17% of Americans say the country is heading in the right direction.

So what direction does the obAMATEUR want to take this country?  Toward a redistributive society where the government seizes money from the Haves and gives it to the Have-Nots; toward a society where political leaders, not the private sector, decide where new economic growth will and will not be, and where new jobs will be created and where they will be eliminated.  The LATimes reports, “Obama is tapping into resentment over the growing concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands.”  They say this “helps the president forge an emotional connection with his base, especially minorities and working-class voters who have been falling behind.”

Does this re-election strategy inspire you to work hard or risk your savings to start the business of your dreams?  If the obAMATEUR manages to pull this off based on a re-election campaign of wealth envy, then the achievers in this country better bend over and grab their ankles.