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The Obama Watch
The Green Pied Piper from Chicago
He can’t imagine how anyone else could think differently.
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The phrase “carbon pollution” is itself a dramatic disconnect from reality. Carbon dioxide is a natural gas in the environment essential to all life on earth. Animals, including humans, breathe out carbon dioxide, and it serves as oxygen for plants essential for them to survive. Without carbon dioxide, there would be no plants, and without plants there would be no oxygen or food for animals. Indeed, note, humans are referred to as a carbon-based life forms, as is all other life on earth. So much for “carbon pollution.” Moreover, through most of the history of the earth, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been many times higher than today. The phrase “carbon pollution” is carefully crafted to take advantage of the ignorant and gullible.
But the economics of President Obama’s prosperity through “clean” energy plan is even more transparently nuts than the science. Here is how it is supposed to work. First, the government provides enormous subsidies, just more bailouts actually, for businesses to pursue inherently unreliable and unworkable “alternative” energy sources such as wind and solar, the energy that powered the Roman Empire. It was the replacement of that old-fashioned energy by far more concentrated, powerful and reliable oil and natural gas, and later nuclear power, that enabled the industrial revolution, which is now out of favor with dreamy, unfocused, and illogical Western “elites.”
The U.S. Department of Energy reports that government energy subsidies amount to $0.25 per megawatt for oil and gas, $0.44 per megawatt for coal, $1.59 for nuclear, $23.37 for wind and $24.34 for solar. (Oil is actually not subsidized at all, but disfavored by punitive taxes.) And that was before President Obama’s “investments” adding up to an additional $80 billion per year in federal “alternative energy” subsidies.
These “investments” are not free. They already involve a costly burden dragging down the economy. But that is only the start. In addition, President Obama wants to impose trillions of dollars in effective new cap and trade taxes, an arbitrary chicken bone in the throat of our economic windpipe, an enormous, completely unnecessary cost. Those taxes will so sharply raise the cost of the traditional energy sources that actually power our economy, that when combined with the enormous subsidies for the “alternatives” of wind and solar, these alternatives will finally be competitive in terms of price, drawing private investment into their development.
This is how President Obama thinks he is laying the foundation for new jobs and prosperity. “Under my cap and trade plan, the cost of electricity will necessarily skyrocket,” he has explained. But imposing trillions of dollars in unnecessary additional burdens on the economy through skyrocketing energy costs, so that “alternative” energy completely dependent on corporate welfare can survive financially, is a good strategy for destroying, not creating, jobs. That is why in the economies where this has already been tried, which President Obama touts as models for America, the result has been a net loss of 2 to 5 jobs for every “green” job created, with the so-called green jobs actually mostly temporary. This is not a stronger foundation for growth and prosperity, but a lurch into national decline and falling standards of living.
The same radical disconnect is found in President Obama’s government takeover of health care. President Obama said in Pittsburgh:
This new foundation [for growth and prosperity] is also based on reforms…that will make health care cheaper…. We also know we can’t compete in a global economy if our citizens are forced to spend more and more of their income on medical bills; if our businesses are forced to choose between health care and hiring; if state and federal budgets are weighed down with skyrocketing health care costs. That’s why we finally passed health insurance reform.
But regulatory requirements mandating costly new benefits, expanding or adopting three new entitlement programs, imposing policies that will sharply increase the demand for health care while sharply reducing the supply, are good strategies for causing the cost of health care to skyrocket, not “make health care cheaper.” President Obama’s health care legislation, which the usually restrained Wall Street Journal rightly called “the worst bill ever,” will cause health insurance costs for younger families to skyrocket by 2 to 3 times, federal health costs to rise by more than the minimum officially estimated $1 trillion, and national health expenditures to rise rather than fall, again as officially estimated by the federal government itself.
It is true, however, that under President Obama’s health takeover plan, businesses will no longer be “forced to choose between health care and hiring.” Under the employer mandate, they will be forced to choose health care.
President Obama was also quite correct when he said in Pittsburgh:
Now, some of you may have noticed that we have been building this foundation without help from our friends in the other party. From our efforts to rescue the economy, to health insurance reform, to financial reform, most have sat on the sidelines and shouted from the bleachers. They said…no to investments in clean energy.
That is because if any Republicans had joined in helping President Obama pass any of these reform mutations, people like me would have joined with many others to subject the quislings to career-ending primary challenges.
Anti-Ownership Socialism
Finally, President Obama derided in his Pittsburgh speech the theme of “the Ownership Society.” That theme has been used to denote policies to empower working people to build their own foundation for financial independence through directly owned, personal, savings, investment, insurance, and human capital developed through school choice freedom. We should not be surprised that a red diaper baby disparages ownership and property rights, a view central to socialist philosophy all the way back to Marx.
Instead, President Obama celebrated maximum government dependency based on maximum government spending, taxes, and entitlements, buying maximum votes for the New Left political machine. But just as the unmodernized, old-fashioned, tax and redistribution Social Security system he worships is today a bad deal for working people, his overall vision of the maximum welfare state would mean the end of the American Dream of world leading prosperity.
About the Author
Peter Ferrara is Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy at the Heartland Institute, General Counsel of the American Civil Rights Union, Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, and Senior Policy Advisor on Entitlements and Budget Policy at the National Tax Limitation Foundation. He served in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan, and as Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States under President George H.W. Bush.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 6.16.10 @ 7:01AM
Actually, it is all perfectly predictable.
The Obama address from the Oval Office was typical ideological clap trap. The amount of energy from wind turbines is currently less then the output of one oil well.
What you observed when Obama went into his speech was a hatred of real businesses who actually create jobs in preference to imaginary businesses which may never exist.
Alternative energies are much more expensive then oil and natural gas and with our current economic state are not affordable to the levels the President mentioned.
Ludwig Von Mises stated, "All easy credit ends badly."
We are living that statement now and it was all to perfectly predictable.
Ironically, the socialists inside the beltway never practice sound economics. They simply want to buy your vote with your money and you eventually get less then your vote is worth while being charged 10 tens over.
In short, Washington is a city of sleaze. And the effects of central economic planning will be visible by September as unemployment continues to creep up.
Obama will blame it on everyone but his idiotic economic policies. The public will blame it on him and the U.S. Congress.
Perhaps we will see a message to Congress. But it doesn't matter.
The economy will continue to deteriorate as individuals and the business community continue to operate in fear of what's to come next.
All central economic planning ends badly.
Brian Mc| 6.16.10 @ 7:31AM
Bill,
We, in so many ways, are being backed into a corner. While reading this article I could not help but think there must be a way to get away from all this. There is nowhere left to hide; the noose is tightening about our necks and our retaliation, I fear, will only be as a drop of water on a raging prairie fire.
We have nowhere else to go. We must fight this inevitably, first at the polls, but my fear again is that this will be too little too late.
God help us.
Alan Brooks| 6.16.10 @ 8:32AM
But what is the alternative to Obama? the only conservative with a large enough stature is Palin; and she now thinks she is Holy Mary, full of...
Tim*| 6.16.10 @ 8:52AM
Let's guess !
Alan ain't a Catholic.
Emma| 6.16.10 @ 8:59AM
...and he probably couldn't carry his part of a conversation with Mrs. Palin to save his life.
Alan Brooks| 6.16.10 @ 9:06AM
Is that saying much?
How do you know Palin isn't the Whore of Babylon drunk with the blood of saints?
Tim*| 6.16.10 @ 9:11AM
Let's guess !
Alan ain't a Protestant .
Alan Brooks| 6.16.10 @ 9:48AM
Holding a cup filled with the unclean abominations of her fornications with the kings of the Earth.
Could be Palin, or then again, it could just be a friend of Tiger Woods..
Dan Hirsch| 6.16.10 @ 10:06AM
C'mon, Alan...
Are you an unrepentent communist or a USEFUL IDIOT? Fess up!
Tim*| 6.16.10 @ 10:52AM
Let's guess !
Alan's a lapsed Pharisee .
JimE| 6.16.10 @ 7:11PM
Alan is an idiot but his usefulness is questionable.
ds80| 6.16.10 @ 10:21AM
Have fun at your Particular Judgment. Here's a tip: you should claim invincible ignorance.
Alan Brooks| 6.16.10 @ 11:21AM
If I do go to Hell some of you will be there with me. Can you be absolutely sure that certain sins of ; perhaps Satan is reserving a section in Hell for AS bloggers.
yours' will not doom you to perdition? if you attend reconciliation, it is between you and the priest, but when your number is up you are on your own-- and not all of you are spring chickens.
Alan Brooks| 6.16.10 @ 11:46AM
The Bible says the way of the World is broad, the way to Heaven is narrow. So could it be some of you here at AS, a certain percentage, wont make it to Heaven?
Where in the Bible does it say "all editors, writers and bloggers at American Spectator get a removal of all consequences for their sins, and are guaranteed admission to Heaven"?
if you will copy and paste that verse in the Bible where it says the above, then you have will have been demonstrated to be correct, and all us vegetarian, prancing little faggot Pol Pot-loving nudist barbed wire manufacturers blogging here to be wrong.
Melvin| 6.16.10 @ 11:54AM
Thats OK Alan, you can sit next to me. I hope ya like re-runs of Matlock.
Tim*| 6.16.10 @ 12:06PM
Possibly , you're already in the " Livin' Hell " of bein' a captive in the Mind & Body of Alan .
Alan Brooks| 6.16.10 @ 1:26PM
So you both admit it.
have a signed confession in my office by 0900 Friday.
Tim*| 6.16.10 @ 2:46PM
Better Idea !
How 'bout You , Alan Convert & Get Baptized .
Petronius| 6.16.10 @ 2:40PM
I'm on the membership committee of Hell. And we've got your number. Upon arrival Phil Donohue will sit on your face for a month. After that is the seminar for handicapping cock fights. And lastly, eternity will be a blast with all those roofers. Enjoy.
Clinton nee Publius | 6.16.10 @ 12:11PM
There is an alternative Brian. There is a way out and it is not through communism, socialism or any other form of centrally-planned economic system of capital allocation and ownership of private property.
The key comes in creating a macroeconomic structure where all the stakeholders in the economy have equal rights and equal responsibilities. This means government must obtain the money it needs to pay for fiscal spending the way we do - by earning it and not by stealing it (taxation) as this is a limited resource. The structure of human relationships means that all government spending is - by definition - an unlimited activity, while taxation is a limited resource. This means it will always fail as there is nothing preventing Congress from spending more and more money, so the only solution is to find a source of fiscal spending that is unlimited too.
Taxation cannot do it. Only investing can do it because investment is an unlimited activity and equity investing will result in investment income streams that will, in the fullness of time, outpace the government's ability to spend money.
This means we have to change the way our banking system works and the way our currency creation works, but these problems have already been solved as well as the issues pertaining to the government's ability to enter into a structured market and make investments that don't distort the economy, don't allow government to corrupt the market's natural action and don't allow people to defraud the government (it's called "The Fix - Capitalism Version 2.0").
The issue here is how we create money and how e go about organizing our markets. By changing from the liability expansion method of currency creation over to the equity expansion method a breathtaking change takes place each time we do it.
The reality here is that as long as we keep using the structure and tools we use today, the outcome is preordained; it's not a question of whether the system will crash - that's already decided. The only question is what will happen after it crashes and socialists like Obama decide that tyranny is the only answer and only government can fix the economy. Mr. Ferrara's article points out that the reality of liberal-progressive policies is that they never work because the laws of mathematics cannot be obviated, so there never will be the "right leader" who can make socialism work and centrally-planned economic decision-making work. It's not possible and I commend Mr. Ferrara on a well-researched piece.
ENOUGH ROPE| 6.16.10 @ 1:03PM
Obama, The Smiling Cobra.
Appleby| 6.16.10 @ 7:12AM
All the Sixties people are reaping the whirlwind of the wind they sowed in 1968; they are seeing what their ideas do when put in practice, and it is just what those of us who worked our way through college in between the sit ins, bed ins, love ins and Vietnam Teach Ins, told them it would be. A man who has never worked for a living, yet blabbers endlessly about how he has all the answers -- just like the kids who cashed Mommys checques and told all the working class kids how we ought to depend on them to solve problems that we did not have.
Alert1201| 6.16.10 @ 7:32AM
Since when has Obama, or any democrat for that matter, ever been concerned about reality?
Lawrence Boccardi| 6.16.10 @ 8:00AM
Well said. Mr. Ferrara. Now, if you could please explain to me, why any Republican Senator can't stand up on the floor of the Senate, and repeat these words, over, and over and over....
Stephanie| 6.16.10 @ 8:57AM
BINGO!
Ned| 6.16.10 @ 11:52AM
Because, unfortunately for us all, they are "politicians" before they are "Republicans" or "Democrats" - they are concerned with two things only: (1) getting themselves elected/relected, and (2) cashing in on #1 -usually indirectly, but not always since there are still a few voters awake through the evening news.
If, by some fluke, some portion of the public can benefit from something that lines their pockets, they aren't opposed to that, but public benefit is entirely incidental to their two goals.
Melvin| 6.16.10 @ 8:24AM
To sum this mess all up. The 60s Counter Culture is now in charge, that Appleby has eluded to. The dope smoking, maggot infested, long haired kids who more aptly shot heroin into their veins, and maggots from a lack of hygiene and infected puncture wounds from the heroin needles are now ordering us how to live.
All the kids who sat starry eyed with their Che Guevara berets listening intently to their Communist college professors at the local Communist Kafka Cafe about the evils of Western Culture.
Michael L. Hauschild| 6.16.10 @ 10:24AM
Melvin,
I once sat on a bunk awaiting the “freedom plane” across from a young black man who was shooting up heroine, his last shot before the pat down required boarding the Tiger Airlines flight. I witnessed the whole thing, cooking the powder in a spoon, sucking blood into the syringe to rinse and dilute the heroine to get the full “hit,” then injecting the mixture back into his arm. His eyes rolled back in his head and he passed out flat on his back. The syringe remained hanging in his arm. As horrified as I was I still reached across the aisle and pulled the needle from his arm and put it in the open case he carried. There is a constant and persistent tendency to attribute the state of affairs we are in to people such as that young pathetic soldier. Trust me Melvin, people who shot up heroine four decades ago are not your nemesis, the maggots that you envision are because they are dead, not due to hygiene. The people you should be faulting, as you suggest, are products of the Ivory Tower, but don’t underestimate them, they don’t take hard drugs and get “high” only on mainlining communism. Your passion is appreciated, but I seriously doubt that vilifying aging odorous drug addled hippies accomplished much.
Melvin| 6.16.10 @ 10:55AM
I applaud your response Michael. You are correct, but these Ivory Tower types were also part of the Counter Culture.
The young black man that you mentioned was born and became a young man in the age of the Counter Culture, but he was not one of them, he was just some young man that was caught up in something much bigger than he and he was doing something that helped him cope with his predicament of life.
He didn't care about Che, or Castro and the only thing that he knew about Communism is that it was the NVA.
The Counter Culture/ Ivory Tower types are the ones that I'm deriding because they never saw the world throught the eyes of that young heroin addicted soldier/Marine for what it really was, they only saw it through their rose colored John Lennon, Joplin glasses.
Louis Jenkins| 6.16.10 @ 8:37AM
All of the above are good questions. What is really damning is why a Republican Senator can't stand on the floor of the Senate and ask why? No one, not even the most junior Rep. Senator, has the ba**s or gumption to stand and ask. Their constitutients are asking. The men and women on the streets are asking. Even some of the children are beginning to ask.
"President Obama said in Pittsburgh, "From China to India to Europe…[t]hey're making serious investments in technology and clean energy because they want to win the competition for those jobs.."
Really? Last I heard they were building coal fired plants. No thought to the environment. Serious investments? Come on. The communists say that's were the money is going and it goes. And who sent the jobs overseas? Democrats and Republicans.
LarryK| 6.16.10 @ 8:58AM
Barak H. Obama
B. I. C.
Blowhard In Chief!
Ken (Old Texican)| 6.16.10 @ 10:11AM
Peter,
I’m sorry, but I truly did not like your metaphor of the Pied Piper. These days are too dark for nursery rhyme characters. This is real life, sir…and there are no “do-overs” .
I have read endlessly about the “empty suit”, the “ideologue”, “the narcissist”, “the boy president”, “the closet Muslim”…..and many other descriptors. The metaphor that keeps tickling in the back of my mind is the “Faustian bargain”….he is trying to make with 47% of our voters to take this whole nation to hell….literally. (He seems to think he can cheat the other 4% with election fraud.)
Every single move he has made is 180 degrees opposite of the moves needed to re-build and repair a robust and free economy with all the benefits it has provided to every American over the years. Heck, even our “poor” are able to be obese….when they learn how to play the system. It is the “New Poor” who are being hammered…and look to be hammered even harder in the near future as his “moves to date” come into fruition.
But not only are his “domestic” moves 180 degrees out. My Lord, his “foreign” moves seem to me to be virtually traitorous. He appears to be like the boxing guy who throws a match by simply letting down his guard, or a general of an army commanding a stacking of arms in the midst of a battle in order to quell some muttering in his ranks.
Sir, it seems to me that he wants to break Americans into five groups. One group he seems to feel he can bribe. Another group he feels he can break over the rack of insolvency, and yet another group he feels that he can sucker into believing him, and one last group; his happy helpers.
Dare I write it? Is he the “son of lies”?
Heck yes I will. When does he think he can silence or dispose of the people like me who will not be silenced. Sir, the operative term in that question is “when”.
I suggest that you, sir, ask that question very seriously to your own personal self.
davelnaf| 6.16.10 @ 10:29AM
Washington, or, to be precise, the entire political establishment there, struggles with the concept that government cannot do a better job with taxpayers’ money than they can do with it themselves. Failing utterly to understand why this is so, and perhaps somewhat perversely, politicians have continued to spend money until it has provided a sort of bedrock foundation and cover for Obama to tout his bonehead economic fantasies. If people in Washington were realistic about any of this they would be looking around Washington right now because in a few years it will be a very different place, either that or we are finished.
buckeyeman| 6.16.10 @ 10:36AM
Obama is "green"? Not the last time I looked.
JP| 6.16.10 @ 10:42AM
Great article. But one thing I do not agree on is letting Wall St off scott-free. From 1981-2008 Wall St concocted a thousand and one financial products based upon either debt or risk. Derivatives do have several uses, but the exotic finanical products such as CDOs and CDSs not only inflated risks, but extended the risks to areas where they shouldn't have entered. It wasn't fraud per se, but it was close to it. Of course, the computer models never projected the deflating of the housing market, so all was well. I know, I know that Greenspan's easy money policies was at the heart of the market bubble and collapse, but Wall St (primairily a Democrat domain) also had a hand.
What is funny, is that depsite all the talk about reinstituting Glass-Stengal, I never read whether the financial reform bill now in Congress will do that. Why not break up JP, Goldman et als?
Oldefarte| 6.16.10 @ 11:58AM
Brilliant piece, Peter, simply brilliant!!!!!
Sarbo| 6.16.10 @ 12:06PM
Carbon prices will go up organically, in any case, down the decades, as fossil fuels become scarce relative to demand. But to artificially raise the carbon price, in order tp price fossil fuels out of the market, so that wind and solar power becomes competitive ... well, that's called cannibilation. Jobs will be shuffled around, inflation will rise and you'ss need pil to drive your cars and airplanes, but horrendous cost.
Sheila| 6.16.10 @ 1:11PM
Ken (Old Texican) - I concur with your excellent comment. Whoever or whatever Dear Leader actually is, the Republican whores in Congress are useless and the Tea Party movement too timid (and too certain of the inviolability of the ballot box) to make any difference. It is all too little, too late. As you note, there is that core of true believers (larger than many here want to acknowledge) who will vote for him come what may; there are plenty who pay no attention to "politics" but will vote for whoever sends more of other people's money into their pocket; the rest of us are to broken and/or silenced. Decline and fall.
Melvin| 6.16.10 @ 2:42PM
Hee hee, haa haa Obama garners 20 billion dollars from BP for his own political slush fund. .50 cents for fishermen, one million dollars for lawyers, .10 cents for oyster-men. ten million for radical environmental groups. See this money where it goes and where it isn't. This is the biggest Chicago shake down in history. Jesse & Al must be proud especially after all they taught Obama everything he knows about extortion.
Melvin| 6.16.10 @ 2:44PM
This makes Berni Madoff look like a piker. White collar crime at its finest.
Ray | 6.16.10 @ 3:41PM
"Under my cap and trade plan, the cost of electricity will necessarily skyrocket"
Then it should be called "kneecap all trade" as no company in America will be able to afford the energy costs of production, or even running a service business, and tens millions of people will be out of a job. No products or services to trade anywhere, even within our own country, so no labor needed and no income for the majority of Americans. People will no longer even be able to pay for their own home electricity use, and lights, furnaces, stoves, ovens, refrigerators, and air-conditioning use will stop, returning us to the ear;y 19th century, and buy the way, KILLING most of the people through starvation (who will process all the necessary food? Who will store it? And who will be able to buy it anyways?), disease (no more modern hospitals, no more vaccines, no more anti-biotics, no more operations, no more more medical services or products available at all. Not even alcohol to clean a wond!0 !), and exposure (no more heatating in the winter or air conditioning in the summer). All in a stupid attempt to "save" us from "dependency on foreign oil" and giving us, supposedly, "independence," for those who survive anyways.
Let's destroy America in order to protect it! That's a great idea, Obama, NOT! To bad you'll NEVER implement it. We, the People will not allow it
Marc Jeric| 6.16.10 @ 5:20PM
Abu Hussein al-Nairobi (or whichever Kenyan hellhole this Muslim marxist was born in) announced the cap & trade power grab yesterday in his speech.
This conspiracy by government-paid drones started in the 1970's with the global cooling scam. That failed but is continued in the 1990's with the global warming hoax. After 15 years of cooling that was transformed into the climate change flimflam. And now we are dealing with the cap & trade communist attack, aimed at nationalizing oil & gas companies, coal mines, electricity companies, all industries using a lot of energy such as aluminum smelters, steel mills, glass factories...
And all of it based on idiotic and criminally distorted data put in lying computer codes.
Marc Jeric| 6.16.10 @ 5:21PM
I forgot = Never let a big crisis go to waste" as the White House komissars declared as their modus operandi.
bluecollarbytes| 6.16.10 @ 8:44PM
Obama reconfirms his void of understanding of and appreciation for the American economy that has financed bureaucratic dreams of the nanniests. But I think it's more than that. Obama seems to have outright contempt for business, and the traditional road to success- private entities taking risks to create something- profit. Profit is Almost always bad in Obama's constricted understanding of it. Profit is something gained unfairly, IF Obama declares it to be so in any given case. Profit is gained by leaches on society, the leaches Obama wants us to hate. Obama is a twisted ideologue whose understanding of the world and particularly of the U.S. is still stuck in Leftist think tanks and mindsets of non-productive academics. We will never pull out of the Obamahole until he is gone.
Irish22| 6.16.10 @ 10:43PM
Really, Obama admits he favors radical increases in energy prices? Love the idea of a Senator filibustering with "economic truth"! Anyone out there find it ironic that the Chinese will have more of a free market economy than we do by the end of Obama's term?
FeralCat| 6.16.10 @ 11:43PM
You with your American Spectator blogin'
And you skeptics always contemplatin'
How my coronation you’d like to start rearrangin'
When that’s not what you really should do
When heaven has found you
Can’t you see
That it’s all wrapped up in the Messiah that’s Me
So follow Me
Come on, subjects
Follow Me
I’m Obama the Piper
And I’ll show you where Hope and Change is at
Come on, subjects
Can’t you see
I’m Obama the Piper
Trust only in Me
Subjects
Don’t be worried about givin' up your Constitution to help Me move and grove
Hey, subjects
What do you think I’m tryin’ to prove
It ain’t true
That My Michelle would like to rob and enslave your kids and you
It’s just in your mind
And that’s all that’s trickin’ you
So behind all My celebrities step in line
Come on, subjects
Forget about that silly old Constitution for Me
Come on, subjects
Trust only in My Teleprompter and Me
Come on, subjects
Can’t you see
Come on, subjects
Follow Me
- Mao Ohmama
Yosemeti Sam| 6.17.10 @ 1:25AM
" ... President Obama further demonstrates a disconnect from reality ...."
When exactly did BHO reach that threshold?
Upon inauguration?
vtwin| 6.17.10 @ 2:38AM
“President Obama further demonstrates a disconnect from reality…’ Here’s reality, since the so called "conservative revolution” of 1980s not a single Republican president has ever presided over a balanced budget, not even for a single year of their respective administrations, not Reagan, not Bush Sr., not Bush Jr., in fact only Bill Clinton a Democrat was able to balance the budget. The problem is NOT Obama’s deficit spending to prevent a global economic meltdown but rather the 11 trillion dollars of Republican debt he inherited.
Mark| 6.17.10 @ 10:54AM
"Law Enforcement" enables this illegal alien to continue to usurp the office of President of the United States, in spite of their oath to "...preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution..." May they rot in Heck for what they've done to this country!
JeffT| 6.18.10 @ 11:22AM
When you ignore history, watch out. Doing what FDR did to "solve" the economic downturn, Obama is sending the country into the crapper for a long winter's night. But this is what he and his progressive puppet masters want. This is NO accident.
Libsir F. Zombighouls | 6.18.10 @ 7:59PM
The suicidal wailing and whining, NEVER CHANGES! SOSDD...Different WOWAH MONGERING BABY KILLERS AND EVIL RICH PEOPLE!
Remember, in 1968, The Neo Marxist/Maoist/Stalinists, TURNED AGAINST THEIR OWN FOR BEING MEAN TO COMMUNISTS!
Comrade FDR, allowed Hitler to pound the piss out of England for 2 years before He entered the war. The catalyst? Well, Hitler promised FDR's Uncle Jo, that he wouldn't start a fight with him. AND HE LIED AND ATTACKED COMMUNISTS!
Few months later, we were helping Jo, make the world safe for Communism...
From Link: David Boaz muses on the old, but still interesting, topic of why the modern press gives commies better press than they give Nazis, hooked to the New Yorker's recent Pete Seeger profile. He details a wonderful isolationist-interventionist flip-flop the old folkie performed in the '40s, in lockstep with the shifting Communist Party line as the Hitler-Stalin pact was formed then later abrogated. Seeger
and his group the Almanac Singers put out an album titled Songs of John Doe that called Franklin D Roosevelt a warmongering lackey of JP Morgan.
Franklin D, listen to me,
You ain't a-gonna send me 'cross the sea.
You may say it's for defense
That kinda talk ain't got no sense.
Then within months Hitler invaded the Soviet Union. The album was pulled from the market and reportedly destroyed. The Almanac Singers quickly produced a new album, Dear Mr President, that took a different view of FDR and the war:
Now, Mr President
You're commander-in-chief of our armed forces
The ships and the planes and the tanks and the horses
I guess you know best just where I can fight ...
So what I want is you to give me a gun
So we can hurry up and get the job done!
In a Free Market Economy, with NOT TOO MANY BOLSHEVIKS AROUND, they don't fret about, THE POOR LITTLE WORKER BEES AND ANTS.
We shouldn't be hissing about job loss now. PLUG THE LEAK, YOU LITTLE DILL WEED, AND KILL ENOUGH BAD GUYS SO YOU CAN STOP SENDING OUR PRECIOUS MILITARY PEOPLE OVER TO BE TURNED INTO DOG FOOD, YOU SELF AGGRANDIZING PUTZ!
Libsir F. Zombighouls | 6.18.10 @ 5:53PM
I am NOT sorry, that I am an ADULT. I got sane and sober by, THE GRACE OF GOD, on April 15, 1975, when I was 24 years old. At that SECOND, I began to MATURE, EMOTIONALLY!
http://www.libertymind.com/index.php?page_id=263
On the Appeal of Modern Liberalism:
The modern state has taken on the role of an apparently benign, generous, omnipotent and god-like parent, who serves as custodian, manager, provider and caretaker, all to the detriment of the people. We have, in effect, parentified our governments in the belief that we will be better off if they take care of us than if we take care of ourselves. We have shifted our assumptions about the human condition from an ethical and religious conception that we must earn a good life through individual and cooperative hard work and responsibility, to a secular and collectivist conception of life as a manipulative competition for the bounty of the state. Rather than praying to a higher power to strengthen and guide us in our personal labors to serve others as we serve ourselves, we plead to our legislators for a place at the public trough and hope that they will do unto us at least as generously as they do unto others. Big government revenue has become in effect the income of a very large family whose many children vie for indulgence, while ready at any moment to protest in the name of egalitarianism if one sibling seems to be getting more than another.
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