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Obama Agenda Called 'Unsustainable'

By Robert Stacy McCain on 3.4.10 @ 8:40AM

The United States is currently suffering from "a capital-starved economy," syndicated columnist Donald Lambro told George Washington University students Wednesday. "We're in for a very long period of very high unemployment."

Noting several forecasts of "anemic" economic growth in coming years, Lambro called President Obama's deficit spending agenda "unsustainable."

"Government stimulus programs have never worked and they're not going to work now," Lambro said in his presentation at the "Barack Obama: Epic Fail Teach-In" sponsored by the GWU chapter of Young America's Foundation and the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

Lambro joined Christopher Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Jonah Goldberg of National Review at Wednesday's event.

Horner, author of Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed, addressed the Obama administration's climate-change policies.

Environmentalists are attempting to use government power to create an artificial scarcity of energy in order to exercise control over citizens, Horner told students.

"The issue isn't really the issue" when debating global-warming alarmists, said Horner, noting the "social justice" rationale voiced by former Obama administration official Van Jones. Horner also discussed the "ClimateGate" revelations indicating scientists had manipulated data to hide evidence contradicting their theory that carbon dioxide emissions have produced a dramatic increase in worldwide temperatures.

Goldberg, author of Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change, addressed the Obama administration's foreign policy.

Goldberg referred to a recent analysis by Walter Russell Mead that compared Obama's policies to those of Jimmy Carter, and said that President Obama is "essentially isolationist" in his foreign policy, preferring to focus on his dometic agenda.

One of the biggest foreign-policy controversies of Obama's presidency has been the effort to provide accused foreign terrorists like Khalid Sheik Mohammed with criminal trials in U.S. courts, Goldberg observed. That effort is about "empowering lawyers," which is something Obama "truly believes in," Goldberg said.

Asked about the administration's refusal to support Great Britain in its dispute with Argentina over Falkland Islands oil rights, Goldberg said "Obama doesn't like the British" -- a resentment that some critics have suggested reflects the influence of the president's Kenyan father and grandfather.

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Albert A. Turner| 3.4.10 @ 10:56AM

I've liked Lambro's writings for a long time. Goldberg's book is right on. Wish I could have sat through that forum and taken notes.

Bob Belvedere| 3.4.10 @ 11:11AM

Quoted from and Linked to at:
Bring Back The Tsar!

Oldefarte| 3.4.10 @ 12:04PM

Take whatever subject you like, and the answer/reasoning is the same-----the primary goal is the destruction of this country! For decades, our bountiful domestic supplies of oil/gas have been politically ignored/baracaded to the advantage of foreign/enemy energy sources; with the residual effect of petro dollars funding extremist Muslim terrorism. This nation has been brainwashed over environmental concerns into avoiding the development of our domestic energy supplies. Additionally, now we're informed that our so-called European friends want our captured terrorists legally tried in civilian courtrooms in NY, when same would represent an extreme physical danger to the people of that city from the terrorists/supporters bent on possibly breaking free those same captured terrorists while they are in a less secure incarcerated environment. Also, we have a Justice Department/Homeland Security Agency that is more concerned with investigating conservatives than perpurtrators of terrorist related crimes inside this country. WAKE UP,AMERICA,WAKE UP!!!!!

Bob| 3.4.10 @ 2:28PM

C'mon, Oldfarte, Presidents for the last 35 years have joined to ruin the country, and this includes Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, AND Obama. They all increased the size of government and the worst of them lowered taxes so the debt would be deeper. In economic terms, the worst three Presidents we had were Reagan, Bush2, and Obama. Here's the chart of debt:

http://zfacts.com/p/318.html

When you ask ANY of them which programs they would cut starting with Medicare, none of them would cut any of the large programs. Reagan even increased Social Security taxes (almost doubled).

I totally agree that the Reagan/Bush/Obama agenda is unsustainable. That's why we need to elect someone like Paul Ryan -- one of the few smart and knowledgeable people in government. He has the guts to address the real issues facing us. I can't see anyone else who does.