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Larry Schweikart's latest blog: "The Private Sector is in a Bullfight"
Larry Schweikart's Patriot's History USA Blogspot ^ | 6/11/09 | Larry Schweikart

Posted on 06/11/2009 4:26:50 AM PDT by LS

THE PRIVATE SECTOR IS IN A BULLFIGHT

. . . And it's the bull. So far, Obama's picadors and toreadors have stabbed, slashed, and otherwise compromised the bull of American capitalism. Don't kid yourself: they're going for the kill. Most of the crowd is cheering, but a few are starting to figure out that when this bull is gone, there is no more meat, ever. Moreover, a few are actually starting to worry about what it will be like to be the next "bull" when this one is gone---because there will be another bull.

The unbelievably idiotic and dangerous decision of the United States Supreme Court to deny the Chrysler bondholder claims---and thus reverse the holdings that have stood for almost two centuries in the Dartmouth case, whereby a contract is a contract---is just one more example of the reality that there can be no compromise with any branch in this current government group. We need a thorough housecleaning, including the Court, beginning with this racist Sonya Sotomayor. If I, as a professor, dared say publicly that because I'm a white male I'm "wiser" than all those black folk (or "them Jews" as Rev. Jeremiah Wright called them yesterday), then I'd rightly be out on my ear. The fact that she is even being considered for this position is deeply troubling, and old and ailing Ruth Buzzie Ginsburg will be the next to retire, allowing Zero to stick in an even more radical woman/lesbian/black/homosexual/Hispanic/whatever.

Be afraid. Be very, very afraid. Or, better yet, get active. Get very, very active. We truly don't have much time.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: alinsky; business; flashmobs; frankfurtschool; gramsci; obama; supremecourt
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1 posted on 06/11/2009 4:26:50 AM PDT by LS
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To: LS

this isn’t a bull fight. Obama admin is waterboarding us to get its way.


2 posted on 06/11/2009 4:30:39 AM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
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To: LS
Don't have much time? I doubt we have any.

Obama, for all his intellectual weaknesses, has one particularly visionary strength. He knows that the institutions that make up our republic, and the public support necessary to make them solid, have atrophied to the point that they can be easily toppled.

They've been decaying for a while, but the time has become ripe. His remarkable ease at circumventing the law is because there is no widespread faith in the concept of law anymore. People want security, they want results, they want to feel proud, they want a sense of moral superiority, they want money. We're less a nation of laws, and more of a mob, then we've ever been.

Obama is ruling exactly as one would rule a mob. Note how he acts like the law isn't even there. It's because he realizes that for all intents and purposes, it isn't. The only law is what the average American is cool with. There is an awful intelligence behind his actions, and relying on the old institutions to protect us may be disappointing.

3 posted on 06/11/2009 4:40:09 AM PDT by Steel Wolf (Oh, well. Back to the drawing board....)
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To: Steel Wolf

Yep. I agree that he is a master at the radical art of moving the mob from “crisis” to “crisis.” This is very similar to Hitler, or, probably more appropriately, Lenin. Never allow anyone to actually examine or rationally discuss the alternatives, only action.


4 posted on 06/11/2009 4:48:54 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: Steel Wolf

Unfortunately, I have to agree with you. We are seeing thuggery in action as government. Those who will see it as that are considered domestic terrorists and will be treated as such. Those who cannot see because they do not “have eyes to see” will blindfully go forward in the deception, chastizing the rest of us for being racist...just because want what is right. Today, right is wrong and wrong is right.


5 posted on 06/11/2009 4:55:57 AM PDT by Shery (in APO Land)
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To: LS
I suppose my question would then be, "How would one separate a Lenin or Hitler from the mob?"

We simply don't have anyone on the right that's as fast on their feet politically as he is. Whats worse, is that due to decades of wealth and relative peace, apathy has set in, and conservative ideals of self-reliance, hard work, and individual responsibility don't really resonate with the average American.

Either in our time, or traveling back to the early 20th century, I don't see what we could do now or then to stop the current of history. It seems like sometimes, nations become primed to just march themselves off the cliff. What can we do, or what could the others have done previously, to stop what so many of our countrymen desire?

6 posted on 06/11/2009 4:57:54 AM PDT by Steel Wolf (Oh, well. Back to the drawing board....)
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To: Steel Wolf
You ask the question and the answer is something some "sophisticated" conservatives don't want to do, namely, we adopt Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals." You identify the target, Obama, personalize him, separate and isolate him. Because believe me, there are a LOT of Dems who are getting concerned about where their party is heading. No, not a majority by any means, but people who wanted Britain of the 1950s, not Zimbabwe of 2009.
7 posted on 06/11/2009 5:00:32 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: Steel Wolf
relying on the old institutions to protect us may be disappointing.

That is a very astute observation.

8 posted on 06/11/2009 5:04:02 AM PDT by Bahbah
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To: Steel Wolf
BTW, I'm no "determinist," but I do think there are certain cycles based on people's understanding of what they've seen in their own lifetime. If you see oppression and greed, you want to fight for liberty and "fairness." If you see abundance, you think something must be wrong and become a do-gooder."

This theory is in a book called "Generations" by Strauss and Howe. While it has holes, it's a terrific means to analyze America's history going back to the Jamestown generation (beginning in the 1540s) and looking at how cycles seem to affect people.

9 posted on 06/11/2009 6:30:08 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: LS

Regarding the Chrysler sale (and GM restructuring as well), I think there will be additional cases brought to court by bondholders. One of them WILL be taken by SCOTUS and the rule of bankruptcy law upheld.

In the SCOTUS denial of the Indiana case, their rejection of the case was worded in a way that seemed to leave the door open in future situations should the merits of that case be more apparent. Or maybe the timing of the suit was off.

It will take time and patience, but I truly believe that the rule of bankruptcy law will prevail. The right vehicle just needs to be found to force the reassertion of law. The executive branch has clearly overstepped its bounds into the judicial and must be pulled back.


10 posted on 06/11/2009 6:54:16 AM PDT by randita
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To: LS
I was sold on Strauss and Howe long ago, but I read The Fourth Turning before 9/11. While obviously history can't be boiled down into mathematical terms, there are loose algorithms that you can follow. Or, as Mark Twain more succinctly put it, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes."

So, while I don't think that we are destined, per say, to our fate, the gambler in me doesn't like the odds. We know what lines were above, and what lines we're reading now, and what lines to come may rhyme with.

11 posted on 06/11/2009 7:22:27 AM PDT by Steel Wolf (Oh, well. Back to the drawing board....)
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To: LS

The Roberts court completed the usurpation of We The People so that now we are the serfs of a federal oligarchy run by the affirmative action figure’s ‘czars’. The lesser czar answers to only the affirmative action figure liar-in-chief, the head Marxist at the top of the federal pyramid, the numero uno czar of czars. We no longer live in a Constitutional Republic, albeit we will be allowed to cast votes in elections for which the outcome is already loaded into the finish. The billions appropriated from the tax coffers for ACORN and its subsidiary criminal enterprises has assured that the federal oligarchs will have the means to bury the past and institute the change leftists have dreamt of and lusted for since Woodrow Wilson.


12 posted on 06/11/2009 7:26:00 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: LS

thanks, bfl


13 posted on 06/11/2009 8:11:09 AM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: LS

Time for a shadow government.


14 posted on 06/11/2009 8:19:39 AM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: MHGinTN

That ruling was unbelievable to me. I know Kennedy is a marxist, but jeez.


15 posted on 06/11/2009 8:33:42 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: randita

Sure hope you’re right on this. But certainly we’ll have a more radical justice replace Souter, though the vote won’t change.


16 posted on 06/11/2009 8:34:56 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: LS
Sure hope you’re right on this. But certainly we’ll have a more radical justice replace Souter, though the vote won’t change.

All you need is 4 to take the case. I think that even a SCOTUS consensus to take a case which would contest Obama's handling of bankruptcy law would put a damper on further meddling. That would be a start. Next step would be a slap down (one hopes).

17 posted on 06/11/2009 9:06:35 AM PDT by randita
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To: Steel Wolf; LS

Most worthy of a bumpty - bump -bttt -


18 posted on 06/11/2009 9:16:04 AM PDT by investigateworld ( Abortion stops a beating heart.)
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To: randita

Specifically, what wording do you see in the other decision that leads you to think there is a silver lining?


19 posted on 06/11/2009 9:30:47 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: LS; TheStickman

Thanks for the ping. Very enlightening and astute discussion(s) on this thread.


20 posted on 06/11/2009 9:43:40 AM PDT by visualops (portraits.artlife.us or visit my freeper page)
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