Take this article and others I found to the fight to the Libs on their own turf; put the Left on the defensive at Digg and at Reddit and in Stumbleupon and Delicious
Kill all the golden geese.
Imagine what it’d be if he hadn’st promised to cut the budget.
Lenin identified finance, oil, large industrial manufacturing, and mass transportation as the “commanding heights” of any modern economy.
With the exception of air and rail freight, mass transportation has largely been a state enterprise in the US for decades. TSA, unions, and escalating jet fuel prices are wrecking the air transport industry. Obama has already completed the seizure of the commanding heights of finance either through direct state ownership of virtually all mortgage finance or through regulation. He has seized or co-opted the largest manufacturers in the US, GM and GE for example. Now he’s working on the oil and gas industry. First, he wrecks its commercial viability with regulations and taxes. Then he nationalizes it.
It’s pretty obvious.
What’s not so obvious is whether his faerie dust and unicorn “alternative energy” schemes are grounded in utter ignorance of energy economics or part of a deliberate, cynical strategy to wreck the energy industry. Ignorance or malice? I used to think Occam’s razor would conclude that ignorance was more likely to be correct. Now malice toward free enterprise seems much more likely.