Victor Davis Hanson: President Obama’s First 70 Days. It really does all make sense

NRO ^ | April 1, 2009 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Uncle Miltie]

Citation of Friederich Hayek’s “Road to Serfdom” should be required for such articles.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

I think our president needs to invest more in the use of the third-person "government," since his speeches more and more center on the narcissistic "I" and "me." Even the car-takeover speech was "I-ed" to death.

I wanna talk about me Wanna talk about I Wanna talk about number one Oh my me my What I think, what I like, what I know, what I want, what I see I like talking about you you you you, usually, but occasionally I wanna talk about meeeeee (me,me,me,me-background singers) I wanna talk about me (me,me-background singers)

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

The Road to Serfdom

by Friedrich A. Hayek

[spodefly]

BTTT

[MrB]

The problem is that even with intellectually honest liberals,

you’re still going to argue past each other because of base assumptions. It’s very hard to change those base assumptions, and all their conclusions are (surprisingly) “logical” extensions of those assumptions.

Read Sowell’s Conflict of Visions.

[MrB]

Obama's Narcissistic Personality Disorder

[Tolik]

Michael Medved and Victor Davis Hanson analyze what makes today's liberals (a.k.a. statists, socialists, leftists) tic. These articles well complement each other

Cross-reference links:

Conservatives vs. Liberals: Two Paths to Power
Townhall.com ^ | April 1, 2009 | Michael Medved

Victor Davis Hanson: President Obama’s First 70 Days. It really does all make sense
NRO ^ | April 1, 2009 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Uncle Miltie]

“The only thing worse than stupid people making decisions for themselves is having a bureaucrat making decisions for them.

The bureaucrat cannot learn from the mistakes he causes to stupid people.

At least the stupid people can learn from their mistakes because they have to face the consequences.”

- Uncle Miltie’s summary of Friederich Hayek’s information deficit argument against Socialism.

[Tolik]

In my discussions with leftist friends I use the words *government bureaucracy* instead of just *government*. For the most people the word *government* does not have a negative baggage (yeah, I know, I know...) but nobody likes *bureaucracy*. It helps clarify some things.

[Major Matt Mason]

Sounds like he is describing Rahm Emanuel in that paragraph.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Obama has outlined eight years of budgetary red ink that would nearly match the debt run up by all previous U.S. presidents combined.”

BUMP!

I’m not sure how much further economically ‘underground’ I can go without my life changing significantly. I did the grocery shopping this morning and I actually put things BACK on the shelf after weighing if I truly NEEDED it, and was willing to pay the additional State taxes that continue to feed the beast that is our current Local/State/Federal Government.

I hope and pray that I’m not the only one who is doing this. By the looks of the market, and another nearly 800,000 jobs LOST on 0bama’s watch in March alone, I’m thinking I’m not.

However, we can’t all stop spending for basics, so please shop locally when you can. Support your local business person...because they are gravely under attack from this Admini*SPIT*ration.

*Steps Off Soapbox* :)

[Freedom2specul8]

A marked to read later bump

[r-q-tek86]

ping

[bfree]

Just an absolutely brilliant column.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"In just the first 70 days of the new administration, a number of Obama supporters have expressed some dismay at their new president. Some find his ethically challenged appointments at odds with his soaring moral rhetoric."

That would make a great seminar topic: Sophistry and morality, Obammunism and its ethical challenges.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

If you build programs to help the people now, the necessary taxing and borrowing for a $3.6-trillion budget will come.

By my count, the President is already planning to spend $7 trillion this year.

[Deb]

My future husband hits another one outta da park.

[Billthedrill]

A BTT - this is not one of those exaggerated "what the other fellow believes" posts of which we have seen so many in this overheated political season. This is a fairly dispassionate and accurate description of what a very broad spectrum of "enlightened" progressives do believe, especially with respect to the narrative of oppression and the function of government to remediate inequities in wealth by arbitrary redistribution.

I know a number of such people personally. They are quite sincere in these beliefs, which would be one thing, but they also tend to prefer courses of action which ought to work for the right reasons over courses of action that actually do. That's a problem when you're in control of the economy.

[MrB]

The ‘bammy supporters I know are just as

WILFULLY IGNORANT

of his malfeasance as they were of his incompetence and corruption prior to his election.

[MrB]

I can’t recommend it highly enough:

Sowell’s “Conflict of Visions”

explains this mindset down to its core - your beliefs about the essential nature of man. All these other conclusions and beliefs stem, logically, from that.