Posted on 12/10/2011 9:57:01 AM PST by Servant of the Cross
Edited on 12/10/2011 11:14:05 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Statist Delusions
The bill for cradle-to-grave welfare has come due.
The president of the United States came to Osawatomie, Kan., last week to deliver a speech of such fascinating awfulness archeologists of the future sifting through the rubble of our civilization will surely doubt whether it could really have been delivered by the chief executive of the global superpower in the year 2011.
This isnt about class warfare, declared President Obama. Really? As his fellow Democrat Dale Bumpers testified at the Clinton impeachment trial, When you hear somebody say, This is not about sex, its about sex. The president understands that Wall Street, banks, fat cats, etc. remain the most inviting target and he figures that he can ride the twin steeds of Resentment and Envy to reelection and four more years of even bigger Big Government. His opponents, he told us, want to return to the same practices that got us into this mess . . . . And their philosophy is simple: We are better off when everybody is left to fend for themselves and play by their own rules . . . . It doesnt work. It has never worked. He blamed our present fix on this brand of youre on your own economics.
This is a deliciously perverse analysis of the situation confronting America and a fin de civilisation West. In what area of life are Americans now on their own? By 2008, Fannie and Freddie had a piece of over half the mortgages in this country; the subprime mortgage was an invention of government. Americas collective trillion dollars of college debt has been ramped up by government distortion of the student-loan market. Likewise, health care, where Americans labor under the misapprehension that they have a private system rather than one whose inflationary pressures and byzantine bureaucracy are both driven largely by remorseless incremental government annexation.
Excerpt, read more at National Review
Just ask the families who are mourning soldier brought home in caskets due to Obama’s insane rules of engagement. Ask them how they feel about a “technicality” in the Constitution.
One hundred percent loyalty to America, Americans, and our soldiers is what is essential in a Commander in Chief. Then we should ask if his foreign policies are supporting and upholding foreign political factions that are dedicated to killing our soldiers and Americans.
Geeze! Some technicality! ( eye roll). Steyn is wrong and, personally, I believe he knows it. For this reason he is not completely trustworthy. !
So did he speak at Wossamatta U.?
When did the Constitution become a “technicality”?
Steyn knows that Article 2, Section 1, is not a technicality. It **is** the Constitution! He knows this, too, and is deliberately misleading his listeners.
While he does good work, I will never again fully trust him.
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Thank you and Merry Christmas to you.
He often delivers awful speeches that his many fans love. It's a conundrum but it may actually be that the worse his speeches, the more his hard core base loves him.
The political class looted the future to bribe the present
And, for better or worse (I think both) the future is upon us, but not quite arrived. There still exists a surplus, meaning money to be looted, that empowers those who consider it their role to steal it to continue to promise it. There still exists a convenient set of scapegoats, a more or less believable party line, a perverse ability to pretend that things are other than they are. Frightened and resentful people vote their fears and resentments, and demagogues thrive in such a political mess because there's good money in it, if in nothing else. That is, incidentally, why they're the last to starve.
There are a number of reasons why a thing such as 0bama could be voted into office and most of them portend very poorly for the future of freedom in the United States. In most countries the watershed is when the armed forces decide to join the ruling class. In the U.S. it is academia and the media who have elected to do so. We still may have a fighting chance, but that's all it is, a fighting chance.
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