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If I Wanted America To Fail
YouTube ^ | 04/20/12 | Free Market America

Posted on 04/25/2012 8:24:52 AM PDT by AtlasStalled

The environmental agenda has been infected by extremism—it's become an economic suicide pact. And we're here to challenge it.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: freemarketamerica

1 posted on 04/25/2012 8:24:53 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
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To: AtlasStalled

Posted a bajillion times already...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=fail


2 posted on 04/25/2012 8:26:44 AM PDT by TSgt (The only reason I have one in the chamber at all times, is because it is impossible to have two in.)
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To: TSgt
Posted a bajillion times already...

Still amazed how many have not seen it yet. But good to see people are beginning to see that 0bama hates freedom, capitalism and America.

If I wanted America to fail

3 posted on 04/25/2012 8:34:37 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: AtlasStalled
If I wanted to make sure corporate America just had to send the jobs where the labor was cheapest, really folks, we have no choice, the environmental agenda would be my first choice too.
4 posted on 04/25/2012 8:41:45 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: AtlasStalled

If I wanted America to fail I’d give the power to print money to a central bank, corrupt the idea of “General Welfare” to mean taking money from some in order to give it to others, usurp the commerce clause, and ban God from the school room.

We’re at the end game, not the opening or mid.


5 posted on 04/25/2012 8:41:56 AM PDT by Jack of all Trades (Hold your face to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.)
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To: FatherofFive

Hmmm... let’s see....

I’d get an outright Marxist elected as president,
and I’d make sure that some characteristic that he had would make him immune from scrutiny.


6 posted on 04/25/2012 8:44:21 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: AtlasStalled

I hadn’t seen this, and am glad that you posted it. Your effort was appreciated and effective, despite any snarky comments to the contrary. Thank you.


7 posted on 04/25/2012 9:01:52 AM PDT by weeder
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To: TSgt
"Posted a bajillion times already..."

Yep, but now it's the headline link on Drudge. Watch the hits grow.... A bajillion more would be nice.....

8 posted on 04/25/2012 9:12:45 AM PDT by Reo (the 4th Estate is a 5th Column)
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To: AtlasStalled

If I wanted America to fail …

To follow, not lead; to suffer, not prosper; to despair, not dream.

I would start with energy.

I’d cut off America’s supply of cheap, abundant energy. I couldn’t take it by force. So, I’d make Americans feel guilty for using the energy that heats their homes, fuels their cars, runs their businesses, and powers their economy.

I’d make cheap energy expensive, so that expensive energy would seem cheap.

I would empower unelected bureaucrats to all-but-outlaw America’s most abundant sources of energy. And after banning its use in America, I’d make it illegal for American companies to ship it overseas.

If I wanted America to fail …

I’d use our schools to teach one generation of Americans that our factories and our cars will cause a new Ice Age, and I’d muster a straight face so I could teach the next generation that they’re causing Global Warming.

And when it’s cold out, I’d call it Climate Change instead.

I’d imply that America’s cities and factories could run on wind power and wishes. I’d teach children how to ignore the hypocrisy of condemning logging, mining and farming — while having roofs over their heads, heat in their homes and food on their tables. I would never teach children that the free market is the only force in human history to uplift the poor, establish the middle class and create lasting prosperity.

Instead, I’d demonize prosperity itself, so that they will not miss what they will never have.

If I wanted America to fail …

I would create countless new regulations and seldom cancel old ones. They would be so complicated that only bureaucrats, lawyers and lobbyists could understand them. That way small businesses with big ideas wouldn’t stand a chance – and I would never have to worry about another Thomas Edison, Henry Ford or Steve Jobs.

I would ridicule as “Flat Earthers” those who urge us to lower energy costs by increasing supply. And when the evangelists of commonsense try to remind people about the law of supply and demand, I’d enlist a sympathetic media to drown them out.

If I wanted America to fail …

I would empower unaccountable bureaucracies seated in a distant capitol to bully Americans out of their dreams and their property rights. I’d send federal agents to raid guitar factories for using the wrong kind of wood; I’ d force homeowners to tear down the homes they built on their own land.

I’d make it almost impossible for farmers to farm, miners to mine, loggers to log, and builders to build.

And because I don’t believe in free markets, I’d invent false ones. I’d devise fictitious products—like carbon credits—and trade them in imaginary markets. I’d convince people that this would create jobs and be good for the economy.

If I wanted America to fail …

For every concern, I’d invent a crisis; and for every crisis, I’d invent the cause; Like shutting down entire industries and killing tens of thousands of jobs in the name of saving spotted owls. And when everyone learned the stunning irony that the owls were victims of their larger cousins—and not people—it would already be decades too late.

If I wanted America to fail …

I’d make it easier to stop commerce than start it – easier to kill jobs than create them – more fashionable to resent success than to seek it.

When industries seek to create jobs, I’d file lawsuits to stop them. And then I’d make taxpayers pay for my lawyers.

If I wanted America to fail …

I would transform the environmental agenda from a document of conservation to an economic suicide pact. I would concede entire industries to our economic rivals by imposing regulations that cost trillions. I would celebrate those who preach environmental austerity in public while indulging a lavish lifestyle in private.

I’d convince Americans that Europe has it right, and America has it wrong.

If I wanted America to fail …

I would prey on the goodness and decency of ordinary Americans.

I would only need to convince them … that all of this is for the greater good.

If I wanted America to fail, I suppose I wouldn’t change a thing.


9 posted on 04/25/2012 9:18:38 AM PDT by No One Special
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To: TSgt

“Posted a bajillion times already...”

And yet, in spite of visiting FR nearly every day, I did not hear of this until it played on a local radio station.


10 posted on 04/25/2012 9:23:55 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: FatherofFive
Obama examines his chances of another 4 years...
11 posted on 04/25/2012 9:34:46 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: FatherofFive
Thanks for the bazzilion and one post; first time I have seen it.
12 posted on 04/25/2012 9:55:10 AM PDT by blaveda (blaveda)
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To: No One Special

It’s a great spot. I shared it on Facebook.

Thanks for the transcript. It’s almost as powerful as the video.


13 posted on 04/25/2012 9:55:36 AM PDT by free me (heartless)
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To: AtlasStalled

12:55 P.M. and Rush just announced that he’s going to play the audio of this video after te break. Looks like you caught a good one, A.S. ! When Rush starts doing what you did an hour after you, you deserve to ignore all that “bajillion” stuff. Good get.


14 posted on 04/25/2012 10:02:55 AM PDT by weeder
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To: FatherofFive

Rush is going to be playing excerpts from this on his program in a bit...Drudge also has it on his page. Viral, you tree hugging bitches.


15 posted on 04/25/2012 10:07:39 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: AtlasStalled

Great video!


16 posted on 04/25/2012 10:08:34 AM PDT by EmilyGeiger
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To: EmilyGeiger

mark


17 posted on 04/25/2012 10:09:50 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Obamanomics-We don't need your stinking tar sands oil, we'll just grow algae.)
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To: Pride in the USA

ping


18 posted on 04/25/2012 10:28:33 AM PDT by Pride in the USA (I'll stand with Newt until Newt stands down.)
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To: free me

You’re very welcome. I think all youtubes should have transcripts.


19 posted on 04/25/2012 1:02:33 PM PDT by No One Special
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