That the American people and the Obama administration continue to talk about adding trillions of dollars in health-care reform and Cap and Trade regulations to the burdens already imposed on the economy and the national debt cannot be explained rationally by resort to our common understanding. One can only assume that the administration especially has utterly departed from reality.
The American public itself at last show signs of arousing from its torpor.
I think that it may become completely irrelevant whether Cap and Trade or healthcare pass, the international financial markets have yet to play their hand in this high-stakes game.
Good post!
Accurate observations as usual.
Do not expect much from international financial markets, btw — they’ve fattened themselves like geese force feed for a tasty liver. Fate will have their livers too. IMO
Try this on for size:
1992 , Moscow
(From www.americanfreepress.net)
During the period of roughly February 1992 to mid-1994, I was making frequent trips to Moscow in the process of starting a software development, joint-venture company with some people from the Russian scientific community.
One of the men in charge on the Russian side was named V. M.; he had a wife named T.M. V. was a levelheaded scientist, while his wife was rather deeply committed to the losing communist cause.
Early in 1992, the American half of our venture was invited to V. & T.s Moscow flat as we were about to return to the States. As the evening wore on, T. developed a decidedly rough anti-American edgeone her husband tried to quietly rein in.
The bottom line of the tirade she started against the United States went something like this:
You Americans always like to think that you have the perfect government and your people are always so perfect. Well then, why havent you had a woman president by now? You had a chance to vote for a woman vice president and you didnt do it.
(snip)
Well, I think you are going to be surprised when you get a black president very soon, she said.
The consensus we expressed was that we didnt think there was anything innately barring that. The right person at the right time and sure, America would try to vote for the right person, be he or she, black or not.
What if I told you that you will have a black president very soon and he will be a communist? she said. Well, you will; and he will be a communist.
One of us asked, It sounds like you know something we dont know.
Yes, it is true, she replied. This is not some idle talk. He is already born, and he is educated and being groomed to be president right now. You will be impressed to know that he has gone to the best schools of presidents. He is what you call Ivy League. You dont believe me, but he is real and I even know his name. His name is Barack. His mother is white and American and his father is black from Africa. And hes going to be president.
-—Tom Fife, American visitor to Moscow, 1992
Tom Fife was a government contractor with an active security clearance who took notes on his trips for Defense Intelligence Agency debriefings within the Department of Defense. In 1992, following an astounding conversation at a dinner party in Moscow, he took down notes for future reference. It was long before the world ever heard the name Barack Obama.
Now, very very believable, wouldn’t you say ???
Calling all FReepers ........... pass it on.