Change We Can Believe In [Victor Davis Hanson: A list of modest suggestions for REAL change]

pajamasmedia.com ^ | November 29th, 2009 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Tolik]

Victor Davis Hanson:

Just a partial list: http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/victordavishanson/index:

Riding the Back of the Tiger [Victor Davis Hanson on Obama not understanding What Causes Wars...]

We Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

The New War against Reason - Medieval heretic-hunters had nothing on Obama when it comes to closed-mindedness

Circling Sharks Smell American Blood: America should keep quieter abroad — and try finding a bigger stick

Palin-Odes? What Drives the Fear and Loathing of Sarah Palin?

Obama’s Prissy America - Why does Obama’s tolerant, apologetic America seem so very self-centered?

Same Old, Same Old at Fort Hood

What Bush Inherited, and What He Left Left Behind

Who Are ‘They’? To Obama, “they” are responsible for all our troubles. Problem is, “they” are most of us

Afghan Mythologies. We have everything we need to defeat the Taliban.

What If?—Mr. President

Fort Hood—A now familiar horror

The Discreet Charm of the Left-wing Plutocracy

Truman and the Principles of U.S. Foreign Policy. Jimmy Carter rejected the postwar consensus. President Obama appears to be following a similar path

'Present' Vote Won't Create Border Order

America’s Obama Obsession - Anatomy of a passing hysteria

Obamanoia

The Kitty-Cat Who Roared - The loud reformer Obama himself proves even emptier in his promises than Bush

Some Signs of the Times - Victor Davis Hanson's conclusions from what’s going on in the age of Obama

Dr. Barack and Mr. Obama - The backlash is sharp as voters learn that Obama is not the man they thought he was

Deconstructing the "Whup Ass". Obama's & Jones’ lucrative anti-capitalist careers

What We Are Learning About the Era of Obama

Obama and "Redistributive Change". His real agenda

Obama vs. Obama "The fault, dear Barack, is not in our stars, But in ourselves"

The Obama Administration : What Went Wrong

Our Road to Oceania

Bullying Israel-only country with which the U.S. has worse relations since Obama took office

Prairie-Fire Anger. Why Are People in Revolt?

Obama's Great Race to Change America

Obama’s Path Not Taken. What Might Have Happened

On Shearing Sheep (relentless hostility to small business)

The War Against the Producers

A Thug’s Primer - How to win liberal friends and oppress your people

The New Orwellianism

Our Historically Challenged President. A list of distortions

I No Longer Quite Believe ... [Victor Davis Hanson on Orwellian media & science, race relations]

President Palin’s First 100 Days. Imagine if Sarah Palin had Obama’s record

Confessions of a Contrarian [deconstructing Obama, the Left and more]

Thoughts About Depressed Americans

Bush Did It. What a difference an election makes [Brilliant Parody]

Our Battered American [gets angrier - Must Read Rant]

Just a partial list. Much more at the link:  http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/victordavishanson/index

[Tolik]

 

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Let me know if you want in or out.

Links:   

FR Index of his articles:	http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/victordavishanson/index
NRO archive:	http://author.nationalreview.com/?q=MjI1MQ==
Pajamasmedia:	http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/
His website:	http://victorhanson.com/

[steve-b]

A few good points, tainted by spots of stupidity (e.g. “ugly wind turbines” — the works of the human mind practicing advanced engineering are “ugly” only to Luddite morons (but I repeat myself)).

[highlander_UW]

Excellent ideas!

[JWinNC]

Darned good list.

[Brett66]

I would vote for him a million times! .....but I’m not a democrat.

[griswold3]

mark

[don-o]

Been on the board a whole month and doing thread nanny service? Rock on!

[Tolik]

Nope. Not this one

[thulldud]

Saying that "ugly wind turbines" are ugly is a judgment of their appearance, not of their engineering. Luddism has nothing to do with it.

And whatever labels one may attach to VDH, "moron" is not one of them.

[hennie pennie]

I was mistaken, I wish Victor D. Hanson would come up with some brash new dashing titles.

[Billthedrill]

Some excellent points that will prove impossible due to party politics, immigration notably. I like the idea of a balanced budget but even that is subject to accounting trickery such as Clinton used with respect to Social Security. And "freezing" federal spending means "cutting" entitlements that will no longer be adjusted for inflation. It's fiscally sound but politically suicidal.

The real difficulty is that no one can afford to be the bad guy telling the spending addicts that are the federal government and the electorate that they've bottomed out. Politician A: "We have a strict budget and you're not going to get candy this year." Politician B: "You can have all the free candy you want because we're going to take it away from The Rich, who stole it from you in the first place." Who gets elected?

A related difficulty is that more than one term's worth of austerity is going to be required to dig us out of this hole. Could 0bama fix this in the three years he's got even if he had the slightest desire to? (He doesn't; nearly everything he wants to accomplish will make the problem worse.) Could any politician in eight years? And what happens after eight years of austerity when the next demagogue comes along promising the moon for free?

It is due to that need for something encompassing both political parties and spanning multiple terms of office that I suggest the Balanced Budget Amendment be reconsidered. It isn't a perfect solution but it's better than what we have now. Discussion?

[equalitybeforethelaw]

Drive through Palm Springs and count the number of windmills not turning. Then ask yourself does this endeavor really make economic sense?

[Tolik]

Besides: see my post at the link and look for the number of replies and views to that article that was indeed posted many times: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2394933/posts?page=23#23

Now, what is better - to have more exposure and more discussion, or join a posting police? (I do draw a line in not repeating the same article on the same day)

[maine-iac7]

Stop the Feds - legally - at your door. CALL THE SHERIFF.

Do you know that your country Sheriff trumps the feds?

Does your country Sheriff know it?

If he/she knows it, will they adhere to it?

Go to Sheriff Mack's link (live links below) and read how he told the feds to take their edict to him to shove it - he told them all the way to the SCOTUS = and WON.

He has written a booklet on it and it's being distributed by people like you and me to country Sheriff's all over the country.

REad about Sheriff Mack's battle and victory and get the booklet and hand deliver it to YOUR local Sheriff - face to face. Then write a letter to the editor in your local paper and tell your local people about the law and that you have hand delivered the booklet to your sheriff. (buy an extra brochure and keep it in your own hands.)

This will alert the sheriff, in case they are liberal and wont to ignore it, that the public is aware of the law and knows that the sheriff knows.

This is a simple thing we can do to start shoring up our rights. For example:
If the so-called health care bill passes and the extra cost of insurance exceeds your budget - and they come to arrest you - call the sheriff. (Present your brochure and advise them to back off or face action for false and unlawful arrest.)

This is one simple thing we can do to protect ourselves and to help turn the tide of gov’t takeover.

Sheriff Mack's fight and success and a list of states and sheriffs that have been given the booklet.

http://www.sheriffmack.com/

the booklet
http://www.sheriffmack.com/index.php/books-by-richard-mack

[Tolik]

I hear you. What is encouraging though is that sometimes a politician elected that is not promising more candy - like Reagan.

Balanced Budget is a law in most (all?) states. Why not on the Federal level? Besides ability to print money...

[hennie pennie]

Sorry I didn't realize that the mods and Jim Robinson permit duplicate postings of Mr. Victor Davis Hanson articles; personally, I don't like it when people are shoving a particular author at me, so I'll simply it a point to NEVER read him ever again, and to certainly never open any FR messagethread with his pontificating groupies ever again. I've lurked here since long before 911 and I've only recently noticed how many different userids are repetitively posting VDH's articles. To each his own.

By now.
HP

[DennisR]

“1. Pay as you go, balanced budget—whatever you wish to call a return to fiscal sanity.”

No - we limit the amount of money the feds have to spend to 10% of our cumulative gross adjusted incomes. Because they would “balance the budget” by taxing us more.

“2. Freeze federal spending at the present rate, and let increased revenues balance the budget.”

Again, “No.” Federal spending this year is about $12,000 for every man, woman, and child. That is way, way, too much. It should be about 1/3 (maybe). It needs to be cut back to a reasonable amount over the next 10-20 years.

http://pushbackuntil.com describes better approaches.