Obama has a big opportunity tonight to set the record
straight in his State of the union Speech.
He has to say something that will help his failing image, something that
will make his supporters not continue to flee from him like rats from a sinking
ship. That is good accurate imagery, if I do say so myself. To borrow a phrase from the Obama’s favorite
communist pastor, the president’s “chickens have come home to roost”. Recent
polling evidently shows that some folks who believed Barack Obama about the
‘Affordable Healthcare Act’—I won’t use the more popular “Obamacare “
sobriquet, because Pelosi, who claims she never called it that, no matter how
many recordings show the contrary, and even Obama, himself have stopped calling
it that, since it seems to be a stinker of a law—are now coming to the
conclusion that the man they entrusted with creating a wonderful new healthcare
system for the nation was doing one of the following: (1) He really thought it couldn’t be that
hard, because big government is the answer to all of the world’s ills; (2) He
was lying the whole time because, being the Marxist Socialist that he is, he
knew that the ignorant masses could be sold anything if you had said it enough
times and the liberal media would stay in bed with him for the long run; (3)He just doesn’t like the free market at all
and knows that he is on the right road to prove the strategy of Richard Cloward
and Frances Fox Piven (Sorry about this extremely long run-on sentence, but I
am writing in a stream of consciousness here);
(or 4), He’s just an idiot that thinks he understands how economies
work. At any rate his popularity really
tanked.
I suspect that if you
were to make a test question in a multiple choice structure, “all of the above”
would be the correct answer. I don’t
think he is a total idiot, by any means—he has admitted after all, that he was
a bit of a slacker in school and often times slackers can get by on native
intelligence (see my own history)—h e was smart enough to work the system to get
through school and into the Ivy League
stepping stones to politics and other educated idiot positions. Incidentally, he never attended public school.
When he was with his mother in Indonesia, he went to a private Muslim
school—you can read his books about himself. And when he went to Hawaii to live
with his maternal grandparents he attended a posh private high school. He also sends his own daughters to private
schools and always has. At any rate, the point I would like to make is that he
appears to not be the genius that so many lefties proclaimed him to be. ( I heard
James Garner say that Obama was probably the most intelligent president we have
had. I really like Garner as an actor,
but now I feel sure that he should not teach history). Obama is unable, it
seems, to put ideas together in public without a prompter, and he does not know
how to pronounce the word “corpsman”. Now, I know that there are a lot of
people behind bars who are fairly intelligent, so raw intelligence does not
make you a stellar politician who would be void of misjudgment. Look at Biden … uh, look at Pelosi… or umm
Reid… Well, I can’t come up with a very good example among the Democrats at the
moment that would prove my point, but there are probably some out there. And, I am not suggesting that Mr. Obama
should be behind bars. That may come in another blog, but clearly the stuff
involving the roll-out of the Affordable Healthcare program seems to show that the President is still a
monumental slacker.
As to my second conjecture, that he was lying the whole time
about what to expect with his healthcare plan, we only have to compare his
claims prior to the roll-out with reality.
I remember last year when the president gave his State of the Union Speech
that a Republican congressman was so
shocked by what the president claimed about his plans that the congressman
blurted out “You Lie”. You might think it was rude of him, but I think I would
have had a hard time swallowing that crap too. Seems he was right; Obama lies. A
defender of the president could say that it was a well intentioned untruth, and
you that you can’t expect perfection.
You can’t expect perfection from the most intelligent president we have
had? That has to be a shock to James Garner and his liberal friends. And, a defender might also say that it was
the Republicans’ fault that he had to tell some minor fibs, in order to get the
smelly thing passed. That fact is that
it was smelly from the beginning. Many on the Republican side new the idea
would not work and tried to tell the public that it could not work, that it was
going to be a huge train wreck. Up until
the day before it started falling apart at the website roll-out, Some brave
conservatives even stood up to their own party leaders in trying to stop the
thing. Hindsight has been good to those
individuals. However, the fact remains that Obama was lying and our Health Care
System in possibly dying. Isn’t my
little rhyme catchy? It is almost as snappy as “Bush Lied and people died”. The
left somehow knew that Bush lied, even though the Democrat leadership at the time,
Clinton, Obama, Schuman, Reid, et al, also believed that Sadam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and voted along with president Bush to invade Iraq. It would seem that if it is good for the
goose, as they say, it should be good for the gander. Of course, the ultra -Left couldn’t see
equivalency if it could be argued against them. The bottom line is that Democrats,
almost to a man or woman, will almost always say “Me Too” when they think it
could be to their political benefit, while some Republicans—not all, sadly—who
are conservatives first, will stand
their grounds on principle. I see the votes that passed the “Affordable
Healthcare Bill” through the house and Senate as a good example:. The Bill
passed without one Republican vote, while a sizable nonpartisan vote supported
the invasion of Iraq. Who has more political guts and who was lying? I feel
sorry for the Democrats who exposed themselves to the political aftermath of
voting for the healthcare debacle. Actually, I don’t. I don’t want to get
caught in a lie.
The third possible reason for Obama’s Healthcare program is
his desire to fulfill Cloward and Piven’s strategy for bringing down the US
government. Cloward and Piven were
sociologists and political activists who saw the easiest way to reach their
goals of a socialist revolution in America
was through the Democrat party. They wrote: “The ultimate objective of
the strategy—t o wipe out poverty by
establishing a guaranteed income—will be questioned by some. Because the ideal
of individual social and economic mobility has deep roots, even activists seem
reluctant to call for national programs to eliminate poverty by outright
redistribution of income” It was their intention was to create a crisis in the
current welfare system by focusing on welfare law and eventually bringing about
its collapse under its own weight, necessitating replacing it with socialist
system guaranteeing annual income. This was to be done by encouraging the poor
to demand more and more benefits or entitlements and overloading the system. I don’t
think that it could be plainer to a Martian looking down at us that we are
heading full speed under Obama’s steerage to the destruction of our free market
system. Now it may be happening faster than he might have expected and wished
for—he has been recorded as saying that he favored a one-payer system for
healthcare—because the unaffordability of his programs are beginning be obvious
to more and more people. He may have tipped his hand too soon. I pray that he
has.
The last possibility is that he is, indeed, an idiot;
an idiot who has no understanding of how an economy works. However, it may not
be his fault. After all he was sired and
raised by communists and there are a surprising number of people who are unable
to understand the concept of living within their means. The whole Democrat
Party suffers from this incapacity these days, as well as close to half of the
Republican Party. Just as there are, for
example, a relatively small number of
people in the world who are color blind, unable distinguish between green and
red, there exists a huge number, perhaps a majority of people in the world who
are unable to grasp the difference between income and outgo. This is a sorry state of affairs, exacerbated
by the fact that too many educators are also income-outgo-blind. They teach,
and liberals and progressives are susceptible to, the Keynesian doctrine of
economics. John Maynard Keynes held to
the theory that a government could spend its way out of recessions and
depressions. This will sound odd to
those of us who have been taught and have come to believe that when you are
lacking in income you should logically spend less and save for a rainy day.
It’s possible, I guess, that some Keynesians believe this as well, as far as an
individual or a family goes, or at least I hope that is the case, but it is
very different when it comes to nations and their expenditures. For Keynes, somehow the fact that that
governments could print more money when they thought they needed to, absolved
them from natural laws of inflation and deflation. For the Keynesian, inflation is not a very
big hurdle. They apparently believe that, as long as you can ride the wave and
print more and more money, a new norm will arrive and exist for a while, until the
bigger demands on the government and economic bubbles start bursting. Then, it is off to the races again, with higher
government-controlled minimal wages and so called price controls which do
little but anesthetize the unwashed masses.
The reasonable among us we look at that philosophical abortion and
wonder how intelligent people could fall for it. I know it baffles me. We free
marketers, who see the wisdom of Adam Smith and Milton Friedman and see the
opposition as crazy. In fact, I think
this picture of John Maynard Keynes supports my thoughts:
So, tonight Mr. Obama will try again to make his State of
the Union Speech believable , while laying the blame for his troubles at the
feet of those dastardly heartless Republicans, and the Tea Party racists,
especially the Black ones. Like the old joke about the man caught cheating by his wife, Obama will have to say, "Who are you gong to believe me or your lying eyes?"
