Aphorisms


There's nothing so bad, that adding government can't make it worse. -- The Immigrant

Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. -- Ronald Reagan

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Read the next two together:

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of 'Emergency'." -- Herbert Hoover

This is too good a crisis to waste. -- Rahm Emanuel

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Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -- Fredric Bastiat, French Economist (30 June 1801 – 24 December 1850)

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to another. -- François-Marie Arouet, a.k.a. Voltaire, (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778)

The problem with socialism is that, sooner or later, you run out of other people's money. -- Margaret Thatcher

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill

Friday, July 9, 2010

#71: Obama’s Undeclared War

Recently, Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican party, opined that Afghanistan was a "war of Obama's choosing," and this has raised an acrimonious debate that spans the parties. If we go by Obama’s campaign rhetoric, there’s hardly any question – he said time and again that America should be fighting in Afghanistan. But there’s another Obama war-question that seems more important, all things considered:

Is Obama actually at war with the American people?

He hasn’t actually said so, but there’s reason to think that he’s been fighting an undeclared war ever since he got into office. There was, of course, the economy- breaking health care plan that he crammed through congress in the face of popular majority resistance. In addition, there’s his “cap and tax” enviro-Nazi plan in the offing, another economy killer. And let us not forget the always attractive “card-check” union law, a device for further increasing the power of Chicago-style union gangsters.

But, more recently and more revealingly, he has launched law suits against two American states. He is suing Arizona over its new immigration law and he’s continuing legal action against the state of Louisiana over his failed attempt to place a moratorium on off-shore drilling.

What is fascinating in the first case is that he is willing to use the might of the federal government against the victim, Arizona, while he has made it clear that he will not only do nothing against the aggressors, Mexican illegals, he will actually block any efforts on the part of the victims to defend themselves. He appears, therefore, to be siding with an external enemy against the American people.

This should not be entirely surprising. Israel is in exactly the same situation as Arizona, with Arabs taking the places of Mexicans, and, characteristically, Obama is clearly more sympathetic to the aggressors than to the victims. When he tries to “make nice” with Netanyahu, it is transparently obvious that he is gritting his teeth and going through the charade for purely political reasons.

I suppose that his non-support of the Iranian freedom protestors might even be invoked here, though that was probably a mix of not knowing what to do, on the one hand, and passivity, on the other.

In the case of Louisiana, Obama and his administration have done everything in their power to make the catastrophe worse than it might have been. They dragged their heels for months about allowing foreign ships come in to help. Having already seen to it that the oil spill does as much damage as possible to the environment, to Louisiana’s already damaged economy, and to the U.S. economy as whole, he has gone on to try to block any possibility of recovery by banning offshore drilling.

It sure looks like he’s fighting a war against America.

But why?

I think it comes down to a couple of converging reasons.

1) He wants to cripple the American economy, and

2) He is using the office of the presidency to wage a campaign to become Secretary General of the U.N. after he leaves office.

He wants to cripple the U.S. economy because he is ideologically a “one-world” Marxist. He hates American power and he hates American wealth. It’s hard to tell whether he despises Israel simple because it has always been an American client-state or for the usual black Revrnd Wright and Farrakhan rabid anti-Semitism. Probably a mix of both.It is an axiom among Marxists that in order to take over a state, one must first cripple its economy. Thus, what many people see as inexplicably stupid policies, are actually policies well designed to accomplish their goal. To Obama and his toads, the more unemployment, the better, the higher the deficit, the better, the more misery among the little people, the better. And, among all of these, the more black and Hispanic rioting in the streets, the better. Economic despair and chaos in the streets leads straight to Marxist socialism. Just ask Saul Alinsky. These are the methods of Chicago “community organizer” (or “commie street agitator”).

But even he knows that presiding over the crippling of the U.S. economy will ensure his defeat, should he run for a second term. However, this is a problem only if his planning includes a second term. I suggest that he has no intention of even running for a second term, that, instead, his actions in the presidency are intended to serve the dual purpose of destroying the U.S. and displaying his bona fides to the U.N. king makers, the leaders of the ever-outraged “third world.” The more he “fails” as president of the U.S., the better he looks to the Euro-Lefties, the African dictators, and the Muslims. Win-win for the affirmative action president.

There are a little over three months to go till the November congressional elections. In the time that remains, expect a legislative suicide charge from the congressional Left as they attempt to do as much damage to the body politic and economic before they are shot down. If the country manages to take back congress, many of the teeth in this Manchurian Candidate’s mouth will be gone and there will once again be hope for the future.

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