President Obama
has repeatedly demonstrated
his willingness to use manufactured
crises to enhance his own power and
prestige at the expense of the Constitution.
Positioning himself through the use of
his own engineered economic meltdown,
Obama has fired the executives of private
companies, claimed the power to set pay,
nationalized health care, and nationalized
manufacturing.
Obama has even gone as far as
using the mistakes of some banks
in over-leveraging as a door to threaten
banks with "pitchforks," echoing Leninist
populism.
Additionally, he orders banks to lend
despite the serious drop in deposits, a
ludicrous directive that demonstrates his
extreme ignorance.
The crisis-solution scheme is the
centerpiece of the Obama policy agenda.
Using the now-debunked climate change
scare, Obama has attempted global wealth
redistribution through unprecedented
"climate reparations."
Using the cover of "service," a principle
revered by most Americans, Obama has
created his own police force.
Using hyped up fears of domestic terror,
Obama has attacked free speech and sought
to criminalize opponents.
Ironically, Obama has given real terrorists
the precious rights of American citizens
while denying these rights to Americans.
And now, President Obama is exploiting
the government-caused mortgage crisis
to usher in councils of regulators to replace
Congress in a host of key policy areas.
Councils of "wise men"
will now rule America.
This is an open assault
on the Constitution and
the freedom of the American
people, and it must be stopped
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/05/wise_guys_the_end_of_free_mark.html
The end
of democratic socialism is at hand.
The welfare states of the U.S.
and Europe are financially out
of control, spent and unsustainable.
They have reached the point
that Margaret Thatcher defined
as the end of socialism :
They have run out
of other people's money.
These areas of the world
are about to change dramatically.
Victor Davis Hanson
has a piece in National Review
Online focused on Europe.
His comments,
while directed at Europe,
are also applicable to the United States.
Hanson states :
Five years ago,
the European Union's account
of itself resonated with end-of
history triumphalism.
In organic fashion,
democratic socialism
would spread eastward
and southward, recivilizing
the old Warsaw Pact and the
Balkans through cradle-to-grave
entitlements, state unionism, radical
environmentalism, and utopian pacifism.
How quickly the dreams
of just a short time ago
have been shattered.
Now the once-smug EU
struggles desperately to survive.
The financial problems of Greece
and several other countries threaten
its very existence.
Incredibly, in spite of this experience,
the U.S. marches in double-time toward
the goal that Europe is now being forced
to abandon.
The myth of Socialism
should have been abandoned long ago.
In the 1920s, Ludwig von Mises
demonstrated that Socialism and its
close relative, Interventionism, were
not capable of long-term management
of an economy.
The Soviet Union
and a host of other
highly socialized economies
provided subsequent empirical
support for Mises' theoretical argument
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/05/the_end_of_democratic_socialis.html