“These Hands”

I must Create a System, or be enslav'd by another Man's; I will not Reason and Compare: My business is to Create. - William Blake, "Jerusalem" The latest Romney commercial, "These Hands" says all that needs to be said about Obama. In the larger sense, it lays bare, the Marxist and Collectivist beliefs of Barack Hussein Obama.

It will no longer do for apologist media propagandists and pundits to claim that Mr. Obama is simply unschooled in the tenets of Free Enterprise. Mr. Obama's comments of recent months have increasingly unmasked his agenda. It should be painfully clear to the casual observer that Mr. Obama's "Fundamental Transformation of America" is nothing less than destroying the Free Enterprise system in America, redistributing income, installing a series of Socialist Labor Fronts, and creating a Syndicalism dream that Mussolini could never have achieved in Italy. El Commandante Obama knows exactly what he is doing. Hearken back to his receiving reading material in 2009 from Venezuelan Communist Dictator Hugo Chavez: Eduardo Galeano's, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent. This book is a "historical" diatribe decrying Capitalism and American "colonialist interventions" in the West. At the time, "The Washington Times" reported Obama as saying, “I thought it was one of Chavez’s books, I was going to give him one of mine.” One wonders just how cozy and comfy Mr. Obama really is, doing business with tyrants like the Castro Brothers, Chavez, Daniel Ortega, and the Marxist leaders of Bolivia, Argentina, and Brazil.

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Obama is deliberately deconstructing the American Business model

It is clear to this writer that Mr. Obama is deliberately deconstructing the American Business model He is directing the passing of laws that throttle and restrict successful businesses and business start-ups. The latest Dodd-Frank legislation is just one example of how our wonderfully inefficient Government will supposedly police fraud and abuse in banking and business. This, when it cannot run its own Post Office, or pass an National Budget. For more than 200 years, the American Free Enterprise system has self-corrected it's abuses fairly well. But the egregious and scandalous abuse of giving Taxpayer Stimulus funds to knowingly failing businesses like Solyndra had been repeated again and again by the Obama Congress despite all of the wonderful Obama oversight. Obama Oversight means picking winners and losers, even when the winners are losers. This, simply put, is "Crony Capitalism the Chicago Way." Why the Chicago Way? As the Daily Caller reported about the Solyndra Scandal in September of 2011:

In light of the Solyndra bankruptcy, terms like “economic stimulus package” and “green jobs” now appear to be Team Obama code words for “kickbacks to political supporters so huge they would make a third-world despot green with envy.” Solyndra is (or, more accurately, was) a California solar energy company that was the crown jewel of Obama’s first economic stimulus package, which cost $787 billion. Solyndra’s chief investor, George Kaiser, was also a bundler for Obama’s 2008 campaign, gathering over $50,000 in campaign contributions. Kaiser, together with Solyndra executives and board members, donated $87,050 to Obama’s campaign. As part of the economic stimulus, Obama’s Department of Energy (DOE) fast-tracked a loan of $535 million (at the lowest interest rate granted by the DOE program) to Solyndra in 2009 to create green jobs. All other energy companies that received loans are paying an interest rate three to four times higher, and Solyndra got this amazing deal despite a Dun & Bradstreet credit rating that was only “fair.” About a year later, Solyndra wasn’t making the payments and needed refinancing. In 2011, Solyndra’s CEO communicated with members of Congress, claiming that the company was on sound financial footing and would be able to repay a refinanced loan. DOE had a man attending Solyndra’s meetings, so they should have known whether the CEO was telling the truth. DOE arranged for refinancing. Just a few months later, Solyndra laid off nearly all of its 1,100 workers and declared bankruptcy. Just a few days after that, agents of the FBI and the inspector general were raiding Solyndra headquarters and the homes of the CEO and two other executives, with search warrants. That means that criminal charges are possible. But in the bankruptcy, DOE allowed Kaiser and other investors to recover their investments first, before DOE attempted to recover the $535 million in taxpayers’ money. What a sweetheart deal. America’s taxpayers have been left holding the bag.

So, what is the future of American Business under a second Obama Regime? And yes, it is a Regime. I do not use the word "Regime" lightly. One can hardly refer to Mr. Obama's stewardship of the United States as an "Administration." The man does not propose anything for the Congress to dispose unless he has a rubber-stamp super-majority Congress. A Business Executive with a record like Mr. Obama's stewardship would be recognized quickly as a lazy, unqualified lout ... and fired forthwith. But instead, Mr. Obama increasingly uses Presidential Directives and Executive orders in a way that would make any dictator proud. A review of his Orders and Directives shows an imperial aggregation of authority and power within the Executive branch is breathtaking. His bold attempt to intimidate of the Supreme Court Justices during a State of the Union Address quite possibly influenced the Chief Justice in the Obamacare decision. Even a smaller thing like placing a Mao Tse Tung ornament on the White House Christmas Tree ["Solstice Holiday Tree?"] is a tip off. The future of American business under a Second Obama Regime will be even more interference in the business boardrooms; the small business offices, and small workshops across America. He will continue to force ideological choices over the practical, producible, and profitable. Using Energy as an obvious example, he will continue to force more taxpayer funds into unprofitable Solar, Wind, Waves and even Algae Energy ... even as they are proving time and time again that these energy sources are not yet winning strategies. All the while he is destroying tens of thousands of jobs in the coal, oil, and natural gas industries for purely ideological reasons. This is reminiscent of the Four and Five Year Plans of Socialist countries that never achieve any measurable standard of success, redistribute further misery, and eventually fail. My father put his whole life into his business as a commercial artist. He receive many awards from peer reviews for the innovative quality of his work. He was a Graduate of the University of Toledo Fine Arts curriculum. He worked his way through college. He met my Mom and there and they were married after his Graduation. Dad registered at war's outbreak and was drafted in 1942. He turned down OCS and served the India-Burma Theater in World War II as a Teletype Repairman. He returned to Toledo at war's end and worked briefly for fellow commercial artist, [also a war veteran], until he had saved enough to find his own home-shop combination outside of the Toledo City Limits and nearer to Maumee, Ohio. He did this so as to take advantage of tax advantages and because of fewer Zoning restrictions for a home business combination. My Father continuously ran his own business from the mid-1950s until the mid 1990s. He moved to Northwest Montana to retire in 1976, but was back in business within months. His work was clearly in his blood. He worked hard until he had the heart attack that laid him low eleven days later in June 1995. I had retired from my Army career in 1993 and had moved to Montana to be close to Family. I would offer him free labor whenever I thought he needed it, or whenever my Mom would give me a secret phone call. He never asked for help. Furthermore: He never stole my labor! Mr. Obama are you listening? My Father was a true Entrepreneur. In the earlier days there was no EPA, no OSHA, no Labor Department interference with businesses. Had there been so, I doubt he would have survived early on as an independent businessman. We did however live in a Forced Unionism State [no Right-to-Work law] and I recall the occasional Union guy showing up and harassing Dad during those few times when he hired extra help. Dad was unable to pay workers at Union wages. He paid what he could afford, and those who needed work were happy to receive what he could pay. [NOTE: Anyone interested can research Toledo history and see how Forced Unionism and Democrat rule since the 1960s has depressed that economy. Toledo is much like neighboring Detroit, a broken city and an economic basket case that still, incredibly, votes themselves more ruin by electing Progressive Democrats. I believe that my Father [and Mother] would have been livid with outrage had they heard President Obama's charge that business owners did not build there businesses on their own. My Father wrote and signed checks on the front side. The only ones he ever endorsed were from customers for products and services rendered. My Dad:

• never took a government handout
• never received a government bailout
• never bilked taxpayers as a crony capitalist
• never wanted to work for anyone else; he paid his own way
• hired extra help part-time, when he could afford to do so
• trained people to perform marketable labor skills
• expected his family to support him, but placed no demands on anyone else
• provided superb quality products
• charged competitive prices to beat the competition
• managed to feed, house, and clothe a wife and five children and two grandchildren
• never complained about how unfair the world is
• never accepted welfare of any kind, even when times were lean
• loved his work
• loved his family
• loved his country
• recognized a power greater than himself

My Father never became rich. He would have welcomed a higher income, but he was a content man. He would not even begin to qualify as rich by Mr. Obama's class warfare standard. But if he were alive today, he'd be fighting against this "Obama Transformation" tooth and nail. My father loved freedom. Mr. Obama does not. John Sununu was correct Tuesday [7/17] when he said that Mr. Obama needs to learn how to be an American.