Before Americans will vote for more socialism in a nation almost bankrupt from social conscience already, they must believe that capitalism has failed the vast majority of Americans who now need the government to be their keeper.
Nobody understands this better than community organizer Barack Obama and his entire campaign is based on Chicken Little rhetoric as a result.
Obama and his socialist companions define the “general welfare” mentioned in the Constitution not as the common interests of all Americans, such as roads, bridges, a strong standard currency and a national defense system, as intended by the Founders who wrote those words, but rather as a “general welfare state,” whereby the ideas of Karl Marx, “from each according to his ability; to each according to his need” can be employed to redistribute the benefits of capitalism in a more “equitable” fashion. - “Equitable” being defined by Obama, of course.
Equitable is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as simply “fair and impartial.”
As America has demonstrated for more than 230 years, no economic system on earth is more “fair and impartial” than capitalism. Individuals, who work hard, save, invest wisely, control spending and plan for a brighter future, will indeed reap all the same rewards as any other individuals doing the same things. Those who choose not to do these same things will not reap the same rewards. It’s called “economic freedom,” and there is no more fair or impartial economic system anywhere on earth.
But this is not the “equity” Obama and his socialist minions speak of… They speak of Marx’s version of “general welfare.”
Is the average American glass really half-empty?
At the base of the New Democrat (Marxist) philosophy is this Obama statement…
“This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.”
Though it recognizes that our open market (capitalism) has indeed created the most productive, prosperous society on earth, it also implies that the unparalleled benefits of capitalism have not been “equitable” to all. Though it suggests that free trade is the cornerstone of our national development and our global position as the last remaining super-power, it also suggests that the fruits of capitalism must now be used to fund an accelerated move to socialism, or else… the sky is falling.
This is the foundation of the Chicken Little fear-mongering woven throughout modern Democrat campaigns, and the Obama campaign has attempted to put a fine point on this message.
Obama’s Chicken Little Economic Outlook
According to Obama, America is in “recession” and the majority of Americans are hurting. They must be hurting, or they don’t need Obamessiah to save the day with socialism, you understand.
Technically speaking, the economic performance term “recession” refers to “negative” economic growth for at least two back-to-back quarters. America did have negative growth for one quarter, at a rate of -.2% (2/10 of 1%) in the 4th quarter of 2007. That was before the Bush “stimulus package” (tax rebate).
The economy returned to growth in the first quarter of 2008 (.9%) before the rebate, and the economy accelerated to a growth rate of 1.88% in the 2nd quarter of 2008, after the rebate. Whether you attribute the improving economic performance to the Bush tax rebate or not, you certainly can not call that stimulus policy a “failure” since the economy improved.
In the last three quarters, our economy went from a -.2% negative growth rate in the 4th quarter of 2007, to a positive growth rate of +.9% in the 1st quarter 2008, followed by a +1.88% positive growth rate in the 2nd quarter of 2008. However small, this is an “expanding” not “contracting” economy.
As a result of hard facts, no honest educated economist on earth would call this a “recession” – nor would they call this “heading in the wrong direction.” But Chicken Little Obama does… because he must.
Obama’s Chicken Little Employment Outlook
The latest employment survey places our current unemployment rate at 5.7% - which of course means that the employment rate is 94.3%... One of the best in the world. The European Union unemployment rate is 6.7% as of March 2008, down from 8.9% in March 2005, as a comparison.
Roughly 4% of Americans are unemployed at all times, no matter the state of the economy. This is largely due to the fact that about 4% of Americans are “unemployable” for a variety of reasons and America takes care of those who can’t take care of themselves via unemployment benefits and several social welfare programs.
At worst, this means that 1.7% of the American workforce that can be employed, most of them teenagers, is unable to find suitable employment at this snapshot in time, the operative word being “suitable.” 4% will never be employed and 94.3% of those seeking employment have “suitable” employment.
But according to Chicken Little Obama and his Democratic Socialist minions, the American employment glass in more than half-empty. Is it?
How could 94.3% of Americans agree with that assessment?
Obama’s Chicken Little Energy Crisis
After almost 40 years of Democrat legislative blockades on American oil exploration and refining, Democrats are all of a sudden concerned with Americas 70% dependence upon foreign oil.
That’s because their constituents are not reacting well to the +$4.00 per gallon fuel prices Democrats created with their “failed” energy plan of forcing Americans to leave fossil fuels in the past, in favor of wind, sun and water energy, none of which are developed in to viable sources yet.
Even now, as Democrat leaders of congress turn off the lights and leave Republicans screaming in the dark on capitol hill, with more than 70% of Americans crying to increased domestic drilling and refining, leftists promise to “save the planet” by trashing the American economy, keeping America increasingly dependent upon foreign energy sources well into the future.
According to Chicken Little Obama, increasing domestic production is not the answer to the Democrat manufactured crisis. Copying Bush’s “failed” stimulus package with yet another $1000 “tax rebate” to people who don’t pay taxes, and releasing 10% of the nation’s strategic emergency oil reserve is the answer, according to Obamacrats.
Yet the signs are all counter-indicating. Bush’s mere threat of opening up domestic production caused oil speculators to retreat from the $147.27 a barrel high to $123 per barrel, a 16.5% drop before closing back up at $125.10 a barrel on Friday August 1st, while congressional Democrats continued to hold American oil production hostage as they headed off on vacation.
Still, Obamacrats insist that unleashing American production will not have any impact on current prices. Huh???
While voters get more frustrated by high gas prices and Democrats obstructionist tactics in congress, and market speculators continue to bank on Democrats blocking future domestic production, House Speaker Pelosi and Senate Leader Harry Reid leave for vacation without allowing the matter to come to a floor vote.
Members of congress on both sides of the aisle would force Pelosi and Reid to lift the Democrat ban on domestic production and that’s why they left on vacation without allowing that vote to take place.
Meanwhile, Chicken Little Obama is busy pandering to the handful of socialist Americans who believe that taxing record oil company profits is the answer, as if those taxes will not be passed back down to consumers in even higher prices at the pump. And never mind the fact that many average Americans have invested their retirement plans in the idea of American profits, including oil company profits.
No matter the question, socialism is the answer, according to Chicken Little Obama. Some of his fellow Democrats are even openly calling for nationalizing the energy industry, a decidedly socialist concept. They want control of the nation’s medical industry cash cow too. Do I have to say why? (CASH COW)
Obama’s Chicken Little Foreign Policy
Consistent with the Chicken Little philosophy of today’s Democratic Socialists, Obama sees capitalist America as the root of all evil in the world and socialism as the answer to every problem.
Obama sees national security as only a defensive operation. Somehow, he misses the very real message that offense is often the only viable defense. He sees international Islamic terrorism as only a criminal reaction to unsavory U.S. foreign policies of the past, even though Islamic terrorism predates the founding of America as a nation, and despite the fact that no nation on earth has wasted more tax-payer money trying to get along in an ungrateful world.
Though Obama has built much of his campaign on the notion that “Bush’s War” in Iraq was a “failed policy,” including last years “troop surge,” after visiting Iraq for the first time a week ago, he was forced to concede that “Bush’s War” is actually much more successful than he had imagined, before bothering to check the facts on the ground.
Though Obama talks about respect for and support of troops and military commanders on the ground, he continues to ignore their advice on how to win, trusting instead in his own inexperienced and unqualified war instincts.
Obama’s Chicken Little Campaign of “Hope”
According to Obama, American employers are not the solution to unemployment; government is. Employers are the enemy; Government is our friend…
According to Obama, 1.7% of American workers currently seeking employment and receiving federal benefits until they find work - is a “crisis” that only government can solve.
According to Obama, 1.9% American economic growth is a “recession” that must be fixed by more government intrusion into the already not-so-free markets.
According to Obama, domestic oil producers are not the solution to America’s dependence upon foreign oil; government is.
According to Obama, offense is not the best defense, retreating and waiting to be hit again is.
According to Obama, everything wrong in the world is nothing more than an example of “failed Bush policies,” even though the facts will never support such an insane notion.
Are you getting the picture yet?
According to Obama, despite all the hard evidence, government is not the problem but rather the solution. Capitalism is the problem and Obamacratic socialism is the answer…
And in all cases, when Obama says “government is the solution,” he means Obamessiah is the solution.
Obama recently stated that “
Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.”
As is often the case, Obama is half right in this statement. Most Americans do still believe in a FREE capitalist America where anything is indeed possible, and for good reason. No nation on earth has ever demonstrated more widespread unparalleled success by design.
He’s also right that most Americans don’t think their leaders believe in those same ideas anymore and that’s because so-called leaders like Obama, Pelosi and Reid spend all day every day attacking the very fundamental principles and values that made America the greatest nation on earth, namely, individual freedom, including economic.
Are Americans buying the Chicken Little doom and gloom campaign of fear? Or are they getting fed up with it?
Obama once proudly proclaimed, “Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.”
Yet Obama’s entire campaign is built upon two very simple minded premises…
Everything is awful and only Obamessiah can fix it…
Bush ruined the world and Obamessiah is here to save it…
During last weeks international Obamessiah global pander-fest, Obama pronounced to his adoring international constituents, “People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.” – as if he was campaigning for Secretary General of the One World Order, instead of for President of the sovereign United States of America. Maybe he is…
But what kind of megalomaniac (a pathological egotist) sees himself as such an omnipresent savior of the world, after only 143 days on the job as a freshman member of congress, leader of nothing with an otherwise blank résumé? What kind of useless idiot falls for such an obvious egomaniacal charlatan?
In a nation that came from nothing a little more than 200 years ago to the world’s only standing super-power today on the basis of individual freedom and capitalist principles, what foolish American would ever vote himself back into democratically induced bondage by supporting such an individual?
Why do I even have to write a piece like this? I’m pointing out truths that should be glaringly obvious to every American, no matter their past political affiliations, their hyphenated citizenship, their color or creed.
The fact that I have to point out the obvious only demonstrates the power of the massive misinformation effort of the last sixty years… and the fact that so many Americans clamor at this guy’s feet as if he were the second coming, demonstrates just how insanely ill-informed many American voters are today.
In the end, it comes down to one single factor in this election and George Bernard Shaw said it exactly right… "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
Obama and his Chicken Little companions in today’s Democratic Socialist Party have a global constituency full of Pauls… Have American tax payers had enough of Obama’s doom and gloom Chicken Little Campaign Yet?
Obama is about “change” we can’t afford to believe in anymore!
America has only two very serious problems today.
A near bankrupt currency
A near bankrupt public intellect
American leftists like Obama are responsible for both… Have tax-payers had enough of it yet?
