B.O.'s Vague New Plan
November 25th 2008 00:17
I listened to B.O.'s speech this morning and wasn't very surprised. Concerned, yes, surprised, no. His words sounded optimistic, hopeful and filled with "change we can believe in" as usual. But if you understood what the words meant, it would make you shudder. It sure acted that way for me! As he fills his cabinet with left-over hacks from the Clinton regime, the optimism should start waning very soon.
B.O. seems to think that we can buy our way out of every problem with enough tax payer financing. As I listened to him eloquently phrasing his philosophy about putting 2.5 million people to work by 01/11, all I could think of was the list of "make work" programs initiated by FDR back in the 1930's. He railed about our failing infrastructure... roads, bridges, dams, etc. while failing to mention that the "failures" of infrastructure were due to Democrats being in charge and spending the Infrastructure money on pet projects and pork.
New Orleans had been run by Democrats who appropriated money for the levies for more than 40 years and spent it on other things, never updating the levies. The bridge that fell down in Minnesota was scheduled for repair but not done because the Democrats in charge spent the money elsewhere. All over the country are similar examples of Democrat negligence with "infrastructure" and now another Democrat is going to "fix it." Right. Of course he is.
Part of his vaunted "platform" is to return to the failed policies of the Clinton years and part to the failed FDR years. Well, that's change all right. Did I mention his affection for the failed policies of the Carter years, too? Government sponsored "make work" policies kept the Depression going longer than it should have. The TVA is a good example. Refusing to find and produce our own oil supply didn't work for Carter and won't work for B.O. Spending tax payer money to let people pretend they're accomplishing something doesn't work for very long. And taking credit for free enterprise success while trying to make them fail (via higher taxes) didn't work for Clinton, either. Oh yeah, changing a working free market economy into a failure is a change we can count on all right.
No matter how much he pretends to be a "centrist", his policies keep giving him away for the socialist he is. B.O. by any other name still stinks.
B.O. seems to think that we can buy our way out of every problem with enough tax payer financing. As I listened to him eloquently phrasing his philosophy about putting 2.5 million people to work by 01/11, all I could think of was the list of "make work" programs initiated by FDR back in the 1930's. He railed about our failing infrastructure... roads, bridges, dams, etc. while failing to mention that the "failures" of infrastructure were due to Democrats being in charge and spending the Infrastructure money on pet projects and pork.
New Orleans had been run by Democrats who appropriated money for the levies for more than 40 years and spent it on other things, never updating the levies. The bridge that fell down in Minnesota was scheduled for repair but not done because the Democrats in charge spent the money elsewhere. All over the country are similar examples of Democrat negligence with "infrastructure" and now another Democrat is going to "fix it." Right. Of course he is.
Part of his vaunted "platform" is to return to the failed policies of the Clinton years and part to the failed FDR years. Well, that's change all right. Did I mention his affection for the failed policies of the Carter years, too? Government sponsored "make work" policies kept the Depression going longer than it should have. The TVA is a good example. Refusing to find and produce our own oil supply didn't work for Carter and won't work for B.O. Spending tax payer money to let people pretend they're accomplishing something doesn't work for very long. And taking credit for free enterprise success while trying to make them fail (via higher taxes) didn't work for Clinton, either. Oh yeah, changing a working free market economy into a failure is a change we can count on all right.
No matter how much he pretends to be a "centrist", his policies keep giving him away for the socialist he is. B.O. by any other name still stinks.
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