It is Barry's belief that a limited government that preserves free markets simply doesn't work. And not only that, he goes on to say that it has never worked. Well, that's going to come as a pretty big surprise to a whole lot of people. Now what do you suppose could be his rationale for making such an ridiculous claim that is both ridiculous in nature as well as being patently false ? What we have here, in the person of our president, is a devout socialist, a disciple of a political philosophy based on social ownership of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy. He's done a lot of bragging, of late, about his record but you'd be hard pressed to ever hear him talk all that much about it. Instead, he chooses to rail against a do nothing Congress, a Congress of which his party had complete control for the first two years of what has been a disastrous, and we can only hope, first and last term. And, of course, he chose to spew his typical incendiary style rhetoric about the inequality of an economic system that has made possible for the citizens of this country, the ability to enjoy the highest standard of living on the planet and a lifestyle that is the envy of many around the globe.
He made this most recent, and very enthusiastic, assertion regarding how it is that our free market system has been such an abysmal failure, in a speech delivered at, of all places, Osawatomie High School in Osawatomie, Kansas, on Tuesday. Barry "Almighty" chose that spot to argue that while a limited government that preserves free markets "speaks to our rugged individualism" as Americans, such a system "doesn't work" and "has never worked" and that Americans must now look to a much more activist government that not only taxes more and spends more but also regulates more if they wish to preserve the middle class in any meaningful way. Oh really? So we must learn to rely on government and to appreciate all that it does for us? To prove the fallacy in that way of thinking, one needs to do nothing more than to simply go up to any recent, or not so recent, immigrant from Eastern Europe. Ask them under which system they would prefer to live. I sincerely doubt that you'll find all that many who would side with Barry in his assessment of the role of government or many who would choose to return to live under the oppressive system from which they made their escape.
"'[T]here is a certain crowd in Washington who, for the last few decades, have said, let’s respond to this economic challenge with the same old tune. 'The market will take care of everything,' they tell us," said Barry "Almighty." "If we just cut more regulations and cut more taxes--especially for the wealthy--our economy will grow stronger. Sure, they say, there will be winners and losers," Barry droned. "But if the winners do really well, then jobs and prosperity will eventually trickle down to everybody else. And, they argue, even if prosperity doesn’t trickle down, well, that’s the price of liberty." How can the man who calls himself our president take it upon himself to describe the economic engine that has essentially powered the entire planet since the Industrial Revolution, as having never worked? Granted, it ain’t workin too good right now, but that’s because of HIM and his cockamamie socialist economic policies. Reagan reduced government regulations and the economy boomed all the way to "BJ" Clinton. Polices put in place by Barry are responsible for unemployment going from 7.6% up to 10% and the price of a gallon of gas going from $1.83 up to nearly $4.00.
"Now, it’s a simple theory," said our "Dear Beloved Leader." "And we have to admit, it’s one that speaks to our rugged individualism and our healthy skepticism of too much government. That’s in America’s DNA. And that theory fits well on a bumper sticker. But here’s the problem: It doesn’t work. It has never worked. It didn’t work when it was tried in the decade before the Great Depression," added Barry. "It’s not what led to the incredible postwar booms of the ‘50s and ‘60s. And it didn’t work when we tried it during the last decade. I mean, understand, it’s not as if we haven’t tried this theory.” What utter and complete nonsense, and to hear such blatant lies coming from our president who is so far out of touch with reality is more than a little frightening. To possess such a perverted perspective of things literally flies in the face of history. An actually, what fit quite nicely on a bumper sticker was that "Hope and Change" crap. It’s policies like those that Barry favors that ultimately extended the Great Depression far longer than if the free market system would have simply been allowed to flourish unfettered without the massive government intervention instituted by Democrat icon, FDR.
"Remember in those years, in 2001 and 2003, Congress passed two of the most expensive tax cuts for the wealthy in history," said Barry. "And what did it get us? The slowest job growth in half a century. Massive deficits that have made it much harder to pay for the investments that built this country and provided the basic security that helped millions of Americans reach and stay in the middle class things like education and infrastructure, science and technology, Medicare and Social Security.” Barry forgets the Reagan tax cuts that were responsible for creating nearly 20 years of prosperity, or maybe he simply chooses to ignore them and their results. And he also seem to be totally oblivious to the terrorist attacks of September 11th and if they might not have had at least a little something to do with the sluggish economic growth during that period of time. And since Barry is such a big fan of “what if’s”, you know what if he hadn’t spent $1 Trillion on a bogus stimulus, how many jobs wouldn’t have been saved, what if those tax cuts hadn’t taken place back in 2001 and 2003? How much more badly would an economy, already struggling after those attacks, been hurt? We'll never know.
"Remember that in those same years, thanks to some of the same folks who are now running Congress, we had weak regulation, we had little oversight, and what did it get us?" crowed Barry. "Insurance companies that jacked up people’s premiums with impunity and denied care to patients who were sick, mortgage lenders that tricked families into buying homes they couldn’t afford, a financial sector where irresponsibility and lack of basic oversight nearly destroyed our entire economy. "We simply cannot return to this brand of 'you’re on your own' economics if we’re serious about rebuilding the middle class in this country," said Barry. Barry's distortion of the facts should really come as no surprise here. He is easily the most corrupt, the most dishonest and therefore the most destructive president in modern history. More so than even Jimmy "The Jerk Off" Carter. However, the said fact of the matter is, and something that far to many Americans fail to grasp, the fact that Barry has no interest whatsoever in "rebuilding the middle class," his primary focus has always been on ways that he can permanently destroy it. His goal since day one has been the complete eradication of what remains of the "middle class."
So the question, I suppose, that we're all going to need to be asking ourselves as this very crucial election grows closer, is do we, the American people, want a more activist government that not only taxes us more and spends more, but also regulates more? Can we, with all of the evidence to the contrary that is literally staring us in the face, see that as being beneficial, in any way, to our way of life? Or do we, instead, prefer a government that essentially gets out of our way, and allows us to either succeed or fail based on nothing more than our own abilities? Do we really need the government to act as our training wheels? It is Socialism, as both an economic and political philosophy, that does not work and has never worked anywhere it has ever been tried. It's only outcome has been poverty and abject misery. And the proof of that is everywhere. Where is the old Soviet Union today? Look anywhere in Europe, is that the socialist utopia that is Barry envisions and wishes for the rest of us to be able to "enjoy?" Do we really want to be Greece? The American people are going to need to WAKE UP before it's too late. This country will not survive another four years with this man in the Oval Office. It just won't.
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