Obamanomics (Fantastic Fascistic…Is It the State or the Messiah?)

“Fascism promises a “Third Way” between liberalism and conservatism, one which will transcend partisan divides and unite the nation behind the enlightened vision of a charismatic leader. Always, there is the Leader. He embodies the wants, needs and inchoate longings of his grateful Nation. He is generally a gifted speaker, and his influence is further magnified by careful stage-management, co-option of the press, and a skilled propaganda machine.”

“Likewise, the core Obama supporters have mainstreamed a quasi-fascist cult of personality which is alien to American political discourse. Democrats revered FDR for guiding the country through the Depression. Republicans extol the virtues of Ronald Reagan. But as a rule, we haven’t had our children sing Dear Leader worship songs to either man. Big Businesses haven’t engaged in propagandistic advertising on behalf of our Leader. And the “free press” hasn’t mystified sitting presidents by asking Americans to “See Obama in yourself”…” 

http://conservativeintelligencer.com/more-obama-cultism-fun-or-is-this-still-america/626/

How easy with one election and an orchestrated mass appeal, we forfeit our standards and system. Just like that our ‘representative government’ has stopped representing. We have really not felt it. Yet it happened. No trickle down power. No trickle down grip on our collective throat…so it is a painless loss of a malfunctioning system replaced with hope and a shell game for an even more immensely malfunctioning system. Principles have been violated. When and how will the consequences be felt? Choices, freedom of choices, freedom will forever be altered. So easily a minor number of elected goofballs set the nation on a path for harm based upon the repetitive hand wringing of a fear mongering poser.     

At somepoint, the 46% that failed to vote for Obama will gain a voice. Maybe Ron Paul was the correct choice.

Obama & the Regressives (If you Cannot Beat Them..Then Make Fun of Them)

The enormity of the arrogance, double standards and revisionist history pouring forth is disgusting. Pathetic sheep, even us, follow blindly without any ability to derail this mess…what call a few phone numbers to non-responsive Regressives and 3 RINO’s? That is it? An election, a few phone calls, some ranting. That is the extent of our ability to change this bizarre slide into chaos. I am disgusted with the process, the citizens and myself. I am angry and so god damn tired of that arrogant twit at the lectern I could puke.

Odd how the twit had to spend so much time disowning the mess, which makes me think he is already preparing the excuses for the failures yet to come our way….and the then need for Nanny or worse Big Brother to just take over to thwart the chaos and revolt. 

Would some one accurately write about Carter and Clinton and the legislation signed that allowed such shoddy housing finance practices. Yes, throw in the oversight fiasco of Bush, and the Banking greed, but lay it to what it really was….it is bad enough that Bush started the ball rolling in his best RINO way of the Neo…but please be totally honest here.

 http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/if-you-cant-beat-em-make-fun-of-em/

Bailout…Slippery Slope to Nanny State and Govt. Ineptitude

“…Heritage said yesterday: “It should not be government policy to spend massive amounts of taxpayer money to subsidize those who don’t need subsidies, provide homes for those who cannot afford to keep them, and in the process destroy the private mortgage finance system. Trying to short-circuit the market’s resolution of the current housing situation will be both expensive and unlikely to succeed.”

http://michellemalkin.com/

Michelle has maintained from the very beginning of the first ill conceived bailout how dangerous a slippery slope this abandonment of market principals was likely to be; and, look now. I am becoming frightened day by day. No more, waiting for a push back from RINO’s. No more we will come to our senses. The smug one pushes harder and harder for immediate demise of the market system. It is sickening. It is scarey.  

The Ratchet Effect (‘opportunity in crisis’)

This seminal treatise in the history of ideas demonstrates what has come to be known as the Higgs thesis: that government grows in periods of crisis, for example, war and depression. He demonstrates this with a detailed look at twentieth century economic history.

Higgs’s thesis is so compelling that it has become the dominant paradigm for understanding the so-called ratchet effect: government grows during crisis and then retrenches afterwards, but not to the same level as before.

This book is absolutely essential for anyone who seeks to understand the dynamics of government growth and the loss of liberty.

http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/

Emanuel channels his inner Tugwell

Posted by Evan McLaren on November 22, 2008

The Limbaughs and Hannities of the world are pointing and shrieking at Rahm Emanuel’s remarks about opportunity in crisis. But Emanuel is merely enunciating a conventional idea that is basic to contemporary managerial rule. If GOP talkers want to rail at someone for developing this tactic they should learn about the New Republic-type liberals who grouped around Woodrow Wilson and FDR. My favorite is Rexford Guy Tugwell, who understood the opportunity the liberal regime had squandered during World War I.

“We were on the verge of having an international industrial machine when peace broke,” wrote Tugwell. “Only the Armistice prevented a great experiment in control of production, control of prices, and control of consumption.”

Emanuel is just a little ahead of the curve. Robert Higgs should send him a thank you note for effectively distilling the Ratchet Effect in a candid little moment.

http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/emanuel_channels_his_inner_tugwell/

Bailout: The Induced Panic (Tough Love Required?)

“Lots of legislators in general and DC legislators in particular think that life is all about getting along with the other side as an end in itself.  Doing something–anything–in the face of problems.  This is the ideology of the execrable and boring David Broder and also, sadly, John McCain.” 

“I start with a strong laissez faire view of economics, particularly crises.  Almost always, the best thing to do is nothing.  I don’t buy the mass psychosis view.  It’s just a question of prices dropping.  Markets always clear. Changing the rules in midstream is a bad idea. Changing the rules to inflate during an inflationary bubble is a bad idea.  Picking one sector of the economy over another is a bad idea.  Helping the wealthiest Americans and American institutions with taxpayer money during their self-induced crash is a bad idea. Individuals fail. Companies fail.  Banks should fail too.”

http://mansizedtarget.wordpress.com/

1999 Bailout Warning (N.Y. Times~while it is still on the radar)

Pissed

 

“Fannie Mae, the nation’s biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits. . .

 In moving, even tentatively, into this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk, which may not pose any difficulties during flush economic times. But the government-subsidized corporation may run into trouble in an economic downturn, prompting a government rescue similar to that of the savings and loan industry in the 1980’s.”

 http://conservativeintelligencer.com/background-on-the-bailout/563/

H.R.1424 Bill Details…Hogs at the Trough (Top Loading Washer?)

http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/AYO08C32_xml.pdf

Somewhere long about pages 211 and on there are interesting sections on energy, and alternative fuels, and washers and dryers and refrigerators. ???????????????????????

What the heck is this about? Well, I know what it is and why and I don’t like it or our dishonorable system. This is rediculous. Yes, no ACORN…better not be…but why is the phrase ‘top loading washer’ in this bill?