Posted on 01/06/2010 4:34:49 PM PST by MrChips
Liberty and freedom have already suffered under Obama far more than under George W. Bush. This is a hard statement to make. But it is unfortunately true.
Introduction
From decisions changing the face of commerce in our country to the system he is advocating for selecting our judges to Obama's ability to decide what he can refuse to disclose about our government's intrusion into our lives, the march of this philosophy of change is so dominant that it is publicly paraded in front of our country on a daily basis.
The dominant doctrinal approach of the Federalist Society under George W. Bush has left us with a system that allows Obama to take actions in the dark of night, unexposed to the public, whenever he wishes to do so. Yet even when the discussion is public and in the open, few take up any of these issues much less catalog them for the public.
Given our government's history of prudent, careful review before any government action with very few exceptions, there should be more than the minor opposition that has confronted the Federal Reserve, Obama and Congress as they have implemented Obama's plan to reallocate, redistribute, and morph our country from what it was into Obama's vision. Yet there is almost none. And there are no catalogs of all that is happening and has been happening apart from the occasional reference to these issues during press conferences that are more and more like love fests rather than critical challenges to government actions.
The absence of any substantial critique or even a single catalog of government actions are due to many factors.
Obama is still popular. Opposition remains tied to racism. His approach that favors giving to select groups like the automotive industry and Michigan in general is seen as a sign that others can get the same government largesse. His agenda is supported in the main by most of the media and the majority of this Congress. And the movement from claimed crisis to claimed crisis has managed to obfuscate many significant events.
Yet these are not sufficient reasons not to question his approaches, much less to support his actions because he somehow "deserves a chance to show what he can do."
Perhaps the greatest barrier to adequate analysis and review is the news media. We learned last year that our Fourth Estate will not stand up and be counted if any facts could negatively impact Obama. Most of the Fourth Estate have no independence from Obama. They are now largely joined at the hip with the man they got nominated and elected. They stoke the flames of control, advocate the loss of liberty, call for multiple controls at local, state and federal levels, all the while claiming without evidence that this is required for the good of the country. And they turn blind eyes toward the most important events as if they are unimportant or immaterial when they opposed the very same policies during all of the Bush years.
Blank stares come from the Fourth Estate who claim to be free of any predilection. Even those who admit they oppose Obama policies remain largely silent on the nature of the whole, permitting themselves to dwell on the issue of the day, reasoning that this is what is best for their audience.
The situation is dire already. In the face of an unending and unprecedented stream of money, guarantees, promises, threats and penalties, including precluding, avoiding and at times ignoring the requirements of US laws, our country and its institutions have been left largely to this one man. Our economic and legal systems have been skewered on the altar of change. We have seen a flood of entitlements, special interests, money streams, and law altering decisions and threats that would have been inconceivable under Bush.
From the regular rejection of free enterprise to the threat of prosecution for legal opinions, the death knell of law and order and our very economic and political systems has sounded. The bell rings telling us that our government is now a central government, controlling the allocation of assets and disposition of government largess and no one in Congress or our courts seems to care.
The Loss of Economic Freedom
Under Obama, the United States limits or eliminates financial obligations gained by fraud, threatens those who help operate our economy with the loss of ownership and pay, lauds a type of executive power more than two hundred and thirty years after England's monarch was thrown out, and increases the pork Obama claimed he was against.
The sums of money and largesse provided largely for free under Obama is staggering. Fifty billion of our money to GM. Trillions for other small segments of our population. Both the rich and the poor come hand in hand to the trough of government handouts that increase by the day.
If only because choices have been made that saddle our grandchildren and their children with monumental, insurmountable debt, freedom and independent determination have been destroyed. We have no economic choice, but are instead saddled with our automotive and housing economy far into the future, which brings with it roads and bridges requiring trillions of dollars of repairs during this and the next century, increasing use of our natural resources, and ultimately a consumer-rejecting philosophy begun by Eisenhower and remaining a blight on our world.
This aging, antiquated and inadequate industry has now become a part of our government, is now run largely by our government, and faces certain government intermeddling well into the future. Indeed, this is only one sign of our new central government. This central government, as with other examples in the past, will supplant decisions of the marketplace with its own decisions. It will and has directed our economy on what to do and where to go. It has decided it can determine what our consumer demands should be.
Small vehicles, alternative energy, rebuilding unnecessary infrastructure, retention of jobs in areas that have been rejected, forcing rust into new systems. The impact of Obama's restructuring of our economy and consumer demand has already resulted in a grave loss of the independent decision-making that has marked our robust economy for centuries.
The heavy hand of government has already decided our future. And no one objects.
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Liberties lost:
All of them.
If being opposed to the implementation Marxist/socialism in my beloved country is being racist that I’m the BIGGEST RACIST there is!! F YOU Obama. F YOU AND THE CHICAGO NAG YOU RODE IN ON!!!
“Only one catalog entry needed “
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Dick
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LOL! This would be hilarious . .. if not so frightening!
LOL! This would be hilarious . .. if not so frightening!
LOL! This would be hilarious . .. if not so frightening!
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