NET LOSSES (Mark Steyn)

The National Review ^ | 22 June 2009 | Mark Steyn

[JLS]

NET LOSSES

Steyn on America

Monday, 22 June 2009

A mere year ago the notion that the government would take over General Motors would have seemed incredible. Yet here we are, with the president of the United States firing the CEO and personally calling the mayor of Detroit to assure him he has no plans to move the head office out of the city. Not literally, not yet. But in any practical sense it’s now headquartered in Washington. In another twelve months, I wonder what currently unthinkable scenarios will have become faits accomplis.

[JLS]

More Steyn for all.

[JLS]

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[Emile]

Exactly so, in every respect. Steyn nails it again.

[colorado tanker]

Sometimes great powers decline slowly, almost imperceptibly, as Britain did for much of the 20th century. Sometimes it’s more sudden and convulsive. Obama is attempting Euro-statism, but, unlike Europe, without the counterweight of America to preserve some approximate relationship to reality. Which is to say I do not think this decline will be genteel, for America or the world.

I really wish I could think of a counterargument.

[HiTech RedNeck]

We don’t need one. Wiser minds have already agreed. As C. S. Lewis put it, there are progressions in which the last step is sui generis, in which to take it is to undo all the work accomplished in all the previous steps. Lewis was talking in the context of the reduction of morality to a mindless phenomenon of nature, but turning the whole world’s financial engine socialist is also such a move.

[colorado tanker]

You may be right, I see no sign at all that Zero will stop his progression until it's all fulfilled or he's defeated.

I'm increasingly thinking he may push this to where 2010 could be a repeat of 1994 as the people will want some check on him.

[Red Dog #1]

Two words...”British Leyland” (Google it).

Obama is just following an accelerated version of Britain's Post WW II Labor Party policy's.

[JLS]

Steyn is an early alarmist about the US economy and about Islam in Europe. Early alarmists can be wrong, if their alarm is heeded and behavior changes. So let’s hope he is and we begin to see that in the 2012 midterm elections.

I think there is a good chance the health care bill goes no where. Obama spent all the money on the Dim’s self stimulation. That is temporary politics which is good as national health insurance would be more of a permanent change and harder to undo.

[colorado tanker]

Obama spent all the money on the Dim’s self stimulation.

Interesting turn of phrase. LOL!

[JLS]

Ha! Don’t tell Steyn or he might steal it or maybe I stole that phrasing from him.

[Loyal Buckeye]

GM is a government agency.

[knews_hound]

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[listenhillary]

This is now a land that rewards failure — at the personal, corporate, and state level. And, as conservatives well know, if you reward bad behavior, you get more of it.

Nothing much more needs to be said.

[GOPJ]

thanks for the ping

[GOPJ]

In another twelve months, I wonder what currently unthinkable scenarios will have become faits accomplis.

I shudder to think about it...

[GOPJ]

Your unreadable newspaper has just woken up from its 96-page Obama Full Color Inaugural Souvenir bender to discover that its advertising revenue has collapsed with the real-estate market and GM dealerships? Hey, lighten up, Senator Kerry’s already been pleading your case in the Senate.

Is it really so hard to picture President Obama calling the mayor next spring to assure him he has no plans to move the New York Times out of New York?

A must read!

[The Shrew]

So let’s hope he is and we begin to see that in the 2012 midterm elections.

Sorry, Mid-term elections are in 2010. So two years sooner than your prediction. Hopefully we change congress in 2010 and the Presidency in 2012.

Regards,

TS

[metesky]

Great stuff. Thanks.

[Lurker]

Bfl.