Good Intentions Aside, Are We Killing the Patient? (Obama killing the economy)

What is President Obama doing about [the recession]? Perhaps too much. And, possibly, his efforts are too diffuse. When I think about the economy I think about a plump man who has just been hit by a truck while crossing a street and is in severely critical condition with internal bleeding. Instead of just stabilizing his hemorrhaging, the doctor decides that while the patient is unconscious, he might as well also do a face lift, some coronary bypasses and a stomach-stapling to keep him from gaining weight while he is recovering (if he does recover). After all, a crisis is not to be wasted.

The problem is that all these ambitious operations create too much of a burden for the human body to bear.

Similarly, we have an administration that is simultaneously seeking to end the recession, discussing drastic changes to laws on foreclosures and energy use and completely changing the health care system. I respectfully question whether all of this makes sense.

I don’t believe we need to do something radical about energy, but even assuming that we do, why do it right now? Do we need to take one of the few sectors that is working like clockwork through the recession — oil refining — and wring its neck by making it pay for pollution “cap and trade” credits? Why attack a healthy industry when so many other sectors are ill? What is all of this anger at Big Oil, which has not done anything blameworthy, all about? Why endlessly beat up the companies that keep the country going?

All history is the history of class struggle, as Marx said, and I suspect that the rage of the news media and academic classes against the oil industry is a form of class struggle.

“When I think about the economy I think about a plump man who has just been hit by a truck while crossing a street and is in severely critical condition with internal bleeding. Instead of just stabilizing his hemorrhaging, the doctor decides that while the patient is unconscious, he might as well also do a face lift, some coronary bypasses and a stomach-stapling to keep him from gaining weight while he is recovering (if he does recover). After all, a crisis is not to be wasted.”

This analogy falls quite short, as far as I’m concerned. No, it’s like performing the facelift, bypasses, and stomach staple using completely unproven or already-proven-defective techniques; or techniques designed to enrich the hospital staff; or experimental techniques based on faulty science and/or idealogical speculation. Take your pick. And using blithering pretzel logic to argue in favor of these questionable techniques. As long as there is no basis in fact; as long as there is strict adherence to Alinskis’ principles, as long as there is slavish devotion to Marxist, anti-Constitutional beliefs, any hare-brained scheme these idiots want to try out is fair game. It’s not the future of a great nation that’s at stake, it’s a selfish and disgusting tantrum of self-re-electing pandering. It’s an experiment in mass psychology, with a deliberate infliction of terror on multiple fronts.

And of course the argument is always “nobody in history is as smart as we are, so prior experience applies to the application our brilliance”. Which, in itself, is totally belied by the completely incompetent and corrupt machinations of the likes of Barney Frank and Chris Dodd and the documentable results of their self-aggrandizing nonsense.

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