Posted on 10/30/2009 9:30:47 PM PDT by Steelfish
OCTOBER 30, 2009 We're Governed by Callous Children Americans feel increasingly disheartened, and our leaders don't even notice.
By PEGGY NOONAN
The new economic statistics put growth at a healthy 3.5% for the third quarter. We should be dancing in the streets. No one is, because no one has any faith in these numbers. Waves of money are sloshing through the system, creating a false rising tide that lifts all boats for the moment. The tide will recede. The boats aren't rising, they're bobbing, and will settle. No one believes the bad time is over.
No one thinks we're entering a new age of abundance. No one thinks it will ever be the same as before 2008. Economists, statisticians, forecasters and market specialists will argue about what the new numbers mean, but no one believes them, either. Among the things swept away in 2008 was public confidence in the experts. The experts missed the crash. They'll miss the meaning of this moment, too.
The biggest threat to America right now is not government spending, huge deficits, foreign ownership of our debt, world terrorism, two wars, potential epidemics or nuts with nukes.
The biggest long-term threat is that people are becoming and have become disheartened, that this condition is reaching critical mass, and that it afflicts most broadly and deeply those members of the American leadership class who are not in Washington, most especially those in business.
It is a story in two parts. The first: "They do not think they can make it better."
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Noonan’s waking up but still doesn’t fully ‘get it’. We aren’t disheartened. We want the usurpers out.
Rush Limbaugh commented on this article in today’s (Friday) show and said that disheartened is not a good term. Rush said that Americans are ANGRY. Now that is far more descriptive and I think Rush is right.
And you, Peggy, were just giddy to see him installed.
I can understand why she feels guilty .
No wonder she supported Obama.
Peggy, too late, too little. We don’t have time to wait for you to catch up. Enjoy stupid, you seem to be stuck there.
Yeah...she and Newt ought to go have tea together....and leave the adults in charge.
Sarah....Told'ya.....So.
Read my tagline.
Noonan and Newt have both jumped the shark.
and right now ... the CONSTITUTION needs OUR HELP, after what the IDIOTS in DC are doing.
She’s a beltway lib who doesn’t like Sarah Palin —she’s BETTER than us.
We’re unsophisticated to her...
Maybe you are "governed", Peggy, but I'm not.
I have nothing to do with those scumbags and I won't let them touch me.
Palpable nonsense, of course.
Imagination won't get us out of our financial mess.
Principled adherence to sound, and proven conservative policies will do that (but it will take time, discipline, and it will take the Peggy Noonan's of the press to admit they were WRONG about Mister Obama and his Marxist goals.)
And, nobody's holding his breath waiting for Ms. Noonan to deprogram herself from her post-menopausal crush on Marxist Obama.
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The problem, Peggy, is that for 8 decades the Democrats have been rushing to the Left. They control the MSM, education, pop culture and a large part of the church. The Republicans, desperate to compete, got caught in their wake and followed behind them.
Now we find ourselves as a nation with a Soviet-style authoritarian government coming to power. Those who love what America has been and remained through her various inner and external conflicts, no longer have a party they can turn to. It truly has become “us” (liberty-loving patriots) against “them” (statists/totalitarians/communists/socialists).
We also have alternative communication (the Internet) where many experts who would never have had a voice 20 years ago now analyze and state their opinions. Those who care about what is happening are intelligent enough to weed out the truly objective, knowledgeable bloggers from those just seeking recognition. Those experts are spreading the truth about where we are economically.
We also have talk radio and Glenn Beck's program spreading that truth.
And it really isn't that hard to understand.
Our economic system (controlled by a socialist, central bank we call the Federal Reserve), has done exactly what they always planned to do, which is the exact opposite of their stated mission. They planned on stripping of America and Americans of their wealth, stealing that wealth for themselves, while at the same time weakening America as a nation by destroying the middle class.
Their goal has been the same as the totalitarians that now run the government: a two-tier social structure with the rulers and the serfs.
And THAT, Peggy, is the despair that Americans feel. We feel that we are about to lose and that not only America but all the world is about to be cast into a new Dark Ages where the overlords oppress the serfs for their own benefit and crush their spirits so that they no longer desire liberty.
But Peggy. There is something you should know. You are only seeing the despair. And the tone of your article is almost pathetic because it displays how you are only viewing the situation out of one eye.
True Americans will not “go gently into that good night.”
This could get very, very ugly before the Dark Ages.
That should alarm you far more than despair, which is actually a last glimmer of hope before people believe they have absolutely nothing left to lose.
I pray it doesn't come to that. Because that would be all the totalitarians needed to say, “it's time to stop handling them with kid gloves,” and to crush us violently.
I pray it doesn't come to this, but history yells at us from the dark abyss of the past that this is often the course of human action.
Your time to wake up was over a year ago, when you chose instead to use your column to trash a much, much better and more sensible woman.
While you were on your knee-pads before the Kenyan-born communist muslim usurper, we were trying to tell you what a huge mistake you were making, but you would not listen.
You didn't just betray the Republican party; you betrayed the whole country. And now, because of you and other people like you, the country is in great peril.
Is there really any nicer way to tell you this?
Perfect!
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