Posted on 04/20/2017 4:18:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
Shortly after the 2008 election, President Obama's soon-to-be chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, infamously declared, "You never let a serious crisis go to waste."
He elaborated: "What I mean by that (is) it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."
Disasters, such as the September 2008 financial crisis, were thus seen as opportunities. Out of the chaos, a shell-shocked public might at last be ready to accept more state regulation of the economy and far greater deficit spending. Indeed, the national debt doubled in the eight years following the 2008 crisis.
During the 2008 campaign, gas prices at one point averaged over $4 a gallon. Then-candidate Obama reacted by pushing a green agenda -- as if the cash-strapped but skeptical public could be pushed into alternative energy agendas.
Obama mocked then-Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's prescient advice to "drill, baby, drill" -- as if Palin's endorsement of new technologies such as fracking and horizontal drilling could never ensure consumers plentiful fuel.
Instead, in September 2008, Steven Chu, who would go on to become Obama's secretary of energy, told the Wall Street Journal that, "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe."
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“He elaborated: “What I mean by that (is) it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” “
1) The ethics of the sociopath.
2) Someone who believes this way wants, needs, and creates crisis as often as they can.
“The good ole days”
YHGTBSM. There are some former politicians who should be rotting in jail. And there are some who should be summarily executed.
One has to wonder how many disasters were either engineered or allowed to happen in order to create opportunities?
“One has to wonder how many disasters were either engineered or allowed to happen in order to create opportunities?”
Practically every mass shooting over the last 8 years, with the predictable renewed call for “sane gun laws”, perhaps?
I don't know what that acronym means, but it is interesting to point out that 100 years ago, G.K. Chesterton wrote that
"It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged."
And that was *before* the forced white genocide of massive Third World / Islamist immigration.
Incidentally, Chesterton wrote a novel about a corrupt Brit politician who was a secret convert to Islam who attempted to bring in an Islamist army on the sly to take over England...
Is it just me? I keep getting a malware-like pop up whenever I try to thread a Town Hall article today.
Bookmark for later.
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