Posted on 05/09/2010 6:01:02 AM PDT by rellimpank
Last week, we were discussing the Obama administration's anti-freedom, anti-capitalist agenda.
When a political leader snidely characterizing those who challenge his initiatives to vastly expand federal regulation and management of the economy as being in the pay of "greedy insurance executives," "big bankers," and the like, I don't see how anyone can argue he's not against the free market.
In fact, they don't. Mr. Obama's champions respond by citing all the injustices which they believe are wrought by the free market.
Therefore, by their own words, their agenda is anti-freedom.
Their fall-back position appears to be, "It had to be done or things would have gotten much worse."
But the huge government economic interventions of the past three years -- under Bush and Obama both -- have done far more harm than good. Angela Merkel in Germany resisted calls for huge government "stimulus" spending on the Bush-Obama-McCain model. Left to their own devices, German employment and that country's modest economic recovery are now doing better than ours.
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Obama and his Socialist/Marxist Minions are waging war against private enterprise.
Which is why I refuse to refer to them as “liberals”. They are leftist communists. Enemies of freedom and humanity.
waging war against private enterprise.
...and against the American people.
>Which is why I refuse to refer to them as “liberals”. They are leftist communists. Enemies of freedom and humanity.
Exactly. There have been far too many good people in history who really were liberals to allow that name to be sullied by Progressives and other Leftists. The name never should have been ceded to statists.
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