AmSpec offers a real barn burner by George Neumayr, called AnotherSham.gov, which takes as its starting point the idiotic Obama creation called Recovery.gov .
So Americans now enjoy the privilege of tracking tyranny online, then cobbling together a feckless e-mail to complain about it. “Transparency” means robbing hapless taxpayers in clear sight.
But why even bother to fake up a site if Senator Chuck Schumer is right? Americans, he says, don’t care about this or that “porky” item.
Though a couple of weeks ago Obama had his staff retrieve the phone number of a telegenic grandmother in Florida, this week he wanted to hear from a celebrity. Did you know that Darfur is a “top priority” for this administration? Well, it is; so says celebrity-activist George Clooney. Amidst the buffeting winds of what he tells us is a financial tornado, Obama managed to find some Oval Office time earlier in the week to confer with the actor.
Treating tax dollars like Monopoly money and the globe like a game of Risk played after dinner with visiting stars fits with Obama’s Oprahesque political philosophy. He calls his aphilosophical theory of government “pragmatic”; the Founding Fathers would call it mindless and tyrannical. Any president who says the size of the federal government is an irrelevant question (ask not whether it is “too big,” but whether it is “working,” he said in his inaugural address) is already a tyrant in embryo.
Is it really this easy to hoodwink the American people, the smugness on Obama’s face seems to say? Does it only take a few well-delivered platitudes to nationalize banks, socialize an economy, and compromise a culture?
You can read this article or “share your recovery story” here. Or you can follow the recovery state by state from this map, which features links to states with their own recovery sites, 100% of the now-linked states having Democratic governors.
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“Any president who says the size of the federal government is an irrelevant question (ask not whether it is ‘too big,’ but whether it is ‘working,’ he said in his inaugural address) is already a tyrant in embryo.”
I would emphatically remove the phrase “in embryo.” There is no doubt in my mind that Obama is already a tyrant, and, given his political record, has been so for quite some time. In describing him, I would also add totalitarian, socialist, statist, and one lacking basic moral principles. The saddest part of all this, however, is that Obama is not unlike the vast majority of all politicians and their handlers, supporters, and apologetics.
The word embryo suggests that the being in question will be getting much, much bigger.
I understand the point regarding the future growth of embryos. However, embryos are so undeveloped that they act overwhelmingly based on physiology. And I think that Obama’s voting record is clear evidence of previous substantial, purposive action and intellectual commitment on his part.
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.
Alexis de Tocqueville
The scariest (funniest) part is the timeline on the main page of recovery.gov. It appears to go on infinitely. I got tired of scrolling sometime in 2023.
Millions are going to get hurt, legitimate mortgage holders kicked out of their houses, millions of pre-born children murdered. But after four years of this tyranny, could this be the LAST hurahh of Socialism in America? I think that unlike the 1930′s and 1940′s, while Mises was professing his observations, the problem back then in America was that most people lived on the farm, had little idea what ‘economics’ meant, and in fact, here in the South, people were still licking their wounds from the tyranny of the Lincoln-Grant Administrations of war and “Reconstruction.” Now, we have Mises, Ayn Rand, and a whole host of radio talk that can educate, inform (and hopefully mobilize), as well as millions of people who are informed and won’t ‘take it anymore’. Yes, the Obama election was a referendom on the failure of the Republican Party and Conservatives to recognize the situation, and it seems, since 52% of Conservatives actually voted for Obama, seems to indicate that many people were willing to suffer in order not to endure another four years of wussy Republicans in charge. As a 401k ERISA 3(38) Investment Manager and named fiduciary to my clients’ plans, it took me months to figure out what was going on last year, and then I stumbled onto this web site Thanksgiving week. I’m not sure if my 40-year cycle observation chimes with Mises, so I just ordered his books today. But I call what we are in now “economic Winter”, just like 1974-1982 and 1929-1937/’45. does anybody agree with me? Am I on track with this? NOBODY in my industry understands this, and they look at me like I swallowed a giraffe sideways! Your thoughts would be very encouraging (and/or helpful) to me. Thanks!
One final point here: the ONLY way I knew about the “Austrian Business Cycle” was one night when I was watching one of the Republican debates last year (or was it in 2007?), and Ron Paul, who at the time I thought was an idiot (but now I think he’s a pretty smart and decent guy), muttered “Austrian Business Cycle” in one of his responses. At the time I had no idea what the heck he was talking about, and in fact, at that moment, anything “intellectual” from anywhere in Europe I automatically labeled as socialist or fascist, and dismissed it as just political blather from some Ichabod-pencil necked-looking look-alike of George McGovern! It wasn’t until around 3 in the morning, after pulling together all the data I could grab from the NBER abstracts and Statistical Abstracts of the U.S., I had the nagging urge to Google “business cycle”, and plunder through the web urls that popped up in the search. That’s when I found this site.
I posted my recovery story! I’m so glad that I have the ear of the Obama illustration and that they will seriously consider other ideas. Here’s my story:
I have lost a significant portion of my net worth, and am considering moving out the country to escape the hell of legal theft and runaway inflation that is about to come about! (Not that this administration in its spending actually cares about generating real prosperity.)
Thanks http://www.recovery.org! Most of America is poorer now that we are wasting money in projects that will not increase our nation’s ability to produce the real goods and services that maintain our standard of living!
You should be so proud! Soon, you will have everyone dependent on government, stripped of their dignity and spirit.
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