Obama's Socialist Dream of Heaven on Earth
"We're going to keep on praising together. I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth."
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in 2008reaching for the stars while addressing an evangelical congregation in South Carolina.
2.Gen. Beauregard: “If certain minds cannot understand the difference between patriotism, the highest civic virtue, and office-seeking, the lowest civic occupation, I pity them from the bottom of my heart.”
3.Having now read Pres. Obama’s 2012 State of the Union address (I cannot tolerate watching the kitschy display that is the actual delivery of a State of the Union address), I can say only that Thomas Babington Macaulay’s long-ago description of Robert Southey applies perfectly to Barack Obama:
“He conceives that the business of the magistrate is not merely to see that the persons and property of the people are secure from attack, but that he ought to be a jack-of-all-trades, architect, engineer, schoolmaster, merchant, theologian, a Lady Bountiful in every parish, a Paul Pry in every house, spying, eavesdropping, relieving, admonishing, spending our money for us. His principle is, if we understand it rightly, that no man can do anything so well for himself as his rulers, be they who they may, can do it for him, and that a government approaches nearer and nearer to perfection in proportion as it interferes more and more with the habits and notions of individuals.”*
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
4.I’m not in the least surprised by Mr. Obama’s xenophobia-laced trade-policy pronouncements: the President thinks that such will win him votes by energizing his economically uninformed “Progressive” base while also pleasing a good number of conservatives. Case closed.)
5.The government has deceived the American people for years, making them think that their payroll tax “contributions” are set aside for their future benefit. But it’s not true. So let’s just admit it’s a welfare program. And if it’s a welfare program, why do rich people get benefits? Means-testing Social Security and Medicare would allow much lower tax rates in the future and be a more honest way to structure government-financed retirement and health plans.
Why are people surprised when polititians lie?
"We're going to keep on praising together. I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth."
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in 2008reaching for the stars while addressing an evangelical congregation in South Carolina.
2.Gen. Beauregard: “If certain minds cannot understand the difference between patriotism, the highest civic virtue, and office-seeking, the lowest civic occupation, I pity them from the bottom of my heart.”
3.Having now read Pres. Obama’s 2012 State of the Union address (I cannot tolerate watching the kitschy display that is the actual delivery of a State of the Union address), I can say only that Thomas Babington Macaulay’s long-ago description of Robert Southey applies perfectly to Barack Obama:
“He conceives that the business of the magistrate is not merely to see that the persons and property of the people are secure from attack, but that he ought to be a jack-of-all-trades, architect, engineer, schoolmaster, merchant, theologian, a Lady Bountiful in every parish, a Paul Pry in every house, spying, eavesdropping, relieving, admonishing, spending our money for us. His principle is, if we understand it rightly, that no man can do anything so well for himself as his rulers, be they who they may, can do it for him, and that a government approaches nearer and nearer to perfection in proportion as it interferes more and more with the habits and notions of individuals.”*
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
4.I’m not in the least surprised by Mr. Obama’s xenophobia-laced trade-policy pronouncements: the President thinks that such will win him votes by energizing his economically uninformed “Progressive” base while also pleasing a good number of conservatives. Case closed.)
5.The government has deceived the American people for years, making them think that their payroll tax “contributions” are set aside for their future benefit. But it’s not true. So let’s just admit it’s a welfare program. And if it’s a welfare program, why do rich people get benefits? Means-testing Social Security and Medicare would allow much lower tax rates in the future and be a more honest way to structure government-financed retirement and health plans.
Why are people surprised when polititians lie?
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