Progressives Love for America – Part
II
Have you noticed how infrequently Progressives use the word,
“love”? Except in a pejorative sense,
such as, “I love to stick it to those horrible conservatives!” The titular leader of Progressives, Barack
Obama, seems to find the words, “Love” and “America” to be mutually exclusive;
never to be used in the same sentence.
You would be excused if you were under the impression that
Barack Obama wanted to become the President of the United States in the run-up
to his initial election. He presented a
picture of someone who believed he could help America overcome some of her
problems and prejudices. Once elected, his
attitude changed 180 degrees. One would
think from his description of his country that the voters had dumped all over
the man.
Shortly after becoming President, he made a world tour,
apologizing to anyone who would listen for all the ills and sins our country
had foisted upon the other nations of the world. We were arrogant, colonialists, condescending,
snobbish, elitist—I can’t recall all our shortcomings that he enumerated. And while I listened closely, I never heard
him say anything positive about our country.
It got so bad that I felt sorry for the poor guy, being
saddled with representation of such a horrible nation. I suggested we could perhaps work out an
agreement with Chad, or Lichtenstein, or Guyana—some country of which he could
be proud. It’s too much to expect a
person to carry the shame and humility of representing what he would have had foreigners
believe was the most horrid country in the world. Poor fellow.
Back home from his apology tour, Obama immediately set out
to save our country from the ravages of “the worst depression since the 1930s”;
a depression he had inherited from George W. Bush, who, according to Obama, was
responsible for every ill afflicting our country for the next five years of his
(Obama’s) presidency. The way Obama
proposed to right the ship of state and get us back on the road to fiscal
recovery was to . . . Spend more money!
Take the nation deeper in debt to provide “shovel-ready” jobs working
for the federal government ala the Civil Conservation Corps of the 1930s;
building roads and repairing other infrastructure. The cost was about one trillion dollars, and
the stimulus that never was created .
. . No jobs that can be directly attributed to the stimulus.
Did Obama and the Progressives really believe that the
stimulus WOULD produce jobs? I listened
to a number of Republican apologists four plus years ago opine that the
President was “misguided, mistaken or getting bad counsel”.
I don’t think that for a moment. I believe this was a very deliberate attempt
to run our nation even more deeply into debt—and for a very specific
reason. Stay with me now.
Back in the mid-1960s, a group was formed that called
themselves the National Welfare Rights Organization. The founder of NWRO was George Wiley, with
the able assistance of Wade Rathke.
Their purpose, adopted from an article in The Nation magazine in 1966 co-authored
by Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven and entitled “The Weight of the Poor:
A Strategy to End Poverty”, was to enroll millions of the nation’s poor on
welfare rolls—even those who were only marginally poor or who earned too much
money to qualify—so as to overwhelm the subsistence programs of federal and
state governments. When the governments
were driven to financial ruin, NWRO, ACORN, et al had plans to assist in establishing
a government that would give every American a guaranteed income—whether he
worked or not. Ahh—the Socialist’s
Nirvana!
Far-fetched as this may sound, the plan almost succeeded in
California and other states. The city of
New York was driven to the point of bankruptcy by a Progressive mayor who
supported all the free-money programs.
The city was bailed out of the jam by the Teacher’s Union, who made them
a sizable loan to forestall bankruptcy at the last moment. Then Rudy Giuliani
was elected. He ended all such programs
in his city.
Progressive members of both houses of Congress, along with
late President Lyndon Johnson, foolishly or deliberately, did everything they
could to hasten the nation towards the brink of insolvency with a program
called Community Action Program. Alas,
changes in leadership in all the aforementioned affected governmental entities
aborted the effort to bankrupt our country.
Let me ask you: Have
the Progressives done or said anything in the past 50 or so years that would
convince you they have given up on that goal of a perfect Socialist nation? As Al Gore so brilliantly posed it, “Does a
Tiger change his spots”? Yes, every
Progressive is so intelligent!
No, the stimulus was not an Obama mistake. It accomplished many things the Progressives
intended it to. It filled campaign
coffers for Obama and the Progressives.
It allowed the Progressives to pay back big and important
supporters. And it drove America much
deeper into debt. Jobs? What jobs?
As Obama might say, if he ever had an honest moment, “We don’t need no
stinkin’ jobs!”
Next came the President’s Green Campaign. No more would America use carbon-producing
fossil fuels like coal, oil or even natural gas. No, without the slightest idea that the
replacements would work, we were going to put all our money into the production
of Green energy—wind, solar, geothermal, hydro and more. Can we develop sufficient energy to keep our
factories, even our cars going? Who
knows? And in the case of the Progressives, who cares?
First, they began dismantling the coal industry. According
to a Daily Caller article 10/4/2012, up to 17,000 coal jobs will be lost with
the implementation of Obama’s Green program.
205 coal-fired generating plants will be shut down.
That’s alright.
Natural gas is cheaper.
True, maybe, but the expense
of switching over from coal to natural gas is expected to greatly increase the
cost of producing electricity. And the
administration’s own EPA opposes ‘fracking’, the best way to greatly increase
the amount of natural gas available.
How about the oil industry?
President Obama keeps holding up approval for the Keystone Pipeline,
projected to move 830,000 barrels of Canadian sand oil per day from Alberta,
Canada to Houston, Texas. The project
would last two years, and provide anywhere between 6,500 and 20,000 jobs—depending
upon whose estimate you read. President
Obama said the other day it would only produce fifty permanent jobs; maybe as few
as five jobs. The man is either super
ignorant, or he is lying to the American people, as usual. That kind of caustic sarcasm would fit a five-year-old.
America has enough oil and natural gas reserves—much of it
deep down and in shale rock, which might make it a little harder to reach. But we have the technology to tap those
resources; enough to take care of all our needs for more than 100 years. Why do Obama and the environmentalists oppose
this drilling?
It would be one thing if we could switch immediately to
green sources of energy without sacrificing our standard of living and status
as a super power. We don’t; we
can’t. But we are being asked to destroy
our ability to produce and maintain our millions of productive workers on
full-time jobs. If we lose our
industry—maybe we already have lost a significant portion of it—can we ever
regain our status as the richest nation in the world? Why
put that question to the test?
Under the guise of “fairness”, President Obama and the
Progressives want to tax our small companies out of business. These are the principal employers in America,
and Progressives want to make it unprofitable for them to hire more
workers—even to maintain the ones they have on the payroll—in order to
redistribute the wealth. Most of these
small business owners worked their butts off to build that business, and they
are being asked, now that they are earning a profit, to forfeit that profit in
order to maintain 50% of Americans on food stamps, welfare or some other kind
of subsistence. Where is the “fairness”
in that? And why would a man or woman
make the kind of sacrifices these people had to make in order to get where they
are just to support the poor in the style to which Obama has made them
accustomed?
There are a myriad other ways this President has
demonstrated his disdain for America.
Like holding his left hand over the right side of his chest, or making a
bizarre salute with his hand over his crotch, when the National Anthem is being
played. Mistakes? Yeah, sure.
Oh, there is so much more!
Would a President who loved his country sit under the
preaching of Jeremiah Wright, the white baiter and America hater, for more than
twenty years? Would he befriend William
Ayers, a devout communist (with a small “c”, he says) who as a member of the
radical Weather Underground bombed American police stations, the Pentagon and
power plants? Would a lover of America apologize to the world for his country,
and never say a good thing about her?
Would he engage in a plan to destroy America by leading her to fiscal
ruin?
Would he allow four Americans to die (at least one of them a
horrible, ignominious death) and lie about the reason for the attack in which they
were killed, keeping the criminal incompetence and dereliction of duty on the parts of members of his administration hidden
from the American people, just to win an election? Would he destroy Americans’ confidence in
their government by using government agencies (IRS, FBI, ATF, Justice Department,
the Federal Election Commission) to punish those Tea Party patriots whose only crime was they did not support his bid
for re-election. Actually, they were trying to do him a favor. Why would he seek to govern a nation he hates?
It would be a little late now for Obama to discover that he
does love America. Would you believe him
if he said he does? With the unstinting
support of the back-alley media (they’re no longer main stream with me), Obama
is set upon bringing America to what he feels is her deserved place—as a third
or fourth-tier country; not the super power that he inherited.
Does Obama love America?
Do PROGRESSIVES love America?
As I've said before, not my America!
I don’t know whether it would be kosher to say so, but
neither would I love the America that Progressives are trying to make of my
country.
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