Saturday, March 07, 2009

Could All This Be Intentional?


The seeming negligent indifference of the B. Hussein Administration to the catastrophic wealth destruction he has caused since the election should surprise no one. The great masses of the apathetic and/or ignorant have elected a president who has no real business or investment experience. His only notable for-profit venture was selling his book. As a law professor, community organizer, and legislator, he operated in redistributionist worlds where wealth, garnered from contributions or taxes, is received and redistributed. Their philosophy is this: What is theirs is theirs (the government) and what is yours is theirs!


The mentality inherent in "social justice" activism is also revealing. Created by radical leftist, union organizer and Obama mentor, Saul Alinsky, community organizing tends to eschew the hard work of helping individual lives with such boring bourgeois approaches as better education, development of job skills, encouragement of marriage, and the engagement of fathers in their children's lives. Instead, social justice is about co-opting existing institutions and instilling collective grievance and victimhood. Practitioners of "social justice" encourage beliefs as that if the utility bills are too high it's because "the system" is deliberately oppressive, or if there's not more employment of members of the community it's because employers are racist. It is always someone else’s fault.

That's the same mentality that doesn't care "what some derivatives trader" on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange worries about - which was the response of the White House to CNBC's Rick Santelli calling out the unfairness and moral hazard in the Administration's mortgage plain. To the social justice mindset, this is not viewed as fellow American's suffering, but with schadenfreude (gloating at somebody else’s bad luck): traders are part of the system that is to be blamed, and if they suffer, it's due and owing.

There's another Alinsky principle that B. Hussein is following religiously: issues and events are not so much important in and of themselves, but for the way they allow you to grow and strengthen your organization, and advance your agenda.

That is exactly what the Democrat's recent, rushed, massive, partisan, unread, and barely stimulating "stimulus" bill accomplished: they gained more money for their organization, expanded their dependent constituencies, and used the "crisis" to push through proposals that with daylight would have slunk back under the rocks from whence they came.

Continuing that crisis will allow them to do more of the same. It is becoming increasingly clear that B. Hussein and his team of socialists are intentionally destroying the US economy to achieve their goal of a nanny-state society. Yes, the same system that has failed every time it has been tried anywhere in the world.

Here is their method: Make the people feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and accept any solution they are told will work. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.

We don't have a credit problem or a liquidity problem - those are only symptoms. We have a severe confidence problem, one which is being exacerbated into a crisis by every move Team Hussein makes.

Those who thought they were electing a savior may soon realize that not only is B. Hussein no messiah for the American economy, but he wouldn't want to be a savior even if he could be. It's time to prepare for a long and ugly ride unless we, the great silent majority, find our collective voices and put and end to this madness!