The parent’s creed “Because I said so” assumes a certain amount of trust. Trust that what the parent say’s, is just and safe.
Our government, over time has taken on the roll of parent. With the government’s growth, our voices have grown weaker. No longer are we allowed to have much say, in how our country and government are run.
But, don’t take my word for it.
[Charles Krauthammer Real Clear Politics]
President Obama is asking for your blind faith, the faith usually reserved for God. Without any record of achievement, he asks that you believe in him, that you follow his dictates. That you allow him to lead us from the wilderness.
[CNBC.com]
President Obama asserted unprecedented government control over the auto industry Monday, rejecting turnaround plans from General Motors and Chrysler and raising the prospect of controlled bankruptcy for either ailing auto giant.
Eager to reassure consumers, Obama also announced the federal government would immediately begin backing the warranties that new car buyers receive _ a step designed to signal that it is safe to purchase U.S.-made autos and trucks despite the distress of the industry.
With his words, Obama underscored the extent to which the government is now dictating terms to two of the country’s iconic corporations, much as it has already taken an ownership stake in banks, the insurance giant AIG and housing titans Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
In an extraordinary move, the administration forced the departure of Rick Wagoner as CEO of General Motors over the weekend, and implicit in Obama’s remarks was that the government holds the ability to pull the plug on that company or Chrysler.
[Bankruptcy lawyer Tom Lauria on WJR radio]
“One of my clients,” Lauria told host Frank Beckmann, “was directly threatened by the White House and in essence compelled to withdraw its opposition to the deal under threat that the full force of the White House press corps would destroy its reputation if it continued to fight.”
[MICHAEL BARONE-IBDeditorials.com]
The same goes for big banks that have received billions in government TARP money. Many of them want to give back the money, but the government won’t let them.
I want to thank our grandchildren for paying off the single largest debt in American history: Obama’s suicidal $787 billion debt known as his killer “Stimulus Package.”
[Gordon Bishop - American Daily]
The only thing Obama’s historic debt will stimulate is another Great Depression for America’s shrinking and sinking economy.
[Matthew Hurtt – MatthewHurtt.com]
Most notably, we should examine the proposed “stimulus” package, which sailed though the House of Representatives last week. This piece of legislation represents the most dramatic shift toward socialism in American history.
Just after the November election, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said, “Never let a serious crisis go to waste, it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before.” It is with that mentality that the Democrat-controlled Congress produced the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009″(H.R. 1) a 647-page blank check that sends over $800 billion of borrowed funds haphazardly into the economy (sort of) over a period of five or six years.
Students should be aware that Congress is mortgaging the financial well-being of their children and grandchildren with this piece of legislation. Billions upon billions of dollars will be spent on projects that would not even remotely stimulate the economy should this measure pass. For instance, Congress seeks to spend $200 million to rehabilitate the National Mall, $2.5 billion to upgrade low-income housing and $400 million for “climate change” research, among other things.
[National Review]
President Obama, flitting from crisis to crisis without ever quite managing to solve one, has alighted upon credit cards. He summoned a dozen credit-card executives to Washington and dressed them down. Finding credit-card statements difficult to read, Obama proposes to put the wordsmiths of the federal government in charge of reforming them. He also proposes to manage interest rates and fees, the size of the type on bills, the content of card issuers’ websites, and the ease of comparison-shopping among competing cards. As the commercial says, there’s a card that’s right for you — and the president believes he knows which it is: “Every credit-card issuer has to issue a plain-vanilla, easy-to-understand, simplest-possible credit card that would be the default credit card that the average user can feel comfortable with.” Default may be a poor word choice in the context of credit, but the message is clear: You yahoos are going to eat your plain vanilla, and you’re going to like it.
“[T]he Fifth Amendment commands that, however great the Nation’s need, private property shall not be thus taken even for a wholly public use without just compensation. If the public interest requires, and permits, the taking of property of individual mortgagees in order to relieve the necessities of individual mortgagors, resort must be had to proceedings by eminent domain; so that, through taxation, the burden of the relief afforded in the public interest may be borne by the public.”
[Rick Santorum - Philadelphia Inquirer]
Watching President Obama apologize last week for America’s arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions. His nomination of former Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh to be the State Department’s top lawyer constitutes further evidence of his disdain for American values.
Did Obama’s disdain for American Values stem from 20 years sitting in Rev. Wright’s church? 20 years spent listening to statements like these?
“We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye.”
“We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.” (Sep 2001)
“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.” (2003)
“In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.” (magazine article)
“Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!…We [in the U.S.] believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God.” (sermon)
“Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people. Hillary would never know that. Hillary ain’t never been called a nigger. Hillary has never had a people defined as a non-person.”
“The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for over 40 years now. Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community and wake up Americans concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism.”
[Raw Story]
For his first, formal, televised interview as President of the United States, Barack Obama could have gone anywhere. But instead of CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS or any other major American outlet, he’s spoken to al-Arabiya, the largest network news provider in the Arab world.
[OneNewsNow]
“The mistake that President Obama [made] is not only going on Al-Arabiya, but talking in a way that made the United States look bad by saying to them that America needs to listen instead of always dictating,” says Gabriel.
“This sends a message to the radical Islamists…that America is weak, [that] America does not want to fight [and] cannot fight; and [that] this is why we are going to them begging for them to like us.”
[Bill Kristol on Fox News]
You know, it’s an embarrassment. There’s no statement of solidarity with the people of Iran — the word “liberty,” the word “freedom,” the word “democracy,” the words “human rights” nowhere in the message.
He speaks to the leaders of Iran who have imprisoned Americans in the last couple of months and American journalists who — an Iranian blogger died in prison last week — not a word about that. But he speaks to the leaders of Iran and promises them respect.
And it’s a gesture — it’s weak, and I think the Iranians took it as a weak statement since they immediately showed contempt for it and said, “Well, that’s nice talk. Now follow up with some actions. Remove the sanctions.”
[Frontpage Magazine]
With a crowd chanting “Death to America” in the background, Khamenei dismissed the Obama overture as nothing more than a poorly disguised attempt at getting Iran to abandon the principles and the political tone it set for itself with the 1979 Islamic Revolution. And, to be sure, Khamenei made it plain that the Iranian theocracy has no intention of doing anything of the sort.
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