<blockquoteWhat makes us Americans unique is how we react to things. But we are changing and being taken over…not by people but by a Media that is controlling the message and our perceptions, understanding and morals… I think that we have a small window of time here to stop the socialist takeover of our country …so those of you who are scared , have kids or grandkids please get out of your comfort zones and do something! George Soros is once again talking down the economy and painting a picture of gloom and doom…he is the one in charge! FIGHT HIM…

CCRWM on February 22, 2009 at 10:25 PM

I think the last peaceful, democratic way to stop what’s happening now passed in November 2008. It passed because the adult half of the country was so tired… tired of being told how racist and greedy they were, tired of taking lumps over Bush (who got One Big Thing right, but otherwise made his party and its voters take a lot of lumps for very little reward) and tired of fighting a media tidal wave that told them, in essence, that there was no rational, honorable way to vote against the One. The childish half of the country got what it wanted: a cartoon character who promised them everything, free of charge.

The point was not made strongly enough that November 2008 would be a “one man, one vote, one time” situation – that there would never be a way to vote to reverse course from what Obama and the Democrats had planned. How do you arrange a calm, orderly vote that could undo the trillion dollars of pork that’s already been stuffed into the American system, with trillions more to come? The recipients of that pork far outnumber the people that will be expected to pay for it. We all know what will happen next – a collapsing dollar, and capital (human and otherwise) fleeing the country to escape the titanic tax hikes that will be coming down the pipe in a couple of years, to reduce the horrific deficits when Uncle Sam runs out of people willing to loan him money by purchasing bonds. Couple this with an increasing turn to protectionism and tariffs, starting with the auto industry, which is about to scarf down another twenty billion in bailout money, and will next demand protectionist tariffs to cut off the supply of foreign cars, so the U.S. automakers can raise their prices and satisfy the demands of their unionized labor force. When this takes us from recession into outright depression, the ruling party will do what the ruling party in a fascist state always does: scapegoat what remains of the private sector. And that is what we are becoming, not “socialist” as we often say in these parts, but fascist – direct state control of industry.

I have a hard time imagining the Republicans pulling off some kind of miraculous political rebirth and fielding a Reagan-caliber leader that could reverse this tide, and even if they manage to do so, I think we have simply gone too far. The Democrats know they have two years of absolute power to tilt the playing field to their eternal advantage, and they will continue to take advantage of it. What sort of post-Obama government could even conceivably shut down the spending floodgates that have been opened in these past weeks, and in the latter Bush years leading up to this? How do you derail a couple trillion dollars of earmarked pork spending and turn it into tax relief for an increasingly shrinking, increasingly desperate productive sector? And how much top private-sector business talent will stick around to wait for those post-Obama renaissance years, when they can pop their golden parachutes and para-glide to some offshore tax haven?

Most of the electorate is still tired, and trying to give the new President the benefit of the doubt, even as this polite attitude becomes increasingly absurd in the face of his manifest incompetence. Wait until that tired electorate begins to realize there is literally nothing they can do to slam on the brakes before Obamanomics takes us off the cliff. Wait until the media tells them they have no legitimate political recourse available to them – like the pro-life movement after Roe vs. Wade, except on a far larger scale, middle America will be told it has been ruled ineligible to participate in the political discussion. That’s when things will get really interesting, and Democrats may learn what “Change” really means.

Doctor Zero on February 22, 2009 at 10:49 PM

<blockquoteIf, now under Barry’s Governmental hand, a contract’s terms can be altered by a judge(that would include a mortgage, folks….), without consent of all parties to the contract, then the conduct of everyday business in the U.S. will be severely undermined. Result? Chaos in the business community. Who would want to lend a dime to anyone, without the certainty that at least the lender had a right to enforce the contract, as PREVIOUSLY agreed upon, with mutuality of consent? Danger ahead.

jsaturn on February 22, 2009 at 10:36 PM

Well said! Since the earliest days of the most primitive mercantile systems, the essential ingredient to prosperity is stability. The most important thing early civilizations did for their merchant class was provide stable currency and secure trade routes. Everything we have achieved in the 20th and 21st centuries was possible because people a long time ago realized you could reliably make a little metal coin equal in value to a goat, or a day’s labor, and two parties could trust each other to honor the terms of a contract.

The scariest thing about Obamanomics is the suicidal determination to un-learn thousands of years of wisdom on this topic, and make huge portions of the economy subject to the whims of politics. Investors and venture capitalists thrive on their ability to predict the course of economic events, but this becomes virtually impossible in the unstable world of a fascist economy, where the government picks winners and losers based on their skin color, or how much money they donated to the “in” crowd, or how much Politician A personally likes Businessman B. Not only do billion-dollar bailouts subsidize inefficient business models, such as the auto industry… they punish the investors in other companies and industries, by telling them their predictive ability is worthless. They bet against GM’s ridiculous “retirement home with a tiny auto subsidiary” economic model, but it won anyway, because billions of dollars were confiscated from private citizens and given to companies that should have gone bankrupt.

It would be foolish to invest big money in a venture in a country like Venezuela, where the socialist rulers could nationalize it in a heartbeat (and would be increasingly likely to do so as the business venture prospered.) Soon the venture capitalists that drive business and technology innovation will begin to conclude it is equally foolish to invest in Barack Obama’s USA, where punishing taxes and gigantic subsidies mean the productivity and efficiency of a business venture have very little to do with its financial success.

Doctor Zero on February 22, 2009 at 11:00 PM

<blockquoteI’ve been current for 20 years. What do I get?

TN Mom on February 22, 2009 at 11:17 PM

Not much, but your kids will get something: the bill for all those thousand dollar payouts. I’m sure they’ll be happy to take care of it. I’m even more certain they won’t be asked whether they’re “happy” when they’re told they need to take care of it.

Doctor Zero on February 22, 2009 at 11:25 PM