I just wish we’d seen this coming.

LibTired on July 20, 2009 at 10:58 AM

Correct tirade tho – carry on.

I wonder whether Dem states got more cash than GOP states.

jgapinoy on July 20, 2009 at 10:57 AM

I hope you just forgot your /sarc flag – because many of the conservatives saw it, knew it for crap, and yelled to our congress people back in Jan/Feb – but it still got rammed down our throats by the pack of idiots led by the Chicago thug.

ral514 on July 20, 2009 at 2:08 PM

Interesting analysis. You may be correct in many respects – the leftists have some pretty wrong ideas – as to whether they are insane?

Consider the following quote:

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein

The likelihood that their strategy originally conceived in 1966, could work is highly doubtful.
Only thing is that we still have to endure the possibility? Of them attempting it anyways.

Cloward and Piven came up with a theory that has only been tested halfway. Yes, their ideas about using “community organizers” and leftist media to grow the demands of the welfare state have succeeded in draining resources of cities and states to the point of bankruptcy. Some areas have fought the overgrowth back, but there will be a point of no return, should we prove unable to root out the abettors and stop them, and we could see them reach their goal of complete collapse.

The second part of this theory, however, has not yet been tested, and that second part is the whole point of the thing. They predict that overloading the system to the point of collapse will create a crisis that empowers the poor to have their demands met, through redistribution of wealth.

I’m not so sure that this second prediction will prove as accurate as the first. They seem to disregard some important variables, in a way that’s similar to Charles Manson’s theory.

Manson wanted to start a race war that would ultimately lead to personal power for himself. His theory rested on the shaky foundation of his own prejudices; first, that blacks would win a physical confrontation with whites, owing to his belief in their physical superiority to whites, and second, that victorious blacks, in the aftermath of the race war, would need to turn to a white man to lead them, due to his belief in their mental inferiority. Following this fuzzy equation on the board, he had one of those, “a miracle occurs” formulas, in which he – and he alone – of all white men, somehow manages to emerge unscathed from the carnage, at that magical moment when the triumphant blacks are realizing that they can’t survive without the help of a white man.

Manson is insane, no doubt, but Cloward and Piven make a curiously similar leap. Nowhere do they account for the actions and reactions of middle America while their little plan is unfolding. It seems just as likely to me that, should the ACORNS and World Workers Party types succeed in breaking our economy, that the middle to upper class taxpayers would be given exactly the shot of adrenaline they need to fight back. C&P envision small government officials, panicked, primed to allow unfettered government power to seize and redistribute the wealth of the populace. Really? Maybe, but it seems more likely to me that, faced with economic collapse and mobs of the poor threatening violence, the much more populous middle would grab their shotguns, pitchforks, shovels – whatever they have – and fight back hard.

These people are too in love with the French Revolution to see some basic differences. The French didn’t have a middle class to speak of, and the poor outnumbered the aristocracy by a large margin. The Russian revolution had a similar demographic. The closest thing to a middle class in either country consisted of farmers and merchants that worked long hours for the little extra that they had, and were too few and vulnerable against a lower class that was also used to hard labor, for basic subsistence.

Compare these groups with America’s poor and middle class. The working poor in this country are few, and they don’t ally themselves with the poor of the welfare state. Cloward and Piven rely on a romantic idea of a noble, poor but honest, working hard for every scrap, poverty class, that only exist in their imaginations. Their imaginary poor would fight hard for their “community organizer” leaders, with persistence, dedication, and courage. Huh? The first riot in which the welfare state poor attempt to loot the working poor and middle class will not necessarily end in the helpless and frightened middle class turning to their government, willing to fork over their cash to be redistributed to the aggressors. It might just end with the working poor and middle class taking out their pent-up frustration and anger on the welfare class, and the government that created them. I can’t really see the government created sheep going into battle with fortitude, determined to win what’s rightfully theirs. It seems more likely that, after looting some TVs and liquor stores, and stomping a few innocent people to death, they’ll need a few days off and some paid vacation time. The warrior class that the left is trying to create is unused to enduring hardship, or working at anything, which is a fairly fatal flaw in the whole plan.

I kind of like the idea that ACORN could be working towards their own destruction, even though I know the reality would be too ugly and brutal to take pleasure in. Still, at least we’d know that they, very deliberately, brought it on themselves, in an attempt to destroy the rest of us in an ugly and brutal way.

Daggett on July 20, 2009 at 12:28 PM

1.Spend as much money as possible, but NOT on the private sector — focus only on wasting the money (grow the debt) or growing government (porkulus, cap-and-traitor, Obamacare, etc)

“wasting the money” – I don’t know, they are spending it on Ham and other necessary projects.

2.Increase unemployment to agitate unrest and insecurity

Nah, they there’s no way they could do that…… except for hamstringing the free market so much, or taking money out of the economy with confiscatory taxation, or driving businesses into the ground. Besides that, they can’t do anything of the sort.

3.Increase and invent new entitlements and agitate people to demand their fair share (overload the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands)

You mean like O’crap care and other programs? Nah! Couldn’t be.

4.Seize control of the treasury, banking, credit, and compensation so I could control how the economy reacts to everything.

Well, that’s only in select parts of the banking and financial industry – I’m sure that WON’T affect what others in that segment would do…

5.Fix the next election in case it takes more than 4 years to bring the nation to the breaking point (ACORN fraud, census, health care for illegal immigrants, etc)

That remains to be seen – they have to get those laptops back from Zelaya.

Also, another $1.5 million will go to fix a back door in Texas. (That must be some back door!)

Luke 19:24-27 from BibleGateway.com

24 “Then he said to the bystanders, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to the one who has the ten minas.’

25 “And they said to him, ‘Master, he has ten minas already.’

26 “I tell you that to everyone who has, more shall be given, but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away.

27 “But these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them in my presence.”

So President Obama finally decided to do something Biblical (verse 26). Let’s hope he stops before verse 27.

Daggett on July 20, 2009 at 12:28 PM
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I wonder if he won’t give up his Blackberry because it has the certified results for 2012 on it already – like his BFF Zelaya’s did.

The work necessary to get projects from the planning stage to “shovel ready” isn’t done until after the funding for the project is guarenteed.

An Obama administration official told FOXNews.com that “it is not as simple as looking where the money goes. You could have someone who lives in Maryland and works in Virginia and they are benefited from money given to the Virginia firm even though they live in Maryland.” She also noted that it didn’t really matter who got the money because “giving out money is good for everyone. If you give the money to an old person, they will spend it and that will create more jobs.“

Does anyone out there inthe blogiverse know how many pork projects (Democrat or Republican) have already received stimulus money?
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Chainsaw56 on July 20, 2009 at 11:29 AM

I can’t think of a thing. The point is to drive the country into financial collapse, incite panic and then “rescue” it by suspending the constitution and imposing a radical socialist agenda (forcing political change).

How would you crash the economy and create panic? Here’s what I’d do:

1. Spend as much money as possible, but NOT on the private sector — focus only on wasting the money (grow the debt) or growing government (porkulus, cap-and-traitor, Obamacare, etc)
2. Increase unemployment to agitate unrest and insecurity
3. Increase and invent new entitlements and agitate people to demand their fair share (overload the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands)
4. Seize control of the treasury, banking, credit, and compensation so I could control how the economy reacts to everything
5. Fix the next election in case it takes more than 4 years to bring the nation to the breaking point (ACORN fraud, census, health care for illegal immigrants, etc)

Is it possible to find out how many of the 9,000+ pork projects in the stimulus bill have been funded versus supposed actual stimulus projects that still are awaiting money?

I wonder if ANY pork has already been funded… which would certainly maky many heads EXPLODE in frustration.

highhopes on July 20, 2009 at 12:02 PM

here are some questions i would ask:

1) you know Joe Biden is a dumb ass, right?

2) will you be sending Joe packing wrapped up in some sort of health scare or something?

3) what size strap on does your amazon wife use when the two of you have sex?

4) what’s the next country you be taking your wife and children to see next?

5) and finally Mr. President, can we see that Birth Certificate????????

RepublicansDICC’s (Democrats In Conservative Clothing: pronounced Dicks) spent like drunken sailors, but now the Democrats are like the teens with the key to a fully stocked liquor cabinet.

But we get the hangover.

rbj on July 20, 2009 at 11:12 AM

FIFY

Somehow I think Obama’s “all-Obama-all the time” plan of getting out ahead of the week and driving the message is not working out so well for him.

msmveritas on July 20, 2009 at 11:23 AM

It will be interesting to see what kind of questions he gets at his presser. If, by some chance, the media smells blood in the water and starts asking real questions instead of questions that, planted or not, merely give the filthy liar an opening to spew more of his lies.

FYI….My hometown has had a 30% drop in population since 1980.

Dr.Cwac.Cwac on July 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM

I just got Granholmed out of Michigan. What I want to know is why it is that the size of the state government hasn’t gone down in proportion to the exodus of people forced to relocate for work. Seems to me you don’t need as many people at the Secretary of State’s offices, for example, when fewer people need tags.

MSNBC

Looks like Uncle Sugar just forced Arizona to close the door on mining jobs.

Attaboy, Barry! You’ll show ‘em!

Most of us here did see this coming and have been screaming our bloody heads off at people like you to absolutely no avail.

I didn’t see it coming either, I wish I hadn’t attended the rallies or voted for Ogabe.