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April 15, 2011

On Focusing Our Wrath On Obama, Not Each Other

In his piece today at American Spectator, Quin Hillyer points out the sad and troubling situation we Americans now find ourselves in -- how we stand on the threshold of financial ruin within three or four years -- of a loss of liberties, or even worse. Yet we who understand these things spend more time fighting each other than we do in fighting the domestic political adversary who is the one posing the threat. And that existential threat can't be defeated in the midst of internecine warfare. Simply put, we should make it a point to know the real facts and truths behind the issues, and save our wrath for Barack Obama.

Hillyer writes:

Ladies and gentlemen, this nation is in deep, deep trouble. We have a president and a Senate majority and four of nine Supreme Court Justices who believe that property, earnings, and even rights all belong to government, and that those blessings are merely doled out to individuals as the government sees fit. The government rules the people, not vice versa.

We also have a president who believes that a cut from the federal government is the same thing as a cut from the things the feds help fund. In his speech on Wednesday, he accused Republicans supporting the Paul Ryan budget of aiming at "a fundamentally different America than the one we've known throughout much of our history. A 70% cut to clean energy. A 25 % cut in education. A 30% cut in transportation."

Well, no. This is a lie. Even if Republicans may propose a 25 percent cut from federal government support for education, that is not a 25 percent cut in the nation's education: It's a 3.68 percent cut in total government support for education (local, state and federal combined). And that doesn't even take into account how much other money goes to private education (more than 6.2 percent of American students go to private schools). Considering how much waste and duplication stems from federal education programs, and merely clutters up the works, that's a 3+ percent which, when cut, might actually improve the quality of education by removing red tape. Likewise, a "70 percent cut to clean energy" is merely a cut to federal support for otherwise unwanted, non-competitive clean energy programs -- but it's not at all a cut to clean energy itself. It's only a cut to clean energy itself if government is the be-all and end-all of all "investment" and all progress.

Our nation is in deep trouble because we have a president and Senate who actually believe that government creates progress. They actually believe that government can "invest" in things. They actually believe that a tax cut is the same as "spending." They even believe that an itemized deduction on a tax return is the same as government "spending." We have a president who wants to ration care (read: death panels) thusly: "We will slow the growth of Medicare costs by strengthening an independent commission of doctors, nurses, medical experts and consumers who will look at all the evidence and recommend the best ways to reduce unnecessary spending while protecting access to the services seniors need." That "independent commission," by the way, is designed to operate with almost no congressional oversight. Its model sure does operate as a death panel in Oregon, which pays for assisted suicide but won't pay for cancer treatments. Barack Obama actually believes that it is worse to be "at the mercy of the insurance industry" than to be at the mercy of these government death panels. And he dares to claim the mantle of "patriotism" for his vision of a "sense of responsibility" as expressed through government fiat, which means at the point of a gun -- this man claiming patriotism while he runs around the world apologizing for sins this nation did not even commit.

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Posted by Richard at April 15, 2011 8:20 AM

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