Here’s the full text of Obama’s “Teddy Roosevelt speech,” in which our Historic President once again tries to reinvent himself as a past President, having already tried passing himself off as the reincarnated spirit of Abe Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, JFK, Harry Truman, and Ronald Reagan (while all the time resembling Jimmy Carter with a tan, a bad golf game, and an inability to dribble with his left).
In the speech, Obama essentially gives up the game — and goes full in on his vision of “fundamental transformation,” asserting that while the American ideal of rugged individualism and individual autonomy is certainly in our collective DNA, it is nevertheless a ruse — and that only a large, benevolent nanny-state, run by our smarters and betters, can protect us and keep us safe from the big bad world that seeks to separate winners from losers:
“‘[T]here is a certain crowd in Washington who, for the last few decades, have said, let’s respond to this economic challenge with the same old tune. ‘The market will take care of everything,’ they tell us,” said Obama. “If we just cut more regulations and cut more taxes–especially for the wealthy–our economy will grow stronger.
“Sure, they say, there will be winners and losers,” Obama continued. “But if the winners do really well, then jobs and prosperity will eventually trickle down to everybody else. And, they argue, even if prosperity doesn’t trickle down, well, that’s the price of liberty.
“Now, it’s a simple theory,” said Obama. “And we have to admit, it’s one that speaks to our rugged individualism and our healthy skepticism of too much government. That’s in America’s DNA. And that theory fits well on a bumper sticker. But here’s the problem: It doesn’t work. It has never worked.
As we enjoy the surreal optics of an American President pushing for a European-style soft-socialist system in which a bloated, meddling, entrenched, and astoundingly inefficient centralized authority runs every last aspect of our lives — even as the actual European soft-socialist states are actively imploding under the weight of their own inevitable economic insanity (turns out you can’t simply “deconstruct” away math) — while he argues that the most profitable and free country ever is built on faulty assumptions of free minds and free markets, it is nevertheless important that we prepare ourselves to combat the emotional appeal of his “argument,” aimed as it is at those who’ve been taught to believe in entitlements and whose self-esteem has been artificially bolstered, forming an army of useful idiots who have not the requisite knowledge of economics nor the requisite understanding of liberty to recognize how they are being used as footsoldiers in a campaign to turn all of us (well, except for the cronies and bureaucrats) into slaves to the State, subjects to a federal government rather than its owners.
Obama has moved to the left of FDR, who not only opposed public-sector unions with respect to bargaining “rights,” but who was careful to sell Social Security as a form of insurance, paid for by a specific payroll tax, and NOT as a welfare program. But what Obama is pitching is a fundamental transformation of that (already dubious) paradigm: as Dems have been telling us forever, Social Security is held in trust, with each participant’s payroll tax deduction placed in his or her account for retirement (this is how the law was permitted, again dubiously, to pass SCOTUS muster and set the precedent from which we can’t escape).
And yet Obama is taking the unprecedented move of making the argument, from the left, that we no longer need live under that ruse. Instead, what Obama is pitching is a cut to the payroll tax — to send everyone a $1000 bribe before the election — and then promising to “pay” for that “tax cut” by making “the rich” pay “their fair share.”
Or, to put it another way, he is now willing to levy punitive taxes on achievers in order to subsidize his own conscious decision not to fund Social Security through the mechanism that was established to fund it, namely, the payroll tax — all so he can buy votes.
This plan has a twofold implication longterm: first, it aims (ostensibly) to create less “income equality” by redistributing wealth, putting an extra burden on the wealthy and taking away responsibility from more and more in the “middle class” (with the hope that they become client voters); the “poor” have long since been exempted from paying any kind of “fair share,” and so are reliably Democrat voters. Secondly, it reduces the actual middle class by taking away money from those in the private sector who invest or who start businesses and hire people, further institutionalizing the new normal of a weakened private sector and a higher unemployment rate — both of which are a necessary part of the leftist strategy to overthrow a free-market economy, and both of which hurt the middle class disproportionately (while working to re-organize the categories: the “rich” now no longer just the Warren Buffets of the world, but the family that has both parents working and bringing in $250 K).
This is the Obama strategy, and coupled with the coming spring and summer “protests,” it is a marriage of all the leftist overthrow strategy Obama was reared on finally being attempted, brazenly, because the left feels now is their best chance to pull it off — that the society is sufficiently cowed and PC; that their historical knowledge has been sufficiently shaped along the lines of oppressor/oppressed cant; and that enough people believe in the helping hand of government — and prefer it — to having to determine their own fate in exchange for the liberty granted them under the Constitution.
There’s a reason Obama is pushing this narrative along with calls to extend — yet again — unemployment benefits. And that’s because he knows none of this will create jobs, that his “plan” will just further increase the numbers of those hurting, with the hope that then, finally, the “middle class” revolts and joins him in a final assault on the private sector, overthrowing the capitalist system and establishing the “people’s” socialist Utopia he and his ilk intend to run, without the troublesome meddling of checks and balances, free market principles and, of course, the input of the ignorant masses he at once claims to champion and yet despises.
Cloward-Piven, playing out. The pieces have been put in place.
And yet the GOP establishment still refuses to speak to it, to counter it, to fight against it by seizing on first principles and the Constitution, or by advocating for individual autonomy and liberty in any but the most passive, dispassionate way.
Not a vote has yet been cast for our GOP candidate, yet we’re told that our choice is now between two technocratic government class insiders.
This is not true. This, as with everything Obama and Boehner and the rest of the ruling class has done, is part of the plan to build a permanent political class, where party affiliation is but theater. An “establishment” candidate need be put forward. Political outsiders must be marginalized or destroyed, and conservatives dismissed as fringe extremists and kooks with “wild eyes” or “crazy” ideas about family.
Already, the government takes 25% of GDP. And businesses pay an additional 11 cents on the dollar in compliance costs to various bureaucratic regulations. That’s 35% — over 1/3 of GDP going for FEDERAL government (which doesn’t even include state and local government) — and yet we’re in an unsustainable debt spiral, having let the government play that big a part already in controlling our economy.
Yet Obama’s long-term vision for a “solution” is to follow Edward Bellamy’s (fictional Utopian) solution: allow the government to align with big multinationals to gain control over all industry, then the government steps in during the next phase, nationalizes industry, and runs the whole of society, where everyone is given “social justice” — defined as an equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity.
And that, my friends, is a police state, no matter how many smiley face stickers you slap over it. Freedom is gone. The individual is subsumed by the “greater good” as defined and determined by “the collective.”
It is decidedly anti-American, in the strictest sense, and it evil, in the most basic moral sense, because it reduces every man and woman to a subject and “protects” the slothful and the lazy from the creative and the industrious, rewarding the former and punishing the latter while making sure that no one, save the ruling class, moves above a certain station. This is what it means to be one of the “masses.”
It says, in effect: The American founding was bullshit. Individualism is harmful. It’s time to let the Smart Set run things. For the Greater Good. Because no other system can work or has ever worked.
Which is an historical and national lie of epic proportions, and yet one that so many have been conditioned to readily accept as truth. To the detriment of those who recognize the lie and know the real truth.
And frankly, I’d rather die a free man than live like a slave — particularly if I’m being asked to accept people like Obama or Valerie Jarrett or Pelosi or Boehner or Chuck Schumer as my rulers.
Fuck that. And fuck them.
OUTLAW!
Left? He can sort of dribble with his left. It’s any recognition of a right he has trouble with. Any.
0750 hrs local standard time: California sounds general quarters and preparations made for getting underway.
Oklahoma struck by 3 torpedoes on port side. As the ship rapidly heels to port 45 degrees, anti-aircraft batteries are manned and General Quarters executed; oil and water on decks.
Utah, Raliegh and Richmond attacked by torpedoes.
0752 hrs local standard time: California torpedoed.
He’s all in, not that that was in any doubt.
0755 hrs local standard time: AIR RAID PEARL HARBOR X THIS IS NOT DRILL transmitted in the clear from Ford Island Command Center.
they had their pet fuckpuppet David Brooks do a column about the joys of massive regulation to coincide with this fascist twaddle
0755 hrs local standard time: dive bombers over Hickam Field. Oklahoma torpedoed; Utah torpedoed and begins to list.
0756 hrs local standard time: West Virginia torpedoed three times and begins to list 20 degrees to port. While West Virginia counterfloods so as not to capsize, two large explosions are observed aboard the Arizona. West Virgina catches fire and the order to abandon ship is given.
0758 hrs local standard time: Oklahoma torpedoed a fifth time and begins to capsize. California down by the stern. Tennessee hit by two bombs. West Virginia observed burning.
My late neighbor was a Pearl Harbor survivor. He was just a kid, nineteen, I think, when his ship was hit. Only he and a handful of others managed to escape. He went on to a become a doctor and was quite beloved in the community.
0759 hrs local standard time: Pennsylvania dive-bombed.
0800 hrs local standard time: Nevada underway, struck by both torpedo and bomb. California torpedoed. Utah torpedoed.
0801 hrs local standard time: Burning oil from Arizona seen to engulf Battleship Row.
0805 hrs local standard time: Utah listing 40 degrees. Order to abandon ship given.
Yeah, it being those particular idiots does make it viscerally more galling.
0808 hrs local standard time: Mugford reports Oklahoma capsized, West Virginia listing heavily, Arizona blown up.
They have done a fine job of getting the idea of “income inequality” into the conversation. A better-educated proletariat would be able to quickly turn that on its head to see what they are driving at as a solution: to each according to his needs, where the needs are defined by the government. Marx would have reason to be proud.
0810 hrs local standard time: Utah capsizes.
Jarvis reports Oklahoma, Nevada, West Virginia, and Arizona torpedoed. Arizona forward magazine exploded.
I attempt to hammer this stuff every day – with facebook folks, IRL, on my (little read) blog. I don’t honestly know if a better character could have been created by Ayn Rand than Obama; demeaning capitalism and personal responsibility, while weekly have his own “let them eat cake” moments on the golf course.
0817 hrs local standard time: The destroyer Helm speeds to the open sea. As the Helm leaves the channel, a lookout spots a Japanese sub snagged on a reef. The Helm “turned hard right toward enemy submarine,” shoots—and misses. The two-person sub breaks free and submerges. But it snags again. Trying to escape the foundering sub, one crewman drowns. The other is washed ashore—and becomes the United States’ first World War II prisoner of war.
0830 hrs local standard time: Air attack slackening as first wave begins to retire, objectives accomplished.
0839 hrs local standard time: The destroyer Monaghan underway, recieves a signal that a submarine has been sighted. The Monaghan heads for the sub at top speed, hits it with gunfire, then rams it and drops depth charges. The charges are so close that when they explode, the blasts lift the Monaghan out of the water.
They are using this study by the IMF to make their case. The study compared two regions. From the Mother Jones review of the study.
I’ll have to dig into the pdf but it appears that they are comparing apples and oranges and that the study does not make the case that the Obama administration assert that it does.
I know that for the past few decades, critical thinking skills have been purposefully eliminated from curricula throughout the public school (at all levels), but doesn’t anybody give a fuck that our President just called America a failure? That’s not cherry-picking through a few paragraphs, that was a direct statement.
The fact that he said it outright almost surprises me, but not quite. I’ve known from the moment he arose into the spotlight exactly what he was, and beyond the fact that he was coronated based upon his blackness, none of that animosity has anything to do with his race whatsoever. What makes my blood boil is that he can say it unworried that any of our current GOP nominees would express anything near the outrage due such a slanderous statement.
This is an offense against every American citizen, but particularly those who fought and died in the war we were immersed into on this day seventy years ago. Oh, that we had one leader with the balls necessary to call it what it is: Treason.
0850 hrs local standard time: The Nevada, her steam up after 45 minutes, heads for the open sea. A sailor sees her U.S. flag flying in the smoke and thinks of the words of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
0854 hrs local standard time: The 167 plane second wave—35 fighters, 78 dive-bombers, and 54 high-altitude bombers—arrives over Pearl Harbor, meeting heavy antiaircraft fire. Bombers attack the navy yard dry dock and hit the battleship Pennsylvania. Another bomber hits oil tanks between the destroyers Cassin and Downes. Onboard ammunition explodes, and the Cassin rolls off her blocks and into the Downes.
Bombs hit the light cruiser Raleigh, which had been torpedoed in the first wave. Crewmen jettison gear to keep her from capsizing.
The Nevada is struck by bombers from the second wave. Rather than risk sinking in the harbor entrance and trapping the fleet, the Nevada delibrately runs aground off Hospital Point.
Well this is nice, from that study. My bolding.
So what they are studying/illustrating is the effects of “crony capitalism”, which is a euphemism for socialist fascism, and the lock on economies by public sector unions. Way to go IMF.
“Income inequality” came into the conversation through the astro-seeded OWS protests, as a way to change the conversation away from the real cause of our economic problems. If we had a press they might be interested in connections between the Obama Campaign and the DNC with the OWS Coalition: “credible” affiliates (UAW, AFL-CIO), allies they don’t want to be seen with too much(New Black Panthers, SEIU), and their plausibly-deniable allies (Ad-Busters and the rest of the mask-off Marxists).
Pretty soon, everyone’s gonna be a millionaire! Of course, a cup of coffee is gonna cost $10K, but let’s not pick nits.
Can we just hit the wall already?
Yeah, Peltz, but what’s your first name?
Acertaincrowd
Man, that’s a strange name. Where on earth did your parents dig that one up?
Oh, it was an emblem in a speech given years ago by that singular moron, Barack Obama, remember him?
Ha! I haven’t thought of that twerp since the last time I thought of Jimmy Carter. But hey, still a strange name.
OWS starts Sept. 2011. IMF study published Sept. 2011.
National Soros Radio is cheerleading the fascists today
and yeah they take a really hard look at who’s involved behind the scenes, and raise the suspicion that the groups may have sympathies for the Democratic Party
Just watched an episode of Travel Channel’s show “Off Limits,” about Los Angeles. Up in the Malibu hills there’s the ruins of a place built by Nazi sympathizers to serve as a headquarters for Amerikan Nazis so when our society collapsed (as Der Führer was sure it must) they’d be in a position to step in an restore order.
The place was raided by the FBI after Pearl Harbor, and the Nazi group behind it was shut down. Apparently before the raid one of the place’s guests was a bona fide Nazi spy.
Anyway, in telling about the place near Malibu there was a video clip of pro-Nazi shenanigans back east before the war, and I couldn’t help thinking if the #Occupy types weren’t allergic to soap I could be watching something from 2011.
I mentioned the video about the Frankfurt School before, but I don’t think it’s ever wrong to link it again.
Charles Manson and his rag-tag family built their home in the desert at Spahn Ranch, an abandoned movie set of old western saloons and false fronts. They, like Hitler, were going to ride to the rescue after the coming race wars. Manson, of course, was to be the leader of the New Jerusalem.
Yet another in a parade of loser ‘charismatic’ leaders who were going to lead their true believers to the Promised Land through the rivers of blood and smoking buildings. The OWS can’t even come up with a new concept. All these Utopian societies lead to internal collapse over who has more bread and blankets and wimmins.
The murders they committed were designed to “make it happen”, it being the race war.
Yes. I was living not far from Los Angeles at the time and was scared to death. I was eleven years old and afraid that murderous hippies would climb through my window in the night.
Check these peaceful types out:
This shocking expose by the journalist coauthors will disabuse readers that the Hare Krishna sect is exclusively a group of religious devotees. The movement began with the arrival in the United States in 1966 of Swami Prabhupada, who established himself as a charismatic teacher and as quickly attracted numerous disciples, one of whom was Keith Ham, a Columbia University graduate student who was given the Hindu name of Kirtanananda. As the movement grew, the founder appointed a group of regional leaders, Kirtanananda among them, who exercised almost unlimited power over the sect’s adherents, many of them psychologically damaged people, according to the authors. Nationwide, some members financed the sect by selling drugs and soliciting money for nonexistent charities. Kirtanananda founded a colony called New Vrindaban in West Virginia, where wife-beating, child sexual abuse, rape and even murder took place. The authors document their charges from interviews with Hare Krishna defectors and police and court records, and the cumulative effect is chilling. (Monkey On a Stick)
It wasn’t all just pesterus at the airports, after all.
pesterus? That should be “pestering us”
“Pesterus” – I assumed it was the name of the new, nannystate-sanctioned. official secular holiday that will soon replace the current, somewhat-more-Jesus-y thing.
Sounds good. I say we copywrite it.
Huh. There’s a little colony of Hare Krishnas just south of Spanish Fork, Utah. They raise llamas and rent them out for backpacking. In late summer, they hold an India festival with good food and interesting clothing and Indian musics. They also built a fine little temple and have a radio station and a salt-free restaurant with what’s reported to be the best cheesecake in the state.
I kinda doubt they’re affiliated with the nasty ones in leigh’s comment, though. They never make trouble or bother anyone. Even all those Mormons around them have no problem with them because they behave themselves.
You ought to read “Monkey on a Stick”, di. It is an account of the world-wide Hare Krishna movement of the sventies and eighties. They perverted, in more ways than one, the original message of the Hare Krishnas and were eventually rounded up by the FBI and Interpol. It would make a fantastic movie if there were any directors around who were adept at storytelling.
It’s like most other things, like the fellow in “The Salamander Letter” who was forging documents supposedly written by Joseph Smith and other Mormon elders and selling them to the Prophet for safekeeping in the Temple at SLC. One bad apple doesn’t necessarily spoil the bunch.
hah I want to see the nazi headquarters
I’ve never been to malibu my whole life
That’s Festivus John Bradley, though we, well I should say, I have incorporated the “citing of grievances” into all holidays.
Wait just a darn minute, motionview, my grandmother started the citing of grievances from my first memories of family get togethers.
Bingo:
wow that’s an exciting leap towards a more vibrantly fascist America
America 2.0 — it’s fascolicious!
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It’s not only Anti-American and Evil, it’s Treason.
Brilliantly put, Jeff.
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