George Rebane
As a fresh face in 2008, community organizer, ‘resigned’ lawyer, and sometime senator Barack Obama outspent opponent McCain by $665,000,000 to win the White House. Most of this advantage was contributed by public service unions. Given the man’s demonstrated record of incompetence or intention (your pick), stronger medicine is needed for him to prevail in 2012.
It took about two summer months of demagoguery for Team Obama to launch the so-called ‘Occupy Wall Street’ demonstrations that are destined to turn into what unfettered history will record as the Obama riots. In these months the socialists were able to assemble a gaggle of the uneducated, unemployed, and unthinking into a mass of “activists” that first occupied a lower Manhattan park, and then spread to satellite demonstrations in cities across the land. More to come.
At first these concerned people came together to protest “Wall Street”. When the media stuck microphones in their faces, the babble that came out made progressive eyeballs roll up from the Oval Office to Berkeley. These idiots had no message and demonstrated no understanding of what was going on – they just wanted “more” money from a government that was broke and unwilling to go after the “fat cats” to wring out the “fair share” that was purloined from their share of the national weal.
Led by worthies such as former administration Green Czar Van Jones, consumer protector Elizabeth Warren, and The Man himself, the message was fashioned, conferences held, and everyone now has their talking points. They still don’t know what they are talking about, but at least the words are there. Local progressives from far and wide – Nevada County included – have held their sympathy demonstrations, are planning solidarity junkets to ‘occupied’ cities, and preparing for the real protests when the proclaimed “revolution” really takes off.
All this is needed now that Obama’s latest gambit for the next ($447B) stimulus has received a bipartisan rejection. Obamacare has turned out to be an albatross of titanic proportions for the country (see 17oct11 update below). There is no sustainable green industry, only a subsidized sham. The millions of “jobs created and saved” at the cost of trillions cannot be verified by the most dedicated of government agencies. And a coalition of Democrats (reported by Rep Jim Matheson D-UT) is even joining with Republicans to reduce offshore profits taxes to 5.25% from its current 35% rate which keeps about a trillion dollars from coming back to the United States.
Meanwhile, Pennsylvania’s state capitol Harrisburg is preparing for a Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing because of unfunded government employee pension liabilities – an event watched by uncounted cities in similar straits. And now we hear from many knowledgeable sources that we really don’t know the full magnitude of the government’s involvement in creating the current recession (or Depression2 IMHO), and that the whole matter deserves careful study if we are to come out of it better informed. This, of course, is the last thing that people preparing to fundamentally transform America want.
So now we see that Obama’s planned billion dollar war chest will not carry the day no matter how much he outspends his Republican opponent, and it is time for the next stage of strong medicine to keep the ball rolling toward a new USSA – please study the Rebuild the Dream proclamation for the Occupy demonstrations. The unions will have to contribute more than their hundreds of millions, they will now have to take an active part in organizing the demonstrations and then fill their ranks with bussed in members. The call for an end to capitalism is loud and clear. It is even evident on the better quality of professionally printed signs that these “grass roots” demonstrators are carrying as the weeks pass. How many arrests are needed before these demonstrations turn into undeniable riots? Nothing less will divert attention from the sad road to socialism on which Obama is leading the nation.
[17oct2011 update] Obamacare’s so-called Class (long-term care) program is just one of the many big lies of which the entire nationalized healthcare scam is composed of. The Democrats now agree with Paul Ryan’s analysis when he dismantled Class at the recent White House healthcare summit. The math in this sham insurance program doesn’t add up, and that was known from the gitgo by the bill’s authors. They just wanted another bamboozle added in that would appear to “bend the cost curve downward”, and when it didn’t, it would be repealed by a future Congress. Well the damn thing won’t add up and the cat’s out of the bag with Sen Judd Gregg’s inserted proviso in Obamacare that says if Class doesn’t measure up actuarially, then it must be omitted from the overall legislation. So Class is dead and so are all the ballyhooed “savings” of Obamacare since Class was the major contributor to the advertized savings. A similar treatment now is proposed for all the other gimmicks that make up Obamacare. And if that bit of responsibility passes Congress, Obamacare will be toast.
The White House and Dems need to do everything possible to keep this development from becoming the banner headline of the election season. A solution at hand is to turn on the heat under the OWS demonstrations and see if they can be blown up into Occupy America affair – the messier the better – which will keep the nation’s angry un/underemployed and rent seekers from paying attention to what’s going on behind the curtain.
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