All the Wrong Moves

by James Hudnall

If the last two months are any indication, Barack Obama is a better bowler than he is a president.

And to think all the “smart people” in Hollywood sold him as a “brilliant” mind. Of course, this is brilliant by Hollywood standards. The place that remade “The Beverly Hillbillies.”

Let’s review how brilliant the president is. After spending his campaign complaining about President Bush’s lavish outlays, he decided to triple it.  Not just triple it, but spend more than all the presidents who preceded him combined. Take a good look at this chart of deficits and look at the one he’s projected. Here is a “best case” scenario from Obama fluffer network MSNBC. Now this is how his budget stacks up against “stupid” president Bush and others before him. This is Bush’s deficits compared to Obama’s. Yes, Obama’s budget is brilliant if you want to bankrupt the U.S. and keep its citizens indebted for generations. But maybe that’s his cunning plan.

According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office Obama’s deficits could reach 9.3 trillion dollars. How much is a trillion anyway? Here’s a visualization. It’s an insane amount of money. There is no real excuse for the spending were doing other than gross incompetence or corruption. The government is supposed to watch these financial institutions to prevent the kinds of things that were happening, but instead they encouraged a lot of it.

It will take generations to pay off this debt. And for what exactly? So corrupt businesses can be saved? So failed companies who failed because of government policies and unions can continue to fail a little longer? They gave billions to failed banks with no conditions and the money went overseas. They gave billions to AIG three times, and billions went overseas. They got all upset because AIG wanted to pay bonuses to their execs, as they were contractually obligated to do, and then decided to tell the angry mob their names and where they lived so the mob would have a scapegoat other than the politicians who set up this mess in the first place.

They got so “outraged” they decided they wanted to pass laws to break contracts and take over any company they feel is “corrupt.” This means that the government could decide to take over any company at any time. Nullify any contracts. Basically kill the rule of law and give the government unprecedented powers over business. Like a totalitarian state. Like a banana republic.

What business would want to operate here under those conditions?

But that’s not all. The president wants to draft our kids into some pseudo-military and put them in education camps. The bill approving this has already passed.

…the legislation threatens the voluntary nature of Americorps by calling for consideration of “a workable, fair and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people.” It anticipates the possibility of requiring “all individuals in the United States” to perform such service, including elementary school students.The bill also summons up unsettling memories of World War II-era paramilitary groups by saying the new program should “combine the best practices of civilian service with the best aspects of military service,” while establishing “campuses” that serve as “operational headquarters,” complete with “superintendents” and “uniforms” for all participants. It allows for the elimination of all age restrictions in order to involve Americans at all stages of life. And, it calls for the creation of “a permanent cadre” in a “National Community Civilian Corps.”

But that’s not all. The bill also calls for “youth engagement zones” in which “service learning” is “a mandatory part of the curriculum in all of the secondary schools served by the local educational agency.”

Gosh, what kind of education do you think they will get at these camps? Maybe global warming hysteria lessons which will be used to incite them to watch their friends and parents to make sure they aren’t “carbon criminals.” After all, Obama wants to enforce a cap and trade program that is designed to punish energy companies and other industrial factories. And they will of course be forced to pass the costs along to you, driving oil prices back up, gas prices over $4 a gallon again. Maybe $5 or $6 or even $8 a gallon like it is in Europe. In other words, it will cause a loss of more jobs and hurt the economy way more than it is now. He still looks brilliant to you?

Well, let’s add the latest genius move. The so called “Food Safety Act” which would punish small farmers by putting them under a mountain of byzantine regulations that would shut them down. And punish people who try to grow their own food with million dollar fines. This will make people reliant on big agri-corporations and restrict or ban people from trying to support themselves.

Obama’s government is going for the most extreme kinds of control over financial, auto, energy and agriculture companies. Either through their bailouts which come with strings, or new autocratic laws.

How is he supposed to save the economy by making it worse exactly? Is this his brilliant plan?

Who can forget all those dopey celebrities singing songs about how great Obama is. I’ve never seen such a creepier bunch of dolts in my life. All those Internet videos of singing children who looked like they were auditioning for Kim Jong II. Guess what, chumps? You’ve been played. If Obama does one good thing, he’ll prove that race doesn’t matter. Politicians are their own hideous species.

The last two months feels like a  “re-imagining” of 1984 with “meet cute” moments. He’s the product of the so called  “smart people.” The culture mavens who have talk shows where they claim to tell us what’s “really going on” through their alleged jokes that sound more like desperation with a laugh track. Of course, nowadays they don’t use canned laughter. They just collect a studio full of ideologues who laugh on cue. It’s the bland leading the bland.

The media was shoving Obama down everyone’s throats last year. And now we see what a great choice he was. This is a man with little experience and no accomplishments other than getting elected to higher positions every time he gets a job.

The next time a bunch of celebrities want to sing you a song about their great leader,  bring a bunch of rotting vegetables to throw at them.


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Posted Mar 30th 2009 at 12:33 pm in Media Criticism, Politics | 121 Comments