Posted by
Dennis Pemberton on Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:23:56 AM
As the election nears and the economic crisis in the United States worsens, with a long hard recession predicted, the tax and spend policies of Barack Obama seem out of touch, misguided, and quite dangerous. I can't even count the zeros on the programs he listed in the debate as part of his plan to lead America out of this crisis.
But, for the oft talked about, but little known about candidate, perhaps its time we started putting more money into his pocket by purchasing his pair of memoirs so we can really open our eyes to Obama's plan for our country.
The Messianic images seem quite forgotten now, but the masses, more than ever, are looking for someone to lead them out of their over-mortgaged homes, and out of their overwhelming credit card debt, providing them with free government services to free up more money for necessities like cell phones with unlimited calling and texting, high speed internet, and new HD televisions. Perhaps Obama is the one to lead them out of this economic crisis and to a place where overwhelming obligation is replaced with acceptance that everyone is in the same boat and it isn't their fault that they have no savings, high bills, and a new Prius in the garage.
To Obama, a recession isn't a crisis. For he has romantic notions about the affect a recession or depression will have on our country. I recall having those romantic notions as a college student. Waxing poetic with my friends as we walked to class, discussing how a depression would be good for this country - - it would bring people together and teach them values. Back then, though, I was a stupid college student and a Democrat. But, Barack was a grown up, a lawyer, when he penned these words: "[e]ven the trauma of bank failures and farm foreclosures seemed romantic when spun through the loom of my grandparents' memories, a time when hardship, the great leveler that had brought people close together, was shared by all." Dreams from my Father, pg. 4.
So, why isn't Obama willing to cut any of his massive billion dollar socialist programs in light of a looming recession, because a recession or a depression would further Obama's political agenda. In a depression, people wouldn't notice as much the giant vacuum sucking money from those who make over $250,00.00 per year and giving it to others because "the great leveler" would be at work also and Obama is depending upon his oratory skills and race to keep the negative focus off his socialist programs and onto "the great leveler" that George Bush created.