Militant Libertarian

A friend posted this on facebook and I shared it with SUFA.  I find it to be racist and offensive.  I don’t have friends that object to Obama because of his skin color.  I know people who support him strictly because of his race, but that is another topic.  Someone responded to my friends post,

I did not expect that comment!  Bravo, bravo!  I don’t agree with your political beliefs, but I respect the honest, forthright answer.  We could at least have a conversation that would have real meaning.  But could we have the same conversation with our president or most of his progressive followers?  Is he a socialist?  He and his American followers say no but a supermodel seems to think otherwise.  Is she judging him on his looks?  Would make sense for a model to focus closely on how a person looks, their appearance and attractiveness.

I expected you to deny he was/is a socialists.  I expected you to blame the deficit on tax cuts and ignore record spending.  It’s hard to defend Bush’s spending record, which I don’t.  But how can anyone who attacked Bush on the economy and spending excuse Obama for the economy and spending?  Bush ran up the deficit in eight years.  Obama has surpassed him in only three.(2)  Any Obama supporters want to defend that?  If you try or even can defend that, I have a name for you, partisan.  I see you as not looking at what is right or wrong, but what is left and right.  And you have chosen sides like picking a sports team,  SOX fan until I die!  I think that’s OK in sports, but doesn’t work well in life and politics.  The Soviets and Chinese killed over 70 million in the name of the “Greater Good”.  Their leaders promised it would be worth the sacrifices later on, after everyone was equal.

Obama has made some promises and like others before him, failed to keep many.  Myself, I don’t care or mean to harp about  those he was wrong or nieve to make.  In many cases, he simply cannot fund/spend money as he would like without the agreement of both Congress and the Senate.  He wanted to spend more on cancer research, but could not get the support.  I don’t blame him for trying and failing on cancer.  I do blame him for promising to reduce the deficit and balance the budget, then submit a budget that achieves said balance and deficit goals some ten years after he’s out of office.(3)  I think Bush spent too much on the “War On Terrorism”, but let’s be honest, this was life and death.  Blame Bush for using 9/11 to incite the masses, but Congress and the Senate voted for the war.  That means we legally committed our solder’s to go in harm’s way.  That also means any person of conscience does not begrudge them whatever bullets or bandages they request.  Sure we get hosed sometimes like a MASH episode, draw a line thru the M16 and write pizza oven in and you will receive.  The thing is, Obama has spent, not on war, but on his agenda.  Oh, but thousands are dyeing in the streets of America. There is some truth to that, I remember Chicago had over 300 in its morgue, way more than they could processes.  They had to put two bodies in some coolers which broke some state laws but was mandated by other state laws.  Something about identifying/notifying and retaining the deceased body until efforts had been satisfied.  So to be very non-PC, how does ObamaCare fix the homeless or the drug addicts?  It has been US law that if they presented themselves to an emergency room, including the free ambulance ride, they would receive treatment.  Again, harsh reality, all the money in the world could not save Whitney Huston, Michael Jackson or Elvis.  So what are the visible results of Obama’s trillions of spending vs GWB’s trillions?  I’m still irritated (not surprised) at the thousands of dollars of increased health insurance costs I’ve paid since this came out, where are the promised “savings”?

The jobs-killing Obamacare law contains 20 new or higher taxes on American families and employers. Many of these tax increases fall on families making less than $250,000 — a direct violation of candidate Obama’s promise not to raise “any form” of taxes on these families. This Friday marks the second anniversary of Obamacare being signed into law. The Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments about the constitutionality of Obamacare next week.

Out of the 20 new or higher taxes in Obamacare, there are four that most hurt young adults and children. Every single one of these taxes violates President Obama’s “firm pledge” not to raise any form of taxes on families making less than $250,000.(oops, sorry, new ‘puter just erased instead of copied.  Source was the Daily Caller)

A sad truth to me, Obama did tell us what he hoped to do, the masses just heard what they wanted, with no thought to the cost.  I talk to a wide variety of people, and even the poor blacks are unhappy with the high gas prices.  They tell me they are not sure if they will vote for Obama again, or don’t answer.

Before catapulting to prominence, the president complained that thanks to constraints instituted by our Founders, “The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice.”  Obama’s justice ensures not that transactions are freely entered and fairly measured, but that bureaucrats enforce results fancied per the fluttering fashions of political correctness.

Still, most Americans would deny Obama’s Marxist outlook, mistaking the term’s meaning as synonymous with Stalin or Mao.  Marxist theory informed many of history’s most murderous tyrants, but Obama’s brand is the emasculated theorizing of the faculty lounge.  He neither intends similar mayhem nor has such means in our constitutional republic.

Further confusion revolves around textbook definitions as production remains primarily private.  We still exhibit generally free markets, although our economic liberty rapidly erodes. If socialism connotes complete public ownership of society’s productive infrastructure, and capitalism represents purely private property with minimal state interference, then few examples of either exist. (4)