well, I just hope he's on the wrong track.
The bill for cradle-to-grave welfare has come due.
The
president of the United States came to Osawatomie, Kan., last week to
deliver a speech of such fascinating awfulness archeologists of the
future sifting through the rubble of our civilization will surely doubt
whether it could really have been delivered by the chief executive of
the global superpower in the year 2011.
“This isn’t about class warfare,” declared President Obama. Really?
As his fellow Democrat Dale Bumpers testified at the Clinton impeachment
trial, “When you hear somebody say, ‘This is not about sex,’ it’s about
sex.” The president understands that “Wall Street,” “banks,” “fat
cats,” etc. remain the most inviting target and he figures that he can
ride the twin steeds of Resentment and Envy to reelection and four more
years of even bigger Big Government. His opponents, he told us, “want to
return to the same practices that got us into this mess . . . . And
their philosophy is simple: We are better off when everybody is left to
fend for themselves and play by their own rules . . . . It doesn’t work.
It has never worked.” He blamed our present fix on “this brand of
‘you’re on your own’ economics.”Read the rest here...
