Barack Obama: window breaker extraordinaire 2
December 7, 2008 – 6:36 pm by JohnFrom an Associated Press article:
President-elect Barack Obama said Saturday that he wants to revive the economy and create jobs by upgrading roads, schools and energy efficiency in a public-works program whose scale has been unseen since construction of the interstate highway system in the 1950s.He offered no price estimate for the grand plan, how the money might be divided or the effect on the country’s financial health at a time of burgeoning deficits.
The ideas were outlined in the weekly radio address the day after the government reported that employers cut 533,000 jobs in November, the most in 34 years. They are part of a vision for a massive economy recovery plan Obama wants Congress to pass and have waiting on his desk when he takes office Jan. 20.
The president-elect’s address never once used the word “spend,” relying instead on “invest” or “investments,” and pledging wise stewardship of taxpayer money in upgrading roads and schools, and making public buildings more energy-efficient.
“We won’t just throw money at the problem,” Obama said. “We’ll measure progress by the reforms we make and the results we achieve—by the jobs we create, by the energy we save, by whether America is more competitive in the world.”
Staggering arrogance. The absolute height of economic ignorance, megalomania, and disgust with the common man. You’ll measure progress by the results you achieve and the jobs you create? I fail to understand how you and your cronies know how to spend the people’s money better than the people do. I fail to see how the violence-backed decisions made by a few self-interested elected and unelected criminals can be in any way superior to the voluntary decisions and transactions made by hundreds of millions of self-interested people.
Several governors welcomed Obama’s economic plan.
I also recall reading that several governors were begging the Imperial Federal Government for a bailout of sorts, very recently. Take money from the central government’s big public pool of stolen revenue and distribute it to state governments according to their need. Maybe those same governors are using that same understanding of economics and those same firm moral principles when they laud this grand public-works sham.
As a part of the package, Obama said he wants to expand broadband Internet access in communities. “Here, in the country that invented the Internet, every child should have the chance to get online,” he said.
I guess I figured our new opportunistic, egalitarian, piece-of-shit president would keep his Soviet-style communism to himself until at least a little while after he took office, or until after our economy improved, lest the rest of us who aren’t blinded by our own ignorance and arrogance be able to garner a lot of support when we point out some problems with his new New Deal.
If you’d like to learn a little bit about the real world and find out how the Imperial Federal Government’s previous attempts at extending broadband internet service to poor and rural Americans turned out, read this.
These Statolatrist plans of Obama’s will only impoverish Americans further by increasing our taxes, increasing inflation, and diverting money, labor, and capital away from ventures the free market would deem efficient and into things that don’t suffer from competition and aren’t subject to economic calculation.
This is post #1 in the Obama failures category.
See also: Barack Obama: window breaker extraordinaire.
One Response to “Barack Obama: window breaker extraordinaire 2”
I have nothing to add, but a lot of swear words.
By AzraelsJudgement on Dec 8, 2008