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good article, and all so TURE.
Its the one resource Obama is not interested in developing.
by John Hayward
01/26/2011
Christiane Amanpour of ABC News declared President Obamas State of the Union speech to be very Reaganesque. Once again, Amanpour treats ABC viewers to the kind of insightful analysis they could expect from an extraterrestrial who landed on Earth yesterday. Is it really so hard for ABC to find an anchor who knows the first thing about Ronald Reagan?
Let me tell you something about Reagan, Ms. Amanpour: he was a great believer in liberty, and that was nowhere to be found in the halls of Congress last night.
One of Reagans most famous and witty lines was, Governments view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it. Obama spoke expansively of doing all three in his State of the Union address.
The President who spoke last night has a rapturous faith in the power of Big Government programs, going as far comparing them to the engine in an overloaded airplane. Reagan said that concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Barack Obama is, without question, an advocate of concentrated power, and thus an enemy of liberty. He may sincerely believe his statist agenda is best for the people he governs, but he wants to govern them intensely.
If he makes good on the proposals in his State of the Union speech, Americans will be compelled to subsidize green programs they would not willingly invest in. Obama says he wants to put a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015. Americans will not buy a million electric vehicles unless they are heavily subsidized in other words, other people are forced to pay for them. We will be permitted choices only within a narrow range that conforms to Obamas ideology. Some folks want wind and solar, he cheerfully allowed. Others want nuclear, clean coal, and natural gas. What about the people who just want to fill their car with affordable gas, so they can drive to work?
Fresh billions will be pumped into infrastructure projects selected by the central government, and paid for by everyone, rather than being chosen and financed by the local people who actually use them. The last trillion-dollar stimulus included billions for high-speed rail, but the governors of Ohio and Wisconsin rejected those plans, because they didnt make sense in their areas. The Obama Administration would not allow them to spend the money on transportation needs they did identify. It was shipped off to other states instead.
Massive rail projects are an expression of control over liberty. Those trains will go only where the government wants them to go. There is very little room for innovation, or for small companies to discover and exploit opportunity. The internal combustion engine is one of the greatest innovations in personal liberty ever devised. Of course statists despise it.
read it all.
Liberty Was Silent Last Night - HUMAN EVENTS
Its the one resource Obama is not interested in developing.
by John Hayward
01/26/2011
Christiane Amanpour of ABC News declared President Obamas State of the Union speech to be very Reaganesque. Once again, Amanpour treats ABC viewers to the kind of insightful analysis they could expect from an extraterrestrial who landed on Earth yesterday. Is it really so hard for ABC to find an anchor who knows the first thing about Ronald Reagan?
Let me tell you something about Reagan, Ms. Amanpour: he was a great believer in liberty, and that was nowhere to be found in the halls of Congress last night.
One of Reagans most famous and witty lines was, Governments view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it. Obama spoke expansively of doing all three in his State of the Union address.
The President who spoke last night has a rapturous faith in the power of Big Government programs, going as far comparing them to the engine in an overloaded airplane. Reagan said that concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Barack Obama is, without question, an advocate of concentrated power, and thus an enemy of liberty. He may sincerely believe his statist agenda is best for the people he governs, but he wants to govern them intensely.
If he makes good on the proposals in his State of the Union speech, Americans will be compelled to subsidize green programs they would not willingly invest in. Obama says he wants to put a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015. Americans will not buy a million electric vehicles unless they are heavily subsidized in other words, other people are forced to pay for them. We will be permitted choices only within a narrow range that conforms to Obamas ideology. Some folks want wind and solar, he cheerfully allowed. Others want nuclear, clean coal, and natural gas. What about the people who just want to fill their car with affordable gas, so they can drive to work?
Fresh billions will be pumped into infrastructure projects selected by the central government, and paid for by everyone, rather than being chosen and financed by the local people who actually use them. The last trillion-dollar stimulus included billions for high-speed rail, but the governors of Ohio and Wisconsin rejected those plans, because they didnt make sense in their areas. The Obama Administration would not allow them to spend the money on transportation needs they did identify. It was shipped off to other states instead.
Massive rail projects are an expression of control over liberty. Those trains will go only where the government wants them to go. There is very little room for innovation, or for small companies to discover and exploit opportunity. The internal combustion engine is one of the greatest innovations in personal liberty ever devised. Of course statists despise it.
read it all.
Liberty Was Silent Last Night - HUMAN EVENTS
