How did we get from Reagan's optimistic view of Americans as powerful, independent, spirited, gifted, moral, and hard-working individuals, to Obama's pessimistic message of weak, dependent, depressed, needy, depraved, and incapable masses? How did we go from America as a "Shining City on a Hill," to Obama's Dim Slum in a Depression? The President's gloomy rhetoric reminds me of the song on the old "Hee Haw" comedy show, "Gloom, despair, and agony on meeeee...deep, dark deeepressshhhun, excessive miseeerrrrry......If it weren't for baaaad luck, I'd have no luck at aaallll. . . Gloom, despair, and agony on meeeee!"
Reagan was a master at speaking the truth of our greatness, our citizens. Obama is a master of telling us lies that our greatness abounds in the bureaucratic central planners in Washington, D.C. Obama believes that only government can solve our economic problems. Reagan believed that government was the problem. Reagan believed in personal responsibility. Obama believes in government dependence. Reagan believed in the equal right of each person to obtain their own prosperity. Obama believes in equal poverty for all.
Reagan was a capitalist. Capitalism has produced massive prosperity, where a higher percentage of the population participates in wealth than any other country in the world's history. Obama leans more towards socialistic policies and "spreading the wealth". Socialism has been an abysmal failure wherever it has been utilized. Yet, President Obama, the polished trickster that he is, is blaming capitalism for our current economic doldrums, deflecting from the factual genesis of the problem.
The genesis of the economic crisis, the housing/mortgage crisis, or whatever terms or phrases you desire, was not a lack of government regulation. It was, in fact, caused by "do-gooders" in the federal government that had the possibly well-intentioned, utopian notion, that home ownership was a right and not a privilege. Leftist politicians tinkered with the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), meddling with free market and free enterprise, coercing banks to make mortgage loans to unqualified borrowers that previously would have been considered unqualified.
Then, the President demonizes the lenders, deflecting blame from crooked public figures like Barney "Fannie Mae" Frank and Chris "Countrywide" Dodd, using class-warfare to pit Americans vs. Americans. I find it ironic that as a candidate we were sold the bill of empty goods that Obama would, "Bring the country together," which we now know to be one of the many broken campaign promises of this young, but very active administration.
Americans: We are great without and in spite of the federal government. We are great because we've had the freedom to be great, and the government has interfered less than other governments in the world.
We were great before Barack Obama, and we are now great in spite of him. Don't allow the devious, deceitful promises of security, no matter how well spoken, to be a substitute for the freedoms generations of our predecessors fought and died for.
EXCELLENTLY written! I couldn't agree more. While he's a great orator, President Obama merely speaks what's written in a captivating way. However, underneath his shiny, slick exterior lives an enabler. If the nation were an alcoholic, we'd all continue killing by looking into the bottle because President Obama would enable us to do so.
ReplyDeleteThankfully, we ARE a nation of people who have stood on our own and succeeded without the government's interference.
It's unfortunate that we have a president and first lady who are not proud of this nation and all its people's accomplishments unless it was first orchestrated by them and given to the people.
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Angie,
ReplyDeleteThank you very much! You're analogy is exact. I appreciate your insight.
TheCapitalist
Hey Chuckleheads,
ReplyDeleteHave you read John Winthrop's speech from which Reagan so often quoted the "city on a hill" reference? If you read the whole of Winthrop's "A Model of Christian Charity" you'd realize it is far more socialistic than anything Obama proposes.
An American
Unfortunately, this is more of the same ignorant ranting from the right. Winthrop is a classic democratic socialist -- and Reagan loved him! Can you deny that these statements are not socialist:
ReplyDelete"They sold all, had all things in common, neither did nay man say that whcih he possessed was his own." or
We must be willing to abridge ourselves of our superfluities, for the supply of others' necessities. We must uphold a familiar commerce together in all meekness, gentleness, patience, and liberality. We must delight in each other; make others' conditions our own; rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, as me3mbers of the same body."
The City on the Hill is a socialist utopia.
I honestly think that most of these comments are one sided everyone expects the man to do what Jesus did in his day. He is only human, and he can't make all of his changes in one year. I think no one should draw conclusion until his term is up. Judging what he is doing now as a president is like judging an incomplete painting we don't know the end result. so we have to just wait and see.
ReplyDeleteObama human? He was sold to the American public as the "Messiah", or "The One". Of course he's human, but this is what happens when you over promise and under deliver. People bought into the "hope and change" rhetoric that has resulted unfathomable deficits, bailouts, phony, fraudulent "stimulus", attempt to socialize 17% of the economy (that it doesn't control), and literally tax air (cap and trade).
ReplyDeleteEven his supporters are onto him: http://www.myfreedompost.com/2010/01/another-obama-voter-with-buyers-remorse.html