Patty wrote:
"The presidents view of spending, deficits and debt is not merely Keynesian theory run amok. Its origins and objectives are far more terrifying. Where the traditional Democratic playbook for economic downturns was provided by Keynes and first made policy by FDR, the Obama template comes straight from Saul Alinsky.
Alinsky, the father of community organizing, hails from the presidents Chicago and is revered by todays fashionably leftist university faculties. His 1971 Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals distills and updates Karl Marxs Das Kapital for the 20th century, as a how-to manual for exploiting the darker corners of human nature. Alinsky repackaged such Marxian terms as bourgoisie and proletariat into 20th century American idiom as Haves, Have Nots and Want Mores.
More ominously, Alinsky advises identifying an enemy and elevating and manipulating symbols to better unite and direct the passions of the community to be organized. Even worse, he addresses the central question of civil society do the ends justify the means? only in the context of goal-setting. Moral absolutes appear to have no place in his system, only controlling the political process matters without regard to the sanctity of the individual, the rule of law, and the rights of those who disagree.
In that context, the Presidents own statements and economic policies compel some alarming conclusions. Namely, that bloated federal spending does not serve the classic Keynesian purpose to ameliorate and ultimately end economic slumps inherent in free-market economies. Rather, it is an extension of Alinskys construct: to sharpen and exploit those downturns as means to achieve the objectives of the organizer.
Chronic deficits, massive increases in the national debt, and persistent joblessness are part of President Obamas plan for the transformation of America. You read that right: they are not a problem, but rather necessities as part of a broader plan to make America conform to their notion of fairness. That America will be much poorer overall and that a far greater percentage of her people dependent on the government, which is a success in their eyes.
Just what does the destruction of economic growth and opportunity create for Mr. Obama and his allies?"
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The American Economic train has been slowing for years under a concentrated effort to derail it. We just didnt see the whole picture for what it was . We were being distracted to side shows to "not see it " . Social reform will be the outcome of stopping the American Economic train.