good post, cw. and oh so true. On Feb 17, 6:52 am, Cold Water <[email protected]> wrote: > The Law Liberals Always Break > By C. Edmund Wright > > There's a law that liberals always shatter. (And no, I'm not talking about > tax law.) It's the law of unintended consequences. Actually it's not so much > liberals per se that break it so much as it seems liberal thinking by > definition always runs afoul of this law. Leftist policy always hangs itself > if given enough rope. > > The liberals now have the entire stage with a very liberal President, extreme > leftists in control of Congress, and the main stream media. Liberal failure > has nowhere to hide and no one to hide behind. So as the Obama > administration attempts to attack the country's economic woes, they find > themselves stepping in one pile of liberal policy do-do after another. You > might say that the left hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. The > world will have to watch as liberal policy for problem A destroys Obama goals > for problem B and so on. > > Consider: with Obama, Reid and Pelosi screaming for the country to accept a > ridiculous stimulus package to create jobs, jobs, jobs -- liberals in Chicago > are standing in the way of a Wal-Mart Super Center that would bring in > construction and retail jobs to the messiah's hometown. By the way, liberals > will also keep the lowest cost provider of food and clothes and home goods > from being accessed by hurting Chicagoans. > > The reason? The liberal principle of protecting union jobs at all costs. > Remember, behind every economic disaster is a powerful union. And sometimes a > community organizer. > > Which leads to another example. Union jobs at the big three auto makers have > been supported for years by the high priced and high profit SUVs and pick up > trucks. Of course, liberal environmentalists have long made the SUV a target, > while limiting domestic energy production. Greenies are doing everything they > can to destroy the SUV, and with it, many union jobs, and almost succeeded > during the last energy price spike. > > Oh, and should we mention the fact that those oil rig jobs that pay a ton of > money to mostly union members cannot be had here thanks to drilling > restrictions in this country? The Russians and Venezuelans send their > thanks to American liberals. > > But it gets better. This contradiction, which has been predictable for anyone > with some linear thinking ability, has escaped the minds of millions of > Michigan voters educated by the liberal-controlled public school system. They > have for decades voted for politicians illogically holding pro-green yet > pro-UAW positions simultaneously. Voters of that very liberal state have no > one to blame but themselves. They voted themselves out of an economy over a > period of years. This is the state where Obama went to pick up a good share > of his economic advisors. No wonder it is home to the Detroit Lions. > > Meanwhile, back in Washington and New York, liberals in Congress and in the > media are having a field day chastising corporations for buying jets, hiring > contractors to renovate posh office suites, and giving big bonuses to > executives. > > Well guess what? Buying jets, hiring upper end contractors and giving bonuses > stimulate the economy. It is job friendly. And that's what we need now, > right? Oops. More liberal fertilizer. Liberalism simply cannot get out of > its own way. Especially hurt is lefty New York, where the economy is reeling > from a number of factors. > > But of course, the liberal tenet of wealth envy is paramount to common sense. > And apparently, to jobs. Speaking of which, if you break down the Starbucks > corporate jet issue, it is especially delicious with unintended consequences. > > The coffee purveyor, you remember, was mercilessly raked across the media's > coals for taking delivery on a 45 million dollar jet while it was closing > stores and laying off barristas. So they cancelled the jet order. > > Think about that. Starbuck's deposit on the jet was lost, which is foolish > under any circumstances. Further, that jet is now back "on the showroom > floor" so to speak, reducing by one the need to manufacture such planes. So > to keep some "hamburger flipper" type jobs that liberals make fun of, many > high paying jet manufacturing jobs were lost. The only thing stimulating > about that equation is the Starbucks caffeine. > > And we could go on like this simply with stories from today's headlines. It's > a fact of life. Liberal policies in action always cave in on themselves. They > always have. > > Take liberal Neville Chamberlain and his appeasement of Hitler in the 30's. > We must have "peace in our time." How did that work out? It took a violent > victory, not a phony peace, to bring lasting peace. The peace effort led to a > stronger Hitler and ultimately millions more deaths than "war mongering" > policies would have led to. > > Look back at 9-11. Some thirty years of liberal policies regarding > intelligence gathering, intelligence sharing and prosecuting terrorists led > to an attack that killed three thousand Americans in, well, two of the > nations' most liberal cities. You cannot say this in polite company, but > statistically some 90% of the victims likely voted for the policies that led > to the dreadful day. Shhhhh. > > Think about abortion. The feminist movement has called this a women's issue. > It is defined as the ultimate right for women. Fine. The result? The most > likely fetus on the planet to be aborted is a female in China. That's > women's rights we can believe in, right? Talk about the circle of life -- er > -- death. > > Consider school choice. This issue is demagogued by the teachers' unions > above all else. These are unions who are obsessed with raising teacher pay. > What would be the teacher pay result of a broad school choice program? It > would be the equivalent of "free agency" for good teachers and > administrators. Think about what free agency has done for pay for athletes. > Another circular liberal firing squad in action. > > Take California's government cash meltdown. The main culprit is retiree > benefits for unionized government workers in the state. And of course, the > result is that current unionized government workers are being laid off, > furloughed and not hired. More liberal on liberal crime. > > And let's not forget Europe and their coddling of Islamists for decades. > Their payback is a near takeover of European society by gangs and street > violence, not to mention ridiculous rules and regulations in airports and > schools and other public places. > > Liberalism's failure is universal because liberalism embraces a false view of > human nature as perfectible, if only the right political arrangements exist . > And it would be funny, except that the consequences are so devastating to so > many people. And so often the victims are the very liberals the policy was > supposed to protect. > > The only good news is this: with liberal Democrats front and center on all > stages governmental now, they will be opposed by a much more formidable foe > than a Republican President and a Congress dying to just get along. They will > be opposed by the obvious truth of their bankrupt philosophy. > > Page Printed > from:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/02/the_law_liberals_always_break.... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
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