Another example of "Good Theater/Bad Theatre"? Just "White Hat versus Black Hat" showmanship?
I think not...... On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > January 1, 2013 **** > President Obama Will Never Have a Plan**** > > *By* *Christopher > Chantrill*<http://www.americanthinker.com/christopher_chantrill/> > **** > > Now I get it. I get the bone-deep mendacity of President Obama's politics. > Here is the money quote from from President Obama's *Meet the Press* > interview <http://www.politico.com/playbook/?ml=ti> on Sunday.**** > > GREGORY: "Would you commit to that first year of your second term getting > significant [entitlement] reform done?" ... **** > > OBAMA: "David, I want to be very clear. You are not only going to cut your > way to prosperity. One of the fallacies I think that has been promoted is > this notion that deficit reduction is only a matter of cutting programs > that are really important to seniors, students and so forth. That has to be > part of the mix, but what I ran on and what the American people elected me > to do was to put forward a balanced approach. To make sure that there's > shared sacrifice. ... And it is very difficult for me to say to a senior > citizen or a student or a mom with a disabled kid, 'You are going to have > to do with less but we're not going to ask millionaires and billionaires to > do more.'"**** > > You see what the president is doing here. He is preparing the battlefield > for the day, a year from now or a decade from now, when real entitlement > cuts cannot be kicked down the road for another day. He wants the > rank-and-file Democratic voter to be just as shocked and outraged on that > day as the Wisconsin demonstrators of 2011 and the Michigan union > demonstrators of 2012.**** > > You don't hear a peep out of the president about the need for a plan to > reform entitlements, and you never will. > Tweets<http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/12/30/and-its-biden-in-the-fiscal-cliff-home-stretch/>Sen. > Barbara Boxer (D-CA): "The latest unacceptable Republican offer would > mean more pain for the middle class, poor & seniors - and more giveaways to > the wealthiest." No context, no attempt to prepare Democratic voters for > the future. Just simple class warfare.**** > > The fact is, as the president and Sen. Boxer well know, the long-term > prognosis for the federal government's finances is lousy. And the reason is > the big entitlement programs. That's why I created > usfederalbudget.us<http://www.usfederalbudget.us/>, > Mr. President. I wanted any American with half a brain to be able to look > at today's government spending data and see that, out of the federal > government's total $3.8 trillion in spending this year, about $0.9 trillion > goes to government pensions and $0.9 trillion to government health care. > That's where the money is.**** > > The bottom line for you, Mr. President, ought to be this. When the money > runs out Democratic voters will get hurt the most. You'd think that you > would want to level with them, since you care about those moms and their > disabled kids so much.**** > > I have to admit, Mr. President, that I had an epiphany last week about > people like you while I was writing a chapter in my *American Manifesto*about > governments > as freebooters and government supporters as > freeloaders<http://www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo19_freebooters_and_freeloaders.html>. > I was thinking about the difference between the landed magnates, the ruling > class of the feudal era, and the educated class, the ruling class of the > welfare-state era. I reckoned that the landed warrior class was a natural > ruling class because, whatever their arrogance, their arms might protected > the peasants from looting by Vikings and neighboring states. But what makes > today's educated class so special?**** > > Then I figured it out. Back in the middle of the 19th century, things > were getting better for the poor for the first time ever, what with the > textile revolution and the railway revolution and steamships and all. But > suppose you were a political activist, thirsting for power and meaning. > What's the point of an economy that's delivering real improvement to the > working man, raising the poor out of indigence, and making national figures > out of textile and railroad barons, if it doesn't mean money, power, and > the love of beautiful women for people like you?**** > > That's when Karl Marx had his brilliant idea. Why not divide the masters > from the workers, and win votes from the workers by demonizing the masters > and plundering their wealth? Why not tell the capitalists "you didn't build > that"? Divide and conquer. What could go wrong?**** > > What could go wrong, Mr. President, is Reynolds's > Law<http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/160084/>. > "Things that can't go on forever, won't. Debt that can't be repaid, won't > be. Promises that can't be kept, won't be." What could go wrong is that the > educated ruling class would make a mess of everything it meddled with: > health care, pensions, education, housing, green energy, the dollar. For > what?**** > > Democratic politicians are never going to come up with an entitlement > reform plan and warn their senior voters and their moms with disabled kids. > When the Democratic voters are reduced to eating the paint off the walls, > they will want to be able to say that the Republicans did it.**** > > *Christopher Chantrill > (mailto:[email protected]<[email protected]>) > is a frequent contributor to **American Thinker**. See his > usgovernmentspending.com <http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/> and also > usgovernmentdebt.us <http://www.usgovernmentdebt.us/>. At > americanmanifesto.org <http://www.americanmanifesto.org/> he is blogging > and writing **An American Manifesto: Life After Liberalism**.***** > > > *Page Printed from: > http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2013/01/president_obama_will_never_have_a_plan.html > * at January 01, 2013 - 06:24:17 PM CST**** > > > > > > > > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
