Sunday, March 22, 2009

Obama's pogrom

Well, if there was ever any doubt of the Obama administration's attempt to bring socialism to our country, it's gone.

Your president, along with his angelic host in Congress and others like them who are anointed with superior wisdom and disdain for freedom, have effectively created a crisis and are continually reaping more power from it. Government over-regulates, forces businesses to make decisions based on artificial external stimuli (i.e. thwarts business activities or gives bad ratings if certain lending standards aren't met to the satisfaction of the regulators), makes the businessman out to be the villain, and gently collects more and more power as a gullible, uneducated, pitchfork-wielding public readily hands it over.

Now that the stimulus bait hasn't brought the world under his control, Obama has decided that he'll just go ahead and control executive pay with or without the leverage of federal assistance. This latest grab wasn't really such a stretch, though. After all, the Republicans, ostensibly the party of limited government, ran in '08 and decried the "predatory lenders" who went around holding guns to people's heads and forcing them to buy houses they couldn't afford. (All of that happened before the evil lenders stole the families' underwear, killed their pets, and ate their firstborn children.) Populist emotion overcame critical thinking, and an entire nation was defeated by a silly notion of prices and fairness that could have been debunked by knowledge gained in a sophomore-level economics class.

President Obama's demonization of business and subsequent war on capitalism are physically different from the European anti-semitism and pogroms in the Middle Ages, but ideologically they are quite similar. A certain group works with the resources available, its members are made out to be villains by the more irresponsible members of the proletariat and their populist leaders, and the group are punished for their success.

Obama and the other statists-whether they be Republican, Democrat, or other-share the blame for the persecution of an entrepreneurial minority, and responsibility for the massacre of freedom and prosperity is upon their heads.

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