Can America Survive Obama?

Can America Survive Obama?
Truth and Righteousness - cinops be gone - Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012

A modern-day de Tocqueville views America with great love - and great alarm
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, high priest of climate skepticism, advised Prime Minister Thatcher… was editor of the Catholic paper The Universe, managing editor of the Telegraph Sunday Magazine …[p. 45-6 in “Whistle Blower” October, 2012]

“The biggest vested interest of them all is not big media, big banks or big oil. It is big government. Wherever big government has been tried, it has expensively failed. Now, as the outstanding researched book “Fool Me Twice” thoughtfully reveals, Mr. Obama is going to try it again - the triumph of “hope-and-change” over experience.

“He is going to decide who gets paid what. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Edward Heath, as inflation raged in Britain in the mid-1970s as an inevitable result of his openly Socialist policy of ordering all employers to pay their workforce more every few months, announced the creation of a Relativist Board to decide whether a nurse was worth more than a bank director (a question expecting the answer Yes), or a Peer of a Realm was worth more than a movie star (ditto, and we’re better actors, too).

“Heath’s fatuous nanny-know-best approach was binned when he was flung from office after only four years as prime minister. But Obama’s malevolent policy advisers are planning to do what Health failed to do - unless Obama is flung from office after only four years as president.

“Democracy - or at least you Founding Fathers hoped it would be - the curse of vested interest and the guarantor of the general interest. It has not worked out that way. The late Milton Friedman won his Nobel Prize for Economics for his work demonstrating that any activity carried out by the State costs twice as much & produces half as much as the same activity in private sector.

“One corollary of the Friedman Multiple is that very time a politician announces that taxpayers’ money will be spend on “creating jobs,” in net terms he will in fact be destroying just as many jobs as he says he is “creating.” Remember that next time you hear a politician or bureaucrat say he is “creating jobs.”

“Fried man also pointed out that democracy would fail once the spending of the governing class exceeded one-quarter of national output, because too many people would have their snouts in the taxpayer’s pocket. Just as turkeys do not vote for Christmas, so the growing army of beneficiaries

of the State will vote for whichever party will give them more sweeties from the taxpayer over the next four-year term. And that means the Socialist, Communism, Democrats…

“Your great nation, which I love dearly, was founded 232 years before Mr. Obama moved Churchill’s bust out of the White House as an indication of his activistic hostility to the West. In those 236 years, various federal governments accumulated around $11 trillion in debt.

“Obama - who entered office saying he would sort our the debt problem - has increased that 236-year debt by well over half in just three years… Your are years - perhaps months - away from national bankruptcy and the disorder it will bring…

“Contrast Obama’s approach with that of Margaret Thatcher. As soon as she took office in 1979, she asked how much Britain owed to other nations. Within two years, she paid it all back, because sovereign nations cannot remain sovereign to the extent that it is in debt to other nation…                                         

“In Britain, where our governing class has given away our democracy, to the atheistic-humanist, bureaucratic-centralist tyranny by clerk that is the hated European Union, we look to the United States to preserve not merely the ideal but the reality of true democracy… Your dangerously growing national debt puts your very survival as a nation in grave doubt. If your fail, the West fails.

George H. Kubeck