Barack Obama’s New Deal v 2.0
The Anchoress was not remiss in noticing the Republicans taking the fight for a non-idiotic energy policy to Nancy Pelosi and her Merry Band of Scaredy Cats. IN the midst of her post, she dropped this:
Obama wants to give everyone $1,000 to buy heating oil this winter (I’m not clear on that, does “everyone” mean $1,000 to everyone, even in the sunbelt states, or just the folks who really need heating oil?) but I know here in NY $1,000 will not even fill my heating oil tank, and besides, I don’t want the government to give me $1,000 for heating oil…I want the government to help provide abundant oil supplies until all those alternative fuels are ready to go. I want my nation to be free of dependence on foreign oil, which every president and congress has talked about since the ’70’s but none has worked toward.
Yes, folks, that is nearly all of Barack Obama’s big energy plan. He wants to hand out more stimulus checks, the kind that his wife derided by suggesting that 600 bucks wasn’t good for anything but a pair of earrings not even a month ago. Except Obama’s check will be bigger – a thousand dollars – which means that maybe you can upgrade from a pair of earrings to maybe a nice bracelet or something.
So where’s Obama going to get all this money? Why he’s going to take it from oil companies for the next five years. Well, he says he’s going to take it from oil companies, but you and I know that’s now how it works. How it works is that the new tax he wants will take money from our pockets because those oil company profits he’s been eyeing with unbridled greed fuels our retirement packages and mutual funds. That new tax money is also going to come out of our hides because the oil companies will do what every single company since the beginning of time has done when costs rise – they raise prices to pass along the cost to the consumer. It’s a little thing that Barack Obama’s never heard of called basic economics.
But he thinks it’s a marvelous thing to take your money, run it through the laundering facility he calls a federal government, then give a small portion of it right back to you.
Oh, but he’s not done. He’s also going to send 50 billion dollars to state governments so that they can build more “infrastructure”. That ought to get a bunch more governors, some of whom will be voting for his nomination in Denver very soon, on his side, don’t you think?
Okay, so what do we have? Well, we have a confiscatory tax on businesses, a massive handout back to the public (after the government takes its chunk, of course), and a bunch of new government makework projects to “bring back jobs”. Does that sound familiar? It ought to. It’s the New Deal, the program hailed loudly by two of the most infamous names in world history as a model of how to subjugate the individual for the “greater good”.
I would hope that anyone who claims to love freedom to tell Barack Obama just where he can stick his New New Deal. It was a horrible descent into collectivism when it rolled out before World War II and it’s no less horrible when it’s all polished up and introduced by yet another charismatic leader.
Other Posts of Interest:
- Barack Obama Missed a Couple Islamists
- Obama is Grazed by Friendly Media Fire, Shrieks Like a Little Girl.
- Barack Decides that He Doesn’t Need All His Heartfelt Principles
Category: No More Tyrants, The Economy and Your Money, The Obamessiah, The Rise of the Nanny State
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