What Old is New Again in Obama’s America
In yesterday’s New York Times, P-E Obama said this:
“There are no quick or easy fixes to this crisis, which has been many years in the making,” Mr. Obama said Saturday. “And it’s likely to get worse before it gets better.
“But January 20th is our chance to begin anew, with a new direction, new ideas and new reforms that will create jobs and fuel long-term economic growth.”
Yet his “new direction” and “new ideas” reek of old stuff that already failed once pretty badly.
“We’ll be working out the details in the weeks ahead,” Mr. Obama said, “but it will be a two-year, nationwide effort to jumpstart job creation in America and lay the foundation for a strong and growing economy. We’ll put people back to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, modernizing schools that are failing our children, and building wind farms and solar panels, fuel-efficient cars and the alternative energy technologies that can free us from our dependence on foreign oil and keep our economy competitive in the years ahead.”
Sound familiar? It should if you’re familiar with the alphabet soul of government agencies that FDR got going in the 1930s to ostensibly bring us out of the Great Depression. In reality, these programs helped keep us mired there until the outbreak of World War II.
New ideas? Only if you’ve never read a history book.
I’m wondering how, exactly, this makework program is going to get support. Are the people who may lose their relatively high-paying jobs in the financial or auto industries going to be smacking their lips at the chance to work on a road crew in the hot sun or the dead of winter or toil in the Green Fields of Obama’s Wind Farms. Is this really the hope that Barack Obama wants the American worker to have – that if they lose their job, the only hope of a job they’re going to have is one of backbreaking labor to create a new progressive utopia?
Or will they figure out, after a couple months, that the reason these jobs are the only ones they can get is because their President has taxed the life out of private industry and has driven them out of the country?
I don’t think it’s going to take P-E Obama a long time to learn that one of the big reasons there is no socialist utopia today is because the proletariat gets pretty darned tired of doing scut work while the ruling class bleeds their paychecks dry.
Other Posts of Interest:
- Barack the “Control Rod” Socialist
- Barack Obama Channels Karl Marx in St. Louis
- Hey Dems! How About Some Congressional Hearings on this Financial Mess?
Category: President Barack Obama, The Economy and Your Money, The Rise of the Nanny State
