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Despite His Pledges at the Economic Summit,
Obama Again Pushes America toward Greek Model
It isn’t often that the four loudest and most popular of the Conservative voices in the American media -- Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly (the last three found on Fox News Channel but everyone’s heard of Limbaugh and knows how to find him) align themselves with each other and with the most able of all conservative voices, Ayn Rand. Rand,** as best expressed in her two micro-scopic masterpieces “Anthem” and “The Virtue of Selfishness” is the most logical voice and the most consistent with the intent of the founding fathers as expressed in their longer masterpiece: the U.S. Constitution and their micro-masterpiece the Bill of Rights (the first ten amendments to the Constitution).
Statism and collectivism were anathema to Rand who grew up in Czarist Russia and then endured the Bolshevik Revolution in October, 1917, and the Communist takeover that followed as the Soviet Union was formed. Rand predicted the ultimate demise of the Soviet Union but died about a decade before the full denouement with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact nations, and the disintegration of communism itself.
Had Rand been alive today she would have been pointing long ago at Greece with its top-heavy bureaucracy and glorification of unions as the next big focal point for collectivist excess and destruction . . . and presumably she would have pointed a very sad finger at Spain in 1997-98 when that country with perhaps the freest most open and booming economy in the world (and only 3% unemployment) moved toward grand statism by adopting green-technology a half-century ahead of its time. Today’s Greece and today’s Spain, with its 21% unemployment would have proven her once again to be one of Rudyard Kipling’s “Gods of the Copybook Headings.”
Perhaps nothing would have angered the grand defender of individual rights and of capitalism (another famous book of hers was “Capitalism the Unknown Ideal”) as much as the law suit against Arizona,^^ the repeated Obama effort at drilling moratoriums and the present Harry Reid effort to ram to ram the Police and Firefighters Monopoly Bargaining Bill (S. 3194) through the Senate this week. These are clearly among the most Greek like of all the Obamanation abominations. Reid has even proposed making the union abomination an attachment to bills to fund the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, talk about a travesty! If you want all states to become California and the nation to become a long-sight worse than Greece, support Harry Reid. If you think that America’s worth saving e-mail your senator and tell them to knock off the crap! With liberty and justice$$ for all . . . .
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
** rather than in her more famous bumbling-masterpieces “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead” (brevity is indeed the soul of wit and no one should need to read 1137 and 952 pages respectively to finish philosophical novels virtually without plot) Rand is a far better encapsulator of freedom’s demands than she is a fiction-writer
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