President
Obama's policies continue to produce results that are the opposite of
what he promises, yet he brazenly cites the abysmal state of
his economy to announce -- indignantly -- that he will double down on his failures.
Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven -- notorious leftist professors
who devised a sinister plot to overburden the American economy to the
point of collapse and then replace it with a socialist system -- would
be quite proud of their understudy.
Obama's policies are drowning America in debt, unemployment, dependency
and despair, yet he blames us for his failures -- as if he's been an
innocent bystander -- and says he's going to ride to the rescue on his
unconstitutional horse of unilateral executive orders to restore
"equality" by fiat.
Even if Obama could get Congress to go along with his scheme to further
burden success, opportunity, small businesses and major producers in
this country and even if it were a desirable state of affairs for the
tyrannical hand of government to decide how assets and income are
divided among citizens, history conclusively shows that such socialist
and communist ideas lead to increased poverty.
Obama is probably going to cite a recent Pew Research Center poll that
supposedly indicates that most Americans want the government to take
action to reduce income disparities among Americans.
Even if we can take
this poll at face value, it doesn't necessarily mean Americans want
government just to confiscate wealth from some and transfer it to
others. But it wouldn't be that surprising if they did favor action
along those lines, given the left's 75-year systematic assault on
capitalism, the free market and our founding American principles.
But David Harsanyi, a senior editor of The Federalist, points out that
Obama is omitting a significant factor in the equation. Most Americans,
says Harsanyi, still believe in upward mobility, and empirical evidence
shows that upward mobility still exists as much as it did decades ago.
Though Obama and his fellow socialists want us to believe that the
American economy is a finite pie -- a zero-sum game -- the reality is
that people move up and down the income ladder all the time. Many of
yesterday's poor are today's middle class, and a significant number of
them are wealthy.
In fact, Obama's oppressive spending, taxing and regulation exacerbate
income inequality and impede upward mobility. The way out of our economy
malaise is to reduce the federal government's chokehold on the private
sector and producers, expand opportunity, increase the pie and unleash
the possibility of growth across the board.
Do people think America is invincible just because it is named America
or because of its unique constitutional guarantees of liberty through
limited government? Do they think that socialists can continue to
overburden the private sector, ignore our founding principles and
destroy our liberties without tragic economic consequences?
America has never been about guaranteeing equality of income; it's
about equality of opportunity.
That's because human beings are born with
God-given rights of liberty and because unleashing such liberties
invariably produces the most economic good for the most people.
These dangerous ideas that Obama keeps pounding to forcibly
redistribute income are anathema to the American dream, incompatible
with liberty and devastating to prosperity, no matter what Cloward,
Piven and Obama propagandize to the contrary. They are part of Obama's
big lie, and they have to be beaten back, with vigor.
It's time that Obama be held to account for his miserable failures. We
can't let him pretend he is not the primary causal agent in the ongoing
economic disaster we are experiencing in this country.
This is Obama's economy, and he's sapping the economic lifeblood from
this country, its businesses and its entrepreneurs. He has presided over
-- and caused -- the worst recovery in a half-century.
Actual
unemployment is frighteningly, horrifyingly high -- because of his
policies, with minorities being the hardest hit. He is destroying
America's health care system, driving people against their will out of
the private insurance system, severing people's ties to their doctors,
reducing their access to care, reducing their choices of care and
greatly increasing the individual cost of care and the cost to
government of health care. Everything about Obamacare has been a
premeditated Obama lie.
Before anyone listens to Obama about any major new policy initiatives,
he must be held to account for his homicide of the American health care
system and the critical injuries he's inflicted on the economy, as well
as a host of other failed policies he's engineered and false promises
he's made.
Sen. Ted Cruz is hardly being facetious with his suggestions that Obama
apologize in the State of the Union address for his Obamacare lies and
answer questions about Benghazi, the political targeting of conservative
groups by his Internal Revenue Service, and other abominations.
This time, the Republican establishment should not leave Cruz hanging
out by himself but join him in demanding accountability from President
Obama.
