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Obama Is Depressing
3 March 2008So sayth The Economist Magazine. An internationally respected magazine published in Britain. And they don’t know why, “Americans still, on the whole, live lives of astonishing affluence”.
Ah, the politics of Fear and Loathing. 
It has taken me a while to figure out Obama’s appeal, I listen to his speeches and they do nothing for me, I am left dumb founded looking at the masses who worship their new savior. Frankly they creep me out.
It took an European website to clarify the message, Obama is a “Euro-Socialist”, now it is clear. The youth and Kumbaya wing of the Democrat party have always been easily seduced by the sweet whisperings of socialist jargon or state planning, for what Obama is proposing is nothing short of government intervention in private enterprise.
Read the Patriot Employer Act or the Comparable Worth Act and tell me these proposed laws don’t have government intervention as their heart and soul? With a few quick mandatory laws all will made right and our place in the world will be restored.
Economist: Mr Obama advertises himself as something fresh, hopeful and new. But on economic matters at least he, like Mrs Clinton, has begun to look a rather ordinary old-style Democrat.
Protectionism and socialism go hand in hand. Socialism can not work in a free trade environment, hence the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain, what is protectionism but a wall of laws and border guards? Socialism is fragile and does not hold up against cross border free trade, people vote with their wallets and don’t like to spend more even if it means a lofty grand social goal is funded.
One point Obama is not talking about is how many of those Ohio jobs went to fellow Americans in Alabama and other southern states.
Today Obama and Clinton rail against trade with other countries, if one of them does get in to power and some how manages to enact protectionist laws, they will be forced to turn their attention to “unfair” competition between states. As long as states are allowed to compete on the basis of taxes and business friendly laws the “Ohio’s” of the USA will continue to exist. They will be forced to extend their protectionist policies internal to the US and try to prevent state to state competition. Only then will we all be equal, miserably equal.
Another point worth making, both Clinton and Obama talk of restoring our place in the world, if we enact protectionist measures we will be withdrawing from the world stage and we will hurt other countries especially developing countries in-measurably. Tell us how this will increase America’s world stature?
As the Democratic contest continues, it is becoming a race to the bottom on protectionism. Perhaps the best trade demagogue will win, but someone should point out that the last President who tried to govern as a protectionist was Herbert Hoover. It didn’t turn out so well.–WSJ editorial board
It could work, if that protectionist wall encircled a large enough slice of economy, large enough to be totally self sufficient and immune from outside influence. But that has never happened.
The American economy has never been that Imperial, not even in the 50’s and 60’s. The simplest example would be food, we can’t grow coffee is one example. We have always imported. No country on earth could be totally isolationist. Russia had to steal technology from the West just to stay within shouting distance of the West militarily. Eventually trying to keep up bankrupted Russia. It failed, as it always has. Been there, done that.
To import means you must export. To successfully export you must offer a good or service at a price and quality level that someone will buy, hence you must compete. Russia tried to solve that problem with their vassel states of East Germany, Poland etc..
There is no denying that for some middle-class Americans, the past few years have indeed been a struggle. What is missing from Mr Obama’s speeches is any hint that this is not the whole story: that globalisation brings down prices and increases consumer choice; that unemployment is low by historical standards; that American companies are still the world’s most dynamic and creative; and that Americans still, on the whole, live lives of astonishing affluence.
The message of hope has turned awfully dark, with hues of totalitarianism.
I leave you with a quote from the “the dissident frogman“.
It’s always difficult to convey to an American audience the truly ghastly nature of these tax and control freaks because America never had to endure them at home (thank God for that) even though she consistently fought them abroad, and, well, Americans do tend to take Freedom for granted sometimes (bless you for that, though).
Unless you’ve lived under the rule of these totalitarians their deep and distinctive blend of oppression, built upon centuries of “refinement” (blossoming with the French Revolution, that set both the modern standard and the roots of State terror and coercion of the citizenry) is truly hard to fathom (and yes, you can praise the Lord, for this particular ignorance is nothing short of bliss).
The Dissident Frogman’s website is hosted in America, he can’t host his free speech website in France, additionally his identify is unknown.
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