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Obama Wars Title: Barack Obama = Jimmy Carter? Barack Obama = Jimmy Carter? By Jon Kraushar Published June 08, 2010 | FOXNews.com Print Email Share Comments (23) Text Size It’s rare that President Obama acknowledges a viewpoint other than his own. So it’s worth examining the significance of a statement he made last week in his speech about the economy at Carnegie Mellon University. The president said, “But to be fair, a good deal of the other party's opposition to our agenda has also been rooted in their sincere and fundamental belief about the role of government.” A sincere and fundamental belief about the role of government regarding the economy is exactly what differentiates President Obama from his critics. The president believes that government’s proper role is to intervene in and usurp control of America’s economy. From that belief Obama has brought us the government takeovers of General Motors and Chrysler; government bailouts of Wall Street, banks, AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; government stimulus spending on a massive scale; government federalization of health care, impending government tax increases on income, capital gains, dividends and small businesses; and government debt of officially more than $13-trillion -- a growing figure that the International Monetary Fund says will surpass the nation’s gross domestic product in 2012. At various times, the spending and debt involved in all of this government intrusion has been called “unsustainable” by the heads of the Congressional Budget Office, the Federal Reserve, and the president’s own Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Yet, incredibly, in his speech Obama described these “dramatic and unpopular steps” as “reforms that will make our economy stronger and our businesses more competitive—reforms that will make health care cheaper, our financial system more secure, and our government less burdened with debt.” In his speech, Obama claimed that, “I've never believed that government has all the answers. Government cannot and should not replace businesses as the true engine of growth and job creation.” But look at growth and job creation with government playing the role that Obama insists on: - Employment in federal jobs has skyrocketed since his election while private sector unemployment is at 9.7%. - In May, 90% of new hires were temporary government census workers. - Nearly one out of five Americans is only working part-time while seeking full-time work. - Using federal statistics, USA Today found that the average federal worker earns 77% more than the average private sector worker. If the president’s sincere and fundamental belief about the role of government prevails, he will have, in just a few years, gone from a community organizer in Chicago to a community reorganizer of the American economy, way of life, and role in the world. In his speech, Obama referred to “the last administration” (George W. Bush is the president’s economic voodoo doll) to disparage it for its vision of “the ownership society.” Obama said, “what it essentially means is that everyone is on their own.” Actually, the interpretations of “the ownership society” include allowing people—rather than government—ownership of more of their hard-earned money and their choices about health care, retirement savings and the education of their children. That appears to offend Obama, who prefers “the ownership society” to mean “ownership by government.” Some critics of the president’s speech said it reminded them of what was dubbed the “malaise speech” by President Jimmy Carter in 1979. Let’s look at the bigger picture. The actual title of Carter’s speech was “A Crisis of Confidence.” Carter said, “The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America.” Carter added, “Our people are losing that faith, not only in government itself but in the ability as citizens to serve as the ultimate rulers and shapers of our democracy. Looking for a way out of this crisis, our people have turned to the Federal Government and found it isolated from the mainstream of our Nation's life. The gap between our citizens and our Government has never been so wide. The people are looking for honest answers, not easy answers; clear leadership, not false claims and evasiveness and politics as usual.” The apt comparison between Obama’s speech on the economy and Carter’s is that “a crisis of confidence” persists today. There is the same anxiety that in Barack Obama we have another Jimmy Carter—a self-righteous ideologue who is in over his head, championing policies that are not only unpopular but also destructive. What worked with Carter will work with Obama: Americans must begin by voting his supporters out of office, and then follow that up by making him a one-term president
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#12. To: Badeye (#0)
You sure attract trolls. Same bunch that was discussing the Belmont 3 days after the race, it's history by then. It's not like Barbaro breaking down. One of the few benefits of living in MD is the Naval Academy is in Annapolis and attracts ex-military from everywhere, not that that's always good. I posted probably on ElPee or FR about a call to the Tom Marr show 3 or 4 years ago from an officer at the academy who was there when Jimmy Carter was graduating. He said the clown was so stupid they didn't know where to assign him after graduation. Guess that's why they stuffed him in a sub. The caller had to be in his mid-80s or older, obviously he was older than Carter. I wish I had the audio from that call, I would love to put it on Youtube. I probably dumped that post on ImStillRight on ElPee who was in the Navy. I had to work around these dogs in Annapolis from all branches of the service. Their experience is a mile wide and an inch deep, they should stick to what they know because if they have to figure anything technical out it ain't gonna happen. ISR stopped posting on ElPee sometime after I got on his case. He was too f'in stupid to know that hydro power is dependent on the difference in height of the inlet to the outlet and not the water flow.
What do you have against chatting on an internet chat site. Are you too stupid to use the ignore thread option? Talk about a poster who adds absolutely nothing to a site. But at least it beats your haggard and worn spin of Goldi when she turned down your advances at the water cooler.
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