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The
Cadillac of Bailouts
Long before the
Kennedy/Johnson era during a time when the Great Depression was
still fresh in the minds of most Americans, there was a commonly
used expression in my Brooklyn hood. It referred to rich do-gooders
who had chosen public service over continuing to do what they had
been doing with wealth they had acquired at birth and/or in the
private sector.
They called them
Limousine Liberals even when it was fashionable to be socio-fiscally
liberal. Then and now the alliterative phrase expresses the common
man's disdain for the hypocrisy of political preachers who ask us to
do what they say while ignoring what they do.
Shortly after the press
release of the photo and
description of his yet-to-be-pimped rolling fortress the
president-elect, speaking in Virginia at George Mason University,
clarified his philosophy of change better than he could have
dared to during the marathon dance around the May Pole of issues
that was his presidential campaign.
"It is true that we
cannot depend on government alone to create jobs or long-term
growth, but at this particular moment, only government
can provide the short-term boost necessary to lift us from a
recession this deep and severe. Only government can break
the vicious cycles that are crippling our economy -- where a lack of
spending leads to lost jobs which leads to even less spending; where
an inability to lend and borrow stops growth and leads to even less
credit.”
Slam, bang, done!
Once and for all we know
for sure exactly where the redistributed wealth will go. Not to
individuals who, arguably, could use some survival assistance, but
to a power base that will spread it around as it sees fit to lesser
power bases, governmental agencies and special business interests in
unprecedented amounts.
We now know, minus a few
small details that will accrue with the shifting of tides, exactly
what to expect from the most liberal/socialist president and
congressional majority ever seated. We thought, like Joe the
Plumber, that change would merely be about middle class families not
paying their fair share of taxes while folks with higher incomes did
all the heavy lifting.
Now we know that change
will make each and every one of us a slave to unchecked
free-spending liberals who, in the end, will be unable even to
account for the funds they have appropriated, borrowed and
squandered.
We also now know, by
virtue of the president-elect's sudden attack of honesty, that
only government will be responsible for making it worse. Not
necessarily because of the viscous cycles referred to in his speech
but because we know exactly what our liberal pre-Obama government --
a Republican president desperately in need of cooperation to fulfill
his primary obligation included -- did to create the current mess in
which we find ourselves.
Specifically, the credit
crisis that was the central theme of PEBO's latest oratory is the
single best example of government's malfeasance. Nonetheless, the
president-elect would have us believe that these same irresponsible
spenders plus a few new ones are our only chance for
survival.
The Limousine Liberal-in
Chief gets an American-made Caddy capable of rolling through the
worst hoods in the world unscathed. Meanwhile, he expects us to be
happy about the kinder, gentler way his administration will treat
known terrorists while they take care of their supporters in the
financial community who share their penchant for borrowing money.
They expect you to
carpool in a fuel-efficient import financed with American government
bailout money while they ride in fortified limousines and fly around
in perk jets financed by American's tax dollars.
Only government
can save us?
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