All politicians lie, but our president has raised the deception bar to heights heretofore unseen. He doesn’t believe in bigger government. 95% of Americans will see their taxes cut. He will veto any bill with earmarks. In the new era of responsibility only the wealthiest 2% of Americans will pay for the sweeping changes in health care, green energy and education. The sad thing is that it may be too late to do anything about his failure to “walk the talk.”
Is our president’s penchant for falsehood intentional or just a series of innocent mistakes?Charles Krauthammer’s column in Real Clear Politics pretty well sets it out. Obama is following Rahm Emanuel’s rule one, “you never want to let a serious crisis go to waste.” He and his Reid-Pelosi team are intentionally lying to the American public. The consequences will likely be horrific.
The logic of Obama’s address to Congress went like this:
“Our economy did not fall into decline overnight,” he averred. Indeed, it all began before the housing crisis. What did we do wrong? We are paying for past sins in three principal areas: energy, health care, and education — importing too much oil and not finding new sources of energy (as in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Outer Continental Shelf?), not reforming health care, and tolerating too many bad schools.
The “day of reckoning” has now arrived. And because “it is only by understanding how we arrived at this moment that we’ll be able to lift ourselves out of this predicament,” Obama has come to redeem us with his far-seeing program of universal, heavily nationalized health care; a cap-and-trade tax on energy; and a major federalization of education with universal access to college as the goal.
Amazing. As an explanation of our current economic difficulties, this is total fantasy. As a cure for rapidly growing joblessness, a massive destruction of wealth, a deepening worldwide recession, this is perhaps the greatest non sequitur ever foisted upon the American people.
via RealClearPolitics – Articles – Deception at Core of Obama Plans.