Vincent Fiore
Deconstructing America
By Vincent Fiore
As the Obama administration enters the fourth quarter of its — God help us — first year in office, a few things have become clear.
The president's foreign policy ventures are turning out to be as dangerous as was President Jimmy Carter's during his four years of futility in office.
But chiefly, Obama has gone about the business of deconstructing America, institution by institution.
Not satisfied with government owning and running free-economy icon's like G.M. and Chrysler, Obama's America takes over financial institutions when it can, insurance companies, and now, student loan programs.
As if the progressive infiltration of the public system-specifically grades K through 12-was not enough, now America's higher-education citadels will be under nearly complete economic control via a liberal Democratic Congress and its radical president.
One supposes' that the halls of higher-learning might react negatively (remember the sixties anti-establishment/anti-government takeover of college campuses?) to government's economic strong-arming, but then again, President Obama, like so many in Congress, is one of their own.
Of course, the fight continues to rage on over healthcare reform, or whatever other title one wishes to give it. This is, domestically, the seminal issue over which all others pale.
Today, the government controls a great many people through economic circumstances, as fewer and fewer Americans pay into the Federal income tax rolls yet more and more receive some type of government stipend.
How easy then to control the mass's-and the vote-via its very ability to cure itself?
It is not fringe-behavior to think that if ObamaCare ever becomes a full-blown reality, then nearly all activities relative to individual humanity will become scrutinized and deemed potentially hazardous to one's (Read as: The State) health.
It seems all too likely that this Congress will pass something regarding health care. As is numerically the case, the GOP cannot stop it. All that can effectively be done is to make sure that come the 2010 midterm elections, Republicans expound far and wide that The Democratic Party owns this legislation.
In 2010, there is really almost no question that the GOP will pick up seats in both chambers, although any gains realized in the Senate will be small compared to the House. At the very least, substantial pick-ups in the House and even minor ones in the Senate should put the brakes on President Obama's radical agenda.
Upon these gains, Republicans can look forward to the elections of 2012, and go about the task of taking back the country from Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and if he survives his Senate re-election bid, Harry Reid.
From his first day in office, until whenever it is that the numbers in Congress succumb to the popular will of the electorate-tilting toward the GOP and political sanity, Barack Obama goes about the business of deconstructing America, one constitutional building block at a time.
The real "shovel-ready" projects that the president spoke of earlier this year begin sometime after 2013, when the sweeping changes effected by American's voting out "hope and change" and its liberal supplicants instead turn to a more established road of governance.
Then, the GOP will have to go about the business-the people's business-of reconstructing America, a project that for the moment may seem far away, but thanks to country-first Americans getting active, has really already begun.
© Vincent Fiore
October 20, 2009
As the Obama administration enters the fourth quarter of its — God help us — first year in office, a few things have become clear.
The president's foreign policy ventures are turning out to be as dangerous as was President Jimmy Carter's during his four years of futility in office.
But chiefly, Obama has gone about the business of deconstructing America, institution by institution.
Not satisfied with government owning and running free-economy icon's like G.M. and Chrysler, Obama's America takes over financial institutions when it can, insurance companies, and now, student loan programs.
As if the progressive infiltration of the public system-specifically grades K through 12-was not enough, now America's higher-education citadels will be under nearly complete economic control via a liberal Democratic Congress and its radical president.
One supposes' that the halls of higher-learning might react negatively (remember the sixties anti-establishment/anti-government takeover of college campuses?) to government's economic strong-arming, but then again, President Obama, like so many in Congress, is one of their own.
Of course, the fight continues to rage on over healthcare reform, or whatever other title one wishes to give it. This is, domestically, the seminal issue over which all others pale.
Today, the government controls a great many people through economic circumstances, as fewer and fewer Americans pay into the Federal income tax rolls yet more and more receive some type of government stipend.
How easy then to control the mass's-and the vote-via its very ability to cure itself?
It is not fringe-behavior to think that if ObamaCare ever becomes a full-blown reality, then nearly all activities relative to individual humanity will become scrutinized and deemed potentially hazardous to one's (Read as: The State) health.
It seems all too likely that this Congress will pass something regarding health care. As is numerically the case, the GOP cannot stop it. All that can effectively be done is to make sure that come the 2010 midterm elections, Republicans expound far and wide that The Democratic Party owns this legislation.
In 2010, there is really almost no question that the GOP will pick up seats in both chambers, although any gains realized in the Senate will be small compared to the House. At the very least, substantial pick-ups in the House and even minor ones in the Senate should put the brakes on President Obama's radical agenda.
Upon these gains, Republicans can look forward to the elections of 2012, and go about the task of taking back the country from Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and if he survives his Senate re-election bid, Harry Reid.
From his first day in office, until whenever it is that the numbers in Congress succumb to the popular will of the electorate-tilting toward the GOP and political sanity, Barack Obama goes about the business of deconstructing America, one constitutional building block at a time.
The real "shovel-ready" projects that the president spoke of earlier this year begin sometime after 2013, when the sweeping changes effected by American's voting out "hope and change" and its liberal supplicants instead turn to a more established road of governance.
Then, the GOP will have to go about the business-the people's business-of reconstructing America, a project that for the moment may seem far away, but thanks to country-first Americans getting active, has really already begun.
© Vincent Fiore
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