Wonder Why Americans Are Frustrated?

by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired

Many, if not most Americans watch and listen to media news stories that are aired within minutes of occurrence if not presented in real time, then are analyzed until there is little left.  But to milk them, initial stories are followed by commentators who analyze further and predict which person or party would gain or lose. For example, the scandal that has the Murdoch Media Empire rocking back on its heels, another is Obama using scare tactics to frighten some seventy million recipients of Federal Government checks when he stated that he can’t guarantee they will be paid. (Could there be a political motive in his threat?)

In an essay written shortly after Obama took office we opined that Obama would bloat the budget to obscene levels, then to illustrate that he was fiscally responsible would strike a deal with the Congress to cut the budget in half (just as he promised). Voila! Two years later, the prediction unfolds with exactitude, not because of any clairvoyance here but because when reading his books and listening to him it became evident how he would play the “game.” 

Many in the media bemoan Obama’s “incompetence,” his ignorance, and his inexperience, indeed some even cite his “stupidity;” the left wrings its hands that the economy is failing to revive despite their having “tried everything.”  In keeping with standard White House communications procedure, Obama, grins and chuckles as he opines that the economy was worse than he expected and that the “shovel ready projects” he touted while pushing the “Stimulus” Bill weren’t shovel ready after all. With that in mind, Obama is no less culpable with respect to “shovel ready projects” than was G.W. Bush about WMD’s in Iraq, but do we hear any leftwing media (yes, “leftwing media” is mostly redundant) outrage?

For two and a half years we have been pointing out that the economy is not in a slump due to Obama’s incompetence, it is intentional!  All one has to do is to read Obama’s books and it becomes abundantly evident what he meant when he promised to “totally change the economic system,” “totally change America,” and “totally change the world.” This present economy is intentional, although the financial market and housing disaster brought about by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd may have been serendipitous to Obama’s goals. Obama’s intention is to destroy the Free Market system that has served this country not perfectly, but better than any economy in the history of the world and replace it with one that is along tribal or communal lines; or, stated another way, socialist or communist lines. 

Democrats enacted Obama’s 800 billion dollar “stimulus;” unilaterally enacted “Obamacare;” repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell;” bloated the National Debt some twenty five percent in two years where the interest alone is ten billion dollars per month, and printed so much paper that the dollar price of gold has tripled, oil has doubled, food prices are well on their way to doubling, and transportation costs driven by oil distillates such as gasoline are soaring to unprecedented levels. Someone recently pointed out, “but there are no soup lines as during the Great Depression.” That is because they are masked by the fact that 40 million, or about thirteen percent of the U.S. population receive food stamps.  Hey, he’s just spreading the wealth around!

DNC Chairwoman, Wasserman Schultz recently asserted, “We own the economy;” and, while Obama changes his tune minute by minute, he informed Americans over a year ago: “We have turned the corner but still have a lot of work to do.” It is naïve at best to attribute to Obama any interest in improving the economy in classical terms.  The facts in both rhetoric and actions point to intentional deconstruction of the economy from a Free Market model to a Government dominated model just like his father dreamed for Kenya. Anyone who continues to doubt this is out of touch with the reality of: what he promised, what he has done, what he is trying to do and the state of the economy. The essential and vital question is: “In total terms, economic, security, ethical and moral, are Americans better off under this Administration than preceding Administrations since the Carter debacle?”

Democrats’ trite and asinine mantra to solve the present economic crisis is: “Increase Taxes on the Rich,” even though a 90% tax rate on the “rich” would barely dent the increased debt burden they have heaped upon present and future generations.  If Obama is allowed to succeed, it will “Totally Change America” for generations; that is, until the natural yearning for economic freedom re-emerges.  Freedom is in the American DNA as set forth in the Declaration of Independence shown here: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

The Nation is at another crossroad of history, how future generations will fare rests with those presently in elected office.  Every patriotic American should make it a point to contact and urge their respective Senators and Representatives to “Stand fast!” against further expansion of the National Debt. Senator McConnell got it right when he said, “as long as Obama is President, it’s not possible to strike a real deal at all.” So, hold fast!

Semper Fidelis

Copyright © July 13th, 2011, by Robert L. Pappas. With proper attribution, this essay may be quoted and redistributed, except it may not be used in conjunction with any advertisement without the author’s expressed written permission.