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Artus Register
9:10 - They’ve introduced the Emperor twice now
9:12 - <Choke> Obama just opened by referencing the U.S. Constitution
9:13 - Casual swipe at the Confederacy
9:14 - Setting the stage for the concept of we’re-all-in-this-together
9:15 - Lies begin about how EVERYONE agreed government “had to act” to save the economy. Announced that “the worst is over.” Those continuing to lose jobs are likely unaware of this..
9:15 - A few short minutes in he channels “for the children” and bi-partisanism.
9:16 - We’re all the same. Second mention of “the children.”
9:17 - He’s “never been more hopeful about America’s future.” <cue applause sign>
9:18 - ‘Division is bad’ (but he’ll spend the rest of the night deliberately being divisive). “People deserve a government that matches their decency” (no word on deserving a government that doesn’t put law abiding people and other non-aggressors in cages over plants and leaves.)
9:19 - He had to shore up the banks, but he HATED to do it. Poor guy. He said it three times.
9:20 - He did what needed to be done and he rescued the economy and made it transparent (though we still have no idea where the “bailout” money went because the Fed is still top secret)
9:20 - ‘We need bank fees’–the Democrats clap enthusiastically over the prospect a new tax!
9:21 - B.O. is suddenly opposed to the bonuses paid to bailed out firms, and they need to pay back “the taxpayers.” Hilarious stuff.
9:22 - “We cut taxes for 95% of working families,” then he named everyone who received one. No mention of the coming enormous tax increase in the form of hyper-inflation.
9:23 - Because of the steps “we took” two million Americans are presently employed who would be out of work. 1.5 million more jobs are on the way thanks to “The Recovery Act, aka the Stimulus Bill.” This is already getting hard to listen to.
9:24 - Stories about the awesomeness of the Recovery Act are unlimited, and things are speeding toward perfection.
9:25 - Despite the sheer awesomeness of the plan and execution, many are out of work. But now a call for a “Jobs Bill?” (Can’t wait.) “The true engine of job creation in this country will always be America’s businesses.” Wow. Really? “But government can create the conditions necessary for businesses to expand and hire more workers.” No word on removing the countless obstacles to business and job creation or the penalties for hiring a domestic worker.
9:27 - Billions more to the banks will create jobs because banks are only lending to big companies. Starved for profits, aren’t banks lending to any person of business that represents a good risk?
9: 29 - Tax credits to businesses (favored one’s, I’m sure). The broken clock finally gets something right: “Let’s eliminate all capital gains taxes on small business investment, and provide a tax incentive…to invest in new plants and equipment.”
9:31 - Put Americans to work on infrastructure. Referenced light rail plan in Tampa that will only work with subsidies that hide the true cost. The repeated references to ‘infrastructure’ and ‘clean energy’ sound a lot like FDR’s make-work nonsense that EXTENDED the depression. Anyone who doesn’t believe Washington wants to EXTEND this recession/depression must admit the only alternative view: this president is an idiot. There is no other way to look at the deliberate repeating of horrible mistakes.
9:33 - “…it is time to finally slash the tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs overseas, and give those tax breaks to companies that create jobs right here in the United States of America.” in Reality-Based English:
It’s time to penalize companies government has forced overseas, and put a tariff on their goods raising prices on American citizens who want to buy from American-owner companies. Brilliant.
9:36 - ‘The House has passed a bill granting government the authority to mess up the job situation further, and I encourage the Senate to do the same.’ Awesome.
9:38 - ‘People are out of work and they need our help’ Are you sure they don’t just need your boot off their necks?
Only government can help the unemployment situation that greed and the free market caused.
9:42 - ‘I was told addressing big issues like the economic road ahead was too ambitious. But I can solve any problem with Uncle Sam’s checkbook, and authority I don’t legally have.’
9:43 - Other nations are doing things and we will too, con sarnit! We aren’t going to wait. “As hard as it may be…it’s time to get serious about fixing the problems that are hampering our growth [except reducing the size, cost, and scope of government, those are perpetually good ideas].”
“One place to start is serious financial reform.” [Insert nonsense about what 'nearly brought down our economy]. Here comes the call for uber-regulation.
[Was away from keyboard for 8-10 minutes, but by the sound of my wife's groaning and yelling at the TV, I missed some really good (bad) stuff.]
9:57 - ‘We need to spend more tax payer money on community college.’
9:59 - ‘It is still vital that we socialize medicine. Let’s clear some things up. Here’s the deal (laughter indicates hilarity). The reason I took up this issue is because I’ve heard awful stories. The only way to improve health care is to force companies to do XY and Z. Increased competition that would offer enormous savings and better policies by eliminating the prohibition on companies selling to people in other states is a non-issue. The power of government is what’s important here. And although we have zero authority to do so, we’re going to keep fighting to nationalize medical care and hope the $1.2 trillion dollars it will cost will fall into our laps. Whatever the cost, I’m not walking away from [insert sad story].’
‘If you have a better idea, let me know (so I can pretend I didn’t hear it).’
[vomit break]
10:11 - Repeats the lie: “At the beginning of the last decade, America had a budget surplus of over $200 billion.” Yawn, then vomit. Refers to prior lie as ‘fact.’ Trillions in debt and the “surplus” fairy tale is still being told.
10:13 - ‘We added to the surplus but we had to because we needed to save the economy from the free market and greed. And remember, the bubble caused by state-mandated easy credit and manufactured wealth had nothing to do with government.’
10:52 - Mr. Obama just suggested that we “try common sense,” after pretending that his administration bears no responsibility for this massive deficit. He also said he hasn’t seated lobbyists in his administration, and has always been opposed to doing so, despite people like Eric Holder, Tom Vilsack, William Lynn, William Corr, David Hayes, Mark Patterson, Ron Klain, Mona Sutphen, Melody Barnes, Cecilia Munoz, Patrick Gaspard, Michael Strautmanis being tapped or seated.
That last blatant lie pushed me over the edge. I can’t hear anymore. There are simply too any blatant lies coming forth from my television, and it is sickening. In fairness, the SOTU Addresses held by the preceding president were equally dishonest and filled with as many infuriating calls for more government. I tire of the correcting the untruths, stomaching the lies, and listening to the poisoned concepts that government trumps freedom, and individualism is secondary to collectivism and statism. I’ve recorded the program and may tackle the remainder when I have recovered.
January 27th, 2010
Artus Register
It is big of Secretary of State Clinton to admit that the U.S. shares the blame for the drug cartel violence near the U.S.-Mexico border. But as is almost always the case with government types, the reasons she gave were much different than the reality.
Clinton blamed the violence on America’s desire for intoxicants and the lack of American gun control.
“Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade,” she said. “Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians.”
There was no mention of our insatiable demand for more government to deal with every issue, or our inability to demand that government officials read and obey the Constitution they have sworn allegiance to. But more government is, of course the only answer she and her ilk are capable of offering. Had the Secretary not been calling for the Almighty State to “do something,” she wouldn’t have been speaking.
What Mrs. Clinton doubtless realizes and pretends not to is that people the world over seek various levels and types of intoxication, and have since time immemorial. No amount of government intervention is going to change that. People have always sought to alter their consciousness, whether seeking the relaxation from the alcohol gleaned from fermented sugar, the energetic stimulation of coffee beans, coca leaves, etc., or the “mind expanding” hallucinations of various plants and chemicals.
Drugs, once discovered, are not going to be forgotten. And the idea that government can combat desire is about as foolish as ideas come. Stiffer penalties, eradication programs, and more criminalization only succeeds in wasting money and reducing the supply of drugs, which drives up the price and increases drug-related crime. With increased crime government pretends its way out of blame and calls for more money, programs and laws, and the cycle is repeated. And the sheeple clamor for more.
As to our gun problem, we simply don’t have one. What we have is a backward, hopelessly corrupt “justice system” that does little or nothing to prevent violent crime, puts zero focus on restitution, and ensures that those guilty of force and fraud are released while those dealing in the commerce of plant matter remain in cages.
With violent criminals come weapons. The concept that the law abiding, non-violent public should be disarmed as a way to reduce the violent tendencies of the criminal class is absurd prima facia and enjoys attempted justification only by the criminal class of government who pretend to offer people safety from their non-government criminal cousins. While guns are a tool of criminal gangs, they are also a tool of protection for the non-criminal. As with drugs, weapons will be obtained by those who want them regardless of the number of laws passed, or penalties promised.
Mrs. Clinton seems to be blaming the state as a pretext from which this Administration’s statist trap can be sprung on the American people. Government hasn’t done enough, is the implication. And we have one eager to do more. Much more.
Having gone through the illusions, let us sample the reality.
Last fall, the Mexican government had a foolproof plan in motion to stop the drug violence. The proposed legislative changes would have immediately removed the profit with which the violent drug cartels were built and maintained. As Mexico moved toward decriminalizing “illicit” drugs, a panicked U.S. government–clearly concerned that the simple truth of economics would expose the fraud that our own drug war is–put enormous pressure on the Mexican government to abandon the idea. And like an obedient dog, Mexico listened without complaint.
The U.S. encouraged Mexico to follow our shining example of violent coercion and endless budgets that have resulted in the abysmal failure of that is the Drug War. It’s broke, so don’t fix it.
Prohibition Economics 101
Drug gangs, on either side of the border, exist because of the huge profits that are realized in a black market. When a thing becomes illegal, it doesn’t go away, it just becomes expensive. Those dealing in illegal objects, information, or substances are taking a much greater risk than a man selling vegetables, for example. As the risk increases, so must the reward; hence the high prices of illegal drugs.
For every thing the government outlaws, a new black market is created. When operating outside of the law, there are no contracts, agreements, arbitration, or court rooms. Areas of operation, or “turf,” asking prices, and type of drugs sold are often agreed upon intra-criminally. But as in any business, disputes arise. Without a legal system or enforceable arbitration, gangs have only the choice between surrender, and violence.
Decriminalizing drugs would immediately end the profits of those involved in the drug trade, from smugglers, to violent drug gangs government claims to oppose, to street corner dealers. Continuing the absurdity that is our wealth-wasting Drug War creates and maintains the drug economy. In short, prohibition creates, then maintains a new class of criminal.
The massive violence that grew out of alcohol prohibition died with the repeal of the 18th Amendment, while that of drug prohibition remains, and is expanding is size, scope, and sophistication. “Staying the course” in the Drug War means that government will continue to toss good money after bad, and legislate away more liberty, “for the children,” or “for the greater good.” It also means that the dead people on both sides will be replaced, and that the hopeless, pointless war on drugs war on people will continue.
Yes, Mrs. Clinton, the U.S. is certainly to blame. But not for the sophomoric reasons you came up with.
March 30th, 2009
Artus Register
The concept that John McCain would behave exactly like George W. Bush was terrifying for many Americans, and thus an effective campaign tool for the Obama crowd. There were even popular bumper stickers that admonished the thought of a McCain Administration, warning us: McCain: Bush’s Third Term.
It is safe to assume that exactly zero Obama voters ever considered the possibility of their man playing the same role. They probably don’t see it now, either.
The mainstream media’s excitement over the new Administration’s “reversals” of Bush policy is the stuff of headlines, comedy show monologues, and supporter’s bloviations. But despite the droning on about such decisions, the Obama Administration has–in most major areas–parroted the arrogant and unlawful policies of its predecessor.
In the foreign policy arena, Obama and company have promised to copy the Iraq surge in Afghanistan, spending countless billions more in cash and untold quantities of American blood for increasingly vague objectives. The Afghan theater spilling into Pakistan is almost a foregone conclusion. And despite sincere-sounding rhetoric, we aren’t exactly rushing out of the abortion the U.S. has made of Iraq.
Obamanomics needs no explanation, and can enjoy no justification. But for every right-winger shouting “Marxist!” there are three stubborn examples of Bush 43’s abject socialism, indulgent squandering, and exponential government growth.
So-called conservatives (whatever that word means in the post-Bush era) are vocally, and legitimately, if hypocritically, concerned about Obama’s plans to tax and spend, expand government, and gut the Constitution. But it seems such misdeeds don’t count when political and economic tyranny is perpetuated by a Republican the media’s broken compass has signaled as “a staunch conservative” and “strict constructionist.” To the alleged Right, it is the letter that decides the morality of positions, rather than actions: a (D) apparently means “Damn communist!” while an (R) indicaties, “Right on, man!”
The sad reality is that anyone remotely concerned with a healthy economy, the continued survival of a partially-free market, or the rule of law, should be too hoarse from calling for Bush’s head for the past eight years to say much of anything. Those who didn’t certainly have no room to admonish Obama for sins he has not yet committed.
Fortunately as one who recognized the Bush fraud very early, and who experienced daily blood pressure spikes from continued subjugation to W’s endless stream of lies and shattered promises, I am exercising my reserved right to verbally accost this administration and predict the worst kind of governance–a lot of it. Unlike the denizens of hypocrisy that compose the rank-and-file Republicans, I do not spell tyranny f-r-e-e-d-o-m when a Republican dons the jack boots.
Despite the little Easter eggs of difference that will be played up by the media’s abysmal huger for sensationalism and division, this administration will likely do a great service to the cause of freedom by slaying once and for all the perpetual myth that any true and substantive differences exist between the two major political parties.
March 22nd, 2009
Artus Register
Among the many concerns stemming from the inauguration of Barack Obama there is some good news, and some hope.
First, an incoming President means an outgoing one. And while many of his tyrannical ideas may remain, George W. Bush is gone. After eight years of Constitution-shredding, dictatorial proclamations, empire expanding, unimaginable spending, reputation destroying, government expanding, etc. Mr. Bush’s departure is a welcome reprieve from the advancing shadow of hyper-national, jingoistic, neo-fascism.
President Obama has promised to immediately close Guantanamo Bay, an infamous symbol of the U.S.. government’s abject lack of ethics, complete dishonesty, unapologetic cruelty, and gleeful disobedience of its own Constitution.
The incoming Administration has stated its intention to end the abysmal mistake that was and is the war in Iraq. Caution is urged with on this note as Obama has stated that he wants more troops in Afghanistan. So this may be a case of simply doing the right thing here, and the wrong thing there. In Afghanistan, there is at least the illusion that American troops are hunting down Al Qaeda rather than spraying opium crops, nation building, and training a foreign army.
Though our friends at NORML say the news so far isn’t good, there is a much better chance that an Obama administration will not stomp on medical marijuana rights as the Bush’s team did–despite W’s campaign promises in 2000 that he would not interfere with state marijuana laws.
Though they are unapologetic hypocrites, the Democrats would look awfully foolish after making so much noise about warrantless wiretaps and other privacy intrusions if they didn’t address the those issues, and undo some of the pro-government, anti-individual laws that gut privacy protection.
A lot changes are required to make any real difference in government, be it its approaching every problem with more money and power, its vast scope, or its self-replicating nature. And the incoming administration has a long way to go before it proves itself a friend to liberty–economic of otherwise. Most likely, if will be a shell game, and we the people will receive some relief on the one hand, and a heavier jackboot on the other. There is little reason to believe that whatever “change” Mr. Obama brings to the political landscape, it will be significant enough to elevate liberty and shrink government. But there may be some cause for a occasional smile, and with the cracks in the dam this administration may implement, fans of freedom might be able to–with a lot of work and serious commitment–scratch, chisel and claw actual holes.
For significant change to occur, the masses must begin to see government as the failure that it is; as a predatory gang of parasitic thieves eager to help you with your own money, and relieve from you the burden of responsibility. Perhaps a President–seen as many as the opposite of the previous one–will serve as the ultimate illustration that government simply can’t. This isn’t what his slogans of “Hope” and “Change” meant, but they might turn out to be more prophetic than Mr. Obama realizes.
January 21st, 2009
Artus Register
The current administration has no issue with endless cash printing, fractionally reserving the dollar toward Mugabesque inflation, and debt ceilings that reach into the stratosphere. But the automakers cannot fail. Apparently it is actually impossible.
Congress refused an auto bailout, but the WHite House, never an entity to let the chains of legality hold it back, is going to step in and try to force the issue. One can only imagine whether, if things continue, the White House would issue an executive order disallowing a GM bankruptcy filing, or whether it would demand the FBI arrest any bankruptcy judge willing to consider such a filing.
Nero Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino muddled reality as defenders of emperors and despots often do, stating:
A precipitous collapse of this industry would have a severe impact on our economy, and it would be irresponsible to further weaken and destabilize our economy at this time.
And thus the attitude of government is summed up rather succinctly, allowing natural laws to unfold is tantamount to making thing happen. This position is not dissimilar to stating that by Congress failing to ban the sunset, the government caused the next day to appear illuminated on the horizon.
There is no authority this President thinks he lacks, and his god complex is as understandable as the tearful screams of a spoiled child. Congress has given Herr Bush nearly everything he’s ever wanted, and failed to take away even his most dangerous toys. Even through their alleged anger, name calling, and suggestions of blatant wrongdoing, Congress has not lifted a finger in defense of the Constitution or to ensure any ceiling on executive powers–and the Democrats have had a majority since 2006.
The doom and gloom what-if? prophesies of ignorant government and their economic cronies does not change the fact that bankrupt motor companies will continue to exist; that someone will purchase them, reorganize them and improve them. The repeated nonsense that “we can’t let them fail” sound like the musings of a madman. They have already failed. Taxpayer-funded bailouts will not change that sad fact, nor will such “salvation” last very long under the weight of union contracts ensuring workers at the Big 3 make twice what other autoworkers do.
The sudden interest in the survival of the economy is beyond laughable coming from a President who salivates at the thought of engaging in the unaffordable, like gift to African despots, endless wars fought for increasingly vague objectives, and the largest non-military spending increases in human history. Now we are to believe that further damaging the dollar by creating wealth with which to plug the massive holes in a sinking ship is a good idea. Next he is going to repeat him commitment to the free market while the MSM regurgitates its definition of the nationalizing fascist as a “conservative” and “constructionist.”
Whether to make a real point, or hope to embarrass them into considering the truth, Operation Legislative Education is a real step toward informing Congress that there are plenty of us who aren’t going to stand for government by whim.
December 13th, 2008
Goathe