I listened intently to the final Presidential Debate tonight. Folks you may not believe this but I actually did listen with a VERY objective mind and as much of my bias removed as possible. Just so you understand, I don't have a personal thing against Obama at all (like I do with the Clintons). I would have a beer with Obama (someone has to tell him how wrong he is about so many things). So I listened, as always, to understand each candidate's ideas and the underlying principles and foundation of each man.
My conclusion...I continue to be completely baffled how normally rational thinking adults even entertain half of Obama's ideas. As I listened to Obama during the debate tonight all I heard was Central Planning.
My wish would be for all likely voters to read Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics before pulling the election lever. I know we have a few months to go for Christmas but I will give up my desire for a Golf Sky Caddy GPS system if someone can grant me this wish. It would make this election a no brainer...it really would.
What do I mean by Central Planning? It is a concept of socialism and it is the mechanism by which a government manages all aspects of life. It is how a central government or committee manages supply, demand, prices, manufacturing, energy, food production, do you get the picture? Obama talked at length during the debate about how he will do this and that. How he will ensure automakers make more efficient cars; how he will lower the cost of healthcare; how he will ensure all of our pains and hurts go away. He wants to engineer everything -- just like the feudal lords of old and like any good socialist.
Somebody please tell him that it is NOT HIS JOB! Pretty please.
Every experiment in socialism fails -- it has been tried, tested, and found wanting. Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics performs a knock out on socialism. Mr. Sowell points out how Mikhail Gorbachev, a previous USSR prime minister, walked into an American grocery store and was fascinated at the full shelves stuffed with thousands of brands. You see, USSR never enjoyed packed grocery stores. It is also said that Mikhail Gorbachev asked British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: How do you see to it that people get food? The answer was that she didn't. Prices did that. The British people were better fed than those in the Soviet Union, even though the British people have never grown enough food to feed themselves in more than a century. Prices bring them food from other countries. What does she mean by "prices" -- capitalism and freedom.
You see...most good socialists react to past socialism failures by saying that they can do it better then the last government. What is the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Now you may say this is extreme and that Obama is not talking about controlling grocery store items. But it is the principal that I am addressing. In principle, "Obama thinking" makes the arrogant assumption that government run by Obama thinking minds will do a better job then free enterprise.
Yes, the USSR was not a socialist state...it was a communist state but there is no difference in this regard. Look at any other socialist experiment. India is abandoning socialism for free markets and look at the explosion in the middle class there. Venezuela has lost 25% of its oil producing capacity since Hugo Chavez's socialist government took charge. Ireland is shedding the UK nationalist trends for free markets and is growing rapidly as a business magnet. The list goes on.
Let's not experiment with socialism here in the US. If you still have doubts, let me bring it closer to home, when was the last time you enjoyed your experience at the DMV? Government can't run anything well. Period.
If this was a radio or TV show, I would fade out at this point to Pink Floyd's "Mother", from the album, The Wall. But since this is a blog...I'll leave you with the lyrics that keep going through my head...I think the words are appropriate ending to this debate night...
"Hush now baby, baby, don't you cry.
Mother's gonna make all your nightmares come true.
Mother's gonna put all her fears into you.
Mother's gonna keep you right here under her wing.
She won't let you fly, but she might let you sing.
Mama will keep baby cozy and warm.
Ooooh baby ooooh baby oooooh baby,
Of course mama'll help to build the wall..."
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I finally get it. You're anti-Democrat and therefore you're Republican!
Just so you know, I have placed a request to borrow 'Basic Economics' from the public library.
I believe we have a lack of choices and low quality of choices too. Among all the well-qualified people that America has to offer, we had to land up with these two specimen. It's either the devil or the deep sea!
Oh, I'm sorry I wasn't trying to mask my ideology. In reality, I'm a conservative and at this point I'm not sure what party best addresses my views. The republicans did on and off for the past 20 years but now I'm not sure. Many of my views may have been considered democrat at one point in history, but now THAT party has turned into something else entirely.
I agree on the lack of choices. Both horrible in my opinion. But my larger point is that we as a country have been increasing the power of government consistently for the past century. We are at a point in history where there are two paths to choose (sounding like Robert Frost now). One path is a socialistic trend and the other is not. I'm not saying we should completely go to a zero federal government model but not the stiffling, controlling, and taxing one we are going towards.
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