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Robert R. Owens, PhD
Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory...Again
October 23, 2009
Never since the mid 1970s when the Watergate
Congress insisted on abandoning our South Vietnamese
allies after
the war had been won have I seen defeat snatched
from the jaws of victory in such a bold and decisive
manner.
As I
survey the scene in America today I’m beginning to wonder if we would be
in any worse shape if we’d lost the Cold War. From sea to shining sea
Americans watch as the once greatest industrial nation on earth board up
our factories and ship our manufacturing capacity to other countries. It
seems like every other day the last investigative journalist in America,
Glenn Beck is exposing
one
more
Marxist in President Obama’s inner circle. That big lovable
fuzz-ball
Rush Limbaugh is judged a racist based on
manufactured quotes and lies repeated by the President’s trained
peacock and the rest of the establishment media while America watches
accusations of racism used to squash any criticism of Barak H*@%$*n
Obama. Freedom of speech dissolves as we learn it’s profiling for some
to mention the man’s
middle name while at the same time
school children are taught to memorize songs using his middle name
extolling his
Nobel sized accomplishments, mmm mmm mmm.
Like
Iran we’re nearing critical mass. With uninformed voters not knowing
who they’re voting for and uninformed politicians not knowing what
they’re voting for does anyone wonder why America’s in trouble? It was
bad when our elected representatives voted for bills they haven’t read
now under the inspired leadership of
San Francisco Nancy Pelosi and
Dingy Harry Reid they’re voting for bills they haven’t
written yet. In their infinite wisdom they’ve figured out how to
score a bill evaluating its impact on our budget before the official
language meets the paper, now that’s economy of effort.
At
least according to the corporations once known as the Mainstream Media
the
Great Recession is finally over. And at least according to
Never-had-a-real-job-in-his life Joe Biden the stimulus is working
better than expected. After diligent searching I’ve finally located
those
shovel-ready jobs the perpetually re-elected dangled in front of our
eyes so we wouldn’t pass-out when they coughed up 787 billion of our
dollars so that unemployment wouldn’t get over 8%. After driving past
two miles of orange cones and seeing nothing but perfectly good road and
a few guys using shovels as partners to dance the Chitown Hustle I came
upon one of those $2000 “Putting
America to Work” signs that informed me the whole thing was a snow
job and the only shovel-ready thing about it was the politicians ready
to shovel the billions to their pet interest groups to buy votes.
People who once had good paying jobs are selling lotto tickets at the
Quick-i-Mart to people who still believe that’s their only hope for
change. By the time the dust settles how many of us will be standing in
front of our boarded-up economy asking, “Brother Can You Spare Some
Change?” The President says he is
looking at any way possible to create jobs. How about setting
America free and getting out of the way? Does anyone doubt that if the
Federal Government declared an income tax holiday and let everyone keep
their gross for a year they wouldn’t spend it? Does anyone doubt if
corporate taxes were cut and capital gains lowered people wouldn’t
invest in expansion? Does any doubt that if we were allowed to choose
any insurance company we wanted and there was real tort reform medical
insurance rates wouldn’t go down?
This isn’t rocket science it’s political science and economics two
arcane pseudo-sciences that just about anyone who takes the time to read
can understand. Free people in a free economy will outperform any
collectivist regime ever devised no matter how many songs praising the
Dear Leader the school children learn to sing. Remember the Cold War?
The Communists with their bureaucratically strangled centrally-planned
command economy said they would bury us while their workers joked, “They
pretend to pay us so we pretend to work.” Instead our capitalistic
system of individual freedom and personal opportunity buried them. We
won the war and declared a peace-dividend we wasted playing policeman of
the world nation-building for people who hate us. Today, with our
economy on the ropes mired in wars we refuse to win, with our industry
exported or government-owned people ask “Who won what?” The Soviets also
said our own grandchildren would raise the red flag from the White
House. They may not have raised a flag but the place is now
filled with Marxist advisors and a media-made messiah president who
listens to them. Who won Communism or Capitalism? In America today that
may be a difference without a distinction a place where honesty forces
us to say if there’s no difference there’s no difference.
About Robert R. Owens, PhD
Robert R. Owens,
PhD is an Associate Professor of History at
Southside Virginia Community College where he also
teaches Political Science, Religion and
Leadership. He write a weekly column of opinion and
observations which appears in numerous locations
both print and electronic. He is the author of three
history books currently on the market;
America Won the Vietnam War, The
Azusa Street Revival
and
Never Forget!
He maintains an archive of his articles
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