By William L. Garvin
It is hard to determine if all the holes in what passes as liberal logic are because of selective amnesia, two-faced hypocrisy, or bald-faced lying. Evidence seems to support the latter. Lately, libs are spouting that Republicans are deliberately sabotaging the economy for political reasons. This flies in the face of the ubiquitous democrat propaganda piece that the GOP is controlled by Big Business, specifically Big Oil. It also conveniently ignores the 60-70 “fat cat” Big Business donors that spent $38,000 apiece to have dinner with the Prez. It ignores all the contributions that Goldman Sachs made to Dems and more to President Obama than any other individual. Many other Big Businesses have been equally supportive of this President…can I have an amen, General Electric and other Wall Street progressives?
If anything has sabotaged the economy, it is the 2,000 pages of ObamaCare and another 2,000 pages of Dodd-Frank financial reform (sic) that will result in tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of pages of implementing regulations. Until the private sector finds out how badly they will be damaged by bureaucratic fiat and the President’s promise to raise taxes, they are going to hunker down and keep their powder dry. For example, coal-fired plants produce about fifty percent of America’s electricity. It is estimated that electricity costs will increase about 60% as new regulations force old plants to close and make it prohibitively expensive to open new plants. Cap and trade may not have passed but the cap and destroy bureaucracy is already in place.
When libs complain about “corporate welfare” and outsourcing, they conveniently ignore the fact that the heavily subsidized Government Motors now has four plants in Mexico and has invested over $5 billion in the last five years to employ Mexican workers and expand Mexican manufacturing capacity. At the same time, this union label Administration is doing everything it can to stifle the opening of Boeing’s new billion dollar plant in South Carolina that would employ two thousand American workers! There’s your illogical liberal logic at work.
Liberals also forget about the corporate welfare that is doled out to agribusiness, ethanol, solar and wind industries? What about the continual subsidizing of losing enterprises such as Amtrak and the Postal Service? Let’s not forget Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the real causes of the financial meltdown. The President says they will cost taxpayers another $130 billion but in reality, the tab will be closer to $317 billion! USA Today says the unfunded liability for the federal government is $61.6 trillion…where is the Democrat plan to deal with the shortages in Social Security, Medicare, and their government pensions? They have no plan and they don’t intend to produce one. Even though it’s irresponsible, it’s much easier to lie and distort the Republican positions. Practice has made perfect! It’s easier to ignore the International Monetary Fund’s warning that the U.S. is “flirting with disaster” even though their high-risk tactics may result in economic disaster! We’re one step behind Greece under this Administration with one major difference: no one is big enough to bail America out! The President should have been rolling up his sleeves and getting to work but apparently he has a hard time fitting leadership into his golf and fund raising schedule!
Speaking of fund raising, the Associated Press notes that President Obama has raised patronage to a new level. They reported that 80 percent of the “bundlers” who raised $500,000 or more for the Obama election ended up in “key administrative posts.” Take Donald Gips for example. After his successful fund raising, he took charge of hiring in the Obama White House. Subsequently, he was named Ambassador to South Africa. That part is marginally okay but then Level 3 Communications, Mr. Gips’ company, received $13.8 million in stimulus money from the taxpayer pocket. That definitely fails the smell test! Yes, Candidate Obama promised to eliminate special interest influence in the White House but he also promised to reduce the deficit by one-half in his first term. Say one thing and do the opposite…that’s liberal logic and it’s the only plan they have.
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