They Said What?!

By William L. Garvin

“Like a dog that returns to its vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.”
Proverbs 26:11

Recently Governor Rick Perry drew a lot of press, most of it flack, for saying that if Ben Bernanke printed money out of thin air, the act was “treasonous.” While his choice of words was less than artful, what would you call an act that deliberately deflates the value of your dollar? In essence, the various “Quantitative Easings” are establishing a fiat currency, i.e., “legal tender, especially paper currency, authorized by a government but not based on or convertible into gold or silver.” What you have saved is worth less and what you buy will cost more. These deliberate inflationary interventions never stand the test of time!

Vice President Biden also drew some criticism when he said he “understood” Communist China’s one-child policy and would not “second guess” it. Once he got back to the terra firma of the USA, he decided to second guess it after all and called it “repugnant.” Nice flip-flop, Joe, but as usual, you’re a day late and a dollar short. Why didn’t you immediately recognize that the government mandated abortions of (mostly female) babies is barbaric and morally reprehensible? Please don’t say you were just being diplomatic…it was a time for standing up and speaking out on principle.

Speaking of diplomacy, this is obviously not in the tool kit of Rep. Maxine Waters. While posing as a fearless crusader in front of her constituents, Maxine let us know that she was not afraid of the big bad wolf and then caterwauled that “The Tea Party can go straight to hell!” Sorry, Maxine but the Tea Party is not responsible for the 16% unemployment rate amongst black Americans that is undoubtedly much higher in your district. It is not responsible for the massive failure of your “war on poverty” that has consumed trillions of dollars. You and your Florida counterpart, Rep. Frederica Wilson, actually don’t know “who the real enemy is,” do you?

Someone who surprisingly ended up in the liberal crosshairs was Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter. He channeled Bill Cosby with a straightforward message telling black men that they need to be more than just a "sperm donor" or a "human ATM." "That's part of the problem in our community. Let me speak plainer: That's part of the problem in the black community. ... We have too many men making too many babies they don't want to take care of and then we end up dealing with your children." He could have been speaking to many young men but he clearly was addressing black youth after another night of Philadelphia’s “flash robs” when he also said: “Take those God-darn hoodies down, especially in the summer. Pull your pants up and buy a belt ’cause no one wants to see your underwear or the crack of your butt. Nobody. If you walk into somebody’s office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won’t hire you. They don’t hire you ’cause you look like you’re crazy!” One can only imagine the liberal conflagration that would have erupted if the mayor was white.
Finally, Candidate Obama said this in July, 2008: “The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion dollars for the first 42 presidents -- number 43 added $4 trillion dollars by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion dollars of debt that we are going to have to pay back -- $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That's irresponsible. It's unpatriotic.” Now that President Obama has added his own $4 trillion and raised the national debt to $14.6 trillion, in a world record thirty-one months, is he “super-irresponsible”? Is he “doubly unpatriotic”? Do you think he will apologize for his over-the-top and uncivil rhetoric? Will he apologize for raising each person’s share of the national debt from $30 thousand to $47, 125.26 (as of August 29)? You can bet you won’t hear that!