RHETORIC vs REALITY
MIXING CLASS WARFARE and CRONY CAPITALISM
UNTIE-ing the KNOT of COLLUSION – FAT CATS TOO BIG to FAIL
Obama’s ‘juggling act’ of big business, big government, populist posturing
IT’S REALLY CALLED “SAYING ONE THING and DOING ANOTHER” OR “BEING DISHONEST”
the environment and trade vintage obama COMBINES HIS “SCOURGE-of-the-SPECIAL-INTERESTS” RHETORIC WITH HIS “CAN’T-WE-ALL-GET-ALONG” TALK
President Obama serially wages PRETEND wars against the special interests
Currently he’s PRETENDING to battle wall street. recently, he PRETENDED to battle the health sector.
Last year, he PRETENDEDto battle the banks on credit cards, but my favorite episode of obama pretending to take on industry might be his regulation of TOBACCO
President Obama has portrayed himself as the scourge of Wall Street, but that’s NOT how goldman sachs’s employees and executives saw in 2008.
In his successful white house bid, Obama had no better source of funds: he raised $996,595 from people identifying Goldman as their employer.
“When government takes away options, it is bound tomake some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention“
“The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. it is about the egos of the elites“
“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong“
– Thomas Sowell