Liberty MavenObama’s Wealth Destruction
February 11th, 2009 2:15 pm | by Mike Miller | Published in Bailouts, Banking, Big Government, Constitution, Debt, Economics, Federal Reserve, Free Market, Lew Rockwell, Liberty, Money, Obama, Politics, Taxes, gold standard, government spending, inflation, national debt | 0
Today I came across a great article by Lew Rockwell that I feel the need to share with the readers of Liberty Maven. I don’t have much to say about it besides “it’s great!” and “read it now!” Here it is:
President Obama is under the impression that history owes him $1 trillion right now to spend on whatever he wants. His language is strident and full of irritation that anyone would question his right to live out his personal dream of being Franklin Roosevelt to George Bush’s Hoover. This, he says, is what the election was all about.
The arrogance reminds me of George Bush after 9-11, who similarly believed that history owed him a gargantuan war in the tradition of FDR. And look how that arrogance led to disgrace and loss, as he unwittingly presided over the destruction of American prosperity while searching for bugbears abroad.
It just goes to show you that the presidency is something like a drug. It makes people lose all connection to reality. Part of the reality that Obama needs to recognize is that the New Deal was a calamity far worse than the initial market downturn that began it. He needs to stop basing his policies on dumbed-down civics texts versions of events and consider the economic logic. [Continue]
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