Liberty Maven

It seems that America is always at war with some country or some thing. We have the War on Drugs, the War on Poverty, and the War on Terror. The media made a point to mention that the Obama administration has chosen to cease using the term “War on Terror”. That’s certainly a good move, but semantics matter little when the soft-spoken administration continues to act hard, like drone bombing Pakistan and increasing troop levels in Afghanistan. There is another unspoken war going on right now from the Obama administration. Obama and his Keynesian minions have declared a War on Capitalism.

For our sake I hope it is a complete failure like the government’s other perpetual wars.  Though I fear that with the popularity of Obama and his “wolf in sheep’s clothing” words it may end in success.  If that happens, America will no longer be America as we once knew it.  Some may argue that America is already gone, capitalism is dead, and those of us who fancy liberty should self-immolate.  Thank god the nature of liberty coexists with the burning desire to keep it intact.  Rather than self-immolate we should immolate, through the ballot box, all of those in DC who are enemies to liberty. As Chuck Norris has suggested, Ron Paul could be the arbiter of which of his colleagues deserve to be choked out of office.

The actions being taken by Obama to combat capitalism are likely to prolong our second Great Depression. Even though Rahm Emmanuel said that they couldn’t let a crisis go to waste, perhaps what he really meant was that if they could  implement a first term agenda that prolongs the crisis, America may get what the “leftest” of the Left have wanted all along: a socialist country. It certainly won’t happen overnight, but it’s beginning to look more and more like we are in the final stages of the Progressive incrementalism which began in the late 19th century with the British Fabian Society and arrived in America with the administrations of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.  FDR really kicked the effort into high gear during the Great Depression.  Now, Obama seems to be putting the finishing strokes on the American Socialist Portrait.  Be still and say cheese! Wait! Is that a camera or a gun?

Obama is turning the federal government into your gambling- and drug-addicted, abusive father. He will empty your pockets to satiate his infinite losses. He will forever be drunk on credit. His manipulative words will guilt you into loving him, for a time.

In the end you will sit penniless, a bruised and battered slave to the state, if you aren’t already. If you think that’s bad, wait until you see what he does to your children and grandchildren.

How angry will future generations be when they discover the very first African American President was also the man who presided over the return of slavery? The difference this time is twofold.

The slave owner is not a southern farmer with a whip, but rather the entire U.S.  government with the full force of the military and all their weapons. Finally, the box labeled “Race” on your National ID Card does not determine whether or not you are a slave. Modern slavery is colorblind. The slave “litmus test” will be how you answer the following two questions.

Do you live in the United States? Do you work for the government?

If you answer yes to the first, and no to the second, you are a slave.

Then again, if Obama’s War on Capitalism ends up like most other well-intentioned government programs we have nothing to worry about.  It will fail.