It's Not Racism
Mr. Obama, his spokespeople and the liberal media are driving a wedge between themselves and the taxpayers. Based on their rehearsed, uniform response to any criticism of the Democrat's political agenda, they have pretty much concluded that all capitalists are racists.
It's a natural conclusion. The vast majority of Americans have generally equated government sponsored generosity with equal opportunity and fairness since the introduction of LBJ's Great Society welfare legislation.
For about fifty years, Congress and the White House residents could pass welfare legislation by tugging on the heart strings of Americans. The programs were always promoted as protection for the children, the elderly, the homeless and the downtrodden.
Trust was the key that opened the door to the expansion of these entitlements. The taxpayers trusted their representatives' definition of the need and the negative consequences of ignoring the issue. And Americans had a modicum of faith in the cost estimates presented with the proposals.
Equally important, the taxpayers believed that welfare was a temporary bridge for individuals who needed a hand-up while they got their finances in order. Voter resistance to welfare started to climb when income and payroll taxes began to reduce the standard of living of the contributors.
This awakening was augmented by the realization that the federal and state governments, and the welfare recipients, regarded welfare as a permanent and perpetual state of being. Welfare quietly evolved into the right of every individual to a decent standard of living.
Fifty years of convoluted entitlement programs blurred the correlation between personal responsibility and personal growth. Permanent income redistribution was hidden in plain sight.
The taxpayers were disgruntled by the growing tax bite, but were mollified by the entitlement objectives until Pelosi, Reid and Obama assumed America's productive segment of society didn't have a boiling point.
Here is Obama's problem. The $787 billion stimulus package was rightfully perceived as nothing more than a government growth fund. The objective of the unread legislation was so blatant that Obama and the current batch of spenders in congress unintentionally pulled the covers off their goals.
Their Wall Street attacks, refusal to expand the nation's natural energy resources, their brutal tax hike proposals on small businesses and energy consumption, the deeding of GM to the unions, the funding of ACORN, their plans for blanket amnesty for illegal aliens and for the federal takeover of the Internet startled Americans.
Then came their proposal for the displacement of private healthcare with government controlled, nationalized healthcare. The crowning stupidity of this effort remains their claim that adding 30 million subscribers will eventually reduce the cost of healthcare.
This preposterous lie demonstrates their lack of respect for the common sense of Americans and their willingness to substitute their objectives for those cherished by Americans.
The growing belligerence of Americans to the march of socialism shocked Obama and congress.
They can pretend that the participants at the Tea Parties are rightwing lunatics. But they have been warned that they were elected to represent the voters and not themselves. Screaming racism epitomizes one fact. They still don't get it.
It's a natural conclusion. The vast majority of Americans have generally equated government sponsored generosity with equal opportunity and fairness since the introduction of LBJ's Great Society welfare legislation.
For about fifty years, Congress and the White House residents could pass welfare legislation by tugging on the heart strings of Americans. The programs were always promoted as protection for the children, the elderly, the homeless and the downtrodden.
Trust was the key that opened the door to the expansion of these entitlements. The taxpayers trusted their representatives' definition of the need and the negative consequences of ignoring the issue. And Americans had a modicum of faith in the cost estimates presented with the proposals.
Equally important, the taxpayers believed that welfare was a temporary bridge for individuals who needed a hand-up while they got their finances in order. Voter resistance to welfare started to climb when income and payroll taxes began to reduce the standard of living of the contributors.
This awakening was augmented by the realization that the federal and state governments, and the welfare recipients, regarded welfare as a permanent and perpetual state of being. Welfare quietly evolved into the right of every individual to a decent standard of living.
Fifty years of convoluted entitlement programs blurred the correlation between personal responsibility and personal growth. Permanent income redistribution was hidden in plain sight.
The taxpayers were disgruntled by the growing tax bite, but were mollified by the entitlement objectives until Pelosi, Reid and Obama assumed America's productive segment of society didn't have a boiling point.
Here is Obama's problem. The $787 billion stimulus package was rightfully perceived as nothing more than a government growth fund. The objective of the unread legislation was so blatant that Obama and the current batch of spenders in congress unintentionally pulled the covers off their goals.
Their Wall Street attacks, refusal to expand the nation's natural energy resources, their brutal tax hike proposals on small businesses and energy consumption, the deeding of GM to the unions, the funding of ACORN, their plans for blanket amnesty for illegal aliens and for the federal takeover of the Internet startled Americans.
Then came their proposal for the displacement of private healthcare with government controlled, nationalized healthcare. The crowning stupidity of this effort remains their claim that adding 30 million subscribers will eventually reduce the cost of healthcare.
This preposterous lie demonstrates their lack of respect for the common sense of Americans and their willingness to substitute their objectives for those cherished by Americans.
The growing belligerence of Americans to the march of socialism shocked Obama and congress.
They can pretend that the participants at the Tea Parties are rightwing lunatics. But they have been warned that they were elected to represent the voters and not themselves. Screaming racism epitomizes one fact. They still don't get it.
posted by David at
1:44 PM
