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OBAMA IS A PIKER |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 23 May 2013 |
Last week's
Humor File was Nixon
Was A Piker compared to Barrack Milhous Zero. Like all good humor, it's funny because it's
true: Nixon was no piker in the scandal
and mendacity department, but Zero is far worse.
Yet, at this
particular conflation of events, as we simultaneously rage at Zero's awfulness
and revel in its ongoing exposure, it's useful to step back and regard what's
going on in America today in the context of history and economic reality.
Let's start
with the case for Nixon being more destructive
of our economy and freedoms than Zero. Some
of Nixon's damage was temporary, such as his wage-and-price controls, with a
90-day freeze in 1971 and a 60-day freeze in 1973. Nixon, however, permanently damaged America's prosperity and freedom by:
*Creating
OHSA (Occupational Health & Safety Act) in 1970 that has tyrannized
businesses ever since.
*Creating
the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) in 1970, a horror of fascism.
*Requiring
Environmental Impact Statements in 1970, allowing enviros to block most
anything they don't like.
*Taking the
US Dollar off the gold standard in 1971.
*Creating
permanent and escalating increases in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
payments.
*Announcing
a "War on Drugs" in 1971, resulting in the creation of the DEA (Drug
Enforcement Agency) in 1973
*Creating
the Endangered Species Act in 1973.
*Allowing
the Saudis to perpetrate their Arab Oil Embargo (October 1973-March 1974),
resulting in permanently sky-high oil prices, and giving the Saudis billions to
spread their Wahhabi Islamic poison worldwide.
(All Nixon had to do was enforce a counter-embargo of food exports to
Saudi Arabia with the US Navy, telling the Saudis: "Drink your oil and eat your sand.")
All in all,
in the judgment of Herb Stein, Chairman of Nixon's Council of Economic
Advisers, "More new regulation was imposed on the economy than in any other
presidency since the New Deal."
Of course,
the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt was such an unvarnished unconstitutional
expansion of fascist federal power that it turns both Nixon and Zero into total
pikers. If you really want to be stunned
by the traitorous damage done to America by the Roosevelt Presidency, though, I
encourage you to read Stalin's
Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt's Government, by M. Stanton
Evans and Herbert Romerstein.
It just came
out -- the print edition won't be available until next month, but you can get
the Kindle edition now. I've known Stan
Evans for decades, as he is one of the founders of the conservative movement in
the US, and knew Herb Romerstein as well.
Herb was a wonderful man and a true scholar - I'm sorry to say he just
passed away on May 7.
Space here
does not permit even a brief summary of what Stan and Herb reveal. Two highlights:
*FDR's
closest adviser - so close he lived in a second-floor bedroom of the White
House from 1940 through 1943 - Harry Hopkins, had the KGB code name of Zamestitel ("Deputy") as one of its agents. In charge of the Lend-Lease program of aid to
Stalin, he had uranium-235 and specs on how to construct an atomic bomb shipped
to the KGB in Russia.
*FDR's White House and agencies,
particularly State, Treasury, and OSS (Office of Strategic Services, forerunner
to the CIA) were thoroughly penetrated by Soviet secret agents working for the
Kremlin: Duncan Lee, Confidential Assistant to OSS Chief William Donovan; Harry
Dexter White, Assistant Treasury Secretary; Lauchlin Currie, Administrative
Assistant to the President (FDR in the Oval Office); John Stewart Service, the
State Dept. diplomat who ended US aid to Chiang Kai-shek and secured Mao's
seizure of power in China; and, of course, Alger Hiss. There are dozens and dozens more.
In short, this huge Soviet cabal in
Washington achieved their goal: that
World War II was fought and won not to make the world safe for democracy and
freedom, but to make the world safe for Stalin's Soviet Russia - which included
the Communist enslavement of eastern Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary,
Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Albania - and for the creation of a
Communist Red China.
That is what FDR's presidency and its aftermath
achieved. Countless millions of lives
doomed to Communist poverty, slave labor camps, death by firing squads, a life
of fear and misery. What evil has Zero
and his minions done to match it? The
guy's an amateur at evil.
Especially when his fawning, worshipful
media are amateurs at protecting him, compared to FDR's media - who protected
him so well that most Americans never knew that he was confined to a wheelchair
(much less saw a picture - after contracting polio in 1921 he remained
permanently paralyzed from the waist down).
Any critic of FDR or his Red confidantes was mercilessly smeared by the
press, who enjoyed a monopoly over the news.
Not a whiff of any FDR scandal was permitted to be heard by the public.
And yet... after FDR (he finally died on April
12, 1945) and his aftermath (it took Truman some time to figure out some of
what was going on), came what? The
period conservatives wax most nostalgic about - the 1950s, when
patriotism was in style, moral decency was hip, and our economy boomed like
never before.
There's a key lesson to be drawn here: it's hard to keep America down. We go through crises and dangers, and then
bounce back. No matter how much FDR's
Reds tried to support the Soviet Union, we thrived in the 1950s - and eventually
got rid of the Soviet Union itself.
We can see this happening right before our
eyes as we suffer the Curse of Zero. It's
not just that we all have tingles of joy running up our legs over Zero being up
to his jug ears in one scandal after another.
It's that, no matter how hard Zero has tried to hamstring and
suffocate the American economy, he has failed.
I can't help
thinking of a funny scene in a favorite movie of mine, Other People's
Money (1991). Kate Sullivan - played
by Penelope Ann Miller - is a lawyer whose nemesis is entrepreneur Larry "the
Liquidator" Garfield - played by Danny Devito.
She gets so frustrated being outwitted by him she yells:
"Someday,
we're going to change the laws and put you out of business."
He smiles
and calmly replies, "You can change all the laws you want. You can't stop the
game. I'll still be here. I'll adapt."
So it is in
times like these, you have to be in a state of stupefaction over God's sense of
humor regarding America.
4½ years
ago, Americans in a spasm of lunatic masochism elect a putz of a president who
is determined to destroy their country's culture, economy, and military. And six months ago, still mired in the same
racist masochism although he has done his best to prove he wants to demolish
their country, they reelect him. It is
an act of national self-destructiveness hard to match in the annals of history.
But here we
are, with the DOW way above 15K because US company profit margins are at record
highs. You have all these gurus like Jim
Rogers and Marc Faber saying the dollar is doomed (I remember Marc telling me
not too long ago that the Yen was going to go to 75), that double-digit
inflation is baked in the dollar's cake - but just peruse the WSJ's
Exchange Rate page.
Scan the YTD
column. If the dollar has gained in
value over another currency, the percentage is in green; a loss is in red. Of the 47 currencies listed as of today
(5/23), 40 are green; of the 7 in red, the loss is less than 1% for 3, and the
highest is Mexico at 3.4%. So much for
the doom of the dollar.
How is this
possible? Well, first, the global
economy sucks. Europe is in the tank,
Brazil is stuck in stagflation (manufacturing is lower than 2008), Russia's GDP
is ripping along at a blistering 1.6%, India is floundering and China is
sinking into beaucoup deep kim chee. America
is the only big game in town.
Second, US
companies who set up shop in China and elsewhere offshore are flocking
back. There is one word for why, one
word that sums up the resurgence of our economy: Fracking. Thanks to it, energy prices and costs in the
US are so low compared to the rest of the world, that locating here is again
competitive, big time.
Politically,
the coolest thing about fracking is that the technology came out of nowhere so fast - too fast for the enviros, caught
by total surprise (remember Peak Oil?), to ramp up an effective scare campaign
to demonize it in time. The fracked
toothpaste got out of the tube, creating countless jobs and booming economies
like in Texas, before the Luddites could stop it.
They'll keep
trying of course. Zero will keep trying,
as fracking ruins his "renewable energy" scams (subsidies in exchange for
donations to him and the Dems). And have
a laugh at the idiot who runs the Sierra Club, Michael Brune, who says,
"No amount of regulation will make fracking acceptable." Talk about OBE (overtaken by events)
irrelevance.
Yes, it is
ridiculous that we are stumbling along with less than 3% GDP and have massive
unemployment. This and so much more lies
totally at the clay feet of Zero. What
to grasp is that the emerging economic resurgence you see is happening despite his best efforts to prevent it.
And now,
those efforts, his agenda and presidency, are being disempowered and
immobilized. We are witnessing the
Emasculation of Obama. After smelling
the sweet smell of schadenfreude, let's recall the old Chinese proverb about
where there is danger, there is opportunity.
Which
means: Zero and the Dems are in danger,
so we have an opportunity. And we
means conservative tea-partyers, and not
the GOP establishment led by Karl Rove and the K Street Pubs, for they are part
of the problem. All of them - Zero, the
Dems, the Pub elite - can now be put on the political defensive.
More
importantly, the Dems and the Libtard Media can be put on the moral defensive. Their moral authority can be gone if we do
this right.
For what we
need more than anything else is a moral
resurgence, a return to decency
in our culture, that is the first necessary condition for a return to political
and economic freedom.
It's there,
it's never gone away, most Americans pray and hunger for it. I think it's coming. I can feel it in the wind.
America came
back after FDR. America came back after
Nixon and Carter. America is going to
come back after Zero. This guy's a
piker. He can't keep America down. And he won't, not for long now.
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