Saturday, July 30, 2011

Libs disappointed with Obama

What's interesting about this this column by Robert Reich, the diminutive Big Government liberal professor, is his criticism of Obama, after first telling us about all his virtues.  He now sees The One as a vacillating, indecisive politician, whereas before he saw him as a man of great intelligence, vision and leadership.  One has to wonder where Reich was while Obama was building his resume by running away from controversial votes during his two brief gigs as an office holder, and where did he see all the signs of brilliance and vision in O's academic record (non existent), and where did he see evidence of his leadership qualities since he never held an executive position anywhere and never led anyone other than his election and reelection staffs,  cool aid drinkers all.  What we see here is the typical liberal thinking process for electing a leader.  Pick the individual most likely to appeal to all the varied collectivist constituencies of the democrat party who can also appeal to disaffected and wishy washy independents looking for change of any kind.  Unfortunately what this gets us is an unproven neuter unlikely to be anymore successful leading his party or country than he was as a lawmaker.  What liberals are really looking for is a White Knight who miraculously leads us all to Nirvana -- like, say, FDR whose policies and leadership prolonged the Great Recession by at least 8 or 9 years.  And of course for libs like Reich it also comes down to their favorite whipping boy, unequal income distribution.  This latter point because they see the economy as a zero sum game in which there is limited income available that therefore should be distributed evenly throughout the society in the interest of fairness and overall consumption.  What these dreamers fail to understand is that the driving force of a productive economy is a finite number of individuals called entrepreneurs. If these people don't have the incentives to create and build companies that satisfy consumer wants and needs, the economy does not grow and produce jobs.  Demonizing business types, over taxing producers, over protecting consumers are all disincentives that discourage entrepreneurs and stultify the economic growth.  It's not that complicated.

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