Tonight I listened to a mere man make endless promises. I listened to President Barack Obama, a mortal filled with supreme confidence, make his first State of the Union Address (here).
Supposedly, we face a huge and frightening economic crisis. Supposedly, we must give government tremendous powers to solve this crisis. So it is our government has quickly spent hundred of a billions, leaving many to wonder where all that money has gone. Nonetheless, it was such an easy thing to do. All we did is double down on the debt that created the economic crisis in the first place.
Why has crisis has not passed? Why does Obama tell us these huge sums were not enough? Why does he say that more is still required? What does that wonderful man intend to do?
Obama told us he does not intend for government to supplant private enterprise. No! Who could imagine such a thing? Instead, he told us his schemes will catalyze private enterprise. What does Obama intend to do? Go. Look carefully at his speech (here).
- He will “fix” our economic crisis by completing the take over of our banking system.
- He will “fix” our education crisis by converting our public education system, now a system of monopolies run by state governments, into a national monopoly.
- He will “fix” our health care crisis by completing the nationalization of health care.
- He will “fix” our energy crisis by picking winners and losers in the energy business.
Yes. In the future — in the years to come — wherever there is a crisis, there you will find the Obama administration “fixing”. And what be his authority? That will be the crisis itself. There is nothing in the Constitution — not one word — that allows him to “fix” these things except the fact the government broke them in the first place.
The Constitution? That old thing? Who needs it when you have the Nanny State or when the Nanny grows iron teeth and becomes the Totalitarian State?