The Rapacity of Obacity

[lblanchard]

A fine rant from The American Thinker. Choice excerpts:

Just before the election, Barack Obama made fifteen references to "pie" in 100 seconds of a speech -- all about dividing up that yummy pie of the American economy. His audience laughed and chanted, "Pie! Pie!" to show how hungry they were. In one fell swoop Obama gave away the rapacity of socialism. In his first weeks of his presidency the world has seen how hungry he really is.

Mr. Obama doesn't look like he has an eating problem, but he is hungry, voraciously hungry. Or as Michelle O explained,

"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more."

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Odacity is voracious because there's never enough free pie. It's the pie supply that grinds to a halt if the bakery is coerced into working without compensation -- a condition that used to be called "slavery." Without suitable incentives, producers can only be forced to work by the threat of punishment. And with full media control, our socialists make sure the baker gets the blame for any sudden pie shortage. We've watched it happen with Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Coal, and on and on -- but never with Big Media or Big Government. It's easy to tell who the demagogues are -- their names are never on the hit list. As the bitter old Soviet joke went, "Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Socialism is the opposite." Only the apparatchiks, the new ruling class, wins.

The whole thing is here: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/02/the_rapacity_of_odacity.html

I wrote a fine snark to my Judas goat of a "Republican" senator, Arlen Specter, last night and let him know in no uncertain terms that I planned to vote for his Republican challenger in the next primary. Heck, if he survives the primary I might just vote for his Democratic challenger. If I'm going to have a Democratic senator, I'd prefer that it not say (R) after his name.

Comments

[montieth.livejournal.com]

You share the same issues with another Spector Constituent. His take on the PIE slice that Obama wants MORE of.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I wandered over and left a comment semantically equivalent to my last paragraph.

Small house on 2 acres in Thumbsuck, western Virginia is looking good today, except for the need to have Teh Intarwebs.

[montieth.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine lives in Culpeper. His Internet service is Line of sight to a tower several miles away. He commutes to work to configure switches from his 24 acre farm. His morning consists of getting up, making breakfast for the wife, feeding the animals going back to bed, then getting up, drinking some coffee, checking e-mail and then going out to his office in a side building to work on phone switches all over the world. If he gets stumped on something, he can get up, go run the tractor around, shoot some guns or generally distract himself for a few minutes and then address the problem with a clear head.

His wife commutes an hour plus into DC. He has the better deal I think.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Sounds good except that, in my current mood, Culpeper is far too close to The Belly of the Beast.

I was thinking more along the lines of Galax.

[montieth.livejournal.com]

Galax is nice.

I hear Medows of Dan is really nice.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Galax has three things I want in my small town/rural community:

1. A hospital
2. A regional library.
3. A Wal*Mart.

It also has one kick-ass bluegrass festival, or so I understand. (Never been there during the festival.)

Next, I need to determine which is cheaper: a car or a horse. Horses produce valuable fertilizer, which cannot be said of cars. Also, you can eat your horse in a pinch.