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.