DANIEL GREENFIELD: THE WEEK THAT WAS PART ONE
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A FEW STATISTICS
31% of Americans give Obama positive grade on handling economic issues 36% of Americans, about 80 million people, believe UFO’s exist.
If aliens arrived at their doorstep. 22% of that 36 percent would try to befriend the alien, 15% would run away, 13% would lock their doors, and only 2% would try to inflict bodily harm.
… the other 48 percent would vote him in as President.
OPPOSING COMPULSORY HEALTH INSURANCE PURCHASES IS JUST LIKE SLAVERY
If you oppose ObamaCare, you might as well buy a slave, work him into his old age and then abandon him by the side of the road… or something. No really. Frank Harris III at the Hartford Courant says so.
I’ll skip the part where I fisk his thesis because it’s too easy and it avoids dealing with larger pathology displayed in the article.
Talking about slavery makes folks uncomfortable. It was so long ago, I know. And doggone it Frank, what do you mean doing what you are about to do: proclaim those jilted Republicans as acting out a slave-era legacy in their opposition to the Supreme Court’s ruling that found “Obamacare” constitutional…
Those who had the least suffered the most when it came to health then, just as they do today. Life expectancy for the poor — And who was poorer than a slave? — was far below that of whites. Life expectancy for blacks today remains and has always been lower than whites. Infant mortality is high, too…
It’s 2012 and Republicans seem determined to rally their supporters against health care like the Confederacy rallied its citizens against the North’s efforts to destroy their slave-based way of life.
Let’s unpack the reasoning here.
1. Blacks were slaves then and we didn’t take care of their health.
2. We are still not taking care of their health.
Connecting A to B is the work of a man who on some level still sees black people as slaves who need to be “saved” and “taken care of” because they cannot take care of themselves.
Liberals rarely put forward this formula quite so openly, but it’s at the heart of the old elitist liberalism. Harris is accusing us of being “irresponsible slaveowners”. We aren’t taking care of our black people.
Think about the Emancipation Proclamation, think about Juneteenth and the Fourth of July, and think about the whole rotten assumption that rather than setting everyone free, what we really need is a massive slave state for everyone built on the power of guilt. Think about the contempt for black people who are being treated as if they have no ability to take care of themselves. And think about how pervasive this reasoning is in liberal thinking.
Harris accuses us of protecting a “slave-based way of life”, but who really has the slave-based way of life? Is it the people who want slaves or the people who don’t want slaves? Is it the people who believe that we should be free or the people who believe we should be subservient to the proper authorities who will care for us?
The assumption made by Harris is the same one made by slaveowners, that black people cannot care for themselves. That they must be wards… for their own good. Post-slavery the argument becomes that we must all be wards… for the good of black people.
How much of the welfare state squats on the obscene proposition that black people are unable to take care of themselves?
How much of the misery and troubles of black people in America comes from all the do-gooders who have helped wreck their finances and communities with freebies, subsidies, privileges and leaders who want nothing more than to control where the freebies go?
How many black children have been snatched away from their families to be raised by benevolent white people? How many imported from Africa for the same purpose?
Does it end at our borders? Absolutely not.
How many articles have there been written about the damage done to Africa’s domestic industries by the volumes of aid sent there by Westerners? Textiles, construction and agriculture are in trouble because Africa is swamped with foreign aid by white people who want to take care of all the black people who can’t take care of themselves.
Do that anywhere and it creates a self-fulfilling prophecy. The more people are treated as unable to fend for themselves, the less likely they are to fend for themselves, and the more charity they need, until the process becomes completely unsustainable.
Turning an entire race into charity cases should be considered a war crime, instead of a humanitarian act.
Building a system of political rule based on an entire race being treated as a charity case is racism and tyranny mixed together into an ugly combination. And yet it is the basis for liberal political power.
IT’S ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC TRIUMPH FOR THE ARAB SPRING
Libya’s top politicians have hatched a deal that would see the Muslim Brotherhood lead the government after the country’s first free elections in almost five decades takes place on Sunday.Aren’t you glad Obama fought an illegal war in blatant violation of the War Powers Act for this? Just wait until he pulls the same trick in Syria.
Two countries under the Brotherhood already and Hussein O won’t stop until he makes it three, using what’s left of the military after his rape of the armed forces.
GOOD NEWS FROM SYRIA
Iraq’s top diplomat on Thursday said he had “solid information” that Al Qaeda militants were crossing from Iraq to Syria to carry out attacks, warning of a violent spillover that could shake the Middle East.
…it’s almost like Assad isn’t the worst case scenario or something.
ISN’T THIS HOW THE TEA PARTY GOT STARTED?
“When ordinary folks start standing up for themselves, start making their voices heard, start coming together, start believing again, nothing can stop us.”
—President Obama in Maumee, Ohio earlier today.
Ordinary folks standing up for themselves and making their voices heard is how O lost his congressional majority and why his election is endangered. Does he really want to encourage more of it?
That bulletin was posted by Salim Zymet, Digital Organizer at Obama for America.
BETTING ON AMERICA IN A BUS MADE IN CANADA
Barry the Gambler is hitting the road in his “Betting on America” tour and he’s really connecting with the farmers and workers of the nation with speeches like this.
When the American auto industry was on the brink of collapse, and more than 1 million jobs were on the line, Governor Romney said we should just let Detroit go bankrupt. I refused to turn my back on communities like this one. I was betting on the American worker and I was betting on American industry. And three years later, the American auto industry is coming roaring back. That Chrysler plant up the road bringing on another 1,100 employees to make the cars that the world wants to buy.
Chrysler is actually Fiat now so it’s an Italian car company with plants in America. How is that any different than Toyota which is a Japanese car company with plants in America?
And Barry is betting so hard on America that his “Betting on America” bus tour is happening in a bus made in Canada. Maybe Gamblin Barry has a fallback position. Prime Minister of Canada.
There’s good news for Barry Hussein in this regard. Canada allows foreign born Prime Ministers. As long as he gets citizenship, he can start betting on Pakistani workers or Canadian workers or French workers. Or Uzbek workers.
In an apparent effort to soothe concerns that the United States will abandon Central Asian as soon as its engagements in Afghanistan are wound down, investments enthusiastically backed by Washington are trickling in.
General Motors stepped up its local presence in November by opening a new engine plant. The GM Uzbekistan joint venture, in which the U.S. company controls a 25 percent stake, provides work for around 6,600 people and turns out 200,000 Chevrolet passenger vehicles annually.
Obama. Betting on America… by way of Uzbekistan.
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