America, Barack Obama, Elections 2008, Israel, Media, Racism
As the media told it, not voting Obama was tantamount to racism. By the same (twisted) logic, not voting for McCain ought to have been considered reverse racism. By this calculus, black and Hispanic racism far exceeded Anglo-American alleged racism. Fifty five percent of Anglo-Americans voted McCain, while 95 percent of African-Americans and 67 percent of Latinos voted Obama!
Obama apparatchiks of change like to accuse Bush of starving state programs when in fact he has presided over the greatest expansion of government since Lyndon B. Johnson. The truth is that Bush’s party, the Republicans Party, has always come through as a “reliable engine of government growth.”
Since 2001, reports the Wall Street Journal, federal outlays have increased to the tune of 16 percent on energy, 91 percent on “community development,” 22 percent on highways and mass transit, 57 percent on education, 55 percent on health research, 58 percent on veteran benefits, 51 percent on Medicare, 16 percent on social security, and a walloping 64 percent on national defense.
In case you forget the costs of America’s crumbling empire: economist Robert Higgs has pegged all “defense-related” spending at approximately $1 trillion per year.
Sadly, Barack will best Bush in spades.
Barack Obama, Classical Liberalism, Federal Reserve Bank, History, John McCain, Political Philosophy, Ron Paul
On WND.com, “Obama Presidency: Hamiltonian Curse or Marxist Mess?”:
I interview my good friend Thomas J. DiLorenzo about his new book, Hamilton’s Curse: How Jefferson’s Archenemy Betrayed the American Revolution—and What It Means for America Today, with relevance to the events of the day.
Tom DiLorenzo is professor of economics at Loyola College in Maryland, and the author of The Real Lincoln, Lincoln Unmasked, and How Capitalism Saved America.
Update: Says professor DiLorenzo:
“We are a nation of tax slaves for the benefit of our masters on the Washington, D.C. plantation. …”
AND:
“Whenever you hear the phrase ‘living Constitution’ [which you’ll hear a great deal from president elect Obama], just substitute the word ‘no’ for ‘living,’ and you’ll understand what it means.”
Be sure to follow up with part II of our conversation on IlanaMercer.com.
Update II: Part I of the interview is playing it again on WND:
PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM
Obama presidency: Hamiltonian curse or Marxist mess?
Exclusive: Ilana Mercer talks to Tom DiLorenzo about new book exposing Founding Father
–WND
You know where to find Part II.
Would I weep for Joy if a Jew were elected president of the US? No (especially given my tribe’s leftist penchant). But Colin Powell, Oprah Winfrey (who catapulted Obama from anonymity), and Jessie Jackson wept for Obama’s triumph. Caught in a drama of their own making.
Now, if Americans were as good at driving a bargain as they were at coming out in droves for Obama, they’d insist that the media and their minders in Washington quit smearing them as racists. Quit talking about how those rednecks have come along way; talk about a people who do not judge a man by the color of his skin.
As some of us have always contended, Anglo-Americans are no racists.
If anything, American minorities are more deserving of the pejorative since most stated quite openly that they voted for Obama because they perceived his run as a triumph for their side. But of course, as one petty government official once wrote:
“In the United States, at present, only whites can be racists since whites dominate and control the institutions that create and enforce American cultural norms and values. … All white individuals in our society are racist, even those who have no conscious prejudice because they receive benefits distributed by a white, racist society thoughts institutions.” (Frederick Lynch, 1989)
Don’t expect the charge to be dropped when the founding people of America no longer control its institutions. As is evident from South Africa, if white, one can be among a disenfranchised minority, yet still be considered racist.