Pizza Runs to Paris, France

JB - Interesting to speculate about 2050. But, as you yourself say, the first three reports are always wrong. In the realm of speculation, it may well be the first 10 reports or more. Who would have thought a year ago we’d be where we are?

As time goes by and the layers of the Obama onion peel away, we learn more and more about our president. His past, still shrouded in secrecy, is hardly the source of our gradual enlightenment. It is what he has done so far and continues to do that has many of us concerned. I found it telling, for instance, that he condemned what happened in Honduras last weekend as an affront to 'justice' – not 'liberty'.

Whereas it is possible to have justice without liberty, it is impossible to have liberty without justice. By concentrating on justice (or the lack of it) alone, Obama reveals himself as one who believes that he and those he professes to represent have been wronged. As such he also denies that liberty exists. This is the starting point from which he justifies his personal ambition aimed at turning America on its head, redistributing wealth and opportunity according to numerical quotas and basically throwing wide open the jails and mental institution, only to imprison those whom fate has seemingly dealt the better hand.

This is the man we elected last November. He will see to it that all knowledge, skill and hard work is marginalized while all property, assiduously earned, is redistributed to those who have not worked to earn it. Already most people’s investment savings have been virtually wiped out. Next on the chopping block is what has been dubbed most families’ biggest investment: their homes. If you can’t sell your home because it does not meet California’s energy standards, and you don’t have the money for the Federal government mandated upgrade, then your investment is down the tubes. If, after all that you’re still managing to hang in there on account of having been smart and hidden your cash in the mattress, inflation will come along and set your bed on fire.

It is beyond Obama’s pay grade to understand that any property must be properly managed for it to retain its value. Neither can he (or any Marxist) acknowledge that what is taken from the rich and given to the poor will soon be worthless.

A perfect example is Zimbabwe where land was taken from farmers who had made the country into the breadbasket of Africa and turned it over to the poor. Zimbabwe has been cascading from abyss to abyss ever since. Whereas, on the surface, it may not seem fair that those actively involved in (and contributing to) the productive sectors of a nation are economically better off than those who don't, any attempt to interfere with the organic inequities that result from the exercise of robust capitalism can only result in disaster for everybody across the board.

Zimbabwe is the canary in the gold mine that died to show us the way. It is the ‘ghost of Christmas future’ if we allow the Marxists free reign. I disagree with those who see a “soft tyranny” ahead for us if we should fail to act. There’s nothing “soft” about tyranny. It is a crucible that often spells death for those who would dare escape it. Even if we should rise to the challenge, there’s no guarantee that we will not emerge diminished. But every excuse to delay will make it that much harder to reverse what has already been done.

Russia and China among others may well make inroads while we’re involved in our own existential struggle. In fact, any ally that has any hope of engaging us to do their bidding, better think twice. We have enough on our plate right here at home to worry about geopolitics. For the time being we are effectively out of the running no matter how many pizza runs Michelle makes to Paris, France.