Gang of Four

JB - All the policy bullet points you list for improving the economy are self-evident to anyone who’s had some brush with economic realities in their lifetimes. We may not necessarily like our boss (who likely makes more money than we do); or the owner of the company we work for, who likely has more money than God and even gets his face in the newspaper from time to time. Nevertheless, we tend to respect these people for their achievements or for their effort to keep their birthright in relative working order. In short, we recognize on which side our own toast is buttered.

There are now legions of people in this country who have no such appreciation, chiefly welfare queens, students, political ops, dropouts, gang members, academics, artists, anarchists, Muslims, and all stripes of community organizers and their various kindred of Cain.

These people regard traditional economic theory as irrelevant at best, or something desperately in need of dismantling at worst. Our president belongs to the latter camp.

So, you can yell and scream and educate, and present all the data you want; it will not have the slightest impact on Obama’s policies. The majority of Americans and Obama speak in differing registers. Do not assume that what you hear from his mouth means the same as if you were to say it. He is the champion of a group for whom “Investor’s Daily” might as well be a Chinese language newspaper.

No doubt, these people too will feel the pinch as the economy continues to collapse. They will not see it as the economy having been mishandled. They will continue to believe that their champion is on the right and righteous path. They will continue to demand their pound of flesh as long as there is even a hint of evidence that the American taxpayer is still alive and kicking.

Palestinians do not look across the border into Israel to see how wonderful it is. They did not respect the infrastructure that Israel had left behind when they withdrew from Gaza. Their immediate reaction - though short lived - was sparked by the delirious joy of victory.

So too it is with Obama’s band of revolutionaries in Washington. ObamaCare was never supposed to work as advertised. It was all a ruse. Nobody there had ever seriously thought it would work. How could they have been serious when they never even read the bill? (It is likely that even the president to this day has not read it.) To those who vociferously supported it, it was enough to pass just anything that would light another fuse under America‘s economic infrastructure. (The rest just caved in to pressure.) They trusted the Apollo Alliance, a left-wing think tank, to get the job done - or at the very least create an atmosphere of confusion and strife.

All this is considered good by Obama‘s gang (of four).

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Too Many Hands Demand Greasing

Lou is not entirely wrong. He never is. Government Health Care as was proposed in the bill that was passed last term won’t work. It was never meant to work. It was to do two things only: (1) to project a show of political strength in an area that had never before been breached; and (2) to throw the entire system into a conniption à la Cloward and Piven.

That is why nobody who voted for it knew the least thing about it. The project was simply handed off to people who are well versed in the politics of confusion and disruption: the Apollo Alliance under the auspices of the Tides Center.

All lawmakers needed to know was that the project was in good, like-minded, left-leaning hands. The rest were strong-armed by party loyalty and procedure. The only defense available to them now is that they were naive and swayed by simple-minded rhetoric. We don’t need naïve lawmakers representing us. They will be removed.

Chennai has become the medical tourist capital of India. Any medical procedure, performed entirely in accordance with Western standards, can be had here for roughly 1/10 of what it would cost in America. This would also include round-trip airfare.

In my own case, I would need two sinus lifts, two bone grafts, two tooth implants and two crowns. All this would come to less than $2000.-. The reason is that here providers must vigorously compete. The business is entirely cash and carry. No interference from insurance companies, trial lawyers, and government red tape. It could be done so in America as well. It’s just that in America just too many hands demand greasing.

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