David

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January 21, 2008

Liberals: A Real-Life Cartoon 

"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem." – President Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981

With yesterday's inauguration of President Barack Obama (man, that phrase is going to take some getting used to), liberals have returned to a level of virtually unchecked power not seen since the mid-1960s. And, like it or not, that means the rest of us are going to have to get used to suffering the adverse consequences of their reality-defying ideas and policies.

A couple recent examples of liberals unknowingly lampooning themselves:

Schools in Minnesota were closed on Friday, January 16, because the 20-below-zero temperatures, combined with the state government-required use of bio-diesel fuel, caused school buses to not start and/or die in the middle of the road. Since districts couldn't risk children being left standing outside in lethal arctic cold – which, of course, only a fool wouldn't foresee in Minnesota in January – classes were canceled. So, to put it in a nutshell:

• Liberals believe we're all going to die from “global warming” (Who said they didn't have a capacity for blind faith?)

• Biofuels are hailed as an answer to this “crisis”

• State government thus mandates biofuel for school buses

• Buses fueled with biodiesel can’t run because the frigid    temperatures cause the fuel to turn into gelatin

Anybody see the delicious irony? (If you don't, you're probably a liberal.) Had we simply stayed with the standard gasoline-powered internal combustion engines, kids would've been at school. Instead, the radical environmentalism practiced by liberals proved far more potentially lethal, by risking leaving children stranded in Siberian weather that was inevitably going to occur, than the phony “crisis” of which they foolishly remain convinced.

Or President Obama's determination to pass an $850 billion “stimulus package” that will, in one fell swoop, magically cure all our present economic difficulties. 

•  Liberals believe that economic slowness can be solved by more government spending

•  $850 billion pork-barrel bonanza hailed as answer to this

•  This $850 billion must first be taken out of the economy by government in order to pay for it

•  Economy gets worse as the activity that the $850 billion would have driven never occurs, and the risks/investment that produced the $850 billion in the first place are curtailed. (Why bother if government seizes most of the profits?)

Again, see the irony? If Obama had a clue how the economy really works, he'd propose cutting the capital gains tax to incentivize investment and cut the world's second-highest corporate income tax rate to a level matching the rest of our global competition so as to remove a major incentive for companies to leave America and attract overseas capital. Instead, his “stimulus” will likely lead to further economic impotence, to the extent it has any effect at all. And he stupidly advocates punishing companies who relocate overseas, only hastening their departure.

How long will the left play Wile E. Coyote to reality's Road Runner? Unlike the former, who can repeatedly plunge off a cliff, hit the desert floor and still get up and walk away, the damage done by the left will be real, lasting, painful and not at all funny.

So why do liberals do it? Because they have been consumed by their own egos. They're convinced that if they can forcibly remake the world as they think it ought to be, we'll have utopia. And that their superiority is so self-evident, it inherently justifies the totalitarianism they would implement so as to prove they can indeed legislate the laws of physics and economics out of existence.

That's what this is really all about – power and control. Who will be in charge of your life? You, or a small band of arrogant, egomaniacal politicians who are dangerously, if not proudly, disconnected from reality? They think that if government can amass enough power and control, from dictating personal transportation to how your money is spent, they can create perfection.

And the Coyote honestly thought all his ACME contraptions would catch the Road Runner, too.

Th-th-th-th-that's all, folks!!

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