What Change Did America Vote For?

Judging by President Obama's most recent poll numbers, Americans are increasingly not happy with the change Obama is offering. The President's approval rating has dropped from almost 70% in February to 53% today with 39% disapproving of Obama's performance. Polls are, of course, as fickle as voters, but the continuing slide of the economy, increasing deficits and unemployment should cause the White House serious concern. Even MSNBC is now admitting the administration is struggling in selling its policies to the public and even it's own party in the Congress.

Rumor has it that Chris Matthews leg has even stopped tingling. If the health care bill passes, Matthews will be ineligible for surgery though because he's too old and is not deemed "worth" operating on.

I digress. The change Obama has put forward is increasingly at odds with the public. The stimulus package has failed to stimulate the economy, and if one objectively examines the details, it is hard to believe that the stimulus was truly aimed at stimulating economic growth. After all, government spending cannot truly contribute to long term growth in the economy and prosperity for the taxpayers. Long term growth is dependent on system changes that make businesses increasingly competitive, productive, and innovative. In times of economic downturn, the government should focus on reducing the cost of business and relieving the burdens of taxpayers and small business to stimulate investment. The complete opposite is being done.

Obama has failed to sell his health care. Failed. Now, October is the earliest it will get done and the president is less likely to be successful in getting what he wants with each passing day. To overhaul health care and increase government involvement while being revenue neutral is nothing short of comical. The government, involved in anything, always increases inefficiencies and waste, exactly the opposite of what Obama is promising. Medicare, welfare, social security, prescription drugs, Medicaid, and every other program always costs more than what bureaucrats estimate. This is no different from the difficulties experience by Soviet, Cuban, and North Korean central planners. No economist can into the mind of consumers and predict what the market needs. Only individuals given the opportunity to freely choose can determine how markets should function.

If Obama doesn't want to be replaced in four years, he'd better focus on generating growth, prosperity, and free market activity instead of increasing the government's size and control of more and more sectors of the economy.

Senator Boxer aka Jim Crow

Senator Boxer exposes herself as an intolerant racist, giving credence to the truth of liberal fascism.

CUPE Continues to Hold TO Hostage

Every day I walk down the street and notice the trash outside my building. CUPE workers are nowhere to be seen, but the every day commerce of the city in small shops, restaurants, and boutiques continues. I can't help but thinking that Toronto would be a lot better off without CUPE, as they continue to make insane demands for wages, benefits, and sick days that no one else could even dream of having.

Just watch this woman be prevented from going to a public place by ignorant, uneducated, non-working union goons. Or check out this lazy CUPE member pretend to be hurt. I'd like to know why the police are so utterly useless. How can a union prevent people from going to a public place? What right does CUPE have from preventing traffic from flowing where people are legally permitted to go? The cops are a big part of the problem here, or rather that commissioner, Chief William Blair, who is obviously taking orders from pro-union mayor David Miller.

If there was ever a reason to privatize, just go to Etobicoke and breathe in the clean air where private workers are doing a great job keeping things clean and tidy (at must lower cost). Then drive down Bloor, Lakeshore, or Dundas to Toronto proper and breath in the smell of decaying garbage and rotting fruit. Remember that smell for the next time municipal elections come around.

The current garbage strike is a nice picture of socialism run amok. If CUPE can block people from using public spaces without repercussions, I don't see any reason why private residents of Toronto can't drop off their garbage on the front lawns and porches of any city worker on strike. Hey, just wondering...

Reagan's State of the Union Resounds Today

President Reagan's 1984 State of the Union speech is entirely properly and fitting well over 20 years later. Obama has chosen to repeat the exact mistakes of his mentor and ideological twin, Jimmy Carter, the worst president in the history of the United States. America is on its way to returning to a cultural malaise with a stagnant economy, swelling government, and weakening stature in the world. Big government inevitably leads to smaller wealth creation and diminished growth. The celebrity president may make a good speech with the help of a teleprompter, but he's paving the way to American decline and danger.

Global Warming: It's Redistribution Stupid

Every once in a while, the religion of global warming exposes itself for what it really is: a socialist plan to redistribute wealth on a global scale.

"To fairly divide the climate change fight between rich and poor, a new study suggests basing targets for emission cuts on the number of wealthy people, who are also the biggest greenhouse gas emitters, in a country."

With communism, socialism, fascism (yes, national socialism was left wing) and every other left-wing statist ideology cast upon the ash heap of history, the central planners have turned to the environment to push their agenda of increasing government control at the expense of individual freedom. They want to regulate your light bulbs, your car, your garbage bags, your grocery bags, and even the air you exhale. With the environment as the focal point of the "collective good", there's nothing beyond the grasp of climate central planners.

Never mind that Los Angeles just had a record cold June, the coldest on record as a matter of fact. Ignore that Greenland's ice isn't melting at an alarming rate, the record cold winters in Toronto for the past two years, and that there's been no global warming since 1998.

Just bow down and obey Pope Gore, Priest Suzuki, and Cardinal Obama. Do not question, do not be skeptical. The government knows best. Now pay up.

The Economy Slides Further

President Obama's stimulus has thus far, stimulated nothing but the deficit and federal debt. Meanwhile, the oinking from the pork echoes and the smell of bacon drifts through the warm streets of Washington DC.

It was announced that another 467,000 jobs were lost in June. Yes, almost half a million in a month. That's certainly change, but there's not much hope from statistics like that.

So let's be clear: Obama has no freakin' clue what he's doing. He's trying to jam everything through now before he's exposed as the incompetent lightweight he is. I think even Jimmy Carter's presidency could look endurable if Barack continues down this path of destruction.

Sooner or later, if Cap & Tax, Soviet health care, and a 2nd stimulus are passed, the Democrats and the "state run media" will have to start wondering why unemployment is approaching 15%.

Here's the kicker. If you want to stimulate the economy, you have to make business and the private sector grow, not the government. For every new government worker and dollar that goes to the public sector, the wealth generating engine is squeezed and suffocated that much more. Remember this simple rule: government produces nothing. If we all worked for the government, we'd starve. Just look at Kim Jong Il, Mao and Stalin if you want proof.

Until President Hopey-Changer realizes that to start creating and even "saving" jobs, he'll have to make the cost of business less by cutting taxes, regulation, and barriers to trade. Until then... happy deficits.