THE ENTERPRISE--TWO WEEKS TO ELECTION DAY

THE ENTERPRISE--TWO WEEKS TO ELECTION DAY

DOES THIS STRIKE ANYONE AS ODD?
Our nation is reeling with self-induced financial ruin, record debt, and huge deficits.  Economic growth is barely measurable.  Jobs are scarce, with 17% of Americans unemployed or underemployed.  Our government throws our money at problems and gets negligible results.  Rogue nations and terrorists threaten us.  Illegal immigrants remain a huge problem.  Our education system is locked in mediocrity due to a number of inept teachers protected by militant unions.  Our health care system is still struggling and the solution appears to be an inappropriate law.  And what does our President do?  He   goes on talk shows--the latest on The Comedy Channel. DOES THIS SEEM STRANGE AND INAPPROPRIATE TO YOU?  REMEMBER THIS WHEN 2012 ROLLS AROUND!!

He finds plenty of time to play basketball and golf with his buddies, and fly around the country campaigning for the same inept losers that haven't improved a thing in 2-3 years.   I have a simple rule about candidates:  IF OBAMA SUPPORTS THEM, I OPPOSE THEM.  Obama's philosophy for America is WRONG  (no matter how glowing his rhetoric and speeches full of distortions and untruths) --unless you don't believe in the America of our Founding Fathers and that we have built over the past 200 years.

 Regarding 2012, read Cal Thomas' column, and the large excerpt from an even longer FORBES article posted below.  To read the entire article, go to Forbes site: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/politics-socialism-capitalism-private-enterprises-obama-business-problem.html


NEW YORK WINS FOR STUPIDITY IN GOVERNMENT SPENDING
New York City is changing 250,000 street signs at a cost to taxpayers of $110 each or $27.5 Million.  Why, you might ask?  Are they rusty?  No.  Are they worn out? No.  Are they "unreadable?" No.  To change from ALL UPPERCASE LETTERS, to Lower Case Letters where only the first letter is capitalized.  What?  Why spend $27.5 Million for such a mundane change?  Because the Federal Highway Administration officials (who remain nameless in  their bureaucratic anonymity) "says" it will save lives because the new signs will be easier to read, and "save lives" because drivers will take their eyes off the road for less time.  Are you kidding me?  The Upper Case Letters are LARGER--AND I WOULD CONTEND, EASIER TO READ QUICKLY! What a bunch of crap!  Some bureaucrat decided to make work for the public workers and sign makers--that's why!  So they could claim "jobs were created or saved!"    To add to the idiocy, the City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Kahn says it's more "polite," because in the Internet age, "Writing in all caps means you are shouting."  RIGHT? UNBELIEVABLE!  YOU GUYS ARE STUPID AND ARE WASTING $27.5 MILLION OF NEW YORK TAXPAYERS MONEY.  WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE ASK MAYOR BLOOMBERG IF HE SIGNED OFF ON THIS LUNACY?  (SHOUTING INTENDED!)

THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES--OR SO THE "FAIRY TALE" GOES
The US government in the age of Obama and the Democratically controlled Congress has now increased spending from 36% of GDP three years ago to 62% of GDP this year, according to the CBO.  Now there is a "change you can believe in."   In months past, Nancy Pelosi has criticized Robert Gibbs and Dem pollsters Patrick Caddell and Doug Schoen called Obama "cynical" and "racially divisive."  How about exposing the "chosen One!"  Then Gibbs freaks out at Rush Limbaugh's criticism of bailouts.  Thomas Sowell, in the WSJ asks, "Where does Gibbs think that money comes from?  The Tooth Fairy?  When you take money from the taxpayers and spending to rescue the jobs of one set of workers—your union political supporters, in this case—what does that do to the demand for the jobs of other workers, whose products taxpayers would have bought with the money you took away from them?" 

HOWEVER, DON'T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT. HERE IS A NATIONALLY SYNDICATED COLUMNIST'S VIEWPOINT!
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President is too focused on himself

Saturday, October 23, 2010, by Cal Thomas
President Barack Obama reminds me of the type of man so many single women complain about on a date. He only wants to talk about himself. Is there anyone in public life who better exemplifies the definition of narcissism: "inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity"?

After reading "The Education of a President," one of The New York Times Sunday Magazine's longest articles in recent years, one again is exposed to Obama's superior view of himself. That same weekend in Boston, the president revealed what he thinks of people he is supposed to be serving. He thinks we should serve him.

In Boston at a Democratic fundraiser, the president said Americans are "scared" about the Nov. 2 election in which Democrats are predicted to become endangered species in the House and possibly neutered in the Senate.

Republican congressional candidates, he said, are "playing on fear." Well, yes, in a way. We have much about which to be fearful, including nationalized health insurance, a debt that is greater than the gross domestic product of most nations and a messianic attitude by the president who treats anyone who disagrees with him as demonic.

The president also said, "Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now, and facts and science and argument do not seem to be winning the day all the time, is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared." Notice how he won't debate the substance of his agenda, but rather dismisses people who disagree with it as illogical and fear-filled. This recalls his comment during the 2008 campaign that people are "bitter" and "they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

Obama sees no merit in any position but his own and mischaracterizes concern about anything for which he stands as ignorant, excessively religious and what might be called "gun-based faith."

This is the hubris of statists, who believe only the state can deliver people from the misery that has, in fact, been largely caused by the state. The state under Obama is robbing us of our liberty. The state has taxed too much and spent too much, placing America in jeopardy and sapping our strength. The state tells increasing numbers they are victims and can't amount to anything without the state, which ensures they will never amount to anything by keeping them submerged in victimization, failing government schools and on welfare.

For the president, to oppose this is to oppose the established statist gods and himself as supreme deity. To oppose his agenda is blasphemy, and so the Republican "demons" must be destroyed.

It isn't working largely because people can see what nearly two years of Obama's socialist, collectivist and statist policies are doing to the country. They can see - yes, through those ignorant eyes and God-dulled brains - what Obamacare will do to them and not for them. They are not as ignorant as Obama thinks. Because he thinks this way about so many of us, a case could be made that he is the ignorant one. He may be the elected leader, but he knows little about the people he is supposed to be leading.

Obama cannot identify with the American experience. He never served in the military. He never held a real job. He had an easy time in college (where are those transcripts?) and was fast-tracked in his rise to the top. He is attempting to impose an ideology foreign to all but the hard left. It is not based in the American ethic of self-control, hard work and personal responsibility. Rather, it is based on grievance, entitlement and revenge.

This is why the coming election is likely to produce a tsunami-like reaction among the electorate. But the president will probably misinterpret the results to his and his party's detriment in 2012. It can't come soon enough.

Cal Thomas writes for Tribune Media Services.

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I WAS STILL WRITING ON THIS EDITION WHEN I READ DINESH D'SOUZA'S ANALYSIS OF BARACK OBAMA
THIS IS SO PROFOUND, SO TROUBLING AND SO REVEALING THAT I HOPE YOU WILL READ IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH
—AND THEN SEND COPIES TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW.
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On The Cover/Top Stories
How Obama Thinks
Dinesh D'Souza,
09.27.10, 12:00 AM ET
Correction Appended
Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history. Thanks to him the era of big government is back. Obama runs up taxpayer debt not in the billions but in the trillions. He has expanded the federal government's control over home mortgages, investment banking, health care, autos and energy. The Weekly Standard summarizes Obama's approach as omnipotence at home, impotence abroad.

The President's actions are so bizarre that they mystify his critics and supporters alike. Consider this headline from the Aug. 18, 2009 issue of the Wall Street Journal: "Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling." Did you read that correctly? You did. The Administration supports offshore drilling--but drilling off the shores of Brazil. With Obama's backing, the U.S. Export-Import Bank offered $2 billion in loans and guarantees to Brazil's state-owned oil company Petrobras to finance exploration in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro--not so the oil ends up in the U.S. He is funding Brazilian exploration so that the oil can stay in Brazil.

More strange behavior: Obama's June 15, 2010 speech in response to the Gulf oil spill focused not on cleanup strategies but rather on the fact that Americans "consume more than 20% of the world's oil but have less than 2% of the world's resources." Obama railed on about "America's century-long addiction to fossil fuels." What does any of this have to do with the oil spill? Would the calamity have been less of a problem if America consumed a mere 10% of the world's resources?

The oddities go on and on. Obama's Administration has declared that even banks that want to repay their bailout money may be refused permission to do so. Only after the Obama team cleared a bank through the Fed's "stress test" was it eligible to give taxpayers their money back. Even then, declared Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, the Administration might force banks to keep the money.

The President continues to push for stimulus even though hundreds of billions of dollars in such funds seem to have done little. The unemployment rate when Obama took office in January 2009 was 7.7%; now it is 9.5%. Yet he wants to spend even more and is determined to foist the entire bill on Americans making $250,000 a year or more. The rich, Obama insists, aren't paying their "fair share." This by itself seems odd given that the top 1% of Americans pay 40% of all federal income taxes; the next 9% of income earners pay another 30%. So the top 10% pays 70% of the taxes; the bottom 40% pays close to nothing. This does indeed seem unfair--to the rich.

Obama's foreign policy is no less strange. He supports a $100 million mosque scheduled to be built near the site where terrorists in the name of Islam brought down the World Trade Center. Obama's rationale, that "our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable," seems utterly irrelevant to the issue of why the proposed Cordoba House should be constructed at Ground Zero.....

....Theories abound to explain the President's goals and actions. Critics in the business community--including some Obama voters who now have buyer's remorse--tend to focus on two main themes. The first is that Obama is clueless about business. The second is that Obama is a socialist--not an out-and-out Marxist, but something of a European-style  socialist, with a penchant for leveling and government redistribution.

These theories aren't wrong so much as they are inadequate. Even if they could account for Obama's domestic policy, they cannot explain his foreign policy. The real problem with Obama is worse--much worse. But we have been blinded to his real agenda because, across the political spectrum, we all seek to fit him into some version of American history. In the process, we ignore Obama's own history. Here is a man who spent his formative years--the first 17 years of his life--off the American mainland, in Hawaii, Indonesia and Pakistan, with multiple subsequent journeys to Africa.

A good way to discern what motivates Obama is to ask a simple question: What is his dream? Is it the American dream? Is it Martin Luther King's dream? Or something else?

It is certainly not the American dream as conceived by the founders. They believed the nation was a "new order for the ages." A half-century later Alexis de Tocqueville wrote of America as creating "a distinct species of mankind." This is known as American exceptionalism. But when asked at a 2009 press conference whether he believed in this ideal, Obama said no. America, he suggested, is no more unique or exceptional than Britain or Greece or any other country.

Perhaps, then, Obama shares Martin Luther King's dream of a color-blind society. The President has benefited from that dream; he campaigned as a nonracial candidate, and many Americans voted for him because he represents the color-blind ideal. Even so, King's dream is not Obama's: The President never champions the idea of color-blindness or race-neutrality. This inaction is not merely tactical; the race issue simply isn't what drives Obama.

What then is Obama's dream? We don't have to speculate because the President tells us himself in his autobiography, Dreams from My Father. According to Obama, his dream is his father's dream. Notice that his title is not Dreams of My Father but rather Dreams from My Father. Obama isn't writing about his father's dreams; he is writing about the dreams he received from his father.

So who was Barack Obama Sr.? He was a Luo tribesman who grew up in Kenya and studied at Harvard. He was a polygamist who had, over the course of his lifetime, four wives and eight children. One of his sons, Mark Obama, has accused him of abuse and wife-beating. He was also a regular drunk driver who got into numerous accidents, killing a man in one and causing his own legs to be amputated due to injury in another. In 1982 he got drunk at a bar in Nairobi and drove into a tree, killing himself....

.... I know a great deal about anticolonialism, because I am a native of Mumbai, India. I am part of the first Indian generation to be born after my country's independence from the British. Anticolonialism was the rallying cry of Third World politics for much of the second half of the 20th century. To most Americans, however, anticolonialism is an unfamiliar idea, so let me explain it. Anticolonialism is the doctrine that rich countries of the West got rich by invading, occupying and looting poor countries of Asia, Africa and South America. As one of Obama's acknowledged intellectual influences, Frantz Fanon, wrote in The Wretched of the Earth, "The well-being and progress of Europe have been built up with the sweat and the dead bodies of Negroes, Arabs, Indians and the yellow races."

.... This was the anticolonial ideology of Barack Obama Sr. and many in his generation, including many of my own relatives in India. Obama Sr. was an economist, and in 1965 he published an important article in the East Africa Journal called "Problems Facing Our Socialism." Obama Sr. wasn't a doctrinaire socialist; rather, he saw state appropriation of wealth as a necessary means to achieve the anticolonial objective of taking resources away from the foreign looters and restoring them to the people of Africa. For Obama Sr. this was an issue of national autonomy. "Is it the African who owns this country? If he does, then why should he not control the economic means of growth in this country?"

As he put it, "We need to eliminate power structures that have been built through excessive accumulation so that not only a few individuals shall control a vast magnitude of resources as is the case now." The senior Obama proposed that the state confiscate private land and raise taxes with no upper limit. In fact, he insisted that "theoretically there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100% of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed."

Remarkably, President Obama, who knows his father's history very well, has never mentioned his father's article. Even more remarkably, there has been virtually no reporting on a document that seems directly relevant to what the junior Obama is doing in the White House....

.... It may seem incredible to suggest that the anticolonial ideology of Barack Obama Sr. is espoused by his son, the President of the United States. That is what I am saying. From a very young age and through his formative years, Obama learned to see America as a force for global domination and destruction. He came to view America's military as an instrument of neocolonial occupation. He adopted his father's position that capitalism and free markets are code words for economic plunder. Obama grew to perceive the rich as an oppressive class, a kind of neocolonial power within America. In his worldview, profits are a measure of how effectively you have ripped off the rest of society, and America's power in the world is a measure of how selfishly it consumes the globe's resources and how ruthlessly it bullies and dominates the rest of the planet.

For Obama, the solutions are simple. He must work to wring the neocolonialism out of America and the West. And here is where our anticolonial understanding of Obama really takes off, because it provides a vital key to explaining not only his major policy actions but also the little details that no other theory can adequately account for....

... Rejecting the socialist formula, Obama has shown no intention to nationalize the investment banks or the health sector. Rather, he seeks to decolonize these institutions, and this means bringing them under the government's leash. That's why Obama retains the right to refuse bailout paybacks--so that he can maintain his control. For Obama, health insurance companies on their own are oppressive racketeers, but once they submitted to federal oversight he was happy to do business with them. He even promised them expanded business as a result of his law forcing every American to buy health insurance.

If Obama shares his father's anticolonial crusade, that would explain why he wants people who are already paying close to 50% of their income in overall taxes to pay even more. The anticolonialist believes that since the rich have prospered at the expense of others, their wealth doesn't really belong to them; therefore whatever can be extracted from them is automatically just. Recall what Obama Sr. said in his 1965 paper: There is no tax rate too high, and even a 100% rate is justified under certain circumstances.

Obama supports the Ground Zero mosque because to him 9/11 is the event that unleashed the American bogey and pushed us into Iraq and Afghanistan. He views some of the Muslims who are fighting against America abroad as resisters of U.S. imperialism. Certainly that is the way the Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi portrayed himself at his trial. Obama's perception of him as an anticolonial resister would explain why he gave tacit approval for this murderer of hundreds of Americans to be released from captivity....

... Clearly the anticolonial ideology of Barack Obama Sr. goes a long way to explain the actions and policies of his son in the Oval Office. And we can be doubly sure about his father's influence because those who know Obama well testify to it. His "granny" Sarah Obama (not his real grandmother but one of his grandfather's other wives) told Newsweek, "I look at him and I see all the same things--he has taken everything from his father. The son is realizing everything the father wanted. The dreams of the father are still alive in the son."

In his own writings Obama stresses the centrality of his father not only to his beliefs and values but to his very identity. He calls his memoir "the record of a personal, interior journey--a boy's search for his father and through that search a workable meaning for his life as a black American." And again, "It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself." Even though his father was absent for virtually all his life, Obama writes, "My father's voice had nevertheless remained untainted, inspiring, rebuking, granting or withholding approval. You do not work hard enough, Barry. You must help in your people's struggle. Wake up, black man!"...

.... Colonialism today is a dead issue. No one cares about it except the man in the White House. He is the last anticolonial. Emerging market economies such as China, India, Chile and Indonesia have solved the problem of backwardness; they are exploiting their labor advantage and growing much faster than the U.S. If America is going to remain on top, we have to compete in an increasingly tough environment.

But instead of readying us for the challenge, our President is trapped in his father's time machine. Incredibly, the U.S. is being ruled according to the dreams of a Luo tribesman of the 1950s. This philandering, inebriated African socialist, who raged against the world for denying him the realization of his anticolonial ambitions, is now setting the nation's agenda through the reincarnation of his dreams in his son. The son makes it happen, but he candidly admits he is only living out his father's dream. The invisible father provides the inspiration, and the son dutifully gets the job done. America today is governed by a ghost.

------Dinesh D'Souza, the president of the King's College in New York City, is the author of the forthcoming book The Roots of Obama's Rage (Regnery Publishing).Correction: Dinesh D'Souza writes that on June 15, 2010, Obama gave a speech in response to the BP oil spill that was "focused not on cleanup strategies but rather on the fact that Americans 'consume more than 20% of the world’s oil but have less than 2% of the world’s resources.'" D'Souza slightly misquoted the President who said, "2% of the world's oil reserves." In addition, Obama's speech did discuss concrete measures to investigate the oil spill and bring it under control.

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We cannot stop Barack Obama from occupying the Presidency for two more years, BUT WE MUST STOP HIM FROM BEING REELECTED IN 2012.  THE ARTICLES ABOVE ARE MORE THAN REVELATIONS.  THEY ARE A PUBLIC SERVICE.  READ THEM; SHARE THEM; SAVE THEM AND REMEMBER THEM, COME THE NEXT ELECTION CYCLE.  [NOTE: Opponents of author D'SOUZA "tear him apart" for his biased views and debunk much of what he has written and said.  If you want a contrarian viewpoint, read that. http://campusprogress.org/articles/dinesh_dsouza/  It is as extreme in its intense bias as it claims D'Souza is in his.  FORM YOUR OWN OPINIONS!

ABOVE ALL GET OUT THE VOTEI   HOPE YOU ALL HAVE VOTED BY NOW OR ARE PLANNING TO VOTE.  TALK TO YOUR CHILDREN AND THE YOUTH OF THE COMING GENERATION.  THIS IS ONLY THE FIRST STEP OF A MULTI-YEAR PLAN TO TAKE BACK AMERICA.  IT IS TIME FOR "WE THE PEOPLE"  TO RISE UP AND BE COUNTED.

BEST, JOHN

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-John L. Mariotti, President & CEO, The Enterprise Group, Phone 614-840-0959  http://www.mariotti.net   http://mariotti.blogs.com/my_weblog/
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