Mr. President, This is What the Critics Really Say
Posted by Scott Ott on Saturday, July 04, 2009 9:30:31 AM
EXCERPT FROM PRES. OBAMA SPEECH: Critics “say we are trying to do too much, that we are moving too quickly, and that we all ought to just take a deep breath and scale back our goals,” he said. “These naysayers have short memories. We did not get here by doing what was easy. That is not how a cluster of 13 colonies became the United States of America.” -- Obama Says American ‘Spirit’ Can Confront, Resolve Challenges, Bloomberg News.
Mr. President, critics don't say that. Your supporter Colin Powell says that.
Critics say, not that you're doing "too much", but that you're doing the wrong things. Critics say that you're ...
-- interfering in free markets in a way that jeopardizes shareholder value, usurps individual rights and compromises the structural integrity of capitalism.
Critics say that you're ...
-- spending money we don't have in amounts we can never repay, thereby
-- devaluing the currency and setting up a swirling downward vortex from which there is no known economic model for escape.
Critics say that you're ...
-- pushing a government-run, taxpayer-funded, single-payer health insurance program under the guise of merely offering a public option (another scheme for which there is no known successful analog).
Critics say that you're ...
-- devastating the petroleum-based economy that has fostered the most prosperous nation in history,
-- ignoring atomic energy despite its limitless capacity to offer clean power, and
-- forcing taxpayers to gamble on so-called 'green' technologies which, despite years of research and billions of dollars of investment, still consume more energy than they generate.
Critics say that you're ...
-- compromising our national security by snuggling up to evil people who are committed to our destruction, and
-- apologizing for our history each time you step onto a foreign shore.
Critics say that you're ...
-- blaming all negatives on your predecessor while claiming credit for positives that have yet to happen, and
-- slamming anyone who disagrees with you as a narrow-minded naysayer with a short memory.
Finally, Mr. President, the 13 colonies did not become free and independent states by confiscating wealth from the productive sector of society and doling it out to the unproductive sector in a way that guarantees the perpetual enslavement of both.
This new nation, conceived in liberty, was brought forth by people who said 'Enough' to a tyrant who capriciously ruled from afar -- people who were willing to risk their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor that succeeding generations might live the freedom they bought with blood.
Mr. President when you compare your socialized insurance program, your speculative wealth confiscation program or your Niagara Falls of spending with the endeavors of those bold patriots, you trivialize their sacrifice while you crown yourself with the Styrofoam diadem of a clown.
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