I'm sorry, Mr. President, but you had your chance

It's great that Barack Obama broke the race barrier for the highest office in the land, but he has failed. Obama's performance has nothing to do with the color of his skin. One of the main reasons to break the race barrier is equality of opportunity, and everyone should be judged on their performance, not their race or gender or age or sexual orientation or religion, etc. Obama's performance in office has been sub-par, and saying that full-throatedly is not racist, as some race-baiters have claimed -- it's respectful.

I judge Obama as I judged Bush and I judged Clinton and I judged Reagan, by their performance. Obama has worked against economic recovery. Everything Obama believes about economics is counter to growth and new wealth creation. Now, Obama wants to spend more money on government jobs and government projects to put people to work and get the recovery going. The idea that government has to spend money and create jobs in a recession conflicts with what's necessary in a recession. Resources were misused before the recession and the unproductive activity caused the market to fall and companies to dump workers. We've needed an adjustment period for capital to flow to more productive undertakings, but government has constantly interfered with the market, and it's done so to the point of causing widespread uncertainty among investors and producers.

This statist interference hasn't happened only in America since 2008, so it can't be dumped on Obama, but Obama has continued the failed policies that have been enacted in Europe and America and around the world for a long, long time in one form or another to one extent or another. The whole world is now facing the consequences of years of welfare spending, cronyism, corruption, State Capitalism and central planning. Capital has been misdirected on a grand scale, and we can't just spend our way out of it anymore. Those with great fortunes to invest have been burnt one too many times. The scale of the recession is too large, and the needed adjustments have been blocked by too many government interventions according to too many central plans. Market activity is built on confidence -- confidence that the the rules will be stable and others can be trusted to play by the rules. The rules have been broken and changed too many times.

In the global economy we're all interdependent, and the global recession can cause panic if nations start to fail one at a time, like Greece and Spain might do before too long. This is a dangerous time, and Obama is ill-suited to lead the most powerful nation in the world with the world's biggest economy at stake. There are some elite, international power players who would love to see a global collapse and reset, because they plan to help with the reset, which will be much more socialistic than capitalistic. Capitalism will be blamed when the reset happens, although true capitalism is something the world hasn't known for quite awhile, if it has been known at all. The Left will make fun of anyone who says true capitalism hasn't been tried, and they will say it's an idealistic concept, anyway, and that we need pragmatic solutions that address the iniquities of capitalism, that there are enough resources to go around, and that we need to properly fairly distribute the resorces, move beyond base markets and build the system which 21st century needs requires.

America is needed to lead the way out of this global recession, but Obama is an obstacle. We need a government that understands its role is too create an environment in which economic liberty is possible, and one in which the investors and producers have confidence. It can be done.

America doesn't have a chance

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/total-barbarity-as-mexican-cartel-dumps-49-torsos-along-highway/2012/05/13/gIQACHNMNU_story.html

It's the same old bipartisan game that has brought us to the brink of disaster. It's the same mindset that has brought ruin to Greece and threatens the financial security of other European countries. It's the same economically-ignorant desire for the State to use tax-payer money to support corporations in order to compete with other State-capitalist countries, as if State and Corporations should be partners competing in the global market against the other teams made up of States and corporations, not companies competing against one another based on what they have to offer.

Republicans, for the most part, have learned nothing. Romney is not showing any desire to break this bipartisan power-grip the two-party statist system has on our government. The media simply praises any joint effort to expand the scope and power of government. Every arm of the State is working overtime to expand government power, and to stop any movement that might want to limit government power.

The few new Republicans elected in 2010 who helped put a stop to Obama's march to complete a progressive agenda are now made irrelevant along with all of congress as Obama and his EPA henchman write regulation after regulation in order to secure government's control over the economy.

The entire political class manufactures diversions so that the focus on economic ruin is shifted. Talk about women's issues, gay issues, accuse each other of mendacity, complain about non-existent austerity, find sob stories to tell so the hearstrings are pulled and no one asks any tough questions regarding how this will all be paid for. Paul Krugman and the highest financial experts in government say spend more money and worry about paying it back later -- this is the expert advice.

The one man who calls for radical change and sensible policies to avoid economic allopse, Ron Paul, is ignored, and when he is noticed is ridiculed as a crank. The experts say America will never be like Greece. We already are like Greece. We just have more to waste. I thought there was hope somewhere in the Republican Party, but now I don't believe there is hope in either party -- there's no hope in the political realm, period.

When liberals sneer

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/04/05/greece-to-germany-only-nazis-would-give-us-billions-with-strings-attached/

Liberals usually sneer when they have no answers for their illogical thinking about economics or failing welfare statism. When comparisons are made between the US and Greece, liberals sneer for sure as they say we are a great economic power who could never reach the financial bottom that Greece has reached. Liberals in Greece are sneering at the Germans and associating them with their nazi past -- now, that justifies a sneer.

It's already started in the US -- OWS protests against "austerity" -- Van Jones calling those who support economic freedom and financial responsibility racists and homophobes and such. It seems like honest liberals would sneer at OWS and Van Jones. Regardless of the good will one can muster to assume that many in OWS are young and sincerely worried about cronyism, in order for their concerns to be addressed properly there must be limits placed on government power, but every protester I hear proposes, in one way or another, more interventionist government. You can write this off as innocent ignorance, and generously say they mean well, but ideas have power, and these statist ideas must be squashed if we want systemic changes. There's much to sneer at, but let's not sneer at real solutions.

Throwing money down a black Greek hole

http://www.siasat.com/english/news/greece-secures-biggest-debt-deal-history

Through the IMF the US is throwing away billions it doesn't have. Greece will not repay these loans. The Greek people have shown no willingness to abide by the austerity measures necessary to build their economy.

In the meanwhile, Britain is making plans -- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17295461

Morning Joe 2/21/2012 -- Second thoughts on Santorum

Joe and Mika are on vacation, so Willie Geist and Mike Barnicle are hosting, and today they had Michael Steele, John Heilemann, Mark Halperin, Andrea Mitchell, Eugene Robinson, and a few other pundits on to talk about Romney and Santorum, Obama and his reelection chances, Iran and Israel, and a few other topics, Like Gingrich saying Obama is a foreign policy nightmare. Santorum is talking about Obama's secular theology, and the media still rag Romney because he feels comfortable in Michigan with the height of the trees. I understand what Romney was saying -- I spent a while out west, and when I returned to the south, one of the first things that gave me a good comfortable feeling were the trees and the rivers.

I have no idea which way the Republican race will go, but I have to believe that GOP voters will come to their senses and reject Santorum. Eugene Washington is writing a column about Santorum bringing down the GOP, and I agree -- if religious conservatives who think government should legislate morality rally around Santorum and make him the nominee, the GOP is over for a long time. Santorum is mad, and he feels power by tapping into populist anger, but the social conservatives are missing the point. Freedom has to be expanded to cover all Americans, even those who make whoopie in strange ways.

This election should be about liberty, individual rights, non-intervention overseas -- a rejection of statism. America has to be prepared for Europe's fiancial collapse, a bursting bubble in China, and a war between Israel and Iran. America has to be the safe haven of liberty for those who are destroyed by statism all over the world. If you want to see a modern, immediate example of the end result of statism, look to Greece. We have to reject statism in America, and talking about abortion, contraception, kinky sex and theology will not get us to the place we need to be.