Thomas Sowell on displacing blame:
What President Obama has been pushing for, and moving toward, is more insidious [than socialism]: government control of the economy, while leaving ownership in private hands. That way, politicians get to call the shots but, when their bright ideas lead to disaster, they can always blame those who own businesses in the private sector… Thus the Obama administration can arbitrarily force insurance companies to cover the children of their customers until the children are 26 years old. Obviously, this creates favourable publicity for President Obama. But if this and other government edicts cause insurance premiums to rise, then that is something that can be blamed on the “greed” of the insurance companies. The same principle, or lack of principle, applies to many other privately owned businesses. It is a very successful political ploy that can be adapted to all sorts of situations.
Remember there are two sets of laws out there, one for the people, but another for Dem POTUS candidates, I mean young black men. Hillary’s comment about having to end the fear black men feel when “rolled up on” by police in light of the Dallas shootings made me feel ill. Notwithstanding her ignorance and hypocrisy, she and her statist friends feel compelled to ignore and repress the violent tendencies in Muslim and black communities in favour of branding the rest of the population as racists who want to blame the many for the actions of the few.
Unless they’re white cops of course, then fire away for racial justice eh? Meanwhile inner city black crime explodes with no fathers in sight.
The divider in chief tells us we must work together, as he tears Americans apart for his political and legacy ends. False narratives like “you didn’t build that” and “white cops are racists” give goons all the cover they need to pretend their crimes are political acts or how the “rich” exploit.
What did Obama talk about this weekend, after an obvious hate crime in Dallas? He wanted to launch civil rights investigations in Baton Rouge and elsewhere. Yes, very uniting.
For the first time in history the US has a candidate for POTUS who’s qualification for office is she’s too stupid to recognize security breaches or classified information in emails, but who apparently has the “temperament” for office, because she is too thick to form criminal intent?
Serial mendacity, criminal behaviour and abysmal judgment – sure she’s qualified, given Obama was elected.
It’s called fascism. Allow me to direct the use of your property, and I will care little for your “ownership” of it.
Seems to me a guy called Hitler tried this some 80 years ago.
Yup….that is EXACTLY correct.
Hitler was named “Man of the Year” in 1938 by Time Magazine. They noted Hitler’s anti-capitalistic economic policies:
“Most cruel joke of all, however, has been played by Hitler & Co. on those German capitalists and small businessmen who once backed National Socialism as a means of saving Germany’s bourgeois economic structure from radicalism. The Nazi credo that the individual belongs to the state also applies to business. Some businesses have been confiscated outright, on other what amounts to a capital tax has been levied. Profits have been strictly controlled. Some idea of the increasing Governmental control and interference in business could be deduced from the fact that 80% of all building and 50% of all industrial orders in Germany originated last year with the Government. Hard-pressed for food- stuffs as well as funds, the Nazi regime has taken over large estates and in many instances collectivized agriculture, a procedure fundamentally similar to Russian Communism.”
(Source: Time Magazine; January 2, 1939.)
At the time, there was a question in Germany about the difference between the Nazis and the Communists. Many businessmen in Germany would answer this question with an anecdote which was very popular among them. It tells of two peasants who did not understand the difference between Bolshevism and National Socialism. One of them asked the other his opinion on the matter. The answer was:
“Under Bolshevism all your cows will be taken away from you because you are a kulak. Under National Socialism you are allowed to keep the cows; but the State takes all the milk, and you have the expense and labor of feeding them.”
It’s International Socialism vs National Socialism. The left can never make up their minds. Which to choose?
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speaking of blame… mainstream media bearing down on “stephen harper’s witchhunt”
from beyond the political grave.”
out of office for almost a year and still working his black magic… he’s that scary & evil.
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This is effectively the entire Democrat platform. Hike corporate income tax to 40% and bombard them with expensive regulations, then screech about the evil capitalist pigs when it destroys the economy and they start hiring fewer people, paying lower wages, offering fewer benefits, and finally raising the price of their products.
If I was willing to credit them with intelligence, I’d say it was deliberate. Unfortunately, I suspect many of the politicians responsible for this mess are genuinely incapable of drawing the line between cause and effect.
sounds a lot like that former functioning country in South America!
I heard the BLACK Dallas Murderer’s father this morning … somewhat illiterately … say that he “didn’t see this coming” with his RACIST son. 1) He appears to be a typical BLACK father who abandons his family just after spawning some welfare checks for a BLACK woman … or 2) He is a LIAR … because BOTH his son AND his daughter have been spouting RACIST, HATEFUL, MURDEROUS, ANTI-COP Rhetoric for months … if not years.
So, Mr. Obama … OPEN … your big floppy ears … and LISTEN … to the TRUTH about BLM and BLACK RACISM … not to mention ISISS !!!
A wise, black, real man just eloquently opined, though I doubt this is a new idea to anyone here:
Obama wants to keep the black man down, so he is a perpetual victim, in need of statism to sustain community failure and thus dependence.
This is a jealously protected constituency. Too bad for them, as happened with their Islamist apologist allies, criminal elements in the radical black movements have used terrorism to further their fascist “cause,” again we see eroding sympathy in the national community.
Life can’t be improving for blacks in their what’s math world. The .01% exception, bad cops, proves their specious argument.
No, their economic welfare and social freedom haven’t improved at all because of, dust this one off just used by Hillary, “systemic racism,” aka I know it’s there so it doesn’t matter if it’s disproved by any and all evidence.
Hillary risks patronizing her black constituency by rescuing unionist rhetoric from the bone pile of affirmative action and vestigial feminism.
Open season on blacks by blacks in inner cities, where a participating father is rare, where gangs rule, soon to be armed better than the “demilitarized” police. Cops are the nemesis of gangs, so of course they are turned into racist, murdering goons; are we really that blinded by white guilt?
The gang mentality is now fused with militant black groups like the new black (gang?) panthers who, unlike their predecessors, are not at all interested in the welfare of blacks, so don’t expect any community service. That’s not what gangs do. Disorder is the new order. What of reality?
It’s clear the standard of living and safety has been improving for black communities, albeit to the moment Obama and his identity agenda took power.
Dallas is a beacon of how police positively interact with all of the population. They were left admitting they couldn’t be cops and parole officers, social workers, prison guards or welfare providers; while Obama decides which hate crime to investigate under civil rights.
In Dallas, for a second time a shooter tried to shatter a burgeoning peace. It failed last time and will do so again, in spite of Hillary’s and Obama’s thoughtless political machinations as each reaches for the golden rings of power and legacy.
Meanwhile, Hillary, reminiscent of the Grit Adscam $60m=$20k spin, says well it was only three emails and they weren’t “marked” classified.
They weren’t “marked classified” because, as we know from Comey’s testimony, she was conveniently too thick to realize that was her responsibility.
Meanwhile cops “roll up” on belligerent black kids who’ve swallowed the victim bait and hook. Again, who should be worried here?
Meanwhile a potential president can never legally hold a security clearance, so for convenience all secrets will have to be “unmarked.”
God bless and God help America as she is swept up under the broom of the false agendas of systemic racism and climate change as justification for removing wealth from the nation and liberty from society.
BTW, for the Ben Shapiro’s and other assorted never Trump lug nuts out there, twist it for better effect. Perhaps a European cruise is in order.
Remember his “you didn’t build that” comment on who is responsible for driving the economy?
Then Obama went on to take credit for record US oil & gas production in 2011 while, at the same time, calling for the end of fossil fuels to combat global warming.
And that is the gold standard in politics these days.
Your agent keep telin’ you the same thing, though has to admit no credentials.
Thomas Sowell is one of superior thinkers of our time.
Here is another slam dunk by Dinesh D’Souza in the same vein, so to say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkHrI7W3WCQ
Democrats and socialists are doing bait and switch unto the unsuspected LIV’s.
There was a thinker from the 19th century who understood this:
“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”
― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law