nelson
08-05-2009, 12:54 AM
We are seeing massive change in our country. I do not think it is new change, and I certainly don't think it's change for the better. Like the author of this story, I think the real change we are seeing lately is a change in degree. What is happening today... has been happening for some time. But now it's happening much more quickly.
In this column, Paul Cleveland calls it "War on the Poor." Admittedly, I have never been one to champion the poor. But I see that he is right - these changes affect people of less means much more than they affect people of greater means.
And in the end, this war will make us all poor. Irony?
Obama and the Continuing War on the Poor
http://mises.org/story/3592
The process of looting the public appears to have gained momentum with the newest administration. It has embarked on a full-scale assault on the American public, aimed not only at ravaging the poor for a few special interests, but vastly increasing the number of people consigned to poverty. Whether we look at Obama and the Democrats' cap-and-trade legislation or their health care reform or their pork barrel stimulus bill, in each case they intend to raise prices and increase taxes on us all. While a few corporate interests will benefit grandly from such nonsense, the vast majority of us will be made poorer. The saddest part of all of this is that no one seems to care that the economic results will be most heavily felt by the weakest among us. The gross immorality of this oppression and tyranny should be evident to anyone who would but casually look at the situation. However, thus far the mainstream media has given Obama a pass and the general population has chosen to remain blindly ignorant.
Read on... (http://mises.org/story/3592)
In this column, Paul Cleveland calls it "War on the Poor." Admittedly, I have never been one to champion the poor. But I see that he is right - these changes affect people of less means much more than they affect people of greater means.
And in the end, this war will make us all poor. Irony?
Obama and the Continuing War on the Poor
http://mises.org/story/3592
The process of looting the public appears to have gained momentum with the newest administration. It has embarked on a full-scale assault on the American public, aimed not only at ravaging the poor for a few special interests, but vastly increasing the number of people consigned to poverty. Whether we look at Obama and the Democrats' cap-and-trade legislation or their health care reform or their pork barrel stimulus bill, in each case they intend to raise prices and increase taxes on us all. While a few corporate interests will benefit grandly from such nonsense, the vast majority of us will be made poorer. The saddest part of all of this is that no one seems to care that the economic results will be most heavily felt by the weakest among us. The gross immorality of this oppression and tyranny should be evident to anyone who would but casually look at the situation. However, thus far the mainstream media has given Obama a pass and the general population has chosen to remain blindly ignorant.
Read on... (http://mises.org/story/3592)