Howard, Fine, and Howard, PA
Stephen has as good an analogy for Obama’s economic confederacy of fascist dunces as I’ve seen yet:
Well, duh.
Let’s pretend for a moment that, god forbid, you break your arm. And somehow you end up with a team of doctors all trained at Obama University. As you lie there on the table in the ER, one doctor treats your arm by banging on the unbroken one with a ball-peen hammer. The second doctor takes the unusual course of setting your hair on fire. And the third one uses leaches.
Undeterred by your arm’s stubborn refusal to set, soon the doctors start blaming one another. And even though all of them are doing nothing but compounding your injury, none will take any blame. In fact, the louder you scream, the harder they go to work on you.
That, apparently, is what’s going on in the West Wing these days. Our economy is being managed by Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, and Dr. Howard.
Last headline, again no link yet: OBAMA PLANS FOR NEW BANKING REGULATIONS… DEVELOPING..
So now in walks a fourth doctor. This one has some Percocet and a splint, and when you see him you think, “Oh, at last, someone who knows what they’re doing!” At which point, Hospital Administrator Obama shoots the fourth doctor in the face with a pistol. And wait until you see the hospital bill – they’ll charge you for everything, including the bullet.
All of this, as I keep saying, isn’t a bug but a feature for the ruling junta:
Add up all the headlines and here’s what you have: The certainty that the government will screw up the markets, and uncertainty as to what new rules the markets will work under. Everyone is too scared to move, and for good reason. So there will be no new jobs, there will be no growth.
Which will be spun not as a failure of Obama’s statist policies, but as a failure of capitalism and free markets — which worked for more than two centuries to raise beyond all prior imagining not just our own standard of living, but the wider world’s — thereby necessitating more “fixes” of the sort that’s put us in this mess in the first place. It doesn’t mean they’re smart; Leftist are by definition the opposite of smart, since they cling to their grim ideology despite all evidence of its abject failure at creating wealth. But “not smart” does not preclude “cunning,” and creating wealth is not what they’re about; ensuring equality of outcome is. We’ll all enjoy their enforced mediocrity together, as slaves of the almighty State.
Now, where DID I put my grey tunic…?
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