Some Random Thoughts

America did not become great by out-planning other nations, but by carefully avoiding central control. If we embrace government direction of the economy, we willingly surrender our greatest asset and confront our competitors on their own terms.
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Obama surrendered one of his strongest Mid-East allies within days of the Egyptian uprising. But that's the point. Why worry about foreign threats to America's way of life when the centerpiece of his presidency is the domestic dismantling of America's way of life? Push President Mubarak to abruptly step aside? Sure. Invite the Muslim Brotherhood to help form a new government? Why not? We've got high-speed rail to build!
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Reagan was often criticized as for his veneration of the Founders and previous American generations (not unlike today's tea party). When his detractors accused him of over-active nostalgia, Reagan responded, "I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future." If Americans can halt decline -- if halting decline is even possible -- it will be because we remember our roots and face the future as we faced the past.
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Just how bad is the unemployment picture?  The latest employment reports have not been encouraging. At the rate of 36,000 new jobs a month-the number gained in January-we will never get back to full employment. Even if we keep adding jobs at the December rate of 121,000 new jobs, we wouldn't achieve full employment in this millennium.

The White House keeps hoping for monthly job gains of 250,000. But even gains of that magnitude-more than double the average gain last year- would not get America back to full employment until 2018.
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Obama's character was summed up in the O'Reilly interview. O'Reilly asks- "What is the most difficult part of being president?" Obama answers, " Living in a bubble," Living in a bubble, not being able to buy a pack of smokes? How about running wars, knowing parents are hearing of their sons death in the war. How about letters from people losing their homes? Good grief, this man is the epidemy of a self absorbed low life.

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Mr. Obama clearly is not stupid, so I advance the notion that he is malicious. I challenge anyone to adequately explain what emulates from the White House as a coherent strategy to right the ship of state; it is a far more logical conclusion that he and his entourage are hell-bent upon destroying the Constitutional Republic that we (nominally) have now and replace it with their own version of a socialist utopia, a utopia for those who are in charge, mind you, not for those who will slave to support it, each according to his ability.
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