The telling part of the audio recording of Mitt that surfaced wasn't what the Democrats are making it out to be. What Mitt said was nothing but stating the obvious in an exagerrated way - I say exaggerated because among the 47% not paying federal taxes are some conservatives who happen to be retired and those who simply do not make enough money.
Neither was it the bias of the media, as we all know it and they do not even attempt to hide it anymore. The same media - L.A. Times to be exact - that would not release the 2008 recording of Obama at a fund raiser with a bunch of muslims where allegedly damaging things were said, is always all too eager to release innocuous material on Republicans and try to make scandals out of them. But of course, there are no vital stories in recordings that surface where the President is plainly stating that he is all for redistribution of wealth or that he will have more flexibility after the election when it comes to making concessions to the Russians on missile defense.
No, the truly telling aspect of this recording was that Mitt is no conservative. He is a RINO as I have alleged for a long time now. Forget Romney Care as a tell tale sign. Mitt clearly thinks in pure political terms. His faulty analysis of the supposed alleigence of the 47% being with Democrats aside, Mitt clearly showed us that he has no constitutional conservative convictions. He does not believe in the human spirit yearning for freedom. If Reagan was in his shoes, he undoubtedly would have not written off anyone. He would, as he always did, appeal to the liberty loving nature of Americans and inspire them to reach for their personal best while pointing out the insidious nature of collectivism. After all, Reagan knew all too well that government centric approach of progressives are designed with the sole purpose of killing individual initiative, therefore the spirit.
The difference is glaringly obvious. Reagan was an inspirational leader who believed in the greatness of the individual; Mitt clearly lacks the depth of philosophical conviction that every individual has the potential to be truly great and yearns to achieve it given the chance.
We will always miss your greatness, Mr. Reagan.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
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Sunday, September 16, 2012
Death of American Foreign Policy
American foreign policy since 1776 has been nuances ranging from periodic pre-world war II isolationisms to the more hawkish stance that started with the Truman doctrine in 1947. Whatever the prevailing policy of any given era was, however, the goal of American foreign policy had always been the promotion of America and the American way across the globe as it should unquestionably be. After all that is what our national interests as well as our belief in American exceptionalism dictates.
Role of American Exceptionalism on foreign policy:
Believing in American Exceptionalism does not simply mean everyone else is second class citizens of the world. American Exceptionalism is the idea that the “United States and the American people hold a special place in the world, by offering opportunity and hope for humanity, derived from its unique balance of public and private interests governed by constitutional ideals that are focused on personal and economic freedom”. I like to call it a quality that directly and indirectly enhances the human condition all around the world – not inhibit it.
Although the current President would take an issue, we have proven our exceptionalism continuously for over two centuries by defending liberty with our own blood and treasure all around the globe; opening up our shores to the downtrodden and the oppressed; and as a byproduct by our innovative and productive leadership and our charity in general.
What makes us unique as a nation? Are we geographically blessed more than anyone else? Have we had thousands of years of shared history or common religion as people to build our nation on? Are we a homogenous people who might be somehow superior to others? The answers are obviously NO!
More fundamentally, what makes us unique is our exceptionalism emanating from having broken away from European feudalism and forming a nation, based on a collection of founding documents that were inspired by natural law (as historically ascribed by Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and others) that placed utmost importance on the concept of civil society.
As the English writer G. K. Chesterton observed, "America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed." That creed is set forth most clearly in the Declaration of Independence, by which the American colonies announced their separation from Great Britain. The Declaration is a timeless statement of inherent god given rights, the proper purposes of government, and the limits on political authority.
Just think for a moment. This collection of men, who based on the norms of their era could have created any type of government and given themselves any amount of power, chose to create a republic that would be effectively governed by people, with limited, enumerated powers reserved for the government. An amazingly enlightened course of action as likes of Chesterton would extensively write about. Perhaps the best summation, still, is as Alexis deTocqueville observed: “America is exceptional because of our uniquely American ideology based on liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism and laissez-faire – all working in harmony.”
In sum, America is an exceptional nation, but not because of what it has achieved or accomplished. America is exceptional because, unlike any other nation, it is dedicated to the principles of human liberty, grounded on the truths that all men are created equal and endowed with equal rights.
So, what is more morally imperative than spreading the creed that has made us the beacon for freedom in the world?
The Death of American foreign policy:
I call the two decade period starting with 1989 the decline of American foreign policy. This is when the United States lost its focus on spreading the 'American way' across the globe and embarked on a foolish policy of nation building. Reagan was our last leader who believed in the true meaning of American exceptionalism and the importance of spreading that message to the world - not as a means of boasting of our superiority, but rather for other nations to emulate us in adopting respect for individual rights.
The act of nation building - a la Iraq or Afghanistan - is a foolish substitute for simply spreading the gospel of American exceptionalism. Democracy is not a hardy flower that can take root regardless of the soil it is planted on. The necessary ingredient for democracy is a healthy respect for individual rights. Such respect does not exist in certain cultures, thus regardless of blood and treasure spent, these societies will never adopt a republican form of government nor will they have a civil society in the foreseeable future.
2009 marked the beginning of yet a new era in American foreign policy. I call it the postmortem era since there is no discernible American foreign policy anymore under the progressive regime of president Obama. We apparently should be rejoicing in the fact that we now live in a utopian world where all the hard facts and complexities of millenia of ethnic and religious coexistence have disappeared thanks to the election of the great one.
The Obama doctrine is simple enough. It dictates our equality with all nations on this earth - no matter how despotic the regime might be. This egalitarian utopianism is typical of Marxism and other collectivist ideologies. So, it is no wonder that this administration wholeheartedly supported the Arab spring which has replaced all friendly dictators with Islamic radicals of groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, who are sworn to erase the Western civilization from the face of this earth? At the same token, this Administration has double crossed almost all our former friends - including Israel, Taiwan, Poland, Czech Republic, Honduras, Colombia, and many more - in favor of tyrants like Iran's Ahmedi Nejad, Russias's Putin, or Venezuela's Chavez. After all, America is an unjust society and must be cut down to size in the sick minds of progressives - and the best way to accomplish that is by working against American as well as western interests.
As Obama famously said in 2008, he believes in American exceptionalism as much as Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism. Disecting this statement gives us a window to the psyche of our president. Obama clearly believes that we have no moral authority to spread our creed to the rest of the world. In other words, American exceptionalism means nothing to Obama and his progressive ilk, and why should it? Believing in it would be wholesale rejection of the collectivist policies progressives subscribe to.
Role of American Exceptionalism on foreign policy:
Believing in American Exceptionalism does not simply mean everyone else is second class citizens of the world. American Exceptionalism is the idea that the “United States and the American people hold a special place in the world, by offering opportunity and hope for humanity, derived from its unique balance of public and private interests governed by constitutional ideals that are focused on personal and economic freedom”. I like to call it a quality that directly and indirectly enhances the human condition all around the world – not inhibit it.
Although the current President would take an issue, we have proven our exceptionalism continuously for over two centuries by defending liberty with our own blood and treasure all around the globe; opening up our shores to the downtrodden and the oppressed; and as a byproduct by our innovative and productive leadership and our charity in general.
What makes us unique as a nation? Are we geographically blessed more than anyone else? Have we had thousands of years of shared history or common religion as people to build our nation on? Are we a homogenous people who might be somehow superior to others? The answers are obviously NO!
More fundamentally, what makes us unique is our exceptionalism emanating from having broken away from European feudalism and forming a nation, based on a collection of founding documents that were inspired by natural law (as historically ascribed by Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and others) that placed utmost importance on the concept of civil society.
As the English writer G. K. Chesterton observed, "America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed." That creed is set forth most clearly in the Declaration of Independence, by which the American colonies announced their separation from Great Britain. The Declaration is a timeless statement of inherent god given rights, the proper purposes of government, and the limits on political authority.
Just think for a moment. This collection of men, who based on the norms of their era could have created any type of government and given themselves any amount of power, chose to create a republic that would be effectively governed by people, with limited, enumerated powers reserved for the government. An amazingly enlightened course of action as likes of Chesterton would extensively write about. Perhaps the best summation, still, is as Alexis deTocqueville observed: “America is exceptional because of our uniquely American ideology based on liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism and laissez-faire – all working in harmony.”
In sum, America is an exceptional nation, but not because of what it has achieved or accomplished. America is exceptional because, unlike any other nation, it is dedicated to the principles of human liberty, grounded on the truths that all men are created equal and endowed with equal rights.
So, what is more morally imperative than spreading the creed that has made us the beacon for freedom in the world?
The Death of American foreign policy:
I call the two decade period starting with 1989 the decline of American foreign policy. This is when the United States lost its focus on spreading the 'American way' across the globe and embarked on a foolish policy of nation building. Reagan was our last leader who believed in the true meaning of American exceptionalism and the importance of spreading that message to the world - not as a means of boasting of our superiority, but rather for other nations to emulate us in adopting respect for individual rights.
The act of nation building - a la Iraq or Afghanistan - is a foolish substitute for simply spreading the gospel of American exceptionalism. Democracy is not a hardy flower that can take root regardless of the soil it is planted on. The necessary ingredient for democracy is a healthy respect for individual rights. Such respect does not exist in certain cultures, thus regardless of blood and treasure spent, these societies will never adopt a republican form of government nor will they have a civil society in the foreseeable future.
2009 marked the beginning of yet a new era in American foreign policy. I call it the postmortem era since there is no discernible American foreign policy anymore under the progressive regime of president Obama. We apparently should be rejoicing in the fact that we now live in a utopian world where all the hard facts and complexities of millenia of ethnic and religious coexistence have disappeared thanks to the election of the great one.
The Obama doctrine is simple enough. It dictates our equality with all nations on this earth - no matter how despotic the regime might be. This egalitarian utopianism is typical of Marxism and other collectivist ideologies. So, it is no wonder that this administration wholeheartedly supported the Arab spring which has replaced all friendly dictators with Islamic radicals of groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, who are sworn to erase the Western civilization from the face of this earth? At the same token, this Administration has double crossed almost all our former friends - including Israel, Taiwan, Poland, Czech Republic, Honduras, Colombia, and many more - in favor of tyrants like Iran's Ahmedi Nejad, Russias's Putin, or Venezuela's Chavez. After all, America is an unjust society and must be cut down to size in the sick minds of progressives - and the best way to accomplish that is by working against American as well as western interests.
As Obama famously said in 2008, he believes in American exceptionalism as much as Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism. Disecting this statement gives us a window to the psyche of our president. Obama clearly believes that we have no moral authority to spread our creed to the rest of the world. In other words, American exceptionalism means nothing to Obama and his progressive ilk, and why should it? Believing in it would be wholesale rejection of the collectivist policies progressives subscribe to.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Obama's Vision of America's Business Enterprises
Solyndra, Fisker, Light Squared........the list of failed Obama supported American businesses are seemingly endless. Obama can be excused that almost all of the multitudenous companies he and his progressive fellow travellers supported to the tune of billions of wasted tax payer dollars are in presently non-viable areas concerning utilization or generation of alternative/renewable energy. Leaving aside the legitimate questions of impropreity concerning cronyism (that would be giving tax payer dollars to generous campaign bundlers like Mr. Kaiser), one could make the case that green energy projects were a well intentioned gamble gone awfully wrong.
But then there is G.M. and their disastrous vehicle that the Administration touts: the Chevy Volt. Ever since G.M. launching it, the Volt has managed to sell on the average just under a thousand vehicles per month nationwide. Leaving alone problems that plague the battery of the car like spontaneous fires, the math behind the vehicle is downright scary. It costs the G.M. north of $90,000 to manufacture the car. The average loss per vehicle to G.M. is nearly $50,000 per vehicle sold. Maybe it is a good thing that the vehicle isn't selling; afterall the losses could be even more disastrous!.
With even the usual friendly voices in the media turning against Obama's brain child, his dream of a million electric cars on the streets of America within ten years is as much of a pipe dream as anything else that comes from this inept administration.
In Obama's world, government and businesses operate hand in hand - with each doing other's bidding. In this world, it is not the free markets that decide what is feasible and what is not. It is the wisdom of crony capitalist bureaucrats that carry the day at a great cost to the rest of the society. Mr. Obama may think that successful entrepreneurs who had a vision, sacrificed their time and efforts, and took the risks may not have built their businesses all by themselves. To him, I have one thing to say: Yes Mr. Obama. You did build that!
But then there is G.M. and their disastrous vehicle that the Administration touts: the Chevy Volt. Ever since G.M. launching it, the Volt has managed to sell on the average just under a thousand vehicles per month nationwide. Leaving alone problems that plague the battery of the car like spontaneous fires, the math behind the vehicle is downright scary. It costs the G.M. north of $90,000 to manufacture the car. The average loss per vehicle to G.M. is nearly $50,000 per vehicle sold. Maybe it is a good thing that the vehicle isn't selling; afterall the losses could be even more disastrous!.
With even the usual friendly voices in the media turning against Obama's brain child, his dream of a million electric cars on the streets of America within ten years is as much of a pipe dream as anything else that comes from this inept administration.
In Obama's world, government and businesses operate hand in hand - with each doing other's bidding. In this world, it is not the free markets that decide what is feasible and what is not. It is the wisdom of crony capitalist bureaucrats that carry the day at a great cost to the rest of the society. Mr. Obama may think that successful entrepreneurs who had a vision, sacrificed their time and efforts, and took the risks may not have built their businesses all by themselves. To him, I have one thing to say: Yes Mr. Obama. You did build that!
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