Posted by
Katy Grimes on Tuesday, June 02, 2009 12:32:08 PM
In recent months, nasty bumper stickers are popping up that say "Milton Friedman: Proud Father of Global Misery." Liberals demonize Friedman because his policies and sound economics are right and true - but libs don't like the hard work and discipline it takes. So now they demonize him in order to make their mesiah look as if he knows what he is doing.
The spoiled, self-absorbed lefties can continue to try to "level the playing field," however according to Christopher Chantrill at American Thinker, "our liberal friends are shortly going to experience a very nasty rendez-vous with reality. As usual with our liberal friends, they will insist that we experience it with them.
It's a real shame that we are going to have to go through the 1970s all over again. And it's a shame that the people who will suffer most will be the kids who voted for Obama. Well, maybe not. Maybe the sooner they get a reality check the better."
It will be the 1970's all over again. And as I state, Chantrill says we need another Milton Friendman again, very badly.
Chantrill continues: "Everyone understands that capitalism is the only thing that works. But our liberal friends just don't care.
They had a chance to incorporate his ideas into their policy, and the Clinton administration did, in a half-hearted way, for a while. But who wants to wind down welfare? Who wants to forswear gorgeous mega-projects to save the planet with renewable green energy? Who wants to give up "free" health care? Who wants to give up sexy high-speed rail-you know, just like they have in Europe? What would be the point of political power without all that?
Today we need a pitcher that can throw even better stuff than Milton Friedman. Most likely, he -- or she -- is already warming up in the bullpen. That's the whole idea behind American Exceptionalism. When we Americans need a new pitcher to get us out of a jam, there always seems to be one on the bench, name of Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Friedman, or Reagan or something like that.
We'll know if this pitcher is the real thing because of the Bronx cheers coming out of the expensive liberal box seats. Here's the kind of no-nonsense pitching that I'll be looking for:
- Enough already with trying to beat the business cycle. The government has been promising to do this for about a century and it has failed. Get it out of here!
- Enough already with getting other people to pay for your health care. It is cruel, wasteful, and unjust.
- Enough already with sending little Johnny off for a mandatory twelve year sentence at the state educational penitentiary. Hey, at least your average violent offender at the regular pen gets a trial of his peers and time off for good behavior.
If the new conservative pitcher has the stuff to "slice and dice" the liberal sophistry that would truculently come up to bat against this modest program, here is what I would say.
It's a start.
Obama is destroying the American economy. It appears to be his goal. However, he is not a true American if he thinks we can't overcome his sloppy policies and get rid of him by 2012. Even a sh*t-storm has to end sometime.