On April 14th, 2011 Obama gave what was billed to be a speech on his budget plan to solve the nation's debt crisis, but rather gave a speech that outlined the 2012 campaign season debate. In his speech the president gave a spirited defense of the indefensible -- liberalism/progressivism. This paragraph:
"Indeed, to those in my own party, I say that if we truly believe in a progressive vision of our society, we have the obligation to prove that we can afford our commitments. If we believe that government can make a difference in people's lives, we have the obligation to prove that it works - by making government smarter, leaner and more effective."from the president's speech struck me because: 1. it reminds one of a photographic negative from a paragraph in Reagan's A Time for Choosing Speech; 2. Obama, and I wonder if this was intentional, made the case for liberalism/progressivism just as Reagan had for conservativism in his October 27th, 1964 speech.
Of liberalism Reagan said;
"We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one. So they're going to solve all the problems of human misery through government and government planning. Well, now, if government planning and welfare had the answer—and they've had almost 30 years of it—shouldn't we expect government to read the score to us once in a while? Shouldn't they be telling us about the decline each year in the number of people needing help? The reduction in the need for public housing?"Obama recognizes this contrast and said, as he has said before, "This larger debate we're having, about the size and role of government, has been with us since our founding days." While it is true that some have chosen to continue this debate, the Founders had the debate and it was settled in the Constitution. Their vision of America was the one expressed by Ronald Reagan.
Reagan asked 47 years ago whether liberalism could stand up to a score card; it still hasn't. Obama, in what must have been a painful moment, now recognizes that without evidence that it works the progressive cause is bankrupt. Mr. President there is NO evidence. There will NEVER be any evidence that the progressive agenda is affordable, nor that it will solve social ills. The Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, crushed this agenda when she said "The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."
So there we have it: the Progressive in Chief asking for help to make the case that this agenda can work and be paid for. Well, President Obama liberals have had 77 years to show us the proof and haven't done it. Your agenda is as bankrupt as you've made the nation. Please go away.
Elko Mike
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