Propagandists Declare Obama's Legacy Will Be Fine

It is time for King Obama to exit the stage.  The Anointed One will deliver his farewell speech in Chicago and it will be an elaborate affair, unlike his farewell speech to the military.  We can expect all sorts of lies and embellishments about his record.  Unfortunately for us, this will not be the last we’ll hear from this narcissist.  He has a legacy to burnish.

       

Apologists in academia and print will crawl out of the woodwork and proclaim the brilliance of Barack Hussein Obama.  Progressives are already peddling this nonsense that he was the right man, in the right place, at the right time for the job.  Why we couldn’t have survived without the steady hand and calm demeanor of this captain.  The only reason Obama’s legacy is perceived as a failure is because of those rascally republicans.

I remember my sixth grade, history class –yes they taught history back then – and I still cannot forget the hagiographic tripe about FDR’s New Deal.  Roosevelt was lauded as a savior of the nation.  The country wouldn’t have survived without bailouts and all those alphabet agencies dictating wage and price controls, not to mention all of those infrastructure projects.  Why, the United States would’ve been a footnote in history if it weren’t for the federal government.

I didn’t question those assertions until I got older and began to wonder why it was called The Great Depression and the reasons this calamity came about and lasted as long as it did.  After all, wasn’t FDR a great leader?  Wasn’t he a genius?  Why, he was the right man, in the right place, at the right time for the job, so we were told.  Come to find out, this great leader’s policies were an impediment to a recovery.

Barack Obama’s legacy will be protected.  Today’s academia and the mainstream media will make sure tomorrow’s sixth graders will be spoon fed the same kind of crap I was forced to memorize when I was a kid.  After all, we are beneficiaries of FDR’s New Deal and progressives made damn sure we knew it.

Source:

http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/carl-hiaasen/article125100689.html

Ken Burns Mollycoddles "The Roosevelts"

Last week, PBS featured a Ken Burns documentary entitled, “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.”  This film is the hagiography I expected it to be, despite the film maker’s reassurances on the Diane Rehm’s Show.  There were a few exceptions of tepid criticism, George Will comes to mind, other than that, this was the same old Roosevelt sermon.

We’ve all heard the progressive gospels before.  FDR saved capitalism from itself.  FDR was a traitor to his class.  What a load of crap.  Had Ken Burns sought out economists critical of the New Deal, the audience would have had a different perspective. There is a reason why we call it the Great Depression, and it had everything to do with FDR’s fiscal policies.  The true mantra should be, “Capitalism survived FDR.”  Academia, on the other hand, did not.  The historians and professors that littered this documentary are a testament to that.

FDR was not a traitor to his class.  He was a product of his class.  Vanderbilt dominated the transportation industry.  Rockefeller was a titan in the oil industry.  Carnegie forged the steel industry.  These men dominated their field with ruthless zeal.  They didn’t tolerate competition.  They sought to destroy it.  The Roosevelts were no different.

FDR was a failure in every business venture he attempted.  He eventually found his calling: government.  And like his cousin, Theodore, he couldn’t care less about the U.S. Constitution.  Both thought it a hindrance and an obstacle.  The Roosevelts were arrogant patricians.  They disguised their ambitions through the sufferings of the American people.  Power was their product.  Anyone not in government was their competition.

 

We can thank the Roosevelts for America’s bureaucratic state.  It started with T.R. and the Hepburn Act and escalated with the New Deal.  The 1946 Administrative Procedure Act was a futile attempt by Congress to control all these government agencies.  Instead, they aided and abetted this monster.

The Roosevelts are a curse to this country and its founding ideals.  Americans must repudiate this cursed family, or we will be ruled by fascist, like the ones FDR's administration admired.

Source:  http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-roosevelts/

Did FDR End or Extend the Great Depression?

The above video outlines how FDR and his New Deal extended the Great Depression.  I am amazed that we are replicating the failures of that era.  It just goes to show you how influential Progressives have been in promoting their agenda through lies and distortion of history.  Now, we know why they shamelessly advocate state controlled education.

For those interested in this topic, the following books will aid your quest for the truth:

 

 

 

 

Source:  http://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/345055/prager-u-did-fdr-end-or-extend-depression-jason-fertig

The Three Myths of the Great Depression

The Great Depression was a seminal moment in our nation’s history. This event changed our nation and the way Americans look at government. The progressives/liberals romanticize FDR and his compassion for the little people. We’ve all heard it: Herbert Hoover did nothing to help the economy. FDR saved capitalism. World War II brought us out of the depression.

Well guess what. It’s all a bunch of lies. Hoover was a big interventionist. He proposed and enacted government programs that prohibited the market to correct itself. Many of those laws were repeated by presidents Bush and Obama during our recent financial crisis. The assertion that FDR saved capitalism is laughable. He was just as antagonistic to businesses as the Anointed One. And the myth that World War II brought us out of the Great Depression has been debunked. We didn’t get out of that disaster until 1947 – 48.

It’s going to take a lot of patience to rid the American people of these myths; or until Paul Krugman’s alien invasion theory comes to pass.

Libtards, Red Tape and the WPA

Barack Obama attended one of his dog and pony shows in Durham, North Carolina.  The Community Organizer-in-Chief was confronted by a member of his own jobs council about the incompetence of the federal bureaucracy and how it has delayed construction projects.  The Incompetent One could only rebut with a joke:

President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness met today in Durham, NC at Cree Inc., a company that manufactures energy-efficient LED lighting. One of the Council's recommendations to President Obama was to streamline the federal permit process for construction and infrastructure projects. It was explained to Obama that the permitting process can delay projects for "months to years ... and in many cases even cause projects to be abandoned ... I'm sure that when you implemented the Recovery Act your staff briefed you on many of these challenges." At this point, Obama smiled and interjected, "Shovel-ready was not as ... uh .. shovel-ready as we expected." The Council, led by GE's Jeffrey Immelt, erupted in laughter

Well, isn’t that funny.  The feds can’t even streamline permits for infrastructure projects.  Can you imagine what Obamacare is going to be like?  Holy Crap!

And if you thought the Anointed One was clueless, just look at the DNC Chairwoman, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz:

These people must live in an alternate universe.  And now they want to implement Great Depression Era work programs like the WPA:

The WPA was nothing more than a slush fund for the Democratic Party.  It was one of the biggest boondoggles in American history. The only program that has wasted more taxpayer’s money is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

These people have learned absolutely nothing from history.  One of the biggest factors for the high unemployment rates during the 1930’s was due to the federal government’s belligerence towards businesses.  This idiot congresswoman is using the same demagoguery that FDR made 70 years ago.

It makes you wonder if these people really do want another great depression.  They certainly are following the playbook of FDR and Hoover.