I’m really trying to figure this all out, but some of this just doesn’t make sense to me. These are just a few random observations that are causing some serious cognitive dissonance.
-The Obama administration is seriously considering slashing funding for “unproven missile defense technology” (at the same time North Korea is threatening to lob a missile over Hawaii) but at the same time believes that it is essential to spent billions on unproven “green” technologies and unproven stem cell research.
-Obama seeks to create a “post-bubble” economic model, one that doesn’t rely for growth on “just on an overheating housing market, or people maxing out their credit cards” but instead wishes to build it on the pillars of a government spending bubble with the government maxing out on its credit card.
-After at least 60 released Gitmo detainees returned to terrorism, the Obama administration is so confident in its vetting process that it now wishes to release some of the Gitmo inmates on U.S. soil (and give them government benefits).
-Barack Obama has never worked in business, and has been in his job less than 100 days, terminates his first employee this week—a CEO of a publicly traded company.
-GM is out of cash and teetering on bankruptcy and the Obama administration promptly hands it a new obligation—stiff new fuel efficiency requirements, which will require substantial cash investments.
-The Obama Administration hammered John McCain’s support of taxing health benefits in the waning days of the campaign and filled the airwaves with sharp ads claiming McCain wanted to take health care benefits away. Just a few days ago, this headline appeared in the New York Times:
Administration Is Open to Taxing Health Benefits
These are just a handful of things I’ve been trying to reconcile lately. It hasn't been easy.
I'll make it easy. Pres. Bush had a background in business. Indeed, he is our only MBA president. Yet even Republicans (the ones who think, such as you) would admit Pres. Bush's economic policies were a catastrophic failure. Regarding your discussion of taxing health benefits, time will tell if this makes any sense. I suspend judgement for now.
ReplyDeleteFinally, regarding the released Gitmo detainees returning to terrorism (all of whom were released by the Bush Admn.), this is prima facie testimony to the bankruptcy of the Bush Admn. detainee policies. Imagine if they had employed traditional American jurisprudence and tried them in a court of law, instead of torturing them so that they could not be allowed to appear in court? Time to pass judgement on Pres. Bush's reckless disregard for the law on this issue, Mark.
Regards,
Demosthenes