Posted by
ApolloSpeaks on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 8:31:56 AM
Who is the real Arianna Huffington?
I have these two guys investigating her.
In today's Huffington Post (see) Arianna asks the question: Will the unemployment disaster be Obama's Katrina? Arianna just doesn't get it. The right question to ask is: Will the Obama disaster be America's Hurricane Katrina? Barack Obama, a reckless narcissistic mental case and one man wrecking crew, is America's economic (and foreign policy) Katrina. As a numeric sign that Obama's leadership and policies are to America what Katrina was to New Orleans consider the following:
KATRINA
2129951=29 (see note 1)
Obama's birth date: 8-4-1961
8+4+1+9+6+1=29
Katrina in fact hit the US mainland on the 29th day of August 2005, the year that Obama entered the US Senate*. Obama as I said is the Democratic Herbert Hoover turning a recession into a depression with his mindless, irresponsible tax and spend (make big government bigger) policies (see). Tax and spend (government can fix anything) Hoover** became President in the 29th year of the 20th century as Obama became President in 2009-the number 29 with two intervening zeros.
*Obama was sworn in as Senator from Illinois on January 3, 2005; Katrina made landfall 25 days into his 44th year. Is it not the case that the 44th President is becoming a Category 5 disaster?
**I believe it was Harold Ickes, FDR's Secretary of Interior, who famously said: Hoover's policies was the New Deal in embryo.
On Katrina's 4th anniversary Obama gave a eulogy at Ted Kennedy's funeral mass. This was the same Ted Kennedy (Obama's Depression-born* kingmaker) who collapsed from a left-sided brain seizure at the inaugural prefiguring Obama collapsing the economy with his leftist economic, energy and healthcare policies.
*Kennedy was born February 22, 1932 just under three years into the progressively disastrous Hoover administration.
Not content with the punishing, job destroying damage Obama has inflicted on the economy with his predictably failed Keynesian policies Arianna says that his problem is that he's not Keynesian enough; that he has spent too little and urges him to shift into overdrive borrow more money and deepen the public debt in a new orgy of wasteful stimulus spending. This is the same Arianna who is quoted as saying that she "transcended political time and space" when she transitioned from Right to Left. Her politics, in other words, is extraterrestrial and not of this world. Earth to Arianna.............
Postscript: Arianna's Solution.
Subsidizing jobs in the private sector; quick fix 12 month tax holidays and credits*; using TARP funds for loans to small businesses (most small businesses fail). There is nothing in Arianna's piece about domestic investment and wealth creation. Not one word about restoring the conditions that made America the economic powerhouse of the world. Nothing about nurturing an environment that promotes entrepreneurial activity like slashing taxes on labor, capital and business for the long term. Nothing about easing Federal regulations and government getting out of the way. Nothing that unleashes the American genius of innovation and enterprise. Arianna proposes the same old tired Keynesian formula that government intervention is the answer*; that enough spending can fix anything; that deficits don't matter; that consumer demand can be jolted into activity. In short, the measures suggested by Arianna can do nothing to save America from the impending economic Katrina that she fears-the coming catastrophe of Obamanomics and the monetary policy of the Fed.
*If FDR's massive expansion of Hoover's public works program, which gave shovels to millions of Americans, failed to revive the economy and end the Great Depression what are tax credits to businesses to hire new workers going to do?
**Returning to fundamental principles of free enterprise is the answer, will always be the answer and will never otherwise be the answer..
NOTES:
1. Numerological table used in this piece: 1= a, j, s; 2= b, k, t; 3= c, l, u; 4= d, m, v; 5= e, n, w; 6= f, o, x; 7= g, p, y; 8= h, q, z; 9= i, r