Chaos Theory---and Practice

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Boy, Do They Think We're Stupid

On this weekend's "This Week with George Stephanopolous," Vice President Joe Biden said: "We misread how bad the economy was."

He and Obama "misread" how bad the economy was?!

Pardon me, but weren't they elected on the basis of their self-touted ability to manage the economy back to relative health? Didn't they slam into Senator John McCain as inept on economic issues, as a man incapable of reading the economy and crafting appropriate policies to bring it back? Didn't The Bama position himself as the Only One who could fix it? Didn't he promise to deliver results, such as keeping unemployment to 8% if he were elected and his policies implemented?

And how.

And yet, here we are, at 9.5% unemployment and rising, home foreclosures at record levels and climbing, and multiple industries---including those which have received hundreds of billions of dollars in federal bailout money, from banks to the auto industry---in collapse and/or in bankrupcy.

The trillions of dollars The Bama and his socialist posse have already spent have accomplished absolutely nothing. In fact, all of this government intervention has made things worse.

The Biden says they "misread" how bad the economy was? You "misread" how many calories are in a Snickers bar. You don't "misread" how bad the economy is, ESPECIALLY when you have spent almost an entire year telling us what a "catastrophe" the economy is, what an epic "crisis" we are in, and how it's "the worst economic crisis than the Great Depression."

From all of that apocalyptic rhetoric, it sure SEEMED like Team Bama read the economy just right. Unless, of course, they were trying to sow panic in order to get their massive spending plans through. But they wouldn't do such a thing, would they??

Now The Biden says all of that over-the-top crisis rhetoric wasn't ENOUGH. That the economy was WORSE even than that. Which means, of course, they are going to try to spend TRILLIONS MORE on payouts to their Democratic constituencies, disguised as additional "stimulus" spending.

They really think we're buying this elaborate tap dance of lies and corruption. But then again, if it's not stopped through our outrage and our own community organizing, then they have every reason to continue thinking it.

Happy Birthday, America!

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."

---James Madison

"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time."

---Thomas Jefferson

Jobless In America

New unemployment numbers from June were released today, and they were not good.  The national unemployment rate is now at a staggering 9.5%.  Many states have jobless rates even higher than that, into the double digits, and the national rate is at a 26 year high.

This, despite:

The $787 TRILLION economic "stimulus"

Over $80 billion and climbing for a bailout of the auto industry

The Half-TRILLION omnibus spending bill

Hundreds of billions for bailouts of the insurance industry

Tens of billions for bailouts of the banks

Tens of billions for bailouts of the mortgage industry

And yet:  here we are, with 9.5% unemployment and rising; home foreclosures at record highs; and industries still in collapse.

None of it has worked.  Not a single, massive spending initiative has worked.

A jobless recovery?  I don't even see much of a recovery---jobless or not---at all.

All of this government intervention was for nothing: except an excuse for a massive power grab for the Democrats.

Republicans: start your engines.