THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XI, Issue # 160, July 22, 2009
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
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OBAMA UTOPIA BUILT ON EMPTY PROMISES
By Christopher G. Adamo
PRESIDENT OBAMA'S RADICAL VISION FOR AMERICA: AN UGLY PICTURE OF A UTOPIA CONSTRUCTED ON EMPTY
PROMISES -- FANTASTIC PROMISES OF LAVISH GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS REVEALED TO BE A WELL-CRAFTED VENEER
OVERLAYING BUREAUCRATIC NIGHTMARES FROM WHICH NO LAW-ABIDING CITIZEN CAN HOPE TO ESCAPE -- NO REAL
"BENEFIT" TO BE REAPED FROM THIS ENCROACHING MONSTER OF SOCIALISM -- NATIONALIZED "HEALTHCARE" &
RATIONING OF MEDICAL SERVICES -- REDISTRIBUTION OF ECONOMIC RESOURCES -- ENORMOUS GROWTH OF
GOVERNMENTAL POWER & INFLUENCE -- METASTASIZING GOVERNMENTAL BUREAUCRACIES -- SUPPRESSION OF
INCONVENIENT & CONTRADICTORY INFORMATION -- PHONY "SCIENCE" ESTABLISHED & PROMOTED BY
ENVIRONMENTALISTS & THEIR LIBERAL LEFTIST POLITICAL ALLIES IN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT -- TOTAL CORRUPTION OF
AMERICA'S JUSTICE SYSTEM
FULL STORY:
As the “healthcare” debate reaches its contrived crescendo, Barack Hussein Obama is
proving to be the perfect con man. In every instance, he tells adoring
crowds and media sycophants what they want to hear, often contradicting last
week’s statements with this week’s damage control sound bite. And,
considering that his poll numbers have remained above single digits, it must
be conceded that, to some extent, the ploy is working.
Nevertheless, over time, Obama’s vision for America has materialized. It is
an ugly picture. Fantastic promises of lavish government provisions for
every citizen (and non citizen) eventually reveal themselves to be a
well-crafted veneer overlaying bureaucratic nightmares from which no
law-abiding citizen can hope to escape. In stark contrast, no real “benefit”
is to be reaped from this encroaching monster. Instead, the people are
merely assured on a regular basis that their condition is of great concern
to the ruling class. But the specifics of each monstrous new program,
whenever mentioned, tell another story.
Of course, the most prominent example of late is the matter of nationalized
“health care,” which Obama assures us is not socialism. Despite his
assurances, when the diatribe promoting medicine as a “right” is stripped
away, all that remains is an unfathomable bureaucratic web, which, at the end
of the day, requires resources from one citizen in order to pay the medical
bills of another. In the process, the power and influence of government
grows enormously. But it is not socialism.
The picture gets far worse still. Addressing the inevitability of an
overloaded and unaccountable system during one of those moments in which his
teleprompter did not present the state-approved talking point, Obama let
slip the grim truth that the rationing of care, and the likelihood of it
deliberately being withheld from certain individuals, would be determined by
such dispassionate factors as the age of the intended recipient.
Things are close to coming full circle for those seniors who empowered the
Democrats and the nanny state by obsessing over Social Security at the
expense of every other issue. Just as “viability” (or the ostensible lack
thereof), according to abortion proponents, is sufficient reason to make a
determination of life or death for an innocent unborn child, so will
“quality of life” be deemed an equally acceptable reason to render or deny
proper care to any elderly person.
Americans have access to the best health care system in the world. The
hospitals in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, alone house more MRI
machines than all of Canada’s hospitals combined. No one in this country is
ever forced to endure unwarranted waiting periods for routine medical
procedures, as is invariably the case in any country where the government
has seized control of the medical industry. This is the brave new world of
Obamacare.
Perhaps it may seem that all of the alarmism is overwrought and premature.
Does Barack Obama possibly warrant such mistrust on this crucial issue?
Unfortunately, his consistent and appalling track record of fraud and deceit
answers that question decisively.
Last year’s abandonment of his campaign promise to use public funds, thereby
limiting expenditures, was a classic example of Obama’s devotion to the
political expediency of any given moment. Early on, when it made for good
press to advocate such limits, Obama was head cheerleader. But the moment it
became apparent that he could amass far greater sums of money by
backpedaling, the prior commitment was unceremoniously discarded. Any
promise from this man is only good for as long as it serves his own purpose.
It is more of the same on the various other fronts of the assault on free
America. Thus, the “stimulus” package, in which America’s coffers were
pillaged in what Vice-President Joe Biden deemed the necessity to “go spend
money to keep from going bankrupt,” has since been revealed to be an orgy of
federal pork bestowed to every Liberal special interest group known to
exist. As for the supposed “shot in the arm” such irresponsibility would
ostensibly give the American market, that minor detail will simply have to
wait for another spending spree.
Likewise, any assumption that the federal “Energy Bill” might actually make
gasoline cheaper and more widely available was proven insanely naive. The
enormous conglomeration of environmentalist mandates, offering extremely
expensive placebos to allay every contorted theory of environmental doom,
did nothing at all to ensure an available and steady supply of energy to the
consumer. For those gullible peasants who expected such help, Obama offered
the notion that, by properly inflating their tires, they could save gas.
Meanwhile, the ability to own and drive a car of one’s choice has been
systematically undermined.
The promises of ethics and “transparency” in this administration are proving
to be nothing more than a cruel joke. Obama’s disturbing tendency to
obfuscate and dodge difficult questions early on now gives way to the
blatant suppression of inconvenient and contradictory information. Thus, an
Inspector General who dared to simply do his job and look into financial
anomalies among Obama minions in San Francisco was summarily fired and
maliciously slandered as “justification” for his dismissal.
The findings of Alan Carlin, an analyst with the Environmental Protection
Agency, were suppressed, once he concluded that the scientific evidence does
not support the Leftist theory of a “global warming” conspiracy.
In a similar action, on Monday, July 20, 2009, Obama ordered the White House Budget
Update to be suppressed until August, at which time its grim prognosis of
America’s economic condition might come too late to derail the
implementation of socialized “healthcare.”
Metastasizing governmental bureaucracies, phony “science” established by
environmentalist extremists, and the total corruption of the justice system may
not be the “change” real America wanted. But, unless the citizenry wakes up
to the dangers the Obama Presidency represents, and demands a return to sanity in
Washington, it may be the reality of "change" that is brutally forced on the
people of this nation, and from which they may never recover.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Government & the U.S. Presidency:
Presidential Politics & National Leadership
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, Marxists, & Other Leftists:
The Democratic Party, Academia, & the Mainstream Media
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
Social Welfare Policy -- The Modern Welfare State
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES:
COMPETING SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Conservatism
Traditional Conservatism: Questions & Answers
Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status
Constitutional Conservatism: American & British
Liberalism
Classical Liberalism: Intellectual Foundations
Classical Liberalism: Conservative Liberalism
Manchester Liberalism & Social Darwinism
Modern Social "Liberalism": Statist "Liberalism"
Radical & Totalitarian Ideologies
Radicalism, Utopianism, & Totalitarianism
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer and staff writer for the New
Media Alliance. He lives in southeastern Wyoming. He has been active in
local and state politics for many years and is a managing partner in Best
American Buy (www.bestamericanbuy.com), an e-commerce business that markets
products exclusively made in America. His contact information and archives
can be found at www.chrisadamo.com
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