Head To Head (8/14/08)

Six steps to a "mammoth depression":

"It begins with a plan" - now why am I not surprised that a central planner would open his spot with that phrase? And immediately follow that up with classist divisiveness?

1) "Grow the economy" - Just like that! Despite, you know, the crippling tax hikes, trillion dollars in new domestic spending, and planned permanent energy crisis. I guess that's where Clarke's Third Law comes in.

2) "End tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas" - despite, you know, the fact that the reason companies ship jobs overseas is because the federal government has already driven up the cost of labor here to prohibitive levels. And BO plans to drive it even higher, and punish his victims for it by gouging them even worse.

3) "Give tax breaks to businesses that create jobs here" - that they won't be able to create after St. Barry jacks up their tax rates and denies them access to price-dropping domestic energy sources, after which they'll be moved over to #2 above.

4) "Invest in education" - Pour hundreds of billions more down the same socialized education rathole that is producing a generation of ignorant illiterates - which, come to think of it, probably make up a not inconsiderable portion of Obamanation. Ah, self-interest from the Unholy One - whoda thunkit?

5) "$1,000 tax cut for working families" - That would be his economically worthless rebates from the planned "windfall profits" shakedown of the energy sector that will deny them the R&D sources to tap the price-reducing domestic energy sources to which he will continue to deny access. And, just as a reminder, EVERY family is a "working family"; wealth does NOT create itself.

6) "Energy independence" - Deny access to REAL domestic energy resources (oil and natural gas in the OCS and oil shale deposits in the Mountain West, new nuclear plants) in favor of wasting billions more on the same "alternative" dry wells that CAN...NOT...WORK. Behold, the wind!

Let Lucifer figure out how to tap the energy of killer hurricanes and maybe I'll start paying heed. Might as well make the "global warming" hoax useful.

Sitting in for Senator Queeg today is comedian Jackie Mason: