May 2nd 2009
Obama’s Search And Destroy Mission
P
erhaps you’re not aware of the mission Obama has tasked to senior officials in his administration. No, it’s not to re-start the economy, or even to become the world’s best new friend. No, the orders are simple: Seek out free enterprise wherever it exists, and squash it.
If that’s not bothersome enough, the fact that evidence for existence of the mission can be found on NPR, National People’s Radio, is a bit eye-opening. It’s in this interview of Obama EPA chief Lisa Jackson. Roll the tape:
Jackson: “The President has said-and I couldn’t agree more-that what this country needs is one single national road map that tells auto makers who are trying to become solvent again, what kind of car it is they need to be designing and building for the American people.”
NPR reporter (interrupting): “Is that the role of the government, though? I mean that doesn’t sound like free enterprise.”
Jackson: “Well…it is free enterprise in a way…you know, first and foremost the free enterprise system has us where we are right this second…and so some would argue that the government already has a much larger role than we might have when Henry Ford rolled the first cars off the assembly line.”
Jackson can’t find any way to call the fed’s takeover and ongoing control of the automobile sector “free enterprise,” so she simply decides to blame the free economy for the nation’s ills. No, no, it’s not government over-regulation to date, demanding ever more expensive pollution and safety technology that’s to blame, nor is it labor’s unwillingness to face new economic realities that’s behind Detroit’s trouble. It’s not government’s considerable efforts to push the economy into the credit deficit by demanding mortgages be given to people who charitably can be called uncreditworthy.
It’s just that #$%@! free enterprise system that’s to blame.
According to her EPA bio, Jackson has never held a job in the private sector. What a shock.
