The Truth in Obama's Speech

“The debate over budgets and deficits is … about the kind of country we believe in.” 

After eliminating all his political campaign rhetoric, bullying and shameful comments directed toward Republicans, that truly defines what President Obama’s 4/13 speech was all about.

He claims that “we have put our faith in free markets and free enterprise as the engine of America’s wealth and prosperity” and that “we are rugged individualists, a self-reliant people with a healthy skepticism of too much government.” He is clearly not one of those people, as he continually shows that he does not trust the free markets and is a thorough collectivist/Statist. He only argues for what we can do together, as a nation, not what we can do for ourselves.

He quotes Lincoln: “we should do together what we cannot do as well for ourselves.” Lincoln was referring to the protection of individual rights (e.g. defense, police, justice system). But Obama means personal security with the broadest possible definition; e.g. education (public schools), health care (Medicare/Medicaid), transportation (railroads and highways), research, environmental protection (clean energy, food/air/water safety), basic income (Social Security) and unemployment insurance. In other words, all government “investments” that he mistakenly believes have made it possible for us to be such a prosperous country and are now necessary to create jobs and further recover from recession. He fully follows the Statist creed.

Thus government must continue to grow and taxes must cover everything he deems necessary. Then, of course, he appeals to “fairness” when demanding that the rich shoulder the bulk of the responsibility for providing for everyone else. “Those who have benefited most from our way of life can afford to (meaning should) give a bit more back.” Never mind that the top 2% of wage earners - his target - already pay half of all taxes while the bottom 50% pay only 3% of the total. And never mind that they are the very people who are the entrepreneurs and creators of wealth and jobs, enabling our economy to grow.

Only because the debt has grown to serious levels and the Republicans are pushing hard to reduce it does he finally concede that the U.S. has to start borrowing less and saving more to prepare for the retirement of the baby boom generation. But again, his only solution is “shared responsibility and sacrifice” which means eliminating prior tax cuts for the “rich.” He lies when he argues that this is the only way to “protect the recovery” and government “investments”, just as he did when he claimed that the gigantic and highly bureaucratic health care plan would save a trillion dollars!

He properly implies that we can’t ask for all that government offers and fight government growth at the same time. But he is wrong in concluding that government should force a redistribution of wealth for the purpose of providing for all those wants.

He viewed China, S. Korea and Brazil as more appropriately progressive than the U.S. But that is due to his extreme Statist view that some mysterious (and non-existent) “social compact” takes priority over all individual rights. He mistakenly believes that all major successes in this country would not have been possible without government “leadership.”

He properly says that our country “prizes our individual freedom” - but he does not. And he incorrectly says we have “obligations to one another”; we have “obligations” only to ourselves and desires to help others. To “think about the country first” is Nazism; but he calls that “patriotism.” So did Hitler!

He also lied as he put a nearly anti-American spin on everything intended by Ryan’s plan. E.g., it does not keep promises made to seniors and children, as if proposed budget cuts will cause the latter to go hungry, lose their health insurance and die. Or it places tax breaks for the wealthy over all needs of all other people, as if spending isn’t the real issue and “need” is (or should ever be) our standard of morality. Just as environmentalists absurdly assume that “nature” has a right and that trumps individual rights, Obama absurdly assumes that “need” trumps rights.

To add insult to injury, he lied when claiming that he matched Ryan’s budget cuts. An analysis shows that his $4T of cuts in 12 years equates to less than $3T in 10 years. Add in the $1T that came from tax increases and his true cuts are less than half of Ryan’s.

Ryan’s plan attempts to make individuals responsible for themselves - just as we were a century ago. Obama believes in making everyone more dependent on government to meet their needs, knowing full well that the most successful and prosperous individuals have to be seriously sacrificed in the process. His goal is not to truly cut our national debt; he simply wants “social equality” - never addressed in our Constitution or Declaration of Independence - at all cost! He uses immoral means to achieve a destructive end. Americans have to wake up to this fact.