On December 14th, Obama met with the CEOs of the top 12 banks to discuss lending, TARP and other topics surrounding the massive bank bailouts of 2008 (and continuing on through 2009 with more banks, the auto industry and whatever other industries the government decided to take over or attempt to take over).
I didn’t catch this speech the first time around because it was finals week for me at school. I finally viewed this just this week while watching Glenn Beck.
Obama had the following to say at around the 5:15 mark of this video: “The way I see it, having recovered from with the help of the American government and the American taxpayer, our banks now have a greater obligation to the goal of a wider recovery, a more stable system, and more broadly shared prosperity.”
The help of the American taxpayer? My brother and I watched in stunned silence. He said help. No. This was the raping of the American taxpayer in every sense of the word. It was against our will. It robbed us of our freedom. It took away our pride and our dignity. It made us feel dirty. And most importantly: WE SAID NO. And by “no” we didn’t mean “yes!”
The American taxpayer didn’t want to help because it was not our obligation. It was our Constitutional right NOT to help just as it was the banks, insurance companies and autocompanies right to fail.
The four laws of economic freedom are: Freedom to try. Freedom to buy. Freedom to sell. Freedom to fail. These are our rights given to us by our creator. God told us to love thy neighbor, not steal thy neighbor’s future!
These companies are also now obligated to broaden prosperity. Prosperity is not a right. The only right we have is the right to pursue prosperity. It is not guarenteed. And sometimes you have to fall on your butt before you can succeed. Failure is a necessary step in success. It humbles you. It teaches you what not to do in your next go round.
But now we stand a nation raped of our freedom, our money and our dignity as more people stand around idle with their hands out waiting for a buck from Obama’s stash.
We should be ashamed of ourselves. We need to examine how we became this way and how we lost sight of what it means to earn your living.
Get your hands out of your neighbor’s wallet America and get to work on reclaiming our nation as it was meant to be. Success is yours for the taking, but don’t rape your neighbor to attain it.
Sweetie: drop by my blog whenever. As to the Banks: this is of course the same old CLASS WARFARE agenda of the Dems which they have used since the New Deal. LBJ, Carter, Clinton and now Obama have used it to browbeat the so called rich, free enterprise businesses. Yet the stupid business people sometimes vote for liberal Dems! Yipe. How can that happen? BTW, now we are ordered to save Haiti. OK, I gave through a Christian mission but not a govt. organ. $100 million of our taxdollars were just put forward by Obama. The more this nation spends, the less we have for our own initiatives.
Comment by Glenn Koons — January 15, 2010 @ 12:28 pm |
Glenn that was $100 million we didn’t have anyway. Look at Haiti. I wouldn’t give them a DIME. They IMMEDIATELY turned to us with open hands like we owed them something. They are now complaining because help isn’t coming fast enough.
Who threw us some cash and help when Katrina hit? Who took our victims into their homes and clothed and fed them? Other Americans. Not Haitian. Not Mexicans. Not Cubans. No one. It was our fellow Americans.
When the tsunami hit a few years back, no one in that country asked for relief. They said that they could take care of their own. That is what Haiti needs to do first and foremost is instead of acting like the savages we see on tv is stand up and help one another.The money won’t be accounted for anyway. The country is corrupt and that money will not go where it should.
Comment by AmSweetie — January 15, 2010 @ 2:54 pm |