When we think of the word “chaos,” normally we associate it with spontaneous acts of malcontents rebelling without a cause.
But most of the chaos in the world today is what I call “directed chaos” – usually government-directed and with one single-minded purpose: the consolidation of power.
That’s the way I interpret the so-called “economic stimulus” legislation approved by the Democrat-controlled Congress and signed by President Obama.
There is no way it will stimulate the economy. It will have the opposite effect – lengthening and deepening the economic crisis in which America finds itself.
Does anyone truly believe we’re in this mess because the U.S. government didn’t spend enough recently? Of course not. Congress and President Bush spent money like drunken sailors. They caused this calamity because of their irresponsibility and their disregard for the Constitution. Can the cure be possibly more of the same? I don’t think so.
But take a look at how the money will be spent, for evidence of the “cure” is actually worse than the disease.
Of the $800 billion in the so-called “stimulus” bill, only $90 billion will actually go toward things like building highways, upgrading the electrical power grid or meaningful business tax cuts. Far more, however, will be used to revive welfare as we used to know it. Some $264 billion will be directed to encouraging states to sign up more people on welfare.
But it gets worse. This welfare is worse than the old one that everyone – Democrats and Republicans alike – agreed to dismantle in the 1990s.
It’s called the “Make Work Pay” program, and it includes $23 billion per year to provide up to $500 cash to low-income adults who pay no taxes. The program will mark the first time the federal government will hand out significant cash to able-bodied adults without dependent children!
Does that make sense to you?
Probably not.
But it has been thought out. I want you to know that. This program, along with the whole of the so-called “stimulus” bill, has been considered carefully. No member of Congress may have read the bill. But that bill was written by someone. The programs it creates have been in the works for years. Money is being handed out to people who helped get Obama and the Democrats elected. Groups like ACORN, the shock troops and brown shirts of their movement, are being paid off with billions of dollars.
It has all been planned. And the goal is not to help the economy. The goal is to achieve chaos, because chaos leads to more government control – and that’s what Obama and the Democratic Congress want more than anything.
They don’t believe they should be bothered with elections or dissent or any of the nuisances of a free society. They believe they deserve perpetual power, because they are part of the enlightened elite.
They know socialism hasn’t worked anywhere it’s been tried. But they also believe they can do better. They can make it work, because they are smarter than the guys who have bungled it in the past.
In the meantime, prepare for chaos.
Prepare for harder times than you have seen in your lifetime.
Prepare for more debt.
Prepare for more redistribution of wealth, more unfairness and inequity.
Prepare for one bailout after another.
Prepare for more “emergency” legislation like the so-called “stimulus” bill.
Prepare for unilateral executive action through presidential decision directives.
Prepare for attacks on the free press and free speech.
This is where we are inevitably going with the “change” promises by Obama.
You’re going to get change all right.
The government is going to show you how bad it can get, so you will accept its most draconian solutions.
You haven’t seen anything yet.
