A vast ocean of intellectual diarrhea

Recently, something caused me to wonder how many souls had been lost at sea before the age of transoceanic vessels got under way (or “under weigh,” as a sea captain might have said).

Bear with me; this is germane to the subject.

I couldn’t help but imagining the point in history when the sailor – or group thereof – first ventured from their shores into open sea. Even barring severely inclement weather, they would have realized that the scale of things upon the ocean was magnified exponentially compared to what one might experience close to shore or on a large lake. Suddenly, even their larger vessels were but specks; in a storm, looking up from the bottom of the first 50-foot swell they encountered must have been terrifying beyond description.

At some point, one of these men, fortunate enough to make it home, was able to convey to his countrymen: We need bigger boats.

For too long our budget process in Washington has been an exercise in deception, a series of accounting tricks to hide the extent of our spending and the shortfalls in our revenue and hope that the American people won’t notice.

– Barack Obama, Feb. 23, 2009

The president’s pattern of qualifying precisely what is needed, begun during the campaign, continues. This statement – which hit the duplicity of government officials on the head – would be one to cheer uproariously, had the president any intention of rectifying it. After racking up nearly a trillion dollars of spending the previous week, on Feb. 23, Obama outlined his plan for cutting the United States’ deficit in half by the end of his first term.

Apparently, he’s taking for granted that he’ll serve a second.

We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy.

– Barack Obama, Feb. 25, 2009

Again: Rah-rah. But what would the president have us pursue? Solar power. Windmills. It’s definitely a positive development that market forces are now driving the fast track of alternative energy, but solar energy, for example, is wholly impractical for wide application at its current stage of development. In the meantime, one nuclear power plant would supplant 40,000 square miles of windmills. There hasn’t been a new nuclear power plant ordered, however, since the late 1970s. And there won’t be.

Why?

Two reasons: One is that greedy, borderline sociopaths could care less about the plight of the economy, energy independence or the American people; two, Obama’s party is beholden to reptilian-brained, knee-jerk witch hunters who have convinced many Americans that “nuclear” equates with “irradiated citizens.”

As much as the current administration and the congressional leadership would have us believe otherwise, these elements are attempting a (thus far) bloodless coup. The Democrats’ machinations as regards the economy have been directed in this area for some years now.

From 1700 to 1750, America’s economy grew by 500 percent. The reason for this was that until the mid-1700s, the English Crown interfered minimally in the economic development of the American colonies. There were several reasons for this, but one primarily: Administration costs money. This is evidenced by how much capital our government has needed to steal from taxpayers as it has grown. The British weren’t willing to spend it – until they realized how profitable America had become.

Thus, the Revolutionary War was not only about liberty, or economics, but economic liberty. During the same period (of American colonialism), the Spanish and the Portuguese poured untold amounts of money into their colonies; obviously, the results were dwarfed by the success of the colonies in America.

Now, American socialists (in some cases, communists) wish to seize the booty. It doesn’t matter that such action amounts to killing the golden goose; as long as they get on well while they’re here on Earth, that’s all that matters.

It is nothing short of enraging that these swine would demolish the result of 240 years of blood, sweat and tears for their short-term aggrandizement and Leninist vision. Unfortunately, the American people no longer appreciate this history, because history is no longer taught in our schools. Even our great pulsing brain of a president thinks an American invented the automobile.

So, we need bigger boats. Ships, actually – ones capable of successfully navigating the vast ocean of intellectual diarrhea that has become our conventional wisdom. The alternative media and online news outlets have made a dent, but the fact remains that millions of voting Americans still get their information from the far-left establishment press.

Changing that is something this columnist can believe in.

 

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