Enjoy your commie car

We'll all be driving commie cars,
Commie cars, commie cars,
A wheelchair with a roll bar,
You'll love your commie car.

I was a songwriter in an earlier incarnation, that being my youth. Though admittedly not one of my better efforts, I'm sure it gets the point across.

So, General Motors entered into Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week; the United Autoworkers Union (UAW) now has a 17-plus percent ownership of the company, with the American taxpayer holding a majority stake in the automaker. As represented in the establishment press, this really isn't an altogether disagreeable development: Hey – guess what? You own General Motors!

The problem, of course, is that our interest in GM will be administered by the federal government; for the moment, this means the Obama administration. If you don't see the inherent flaws present in this scenario, I apologize – I simply don't have the space to explain it here.

At this juncture, the reasonably intelligent but marginally informed American might – just might – be starting to recognize a certain uncanniness in the relationship between the events that have taken place in our economy over the last eight months and the remedies that have been implemented. Such a person might be detecting the hints of a systematic curriculum and a similar model being applied to all of these recent crises.

Statism's illogic exposed for all to see in F.A. Hayek's "The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism"

Toward the enlightenment of this reasonably intelligent but marginally informed American, I would proceed as follows:

A couple of '60s Marxists draft a plan for crippling the economy and necessitating government intervention, effectively ushering in socialism within a relatively short period of time. Two enterprising opportunists put it into action. They'll get rich in the process, and be princes in the new order. The organization born of this design finds eager accomplices in Congress.

Certain popular securities are set up to fail; the cascade effect of these failures eventually brings about the desired result. In the end, all of it is represented to the public as having been a handful of well-intentioned, if imprudent measures that were exploited by ever-greedy capitalists. Couple this with the over-regulation of key industries, and the house really begins to come down. In a serendipitous moment during this perfect storm, a long-time operative poised to perform the coup de grace is elected president of the United States.

You and I may know that it was all by design. You and I might be shocked and horrified at the magnitude of the lie so many Americans had to buy into to allow this chain of events to transpire – but there it is.

As indicated above, I was not the only observer to call attention to Obama's participation in The Cloward-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis over the last few months. It's been a well-known and widely studied device among far leftists for decades. If a crisis exists, that's nominal. If not, one can be coordinated. In the interim, instill the fear of an imminent crisis (this is preferred), or one upon the horizon.

With Obama, as the reader may have noticed, everything is a crisis. If we don't spend this 100 billion on GM, they'll tank and have to let thousands of workers and dozens of dealerships go! What happened? We spent 100 billion on GM, they tanked and have to let thousands of workers and dozens of dealerships go anyway.

Just as planned. And we're 100 billion deeper in the hole – just as planned.

If we don't get it done this year, we're not going to get it done.

– President Obama on health care reform, May 28, 2009

The health care industry, like every other capitalistic venture, is rife with greed, you see. Americans are sick of being sick and having either to pay through the nose, or stay sick. It's only gotten worse, so darn it, we (the federal government) have to step in. We don't want to, any more than we wanted to get into the car business, but it's for the good of the American people.

Although the health care reform "setup" has been going on for decades, last week Obama laid some more groundwork for this upcoming crisis. The "fear of loss" tactic is one taught to even the least-educated sales professionals.

What will be purposefully overlooked during this process? That setup, of course: Over-regulation of the health care industry by the federal government, and the fact that trial lawyers – firmly ensconced in the progressive-socialist camp – have made practicing medicine obscenely expensive.

Lenin had an advantage. No one had ever implemented a communist revolution before. The elitist regime of the czars had ensured that most Russians were kept largely ignorant. Between these two factors, they simply didn't know what they were getting into.

What's our excuse?