
In the New York Times, Thomas Friedman talks about the gossip at Davos, which is the use of the words U.S. and political instability in the same breath. He goes on to bemoan our poor, embattled, yet enormously gifted president, who seems unable to right the sailing ship America, which is foundering. Completely ignored is the fact that our president's program are completely at odds with the wishes of the American people and history of the American experiences.
Thomas Friedman is, quite obviously, an enormous fool. Obama is the cause of the instability, not the victim. It is incredible how "intellectuals" can become blind to simple truths. The American people are four-square against centralized control and planning since well before 1776. It's in our DNA, encoded right there next to our unwillingness to trust intellectuals and silver tongued orators selling all manner of tonics and snake oil from the back of their "progressive" travelling circus.
Since stability is a desirable goal, how about relegating the government to its proper role: building bridges, tunnels and railways and facilitating, not impeding commerce. We don't need a bunch of geniuses designing a Marshall Plan unless it's to save the decayed inner cities and forgotten poor from ill-conceived liberal fixes. Our gifted, young president should focus on Detroit first. My brother had a term for guys like this which he would pronounce in rising cadence and pitch: "jerk o--."









