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The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
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Peter Heck, writing in The American Thinker.
For an even more personal view of the left’s true compassion, pay attention the next time you fill up your gas tank. You will inevitably encounter the same heartbreaking scene I recently did. Standing at the pump, a disheveled looking man in an old Chevy Cavalier pulled up next to me, looking at the balance ledger of his checkbook as he got out of his car. Shaking his head, he wrote a check, walked in, paid the cashier, returned, filled up, and left before I had finished filling my own tank. Out of curiosity, I glanced at his pump and saw he had only been able to pay $5…enough to buy him just over a gallon of gas.
Our leftist leadership can pretend that by telling us we are in an economic recovery, we will all be convinced that it’s true. But people aren’t going to judge our economy by proclamations and press releases. They will judge it by what they’re living. What happened to that man at the pump may be anecdotal, but real-life struggles like his are rippling throughout our economy and having devastating impacts not just on jobs, but on families.
While we sit on top of some of the world’s largest fuel supplies, our leftist leadership keeps telling us that there’s nothing we can do about the oil and gasoline situation. If you ever wanted to know what the left’s compassion really looked like, watch them continue lying about that as struggling Americans scrape up change to put a single gallon of gas in their car.
Remember, it is Barack Obama who implied he has no objections to $4 a gallon gasoline, as well as his energy secretary who has stated we should be paying double that amount. After all, they tell us, such high prices will push us to more fuel efficient vehicles. Here’s a newsflash to the president: that man at the gas pump next to me won’t be able to afford a hybrid anytime soon.
Hat tip to Terri.
We have become enshrouded by a progressive culture that seeks to define as “extremist” anything that would thwart or jeopardize the ultimate dominance of liberalism. If you think there’s something inherently phony about the left-wing agenda, or any part of that agenda, that is certainly enough to qualify as an extremist.
But the agenda has become a study in the art and science of claiming compassion for something, while simultaneously denying it the staples it needs to continue to live. How can that not be phony? Isn’t it a moderate position to take that there must be something duplicitous and fake about that? Wouldn’t it be more extremist to deny it?
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This article and your letter from your new best pal Barack are of a piece. It’s etched into the leftist microchip that “the people” are too stupid and deluded to do anything for themselves, so it’s up to the ruling elite to do it for them. And if the ruling elite happen to get rich and famous and live lives of unimaginable luxury and make themselves effectively above the law…. well, that’s just the way these things go sometimes.
They’ve so thoroughly identified themselves with “the Good of the People” that whatever they choose to do is, by definition, Good for the People. So there’s really no contradiction in Barky taking his 8-mpg mega-limo three blocks to get ice cream for his kids while that guy in the story can barely afford a gallon, or Nancy Pelosi flying around everywhere in a private jet at taxpayer expense, or Bill Clinton holding up all of LAX to get a haircut, or the First Family flying arugula in from Chicago, or… well, you get the point. They’re the embodiment of the General Will, so that’s really our waygu beef Dear Leader is feasting on.
I’m confident that more than one French noble went to the guillotine truly bewildered by the whole thing. What had he ever done to deserve this? Didn’t he rule his peasants justly?
Call them the Ancien Regime, the Vanguard of the Proletariat, or the Democratic Party, it’s just different names for the exact same mindset.
- Severian | 06/16/2011 @ 09:46The linked article has another couple of great examples.
John Stossel had a great guest on recently, a Black professor, who just destroyed the logic behind “compassion” of the New Deal, welfare/entitlements and the minimum wage. He showed the percentages of things like marriage, single mothers, poverty, incarceration, high school graduation rates before and after enactment of the insidious, life destroying liberal policies.
What’s even more disturbing is that evidentially it leaves the very people who are harmed completely unable to recognize who and what are responsible for their misery. Along with, as you point out, Morgan, the perpetrators masquerading as saviors.
Slavery comes in many forms, chains are only the obvious route.
The circle complete, the wheel spins on towards nowhere. Sad and pathetic doesn’t begin to describe it all.
- tim | 06/16/2011 @ 10:17Filling up in a station near Salt Lake late one night, I saw a lady return to her husband waiting at the pump to tell him their card had been declined. Three young-uns in the truck. He asked me for five, and it was hard for him to do. That would have gotten him about twenty miles; home I suppose.
- jamzw | 06/18/2011 @ 11:00