Indeed, if you don’t want to be bothered with getting people to actually desire your direction, you can rule through pain and fear. Vulnerable chickens will follow. So despite socialist ideas proven to fail, too many chickens are fearfully following Obama off an economic cliff into a debt-ridden welfare state. This is folly! The only way recover lost wealth is to create more wealth. And the only proven way to do that is to incentivize the private sector by cutting tax rates. The government—which creates no wealth—certainly can’t spend our way out of bankruptcy!
Which leads us to this business about wanting Obama to fail. People ask, “Do you agree with everything Mr. Limbaugh says.” Of course not. I don’t agree with everything any mortal says. But I probably agree with 95 percent of what he says. There are some days I don’t even agree with 95 percent of what I say! I make mistakes just like anyone. But I don’t think Limbaugh made a mistake by saying he wants Obama to fail. I want Obama to fail in many areas too. After all, if Obama succeeds:
• We enter a depression because Obama raises taxes on those who provide the jobs—“the rich” (note to the President: the poor don’t hire anyone!);
• Thousands of more babies (and several mothers) will die from abortion and taxpayers will be paying the bill (the “Freedom of Choice Act”);
• Hundreds of religious hospitals will close (there are 664 Catholic hospitals in the U.S. alone), and thousands of doctors will resign, rather than be forced to provide abortions (so much for “choice”);
• Workers will have their right to a private union vote revoked (the deceptively-named “Employee Free Choice Act”);
• A few unelected justices in one state will impose their view of marriage on the nation’s three hundred million other citizens (Obama wants to gut the “Defense of Marriage Act”);
• Through the “Employment Non-Discrimination Act,” churches and private citizens will be forced to hire people who behave in ways that violate their religious and moral principles (so much for “tolerance”);
• Unprecedented debt and dependency will crush lives and incentive for generations to come.
For the sake of the country and our future, let’s hope Obama fails in these areas. I pray for the President, but I also pray that articulate conservatives in politics will begin to lead like conservatives in talk radio.
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