There is a principle called “Occam’s Razor,” which has been interpreted to mean that the simplest of two competing theories is usually the right one.  This comes to mind as President Obama and the flying monkey minions in Congress scramble frantically to ram a trillion dollar “stimulus” bill down American’s throats with no debate, no discussion, and almost no understanding of what is in it.

 And what is in it makes it abundantly clear that this is no “stimulus.”  It is riddled with hundreds of billions of dollars in pork, payoffs to special interest groups, massive increases in welfare spending, new and more bloated federal bureaucracies.  What’s worse, we don’t actually have the money for any of it.  It will have to be taxed, printed, and borrowed, all of which will make our economic situation worse, not better. 

 But … but … the President and the Democrats don’t know this?

 Of course they do.  For weeks, seasoned and well-respected economic and financial writers from the Wall Street Journal, National Review, the Weekly Standard, the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, Americans for Tax Reform, the American Enterprise Institute, the Hoover Institution, and God-only-knows how many others have been explaining why this bill will not jump-start the economy.  Even the Congressional Budget Office has admitted it will make things worse. 

 Obama ignores them all, and continues to preach what he knows is a lie: that this bill is something that we “must” do to “save” the economy.

 This seems inscrutable to most of the commentators I have heard, who protest even more loudly that Obama’s “Keynesian” economic policies have failed everywhere they’ve been tried.  And many Americans who voted for Obama – but not, they thought, for this - seem just as baffled: Does Obama not understand?  Does he know no history?  Has he not heard what the experts are saying?  Maybe he is listening to other economists.  Perhaps he’s misinformed. Maybe he’s being misled by his advisers.

 This is where Occam’s Razor comes in.  None of those explanations makes any sense.  Obama is not stupid.  He has read history.  He isn’t misinformed.  And he is not being misled.  The policies Obama is espousing have been thoroughly discredited for decades, and he knows it.  So there is only one logical explanation: he doesn’t want a real stimulus.

 Why not?

 In a word, power.  Because for a collectivist, collective misery is not just a wet dream, it’s an orgy.  An economic crisis creates the climate that enables Obama to achieve his fondest desire: government takeover of the economy.  This is the Marxist/socialist aim, and has been since its inception.  French historian Elié Halévy explained in 1934 the sentiment socialists need to create in the people: “We are living in economic chaos and we cannot get out if it except under some kind of dictatorial leadership!”

 How better, then, to obtain the dictatorial power you crave, than to ensure that an economic crisis becomes a catastrophe?  Why else would the Pollyanna of Hope and Change have suddenly become the Jeremiah of Doom and Gloom?

 While I hear much discussion about how nothing in the steal-from-us bill makes sense from the standpoint of economic recovery, I hear very little to the effect that the bill’s content and enactment process makes perfect sense when one admits that Obama’s views are essentially Marxist.

 Despite the expected denials (and we heard these before the election as well, which tells you plenty), there is ample evidence of Obama’s inclinations:

 1.        The African father that abandoned Obama and his mother was a Communist;
2.       Obama’s childhood mentor was rabid America-hater, and Communist pervert Frank Marshall Davis;
3.       Obama himself has admitted that in college he sought out the most left-wing comrades he could find to associate with;
4.       For 20 years, he attended a church whose pastor preached a philosophy that was not only racist, but also steeped in Marxism;
5.       Obama brags about his “community organizer” experience in the mode of Saul Alinsky, whose book , “Rules for Radicals” is just another Marxist text for a “people’s revolution” from within the system.
6.       His election was – and continues to be celebrated by Communists around the globe.  (Hey, if they think he’s one of them, who are we to argue?)
7.       In addition to the federalization of financial institutions, Obama has already set CEO salaries by fiat, and is pushing for control over the census, and the media (that is, that part of the media that doesn’t lick his feet like a lapdog). Continued...