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bureaucrats and politicians.
In The Road to Serfdom , Friedrich Hayek, an influential critic of centralized government and a major influence on President Reagan and Prime Minister Thatcher, similarly warned that “[government] planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals.” He added, “The more the state ‘plans’ the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.”
Hayek clearly explains why the utopian fantasies of the secular-socialist machine are a direct threat to our freedom. Defeating this machine, and thwarting its furious attempts to impose alien values on us, is not a partisan matter between Democrats and Republicans; it’s an effort to save America.
CHAPTER THREE
The Lies They Told Us (Because They Had To)
H ow does the secular-socialist machine gain power? That’s easy: they lie to us.
But at some point in 2009, the American people realized they were not getting the truth from President Barack Obama, House speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senate majority leader Harry Reid.
Perhaps it became clear in December during Congress’s first round of voting on healthcare “reform.” After an embarrassing and shocking parade of political payoffs to achieve the necessary votes, House and Senate leaders met with White House officials to draft a final bill.
President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Leader Reid bypassed the normal conference committee for the bill, opting instead to hash out the details behind closed doors. There, they struck a corrupt deal with their union boss donors that would exempt union members
from paying taxes on certain healthcare plans while non-union Americans would still get taxed.
Not only did this flagrant venality mock the very idea of equal protection under the law, but the process that created it was the polar opposite of the way President Obama and Speaker Pelosi had promised to govern.
When Democrats won control of the House of Representatives in November 2006, Speaker Pelosi pledged, “This leadership team will create the most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history.”
They promised to give members of Congress—and the American people—twenty-four hours to review bills before voting on them, to conduct rigorous internal ethics investigations, and to reform the earmark process to stop taxpayer-financed political payoffs.
Similarly, candidate Obama passionately vowed to make Washington more bipartisan, more transparent, and more accountable to the American people. Condemning backdoor negotiations, he called for “bringing all parties together and broadcasting [healthcare] negotiations on C-SPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are.”
He made this pledge at least eight times during the campaign, and the pledges were compiled in an online video. In one clip, he explains that he is personally responsible for making this happen, insisting, “One of my jobs as President will be to guide this process.”
C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb asked congressional leaders to live up to those pledges so the American people could see how their representatives decide the vital issue of healthcare. But President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid refused. And no wonder; TV cameras would have exposed exactly the sort of corrupt bargaining on behalf of major political donors that candidate Obama had pledged to “shame”—his word—congressional leaders from making.
Thanks to that video, President Obama’s C-SPAN flip-flop may have been the most vivid example of the Democratic leadership’s unwillingness to uphold campaign promises, much less the ideals of this country. That instance of hypocrisy, however, is just the tip of the iceberg.
“THE MOST HONEST AND ETHICAL CONGRESS IN HISTORY”
Any honest assessment of the campaign promises made by the current Democratic Congress reveals a stunning gap between words and deeds. Despite the Democrats’
In The Road to Serfdom , Friedrich Hayek, an influential critic of centralized government and a major influence on President Reagan and Prime Minister Thatcher, similarly warned that “[government] planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals.” He added, “The more the state ‘plans’ the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.”
Hayek clearly explains why the utopian fantasies of the secular-socialist machine are a direct threat to our freedom. Defeating this machine, and thwarting its furious attempts to impose alien values on us, is not a partisan matter between Democrats and Republicans; it’s an effort to save America.
CHAPTER THREE
The Lies They Told Us (Because They Had To)
H ow does the secular-socialist machine gain power? That’s easy: they lie to us.
But at some point in 2009, the American people realized they were not getting the truth from President Barack Obama, House speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senate majority leader Harry Reid.
Perhaps it became clear in December during Congress’s first round of voting on healthcare “reform.” After an embarrassing and shocking parade of political payoffs to achieve the necessary votes, House and Senate leaders met with White House officials to draft a final bill.
President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Leader Reid bypassed the normal conference committee for the bill, opting instead to hash out the details behind closed doors. There, they struck a corrupt deal with their union boss donors that would exempt union members
from paying taxes on certain healthcare plans while non-union Americans would still get taxed.
Not only did this flagrant venality mock the very idea of equal protection under the law, but the process that created it was the polar opposite of the way President Obama and Speaker Pelosi had promised to govern.
When Democrats won control of the House of Representatives in November 2006, Speaker Pelosi pledged, “This leadership team will create the most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history.”
They promised to give members of Congress—and the American people—twenty-four hours to review bills before voting on them, to conduct rigorous internal ethics investigations, and to reform the earmark process to stop taxpayer-financed political payoffs.
Similarly, candidate Obama passionately vowed to make Washington more bipartisan, more transparent, and more accountable to the American people. Condemning backdoor negotiations, he called for “bringing all parties together and broadcasting [healthcare] negotiations on C-SPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are.”
He made this pledge at least eight times during the campaign, and the pledges were compiled in an online video. In one clip, he explains that he is personally responsible for making this happen, insisting, “One of my jobs as President will be to guide this process.”
C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb asked congressional leaders to live up to those pledges so the American people could see how their representatives decide the vital issue of healthcare. But President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid refused. And no wonder; TV cameras would have exposed exactly the sort of corrupt bargaining on behalf of major political donors that candidate Obama had pledged to “shame”—his word—congressional leaders from making.
Thanks to that video, President Obama’s C-SPAN flip-flop may have been the most vivid example of the Democratic leadership’s unwillingness to uphold campaign promises, much less the ideals of this country. That instance of hypocrisy, however, is just the tip of the iceberg.
“THE MOST HONEST AND ETHICAL CONGRESS IN HISTORY”
Any honest assessment of the campaign promises made by the current Democratic Congress reveals a stunning gap between words and deeds. Despite the Democrats’
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