Barry Obama and his legacy.

“It stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there’s someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.” Ayn Rand, The Soul of a Collectivist, For the New Intellectual, 73


"About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say". ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"Everybody’s going to have to give. Everybody’s going to have to have some skin in the game" -- Barry H. Obama

I think it's fitting that the pull quotes about Obama here are now more from philosophers than from other types of people. Modern day philosophers from Dinesh D'Souza to Barry himself have finally and fully captured the essence of the man. There's little left to say, which is why I'm blogging today.

I want to walk through a mental process here, so we can all be clear where we are at this point. Right now, the damage that is being done is not going to be fixed in the next election. It's going to carry on until the middle of the decade. so while we are all wearing our tea party hats and joyfully voting out RINOSs and other progressives in this election cycle, the Fed continues to write bad checks, and Obama continues to sign them. I think while we are watching the train wreck that is the 111th congress, the real action is happening down the street at the Eccles building.

Rush Limbaugh often says that he is going to do his show until everyone in the US agrees with him. Well, as it turns out, he now agrees with us: RINOS are not the solution to our problem, RINOS are the problem (apologies to the great Ronaldus Magnus). This is a notable change in Rush's demeanor. He was as big a W supporter as you could find for Bush 43's 8 years, but he seems now to have moved out of neo-con territory. To see what I mean, read or listen to Rush's address in Philly. It sums up his change of heart to embrace the other side of his party (the liberty side). To that I say, welcome home Rush. Now that you agree with us, does that mean you are ready to retire? I'm okay either way, but I'll admit  there are still a number of things you can teach us if you want to stay on the air. and There's still the troubling matter of leftover congressman of the two party type, and hopefully they can be identified and rooted out.

The more pressing issue is the economy. Right now, all the energy in the country is focused on fixing the government, since that has the biggest effect on economic fortunes and misfortunes; however, waiting for one election cycle or the next will just take too long. Are we going to wait for January 2013 to fix the spending problem? We need a solution that does not depend on Obama doing the right thing. Therefore, we need to stop obsessing about him and begin looking for solutions that do not depend on this. The real problem is productivity. We are one of the least productive societies in the western world. It's been 16 years since we ended welfare as we know it, and longer than that since we did any serious deregulation work. What is it that is going to create more "wealth" to "spread around". We need a productivity boost. More people working. Maybe even more people learning or re-learning how to work. You want temporary stimulus? How about eliminating the minimum wage for one year?

Since Obama is no longer credible as a solution, I don't find him an interesting blog topic any more. His legacy may not be complete, but the direction of his path is quite clear, and for the purposes of this blog, everything written about him is now enough. The rest of us need to move on.