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Individual liberty anywhere is a threat to the Progressive-Collectivist Cause everywhere.
(full story at sadhillnews.com)Obama’s head economic recovery advisor and General Electric CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, recently scolded American business owners, ‘The people in this room have got to stop complaining about government! [...] The truth is, we all need to be part of the solution.’
Guess whiny American businesses aren’t ‘part of the solution’ because they don’t receive the same special arrangements tax-free, bankrupt GE is afforded – like the upcoming $53 billion in taxpayer funds used to subsidize GE’s construction of a high-speed rail system.
And by ‘restoring confidence’, Immelt must be referring to the confidence-building announcement made some 40-odd days ago, that GE’s US Health Headquarters is being relocated to Beijing, China.
Sorry folks, but the Solyndra scandal pales in comparison to the US Government–GE hoodwink.
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Vladimir Lenin, leader of the socialist revolution in Russia, published multiple tutorials for like-minded revolutionaries around the world. Someone in the Obama administration must be familiar with his writings. Socialist minds think alike.(full story at investors.com)
In the "Children's Maladies of the Left in Communism/Results of the Popular Conversation About Marxists Strategy and Tactics" (V.I. Lenin, 1920), Lenin wrote on the critical importance of timing: "To accept the fight, when it is beneficial to your opponent, is a crime; and leaders of the revolutionary class who cannot maneuver, manipulate and compromise to avoid obvious defeat are useless."
According to Lenin's rule, it is strategically appropriate for President Obama to halt all policies that are inconvenient to his election. That's why regulations like the EPA ozone plan, which would impose tremendous regulatory burdens on manufacturing in the USA, and the full-blown implementation of ObamaCare, will wait until after the presidential election of 2012.
Lenin also wrote on the importance of taking advantage of every available disagreement among opponents: "To win over a stronger opponent requires tremendous effort, the necessity of very careful, skillful use of any little crack among the opponents ... requires the use of every available case to gain an ally — even if temporary, weak, unreliable or conditional."
It is interesting to observe how the avalanche of attacks against the Tea Party activists by mainstream media, liberal commentators and other Democratic Party representatives makes some Republicans uncomfortable with the Tea Party. Conservatives should realize that there is no time for old-fashioned political rituals when the transformation of the country is under way.
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Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization (1648)
Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia (1944)
The U.S. Olympic Committee suspends two black athletes for giving a "black power" salute during a victory ceremony at the Mexico City games (1968)
b: Pierre Trudeau (1919), Lee Harvey Oswald (1939), Mauricio Funes (1959); d: Walther von Brauchitsch (1948), Andreas Baader (1977), Gudrun Ensslin (1977), Jan-Carl Raspe (1977)