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Obama's perverse notion of
fairness
By David Limbaugh
8/6/2013
In
President Obama’s world, “fairness” seems to be of overarching
concern. Too bad “fairness” means what he says it does rather than what
Webster’s
specifies.
You’ll
rarely hear Obama talk about economic growth — even as an
aspiration — and not just because there’s been a dearth of it under his
miserable five years in office.
It’s
not where his head is. It’s not his wheelhouse. It’s absent
from his list of priorities, and I’m not just talking about golf, White
House
galas and filling out NCAA tournament brackets.
When
he talks policy, he doesn’t talk about economic growth,
except when he’s touring the country to give the latest version of his
“laserlike focus” speech. Even then, any references to economic growth
are
either propaganda throwaways or rationalizations for why things aren’t
better.
True
economic growth — really expanding the economic pie, getting
America’s business and industrial sectors humming again and
experiencing an
uplifting economic boom — does not even occur to him. They just didn’t
emphasize bullishness on free market capitalism and the entrepreneurial
spirit
in his community organizing seminars and his hate-America-as-founded
rallies.
Laserlike
focus? He has one, all right, but it’s on moving us
further away from anything that could spur real economic growth and a
proliferation of prosperity across all income levels.
He
is about consolidation and top-down control. To him, those in
power should concern themselves not with growth but with how resources
are
allocated.
Obama
opposes lower capital gains tax rates, despite their history
of spurring economic growth and more tax revenues than higher rates. He
simply
can’t abide the wealthy’s thriving under this scheme. To him, fairness
means
punishing high-income earners, even when doing so requires hurting
lower-income
earners.
He
opposes robust exploitation of our conventional energy
resources — oil, coal, natural gas — and nukes because these industries
symbolize parts of America that he resents...
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the rest of the article at Human Events
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