Friday, October 18, 2013

Cory Wilson: Shutting Down the American Dream

There is an old Chinese proverb, “May you live in interesting times.” Americans are coming to understand why the saying is meant as a curse, not as a benediction.

Imagine your reaction 10 or 20 years ago if I described this scenario, set within the span of roughly a month:

An American President and his Secretary of State are openly defied (mocked, really) on the world stage, outmaneuvered by the Russians and Syrians, rebuffed by the Iranians.

The national government is shut down because the President refuses to negotiate with the opposition party, which holds a duly elected majority of one house of Congress. Instead, he refers to opponents as “hostage takers” and “terrorists.”

The Administration deliberately deploys government agencies to inflict as much pain as possible on average Americans in an effort to blame the opposition party. Earlier, the same Administration perfected the punitive use of government by using the IRS to target political opponents to silence them before the last election. The national media depict the opposition party as the one at fault.

The nation sits on the verge of “default” on its debt, which totals $17 trillion, almost double what it was when this President took office. The President and his Administration exaggerate the specter of default to scare markets, seniors, and anyone else in order to increase the debt limit and keep spending unabated. The economy has suffered from anemic growth for over four years. Unemployment is high, underemployment is even higher, and gas prices higher still.

Your closest guess might be that Jimmy Carter somehow came back and was reelected.

Of course, that would be unfair to Carter. This is Barack Obama’s actual tenure.

Read the rest of this column at Mr. Wilson's website.

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10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Fascism has come to the USA. And if you haven't tried to obtain an insurance quote from the Healthcare.gov website, you haven't experienced stupidity yet. Day 17 and still no quote.

Anonymous said...

Many of the "facts" in Mr. Wilson's piece that he paid JJ to publish are demonstrably false, like, for example, his disproven allegation that the President ordered the IRS to target Tea Party groups. And his whole premise that the shut down/near default fiasco we just went through was the President's fault is a laugher. the American people know the extremist Tea Party House members caused the whole thing, as is reflected by the Republicans' favorability rating's being at an all time low.

Anonymous said...

Or imagine the horror you would feel if you read this sometime after December 7, 1941 "Pearl Harbor bombed by the Japanese and the United States strikes back..... At China. Hey can you blame us, they kind of look a like."

Republicans will do anything to try and forget the blunders of George W. Bush and say this President is worse.

Anonymous said...

Wow. The obamaites are raging over this post. Tea party members get audited? Applications to form anti-Obama PACs, are delayed and delayed and finally denied. First amendment rights to assemble and oppose the fascist-not for you. Ben Carson criticizes Obama and gets audited -just a coincidence.

Democrats have demonstrated how they loathe the freedom loving Americans trying to practice their trades.

Remember how they treated Paula Jones? But it. Tip unread out she was right. And the current opposition is right to. Mohammad is a fascist that will do all to crush his enemies.

Anonymous said...

@10:53am let me guess you are a bleeding heart liberal who thinks Obama is the greatest thing since sliced bread. I am not a tea partier, a republican, nor a democrat. I AM AN AMERICAN. I love my country and I am ashamed and barrassed by what is happening in the country today. I blame Obama, the democrats, and all the idiots who voted for him. He is doing his dead level best to destroy this country. I come from a long line of patriots who fought for this once great country. My first husband even gave his all for this country. I will fight till my dying day to undo what Obama and his buddies have done to make this a great country once again for my grandchildren.

Anonymous said...


Obama is the most incompetent POTUS in the history of the United States.

Burke said...

Mr. Wilson is young and Puritanical, a dangerous combination. But at least he isn't raising the spectre of Paula Jones, of all things, or ranting about patriotism. Once again I raise my faint voice in praise of reason and common sense. Mr. Wilson, one hopes, will mature into a sensible person, someone who will be embarrassed to look back at his Manichean version of American politics.

Anonymous said...

10:53 a.m., you didn't dispute any point I made. Instead, you just attacked me, falsely accusing me of being a "bleeding heart liberal." I'm just sharing the truth with folks on here like you, though it doesn't seem, unfortunately, that you want to know the true facts.

Anonymous said...

Read Rules for Radical, Saul Alinski. I may have mispelled something but you can find them. Liberals are weak people who use sneaky tactics to beat you or try to. One of the rules for radicals is (I think) to make you think they are stonger and their number is greater than it is. I do not think there are as many of them percentage wise as we are currently thinking. They are using all forms of media to make them seem for numerous than they are. Think of all the people you know, usually a couple are liberal. When they are on the internet, posting drivel and running others into the ground, they will have many online personalities. Believe that.
They are very weak minded people who HATE people without that condition.

Anonymous said...

You know, come to think of it, of all the many gay people I know, none would be considered liberal. Of all the conservative people I know, none hate gays. The liberals love to preach that whites hate gays and blacks but I do not know anyone who hates based on those criteria. I do think they make things things up to denigrate conservatives. Conservative want people to be functioning in society and in their personal lives.
I personally wish peace and prosperity on all.



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