Let’s start with a quote from blogger Jack Ward:

Never waste a good crisis has become the mantra of the Obama administration. This ideology was first echoed by President Obama’s White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel. Less than ten days after Obama was elected president, Emanuel went on a Sunday morning talk show and said, “Rule one: Never allow a crisis to go to waste. … They are opportunities to do big things.”

It can not be claimed that the current economic crises was created by Team O but they get credit for taking a large fire and dousing it with gasoline. Lets give credit where it is due though: Team Bush started the process. Remember the original TARP idiocy? The one McCain, and that’s Mr. Loose Cannon himself, “suspended his campaign” for to fly back to D.C. and act terminally confused? (John, tis better to keep your mouth shut and let the world think you’re a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.) That started the D.C. gasoline process, one which little o was only too glad to expand and accelerate. Do you remember the “stimulus package?” Investor’s Business Daily’s take on this was:

The old quip that no one should watch while laws or sausages get made is true – especially with this Congress. America’s legislative body has moved away from creating anything of value and instead habitually turns out things that belong in a landfill.

None have ever been more dump-worthy than the spending bill being sold as economic stimulus.

Harvard economist Robert Barro calls the legislation “probably the worst bill that has been put forward since the 1930s.”

“I mean it’s wasting a tremendous amount of money,” he said in an interview with the Atlantic. “I don’t think it will expand the economy. . . . I think it’s garbage.”

(An interesting footnote to Barro’s statement is that he made it well before the obamacare Ultimate Boondoggle; it would be of interest to know if Barro still feels the “stimulus” was the worst bill since the 1930’s.)

A writer at Pantagraph.com had this to say:

Every so often, Congress hammers the media saying that they have a bill that they must pass. It’s usually a bill that also is larded up beyond belief with wasteful spending.

This year’s must-pass bill is a “stimulus” measure. True to form, Congress has loaded the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 with hundreds of billions in wasteful spending.

The bill includes $650 million for digital TV coupons, $140 million to study the atmosphere and $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts. None of these proposals would create jobs or boost our economy.

Crying “stimulus,” Congress intends to spend money it doesn’t have to accomplish things that don’t need to be done on a scale never before seen.

But enough happy talk. My take is the “stimulus bill” was essentially – if not completely – an excuse to spend billions on the liberal wish list of programs that could not be spent without the crisis atmosphere. To the limited extent it will stimulate anything, it is timed so that will occur for the next election cycles so any improvement in the economy can be attributed to this swill.

So what does this have to do with liberty and freedom and why am I an Angry Peasant: reasonable questions, both. The freedom thing relates to what is being done with the financial and economic crisis and how those actions will metastasize. Ponder what the New Deal did to the Constitution and then consider that the steps being taken by the Lords of Wall Street and their bought and paid for servants in D.C. will deepen and prolong the crises while providing numerous opportunities for additional stimulus packages and other such actions taken in our name but actually serving to expand the control of those who lust insatiably for ever more control.

While not one person knows what the future brings there were many who accurately predicted before things started to fall apart in 2007 what was coming our way. Michael Panzner, Peter Schiff, Karl Denninger and NUMEROUS others. None of these people, to the best of my knowledge, share in the dissemination of or believe all the good news being defecated by those in charge and their MSM shills. If you choice is to believe in those who have been wrong all along or those who warned us and have been proven correct then which do you choose? (For those died in the wool liberals reading this, if any at this point, that’s not a trick question.) If you take the wild leap that those who have been right in the past are more likely correct now then you must consider whether those in charge are just plain stupid (they’re not) or if some other game is afoot and, if so, what is that game? That brings me back to “Never waste a good crisis has become the mantra of the Obama administration.” It seems clear that this crisis is not being wasted but, instead, is being used for an accelerating transformation of what was once a constitutional republic into a national government possessed of plenary power. And, finally, the realization comes that if you’re not one of the Lords then you’re one of the peasants. Personally, I’m an angry one.

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