Only in a country completely ignorant of basic economics could an “Emergency Economic Plan” proposed by Barack Obama be taken seriously. A brief summary of the details? Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Barack Obama proposes taking “excess” oil company profits and giving individual Americans five hundred bucks apiece and married couples a grand. No doubt this is an attractive plan to those Americans convinced of certain “realities:” oil companies are inherently evil; an endless supply of cheap fuel is a birthright; government can solve any problem; the law of supply and demand is irrelevant; I deserve the money.

That such a plan does exactly nothing to help the country in the long run is irrelevant to the legions of self-absorbed nitwits that buy into the politics of envy and class warfare. And it is mother’s milk to the enviro-nazis who yearn to see America reduced to a Third World country.

Never forget for a second the immutable reality of big government do-gooders: any devastation wrought on this country by their “enlightened” thinking will NEVER affect them personally. They will always have limousines and private jets. They will always have large secure houses, properly heated and cooled. They will always have enough food, clothing and money–even if the rest of us are living in mud huts, riding donkeys and eating wild berries.

Stealing from one to give to another–and that’s precisely what Sen. Obama is proposing–solves nothing. It only kicks the energy football further down the field toward the inevitable: monstrously high energy prices due to dwindling supplies. A thousand dollar rebate and the law of supply and demand ceases to exist? Only an idiot–or someone who assumes all of us are idiots–would foist such a gimmick on the public.

Maybe that’s the real dividing line in the upcoming election: a battle between the idiots and their unbridled sense of entitlement promoted as “concern for everyone,” and those who know that when enough Americans adopt that attitude, the whole country goes to hell in a hand basket.

Don’t buy it? Try drilling you own oil well–on your own dime–and see how far you get.

atahlert@comcast.net

Note: not to be “outdone” by Barack Obama, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has used her power to prevent a floor vote on offshore drilling by the House of Representatives. Remember that the next time you fill up at the pump.

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