Comments on: The 2 percent solution, or, the tyranny of the majority returns with a vengeance

By: serfs: Roger Kimbal on Obama’s Agenda

serfs: Roger Kimbal on Obama’s Agenda — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:14:11 +0000

[...] Roger Kimbal, “The 2 percent solution, or, the tyranny of the majority returns with a vengeance”. [...]

By: Greg Ransom

Greg Ransom — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:58:50 +0000

Obama takes the “Hayek Hypothesis” and the “Hayek-Friedman Hypothesis” to be facts, as explained here:

In Obama’s own words, “The market is the best mechanism ever invented for efficiently allocating resources to maximize production. And I also think that there is a connection between the freedom of the marketplace and freedom more generally.”

These are the central and most controversial conclusions of Hayek’s _The Road to Serfdom_.

What we need to do is hold Obama to account for the fact — which he admits — that we depend on the market system for our wealth and our freedoms. If we do depend on the market for these and Obama’s policies undermine or threaten the market system, then Obama is threatening or undermining our wealth and our freedoms.

And he needs to be called on it.

By: steveaz

steveaz — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:14:35 +0000

Excellent post, Roger.

RE Obama’s policies: I call his agenda the “Hand-On-Every-Shoulder” paternalism.

Question: How do you respond when a stranger puts his hand on your shoulder and attempts to steer or cow you? Most of us recoil or shrug the hand off.

Others of us lack the sense of self-confidence to slough-off the stranger’s embrace, and instead, these indigents follow, stoop and turn easily in response to the steering hands’ manipulation. In this, they’re like old cart horses with their spirits wore-down and “broken.”

Obama’s “hand on the shoulder” is an insidious manifestation of tribal government which pretends both to soothe the stumbled child and to steer the unruly into ordered regiments.

Someone once said, “It takes a village.” I think that Obama’s idea of “village”-government is top-down fascism with cute bunny slippers on its feet.

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!

By: Roger’s Rules » The President, shock and awe, and Tertullian

Roger’s Rules » The President, shock and awe, and Tertullian — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:26:46 +0000

[...] I wrote about the current President’s “2 percent solution,” that is, his punitive tax raid on the top 2 percent of US tax [...]

By: WFB

WFB — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:28:53 +0000

The middle class which voted for Obama now discover that he thinks they are the economic royalists. Unfortunately, we the realists must suffer too.

By: roseann

roseann — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:52:25 +0000

Thank you for your reference to ” The Road to Serfdom ”
The chapter on Rule of Law should be required reading for every High School student, not to mention every adult in the country.
The similarity to the situation today is unescapable, frightening.

By: G. Clark

G. Clark — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:45:14 +0000

Peter Schiff-who called this collapse a good while back while others were still touting the miracles of our economy-has a good simple explanation of what is wrong with Obamanomics here.

http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/obamas_debt_orgy/