Sunday, March 01, 2009

NO MORE PRESIDENT EEYORE?

Mike Baker returns:
It’s the damndest thing… one minute you’re in the land of the free, brave and capitalist…the next, in the words of the now famous Newsweek cover, we’re all socialists now.
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Pillory big business, tax anyone making more than you do, redistribute assets, toss in a little protectionist rhetoric… this is the change we’ve been waiting for? My parents got this change back in the early 1930’s and it led to another depression in the late 1930’s.
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President Obama has spent the past couple of weeks explaining that the sky is falling. Tuesday night during his Not-a-State-of-the-Union Address to the nation, he sounded more hopeful and optimistic. This is because polls, pundits and now advisors are telling him that he can’t be President Eeyore anymore.

Don’t limit yourself to my excerpts – read it all.

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