Obama's Plan: Repeal the Private Sector - Replace with Government
Bye Bye Private Sector |
But just before the 2008 election, soon-to-be-President Barack Obama proudly proclaimed “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” His transformational aim? To by any means necessary repeal the private sector - and replace it with government.
ObamaCare is an excellent example. The law’s architect is accidental-video-star Jonathan Gruber - who acknowledges the heads-government-wins-tails-we-lose nature of the law. In 2012 Gruber said if ObamaCare was not successful at controlling costs “we’ll have to revisit single-payer” - i.e. government-only health care. And in 2014 he said “if you like single-payer then ObamaCare has to succeed.” No matter what, we all get government.
And then there’s President Obama’s latest assaults on the private sector Internet. About which college professor and avowed Marxist (please pardon the redundancy) Robert McChesney said “(T)he ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.”
How very Hugo Chavez of him. Totally end the private Internet - then seize their assets and consign us all to government. It appears the President couldn’t agree more. Just after the American people rebuked him and his in historic electoral fashion, he issued an edict to the allegedly-independent Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Will Obama’s gi-normous regulatory attack clear out the private sector? You bet.
“Using data provided by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), a team of economists estimated that a million dollars invested into wired broadband yields 14.74 jobs….Translating the $11.8 billion investment decline using the employment multiplier thus yields a total of 174,233 fewer jobs created in 2019.”
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For Taxpayers, (Government) Broadband 'UTOPIA' Anything But
UTOPIA has been a failure and a thorn in the side of Utah taxpayers from the beginning. Since 2004, UTOPIA was running operating losses for nine years straight. According to UTOPIA’s own financial reports, at the end of FY 2013 UTOPIA had net assets of negative $146 million. Despite asking local governments for $13 million in sales taxes annually, UTOPIA has struggled to stay alive over the past decade. As if that wasn't bad enough, UTOPIA has accrued more than $500 million in debt for Utah taxpayers with no path to success in sight.
You would be exactly right. But you would not be thinking like President Obama and his Democrats. Because better, faster and cheaper is not their objective - repealing and replacing the private sector with government is.
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Seton Motley is the President of Less Government and he contributes to ARRA News Service. Please feel free to follow him him on Twitter / Facebook.
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