The effect of what President Obama has done is to over run the objections of anyone who opposes his liberal agenda. OK, but all politicians try to use power to do that. However, President Obama and his friends in Congress have used a deceptive process that pressed the "stimulus package" through without allowing members of Congress time to read the legislation. This process hid the details of the legislation from those who voted for it. President Obama is now asking that his Secretary of the Treasury be allowed to control companies that did not even receive money from that "stimulus package". This process would allow his administration to carry out orders before the public or Congress could be aware of them. The process hides the agenda from view until it is too late to prevent its implementation. Again, this is deceptive.
Thus, the President of our country is asking for dictatorial control by the use of deception over the ability of our country to create wealth for those who work to earn it. What could motivate the President to do this?
President Obama could be motivated by the desire to transform the United States into the country he always wished it had been - the country which he candidly revealed in his conversation with "Joe the Plumber" during the Presidential campaign. He wishes a government that distributes the wealth that productive people create to those who seem to be entitled (in the President's view) to it.
Or, the President could simply be a very convincing Pied Piper leading the nation of blind mice on his path to dictatorial power. The Speaker of the House, Ms. Pelosi, is, for now, actually more powerful than the President in terms of shaping the agenda. However, the President has the power of his office plus his great public charisma which he is exploiting on TV especially. Eventually, he will be able to overshadow the Speaker in power and she will have been a willing pawn in his hands. The majority leader in the Senate, Mr. Reed, is merely a willing accomplice who has hitched his wagon to Obama's star.
Christ said that those who do evil love the dark so that their deeds will not be exposed. He also said that the righteous seek the light so that their deeds can be demonstrated to be good.
Mr. Obama's use of a process that hides from view the exact nature of what he is leading us into is in fact making his motives very obvious: he is leading us into a loss of personal and financial freedom sacrificed to his thirst for power.
There is a paradigm used in politics that helps to understand what motivates people in power. First, you look at the effects of what they did. Second, you look at the process by which they did it. Third, from these two pieces of information you determine the motivational direction from which they came. These motivations are likely to continue to guide the political leader in the future.
It is exactly this paradigm which we have used in this essay. Therefore, no matter what the issue may be, you and I will see a process of deception used by this President in his quest to amass power unto himself. The economy is not the issue for him. The economic difficulty is simply the tool he will use to reshape the American government into his personal footstool.
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