Obama's administration has been governed by Fear and Loathing

Ministry of Fear

By Lance Thompson
Monday, November 2, 2009

Brack Obama rode to the presidency on a tidal wave of campaign enthusiasm, famously promising Hope and Change. Instead, his administration has been governed by Fear and Loathing.

The arguments for Obama’s health care reform bill–ten pages shy of two thousand pages at last count–have all used fear. Twenty million Americans are without health insurance, we are told, then 32 million, then 47 million. If we don’t pass this massive, indecipherable bill, insurance will be unaffordable, you will go broke if you get sick, millions will die. Prescription drug companies, insurance companies, doctors and hospitals who question the grand prophecies of the bill’s proponents are told that if they protest this massive takeover of one sixth of the economy, they will be punished with retributive amendments and strangled by federal regulation.

The cap and trade bill was sold in the same way. If we don’t hobble our industries with restrictions and regulations, the Earth will grow warm, ice caps will melt, polar bears will starve, coastal cities will be inundated. Carbon dioxide, a gas all animals exhale, is now a toxic substance that must be regulated as well. We are all polluters, and we must literally be saved from ourselves.

The stimulus bill passed on fear and panic. If we don’t pump $800 billion into the economy within a week, the market will crash, millions will lose their jobs, your savings will vanish, your home will be foreclosed, you will be living in an appliance box under the freeway.

The federal government took over banks, auto companies, Wall Street firms, this time applying the voice of terror to the corporate officers and boards of directors. If you don’t agree to a government takeover, your pay will be cut, your pensions cancelled, your stock made worthless. Go along with us, or the full weight of the federal government will be used to crush you.

What the Obama administration cannot convince us to fear, they loathe.
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