Terrific Nation
May 3rd, 2009Three Cheers for the Invincible Master Race
I have been thinking about the Chrysler mess for a couple of days, and two obvious questions come up.
1. Shouldn’t people be angry that Bush and Obama gave these incompetents billions of dollars, knowing it was a complete waste? I knew it, and I’m not even President. And so did tens of millions of other Americans. But the press’s reaction is barely audible.
2. Doesn’t this prove that conservatives were right when we said the failure of a Big Three company would not kill the economy, and if that is true, isn’t bailing the automakers out a stupid idea? Shouldn’t we cease all efforts to keep these parasitic, terminally ill companies going?
We were told (by Bush as well as Obama) that we had to keep the Big Three alive, because a failure would have ripple effects that would destroy our economy. Chrysler has failed, and the stock market is up, and nobody is rioting in the streets. Hmm…looks like the socialists were WRONG, doesn’t it? A lot of businessmen are actually happy that Chrysler is going bankrupt. It’s the normal, healthy thing for a failed company to do.
Why did Bush do this? McCain was already dead; it couldn’t help him. The bailout was approved after the election. What possible reason could Bush have had to become an eleventh-hour socialist? The man is not stupid. Surely he didn’t think this would work. Doesn’t he have any faith in the free market?
I guess there are no capitalists in foxholes. When times get rough, politicians pray to their true messiah. Karl Marx.
This is all foolishness. The incompetence and obsolescence of the Big Three are only one part of the problem, and they are far and away the lesser part. The Chinese are going to eat our car industry. Accept it. Let’s let the Big Three die in the cheapest possible way, because it’s foreordained. There are two possibilities. America will not make cars, or we will pay our auto workers so little we can compete with China. There is no third choice, and the second choice is pretty unlikely. Actually, the third choice is a never-ending subsidy that bleeds us dry, but I believe that even Obama is smart enough to see that that won’t fly. Besides, he has the heart of a tyrant, and he didn’t like the way the UAW refused to toe the line.
What we are doing right now is not investment. It’s welfare. We are not going to get our money back from the carmakers, because they’re not going to make a profit. We’re just enabling them. Keeping them alive a little longer. Delaying a constructive move toward redeployment of their work force in industries that have some hope of prospering.
I have a prediction about Obama’s choice to replace Ruth Ginsberg. It’s going to be someone so offensive to conservatives that we will utterly stunned, and whoever it is, she will be confirmed. We are going to have to drink our own bathwater one more time. But for the fact that a woman has to get the job, I’d predict Laurence Tribe or Alan Dershowitz. If Hillary Clinton were not busy already, I’d expect her to be on the list. Maybe it will be someone from the Ninth Circuit. They have three female judges. They’re all white, however, so maybe they aren’t strong candidates. I’m glad Rosie O’Donnell doesn’t have a law degree.
I feel certain it will be a God-hating idiot of such colossal stature that conservatives will vomit for at least a month. We are going to miss Ruth Ginsberg. America is rotting from within, like a cancer patient, and the new associate justice will be part of the rot. Just like the illegal aliens who are becoming more and more powerful, even obtaining the right to vote. Our enemies are crawling inside us to gestate and metastasize, because our walls are down.
Why do I say Obama is going to appoint someone awful? Because America has lost its blessing. Discarded it, in fact. Obama is a divine punishment, and so are his appointees.
I have this strange feeling that our judiciary is going to go to hell, but we will somehow retain our gun rights. So many Christians are getting into shooting; I think there has to be a reason for it, and it wouldn’t make sense, if we were going to lose our guns in the near future.
I also think the Chinese are going to gain such a military advantage over us that we will be helpless before them when we finally have a showdown. They’ve infiltrated our military technology, and they are already able to destroy our vital military satellites in a single day, and Obama has announced that he plans to kill weapons R&D as well as the missile shield. Even Carter was smarter than that.
I see it this way: America is in trouble; Christians within America are not. And Israel will survive without us, because her blessing, unlike ours, is eternal. We’re probably going to shrivel into insignificance and chaos, but Israel is going to survive and grow closer to God. I suspect that Iran is going to get nuclear weapons soon, and that Obama will prevent the Israelis from doing anything about it. And maybe Iran will use them. But in the end, whatever her trials may be, Israel will prevail.
People keep saying we’re going to pull out or our tailspin, because we’ve always recovered in the past. But the past was different. We were not as proud and decadent, and we didn’t have powerful, wealthy enemies whose strength was on the rise. The Nazis were creampuffs compared to China, India, and Russia. The Third Reich had no legs. Neither did the USSR or the 20th-century Chicoms. Our new enemies have capitalist engines driving them, and they have inexhaustible manpower and natural resources. All we have is an idiotic, offensive presumption that Americans are the master race. I guess the Jews felt the same way, right before the Babylonians crushed them. We didn’t make America great; human beings don’t have the power to do things like that. But we do have the power to destroy her.
I know I sound like a pessimist, but that only applies to my country. I’m extremely optimistic for myself and my family. Besides, the prophets were generally pessimists, so I’m in good company. It’s funny, but God never raises up a voice to tell a nation that everything they’re doing is just swell. If God were a parent in an SUV, and he had a rotten kid who was too lazy to get good grades and an honor roll bumper sticker, he wouldn’t have one of those ridiculous consolation-prize “Terrific Kid” stickers on his bumper, to pump up the little brat’s self-esteem. He tells it like it is, and I don’t think he really cares if we have low self-esteem. If anything, he is displeased when we have too much.
May 3rd, 2009 at 11:56 AM
Is “Ruth Ginsberg” code for Souter? 🙂
May 3rd, 2009 at 12:12 PM
Isn’t Ginsberg leaving first? Maybe the caffeine is not doing its magic today. I completely forgot about Souter. Not as interesting, I guess, because Obama doesn’t have to look for a minority or a woman to replace him.
May 3rd, 2009 at 12:15 PM
I also think the Chinese are going to gain such a military advantage over us that we will be helpless before them when we finally have a showdown. They’ve infiltrated our military technology, and they are already able to destroy our vital military satellites in a single day.
With all due respect, I would like to question your statements quoted above. Where is there evidence of the Chinese being able to destroy our military or any other satellites in orbit? We most likely have many more up there than they are capable of destroying, provided they have the technology to even do so. I am not sure if even the United States can do this. Intercepting ballistic objects is a lot different than destroying objects in orbit.
They may have infiltrated our military technology, but that is a far cry from being able to actually do anything with the information. I can get plans to build a nuclear device on the internet. It doesn’t mean I can actually put it to use. You being an aspiring machinist must know that even if you have the most intricate plans to build a doo dad doesn’t mean that you or your machines are capable of doing so.
As for the Chinese army, so what? Are they going to send them to invade America on row boats? We are the only nation on the planet with a blue water Navy capable of projecting power and moving sufficient troops to mount an invasion. Will they nuke their only trading partner powerful enough to keep their economy afloat? If they lose us as a trading partner, to whom will they sell all of those cheap-o cars to?
I hate to admit it, and it’s a horrible reality, but we need them as much as they need us. Fortunately for us, I believe that co-dependent relationship favors us for the moment.
Yes, the situation with China is very distasteful and dangerous to us in many ways, but I also think that there is a lot of dis information and hysteria about it as well.
May 3rd, 2009 at 12:24 PM
The Chinese have already used their satellite-busting technology. Don’t you remember? You seem to think it’s still in the planning stage. As for infiltrating our military technology, I guess you didn’t read about the chips they have succeeded in putting in our planes. As for rowboats, the Chinese are already capable of hitting our ships with devastating missiles we can’t defend against. And they have demonstrated that their subs can follow and attack our ships without detection.
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You must be getting your news from TV.
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You say they depend on us. Maybe, but they can still sell us things after we lose a war. And maybe the goal isn’t to have a war. If they demonstrate their superiority, they can force us to back down, and they can drive us out of Asia and take back Taiwan. Anyone who thinks Taiwan has any hope of remaining free is smoking crack.
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Things are very bad right now, and thanks to Obama’s position on military R&D, they will get worse. Meanwhile, China continues upgrading its hardware and software. If they don’t have everything they need right now, they will in five years.
May 3rd, 2009 at 2:21 PM
I am not convinced that “And Israel will survive without us, because her blessing, unlike ours, is eternal” necessarily applies to the current political entity whose Supreme Court is the envy of Ruth Ginsberg and whose restrictive civilian gun laws make Nancy Pelosi salivate. God’s promise was to the Jewish people and there may be another diaspora or two in our future. Not sure if Asia or South America, two continents where we haven’t been especially noteworthy (outside Asia Minor), need to have their chance.
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I think NASCAR fans could be motivated but the path to regaining the American blessing starts with paving Foggy Bottom’s influence on our national policy. Most clergy are too timid to actually motivate their congregations to seek discomfort by adopting a “I’ll try to be better today than yesterday and better tomorrow than today” weltanschauung. Much too easy to convince folk that paying dues and showing up for occasional easy-to-digest sermons is the ticket to box seats in the World to Come.
May 3rd, 2009 at 2:25 PM
We don’t manufacture our own chips… our military technology is utterly dependent on foreign countries. Thank our Republican leaders for not making a sufficient stink about this because their profits-uber-alles plaid-golf-pantsed supporters have no moral compass. Being filthy rich isn’t enough when compromising US security in the goal of being obscenely rich is possible, I guess.
May 3rd, 2009 at 2:40 PM
I’m glad Rosie O’Donnell doesn’t have a law degree.
There are no requirements to be a Justice. As long as the Senate would sit still for it: she could be Justice O’Donnell.
May 3rd, 2009 at 3:31 PM
I haven’t watched TV with any regularity for over a year now. I cannot afford it being un employed, and analog reception here is very poor.
I agree with you that we are in a very poor position with China that is only going to get worse with Obama at the controls. I ask you, if they are in such a superior position, why don’t they just jump on Taiwan now? Use their superior anti ship missiles to get us out of the way, then mount their invasion. Wait, I forgot, it is almost impossible to mount an invasion force with a frigate navy, and the Taiwanese will fight for their land, even without us. Seriously, I do believe you are correct that Taiwan will eventually fall to China, but at a great cost to the Chinese.
Let’s define the term ‘chip’. There are several chips in your computer, most of which need code to operate. It is very easy for folks to leave out certain details that when not presented to bolster their argument. Take health care for instance, when the libs quote outrageous numbers of un insured. Let me make clear that I am not accusing you of this, but depending on where you get your information from, it can happen. I worked in the printed circuit industry for years, and we built zillions of circuits for military and aerospace companies using components and dialectrics purchased from foreign countries, such as China. We had a facility in China which built certain boards that were then shipped to us to mount components on, and ship to our customers. Given that information, it would be easy to say that the Chinese have components, or even ‘chips’ in our missiles, or radars or aircraft, when in fact, those components present no danger to the security of our country. I am just asking the question.
I am in some doubt that the Chinese possess an anti ship missile we are incapable of defending against. Has it been tested? Certainly it hasn’t been against our defenses. Is it reliable as a weapon? Same for our subs. Tracking one of our subs once without detection is one thing. Being able to do it with reliability is another. If one of our subs was tracked, what kind of sub was it? Who let the cat out of the bag? If it was us, then why? This isn’t the type of thing a country tends to be very candid about. If the Chinese, how can we trust what they say?
Others have said this before I have, so I take no credit, but Obama’s greatest challenge is going to be foreign policy and national security, rather than domestic policy. I agree with you on many points. On the world stage concerning our national security, we are in deep trouble, and Obama with his policies are not likely to help our cause world wide. I just question some of the doom and gloom folks and their arguments. I believe the truth is somewhere in between.
May 3rd, 2009 at 5:51 PM
You are asking questions Google can answer in five minutes. My time is just as important as yours.
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A start:
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-492804/The-uninvited-guest-Chinese-sub-pops-middle-U-S-Navy-exercise-leaving-military-chiefs-red-faced.html
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https://www.usni.org/forthemedia/ChineseKillWeapon.asp
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Chinese-spies-put-chips-in-US-planes/articleshow/4412075.cms
May 3rd, 2009 at 10:03 PM
The chinese could utterly destroy America simply by dropping chinese people out of airplanes on us. And they have all the tech they need to do much more.
The only way we surpass the chinese is inventiveness and imagination. Having dealt with them on multiple occasions, I can justifiably say, they rarely bother to invent anything themselves; they wait until Tokyo or Silicon Valley spend billions developing something, then they make it for $12 and sell the $12 version to everyone. Painfully, that’s not a weapon that can be used against them, but it’s about all we got.
On the gripping hand, China knows that it’s economy is utterly dependant on the USA. Without someone to buy all those doodads it has four year olds making in sweatshops all over China, it has no money. SO it is in their best interest to keep us greedy for cheap fancy toys, and they know it.
I don’t know how this is all going to shake out, but I’m damned sure I’m taking some Mandarin lessons, and getting the wife and daughter to do so as well.
May 4th, 2009 at 10:45 AM
og – I love the gripping hand reference (I hope a lot of othershere appreciate it too).
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On that gripping hand point you made – the Chinese fully understand the need to keep us as customers. They want, however, to alter the relationship – from a customer who must be wooed (and could go elsewhere) to one who is more like the captive of teh company store (with no options and no way out of the debt).
May 4th, 2009 at 11:48 AM
Ginsburg has said she is NOT retiring. Souter has announced his, at the end of the term.
I still expect the replacement to be female (quotas, you know).
May 4th, 2009 at 12:17 PM
In that case, Tribe and Dershowitz have a shot. Whoever it is, it will be a horror.
May 4th, 2009 at 2:38 PM
I agree w/Og, English and Mandarin will be vital in the future forget anything else (even in Miami).
May 5th, 2009 at 3:58 PM
I suspect the One is going to want a very young socialist – late 30s or early 40s – to clog the system with Marxism for 40 years or so.