by Jordan M. Iwanyszyn
That is the headline I saw on CNN just a few minutes ago (8:15 PM CST). Granted, I don't watch the Commie News Network much except for Lou Dobbs, but I was passing through. It was a reminder of an announcement I first heard this morning that should scare all Americans.
On Sunday, Rick Wagoner, Chairman and CEO at General Motors, stepped down at the request of the White House. In other words, the Obama Administration forced out the head of one of America's largest corporations. That is something that would have been unthinkable just a few months ago. Tell me what gives the President the right to dismiss the head of a business in America. We were founded under a free enterprise business system. If someone has an idea, by George, they are supposed to go after it and create a business venture around their idea. That is something that has always interested me. John Wanamaker, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Frank Woolworth, Walt Disney, Ray Kroc and Sam Walton. All are examples of those who had a business idea, went after it, and made a success for themselves. The government couldn't come in there and hire and fire people, because the American people wouldn't have it. That is a huge reason why our Founding Fathers and ancestors left Europe. Why would we repeat it!
My how things have changed in just a couple of months time. Granted, under the last couple of months of the Bush Administration we were doing bailouts and such, but we have taken a radical turn for the worst! Under Bush the national debt was over a trillion dollars, but now we are headed for a debt of over three trillion under the Obama Economy!
I heard Stuart Varney, an economic journalist, on the Sean Hannity radio show earlier today, and he was utterly amazed by how much we have fallen in our economic moral system in recent weeks. He mentioned how even German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicholas Sarkozy are in opposition to Obama's bailouts and plans for the economy. That should send shivers down America's spine when Europe's leaders have to give us a lecture in socialism.
It seems to me that Europe is learning from their failed experiment in socialism. That is why the Germans and French have decided to choose leaders that are of the more conservative in their countries, and why Britain is poised to do the same. Now, remember that conservative in Europe is not quite what it is in America, but definitely not even close to as far left as their competing major parties.
I hope America will look at the European example. If we don't, it will soon be too late for our great country!
