Keeping Up With the Enemy

Remember General Patton? He won the battle by reading what his enemy wrote--in this case, a book on tank warfare by Rommel. He used Rommel's own information and advice against him.

I'm suggesting you do the same against Obama in the economic arena by reading what the White House is currently reading: Animal Spirits. If you don't have the time or inclination, Amazon has a lot of revealing information you can glean without ever having to buy the book.

Don't spend money on this book if you can avoid it, but do get access to the book itself, as well as the reviews--people just can't shut up about books sometimes, and they tend to reveal all, making book purchases unnecessary.

The information I want you to have is how this current administration is trying to herd us (like cows and not cats) into a financially- and psychologically-engineered Utopia of their own making--through engineered bank stress tests (which had faked outcomes), continual printing of money to flood the stock market with, faked earnings reports coming from TARP banks, and so on...eventually (some day) ending with an honest profit made in an honest way.

The more "engineering" that takes place between now and that eventual someday, the further away that someday gets.

We're all being herded in one direction by government actions--either by spending (incentives) or by taxation, and not only the government benefits from it, as we now know (Al Gore, G.E. and others are just waiting to get their hands around our globally-warmed throats). See the below entry "The Tyranny of Taxing Sin"--it's a perfectly good example of how we're being herded into Obama's (and others) versions of clean Utopian living.

During the last few years, we were herded toward and to irrational exuberance, which created the bubbles we are now experiencing the bursting of, under the guise of "our own control"--again, engineered with low financing rates, easy access to credit, and a lot of looking the other way. Now we're being herded toward government control, extra scrutiny, and micromanagement, and this will end in great detriment to our innovation and productivity. No stray thoughts here!

Now that you know what's floating around the halls of the White House and Congress, you can employ the Patton method of assaulting your enemy with his own information, as well as learn the best method of protecting yourself and your stuff from what could possibly come in the future.

Government would rather do your fishing FOR you than have you learn to fish for yourself--that way, they can better control what kind of fish you eat, how often you eat it, and limit how large and what kind of fish you can catch in the first place. This is how they herd us into one certain direction--with red tape, taxes, and incentives. This is why it's more important than ever to resist the marketing tactics by government or anyone else--make YOUR OWN incentives!

UPDATE: From the unofficial Obama Book Club page about this book: "The proper role of the parent is to set the limits so that the child does not overindulge her animal spirits. But those limits should also allow the child the independence to learn and to be creative. The role of the parent is to create a happy home, which gives the child freedom but also protects him from his animal spirits.

Government - parental provider of the happy home."

This is how a liberal government sees its role in your lives. If you need government to provide you with a happy home, you may as well have yourself lobotomized now, or you can wait for government to do it for you--either way, you lose individuality, creativity, and innovation in favor of the government-sponsored wet blanket of uniformity for the sake of ultimate control.

Remember the W recovery, remember your Obama-dodging activities, and remember who to vote against in the coming elections--lots of these idiots can be voted out very soon. This 800-lb. gorilla can be killed off by individual efforts!

From F.A. Hayek and The Road to Serfdom: "The economic freedom which is the prerequisite of any other freedom cannot be the freedom from economic care, which the socialists promise us and which can be obtained only by relieving the individual at the same time of the necessity and of the power of choice; it must be the freedom of our economic activity which, with the right of choice, inevitably also carries the risk and the responsibility of that right."