OBAMA, ATTLEE AND THE INEVITABLE ECONOMIC DECLINE CAUSED BY SOCIALISM

The inevitable toll of the socialism and nationalism Clement Attlee put in place culminated in the crises and collapse of Britain's economy in the 1970's. It was much like what Greece faces now - and Spain and Italy and Portugal and every other socialist state.

Compare East Germany to west: same language, culture and geography - yet East Germany - with free healthcare, free education, free pensions (and so on) became poorer and poorer as it became less free -- while West Germany became the economic powerhouse of Europe. East Germans became serf's - poor and un-free  -- a people indentured to the state - as the traveled down the road of socialism, the road the serfdom...

Obama's policies are having the same effect on the usa economy as these polices had in East Germany and Attlee's Britain.

NOTE: Neither Greece or Spain or Portugal - (or East Germany or the USSR or Red China or Cuba or Zimbabwe or North Korea for that matter) - had "Bush tax cuts or "2 unfunded wars" or "GOP "top-down' deregulation for the greedy 1%" - as Obama liked to say.

The economic disasters the nations ALL faced were ALL caused by SOCIALISM - which reduces liberty and therefore reduces the prosperity, the economic growth which ONLY liberty produces.

As Obama limits our economic freedom he inevitably destroys our economy, and thereby he also achieves another horrifying result: the weakening of theUSA military and our ability to defend the Free World. This will only embolden Putin and China and Tehran and the Muslim Brotherhood. So, the world will get more dangerous as the USA gets poorer.

It's a double whammy.

NOTE: The NHS is in fact a health disaster - as are all the socialist healthcare schemes in the rest of Europe. IN FACT, the USA has a better longer average lifespans and much lower morbidity rates for ALL major diseases - especially when you equalize for racial/ethnic differences, (blacks have high shorter life spans than whites due to genetic diseases, and they lower the USA life span).

Details here:

http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2009/08/basic-fallacies-and-lies-of-liberal.html 

http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2005/12/amercian-longevity-increases-again.html 

http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2009/09/reminder-usa-life-expectancy-is-better.html 

http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2009/10/commenting-on-obamacare-hearings.html

(These link to previous post which detail and document the TRUTH about Europe's socialized healthcare results versus the USA's results.)

I DARE ALL LIBERALS AND LEFTISTS TO READ THOSE POSTS. IF THEY DO, THEN THEY WILL WAKE UP! I did. I used to be leftist. Then, I saw the light. Other libs'n leftsts can too!

MORE ON OBAMA AND ATTLEE HERE; (POSTS COMPARING OBAMA AND ATTLEE GOING BACK 4 YEARS).

IS THE TERM "SOCIALIST" AN EPITHET?

EPITHET: 

a disparaging or abusive word or phrase 

THE TERM "SOCIALIST" IS ONLY CONSIDERED A DISPARAGING AND ABUSIVE EPITHET IN THE USA - BY LIBERALS AND LEFTISTS, FOLKS WHO CALL THEMSELVES "PROGRESSIVES".

IN EUROPE, SOCIALISTS CALL THEMSELVES SOCIALISTS, PROUDLY... HONESTLY - AND THEY GET ELECTED AS SUCH.

•  FRANCE JUST ELECTED A SOCIALIST.

• SPAIN HAD A SOCIALIST PM FOR A DECADE, 

• UNTIL JUST THIS YEAR. GERMANY HAD SOCIALIST CHANCELLORS, TOO. 

• AND BRITAIN'S LABOUR PARTY WAS A SOCIALIST PARTY UNTIL BLAIR.

BUT IN THE USA, MOST SOCIALISTS PRETEND TO BE MERE LIBERALS.

WHY THE DISHONESTY?

BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT MOST AMERICANS BY FAR ARE ANTI-SOCIALISTS, AND THAT IF THEY WERE HONEST ABOUT THEIR GOALS THAT THEY'D NEVER EVER WIN AN ELECTION.

• THAT'S WHY THEY FEIGN ANGER WHEN WE CALL THEM WHAT THEY REALLY ARE.

• THAT'S WHY THEY SAY WE'RE RED-BAITING WHEN WE CALL THEM WHAT THEY ARE.

• THAT'S WHY THEY RUN AS "PROGRESSIVES" AND AS "THIRD WAY" POLITICIANS AS THEY PROMOTE STEALTH SOCIALISM.

NO AMERICAN "PROGRESSIVE" POLITICIAN HAS EVER BEEN A BIGGER LIAR OR PROMOTED A MORE RADICAL AGENDA THAN OBAMA.

YUP: JOE THE PLUMBER WAS RIGHT - AND THE LAST FOUR YEARS PROVE IT, AS DOES THE STATE OF THE US ECONOMY - WHICH IS SUFFERING AS ALL ECONOMIES SUFFER UNDER SUFFOCATING SOCIALIST POLICIES.

THE ECONOMIES OF GREECE AND SPAIN AND ITALY AND FRANCE AND THE EU ARE TEETERING BECAUSE OF THEIR SOCIALIST POLICIES AND PROGRAMS.

• THEY DIDN'T HAVE "BUSH TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH". 
• THEY DIDN'T HAVE "TWO UNFUNDED WARS". 
• THEY DIDN'T HAVE "RUNAWAY WALL STREET GREED" THAT WAS ALLOWED TO RUN RAMPANT BECAUSE OF "REPUBLICAN DEREGULATION" AND "TRICKLE DOWN POLICIES OF THE RIGHT-WING".
• AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY REAL AUSTERITY, EITHER.

IT'S THE SOCIALISM, STUPID.

SOCIALISM HAS NEVER WORKED - NOT ANYWHERE, NOT ANY TIME.

MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT: 

• THE NEW DEAL FAILED. 

• AND THE GREAT SOCIETY FAILED, TOO.

• AND OBAMA'S SO-CALLED STIMULUS FAILED TOO - MISERABLY. AT LEAST IN ACHIEVING ITS PUBLICLY STATED GOALS. IT DID ENRICH THE MACHINE THOUGH.

SOCIALISTS LIKE OBAMA AND REID AND PELOSI - ARE SOCIALISTS LIKE BREZHNEV WAS A SOCIALIST:

BREZHNEV WAS A CORRUPT STATIST WHO TOOK CARE OF HIMSELF AND HIS CRONIES AND HIS PARTY - AND WHOSE POLICIES DESTROYED RUSSIA AND ITS SATELLITES ECONOMICALLY BECAUSE IT SHACKLED THE PEOPLE MAKING THEM LESS FREE, LESS RICH AND LESS HEALTHY.

THE SOCIALIST TRIFECTA:

1. LESS FREE; 
2. LESS RICH; 
3. AND LESS HEALTHY.

IF WE RE-ELECT OBAMA, THEN HE AND HIS COMRADES WILL DO TO AMERICA WHAT THE COMMUNISTS DID TO RUSSIA AND WHAT THE LABOUR PARTY UNDER ATTLEE DID TO BRITAIN:

THEY WILL DESTROY US.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN.

IF OBAMA WINS, THEN A GLIMPSE INTO OUR POLITICAL FUTURE IS A GLIMPSE INTO THE FAILED POLITICAL PAST

APPEASEMENT.... IT'S USUALLY POPULAR - NO ONE LIKES WAR. AND IT AIN'T NEW:

CHAMBERLAIN AND PEACE IN OUR TIME

NATIONALIZATION IN THE NAME OF FAIRNESS? NOT NEW:

CLEMENT ATTLEE AND THE NHS

WE SAID IN 2008 WHERE THIS ALL WOULD LEAD:

WE WERE RIGHT:

WE EITHER PUT AN END TO IT NOW, OR YOU NOW KNOW WHERE IT WILL LEAD...

CERTAINLY NOT FORWARD... NATIONAL SOCIALISM, PERONISM, FASCISM, STALINISM AND MAOISM NEVER LED ANYONE FORWARD.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

ANOTHER GLIMPSE INTO OUR OBAMACARE FUTURE

12 HOUR WAITS IN BRITAIN FOR EMERGENCY BEDS:

Almost 67,000 patients during the first half of this year endured long waits for emergency beds, an increase of nearly a third, according to the government statistics. 

While campaigners condemned the findings as “startling”, the Department of Health insisted that A&E departments were already offering an improved service. 

Over a six-month period to June, 66,845 patients were found to have waited for between four and 12 hours for a bed once doctors decided they needed to be admitted. 

During the same period the previous year, nearly 51,000 patients endured similar waiting times, the equivalent of a 31 per cent rise, according to the DoH.

THE BRITISH LEFT INVENTED NATIONALIZED HEALTH. THEY'VE BEEN AT IT LONGER THAN ANYONE ELSE.

AND IT STILL SUCKS.

AND ITS GETTING WORSE.

AND IT'S BANKRUPTING THEM.

SO IT WAS INSANITY FOR OBAMA TO TAKE US DOWN THAT ROAD.

(THE ATTLEE/OBAMA ROAD TO SERFDOM.)

WE CAN CHANGE COURSE.

VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN.

EVEN THE NYTIMES ADMITS IT: "... the Supreme Court on Thursday effectively created a tax that people will pay only if they do not buy something..."

NYTIMES: 

... by calling the penalty for not buying health insurance a tax, the Supreme Court on Thursday effectively created a tax that people will pay only if they do not buy something. That decision led some opponents of the health care law to proclaim that it was a large tax increase, something the sponsors of the bill had explicitly denied when the law was passed. To some extent, calling it a tax does break new ground. 

“Nobody here can think of an example where you pay a tax if you do not buy something,” said Howard Gleckman, a resident fellow at the Tax Policy Center in Washington. “But there are plenty of examples of where you get a tax break for doing something or buying something. In effect, your failure to buy something means you will pay more taxes.”

THIS IS A DANGEROUS EXPANSION OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S TAXING POWERS.

POLITICIANS COULD NOW DECIDE YOU HAVE TO EXERCISE 5 DAYS A WEEK AND AN APPROVED LICENSED GYM - TO LOWER HEALTHCARE COSTS AND FOR THE COMMON GOOD, OF COURSE - OR PAY A PENALTY... OOOOOOOPS,  I MEAN TAX!

THEY CAN ORDER YOU TO BUY A CAR FROM A DOMESTIC PLANT OR UNION PLANT - OR YOU PAY A PENALTY - OOPS, I MEAN TAX!

THEY COULD FORCE YOU TO BUY IDEOLOGICAL CHILDREN'S THEY DEEM PRO-DEMOCRACY LIKE LGBT RIGHTS BOOKS OR PRO-UN BOOKS - OR YOU PAY A PENALTY... OOPS, I MEAN TAX!


MORE:

If Romney doesn't become president and demands legislation to undue Obamacare, it's the end of the Republic as we know it. If the government can tax you for not having healthcare, they can tax you for not losing weight, tax you for not quitting smoking, tax you for not exercising, tax you for not doing whatever it is they think you should do.

BESIDE THE PENALTY - I MEAN TAX! - WITHIN THE OBAMACARE LAW, MANY OTHER TAXES ARE ALSO SCHEDULED TO GO UP, (USE LINK).

THE NET RESULT IS THE LARGEST TAX INCREASE OF ALL TIME.


AND A NET DECREASE OF INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY.

IOW:

• AS A RESULT OF OBAMACARE WE ARE LESS PROSPEROUS, AND LESS FREE.

• AND NOBODY WILL GET BETTER CARE AS A RESULT.

WE WILL KEEP LESS OF WHAT WE EARN, AND BE FORCED TO SEND MORE TO POLITICIANS AND LOBBYISTS.

A YOUNG HEALTHY PERSON IN MY OFFICE - WHO HAS CHOSEN FOR THE LAST 3 YEARS NOT TO WASTE HIS MONEY ON HEALTH INSURANCE, WILL NOW EITHER BE FORCED TO BUY HEALTH INSURANCE (AND OUR PLAN JUST WENT UP 17%!), OR SEND MORE MONEY TO POLITICIANS FOR THEM TO SPEND.

THAT'S SICKENING TO HIM, AND IT MIGHT EFFECT HIS VOTE THIS NOVEMBER; HE MIGHT SWITCH TO GOP AS A RESULT.

MULTIPLY THIS BUY SEVERAL MILLION YOUNG PEOPLE AND YOU HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR SOME MAJOR LEAKAGE IN TRADITIONAL DEMOCRAT PARTY SUPPORT.

AND ANOTHER THING:

THE WHOLE FREAKIN' ARGUMENT OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES MADE WAS 

(1) THAT OBAMACARE WOULD LOWER COSTS, AND
(2) THAT BY FORCING PEOPLE WHO CAN AFFORD INSURANCE TO BUY INSURANCE THIS WOULD KEEP RATES LOW OR LOWER THEM FOR EVERYBODY. 

BUT THE OPPOSITE HAS HAPPENED: RATES ARE UP.
RATES AND TAXES ARE UP. 

AND CARE IS UNCHANGED. (AND MIGHT DECLINE AS A RESULT!) 

AND ON TOP OF THAT, WE GOT A HORRIBLE SCOTUS DECISION THAT VASTLY EXPANDS FEDERAL POWER.

ALL IN ALL, THIS HAS BEEN AN UNMITIGATED DISASTER.

THERE IS BUT ONE RAY OF LIGHT:

A REVOLT.

VOTE ROMNEY, AND VOTE GOP.



NOTE: 


WE PREDICTED THIS IN 2008 - (BEFORE THE ELECTION!), WHEN WE WERE THE FIRST TO CALL OBAMA  AMERICA'S CLEMENT ATTLEE.

OBAMACARE PREDICTION: SCOTUS THROWS THE WHOLE DAMN THING OUT

THE COURT WILL DO WHAT IT MUST DO - NOTHING MORE AND NOTHING LESS:

BECAUSE THE BILL WAS STITCHED TOGETHER HODGE-PODGE WITH A LOT OF HORSE-TRADING AND PORK-LADEN SIDE-DEALS (AND SINCE IT WOULD NOT HAVE PASSED WITHOUT THEM!) - AND HAD BI-PARTISAN OPPOSITION, IT WOULD BE WRONG TO THROW OUT ONE PART AND NOT THROW WHOLE DAMN THING.


AND SINCE THEY HAVE TO THROW OUT THE MANDATE - AND SINCE THERE IS NO SEVERABILITY CLAUSE - THEY HAVE TO - ( AS IN MUST --- AS IN SHALL) - THROW THE WHOLE DAMN THING OUT.


5 TO 4.


IF THEY FAIL TO THROW IT OUT, THEN OBAMA WILL HAVE PUT THE 2ND-TO-LAST NAIL INTO OUR NATIONAL COFFIN AND JUST ABOUT PERMANENTLY DONE TO OUR NATION WHAT CLEMENT ATTLEE DID TO BRITAIN.


IF THEY FAIL TO DO WHAT THEY MUST, THEN WE MUST REDOUBLE OUR EFFORTS TO ELECT MITT, INSIST HE SELECTS BOBBY JINDAL - WHO IS A HEALTHCARE EXPERT, AN THEN DEMAND PRESIDENT ROMNEY FULFILL HIS MOST IMPORTANT PROMISE: REPEAL OBAMACARE.

BRITAIN PROVES HOW SOCIALISM AT HOME LEADS TO APPEASEMENT ABROAD: CAMERON TO CUT NEARLY 10% FROM MINISTRY OF DEFENSE

BBC:

It is believed the final settlement puts the cuts to the MoD's £37bn a year budget somewhere in the region of 8%, although with the "black hole" in the defence budget inherited from the Labour government, that could equate to rather higher real cuts.

... Earlier this week it was believed at the MoD that a settlement was close at about 7%, but the Treasury came back demanding cuts of 10%.

Military chiefs said that would damage the front line in Afghanistan, something Mr Cameron had previously made clear he was not prepared to do.

... although the exact settlement figure has not been revealed, it is something the defence secretary "can live with".

... the Royal Navy stands to lose a significant portion of its surface fleet, while the order for the joint strike fighters for the carriers will be scaled down substantially.

WITH A WEAKER MILITARY AND LESS ABILITY TO PROJECT POWER, BRITAIN WILL BECOME MORE PLIABLE AND... DEFENSELESS AGAINST CHINA AND RUSSIA AND JIHAD.

AND LESS ABLE TO HELP OUT US OR NATO OR ANY OTHER NATION IN THE WEST.

WHICH WILL GLADDEN OUR ENEMIES ABROAD AND AT HOME.

• LEFTISTS AND DOVES HAVE ALWAYS SOUGHT TO ENLARGE THE WELFARE STATE IN PART TO SQUEEZE OUT THE MILITARY AND MAKE US DEFENSELESS.

• IN BRITAIN THIS STRATEGY WORKED.

• IOW: ATTLEE HAS, IN THE END, SUCCEEDED.

THIS WE CAN PREVENT OBAMA FROM DOING THE SAME THING HERE BY VOTING GOP NOVEMBER.

AS EUROPE MOVES RIGHT, OBAMA WANTS THE USA TO MOVE LEFT: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS MATT WELCH AND INSTAPUNDIT BY ER, UM... DAYS, WEEKS AND YEARS

UPDATED - SCROLL DOWN!

MATT WELCH AND INSTAPUNDIT TODAY:

MATT WELCH: President follows Europe into places Europeans no longer want to go. "... The grand irony here is that the very continent we’re scrambling to emulate has been moving aggressively in the opposite direction on taxes and economic policy...."

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS POSTED ON THIS ON 4/22 - AND PREVIOUSLY ON 4/11 - AND IN A GENERAL WAY IN ALL OF OUR 18 OR SO CLEMENT ATTLEE/OBAMA POSTS.

OUR FIRST ONE WAS JULY OF 2008 - NEARLY TWO YEARS AGO, AND THEN AGAIN ON THE DAY AFTER THE ELECTION.

• MCCAIN'S DEFEAT WAS LIKE BRITAIN FIRING CHURCHILL AND ELECTING ATTLEE, AND OBAMA HAS ON THE SAME DISASTROUS COURSE THAT ATTLEE PUT BRITAIN ON.

• WE NEED A THATCHER - OR REAGAN - TO GET US OUT OD THE HOLE OBAMA IS DIGGING US INTO.

UPDATE: SCOOPED HOT AIR ON THIS. WHAT ELSE IS NEW!?

THEY WANT YOU TO BELIEVE THAT OBAMACARE IS AN OBAMA MIRACLE: "COVERING" 32 MILLION MORE PEOPLE SAVES SO MUCH MONEY IT LOWERS THE DEFICIT!

HOW FU**ING STUPID DOES THE LEFT THINK THE AMERICAN PUBLIC IS!?!?


THE LEFT WANTS US TO BELIEVE THAT OBAMACARE COVERS 32 MILLION MORE PEOPLE AND LOWERS THE DEFICIT - WITHOUT CUTTING CURRENT SERVICES, BENEFITS OR RAISING TAXES.


IT'S A FU**ING LIE.


YOU KNOW IT


THEY KNOW IT.


OBAMACARE WILL BANKRUPT THE USA.


SO WHY DO THEY SUPPORT IT?


THE LEFT WANTS TO BANKRUPT THE USA.


THE LEFT WANTS THE USA TO BECOME A SECOND RATE POWER - LIKE BRITAIN DID AFTER CLEMENT ATTLEE - LIKE EUROPE IS NOW.


FOR THE LEFT, OBAMACARE IS A TWOFER - A TWO FOR ONE:


THE LEFT GETS TO NATIONALIZE HEALTHCARE AND HAVE TH4E STATE TAKE OVER YOUR HEALTH AND LIFE...


AND THEY GET TO BANKRUPT THE USA FORCING DEFENSE CUTS AND MAKING US A SECOND RATE POWER.


WE MUST STOP THEM.


WE MUST THROW EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO VOTES YES ON OBAMACARE OUT OF OFFICE.


WE MUST THROW EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO VOTES YES ON OBAMACARE OUT OF OFFICE.


WE MUST THROW EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO VOTES YES ON OBAMACARE OUT OF OFFICE.


WE WILL THROW EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO VOTES YES ON OBAMACARE OUT OF OFFICE.


UPDATE: VIA INSTAUNDIT:

...representative democracy cannot long endure a political class that is so out of touch with the populace. In some respects, what happens tonight is almost beside the point. The politics are set. Some Democrats are deluding themselves that they can put this behind them and somehow survive in November. They are most assuredly wrong.

IT WILL NOT STAND.

OBAMA IS LIKE CLEMENT ATTLEE: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS INSTAPUNDIT AND PROF BAINBRIDGE BY A YEAR AND A HALF!

GLENN TONIGHT:

PROFESSOR BAINBRIDGE ON OBAMA AND THE BCS:

One day shortly after the Second World War ended, Winston Churchill and Labour Party Prime Minister Clement Attlee encountered one another at the urinal trough in the House of Common’s men’s washroom. Attlee arrived first. When Churchill arrived, he stood as far away from him as possible. Attlee said, “Feeling standoffish today, are we, Winston?” Churchill said: “That’s right. Every time you see something big, you want to nationalize it.”

I’m reminded of that story by news that President Obama plans to regulate the college football playoff system. . . . With the government already running the banks and the auto industry, and trying to take over the health care industry, however, one might have hoped that sports would escape the ravening maw of Leviathan.

But I guess Attlee and Obama are kindred spirits.

Well, let’s hope that Obama doesn’t do for America what Attlee did for Britain, though that does seem to be the goal . . . .

Posted at by Glenn Reynolds at 6:35 pm

GREAT STORY.

ER, UM... BUT WE MADE THE COMPARISON BETWEEN OBAMA AND ATTLEE SEVERAL TIMES AS LONG AGO AS A YEAR AND HALF.

WE FREAKIN' OWN IT:

A WARNING POSTED ON JULY 20, 2008 - BEFORE THE ECONOMIC MELTDOWN AND THE ELECTION:

WHAT CHURCHILL'S LOSS IN 1945 MIGHT TELL US ABOUT 2008 IN THE USA

BBC - JULY 26, 1945, (ALMOST EXACTLY 63 YEARS AGO):

Clement Attlee has been elected Britain's new prime minister after Labour won a sweeping victory in the general election.


The outgoing prime minister and great wartime leader Winston Churchill tendered his resignation immediately.


The landslide victory comes as a major shock to the Conservatives following Mr Churchill's hugely successful term as Britain's war-time coalition leader, during which he mobilised and inspired courage in an entire nation.

People voted for Attlee, in spite of admiring Churchill as a hero

... Mr Attlee, 62, was welcomed by the King shortly afterwards and asked to form a new Government.

Throughout the election campaign Mr Churchill had appealed to the country to give his new National Government - formed after the dissolution of the Coalition government in May - a good majority.

But the appeal was rejected by the people of Britain, largely, it is thought, because they believed Labour's promises to implement the Beveridge Report and its plans for creating a welfare state.

Tired of war, the British people thought they could take a holiday from history - again, just as they had after WW1.

Just as we did after the collapse of the USSR.

And the people who want Obama to become POTUS and CiC are animated by the same misguided, irrational and anti-historical impulses.

And the desire to have the government do for them what they should do for themselves.

The British Welfare State - like ours and like welfare states everywhere - was a failure. It diminished Great Britain and led to increased suffering. It took 30 years and Thatcher to undo it's stranglehold and save Britain from collapse.

The USA and Great Britain don't need to replay the mistakes of the past and elect Attlees or Carters or Clintons.

We don't need to take another holiday from history - not with Iran and al Qaeda still threatening the free world.

We don't need to expand the welfare state. That would just drag down the entire economy, if not the world's economy.

We don't need another Clement Attlee.

We need Reagans and Thatchers.

The closest we'll come this election is McCain - who is more like Churchill than Attlee.

CLEMENT ATTLEE OBAMA -
a dove who wants to reinvigorate the welfare state

THE DAY AFTER THE ELECTION:

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

PREDICTION: THE ELECTION OF AMERICA'S "CLEMENT ATTLEE" WILL BRING ON "THE OBAMA INTIFADA"

We first posted on this parallel in July, and it has come to pass: THE USA ELECTED ITS ATTLEE.

WIKI ON ATTLEE:

The government he led put in place the post-war consensus, based upon the assumption that full employment would be maintained by Keynesian policies, and that a greatly enlarged system of social services would be created -- aspirations that had been outlined in the wartime Beveridge Report. Within this context, his government undertook the nationalisation of major industries and public utilities as well as the creation of the National Health Service. After initial Conservative opposition, this settlement was by and large accepted by all parties[2] until Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservative Party in the 1970s.

WHAT WE POSTED IN JULY 2008:

Tired of war, the British people thought they could take a holiday from history - again, just as they had after WW1.

Just as we did after the collapse of the USSR.

And the people who want Obama to become POTUS and CiC are animated by the same misguided, irrational and anti-historical impulses.

And the desire to have the government do for them what they should do for themselves.

The British Welfare State - like ours and like welfare states everywhere - was a failure. It diminished Great Britain and led to increased suffering. It took 30 years and Thatcher to undo it's stranglehold and save Britain from collapse.

The USA and Great Britain don't need to replay the mistakes of the past and elect Attlees or Carters or Clintons.

We don't need to take another holiday from history - not with Iran and al Qaeda still threatening the free world.

We don't need to expand the welfare state. That would just drag down the entire economy, if not the world's economy.

We don't need another Clement Attlee.

We need Reagans and Thatchers.

The closest we'll come this election is McCain - who is more like Churchill than Attlee.

CLEMENT ATTLEE OBAMA -
a dove who wants to reinvigorate the welfare state

WELL... HERE WE GO AGAIN!

The socialistic policies of Attlee and Obama always have the same results.

The policy of appeasement always has the same results, too.

Socialism and appeasement will make the USA weaker and poorer - and this sends a clear signal to our adversaries.

Because weakness invites adventurism, there will be another intifada in Israel (their third), another in Europe - AND OUR FIRST IN THE USA.

THE OBAMA INTIFADA.

And Putin and Iran will become more aggressive in Venezuela.

And Putin will become more aggressive in Georgia and Ukraine.

And Iran will become more aggressive in Iraq.

And al Qaeda will become more aggressive in Pakistan and Kashmir.

And al Qaeda will attack us here again, too.

Obama will weaken our defenses by weakening our ability to gather intel by weakening the NSA Intercept Programs.

Obama will weaken us by ceasing deployment of Missile defense in Eastern Europe and Alaska.

And Obama will weaken us by cutting the defense budget.

TO AVOID THE CATASTROPHE OBAMA'S POLICIES WILL PRODUCE, WE MUST FIGHT OBAMA'S DANGEROUS POLICIES EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.

WE SHALL.

JUST OVER A YEAR AGO, 1/18/09 (EXCERPT):

"OBAMA IS NOT ANOTHER LINCOLN; HE'S ANOTHER CLEMENT ATTLEE"

3/2/09 (EXCERPT):

• WE NEED ANOTHER THATCHER AND WE NEED HER NOW!

• THATCHER UNDID ATTLEE'S NATIONALIZATION AND SOCIALISM - AND SAVED BRITAIN.

• OBAMA IS OUR ATTLEE.

• WHERE IS OUR THATCHER?!

5/22/09 (EXCERPT):

THE UNBRIDLED SOCIALISM OF OBAMA

He's taken over the auto industry.

And a lot of the banking/financial industry.

And he has his eyes on the healthcare industry.

Together, they make up a BIG chunk of the economy. What... maybe 30%? Plus the federal government already is a huge part of the economy.

This explosive growth of the government is an un-American intrusion into pour businesses and is FUNDAMENTALLY anti-freemarket.

There's been nothing like it since Attlee took over from Churchill after WW2 - and nationalized about 60% of the British economy. RUINING IT FOR THREE DECADES!

10/31/09:

OBAMA: THE MOST LEFT-WING PRESIDENT IN THE ENTIRE WEST SINCE CLEMENT ATTLEE

WHAT OBAMA, SOROS AND THE SEIU ARE ATTEMPTING
IS NOTHING LESS THAN THE ATTLEEFICATION OF AMERICA.

AN ADMINISTRATION OF THE LEFT, BY THE LEFT
AND FOR THE LEFT.

I HAVEN'T POSTED ALL THIS TO BRAG.

IT'S TO PROVE THAT WHAT MY 1500 READERS A DAY READ HERE IS AT LEAST AS GOOD AS WHAT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE READ EACH DAY AT THE BIG BLOGS.

AS A FEW OF MY GREAT CO-BLOGGERS KNOW, IT'S FRUSTRATING TO BE AHEAD OF THE CURVE ON SO MANY THINGS AND ON SO MUCH ANALYSIS AND TO GET COMPARATIVELY LITTLE BIG-TIME LINKAGE ON IT OR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FOR IT.

GLENN AND BAINBRIDGE ARE BIGTIME RESPECTED BLOGGERS, YET I BEAT THEM ON THIS BY YEARS.

AND I BEAT THEM AND OTHER BIGTIME BLOGGERS BY MONTHS AND WEEKS AND DAYS ON SOME ITEM EVERY SINGLE DAMN WEEK.

SIGH.

WHAT CAN IS SAY!?

I'M GLAD YOU'RE HERE!

THANKS!

I mean that. Thank you. Thank you for all 2,000,000+ page views!

JOHN QUINCY OBAMA: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS EVERYONE BY MORE THAN TWO YEARS

INSTAPUNDIT TODAY:

THEN: “Adams Can Write, Jackson Can Fight.”

Now: “We Need ‘A Commander-in-Chief, Not a Law Professor’.”

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS MADE THE COMPARISON TWO YEARS AGO - (THOUGH WE WERE WRONG ABOUT USING IT AS A PREDICTOR).

WELL BEFORE PALIN OR GLENN OR JONAH GOLDBERG.

I STILL THINK THE CLEMENT ATTLEE/CHURCHILL COMPARISON IS MORE APT, CLICK AND SCROLL).

LABOUR'S SOAK THE RICH TAX SCHEME WILL HURT LONDON'S POSITION AS FINANCIAL CAPTIAL OF EUROPE

BBC:

City 'will be hurt by bonus tax'

London's role as a leading financial hub may be "damaged" by the new bonus tax, Barclays chief John Varley has told the BBC.

Mr Varley is the first senior British banker to attack the one-off 50% tax on large bonuses for bankers recently announced by the government.

"I think that London could well be damaged by this," he said.

The Barclays chief executive also criticised Labour for not ensuring a "predictable tax environment".

The bonus levy applies to bonuses of more than £25,000, and lasts until April next year. France has announced similar plans.

The tax is payable by banks, with bankers still having to pay income tax on any bonus they receive as usual.

Mr Darling predicted in his pre-Budget report that the tax would raise £550m, though banks have claimed it would raise far more.

'Laments' bonus tax

"Banks are competing globally - this bank, Barclays, competes with banks all around the world and we have to be able to compete on a level playing field," Mr Varley told the BBC.

IT'S THE "RE-CLEMENT ATTLEE-IZATION" OF BRITAIN.

AND IT WILL HAVE THE SAME EFFECT NOW AS IT DID THEN.

AND, OBAMA IS OUR ATTLEE.

SIGH.

WHAT OBAMA'S BOW DOWN TO THE EMPEROR REALLY MEANT

Leftists argue - disingenuously - that President Obama BOWED DOWN to the Emperor of Japan merely as a show of "respect". (ROUND UP HERE AT MEMEORANDUM.)

BUT: The following international leaders DID NOT BOW DOWN (click for photos):

• Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
• King of Morocco
• Dick Cheney
• Prime Minister Slovenia
• President South Korea
• President Kazakhstan
• Prime Minister India
• Vladimir Putin

WERE THEY "DISRESPECTFUL"!?

NOPE.

Obama was NOT being "respectful" as the left disingenuously argues; Obama was offering a STEALTH APOLOGY for winning WWw and winning by using nuclear weapons on Hiroshima - and then a week later - on Nagasaki.

Nearly everything Obama has done on his watch so far can be characterized as STEALTH SOCIALISM:

• his cap & trade policy;

  IT'S REALLY A STEALTHY WAY TO HAVE THE GOV'T GAIN CONTROL OF INDUSTRY BY CONTROLLING ENERGY;

• his healthcare "reform" policy;

  IT'S REALLY A STEALTHY WAY TO HAVE THE GOV'T GAIN CONTROL OF HEALTHCARE;

• his immigration policy;

  IT'S REALLY A STEALTHY WAY TO HAVE THE DEMOCRAT PARTY CAPTURE ILLEGALS AS A VOTING BLOC;

• his Afghanistan "policy";

  HIS DITHERING IS A STEALTHY WAY TO SURRENDER;

• his order to have the fed's step back from enforcing federal marijuana laws;

  IT'S REALLY A STEALTHY WAY TO LEGALIZE DRUGS;

• his decison to move the KSM's trial to NYC;

  IT'S REALLY JUST A STEALTHY WAY TO PUNISH THE CIA AND THE PENTAGON FOR USING EVERY AVAILABLE LEGAL MEANS TO DEFEND THE USA AND COMBAT GLOBAL JIHAD - AND - IT'S A STEALTHY WAY FOR OBAMA TO AID AND ABET AL QAEDA.

AND SO ON...

• IF OBAMA HAD RUN AN HONEST CAMPAIGN, AND CAMPAIGNED BY SAYING HE WOULD DO IN HIS FIRST YEAR WHAT HE HAS DONE SO FAR, THEN HE WOULDN'T HAVE DONE ANY BETTER THAN KUCINICH.

• HE LIED - DELIBERATELY TO WIN. WITH OBAMA IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND REID AND PELOSI ON THE HILL, THEY FELT THEY COULD TURN THE USA INTO A SOCIALIST COUNTRY - AS ATTLEE & LABOUR DID TO BRITAIN AFTER WW2.
  

• HIS CAMPAIGN WAS, FROM ITS VERY INCEPTION AND IN EVERY DETAIL OF ITS STRATEGY, A STEALTH CAMPAIGN.

WHY!?

• THE LEFTISTS RUNNING THE SHOW (THE CHICAGO MACHINE, ACORN, THE SEIU, AND SOROS) KNEW IF OBAMA RAN AS WHAT HE REALLY WAS THAT HE'D NEVER EVER WIN.

• THANK GOD THAT THE EYES OF THE INDEPENDENTS WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA HAVE BEEN OPENED.

• INDEPENDENT AND MODERATES WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA NOW SEE THAT JOE THE PLUMBER WAS RIGHT.

• HAVING BEEN ONCE BURNED BY OBAMA, THEY WILL NOT BE FOOLED AGAIN.
  

THE 2009 BY-ELECTIONS WERE JUST A TASTE OF WHAT'S TO COME IN 2010: PATRIOTS WILL ONCE AGAIN TAKE OVER THE CONGRESS IN 2010.

WE WILL ROLL-BACK OBAMA'S LEFTIST PROGRAM AND IMPEACH THE BASTARD.

OBAMA: THE MOST LEFT-WING PRESIDENT IN THE ENTIRE WEST SINCE CLEMENT ATTLEE

WHAT OBAMA, SOROS AND THE SEIU ARE ATTEMPTING
IS NOTHING LESS THAN THE ATTLEEFICATION OF AMERICA.

AN ADMINISTRATION OF THE LEFT, BY THE LEFT AND FOR THE LEFT.

THE SECOND TIME HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF AS A FARCE, AND THIS ONE STARS OBAMA

IT'S LIKE A BAD REMAKE OF A BAD MOVIE INSPIRED FROM A BAD NOVEL:






SERIOUSLY, THERE'S NO REASON TO THINK THAT SOCIALISM WILL FARE ANY BETTER FOR OBAMA NOW, THAN IT DID FOR CLEMENT ATTLEE OR LEONID BREZHNEV...

CHURCHILL VERSUS OBAMA, CHAMBERLAIN AND HITLER

CHURCHILL - 11/16/1934:

Everyone would be glad to see the burden of armaments reduced in every country, but history shows on many a page that armaments are not necessarily a cause of war and that the want of them has been no guarantee of peace.

If, for instance, all the explosives all over the world could, by a wave of a magic wand be robbed of their power and made harmless, so that not a cannon nor a rifle could fire and not a shell or a bomb detonate, that would be a measure of world disarmament far beyond the brightest dreams of Geneva, but would it insure peace? That is the question.

On the contrary, in my belief, war would begin almost the next day when enormous masses of fierce men armed with picks, spades, or with clubs and spears, would pour over the frontiers into the lands they covet.

This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized.

Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline.

... When we look out upon the state of Europe and of the world and of the position of our own country as they are tonight, it seems to me that the next year or two years may contain a faithful turning point in our history.

I am afraid that if you look intently at what is moving towards Great Britain, you will see that the only choice open is the old grim choice our forebears had to face, namely, whether we shall submit or whether we shall prepare, whether we shall submit to the will of the stronger nation or whether we shall prepare to defend our rights, our liberties, and indeed, our lives.

If we submit, our submission should be timely. If we prepare, our preparation should not be too late.

... You have heard the old doctrine of the balance of power.

I don't accept it.

Anything like a balance of power in Europe will lead to war.

Great wars usually come only when both sides think they have good hopes of victory.

Peace must -be founded upon preponderance. There is safety in numbers. If there were five or six on each side, there might well be, a frightful trial of strength, but if there were eight or ten on one side and only one or two upon the other, and if the collective armed forces of one side were three or four times as large as those of the other, then there would be no war.

CHURCHILL WAS RIGHT THEN - AND HE IS RIGHT NOW.

OBAMA'S SOPHOMORIC POLICIES OF APPEASEMENT AND DISARMAMENT ONLY MAKE US LESS SAFE.

WHEN OBAMA MOVED INTO THE OVAL OFFICE HE RUDELY RETURNED A BUST OF CHURCHILL WHICH THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT GAVE US AFTER 9/11.


WORSE THAN THAT: OBAMA HAS TURNED HIS BACK ON CHURCHILL'S WISDOM. OBAMA IS MORE LIKE ATTLEE AND CHAMBERLAIN.

AND WE SHALL ALL SUFFER AS A RESULT.

UNLESS SOMETHING CHANGES - SOON.

OBAMA CEDES POLAND AND CZECH REPUBLIC - SCRAPS MISSILE DEFENSE FOR EUROPE

He's an appeaser and an amateur, and the whole world of thugs know it, and are predictably filling the power vacuum left by America's retreat.

OBAMA APPEASES PUTIN AS PUTIN ADVANCES IN VENEZUELA:

NYTIMES:

It amounts to one of the biggest national security reversals by the new administration, one that will aggravate Czech and Polish allies and possibly please Russia, which has adamantly objected to the Bush system.

... “Today, shortly after midnight, American President Barack Obamacontacted me by telephone to inform me that his administration is pulling out of plans to build a radar for the anti-missile defense system on the territory of the Czech Republic,” Mr. Fischer said, adding that “Polandwas informed in the same manner.”


A Polish diplomat said early Thursday that Warsaw was waiting to hear, but added that “it is clear that the administration has other priorities.”



In arranging a post-midnight call by Mr. Obama and quickly dispatching a top State Department official to Europe, the administration was scrambling to notify and assure the European allies as word of its decision was already leaking out in Washington. The Wall Street Journalreported Thursday that the administration would jettison the Bush architecture.


But it made for unfortunate timing, coming on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland at the start of World War II, a date fraught with sensitivity for Poles who viewed the Bush missile defense system as a political security blanket against Russia.

OBAMA IS MAKING US LESS SAFE.

IF HE REALLY WAS A CRYPTO-MUSLIM DESIRING TO HARM THE WEST AND AID RUSSIA AND IRAN WOULD HE BE DOING ANYTHING DIFFERENTLY?

NOPE.

Reliapundit adds:

Exactly as I predicted the day after the election:

The socialistic policies of Attlee and Obama always have the same results.

The policy of appeasement always has the same results, too.

Socialism and appeasement will make the USA weaker and poorer - and this sends a clear signal to our adversaries.

Because weakness invites adventurism, there will be another intifada in Israel (their third), another in Europe - AND OUR FIRST IN THE USA.

THE OBAMA INTIFADA.

And Putin and Iran will become more aggressive in Venezuela. [CHECK!]

And Putin will become more aggressive in Georgia and Ukraine.

And Iran will become more aggressive in Iraq. [CHECK!]

And al Qaeda will become more aggressive in Pakistan and Kashmir. [CHECK!]

And al Qaeda will attack us here again, too. {WE MAY HAVE JUST FOILED A BIG ONE - SO: CHECK!]

Obama will weaken our defenses by weakening our ability to gather intel by weakening the NSA Intercept Programs.

Obama will weaken us by ceasing deployment of Missile defense in Eastern Europe and Alaska. [EXACTO-EFFING RIGHT!]

And Obama will weaken us by cutting the defense budget. [CHECK!]

TO AVOID THE CATASTROPHE OBAMA'S POLICIES WILL PRODUCE, WE MUST FIGHT OBAMA'S DANGEROUS POLICIES EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.

WE SHALL.

We must continue to fight Obama until he is utterly neutralized and unable to harm the defenses and economies of the Free World.

UPDATE: AS DRUDGE POINTED OUT: THIS WAS ANNOUNCED ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF RUSSIA'S INVASION OF POLAND.

HOW FITTING.

UPDATE #2:

Excellent Timing on Missile-Shield Decision! [Mark Hemingway]

Aside from Thursday being the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland, here's the latest from the Associated Press:

Nuke agency says Iran can make bomb

VIENNA - Experts at the world's top atomic watchdog are in agreement that Tehran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and is on the way to developing a missile system able to carry an atomic warhead, according to a secret report seen by The Associated Press.

WHICH IS WORSE, BIG BUSINESS OR BIG GOVERNMENT?

The left would have you believe that Big Corporations and their profits are evil and that the solution is Big Government.

This is wrong.

No Big Corporation has ever forced me or anyone else to do bupkus.

We choose to buy their stuff or not. And they have to compete among themselves - on price and quality - to get me to buy their stuff.

If I don't want it, then I don't buy it.

And if I buy it and don't like it I can often return it. If not, then I can try to resell it in the open market.

This competition for my hard-earned dollar is why things get better and values improve.

But Big Government is coercing me all the freakin' time: they take a third of my earnings every week - BEFORE I get them. They spend a lot of it on stuff that I disagree with, or that's wasteful, or that is basically corrupt because it really just benefits allies of the politicians who run Big Government and the unions who operate Big Government - the SEIU, the NEA and AFSCME.

This is why Attlee's post-WW2 nationalization - GOVERNMENTALIZATION REALLY! - ruined Britain's economy and living standards and why Thatcher's privatization (de-governmentlaization) improved them.

(Previous post on Attlee and Obama here and here.)

Obama and his comrades in the Democrat Party and the SEIU, NEA, and AFSCME and his cohorts in the Chicago Machine are trying to take us down the road that Attlee took Britain down.

It will have the same disastrous results.

Which is why we musty fight Obama and Reid and Pelosi and Rahm and Axelrod and the SEIU, NEA and AFSCME with everything we've got - and then some!

Big Government run by the likes of them is far FAR more dangerous and restrictive of our rights than Biog Corporations are or ever were.

Lawyers - who along with the Big Government unions control the Democrat Party (they are Obama's biggest donors and have given more to Obama than anyone else!) - are just as destructive to us as Big Government, and they all drive the costs of all the things I want up UP UP.

Maybe we can't reduce the size of Big Government quickly, but we can lower the cost of everything if we had Tort Reform, and it wouldn't take more than ten pages to write the bill.

To do this we probably need to stop electing lawyers and anyone connected to unions to high office.

(Lawyers like Arlen Specter - a tool of the lawyer lobby.)

KENNEDY BILL WOULD FORCE EMPLOYERS TO OFFER HEALTH INSURANCE

AND IT WOULD IMPOSE A HELLUVA LOT MORE, TOO:

Employers would be required to offer health care to employees or pay a penalty, and all Americans would be guaranteed health insurance, under a draft bill being circulated Friday by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's health committee.

The bill would provide subsidies to help poor people afford care, and give patients the right to select any doctor they want.

Insurers would be required to provide a basic level of care and [BE REQUIRED TO] cover all comers, without turning people away because of pre-existing conditions or other reasons.

It's already been known that Kennedy's health committee was planning to pursue most of the concepts outlined in the draft of the bill, called the ''American Health Choices Act.'' But it's the first actual bill language to circulate since Congress began working on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

"HEALTH CHOICE ACT"!?!? IS HE FREAKIN' KIDDING!?!? THIS IS ALL ABOUT TAKING AWAY OUR CHOICES, AND MAKING THE STATE MORE POWERFUL.

• WHY SHOULD ANYONE'S HEALTHCARE BE TIED TO ANYONE'S JOB!?

• IT MAKES NO SENSE; IN FACT, IT'S AN ANACHRONISM OF A BAD DEAL FDR MADE DURING WW2! NRO:

  Most Americans receive their health insurance from their employer. Few pause, however, to contemplate why. As part of the war effort, the FDR administration imposed wage and price controls. Employers, seeking a way to provide workers with competitive salaries without violating the law, began offering health benefits. On October 26, 1943, the IRS legitimized the practice, ruling that health benefits would remain tax free.

• THE GOP PLAN WOULD GIVE INDIVIDUALS THE TAX CREDIT FOR BUYING WHATEVER PLAN THEY WANT, A CREDIT CURRENTLY GIVEN TO EMPLOYERS FOR OFFERING HEALTH INSURANCE.

• KENNEDY AND OBAMA ARE TRYING TO DO TO THE USA WHAT ATTLEE DID TO POST-WAR GREAT BRIT IAN, MOVES WHICH RUINED BRITAIN.

WE NEED ANOTHER THATCHER AND A REAGAN, BUT WE GOT ANOTHER ATTLEE.

AND MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT, THESE ATTLEESQUE POLICIES WILL RUIN US, IF THEY PASS.

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.

THE UNBRIDLED SOCIALISM OF OBAMA

He's taken over the auto industry.

And a lot of the banking/financial industry.

And he has his eyes on the healthcare industry.

Together, they make up a BIG chunk of the economy. What... maybe 30%? Plus the federal government already is a huge part of the economy.

This esplosive growth of the government is an un-American intrusion into pour businesses and is FUNDAMENTALLY anti-freemarket.

There's been nothing like it since Attlee took over from Churchill after WW2 - and nationalized about 60% of the British economy. RUINING IT FOR THREE DECADES!



It's costing us a fortune already - what Obama has given Detroit $50 Billion so far, maybe more, and their STILL going bankrupt!
]"CLEMENT ATTLEE OBAMA".

All Obama's policies will do is make the goods and services these industries offer WORSE.

It's the sovietization of America. He's trying to Chavezify us.

We mustn't let him.

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.