Why does it take a Brit, who knows something about socialism to tell us, “It’s common sense that when you’re in debt you spend less?
Why is it that it takes a Brit to tell us that it was small government that made the United States great?
Why does it take a Brit to tell us to stay away from nationalized health care?
Well it’s because the Brit, is 37-year-old Daniel Hannan, a member of British Parliament, who is apparently a student of history and summarily dressed down Prime Minister Gordon Brown with stinging comments that were heard around the world when he told him, “You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.” He said, “The truth, prime minister, is that you have run out of our money.”
Sound familiar? Well Daniel’s cryptic comments turned out to be the shout heard around the World. Let’s hope his common sense remarks reached into the White House, for if President Obama is reading the Internet to the degree he is playing it, I am sure he got the message:
- You can’t spend your way out of a recession.
- Mr. President you along with Prime Minister Gordon Brown are attempting to spend your way out of a recession!
- Smaller government is better government and that’s what made America great.
- But that’s not what you are doing Mr. President, you’re creating bigger government with more powers in the Executive branch!
- Nationalized health care is a bad idea. It didn’t work in Great Britain nor Canada and Mr. Hannan gives you a history lesson — stay away from it.
- But you, Mr. President want to bring it to America when it hasn’t worked anywhere else!
It takes one that is a victim of socialism to understand its downfalls, something President Obama is dangerously dabbling with — if not already there.
Mr. Hannan points out that “we can’t legislate against recession.” He notes, however, that perhaps ‘we can rescue victims.’
“We talked ourselves into this ridiculous action of, something must be done. Ok, that is something. I will do that. Yes, that is something even bigger, so let’s do that,” Hannan said.
Because his voice was heard around the world, even to the degree his name is being mentioned for Prime Minister, the US media sought him out because his message resonates in the US.
He notes that “big government is bad” and he says there are times “when doing nothing is better than doing something.”
He said the United States is trying to do the same thing as Great Britain, like printing more money.
He noted that Gordon Brown has just spent as much as Winston Churchill spent to beat the Nazis, with a rather obvious difference.
Sound familiar President Obama?
Hannan likes our system of elections. “You have lots of elections in the US. It’s one of the things I really like about your system. You know, you vote for the guy who collects the rubbish. You vote for the school board. You vote for the sheriff,” he said.
This very well may be the case, but it is a fact that in the United States the people who get what they want buy the Congress. There are too many payoffs in US politics. Take for example former President Bill Clinton’s appointment of Raham Emanuel, now President Obama’s Chief of Staff, to the Board of Freddie Mac. He received $320,000 for 14 months of do nothing service to a mortgage company that’s part of the Government’s major bail-out deals.
For the most part our election process works as well as can be expected. It is not perfect as our history has proven. What we need to curb corruption in the United States are term limits for all elected position’s from Sheriff to President.
The comments from the Brit were refreshing and a deserved shot across, not only Prime Minister Brown’s and President Obama’s bow — but a wake-up call to citizens of Democracies globally.
Let not the tail wag the dog!
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackBriefly, Mr. Hannan is a staunch conservative and reflects that ideology in his statements and his journalistic writings. If he wasn’t of that persuasion Sean Hannity wouldn’t have devoted as much time on his evening Fox program for the interview with Hannan. Hannity was so elated with Hannan’s comments that he seemed on the verge of hyperventilation. Mr Hannan is extremely knowledgeable in his governments political life but seems a bit naive in not grasping the extent of the collapse of the conservative movement in the U.S. which has resulted in the likes of Rush Limbaugh wishing for the failure of the Obama administration. This does not resonate and there is no viable conservative alternative.
It should be noted that regardless of Hannan’s criticism he supported Obama as president over McCain and as recently as early this week has continued that support.
Also, we can be certain that the final budget that Obama signs will not contain some significant spending proposals that have been floated in public statements by the President and his spokespeople.
It will be interesting to see the Republican contribution to the budget debate when it goes through the legislative process. Both parties want to address health reform but beyond that I would be surprised if the Republicans come up with anything besides additional tax cuts for the wealthy. In other words more of the same that has brought this country close to economic collapse.
A quick comment on your previous article. There have been a number of respected military personnel who have advocated replacing “war on terror” with other descriptions. Their reasons are public records. Actually, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld was probably the first official to prefer an alternative when he changed the wording to “global struggle against violent extremism”.
I fully understand who Daniel Hannan is and his conservative leanings, as by the way are mine, as clearly stated in my website. As I have said before, I understand where you are coming from, but somehow I don’t understand why you are not dealing in your comments with the salient points. Such as: how spending will get the world out of a recession; or why big government is the answer to anything, when small government has served the US well; or why a nationalized health care system is better than what we have when other countries, eg., UK and Canada, have failed in its delivery of these promises? Where are the answers to these issues, which I don’t perceive to be politically Democratic or Republican or right or left — but I do perceive my perception on the issues to be conservative. Lastly, I do believe in calling a spade a shovel. Following 9/11 when 3,000 people in the US were killed, President Bush declared it a,’War On Terror’ and rightly so. And if this was not the case, why is Obama today sending some 4,000 more troops into Afghanistan and spending billions of our money in Afghanistan and Pakistan to fight ‘terrorists,’ if this is not a ‘War on Terror?’ Isn’t it more important to be right than liked rather than delivering some convoluted words that lack transparency ?
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