Lucky us. We now know where Obama's Car and Manufacturing Czar, Ron Bloom, stands on Mao's dictum: "Power comes from the barrel of a gun." He "kind of agrees."
From Glenn Beck, the following is a transcript from a speech given by Bloom, who, as a U.S. Treasury employee handpicked by Obama, naturally enough supports government monopolies. Of course, when he gave the speech last year, he was still special assistant to the president of the United Auto Workers, so he especially likes government monopolies in auto manufacturing. I notice he used the plural pronoun in his speech; perhaps he meant that the United Auto Workers union members believe in government monopolies in manufacturing.
We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to game the system, to beat the market, or at least find someone who will pay you a lot of money because they're convinced that there is a free lunch. We know this is largely about power, that it's an adults only, no limit game. We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend, you should get a dog.Yes, there's video:
Gaming the system?
Finding someone who "thinks there's a free lunch" or maybe a free $3000 check from Obama?
An adults only, no limits game?
And I thought union dues were for, say, a worker's pension fund.
Silly me.
James Madison, the Father of the U.S. Constitution had a few words to say about power, too:The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny" (1788, Federalist No. 48).__________
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