Posted by
Mike Silverman on Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:19:28 PM
Two days ago European Parliament member Daniel Hannan openly and eloquently and forcefully berated British Prime Minister Grodon Brown. Here are some quotes from his 3 minute speech while they were at a meeting 2 days ago during a session of Parliament in Strasbourg France....,
"The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child. Now, it's not that you're not apologizing. Like everyone else I've long accepted that you're pathologically incapable of accepting responsibility for these things. It's that you're carrying on willfully, worsening our situation, wantonly spending what little we have left. Last year, in the last 12 months, a hundred thousand private sector jobs have been lost, and yet you've created 30,000 public sector jobs. Prime Minister, you cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit." "You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. And when you repeat in that wooden and perfunctory way that our situation is better than others, that we're well placed to weather the storm, I have to tell you, you sound like a Brezhnev era apparatchik giving the party line. You know and we know, and you know that we know that it's nonsense! Everyone knows that Britain is worse off than any other country as we go into these hard times. The IMF has said so. The European Commission has said so. The markets have said so, which is why our currency has devalued by 30%, and soon the voters, too, will get their chance to say so. They can see what the markets have already seen, that you are the devalued prime minister of a devalued government."
Now, I hate to say this, and I should be ashamed to admit this as a proud United States citizen, but I am more proud of that member of the European Parliament who stood up in front of the whole world and berated the British Prime Minister eloquently, forcefully and with clear rational language defending freedom and free market enterprise BETTER... that's right... BETTER and with more COURAGE than almost anyone in our congress or in our national press media has had the will power to do to President Obama and his cohorts, those who need that same exact berating before a national audience.., so that we can all see what Obama's response would be. Would he just laugh it off like Gordon Brown did to Daniel Hannan? Like Obama did in Leno? Or would he reply with his own eloquent defense of his budget, Ominbus, TARP, etc...? I don't think Obama can logically or rationally defend all the spending he has signed into law and permitted to be spent. If that same memeber of the European Parliament who heroically stood up and defended AMERICAN market values and freedom... ( yes... he defended OUR homegrown market oriented values even though he was making the case for his own country I felt as if he were speaking for us as well..,) if he stood up at an Obama press conference and said exactly the same thing to Obama..., I can tell you right now there would be cheers and applause thundering through this nation for that brave guy. Isn't it rather sad that the type of hero we need in our government seems only to be found in a foreign governemnt... a governemnt ( by the way..) that Obama doesn't think the US has any special relationship with? I'll tell you what, remember during the campaign McCain saying that there is no time for on the job training when it comes to being President? Look at the strain the Obama administration has managed to put on relationships with our own allies since he took office. I suppose it counts as "change" , ( though not for the better...), so where is the "hope' he promised? He seems to have thrown all hope out the window with massive rising debts that will be saddled with our children for generations. I would rather have that European Parliamentarian Daniel Hannan as our President than Barack Obama. At least Hannan understands economics and how not to add burden to a troubled economy. Now I want to also acknowledge a brave soul in our own government, Representative Michelle Bachmann of the House Financial Services Committee, who pressed Geithner to show her where in the United States Constitution the Treasury has the authority to take control of failing banks and seize private businesses that it feels are on the verge of failure, as he wants the power to do. Geithner's answer was that it's constitutional because congress voted for it and the President signed it, which of course does not necessarily make a law nor the power granted by that law constitutional, it only points out that the "processes" of congress and the President are constitutional, not the resulting law.Geithner and Obama and Pelosi and Frank are pushing for the biggest takeover and intrusion by them into our country's privacy rights and private businesses in our nation's history. This administration is pushing us down the drain into a black hole that will bankrupt us in less than a decade.
- Mike Silverman