I've finally figured out the Obama economic strategy. President Barack Obama and his team have been having so much fun wielding dictatorial power while rescuing "failed" firms, that they have developed a scheme to gain the same power over every business. The plan is to enact policies that are so anticompetitive that every firm needs a bailout.Once that happens, their new pay czar Kenneth Feinberg can set the wage for everybody and Rahm Emanuel can stack the boards of all of our companies with his political cronies.
I know, it sounds like an exaggeration. But look at it this way. If there were a power ranking of U.S. companies, like the ones compiled by football writers for National Football League teams, Microsoft would surely be first or second to Google. But last week, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer came to Washington to announce what Microsoft would do if Obama's multinational tax policy is enacted.
"It makes U.S. jobs more expensive," Ballmer said, "We're better off taking lots of people and moving them out of the U.S." If Microsoft, perhaps our most competitive company, has to abandon the U.S. in order to continue to thrive, who exactly is going to stay?
At issue is Obama's policy to end the deferral of multinational taxation.
The U.S. now has about the highest combined corporate tax rate, second only to Japan among industrialized countries. That rate is so high that U.S. firms have an enormous disadvantage versus competitors. The average corporate tax rate for the major developed countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in 2008 was about 27 percent, more than 10 percentage points lower than the U.S. rate.
Weak towards sons of bitches overseas, and perceived as even weaker
Insulting towards not only allies, but those who share our interests, and wish us well.
PERSONALLY insulting towards valuable allied leaders in a repeated and undeniable fashion
Exhibiting a NEED to be loved by those who hate the American people and our values.
Politically motivated with force as no president has been since Nixon.
A believer in government force over individuals
A believer in domestic central control based on HIS VALUE SET, which views opponents as EVIL
A believer that government can do better than individuals at nearly everything individuals can do.
A believer that what the founders created WAS LARGELY IN ERROR, and must be radically changed.
A denier .. of brutal reality.
How long until the American people realize?
Right now his approval rating is 67%, though his handling of the economy falls below 50% for the first time.