Two letters which appeared in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Sunday, April 12, 2009, deserve refutation besides pointing out the utter stupidity of the Obama devotees. It is utterly astounding that those two people can overlook the facts and blindly preach and support actions which are destroying this nation’s free enterprise economy.

The writer living in Hot Springs will be excoriated first. She wrote that the concepts of free market capitalism are almost totally un-American and un-Christian. James wrote in 4:13, Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Get gain means to make a profit and his further instruction was to include the Lord in the daily business. Is that instruction un-American or un-Christian in any respect?  

On what planet does this person live? Has she not benefited greatly from this un-American and un-Christian system as she calls it? The writer needs to have a very comprehensive course in the history of this nation and on the power released by the free market economic system that drove the development of the nation’s growth until the federal and state government’s tentacles began to strangle free enterprise.  

Then she denies that the nut job is bringing socialism to our nation. How does she explain the takeover of GM and Chrysler and the banks? Not only those, but she blindly denied he has his sights set on the health care insurance industry, oil production, and Wall Street. Does this wunderkind of ignorance not read the newspapers or listen to the news?  She must be living on another planet that doesn’t have TVs and the internet since she can’t see that the dictator is taking over and intends to do more of it.

Not to keep her ignorance to herself, she blames everyone but Congress for causing the jobs to go overseas. Business strangling regulations of all kinds and taxes that diminish the ability of businesses to expand and pay higher wages are causing the problem. Not to mention the unholy alliances the government has made with labor unions. Where will she cast the blame when the nut job finishes his nation wrecking work?

Now for the second dose of stupidity that appeared. The Harrison writer thinks that the nut job’s deficit spending plans will improve the economy. He needs to explain how anyone, the nation included, can borrow and spend their way out of debt when such borrowing only expands the debt. He thinks that government spending will expand the economy. He needs to explain how the nut job’s taking from productive citizens and businesses will create a better economy. The explanation might make a good story line for the Twilight Zone. That seems to be where liberals carry out their lives.

One of the mantras heard constantly and repeated in the letter is that we need a serious energy policy to free us from foreign oil. Yes, we do need that, but the ban on drilling promoted by the nut job and his sycophants only increases the reliance. Before anyone brings forth the alternative fuels and energy arguments, be reminded those can’t be developed without, of all things, and perish the thought, the hated crude oil.  

A common central fact stands out in all the letters that promote the nut job’s ideas: it is that no one mentions the Constitution or that the programs are patently unconstitutional. That surely indicts the public school systems across the land for not teaching the requirements of our constitutional representative republic. Students have been instructed to drink from the trough of big government for so long they think that government will solve all their problems. Reliance on God using the talents he gives to each, and the responsibility for one’s welfare are not taught any more.

Presently, there is a man in the White House who intends to solve all the problems. He uses fine sounding words read from a teleprompter as he beckons the gullible to drink deeply of his elixir of stupidity. If the letters to Voices are any indication, he is succeeding well to the detriment of the nation.

© 04-12-2009 DEC