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Never Allow A Crisis To Go To Waste: Barack Obama and the Evolution of American Socialism
Majorities of Americans believe Barack Obama is a socialist and that the President's policies are moving the United States towards socialism. But very few can explain why they share this belief.
Never Allow A Crisis To Go To Waste: Barack Obama and the Evolution of American Socialism demonstrates why the American people are right.
Author and attorney Bart DePalma explains how socialism evolved after the collapse of the Soviet Union from classical state ownership of the means of production into a new asymmetric form - using progressive tools to achieve socialist ends, while misrepresenting the result as pragmatic "reforms of capitalism."
After winning election as a post-political centrist, President Barack Obama ruthlessly put the full evolution of socialist theory into practice, from the classical socialism of his nationalization of Chrysler and General Motors to the new asymmetric approach of his "clean energy economy" and "Obamacare."
Taking readers on a fascinating journey through the shadowy world of Obama administration czars to the "Tea Party" demonstrations besieging Congress, DePalma builds a persuasive case that American socialism is not only alive and well, but is also challenging the very proposition of the American republic.
In Never Allow A Crisis Go To Waste, DePalma reveals:
* When he enjoyed the power to unilaterally set policy under the TARP program, President Obama's first instinct was to employ classical socialism. Among his first acts as president was to nationalize Chrysler and General Motors. As Obama repeatedly told the American people: "We have no intention of running General Motors," the president in fact took majority ownership of the automaker and handpicked nearly the entire board of directors, while his secretive Auto Team chose the electric vehicles GM would produce and imposed a new dealership model which destroyed thousands of jobs.
* When asking Congress to enact his policies, President Obama abandoned classical socialism and employed a new asymmetric socialism. Derived from the German Zwangswirtshaft ("controlled economy") of WWI and WWII and the theories of French Marxist philosopher Andre Gorz, asymmetric socialism reduces business to the status of civil servants and directs its fundamental functions, while misrepresenting its actions as innocent "reforms of capitalism."
* President Obama's "clean energy economy" initiative implemented and dramatically expanded a decade old plan by a "blue green alliance" of labor and environmentalists for the government to ration and tax the coal and oil industries out of business while redistributing their wealth to create a government subsidized and directed alternative energy industry.
* Socialists and progressives were disappointed that President Obama abandoned outlawing private health insurance in favor of a government operated "single payer" health insurance system. However, the President's "Obamacare" system grants the federal bureaucracy the power to make every substantive operating decision for the nominally private health insurers including setting coverage, determining administrative costs, directing marketing and establishing the venues for selling insurance. In turn, the government directs all Americans to purchase the resulting government designed insurance. On the eve of Obamacare's enactment, Vice President Joe Biden reassured supporters: "You know we are going to control the insurance companies."
Readers can use the Kindle edition of Never Allow A Crisis To Go To Waste to follow hyperlinks to 750 endnotes and then to many of the source documents for the book.
Never Allow A Crisis To Go To Waste: Barack Obama and the Evolution of American Socialism demonstrates why the American people are right.
Author and attorney Bart DePalma explains how socialism evolved after the collapse of the Soviet Union from classical state ownership of the means of production into a new asymmetric form - using progressive tools to achieve socialist ends, while misrepresenting the result as pragmatic "reforms of capitalism."
After winning election as a post-political centrist, President Barack Obama ruthlessly put the full evolution of socialist theory into practice, from the classical socialism of his nationalization of Chrysler and General Motors to the new asymmetric approach of his "clean energy economy" and "Obamacare."
Taking readers on a fascinating journey through the shadowy world of Obama administration czars to the "Tea Party" demonstrations besieging Congress, DePalma builds a persuasive case that American socialism is not only alive and well, but is also challenging the very proposition of the American republic.
In Never Allow A Crisis Go To Waste, DePalma reveals:
* When he enjoyed the power to unilaterally set policy under the TARP program, President Obama's first instinct was to employ classical socialism. Among his first acts as president was to nationalize Chrysler and General Motors. As Obama repeatedly told the American people: "We have no intention of running General Motors," the president in fact took majority ownership of the automaker and handpicked nearly the entire board of directors, while his secretive Auto Team chose the electric vehicles GM would produce and imposed a new dealership model which destroyed thousands of jobs.
* When asking Congress to enact his policies, President Obama abandoned classical socialism and employed a new asymmetric socialism. Derived from the German Zwangswirtshaft ("controlled economy") of WWI and WWII and the theories of French Marxist philosopher Andre Gorz, asymmetric socialism reduces business to the status of civil servants and directs its fundamental functions, while misrepresenting its actions as innocent "reforms of capitalism."
* President Obama's "clean energy economy" initiative implemented and dramatically expanded a decade old plan by a "blue green alliance" of labor and environmentalists for the government to ration and tax the coal and oil industries out of business while redistributing their wealth to create a government subsidized and directed alternative energy industry.
* Socialists and progressives were disappointed that President Obama abandoned outlawing private health insurance in favor of a government operated "single payer" health insurance system. However, the President's "Obamacare" system grants the federal bureaucracy the power to make every substantive operating decision for the nominally private health insurers including setting coverage, determining administrative costs, directing marketing and establishing the venues for selling insurance. In turn, the government directs all Americans to purchase the resulting government designed insurance. On the eve of Obamacare's enactment, Vice President Joe Biden reassured supporters: "You know we are going to control the insurance companies."
Readers can use the Kindle edition of Never Allow A Crisis To Go To Waste to follow hyperlinks to 750 endnotes and then to many of the source documents for the book.
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First published November 10, 2011
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Bart DePalma
1 book7 followersBart DePalma is an attorney with a law practice in the Colorado Rocky mountains. Before practicing law, he served as an Army infantry and intelligence officer, and is a combat veteran of the Persian Gulf War. Writing about politics and economics since high school, DePalma currently publishes the Citizen Pamphleteer blog. He lives with his wife Brenda in the mountain town of Woodland Park, Colorado where you might find them on a hike with their dogs.
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January 18, 2012
Author DePalma Didn’t Let The Current Crisis “Go To Waste” With His Latest Book
Call me a misguided Conservative, call me a political junkie, or even “call me Ishmael” but I like my current affairs evaluated through the rubric of history. A healthy, palatable understanding of events only happens when viewed against the history at the time of the events taking place; in other words, one might believed all of those revolutionaries from colonial America maybe overreacted IF he wasn’t aware of the events, people, and philosophies that preceded the American Revolution. Politics should be treated no differently, especially when dealing with the written word, a format that allows an author to take as much time – going to whatever lengths absolutely necessary – to delineate issues clearly for the reader, to substantiate valid points worthy of review, and to persuade the audience that one particular position on such volatile matters may be better than another.
After all, isn’t that precisely what ideologues who subscribe to Obama’s driving theme – never allowing a crisis to go to waste – have bought into? Certainly, if you’re driving more “change” than you are “hope”, then you must act whether your constituents want you to act or not. You (citizen) use too much energy, so we (government) are going to limit it; you’re not demanding cap and trade legislation, but they are. You (citizen) listen to the wrong opinions, so we (government) are going to demand less of it for “fairness”; you’re not saying talk radio is unfair, but they are. You (citizen) cannot afford to buy your first home, so we (government) are going to provide you with one; you aren’t demanding to pay for your neighbor’s mortgage, but they’ll make you pay for it. But haven’t they “properly” measured their actions against the immediate history of their time when reaching their decisions? Methinks that’s what they would have you believe, and that’s what author Bart DePalma demonstrates to terrific effect in NEVER ALLOW A CRISIS TO GO TO WASTE.
Obama and his supporters have created crisis after crisis. Then, they go on the offensive to claim that only the intervention of government into the private lives of its citizens can provide a proper legislative answer, only Uncle Sam can decide not only what’s best but also what’s fair for all. What they’ve been unable to enact into law, they’ve simply incorporated into already enforceable statutes of the Executive Branch and other enforcement venues; and DePalma highlights the treacherous legal (and illegal) practices as they’ve occurred over the first three years of Obama’s presidency. He reveal s how the politicos – employing these scare tactics – continue to savage personal freedoms, but, at all times, he ties these activities directly to related events or ideology so that the reader better understands the arguments and outcomes.
To be fair, DePalma’s book isn’t a hatchet Republican job, though I’ve no doubt it may be branded as such. He equally attacks George W. Bush’s “big government Conservatism” for starting some of these crises, as clearly spending has been out-of-control for, arguably, that last two decades and/or three-to-four administrations. He underscores problems resulting from the application of political ideologies on both sides of the aisle – hence the need to begin with the famous Rahm Emanuel quote of the book’s title. Government isn’t necessarily the problem here, but the flawed application of “big government” thinking is, and NEVER ALLOW A CRISIS deserves to read by folks of any political stripe. It’s grounded with history, reality, and good old-fashioned common sense. It’s an indictment of socialism – in whatever form it’s called – and not an indictment of any political party, despite what you may think in appearances.
A minor quibble: yes, it’s a small point, but I think it deserves mention as it happens routinely throughout the book, and that’s the spelling of Barack/Barrack’s name. As one could guess, Barack’s name appears hundreds of times in the book, and, sometimes within the same paragraph, it’s spelled with one R and two R’s. Most likely, this is little more than a proofing error, but it happens so consistently that I’m wondering if it wasn’t electronically proofed (spell-checked) and somehow both variations of spelling were erroneously entered. Like I said, it’s a minor beef, but it’s one that should be corrected if a second edition is forthcoming.
In the interests of fairness, I’m pleased to share that Mr. DePalma and B Squared Press provided me with a copy of the book for the purposes of this review.
Call me a misguided Conservative, call me a political junkie, or even “call me Ishmael” but I like my current affairs evaluated through the rubric of history. A healthy, palatable understanding of events only happens when viewed against the history at the time of the events taking place; in other words, one might believed all of those revolutionaries from colonial America maybe overreacted IF he wasn’t aware of the events, people, and philosophies that preceded the American Revolution. Politics should be treated no differently, especially when dealing with the written word, a format that allows an author to take as much time – going to whatever lengths absolutely necessary – to delineate issues clearly for the reader, to substantiate valid points worthy of review, and to persuade the audience that one particular position on such volatile matters may be better than another.
After all, isn’t that precisely what ideologues who subscribe to Obama’s driving theme – never allowing a crisis to go to waste – have bought into? Certainly, if you’re driving more “change” than you are “hope”, then you must act whether your constituents want you to act or not. You (citizen) use too much energy, so we (government) are going to limit it; you’re not demanding cap and trade legislation, but they are. You (citizen) listen to the wrong opinions, so we (government) are going to demand less of it for “fairness”; you’re not saying talk radio is unfair, but they are. You (citizen) cannot afford to buy your first home, so we (government) are going to provide you with one; you aren’t demanding to pay for your neighbor’s mortgage, but they’ll make you pay for it. But haven’t they “properly” measured their actions against the immediate history of their time when reaching their decisions? Methinks that’s what they would have you believe, and that’s what author Bart DePalma demonstrates to terrific effect in NEVER ALLOW A CRISIS TO GO TO WASTE.
Obama and his supporters have created crisis after crisis. Then, they go on the offensive to claim that only the intervention of government into the private lives of its citizens can provide a proper legislative answer, only Uncle Sam can decide not only what’s best but also what’s fair for all. What they’ve been unable to enact into law, they’ve simply incorporated into already enforceable statutes of the Executive Branch and other enforcement venues; and DePalma highlights the treacherous legal (and illegal) practices as they’ve occurred over the first three years of Obama’s presidency. He reveal s how the politicos – employing these scare tactics – continue to savage personal freedoms, but, at all times, he ties these activities directly to related events or ideology so that the reader better understands the arguments and outcomes.
To be fair, DePalma’s book isn’t a hatchet Republican job, though I’ve no doubt it may be branded as such. He equally attacks George W. Bush’s “big government Conservatism” for starting some of these crises, as clearly spending has been out-of-control for, arguably, that last two decades and/or three-to-four administrations. He underscores problems resulting from the application of political ideologies on both sides of the aisle – hence the need to begin with the famous Rahm Emanuel quote of the book’s title. Government isn’t necessarily the problem here, but the flawed application of “big government” thinking is, and NEVER ALLOW A CRISIS deserves to read by folks of any political stripe. It’s grounded with history, reality, and good old-fashioned common sense. It’s an indictment of socialism – in whatever form it’s called – and not an indictment of any political party, despite what you may think in appearances.
A minor quibble: yes, it’s a small point, but I think it deserves mention as it happens routinely throughout the book, and that’s the spelling of Barack/Barrack’s name. As one could guess, Barack’s name appears hundreds of times in the book, and, sometimes within the same paragraph, it’s spelled with one R and two R’s. Most likely, this is little more than a proofing error, but it happens so consistently that I’m wondering if it wasn’t electronically proofed (spell-checked) and somehow both variations of spelling were erroneously entered. Like I said, it’s a minor beef, but it’s one that should be corrected if a second edition is forthcoming.
In the interests of fairness, I’m pleased to share that Mr. DePalma and B Squared Press provided me with a copy of the book for the purposes of this review.
March 30, 2012
Mr. DePalma does a great job in explaining and revealing how Obama has always been a marxist socialist. Obama is acting on his master plan and four more years will be very devasting to our country. I commend Bart on his research efforts and his approach on revealing and explaining socialism in great detail. I highly recommend this read, you wil not be disappointed.
-Ron Martin, author, Prepare for the worst and pray for the Best: A Layman's guide to a nation gone bad
-Ron Martin, author, Prepare for the worst and pray for the Best: A Layman's guide to a nation gone bad
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