Obama: a brighter shade of pink?

Would I be wrong in thinking that now Obama is free of elections he is showing his true colours and that they are  darker shade of pink?

 

And I mean in the British sense, not the American, where anybody who is not to the right of Genghis Khan is regarded as a dangerous pinko.

 

His inaugural address was very under-reported in the UK so I have had to scrabble around to get a handle on it, but I get the very strong impression that it would have gone down well at a Labour Party conference.

 

The speech was a strong defence of big government and ‘collective action’, a term beloved by those who believe that the state is all and that individuality is a sin. He spoke of ‘preserving our freedoms requires collective action’. Well, we all know what that means – interference by the regime in every aspect of life, which is the position in the UK right now.

 

I would have thought that the biggest problem facing the US is the financial state of the nation, and yet he only mentioned the deficit problem once, so clearly it is not  very high on his list of priorities. He believes that America can keep shovelling money into social programmes and maintaining and improving dependency measures indefinitely without addressing the money nexus.

 

This is exactly what got the UK and the EU generally into the present parlous state. It is like watching a replay of the Blair / Brown disaster of borrowing money to fund welfarism and to create a client electorate. There is now a belated recognition that you have to scale back present commitments or impose huge tax increases. O will not do the one and can’t do the other. The alternative is everlasting deficits.

 

The national debt is already reaching a point of unsustainability. I shudder to think what the state of the nation would look like if the humungous debts of the lower tiers of government were added to the pile. And we know that much of the state and municipal debt is the outcome of officials and politicians milking the public purse to give themselves outrageous pay-cheques and juicy (and unfunded) pension rights. Just like Greece, in fact

 

At the same time he is giving renewed commitment to ‘green’ policies that have already cost vast amounts of money for no discernible benefit, perhaps the most lunatic being converting food – corn – into ethanol under the  stimulus of huge subsidies, thus pushing up feed costs for stock farmers and prices in the shops.

 

As for foreign policy, it would appear that O is just not interested. There was little mention in his speech; nothing about Syria or the Algerian massacre in which there were US casualties. However, he has managed to thoroughly piss-off the UK government by putting his oar in the future of Europe just at a critical time for Cameron, on the eve of his keynote speech on the planned in–out referendum.

 

 

 

To add to this, we then had a threat that unless the UK strengthened its defence capacity it would no longer rank as a partner for intelligence exchange, the logic of which escapes me completely.