Obamaville becomes Grimmer

  Dissecting President Barack Hussein Obama's latest speech lauded by leftists, which his spokesman labeled "not an election speech," and in which he attempts to channel the socialist side of Teddy Roosevelt yields distressing results.
  If you can get over the peculiar lisp he adopts when he feels he's saying something historically important, if you can get over the messianic tilt of the head as he pontificates, if you can overcome the bile that creeps up the throat as you suspect that the speaker is telepathically signaling once his prejudice against a country you dearly love, if you can overcome these factors and be objective about what he actually said in his "fairness" speech, you'll discover that those organically negative responses you felt when listening to the lofty rhetoric are completely justified.
  In what is probably the most absurd foundation of the speech, which was riddled with petty grievances and inaccuracies, Obama spoke frequently of "fairness":

Finally, a strong middle class can only exist in an economy where everyone plays by the same rules, from Wall Street to Main Street. As infuriating as it was for all of us, we rescued our major banks from collapse, not only because a full blown financial meltdown would have sent us into a second Depression, but because we need a strong, healthy financial sector in this country.

  Everyone plays by the same rules, except the people who Obama designates. The incidents of this administration's "unfairness" are so numerous it isn't worth listing them but...
  You want guns eliminated in this country? Make a speech claiming American guns are creating Mexican chaos, then let the Mexican cartels buy them, create the chaos and blame law abiding gun owners.
  Make an expansive and expensive health care law and then exempt your friends from having to go by it. Be sure to exclude yourself and your family.
  Fire only Republican car dealers.
  Favor blue states. Favor unions. Don't represent small businesses. Prevent jobs from being created in this country because of angering the radical left wing base and political correctness.
  We could go on.
  Obama complains about the tax code. 
  Does those complaints include the top 5% of earners who pay over half the income taxes in this country? Of course not.

A tax code that makes sure everybody pays their fair share. And laws that make sure everybody follows the rules. That’s what will transform our economy. That’s what will grow our middle class again. In the end, rebuilding this economy based on fair play, a fair shot, and a fair share will require all of us to see the stake we have in each other’s success. And it will require all of us to take some responsibility to that success.

  The notion of fairness Obama espouses means the producers will pay for the none producers. How is that fair?
  And as IBD says, who gets to determine what fair means?
  This country was built on the premise that all men are created equal, not that all men are created equally. Regardless of their birth circumstances, everyone has the right to make of their lives what they will. Everyone has choices.
  In a country that attracts more immigrants than any other country, in a country that has stood as a shining light for centuries, in a country that has seen more prosperity and equality over the years than any other country in the world (try being gay or female in Iran or Saudi Arabia), Obama thinks, now that he is in charge and the economy has mysteriously gone to hell particularly after the housing debacle created by the Left's insistence on giving loans to those who could never pay them back, the free market has never worked. 
  Apparently we've never been successful. 
  And those great salaries and beautiful homes many of us live in, either earned or provided by the government, don't exist. Or circumstances get better if we only go the way of Obama. 
  Or something.

But Roosevelt also knew that the free market has never been a free license to take whatever you want from whoever you can. It only works when there are rules of the road to ensure that competition is fair, open, and honest.

  Union rules are fair? Fat cats who steal union dollars to vacation in Puerto Rico are fair? 
  In what is probably the most offensive notion, Obama claims that our system of government does not and has never worked:

It’s a simple theory – one that speaks to our rugged individualism and healthy skepticism of too much government. It fits well on a bumper sticker. Here’s the problem: It doesn’t work. It’s never worked. It didn’t work when it was tried in the decade before the Great Depression. It’s not what led to the incredible post-war boom of the 50s and 60s. And it didn’t work when we tried it during the last decade.

 Apparently Obama has forgotten that the "decade before the Great Depression" was called the Roaring Twenties. 
  The President, who raises tremendous dollars from Wall Street fatcats and whose policies have led to a terrific decline in jobs but who believes that whatever bad happens to the country his kids, the princelings, will thrive, also addressed the fact that America isn't a place where you can become a success even though you have nothing. 
  You know, like our local Greek immigrant Charlie of the Charlie's chain of restaurants who started with a borrowed $300.

More fundamentally, this kind of gaping inequality gives lie to the promise at the very heart of America: that this is the place where you can make it if you try. We tell people that in this country, even if you’re born with nothing, hard work can get you into the middle class; and that your children will have the chance to do even better than you. That’s why immigrants from around the world flocked to our shores.

  Obama, however, is right about this:

This country shouldn’t be known for bad debt and phony profits. We should be known for creating and selling products all over the world that are stamped with three proud words: Made in America. 

  And why will this never be true? Because unions have a stranglehold on companies, a condition Obama is trying to increase dramatically. And who's driven up bad debt? Liberals and particularly Obama, as exhibited by the blue states of New York and California.
  What's terribly sad about Obama's vision of America is encapsulated in a horrific incident that occurred in Texas a few days ago.
 The ironically named Rachelle Grimmer, who was obviously mentally ill, decided that the welfare office's rejection of her application for omitting certain details was the impetus to shoot her 10 and 12 year old children (the 12 year old has died) and to kill herself.
  Her grievances against the government programs were apparently numerous:

The 38-year-old woman had recently moved to the area from Zanesville, Ohio, about 30 miles east of Columbus, Baeza said. She told negotiators about a litany of complaints against state and federal government agencies. It sounded like she had been denied services several months ago, Baeza said, but it wasn’t clear what specifically triggered Monday’s standoff. 

“This wasn’t like a knee-jerk reaction,” Baeza said, adding that the woman felt she was owed restitution of some sort.

  Although the Left will try to make this suicide about Texas's welfare policies, greater principles are at work here, one the Left will never admit.
  The larger the bureaucracy, the less personal businesses and agencies become. Government can't do everything and it certainly can't be there for everyone because there is no more money.
  We are a country deeply in debt to ourselves.
  It can't go on.
  The more people are taught they have a right to be perpetually grieved about some service not provided by an unseen hand, the more dependent the populace becomes on  some deus ex machina to direct their lives.
  Although it would be unfair to designate this horrific crime a direct result of Obama's constant grievance mongering, still, the video of Peggy Joseph comes to mind, in which she rejoices over Obama's election since now, "Obama is going to pay for my gas and my mortgage."
  Unrealistic expectations lead to great disappointment.
  Unrealistic expectations lead to poor productivity.
  The lack of personal responsibility and the lack of confidence in one's own self sufficiency lends itself to actions that will only prove to be a detriment to both society and individuals.
  Unlike Star Parker, who chose to remove herself from the welfare system and become a successful citizen, Grimmer saw no other option than suicide. 
  How many other Grimmers are out there, ready to end it all because no person in government clothing came quickly to her aid?
  How many other people have become so aggrieved that they cannot take responsibility for themselves and their lives?
  How many other people's lives and minds will be distorted by the beliefs that the reason they don't have everything they want is because someone else owes them, that someone else has things that belong to the "poor."
  This is Obamaville, indeed.