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Obama: “Everybody’s Going To Have To Give”

Posted 12 Jan 2009 in bailouts, Barack Obama, economy, taxes, wise quotes

Hope and change becomes sacrifice.

Bait. And. Switch.

In style and substance, Barack Obama is looking like he could be a different president than the candidate voters got to know during the campaign.

His message of changing the country has been replaced by one of repairing the country as he inherits crises that demand immediate action.

“I want to be realistic here,” Obama said in an interview that aired Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” “Not everything that we talked about during the campaign are we going to be able to do on the pace that we had hoped.”

During the campaign, Obama stressed fixing the economy as one of his top priorities, but his recent language has taken on an urgent tone.

Obama painted a dire picture of the economy last week, warning that if Congress does not take “dramatic action” on his economic aid package as soon as possible, the nation would face devastating long-term consequences.

“For every day we wait or point fingers or drag our feet, more Americans will lose their jobs. More families will lose their savings. More dreams will be deferred and denied. And our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse,” he said.

It’s a far cry from what voters heard from Obama the Democratic candidate, who inspired roaring crowds of thousands by telling them, “This is our moment. This is our time.”

But with the economy in a recession and people afraid for their financial future, Obama’s soaring campaign rhetoric has given way to grim reality.

Well, whaddya know? When the most unqualified presidential candidate finally took a look at reality, he realized he couldn’t reward all his voters with the ponies and rainbows he promised them.

He told voters that change couldn’t happen without them, “without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice.” He reiterated that same message this weekend, explaining what it’s going to take to reform the government.

“Everybody is going to have to give. Everybody is going to have to have some skin in the game,” Obama told ABC.

Looks like Tavis Smiley will be proven correct: “We’re all working for Barack Obama.”

Hold on to your wallet. And don’t drop the soap (not that it’ll help you).
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UPDATE: Somehow, The New York Times must have missed Stephanopoulos’ interview with The One.

“He hasn’t asked anybody for sacrifice,” Baker said. “His whole economic package is about giving things to people.”

Cognitive dissonance much?
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UPDATE: With all this bailout nonsense and our current situation with the entitlement economy we’ve created for ourselves, here’s an extra helping of relevant brilliance today from the Wall Street Journal (h/t: Neal Boortz)

[Ayn] Rand, who had come to America from Soviet Russia with striking insights into totalitarianism and the destructiveness of socialism, was already a celebrity. The left, naturally, hated her. But as recently as 1991, a survey by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club found that readers rated “Atlas” as the second-most influential book in their lives, behind only the Bible.

For the uninitiated, the moral of the story is simply this: Politicians invariably respond to crises — that in most cases they themselves created — by spawning new government programs, laws and regulations. These, in turn, generate more havoc and poverty, which inspires the politicians to create more programs . . . and the downward spiral repeats itself until the productive sectors of the economy collapse under the collective weight of taxes and other burdens imposed in the name of fairness, equality and do-goodism.

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UPDATE: Commenter JBooth83 shared a particularly relevant quote that deserves to be front and center today…

“It only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.” ~ Ayn Rand

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