Michelle Obama, Back Off!

First Lady Of Gaffes By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY

After revealing she had never been “really proud of my country,” Michelle Obama damns business as “the money-making industry.” By contrast, she says, the Obamas are in “the helping industry.” Bad omen.

Visiting a day-care center in Zanesville, Ohio, America’s would-be first lady advised the assembled women not to “go into corporate America.”

“Become teachers,” she counseled. “Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers that we need, and we’re encouraging our young people to do that. But if you make that choice, as we did, to move out of the moneymaking industry into the helping industry, then your salaries respond.”

No disrespect to teachers and nurses, but there are problems with those remarks.

First, when she says “move out of the moneymaking industry into the helping industry,” she speaks volumes. Apparently, well-paid people in all kinds of profitable fields are, in the Obama worldview, just idle, scheming splinter-collectors who help only themselves.

On the other hand, the social workers who make sure the cash flows from the various elements of the massive government bureaucracy are the great and noble helpers.

However, the oil CEO who invests billions of dollars of his firm’s profits in the research and development of new technologies that bring hitherto unreachable deposits of fuel to the cars and homes of millions of Americans is very much in “the helping industry.”

So is the pharmaceutical executive who uses her business skills and scientific knowledge to decide to spend billions on R&D for new drugs that lengthen the lives of millions.

The real, productive jobs in the private sector help people in ways government can’t. A president who does not understand these things will kill the geese who lay the golden eggs — kill them with high taxes and onerous regulations and ultimately adverse economic conditions.

Second, did the Obamas really make a tough choice to give up high-paying jobs to work in community service? The University of Chicago Medical Center reportedly pays Michelle more than $300,000 a year for her services as “vice president of community and external affairs.”

Her husband made a big splash last year with a bill to curtail lavish executive compensation. If he could incorporate that concept into his health care plan and stop hospitals from overpaying their public liaisons, it might go a long way toward cutting health costs.

We doubt, however, that Michelle would find that very “helpful.”

This distrust and outright hatred of any industry that makes a profit (oh no!) is straight out of Karl Marx. It is simply assumed that if you offer a service or a product that makes you a ton of money, that you must be harming someone at the same time. If you’re not harming anyone, then you probably could be doing other, more socially beneficial, things.

Liberals just love to pat themselves on the back whilst inserting a knife into the back of those who create the most wealth, the most jobs, and the most desired products and services.

Investor’s Business Daily calls all this a “gaffe,” as if it was unintentional. No, Mrs. Obama very much means what she says. Pompous elitist that she is, Mrs Obama feels worthy to determine what society needs and what it doesn’t, what is beneficial and what isn’t.

Starting to sound familiar? It should because these are the sentiments held by those who think the economy can be planned. The free market, composed of millions of individuals who make millions of free choices, is not to be trusted according to such elitists. But we’re expected to volunteer our economic freedom and trust meddling do-gooders like Michelle Obama.

No, thank you, Michelle.

Chris Matthews Gets a “Thrill Up His Leg”

My Pet Jawaposted a recent quote from Chris Matthews, the caricature of the news-program “Hardball,” on the Messiah Barack Obama. I felt it important enough to share, assuming that some people still doubt how shamelessly liberal this media is:

Chris Matthews:

I have to tell you, you know, it’s part of reporting this case, this election, the feeling most people get when they hear Barack Obama’s speech. Me, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don’t have that too often. No, seriously. It’s a dramatic event. He speaks about America in a way that has nothing to do with politics. It has to do with the feeling we have about our country. And that is an objective assessment.

What a verbose motherfucker.

Matthews is right in one respect: Obama does speak in a way that has nothing to do with politics. He utters one inane platitude after another. It is reflective of the Oprahfication of the English language. Content and substance are simply too much of a hassle. But repeating the word “change” 40 times a minute makes the crowd’s eyes fill with tears of joy and ecstasy.

That is our “objective” media’s idea of an “objective assessment”: going orgasmic upon hearing a Democrat speak.

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