RON BLOOM—THE LATEST MAO-CRAZY OBAMA OFFICIAL
By Dr. Rick Scarborough October 23, 2009
First there was Interim White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, who, in a June commencement speech, called communist mass-murderer Mao Tes-Tung one of her “favorite political philosophers” and cited the blood-drenched tyrant as an example of successful decision-making.
Now, another tape has surfaced of an Obama official quoting Mao favorably, while ridiculing the free market.
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Ron Bloom (formerly Obama’s Car Czar, now his Manufacturing Czar) gave a speech in February 2008 — while he was an assistant to the president of the United Steel Workers Union — in which he disclosed:
“We know that the free market is nonsense. We know the whole point is to game the system, to beat the market or at least find someone who will pay you a lot of money because they’re convinced that there is a free lunch. We know this is largely about power, that it’s an adults-only, no-limit game. We kind of agree with Mao that political ‘power comes largely from the barrel of a gun.’” (Emphasis added.)
Despite a degree from the Harvard Business School, Bloom apparently believes that the free market is a con game — that it’s not about investors and innovators, entrepreneurs and workers getting together to offer useful goods and services at competitive prices, but a carnival side-show attraction whose objective is to fleece the rubes.
It seems the president believes this too. Every one of his policies seeks to undermine the market, take power away from businesses, transfer income from consumers (via taxation and inflation) and put it all in the hands of unelected and unvetted government bureaucrats – like Manufacturing Czar Ron Bloom.
No wonder Mr. Obama has chosen to by-pass the Senate and its constitutional mandate to advise and consent, which would have required open hearings, before such ideologues were given sweeping powers, as have the more than three dozens Czars appointed during his first year in office. This president has built a shadow government, and the more we learn, the more we see that his agenda isn’t “hope and change” but “bait and switch.”
The most chilling aspect of Bloom’s speech was when he agreed with a man responsible or the deaths of more than 70 million that “political power comes from the barrel of a gun.” Mao wasn’t speaking metaphorically. His axiom was written in blood, from the Chinese Civil War to the Great Leap Forward to the Cultural Revolution.
Is that what Bloom and his boss want to see in the United States – power coming not from the marketplace or the ballot box, but through the raw power of coercion? It certainly seems that way. The administration’s move to crush dissent by trying to muzzle talk radio and punish media outlets that report the news objectively is just one example of power from a gun-barrel.
Just this week, the “Pay Czar” cut the wages of dozens of CEOs. We might agree that some of these men and women were greedy and being paid too much, but show me where the Constitution of the United States grants any public official the power to decide who gets paid what in the private sector?
Who’s next? Me? You?
Rest assured it will not be Oprah or any of the president’s cozy friends in the entertainment industry or the mainstream media, who refuse to investigate such actions and continue to fawn on him.
I fear — just as many of us tried to warn the voting public last year— that the change President Obama wants is to remake America in the image of a totalitarian state. But he can be stopped, if enough of us are willing to stand up and be counted.
Today, I am asking you to once again bombard every member of Congress with a call for investigation of all of the Czars, to determine what they really believe and what they are truly trying to do.
Select here and send a personalized fax to all 535 members of Congress, as well as the president himself, to express your outrage over Ron Bloom and the shadow government that has been created within the federal establishment, and particularly the more than three dozens czars who were never confirmed.
Dr. Scarborough is the president of Vision America Action and pastor of the Harvest Point Church in Nacogdoches, Texas. Select here to make a non tax-deductible gift to Vision America Action to assist us in standing firm for your values in the Public Square. Select here to make a tax-deductible gift to Vision America.
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