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Explaining his new hero, Teddy Roosevelt, Obama said: "But Roosevelt also knew that the free market has never been a free license to take whatever you can from whomever you can.Comment:
Wow. I'm starting to notice something about Obama. He keeps blaming others for what he does himself. This is called projection. How? Let's look at the quote carefully and analyze, shall we? He accuses the free market of "taking", but is that what free markets are all about? No, it is not. Free markets are about free exchange, not confiscation. There is a free exchange of value for value. Now look at what governments do. They definitely take at the point of a gun. There is no exchange, and there is no freedom. Governments are about compulsion, not freedom. You must do what the government says, you have no choice in the matter. A business doesn't make you buy their stuff. You have a choice.
This projection phenomenon seems to happen repeatedly with Obama. The recent business about the XL pipeline and the payroll tax holiday extension is another case in point. The president accused the Republicans of politicizing the extension, but isn't that what Obama did by bringing it up in the first place? Class warfare anyone? Millionaire surtax to pay for middle class tax cut? If he wants to play politics, fine. But he's doing more than that. He's putting a halo on his own head and then doing what he's blaming the Republicans for doing. If that ain't projection, there isn't any such thing.
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