Cap and trade legislation is designed to increase costs of energy production in the United States. The Democrats know this and, this blog has posted audio of Obama saying that his cap and trade plan “will necessarily cause electric rates to skyrocket.” If you increase the costs of energy, you increase the cost of production which, in turn, increases the cost of goods. A basic understanding of simple price elasticity of demand would tell anyone that as prices increase, quantity demanded falls. Less demand means less jobs. This is beyond dispute. Yet Obama said that cap and trade is a jobs bill. Before the vote in the House, Pelosi said the job killing bill is about “jobs, jobs, jobs.”

The public government option for health care reform was designed to extend government health care services to tens of millions of Americans who currently don’t have coverage. It was to be modeled after Medicare which as an annual budget about 1,000% greater than was projected for this period when it was created in in the 1960s. The government option was to use tax payer dollars to subsidize health care services for more than 40 million people. Yet Obama has told Americans over and over that the creation of a government option for health care will reduce costs.

In February of this year Obama and the Democrats, in a matter of days, force through the greatest pork spending bill in human history. Called a stimulus bill, it was designed more to be a massive wish list of liberal pet projects. It was pushed through via fear mongering and as debt spending, increased the national debt to levels never before seen. This was followed by the passage of and signing by Obama of a comparably huge omnibus bill. I few weeks later, Obama sited the spending of the previous administration as he demanded that Congress pass a pay-as-you go bill. “It is no coincidence that this rule was in place when we moved from record deficits to record surpluses in the 1990s — and that when this rule was abandoned, we returned to record deficits that doubled the national debt,” Obama said, flanked at the White House by supportive Democratic lawmakers.

The Democrats, supported by Obama, have proposed changing rules associated with how unions are allowed to organize workers in the United States. Under the existing law today, workers have a chance to vote for or against unionization in a private-ballot election that is federally supervised. Democrats have proposed eliminating the private-ballot and requiring that votes be made public. By forcing workers to sign a card in public, the Democratic plan opens the door to intimidation and coercion. The Democrats have named this bill the “Employee Free Choice Act.”

Obama and the Democrats are masters of the Orwellian practice of making claims that are boldly and explicit the opposite of reality. They do it over and over and without any evidence of embarrassment. They seem to even believe what they say. In the novel 1984, Orwell called this “doublethink.”

The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them….To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies — all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.

The beauty of doublethink, you see, is that it also allows the speaker to believe that he is doing good even if, on some other level, he knows he is causing harm. There is no truth, there are no lies, it is all possible with doublethink and it is all possible in Obama’s New Order.

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