Anyone out there have kids? How about any kids under the age of 5? If you do, no doubt you have heard of the infamous Caillou, that 'loveable' little bald-headed child who is never punished for anything that he ever does and who runs roughshod over his parents on each episode.
Caillou is a product of PBS, as are many animated undisciplined children (PBS fun-fact - Google the 11/12/12 story about the guy who voices Elmo being arrested for child sexual abuse) and this little piece of toddler Americana sheds much light on where we now find ourselves as a nation.
(Yes, I know Caillou is originally a Canadian show. That alone explains a lot about the rampant pacifism.)
Simply put, we have a grown-up undisciplined child for a president. And as far as I can tell, he's the real thing and not animation.
Let's take a look at the facts. After the president won his first election, he pointed the high and mighty liberal finger across the proverbial aisle at the minority-party Republicans and said, "I won. Get over it." We've been in a veritable government gridlock ever since. Petulant and unyielding, he got his way.
Unlike what we learn from Caillou, the parents (we the people) intervened and tried to tell him he was out of line. This came in the 2010 midterm election cycle when Republicans, riding a Tea-Party wave of excitement (another post for another time), and enacted some sort of disciplinary restraint by taking away his liberal majority which had been in place since the 2006 midterm elections.
And just like Caillou, the president continued his actions of disregarding and ignoring the will of the American people. He was going to do what he wanted, when he wanted. He used a method which was already in place for how he would end-around we the people - executive orders.
An executive order is a tool presidents have used ever since George Washington. However, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the socialist guru himself, took them to a new level. From Answers.com: "President Franklin D. Roosevelt used executive orders to create agencies
without going through Congress."
Now, don't get me wrong - all presidents have used executive orders, but if I recall correctly (and I most certainly do) George W. Bush (of whom I am no apologist) was demonized for his "reckless abuse of power via the slight of hand of executive order." However....
Enjoy this insight from the bastion of liberal "fact" FactCheck.org from September 2012:
"It’s true, however, that Obama is employing his executive powers now more than ever before during his presidency.Obama has been sidestepping Congress through his “We Can’t Wait”
initiative, a series of executive actions that he claims benefit the
middle class through infrastructure projects and economic policy
changes.He also skirted Senate approval in January when he appointed nominees to the National Labor Relations Board and to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The appointments were unprecedented because he made them when the Senate was technically not in recess, prompting legal challenges from conservative groups."
So, when he doesn't like something or when he wants to go around the will of the people, he just signs his will into existence and voila! So it is written! And really, who needs all those pesky "checks and balances" that our forefathers put into place, namely the Supreme Court and Congress?
And once again, just like Caillou's pandering parents, even though we know what naughty things that our president has done via his own will (because every single executive order that he has signed or renewed IS posted on www.whitehouse.gov in plain view), in November 2012 the American people gave the petulant one a treat for all of his bad actions - four more years or unrestrained power.
Through the medium of PBS and many other networks and programs, and not to mention our horrid excuse for a public school system (another way that the government is completely failing the people) we are raising a generation of children and teenagers who can act - good or bad - without consequence. Remember, we actually had a president COMMIT ADULTERY IN THE OVAL OFFICE in the 1990's and now that same man is regaled as "possibly the greatest president America has ever seen."
No matter your views on trickle-down economics, trickle-down behavior is absolutely something that is learned and absorbed. When you have a leader, the leader of the entire free world, who resorts to name-calling and bullying to get his way - things, might I add, which are becoming subject to prosecution in minor cases in America 2012 - it is no wonder that we are fast approaching a nation where greater than 50% of the people are dependent on the government for their very existence. Why pay for it when you don't have to? Go ahead and do the crime because no need to worry, you won't have to do the time.
In a nutshell, "it's not your fault".
That is what we are being programmed to believe and act upon, and this is what we are reaping and will continue to reap for generations to come. Our president was absolutely spot on when he said "We will fundamentally change America together".
I couldn't agree more. We are being systematically and fundamentally changed from a nation of hard-working people who come from meager means and build a better life for their children and grandchildren to a nation of moochers who take from those who are working to the bone just to survive. We are being changed from a nation of fresh ideas and new enterprises to a nation where even our best minds are being outsourced because of the regulations that this administration is placing on people to hamper and hinder freedom of expression.
The good news for Caillou is that he is eternally four years old. The bad news for America is that the nation of Caillous that we are raising and have raised are growing up, being elected to public office, and forcing this "Waah! I want it now, I want it now! It's mine even if you don't want to give it to me!" mindset on us all.
I'm so glad my boys grew out of the Caillou phase. I only wish, hope and pray that our nation, someday, can do the same.
this. all of this. good write!
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