More credible Authors' Books about President Obama - Part 2
Yesterday
in Part 1,
we saw political analyst Dinesh D’Souza’s impression of President Obama’s ideology. I’ve also previously recapped liberal reporter Ed Klein’s The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House).
Now here’s
a book by a young financial banking insider who admits being extremely liberal
and completely taken in by Obama in the 2008 election. Shawn Smeltz, author of USA: Unaware, Scared and Angry,
says all that has changed for him; his eyes have been opened by the last four
years.
Smeltz isn't
a professional writer or wealthy Wall Street financial tycoon. He’s a middle-management
bank employee making a modest middle-class living, who felt compelled to share
his insight with the public. He tells of his experiences being instructed to
lay people off after the failure of 26 banks; the home mortgage foreclosures
and the failure of Wall Street even after the second stimulus money toward the
beginning of Obama’s first term.
Things may
have started before Obama’s election, Smeltz says, but they’ve only gotten
worse through actions that cannot be blamed on the Bush Administration (and
which actually began under Clinton).
Smeltz now
feels like a victim of what he calls a poison message by Obama (p.21); the
message of “change” and Obama’s disbelief in America’s exceptionalism. This
message not only targeted poor people, but hardworking citizens who try to
excel. The message of change clouded peoples’ convictions and desire to do the
right thing (p.22).
He says
Obama’s arrogance began increasing behind the scenes; that the president’s lack of experience in managing or leading
people was overtaken by his charisma (p.54). This agrees with Klein’s
assessment.
It became
obvious to Smeltz that Obama’s idea of success was something dictated by a
ruling authority – not success through hard work (p.54-55 – written even before Obama
said “You didn’t build that.”)
Through
Smeltz’s financial training, he realized the Obama administration’s new rules
would destroy the economy instead of rebuild it (p.68). With overreaching
regulations like those in the Dodd Frank Act of 2010, it became impossible to
keep circulating money back into the economy, and that Obama began treating the
banking industry like America’s enemy (p.76).
He says
Obama’s plans became clearer: Take away individual success and replace it with
government control and redistribution (p.89).
Here’s one
harrowing story Smeltz tells of how the government encourages citizens to
remain dependent on things like welfare (p.97-101):
He hired a
young single mother. She showed great promise, was capable and dependable. The job
was giving her a sense of pride. One day she came to Smeltz and said she had to
quit, because she was on government subsidies. She’d gotten a letter saying if
she kept working, they’d have to take some of her benefits away (benefits she
qualified for, even though she had a job). Her bank salary wasn’t as much as
these benefits, and her children would suffer without the extra money.
Smeltz told
her he could offer her a raise after she was there a certain amount of time,
but it wasn’t enough. She had to quit, and went back to fully living off the
government. He says her future with the bank could have been brilliant.
Smeltz saw
leftists, Democrats and liberals labeling prosperous individuals as being
selfish and crooked. Their goal was to appeal to those less fortunate – and to
people who didn’t want to put any effort into improving themselves but were
content to blame others (p.122).
Smeltz,
knowing more about how Wall Street functions than the average citizen, says
Obama was wrong to embrace the Occupy Wall Street anti-capitalist uprising
without ever addressing the rapes, drug use and pillaging being caused in the
streets by these rebels (p.132).
But perhaps
his biggest shock was seeing the similarity between Obama’s actions and Marxist/Communist
governments:
Smeltz’s
wife is from the Ukraine, and he’s been there numerous times to visit her
family. He says Obama’s tactics are similar to Ukranian government: If
individuals made more than the government allotted, the government would
confiscate it and distribute it “as it saw fit” (p.137 –sounds like Obama’s
limit of making $250,000 before more taxes will be taken). Most Ukrainian people
lived below USA poverty standards.
Smeltz said
the government controlled everything in the Ukraine, like when your hot water
could be on, and what was sold in the markets. Even with the government taking
the people’s money, the roads and bridges were nearly falling apart everywhere
(p.173,140).
Smeltz
concludes that our situation is clearly a result of this president’s failure to
do anything to benefit the American people (p.149) – no one else’s.
One, two or
three authors not enough proof for you? Here’s another about President Obama’s
plans for America: Fool MeTwice: Obama’s Shocking Plans for the Next Four Years. It's Aaron Klein and Brenda Elliott’s third in-depth study of Obama, including his
links to Marxist philosophy. They are both New York Times best-selling authors.
(This
writer is not receiving any compensation or recognition for mentioning the
above books.)
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