Evil Genius

In the 1973 movie Live and Let Die, James Bond (played by Roger Moore in the first of seven appearances as the British secret agent) investigates the murders of three of his colleagues at the hands of a notorious Harlem drug dealer, Mr. Big. As the plot unfolds, 007 learns that Mr. Big is the alter ego of Dr. Kananga, dictator of a small Caribbean country who plans on distributing two metric tons of heroin across the United States for free. Since Kananga owns the poppy farms that produce the heroin, he could drive his competitors out of business and be left with a monopoly on the drug trade, drowning America with an unending flow of narcotics.

Bond expresses grudging admiration for his adversary's plan. By offering his product for no charge, Kananga undercuts his rivals knowing that by owning the means of production, he can afford the losses he will incur until they were eliminated. Moreover, he creates a nation of addicts with no other source for their drugs and willing to pay whatever price he demanded for their daily fix.

Repeatedly and at great length in this space, I have demonstrated how utterly preposterous President Obama's policies are if we take him at his word; that is, that he wants to help the economy recover. In a market desperately trying to shed costs - the latest Labor Department figures indicate 651,000 jobs lost in February 2009 and 4.4 million lost since the recession started in December 2007 - His Serene Loftiness is dumping $5.3 trillion into the system (the stimulus package, the bank rescue package and his FY 2010 budget) with the prospect of a second stimulus package later this year, at the same time that the Federal Reserve is holding the throttle wide open with a ridiculous 0.25% prime interest rate. By dumping gigantic levels of liquidity into a market already drowning in liquidity while drastically devaluing the currency with runaway inflation, Obama risks sending the free enterprise system into cardiac arrest. Given that the Bush administration's twin attempts to jump-start the economy failed - the $120 billion rebate in Spring 2008 and the $700 billion TRAP package last Fall - why on Earth would Obama try it again only much, much worse?

The answer lies in his objective. HSL's actions only make sense if he is ignoring the health of our economy and is actually trying to restructure American society, hooked on government and beyond rescue. If that is the case, then it doesn't matter if the economy regains its vigor or not. With the supposed mandate of the election behind him, tens of millions of Americans willing, like Esau, to sell the birthright of their freedom for a bowl of stew, Obama will grow the government to colossal levels, consuming everything, controlling everything, choking the life out of the old ways, crushing them out of existence. He spends untold trillions of dollars on pork barrel projects, on pro-union contracts, on health care for the poor and illegal immigrants, to bail out people who should never have been approved for a gasoline card much less a mortgage, knowing that it will be his political opponents who will be stuck with the bill. Free market capitalism will be gone, replaced by a collective mediocrity in which prosperity is punished, health care is rationed, foreclosures and repossessions are forbidden, union membership for every job is compulsory, private property is tightly regulated, the government owns every bank, every credit card company, every insurance agency and every realty, and every child in every school gets straight A's in every class because everyone must excel...meaning nobody will excel. This is Obama's America, a nation of hollow-eyed, nervous junkies queueing up at the clinic door every morning for our fix of government services, trading the liberty purchased with the blood of our ancestors for a welfare check.

If this is Obama's vision - a country of pathetic sameness where equal rights count for less than equal results - then his policies, like Dr. Kananga's free heroin, become brilliantly logical, and we have reason to fear. Instead of a laughably inexperienced minor leaguer, we would be led by a truly evil genius bent on the most monstrous plot ever devised: The undoing of America.