We were warned that President Obama was going to “channel” the spirit of Teddy Roosevelt the “progressive” Republican President.<\/p>\n
Today, Barack Obama doubled down on his anti-technology platform for 2012.\u00a0\u00a0 His view apparently is that efficiency destroys wealth.\u00a0 This was the belief in India back in their Socialist days – that it is the government’s job to constrain business from using technology to improve productivity because that will put people out of work and create unemployment.<\/p>\n
The Luddites (in the unlikely event you didn’t know) were industrial workers in the early 1800s who sabotaged (threw shoes into) textile machinery that looked like it was going to cost them their livelihoods.\u00a0\u00a0 Those advances in textiles revolutionized clothing – cloth became high quality and cheap and no longer could be afforded only by the rich.\u00a0\u00a0 The boom in British textiles increased the demand for supplies of cotton, bringing wealth to the cotton plantations of America and laying the foundation for the Civil war as the textile interests in New England who lacked this new technology tried to use the power of the Federal government to block imports and prevent the competition that was killing their own business.<\/p>\n
So today, President Barack Luddite Obama started getting specific about the things he sees wrong with technology that are killing America (especially union jobs)<\/p>\n
Transcript<\/a><\/p>\n – ATMs put tellers out of work The theme of today was Nationalism.\u00a0\u00a0 What America needs right now is a leader who is proud to say he is a National Socialist.<\/p>\n Yes, that’s a winning platform – I can hear the glass breaking in the shop windows of the “rich people” as we speak.<\/p>\n I would like to do my part to help President MaoBama restore the middle class – a few of my ideas: I’m sure you can think of a few more ways we can put America back to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We were warned that President Obama was going to “channel” the spirit of Teddy Roosevelt the “progressive” Republican President. Today, Barack Obama doubled down on his anti-technology platform for 2012.\u00a0\u00a0 His view apparently is that efficiency destroys wealth.\u00a0 This was … Continue reading
\n– computer controlled systems put steel workers out of a job
\n– telephone automation has put operators out of work
\n– the internet has put travel agents out of work<\/p>\n
\n– outlaw self service gas stations
\n– convert all freeways into toll roads to employ toll booth operators
\n– restore passenger train service to every town in America
\n– require all commercial aircraft to have 4 people in the cockpit
\n– require trains to have a fireman to put coal into the boilers
\n– require all trains to have a caboose
\n– prohibit all imports of goods from China
\n– outlaw scanners in supermarkets and require the bill to be\u00a0added up \u00a0by hand on a piece of paper
\n– outlaw barcodes of every type
\n– restore delivery of postal mail two times a day
\n– return to long distance calling that required an operator to put the call through
\n– require radio stations to have only live people doing the shows
\n– require all restaurants to have table service and use cloth tablecloths
\n– outlaw refrigerators that consume electricity and return to using iceboxes with chunks of ice delivered by a horse drawn wagon<\/p>\n