Obamerate - To Destroy Individual Foresight

[Xerographica]

Individual foresight is the information that each person has regarding future events/circumstances/situations.  This information determines how we allocate our resources.  If we aren't free to allocate our resources then our individual foresight will be destroyed...useful information will be rendered useless.

My own individual foresight leads me to believe that we, as a society, will benefit from the creation of words that are dedicated to the communication of this concept.  So I've allocated my limited resources accordingly...

Obamerate (verb): to destroy a person's individual foresight
Obamertine (noun): anything used to obamerate people

Grammatical usage is the same as...

Decapitate (verb): to cut off a person's head
Guillotine (noun): a device used to decapitate people

Example usage of "obamerate"...

By shifting massive amounts of society's limited resources to the construction of the pyramids...the pharaohs obamerated the people.  The consequence was that millions starved during famines because they could neither eat the pyramids nor trade them for food.  If the people had not been obamerated...then massive amounts of valuable products would have been created and sold/traded for food during times of famine.

Some examples of obamertines: genocide, slavery, taxation, theft, concentration camps and minimum wages

Why Barack Obama?

Barack Obama

The Recovery Act and subsequent jobs measures also contained a large number of provisions that were aimed at strengthening long-term growth. In designing the Act, the Administration believed that it was not just the quantity of the fiscal support that mattered, but the quality of it as well. In this sense, the Administration took to heart a lesson that has been pointed out by many but can be traced back as early as the 19th century to a French writer and politician named Frederic Bastiat. Bastiat (1848) wrote of a shopkeeper's careless son who broke a window in the storefront. When a crowd of onlookers gathered to inspect the damage, Bastiat took objection to the discussion that ensued: "But if, on the other hand, you come to the conclusion, as is too often the case, that it is a good thing to break windows, that it causes money to circulate, and that the encouragement of industry in general will be the result of it, you will oblige me to call out, 'Stop there!'"

For this reason, the Recovery Act was designed not just to provide an immediate, short-term boost to the economy, but also to make investments that would enhance the economy's productivity and overall capacity even after the direct spending authorized by the Act had phased out. The Act's investments in expanding broadband infrastructure and laying the groundwork for high-speed rail, to take two examples, are a far cry from the broken window in Bastiat's parable because they do so much more than simply restore things to how they once were. Rather, these types of investments will raise the economy's potential output for years to come, from a rural school that can now offer its students and teachers high-speed Internet access, to a business that has a new option to transport its goods more quickly.

As shown in Table 8, the Recovery Act included $300 billion of these types of investments in areas such as clean energy, health information technology, roads, and worker skills and training.  Figure 12 suggests that the timing of these investments was relatively more spread out than some of the Act's other measures, consistent with the longer-term focus of these projects. - White House, The Economic Impact Of The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Five Years Later

Frederic Bastiat

But there is something else that is not seen. It is that the fifty millions spent by the state can no longer be spent as they would have been by the taxpayers. From all the benefits attributed to public spending we must deduct all the harm caused by preventing private spending—at least if we are not to go so far as to say that James Goodfellow would have done nothing with the five-franc pieces he had fairly earned and that the tax took away from him; an absurd assertion, for if he went to the trouble of earning them, it was because he hoped to have the satisfaction of using them. He would have had his garden fenced and can no longer do so; this is what is not seen. He would have had his field marled and can no longer do so: this is what is not seen. He would have added to his tools and can no longer do so: this is what is not seen. He would be better fed, better clothed; he would have had his sons better educated; he would have increased the dowry of his daughter, and he can no longer do so: this is what is not seen. He would have joined a mutual-aid society and can no longer do so: this is what is not seen. On the one hand, the satisfactions that have been taken away from him and the means of action that have been destroyed in his hands; on the other hand, the work of the ditch digger, the carpenter, the blacksmith, the tailor, and the schoolmaster of his village which he would have encouraged and which is now nonexistent: this is still what is not seen. - Frederic Bastiat, The Seen vs the Unseen

Bastiat championed the protection of individual foresight...

If the socialists mean that under extraordinary circumstances, for urgent cases, the state should set aside some resources to assist certain unfortunate people, to help them adjust to changing conditions, we will, of course, agree. This is done now; we desire that it be done better. There is, however, a point on this road that must not be passed; it is the point where governmental foresight would step in to replace individual foresight and thus destroy it.

Clearly the destruction of individual foresight was anathema to Bastiat...which is why it's extremely twisted for Obama to use Bastiat to try and support replacing individual foresight with governmental foresight.  This alone is sufficient for Obama to symbolize the destruction of individual foresight.

Given how important individual foresight is...I sincerely hope that the use of these new words will catch on.  As a reference point...

"Obamerate": six search results...0 relevant uses
"Obamertine": zero search results

The more we use these words, the more likely it is that individual foresight will be protected rather than destroyed.

[Moriarty]

Shut up. Please?

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Xerographicate: To annoy the fuck out of people with pointless gibberish derived from cherry picked nonsense pertaining to nothing but crap. Apparently cherries grow in crap and you pick your cherries there. Congratulations! :Hangman:

[Shiranu]

I see where you are coming from, but unfortunately not all products will cut it on the market.

I am afraid Obamerate will be joining, "rad", "tubular" and "Mayonnaise  is a real food" in the category of "Phrases No One Ever Uses".

[Atheon]

I was going to say that this was one of the dumbest initial posts I've ever seen, but then I decided it would be better to say nothing at all.

[aileron]

So I've allocated my limited resources accordingly...

I think your limited resources would be better wasted elsewhere.

[Jason78]

This whole thread has reganated me.

[Xerographica]

You guys have faith in the government.  You guys are believers.  I'm a nonbeliever.  I don't believe in God and I don't believe in command economies.  You guys don't believe in God but you believe in command economies.  You don't think there's any evidence that God exists but you think there's evidence that a command economy is a viable system.  So you don't make any sacrifices to God but you gladly make sacrifices to our current system.  You think that our current system will provide you with countless blessings.  

Why do you think that our current system will provide us with blessings?  

It's easy being an atheist after God has been declared dead.  But in reality you simply replaced God with the government.  You don't put your life in God's hands...but you put your life in congress's hands.  Why?  Because you helped elect them?  Therefore they know what your true preferences are?  

Generally I could care less what absurd fantasies you believe in...but in this case I'm along for your delusional ride.  

Maybe I'm wrong though?  Rather than attack me for my disbelief...why not just share your evidence?  Surely you have it at your disposal?  Right?  Because you'd have to be morons to simply believe whatever the status quo spoon feeds you.  None of you are morons...are you?

[Plu]

why not just share your evidence?

Because you have a long history here proving that you're a twat who hasn't a clue of how to properly argue a position.

[SGOS]

This whole thread has reganated me.

I'm Bushed.

But yet, we must all take a stand against the loss of our foresight.  Write you congressman and tell him you refuse to give up your foresight.  We are on a slippery slope here gentlemen.  First, they will take your foresight, and then they will come for your hindsight.  They will come in the middle of the night.  They will send helicopters and jack booted thugs.  They will send Republicans.  The anti-Christ will step from the ashes and lead is into enslavement.

[Jason78]

No!  Not my hindsight!   I need that for making things look better!

[stromboli]

This whole thread has reganated me.

I'm Bushed.

Damn! Beat me to it.  :axe

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Foresight,  hindsight and sight in general just like will may be purchased for the low low rate of just $99.95 per month. Free will in no longer included with foresight nor hindsight,  but you can still look at stuff making free sight as a part of the foresight/hindsight package available only at selected retail outlets.

[gussy]

It's easy being an atheist after God has been declared dead.  But in reality you simply replaced God with the government.  You don't put your life in God's hands...but you put your life in congress's hands.  Why?  Because you helped elect them?  Therefore they know what your true preferences are?  

Did you come up with that one all on your own or are you just parroting other people's material?  Perhaps you should be collecting royalties from all the other people that stole that zinger from you because it is about the 8 millionth time that I've heard it.  Perhaps your God is the free market.  You put your life in His hands hoping that he will guide you down the correct path.  If he doesn't then it is your own fucking fault.  

By all means continue giving out to people making ad hominem attacks by using your own.

[The Skeletal Atheist]

I love how whenever someone has a different political idea they're accused of being a theist. :roll: