We are all socialists now

http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2013/12/0 ... e-potomac/


..."But in the mid-1990s, back when Obama was just hitting the book circuit to promote Dreams from My Father, Al Gore, his transformation into a radical far left environmentalist complete, was taken to saying that “Good Enough for Government Work” — which for over the century, the rest of us used as a kinder and gentler way of saying “doing a half-assed job” meant nothing of the sort:

If you worked in construction back before the turn of the century and someone told you your work was “good enough for government work,” you’d have been pleased as punch. In those days, the government’s construction standards were higher than anyone else’s.

“Good enough for government work” meant the best.

That’s a definition that Barack Obama, who’s feared and loathed the private sector all of his life, would certainly take to heart. But as with many aspects of how the world works, from learning on the job as president that “there’s no such thing as shovel-ready projects,” to just this past month, “also discovering is that insurance is complicated to buy,” might be having a twinge of newfound respect for private enterprise. Just a twinge, mind you. It’ll pass, and he’ll go back to loathing anybody who actually works for a living. But not before this classic moment yesterday:

CHUCK TODD: David, the most interesting thing in this report, right, page one– it’s page three of the report, it says here that, “The team is operating with private sector velocity and effectiveness.”

DAVID GREGORY: Yeah.

CHUCK TODD: Okay, that is an acknowledgement that, “You know what? If this was a government operation for a long time and it failed, now we’re bringing in the private sector folks.” I mean, that is an indictment on the whole idea of government as a solution, "...

In our business top quality is often called Mil-Spec. Or up to military specifications.

FredHayek wrote: In our business top quality is often called Mil-Spec. Or up to military specifications.

If I buy parts that meet Mil-Spec I'm very confident that what I buy will do what it is designed and certified to do. I'll even back my products once they are sold to customers because if a failure does occur I can often exchange the failed Mil-Spec component for a replacement from the vendor.

Nothing the Obama administration has done so far in the first and second terms has lived up to the promises that Barry made so freely from the campaign trail, he continues to lie and then attempt to back out of the lies when what he promised to accomplish doesn't happen. Maybe there is one exception, things have changed in America but not in a good way.