Silken Slippers and Hobnail Boots Surviving the Decline and Fall

by R.E. Hannay

  * 2009-2011: Obama expanded Bush’s useless “stimulus” of borrowed and counterfeit money, and loaded his cabinet and 30-some unelected, unconfirmed new “czar” positions with radical socialists who had no private-sector experience. Obama ran a banana- republic administration, ramming sweeping medical care, finance-industry regulation and other federal controls through an irresponsible Congress. When even Congress and the courts wouldn’t bow and sign, he legislated by executive orders and by having his bureaucrats refuse to issue permits or otherwise refuse to obey laws and court orders.