Cass Sunstein is Obama's new Regulatory Czar. He won Senate approval by a 57-40 vote last Thursday September 10, 2009. He is the Director of Regulatory Affairs and information, and obscure but powerful agency within the Office of Management and Budget. He believes in regulating laws past, present, and future. I was reading some World Net Daily articles about him. One of them is from Ellis Washington. Sunstein is a former colleague of Obama's at the University of Chicago Law School. Obama appointed Sunstein a few months ago but the confirmation was delayed due to Republican fears he would promote a radical animal-rights agenda.
Glenn Beck, Fox News television show host says this about Sunstein: "Sustein is a friendly fascist who only 'nudges' people to bow to his will. He is the most powerful invisible man you'll ever see" According to Ellis Washington, the underlying philosophies that guide Sunstein's thinking are (1) moral relativism and (2) social darwinism. Moral relativism teaches that truth is based upon the cirumstances in a particular person's life. Social darwinism is another word for evolution, or survival of the fittest. In 2004 Sunstein wrote a book entitled, The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need it More than Ever. He believes in regulating the affairs of society.
In 2005 Sunstein hosted a conference at Yale Law School and it was entitled, "The Constitution in 2020". Washington says that Sunstein advocates a "Second Bill of Rights" even more totalizing and all-consuming than initially proposed by Roosevelt's New Deal in the 1930's. Sunstein says the second bill should be seen as part and parcel of America's constitutive commitments. He said the document shouldn't reflect the extreme right-wing views of the Republican Party. His thinking is very socialist in nature. He believes in the soviet system of a planned economy. He doesn't believe in free enterprise. Another radical view he holds is his view about the rights of animals. He believes that personhood doesn't need to be conferred onto animals in order to grant it legal standing for suit. He believes animals should possess the right to sue adults in court. How they can do that when they don't have the ability to speak for themselves is beyond me. Sunstein says that an adult horse or dog is more rational than an infant child. Therefore adult animals deserve special rights over human infants according to what I'm reading from Sunstein.
What are some of the proposals in Sunstein's Second Bill of Rights? They are these. (1) The right to remunerative or useful jobs in industries or shops. (2) A person should be capable of earning enough to provide adequate food, clothing, and recreation. That's a line similar to Karl Marx's philosophy, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." (3) Farmers have a right to raise and sell his products at a return which will give his family a decent living. (4) Another one is a right to adequate protection from economic fears of old age, sickness, accidents, and unemployment. (5) Businessmen both large and small have a right to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad. (6) Every person has a right to a home. (7) Every person has a right to a good education. (8) Every person has a right to health care and good health. This sounds likes an excerpt from the communist playbook that supports the notion of a nanny state. The state should provide for it's citizens from cradle to grave. There are a few points that Sunstein makes that I agree with but it's not the perogative of the government to provide for the material needs of it's citizens.
Whatever happened to the philosophy of "rugged individualism"? There used to be a time in our nation's history when a person believed it was HIS responsibility to provide a living for himself and his family. It wasn't the job nor responsibility of the government to make sure our needs were taken care of. There was a time when America lived by that ideal. However, since Roosevelt's New Deal Americans are depending more and more on the government to provide for them from cradle to grave. I do agree that business monopolies are dangerous to our country. I believe government should have the role in using the antitrust laws to break up monopolies which are what Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft did during their administrations. I believe in limited government regulation of business in the sense of breaking up monopolies that hurt the American people and the SEC chairman keeping a rein on Wall Street. Otherwise, government shouldn't involve themselves in business. America's jobs should be created by the private sector. The government has no business in micromanaging the economy. I do agree that everyone has the right to an education, but that's the responsibility of the parents and the church, not the federal government. In reading about Sunstein's worldview about the rule of government, it's evident he believes in totalitarianism.
If you take a look at some of the "czar" appointments (which are unconstitutional) which Obama has made such as Cass Sunstein, John Holdren, and Van Jones to name a few, they all uphold the communist philosophy. They are communist to the core. Obama aligns himself with those type of people in his administration. I believe these unaccountable czars are representative of Obama's thinking. I am thankful that Van Jones has resigned over a week ago. However, all the 34 czars Obama has appointed are out to remake America into a totalitarian society. They are quickly transforming America into a communist country right before our eyes.
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