Dec 15 History Repeating Itself Again

Ralph Peters at American Thinker has the latest deja vu inducing story...

While Obamaphiles love to compare B.O. to previous American presidents Abe Lincoln and FDR, events on the ground suggest that another comparison might be more appropriate. A sign posted anonymously outside a tent city near Colorado Springs suggests that Obama's legacy is more likely to be akin to that of Herbert Hoover.

"Welcome to Obamaville Colorado's Fastest Growing Community" reads the large banner that was temporarily posted within sight of the city's encampment of hundreds left homeless by the bumbling ineptitude of the Obama economic team. Of course the Obamaville tag refers to the Depression era shantytowns where the destitute camped out during the Hoover admistration:
" In the 1930s, Hoovervilles (shantytowns) formed coast to coast in cities of the United States. Some families were fortunate enough to stay with friends and family members that hadn't been evicted yet, but homeless men, women and children were forced to take up residence in shacks as a result of the Great Depression. Angry, cold and hungry Americans, who had no other place to reside, dubbed groups of those shacks in honor of President Herbert Hoover.

Those desperate folks blamed Hoover for the downfall of economic stability and lack of government help. The small amount of resources that the federal government actually made available often did not go to the sick, hungry and homeless. That was simply because many city officials were corrupt, and kept those valuable resources to themselves."

Anyone who has actually studied American history knows about the Hooverville phenomenon from the Great Depression. More importantly they know what it symbolizes - the despair and harshness of the failed economic policies that caused the depression to be longer and deeper than it should have been.

And while it is certainly fun to chortle about the very ironic placing of the "Welcome To Obamaville" sigh right next to a "This Project Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" sign, it is a sign of just how bad things are right now.  And yet like Nero, Congress continues to fiddle with job killing legislation like health care reform and cap and tax.  As the bumper sticker says - how's that Hope N Change working out for ya?