Texas Rep Compares BP Fund to Nazi Enabling Act; Claims People Want Obama to Be Dictator
[D]uring the worldwide Great Depression, the German Reichstag passed a law “for the relief of the German people.” That law gave Hitler dictatorial powers that were used for things going far beyond the relief of the German people — indeed, powers that ultimately brought a rain of destruction down on the German people and on others. If the agreement with BP was an isolated event, perhaps we might hope that it would not be a precedent. But there is nothing isolated about it.
Yes, that’s right. In defending BP’s role in destroying the Gulf of Mexico, Sowell compared Hitler’s strong-arming the legislature of Germany into voting to give him dictatorial powers through the Enabling Act with Pres. Obama convincing BP CEO Tony Hayward to put in writing his company’s promises to clean up the Gulf and pay reparations to small business owners and others whose livelihoods have been devastated by the oil spill.
The “small people” — middle-class and low-income people in the United States and abroad — who saw their income and the value of their assets slashed during 2009, the first full year of the Bush Recession, may have wondered where all that money went.
