Job Killer 
By now it should be clear that Obama places his ideology above the good of the people. He epitomizes Lenin’s famous justification for the great genocidal famine of the Ukraine in the pursuit of collectivisation: “If you want to make an omelet, you must be willing to break a few eggs.”
Lenin’s Ukranian Omelet
Indeed! Ten million Ukrainian eggs were broken over seventy five years ago as the Soviet Union forced collectivisation down the throats of the Russian people. After all, Lenin had an idea, and someone had to pay for it.
Enter Obama and his entourage of environmental zealots, who will break as many eggs as needed to achieve their goal of transforming our energy profile from oil to anything that isn’t oil.
Exit Bucyrus, a thriving industrial company in Wisconsin, whom Obama denied a contract to provide equipment to India.
Unemployed workers – Obama’s American Omelet
The Obama appointed chairman of the Export-Import Bank, Fred Hochberg — remember that name — denied this Wisconsin company a loan guarantee to supply their products to India because the project in India might have an adverse environmental affect in INDIA.
See, that’s because it’s a goddamned coal fired plant.
Which India was already building anyway.
For which they needed equipment.
Which the American company, Bucyrus, would have sold them.
But now India will buy from China.
Which will get the jobs that …
… Bucyrus was giving to over a thousand American workers in Wisconsin and another six hundred and fifty in their American supply chain.
All in the name of Obama’s carbon-hate. American jobs will be lost, mortgages won’t be paid, foreclosures and bankruptcies will occur, the jobless will be desperate, some will divorce, or drink and drug, some will kill themselves, children will be damaged and there will STILL be carbon in India’s atmosphere.
China doesn’t give a shit about India’s atmosphere. They want jobs. The same American jobs Obama is willing to sacrifice to make his environmental omelet.
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Yes, if you want to make an omelet you do have to break a few eggs. Or we could just sit and look at the eggs, do nothing, and hope that we still get fed.
It's an analogy, the grammatical purpose of which you seem to miss entirely, which might explain why you become so bothered by some of what Beck says.
Grammatically, an analogy is "reasoning or explaining from parallel cases." Put another way, an analogy is a comparison between two different things in order to highlight some point of similarity.
Notice it doesn't say ALL points of similarity, but SOME point of similarity. The point of similarity in this one is that Lenin was willing to do anything to impose collectivisation upon the Russian people and that, I believe, Obama is willing to do anything to impose his environmentalistly driven vision of green energy upon us.
The DEGREE of difference between the two is not the point of this (or any) analogy, the PROCESS both leaders are using IS. You are confusing the degree of difference between the two with the legitimate similarity of the process in both.
Now, you may disagree that this is what Obama is doing, i.e., not sacrificing jobs (or a particular kind of job) to achieve this totalitarian, environmental goal. But that's an issue with the similarity in the analogy and nothing to do with what you think is "Beckian."
An analogy
Maybe an analogy would be to say that Obama's actions will lead to the starvation of millions of Americans. I don't think you're saying that.
(please spare me the outraged, "how DARE I think that!"- tell it to an out of work Louisiana oil well roughneck ) *
* Yeh,Yeh, BP made the spill- Obama simply seized the opportunity of the crisis to destroy the Louisiana economy with his scientificly senseless drilling "moratorium" - ( He's only going to keep it in place until he either figures out what caused the blowout or the drilling companies take their jobs elsewhere- and not a moment longer)( Moratorium- latin : Is he dead yet?)
You're right. On re-reading, it WAS condescending, and for that I'm sorry. It wasn't intended as such, merely an attempt to clarify what I think was a clear misinterpretation of the idea.
And your subsequent post STILL did not seem to comprehend the essential point of an analogy. You wrote: "An analogy is a comparison of two (or more) things that are similar. "
No! From the following link:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/analogy
a. Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
b. A comparison based on such similarity. See Synonyms at likeness.
SOME respects. NOT a "comparison of two (or more) things that are similar."
From the same link:
1. agreement or similarity, esp in a certain limited number of features or details
A certain LIMITED number of features or details.
Again, sorry for the insult you may have felt from my original post.
The ability to conceptualize, i.e., the ability to identify commonality in disparate phenomena, is a unique characteristic of human, as opposed to instinctual, intelligence.
And, by the way, there's nothing in this post that is even remotely hyperbolic. Hyberbole is exaggeration. The post exaggerates neither situation from which you properly draw an analogy.
This exchange explains, I believe, why Roger, a very nice fellow I suspect, and I have never been able to communicate successfully.
I admire your patience, John.
Apology accepted but not necessary. We just don't agree on this issue.
Gordon's comment is interesting to me. Another reason that we may not communicate successfully is that virtually every comment I make on one of his posts, almost always made with respect, goes unanswered. Gordon also has never, as far as I can remember, commented on one of my posts. That's fine, I don't care, but it makes the "successful communication" remark odd.
And I do think that comparing possible job killing to Lenin is hyperbolic... but maybe I'm not using the term properly. Maybe it's "just a stretch."