Jim
“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” Margaret Thatcher
Serfdom – a member of a servile feudal class bound to the land and subject to the will of its owner – Merriam-Webster
We are on the Obama Road to serfdom. This road will lead us to socialism – which will hand our future to the State, and thus to servitude. This servitude will be exemplified in the State’s attempt to solve the problem of poverty, and the caring for our poor.
Barack Obama and the Secular Progressives believe themselves as the elites, and they in turn exalt the State as the savior of mankind. This is the radical left, and they insist that all must capitulate to the will of the State. But they have a problem. While there are folks who will relinquish their personal freedoms, and become serfs to the State – most people will not. Poor Seculars – what are they to do?
The Seculars realize the importance of recruiting as many people as possible, to depend on the government for some type of assistance. Whether Social Security, healthcare, education, welfare, and the like. The poor in their need are easy pickings. In order to understand all of this, we must realize the issue for the Seculars is not the solution to poverty. The issue is dependence on the State.
Socialism is a failure. Liberalism is a failure. Progressivism is just liberalism progressively worse. Trickle down government is never the solution (there’s enough slogans for you!). Government programs will never solve the issue of poverty – government programs rarely solve any problem. The problem with the State in trying to solve problems, is that it becomes full of itself. It creates a bloated bureaucracy, it’s very impersonal, runs itself in a very inefficient way, wastes money, and because it’s always political – politicians must always profit by it.
President Johnson’s Great War on Poverty will illustrate this point. Intended to eliminate poverty, Johnson stated, “the war on poverty is not a struggle simply to support people, to make them dependent on the generosity of others.” Instead, the plan was to give the poor the behavioral skills and values necessary to escape from both poverty and dependence. Johnson sought to address the “the causes, not just the consequences of poverty.” (1)
Unfortunately, Johnson’s intentions were never realized. The War on Poverty became an Industry of Poverty, bent on self preservation by creating a whole new dependent class. More than thirty years ago, then President Jimmy Carter stated, “the welfare system is anti-work, anti-family, inequitable in its treatment of the poor and wasteful of the taxpayers’ dollars.” (2)
What is the single most significant contribution of the Democratically controlled House, during the 30 years after the inauguration of the War of Poverty? The creation of a brand new group in America, a dependant class trapped in generational welfare. Instead of solving the problem of poverty, it institutionalized it.
While the perception is that liberalism/progressivism is compassionate to those in need, it actually is the greatest detriment to the helping of the needy. Take education as an example. We know that education is an essential step out of poverty. Parents who have children attending failing Public Schools, know their kids are at a great disadvantage. But instead of fostering competition through vouchers to open up the reality of a good education, liberals/progressives oppose them.
Why? One reason is special interests of the teacher unions. Another reason is that the public schools are the clearing house for relativistic secularism. The State must control the thinking of our children. So, instead of freedom of choice in education for the poor to conquer poverty – liberals/progressives will limit their choices, simply because they know better.
But how do we help those in need out of poverty? The solution will never come from trickle down government – it must come through the grass roots where the poor are, and then proceed to the top. There must be a cooperation between local Churches, charitable organizations and education, (where the people are), business (where jobs are created), and then the Government (to provide assurance that help is given without discrimination).
1) The emphasis should be on personal responsibility and independence from the State. Help must come to those in need, to provide a safety net: but it must not simply be a hand out, but a hand up out of poverty. The old approach to poverty encouraged dependence. One of the significant steps toward this was welfare reform. “The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, which replaced the failed social program known as Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), with a new program called Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). The reform legislation had three goals: to reduce welfare dependence and increase employment; to reduce child poverty; and to reduce illegitimacy and strengthen marriage.”
One of the keys of this legislation is the requirement of 30 hrs of work or looking for work, without losing medical benefits. Under the old system, if one became employed – state medical benefits were lost. This would give incentive to stay on welfare, instead of leading a person to self reliance.
What were the results? Welfare caseloads have been cut nearly in half, and employment of the most disadvantaged single mothers has increased from 50 percent to 100 percent. The explosive growth of out-of-wedlock childbearing came to a virtual halt. The share of children living in single-mother families has fallen, and the share living in married-couple families has increased, especially among black families. (3)
2) In order to give our children tools for success, we must have freedom in educational choices. Instead of attending failing schools, competition must be fostered through the development of charter schools and vouchers. Open enrollment should be allowed in all public schools, so that children are not limited by the district they happen to reside.
3) The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives founded by President Bush, is a good start in harnessing the full participation of faith-based organizations to help the poor. It was designed to prevent discrimination against them, protect the religious freedom of beneficiaries, and preserve religious hiring rights of faith-based charities.
We need to encourage more participation, uninhibited by government control in religious hiring rights of faith-based charities.
4) Business and free markets must be unshackled by high corporate taxes so that it may reinvest and create more jobs. Our free market economy creates more jobs at a much lower price than Socialism creating jobs through the State.
5) We must promote the greatest solution to poverty – the family! A loving and stable marriage is the greatest gift that you can give to your children. The instillation of religious faith, the provision of love and discipline, the teaching of what is right and wrong, modeling a strong work ethic, and the development of integrity and character – will give children advantages that money can never buy.
Conversely, eighty percent of those in poverty are single parents and children from single parent homes. Divorce and having children while not married, are the biggest steps into poverty. How do we avoid poverty? If you are going to have children – get married, and stay married. (Let me take a moment to assure everyone that the intention here is not to judge divorced folks and single moms! Please understand that the intention is to encourage marriage and family).
Conclusion
The solution to poverty has little to do with government programs, but it has everything to do with strengthening the family, increase educational opportunities, freeing business and the free markets to do what they do best by creating jobs, enable churches and private charities to reach the poor “where they are at,” and continual reforming of the welfare state to be a “hand up” from poverty.
The Stimulus Package has never been about stimulating the economy, it’s been all about creating a Socialist government, with a massive permanent expansion of the welfare state – reversing all the achievements of Welfare Reform. It is a big step in nationalized healthcare, and the actual jobs it does produce are government jobs – more people who depend on the State.
The coming of Obamaworld means the coming of Socialism and the failure that accompanies it. The issue is not solving the problem of poverty, but the development of a dependent class to insure votes. If it can get as many people as possible dependent on government programs, it succeeds in making them serfs: subject to the will of its owner – the State.
1) Means-Tested Welfare Spending: Past and Future Growth by Robert E. Rector March 7, 2001
(2) Quoted in Roger A. Freeman, Does America Neglect Its Poor? (Stanford, Cal.: The Hoover Institution, 1987), p. 12.
(3) The Continuing Good News About Welfare Reform by Robert Rector and Patrick F. Fagan February 6, 2003
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You are the liberal. They are fakes.
We can call it the Somoza Rule or the Shah of Iran rule or the Marcos Rule. Basically it says, you can say until your blue in the face that you are America’s friend, but if you oppress your people in the US’s name, you are NOT our friend.
The corollary is that you can say until you are blue in the face that you are liberal, but if you are not helping the poor get out of poverty you are a conservative just as much as Rush Limbaugh.
Liberals need to take over their movement that has been co-opted by all these fakes.
Tekakaromatagi
Everything everywhere from the beginning of time to the present day has a beginning and an ending, nothing lasts forever. Change is the only constant on our planet and in the universe. This being a proven fact of all that exists, I am persuaded to ask this question. …Why attempt to prevent necessary change from taking place? …Is it because of unscientific dogmatic bias? It is unscientific bias to hold onto that which no longer has relevance and has been rendered by the passage of time no longer useful, and consequently out of step with existing circumstances, situations and conditions. That which is no longer a positive influence inside the surroundings of our existence should be replaced by that which is a positive influence, … and it will always come to pass when the only change possible to take the place of that what exists, … is the diametric opposite of what already exists.
The diametric opposite of an economy that is market oriented and not planned is an economy that is planned, … and designed to profit not individual capitalists of our planet, …but rather.. profit equally, all of the people of our planet, without discrimination or prejudice.
What makes this economic change possible and necessary is the change in our means of producing goods and services. The technological revolution on our planet has made it possible to satisfy all of the needs of everyone everywhere on our planet. No one no longer needs to not have what is needed to live well and survive well because of our scientific and technological advances.
Those that are concerned about our tanking individual unplanned capitalist economy, should give some thought to the opposite view of an economy that is social and planned so as to profit the mass of people in the world without discrimination or prejudice.
Sure Explain it away…certainly a load of creative BS !!!!
The problem is that change is not a force in itself – the true constants are morals and ethics that drive change.
Communism and socialism are the stuff of failure, because of the faulty premise of equal outcomes. We must have equal opportunity, and understand that each individual is responsible for that opportunity.
Those capitalists create jobs.
“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”
The idiot right wingers in the republican party, the Libertarians and most democrats do not have a clue as to what is happening in our nation or in the world! Their thinking amounts to a crazy mixed up paranoid fantasy. A fantasy that is the consequence of not understanding the inevitable movement of historical change. Cause and effect relationships within a particular environment remains a foreign language, to those that are a part of this movement, of dogmatic unscientific blind and prejudiced thinking! The global economy and the development of modern technologies has created a world that most people refuse to try to understand! If you can’t or won’t try to understand and adapt to this inevitable change in the world environment, you will remain stupid and eventually you will not be able to cope, and you will die stupid. Most americans at this point in time, are looking for a scapegoat to blame for their frustration and fear of a necessary change. A change that is now happening, and consequently changing all that you were comfortably familiar with. People are lining up on the side of the public sector or the private sector, so as to survive, and to live another day. The truth is that what is happening today and what will happen tomorrow, is and was predictable. The enemy is not the government, or the private sector or communists or socialists or whatever. The enemy is the people that refuse to understand what was, is and will be, the nature and character, of a predictably changing world.
Many words, but saying very little.
Communism is an enemy – my parents escaped from a communist country.
Socialism and communism are failed philosophies, and I will agree: there is a flow of change in history – away from tyranny towards freedom.
The faster we leave them on the trash heap of history, the better.
Unfortunately, this argument is faulty when it comes to “secular progressives.”
Many blacks tend to be religious, attend church regularly and rely on their churches for emotional support in times of need. Most religious blacks oppose abortion. One would think that they would be Republicans. However, most blacks are afraid of Republicans, thinking them to be old white men with racist attitudes. It is time to MARKET the Republican Party so that this is no longer the case!
We can recruit blacks into the Party if we work on changing their perception of us and appointing Michael Steele to head the GOP was a brilliant first step. I long for the day that blacks no longer vote for a man or woman JUST because they are black, as they did with Obama, disregarding his policies and ignoring the disconnects they may have had.
I am not sure why your example negates my argument regarding the Seculars.
They except religious folks – as long as they do what they are told.
Ah, the irony of right wing ideology leading to “socialism”, huh? That’s bc govt was systematically destroyed, perhaps by design, by the right wing, who did nothing but rape and pilliage govt for their own ends at the expense of a nation.
This is an excellent example of writing words – and not saying anything.
Jim, you talk about unshackling corporations via tax cuts, but in 06′corporations had record profits and where did that lead? It wasn’t reinvested in the co. It led to cuts,more outsourcing and the like. It lead to big bonuses at my company for the top. Trickle down has been rebuffed yet again bc it has this inherent trust that the top will do the right thing for the country and reinvest. That is not a given, esp in this age of globalism. Adam Smith had a nations interests at heart. Same with the tax cuts mainly for the rich via dividends. Add the endless war in Iraq and bailouts and there are your reasons for record deficits and a much needed focus on domestic issues.
Hey Troy!
You are reciting liberal talking points here. It’s always in generalities, as if everyone is doing the typical stuff you list here.
Trickle down government is never the answer, and has always failed – that’s the issue here.
As for lower corporate taxes, my focus is small business – which provides most of the jobs in America.
A free market economy has created the greatest wealth in world history. That is why communist China has opened up their markets – communism is a failure as an economic system.
Republicans are the worst loosers I’ve ever seen.
All these hue and cry are simply, clearly and pure fall-outs of the 2008 Presidential Election.
All these motor-park eruditions and academic posturings were, at best, counter-productive and are therefore, uncalled for at this time.
Politics is a game of numbers. My candid advise to the GOP is to relax and put their house in order. Then wait, plan, and prepare for 2012 in a more decorus fashion than they’re currently doing.
Afterall, the Democrats waited and planned for eight years after the “Stolen Presidency” which unleashed and forstered eight years of BUSH DISASTER that led us into this RECESSION.
You have failed the American People and we have spoken our minds by chosing a replacement that we feel will be better. But all we watch and see you doing from the first day (Jan.20/09) is making all efforts to distabilize\stiffle the HOPE of our CHOICE. Mark you, we the American People will see to it that you’re not given the chance to return in 2012 and even 2016.
For now, shameless Conservatives, keep your ideas and solutions to yourself until the American People considers to invite you back into the White House.
Perhaps, it’s needful to remind the self-styled and self-annointed SOCIO-POLITICAL-ECONOMISTS in the GOP camp that the system we operate is DEMOCRACY: which is necessarily “people representation” as deemed right by the people (electorates) in a “one-man,one-vote” election of winner takes all.
C’ommon “Repugnicans”, this is the time to serve the people, there will be plenty of time later for political campaigns to convince the electorate who will always be the judge via your service.
May I quote you?
“Afterall, the Democrats waited and planned for eight years after the “Stolen Presidency” which unleashed and forstered eight years of BUSH DISASTER that led us into this RECESSION.”
Sounds like you and your fellow Democrats have been the “worst losers” that I have ever seen. I bet you moaned and complained the whole eight years too!
You may be interested in the top five of a new Harris poll on the choices for America’s heroes. Now your guy is #1, but it is the rest of the list that gets interesting: Jesus (my guy), Martin Luther King (who was a Republican), Ronald Reagan (need I say more?), and # 5 – George W. Bush!
Doesn’t sound like a disastrous eight years to me. Oh, and by the way – things didn’t get bad until the democrats took over in 2006.
Jim, I don’t think those are generalities. Those are the economic trends as evidenced in the top reaping high rewards and the middle getting cut into. The middle makes this country run. It’s resulted in 50K jobs being lost a day. If we don’t do something in the way of stimulating the economy, the downward spiral will only continue.
A free market is good, but globalism and too free trade, not fair trade, is now hurting this country bc it is putting the few ahead of the nation.
The question is not whether we need to stimulate the economy – it’s how.
Spending has never worked. Obama’s plan is a loser right from the beginning. Plus, with all the outrageous pork – it’s a joke.
Your idea of fair trade is never fair. It’s just a few deciding in a managed economy, the few who decides who gets what. In a free economy – the many decide. It’s small business that hires the largest number of people in this country, and creates jobs at a much smaller cost than the government.
Since Obama has been elected, the stock market has lost 25% of it’s value.
Now that’s what I call the Obama effect.
Well there we agree, stimulate the economy. But how does the right think we should do that? By cutting corporate taxes and hope for the best? By turning a blind eye to regulation and make the every man pay for the shenanigans? By continuing a war that we were told would take weeks and would pay for itself a trillion dollars later? By cutting the rich taxes which we were told would also pay for itself but left us far short on domestic priorities? None of that has panned out. It’s all lead to where we are today. Do we keep doing the same things that got us here in the first place?
Fair trade means looking out for America, it has nothing to do with the few. In other parts of the world they slap tariffs on our cars and the nations are involved with making it a success. They will not allow it not to be profitable to their country. We don’t do that in the name of phony crony capitalism and free trade.
Hey Troy!
You are repeating yourself. By cutting corporate taxes (I am including small business here) will free monies to reinvest in new jobs. This is simple business 101 here. By raising the tax on small business, unemployment will grow.
Your concern is the evil corporate mongers – terrorists are our enemies, not business. Business creates jobs! Of course there are folks that are corrupt, but that’s the exception.
If you want shenanigans – look at the Stimulus Bill! This is corruption in
action, right before our very eyes. What about the shenanigans of the democrats in congress?
The important ting is to cut taxes for everybody – which was what George Bush accomplished. Remember that 40% of Americans do not pay taxes. The top 5% already pay a majority of the taxes in this country.
Again, you are not addressing this – spending your way out of the recession has never worked. Obama is leading us down a path of failure.
As for trade – tariffs will start an economic war with our trading partners. This was done in the 30’s, and it deepened the Great Depression.
The free markets and capitalism have created the greatest economy in world history. Again, socialism and communism are failed philosophies. Let them rot!
You are correct Jim. Freedom of and by the people in the form of capitalism (the free market system)works…Socialism and it’s big brother(next step) communism has always failed and always will…
socialism is the future get on the bus or get thrown under it!
Oh, the joy when we experience tolerance and understanding from others; especially from liberals, progressives, and socialists!
Hmmm, “socialism is the future get on the bus or get thrown under it?” How about NO!!!
You are totally on the mark. I spent 6 years in a missions project in Kenya (captialist) 20 miles from Tanzania (socialist) in the 1980’s 15 years after independence. Nyere was a committed Christian who loved his people and thought socialism was the best way to help them. This completely failed and the Tanzanians were in our village all the time voting with their feet. May I copy some of your articles to email to some liberal Christians I know who need to hear this?
Leon
Hey Leon!
Thank you for your insightful comment – and sharing your experience. There is a socialist movement in our country right now, and it’s quite an experience watching folks runs towards failure.
Please share with your friends!
Socialists…You know, if y’all want to go live on a commune and live according to Socialist principles, awesome! Go out there and do that. Plenty of people have done it before. But why o why do you have to force the rest of us to follow your silly nonsensical system? Can’t you just leave those of us who love liberty alone? If y’all screw up America, where are we going to go?
In short, why do you hate freedom so much?
Thank you forspeaking out! This country is being lead astray by students of Sol Alinsky (spelling ?) These people are poison to the American way of life and must be exposed for who they are. The TEA PARTY PROTESTS must continue. The Liberal media must be defeated. Their loser ideology is costing them dearly. The Washington Post, LA Times, New York Times and all the rest are suffering severe financial losses.
Obama is a great speaker but has not a clue. We are headed for another Jimmy Carter era. The TEA PARTY PROTESTS will defeat them. People must be educated our country must be awakened to the truth! And it will be! I personally want to know when and where these TEA PARTY PROTESRS are being held. signed Larry
Uh, Jim – when a state government hires a private-sector construction company to build a bridge, is that a “government job?” When the Federal government hires an IT firm to work on electronic document workflow for Medicare, is that a “government job?” Just curious how you come up with your conclusion that all the jobs created by the stimulus package are “government jobs.”
What a typical liberal comment. Take one small comment made out of this entire article and argue about it. For once can you people look at the big picture. This article is about the dangers that YOU and the rest of us are about to face. Maybe you should re-read this learn a little more information about what is going on in our government right now.
If there are enough people who have learned to value the struggle for freedom from the time of serfdom in the dark ages, which manifest itself throughout the Renasance and culminated in the establishment of the inspired documents of the Constitution and Bill of Rights which guarantee personal liberty eminating from Diety, not the state–freedom never before known in recorded history, then we have a chance to save the constitution, the bill of rights and preserve freedom and the pursuit of happiness.
The constitution has “hung by a thread” for decades. The constitution was “written for a moral” people as attested to by John Adams. It was written for people who honor and preserve the institution of mariage, and honor the values set forth in the Ten Commandments. Only a return to these time tested moral values will guarantee that our children and grandchildren will live in a free moral society where they can exercise their God given individual free agency!
Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid and Public Education.. Yeah, we can depend on the Government to lead us. Everything our brilliant politicians touch turns to rust. Get out of our lives and America will be fine.
This is a letter I wrote to my family the day after the election, I did not send it…………..
Nov. 5th 2008
“All Hail King Obama!”
If you’re reading this then all my worst fears have come to fruition and I feel compelled to share them with you a few predictions about our future. For the last eight years I have been the conservative “Black Sheep ” of the family to the point where we and I don’t discuss politics, I’ve been told me they loved me in spite of my evil conservative values and weI don’t waste our short times together by discussing politics at all. Eight years is significant in that it marks the end of my drinking days. It’s amazing how alcohol will blanket you in a shroud of ambivalence and ignorance for the world around you. With sobriety came a sense of awareness that I had not noticed before and a curiosity as to my own core beliefs.
* I believe that America is the greatest nation on earth and has done more for the rest of the world than any other country in the history of mankind. I believe we have made mistakes but the good has far outweighed the bad.
* I believe the Founding Fathers created a masterpiece in the “Constitution” and did not intend for it to be a living document that could be amended on a whim. I also believe they fully intended for “God” to be part of the public discourse and “Separation of Church and State” was totally miss-interpreted fifty years ago to suit liberal agendas. Although I am not a religious man , one only has to look at the decay in morality that has taken place in this country.
* I believe that “Capitalism” is the engine that has driven this country to success. Free enterprise has solved more problems for this country and the world than government could hope for. Would someone please tell me of any government program that has ever been a success!
* I believe Socialism has failed every time it’s been tried and always will! Obama’s rhetorical line of, ‘”…we need to build the economy from the bottom up…”, is patently absurd! If this were the case then perhaps my Wife and I should give our 9 year old daughter 70% of our income and Hope for prosperity! The political pendulum swings left and right in this country and its obvious we are currently going through a leftward swing. Other countries that have adopted socialist policies in the past are now swinging to the right, ie. Canada, France and Germany.
It has been a true spectacle to observe Obama’s elevation to power. The “putrid stench” of the media’s bias and neglect has been palpible. Be that as it may we’ve elected what history will show as the most inexperienced, unqualified, divisive and unapologetically liberal president we could have possibly chosen. The King and his Court, consisting of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and God knows who in his cabinet, will bring “Real Change” to the people. I’ve taken the liberty of listing some changes I foresee in the next four years and I ask you to please hang on to this list and review it on New Year’s day each year to see how accurate I may or may not have been.
1. Your tax burden will go up! Regardless of what you make you will pay higher taxes.
2. I believe we will see double-digit unemployment by 2010.
3. I believe the “Fairness Doctrine” will be enacted and Free Speech as we know it will be gone.
4. I believe gasoline prices will go higher than $6.00 a gallon by 2011.
5. I believe the inflation rate will be in the double digits by 2011.
6. I believe Joe Biden when he predicted that Obama would be tested by a terrorist attack within 6 months of his inauguration.
7. I think that within nine months a whole lot of people will be dis-illusioned with all the promises they thought Obama made and a whole lot of people will be totally disappointed when they realize how much worse off they are. I’ll call this ” Barack Shock”.
8. I believe interest rates will be in the double digit range by 2011.
9. I believe the media will downplay negative news and I totally expect George Bush will still be blamed for everything!
I honestly hope my predictions are wrong, but I’m not going to hold my breath. If time proves me wrong I will gladly vote for Obama in 2012. I have also promised myself that regardless how bad a President Obama proves to be I will not resort to the mean, hateful, vitriolic rage that has been bestowed on George Bush for the last eight years. I did vote for George Bush twice and he made a lot of decisions I did not agree with. I also feel he is a descent man and did not deserve the pure hatred displayed in this country by the “Media” , Hollywood and liberals in general. As an American I will respect Barack Obama and the office of the President. I will undoubtedly disagree with some if not all of his policies, and when I do it will be with civility and respect.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
Gerald R. Ford
It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
Thomas Sowell
I am simply astounded that people in the US continue to paint Obama as a far left socialist. It makes me wonder that they cannot see the difference between the real far left and the moderate move back to the middle that appears to be proposed by the Obama regime
The reason the Soviet Union collapsed is that the Communist Ideologues refused to see the reality around them. They saw the corruption and greet of the Capitalists without being prepared to recognise the real success that existed within that system. They kept telling themselves and each other that their system actually worked well when it was failing all around them.
Now we have the failure of American capitalism, and a similar mindset that after the financial disaster that unrestrained free market policies under George Bush has bought. The sad facts are these. People are people. There are good people who did good things in the communist system and good people who did good things in the capitalist system but there were also bad, greedy, controlling and just plain nuts people who did harm in both systems.
Scare stories about how the USA is now on the road to Socialist hell are as hollow as the old Communists scare stories about how their workers paradise would be ruined by allowing a little free enterprise.
Enough slogans, both extremes have failed and failed big (check out IOUSA the movie) It is time for the sensible middle ground.
I thought we lost our most important freedoms with The Patriot Act. You know the founding fathers wouldn’t of been such big of pussies to let a little incident (yeah I said it little and I’m a liberal) like 9/11 allow the christian conservative leader stip us of our right to privacy. OH’ you ask what do I have to hide. Maybe organizing an overthrow of the goverment for starters. Give the man a chance. This stuff didn’t begin in january.
What does this have to do with helping the poor? This is classic redirection – point to something else instead of the issues at hand.
Liberals have a hard time dealing with issues, and the facts that go along with it.
We live in a world of two powerful institutions–government and corporations.
Goverment flies our flag, is responsible for the freedom, security and welfare of all Americans, and is answerable, through elections and the redress of grievances, to its citizens. It is whatever the people make it. Corporations have no national loyalty, are authoritarian by design, are only interested in making money, and are answerable only to their executives.
Absent a third alternative, those who revile and reject government (the state) are accepting domination by any bunch of Chinese capitalists, Russian oligarchs and Saudi princegs who, establishing a corporation in the Cayman Islands, instantly become the free market heroes of the the idiot American rightwing. You might have noticed that it has been under conservative administrations that this country has gone into hock with those who they once called our worst enemie