A New Vision for America
Too often, we find ourselves opposing government takeovers, bailouts and new agencies in the complete absence of something to fight for. If anything, this only becomes destructive – not constructive. Having considered this, it’s clear to me where our problem lies. There’s a need for a positive vision. With that said, I’m pleased to announce an answer for this need.
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1Far too many Americans have been, after now over 40-years of indoctrination by “Social Progressives”, totally brainwashed into believing Government is now something it was never, EVER intended to be: A Nanny State force that will “Provide for the public welfare” in a sense not meant by that phrase in our founding documents. From cradle to grave, these “Programs” dictate every action by the people. Now, one generation of couch potatos produces another in many areas of the nation. Schools are used to distribute food instead of just educating. A successful “Disability Determination” is synonymous with hitting the jackpot for “Supplemental Security Benefits”, paid for from social security funds never paid for by the “Social Services Clients.” (You should hear these people. “My AGENT (caseworker) says…..”. What are these people, million-dollar sports athletes?). Progressives want to provide housing, food, “education” (indoctrination), healthcare, “retirement benefits” (Retiring from WHAT?) and with all the rules attached will dictate what you can and cannot do. Now, under their control, you can justly be called “Citizens of the State.” I have two other words to describe people who’s every need is provided while incrementally their freedoms are taken away. One is PRISONER and the other is SLAVE. Make no mistake about it, justas with a prisoner or slave, progressives want to take away your right to free speech, your right to defend yourself, and your right to oppose “The evil party of self-reliance and personal responsibility.” We can’t have market forces determine what kind of car you drive. You will drive the tin box or we will tax away your ability to afford a decent safe car, and the fuel to power it. But we’ll let welfare recipients drive Cadillacs; that seems to be part of the package. They don’t pay taxes. They’re exempt. You will not be allowed to escape our grip. If you earn too much, we will take it away in the interest of “fairness”. (And you thought Robin Hood was a fairy tale). You will pay for healthcare even if you’re wealthy enough not to need it, or don’t want it. The good news is that with the advent of the internet people can no longer be “kept in the dark” about what these progressives are really doing, and people are realizing that, through networking and by attending rally’s, they aren’t alone; there are more of “us” then they thought. (Didn’t see that internet thingy coming, did they?). The progressives grip on “News” and “Education” is now having shined upon it the light of day, and the cockroaches are running for cover in every recent election. The cockroach races are only beginning. The Cockroach Olympics ramp up in 2010 and 2012.
2“Progress into entropy” posted at 6:45 pm on February 22, 2010 by PJM website-Doctor Zero
3In his keynote speech at CPAC, Glenn Beck invested an intriguing amount of effort in identifying “progressives” as the danger facing America. He criticized both Republicans and Democrats for accepting these dangerous progressive ideas. Writing on his Web site, Beck says:
The progressive idea of a big, bloated government has infected both parties. In a survey, 80 percent said “the main thing that influences what members of Congress do in office” is either “personal self-interest” or “special interests.”
But it’s not just Congress; state governments are doing it too. There are 21 states who currently have under-funded pensions and entitlements. And, even if you’re in a “safe zone,” it doesn’t mean you’re safe.
Politicians don’t think the rules apply to them. They only think about getting themselves re-elected. They’ve run through the boundaries of the Constitution.
And what about us? We think we are entitled: This is America! We deserve it! But, just like Tiger Woods said, we were wrong. It’s got to stop. And it starts with us. And that’s what the president needs to tell the American people.
Washington needs to stop the spending, yes, but you have to make sacrifices too. I just mentioned the pensions. In what world does it make sense to continue to promise funding a system where this routinely happens.
It’s interesting to see the progressive label applied to the Left in a negative way. They often like to use the term for themselves as a compliment, flattering their intellectual vanity by praising themselves for looking forward, and following the inevitable flow of history. Beck might be waiting to pounce with the checkered history of the early 20th-century Progressive movement, including their infatuation with eugenics, if the Left responds to his CPAC speech by claiming they’re proud to wear the “progressive” mantle. I hope I don’t spoil his fun by discussing it now, but it’s a topic that has interested me for a long time. Safely navigating the end of the New Deal calls for an understanding of how it began… and why it was always doomed to end this way.
The great intellectual obsession of the early 20th century was the belief that scientific methods could be used to design a superior society. This is, without question, the most deadly and tragic falsehood the human race has ever talked itself into believing. Untold poverty, tyranny, murder, and warfare have resulted from it. From the perspective of the next century, it’s not hard to see why. After a society is designed, it must be constructed, and human beings suffer beneath the application of hammers and nails.
Every theory of social design – from fascism and communism, to the elitist grab bag of Progressivism, and the command economics rotting away the wealth of America and the West today – requires force to implement its programs. All of these designs assumed a powerful central State, a concept that seemed as natural and reasonable to the academics of the 1920s as the notion that a ship must have a helm. Nourished by the intellectual energy of collectivist thinkers, these growing States quickly realized they would have to compel obedience to their designs, because a substantial number of their citizens would never comply willingly. How many modern Americans would be happy to mail checks to the government, specifically to pay their share of TARP, the “stimulus” bill, or union subsidies?
These programs are advanced forms of the same cancer that produced Italian and German industrial policies in the 20s and 30s. In each case, a supposedly brilliant group of central planners set about imposing their theories and emotional preferences upon a populace that was required to trust them.
When the modern American Left identifies itself as “progressive,” it’s saying that a massive, growing government is our inevitable destiny – progress is measured solely by the growth of government power, and the only way to “care” about a social issue is to throw tax money at it. In reality, this is progress toward entropy, a system doomed to starve itself to death. As Glenn Beck puts it, after quoting the new Republican governor of New Jersey on the lucrative pension plans of state employees:
You pay $124,000 into the system and get $3.8 million out of the system? Forget about “fair,” how is that sustainable? It can’t last.
We expect it. We assume big government will be there for us every step of the way.
Well, I hate to be the Friday buzz-kill, but it’s not always going to be there. America has been recklessly spending in the last few decades and it’s catching up to us rapidly.
Now, we’ve got a choice to make: Do we choose the fundamentally transform America to a Marxist, spread the wealth, cradle to grave nanny state? Where no one gets a boo-boo? And, as we have seen in country after country, is only sustainable through the barrel of a gun? Or do we come to our senses and realize that spending and taxing kills business? And stop with the pensions that literally pay out 30 times what we put into them!
The reason Big Government is unsustainable is that it really only has one coin to spend: compulsion. All of its resources are gained by extracting them from the citizens who produce them. The federal government doesn’t really spend money; it forces citizens to do so. Compulsion suffers from the law of diminishing returns – the more it’s used, the less value it can appropriate. In a relatively free society, clear and simple laws can generate enormous resources for the State. Here at the twilight of the New Deal, the acolytes of Big Government are reduced to proposing thousand-page bills that will regulate what kind of light bulbs you can use, or levy fines for failing to purchase government-approved health insurance.
Each of these increasingly desperate power grabs reduces the overall wealth of society, because wealth is a function of choice. It is only generated by free men. The slaves of a totalitarian State may be able to generate subsistence, but they don’t produce a significant amount of wealth. The more freedom government takes from its citizens, the weaker they become, dramatically worsening the problems a supposedly compassionate, progressive State claims it can solve.
You can read an example of this in the New York Times piece on the millions of people who might remain out of work for years to come. The Times tries to pin this on “institutional investors who crave swift profits,” and amazingly blames “the declining influence of unions” for making it “easier for employers to shift work to part-time and temporary employees.” Ah, yes, if only we had larger and more powerful labor unions, demanding unsustainable benefits and work contracts for everyone, and siphoning huge amounts of corporate cash into the pockets of union leadership. Employment would skyrocket! If only all businesses could produce a quality product… like the public schools, whose union workers won’t put in an extra half hour a day to resolve a crisis!
Progressives have no ideas beyond increasing State power, so their ideology is unable to cope with the dynamics of a vast economy. Look at the absurd Thomas Friedman, blubbering that “we’ve gone from the age of government handouts to the age of citizen givebacks,” and quoting a Johns Hopkins foreign-policy expert who says “the great task of government and leadership is going to be about taking things away from people.” Wrong. The great task of a resurgent America is taking things away from the government, and the intellectually bankrupt Left.
We will soon begin correcting the tragic error of progressive thought. Their “nation-building” days are over. A nation of free men and women builds its own future, with innovation and energy beyond the comprehension of a Left devoted to the belief that progress only runs in one direction: down into the ruin of a titanic, collapsing State. The current President offers himself as a hospice nurse, armed with fabulously expensive drugs that can ease the pain of a dying nation. His successor will be required to perform that service for a morbidly obese government that never should have been allowed to gorge itself on our liberty until its heart gave out.
A Constitutional Monarchy with a parliamentary system. This is the direction that our government needs to move. The 2 party system is a dead weight failure which has been proven time and time again. Americans are demanding change and the fact that the 2 party system is a flat out joke is more and more obvious every day.
4Me and Ray Hackett are locking horns again. I wanted to point to that blog entry here that caught the Bulletin red-handed changing a story to benifit Courtney.
It was the story about Joe Coutney’s town hall meeting and the blogger noticed the online version was changed.
The change was the characterization of the unfriendly crowd to something more nutral if I remember correctly.
Can you provde me a link or is that gone?
Thanks, John
johnray67@hotmail.com
5Thanks for the email rich.
Just awesome. Caught them red-handed.
Great Call!
For the record:
Here is link #1
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/x560172693/Courtney-faces-critics-attempts-to-ease-fears-in-health-care-forum
link #2
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/lifestyles/health/x724315810/Courtney-faces-public-on-health-care-reform
second paragraph, first sentence
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