We Need the Conservative Balance NOW!!
I fear The United States is losing it's conservative voice. This tends to happen during economic crisis. If one goes back in history you will find that people get scared,they look for a strong leader and they tend to surrender their rights for the promise of a better life. Usually, that leader is promising that by increasing the leader's power this increased power will enable him/her to make their lives better, (sounds fishy?). In the United States I am fearing we are going to watch yet another increase in the Federal Government.
Americans have to wake up. Before they know it, they will not recognize their own country. The promises sound great when you are scared and hurting but please think of what you are giving up to get your so called security. The United States is truly far from a capitalist society, we already have many government regulations on the market but we are heading more and more towards socialism.
Socialism is an economic system that aspires to the idea that the government should have partial or full control of production and distribution of goods. This is a step towards the political system, called communism. The idea behind communism which never came to fruition was that everyone would be 'equal'. It never played out that way and led to a totalitarian government, which failed.
Unfortunately, the idea of taking from the rich and giving to the poor always sounds great when economic struggle has hit the country. It also sounds great to the people that the government needs to control health care when the people are down and out. Quite frankly, those two ideas fall under socialism. There is no other way to slice it people. Call it what it is and move on. If that is what you believe then state it but truly think about it. I always ask "So, if you start making $250k you have no problem moving up in the higher tax bracket?" Blank stare. See, people don't like it when you put them in the tax bracket and what happens when the government decides 100k or 75k is a lot? Yikes, now more are in the tax bracket of giving back.
This is not the first time our country has been down these roads. But we seem to never learn. It has been researched and quite frankly pretty much established that FDR's New Deal programs did not pull us out of the depression (those programs were all government sponsored programs to put Americans to work or get money into their hands). Americans loved FDR because he was a strong leader seen as trying to 'save' them. But, it also was realized at this time it was needed to put a term limit on the Presidency. Why? Because it was realized we could actually give one person too much power for too long. Not to mention many other things FDR did to increase the executive branch (not the only President, by no means to do this) BALANCE is important. The changing of the guard is important. The BALANCE is missing. People are scared. They want the government to fix it, they will surrender to the government because the 'promise' sounds good. I beg you, remember what we stand for. Individual rights. If we allow the government to choose to take from one group to give to another group what prevents them from stepping on other individual rights. THINK. Do not surrender your power to the government. It is hard to get it back.
We need to increase business incentives, put people back to work and encourage proper individual spending. Individuals need to stop blaming everyone else for their problems and start working to fix their own situation. This sense of entitlement has got to change.
Americans have to wake up. Before they know it, they will not recognize their own country. The promises sound great when you are scared and hurting but please think of what you are giving up to get your so called security. The United States is truly far from a capitalist society, we already have many government regulations on the market but we are heading more and more towards socialism.
Socialism is an economic system that aspires to the idea that the government should have partial or full control of production and distribution of goods. This is a step towards the political system, called communism. The idea behind communism which never came to fruition was that everyone would be 'equal'. It never played out that way and led to a totalitarian government, which failed.
Unfortunately, the idea of taking from the rich and giving to the poor always sounds great when economic struggle has hit the country. It also sounds great to the people that the government needs to control health care when the people are down and out. Quite frankly, those two ideas fall under socialism. There is no other way to slice it people. Call it what it is and move on. If that is what you believe then state it but truly think about it. I always ask "So, if you start making $250k you have no problem moving up in the higher tax bracket?" Blank stare. See, people don't like it when you put them in the tax bracket and what happens when the government decides 100k or 75k is a lot? Yikes, now more are in the tax bracket of giving back.
This is not the first time our country has been down these roads. But we seem to never learn. It has been researched and quite frankly pretty much established that FDR's New Deal programs did not pull us out of the depression (those programs were all government sponsored programs to put Americans to work or get money into their hands). Americans loved FDR because he was a strong leader seen as trying to 'save' them. But, it also was realized at this time it was needed to put a term limit on the Presidency. Why? Because it was realized we could actually give one person too much power for too long. Not to mention many other things FDR did to increase the executive branch (not the only President, by no means to do this) BALANCE is important. The changing of the guard is important. The BALANCE is missing. People are scared. They want the government to fix it, they will surrender to the government because the 'promise' sounds good. I beg you, remember what we stand for. Individual rights. If we allow the government to choose to take from one group to give to another group what prevents them from stepping on other individual rights. THINK. Do not surrender your power to the government. It is hard to get it back.
We need to increase business incentives, put people back to work and encourage proper individual spending. Individuals need to stop blaming everyone else for their problems and start working to fix their own situation. This sense of entitlement has got to change.
posted by Lucy at
3:39 PM
5 Comments:
FDR made a lot of very poor choices. I've actually been meaning to post about them. His only successes were (1) his foreign policy and (2) buffing up the economic reforms Hoover already put in place. Everything else was trying to get around the constitution -including his stacking of the supreme court (which saw all his moves as violations of liberty) and hijacking the bill of rights to include positive liberties.
In times of economic hardship people tend to give socialism more credence than it deserves. This is why McCarthy was able to somewhat truthfully pronounce he had in his shirt pocket the names of so many senators who were card-carrying members of the US Communist party (!). It was because they were into the communist fad during the 1930's. What ultimately killed communism was the success of capitalism. Marx envisioned industrialized nations to bear his fruits, but they never did because they became too prosperous from their industry to care. People started depending on hand outs (the modern equivalent of the bread and circuses of Roman yore) and the prosperity decreased and socialism looked more attractive.
The inside commies all know capitalism is the only way to improve a nation economically. This was the core of Stalin's NEP and it was Castro's admission last year that the government had to privatize to increase jobs (which worked -and the government "absorbed" those jobs soon thereafter).
Anyway, a lot of good things going on there. I fear we are only understanding these things in broad strokes and not in depth. I'm glad we have a politically saavy person on the team like you, Lucy.
Thanks for adding much needed information to what I was trying to get across!
The conservatives have to keep their voice during these times!
Hi Lucy,
People have no problem in naming CEO's as greedy but poor people often suffer from that same sin. When a politician starts promising to take money from the rich and give it to the poor, they are playing on the weakness of greed in people who have less than a few others have. That's why socialism and communism never work, the sin of greed always wins out. That sin can also cause big problems in a capitalistic society as the recent crash that is taking place in the world economy but in our country in particular. This sin took hold in government programs touted as helping the down trodden and ended with everyone involved in real estate and finance trying to get their piece of what seemed to be an ever esculating real estate market.
Our system, as framed by the Constitution, is designed for a moral populous. America was at one time, populated by a majority of people who lived according to Judeo/Christian principles which gave strength to laws also drawn from those same principles. If we want to continue to enjoy a free market, we will, as a people, have to return to those principles that undergird and protect that market from the excesses that threaten to destroy our freedoms now. If we do not have the moral gumption to deal with this crisis through free market guidelines, then we will take the easy road of allowing government to buy into our lives in exchange for not enduring the consequences of our sin, i.e. greed.
There are also some folks who did not participate in this frenzy of fast, easy, money. They stuck to their moral principles and did not loan money to people who could not qualify. The sad part is they are suffering now too and they are doubly injured when those who behaved as criminals are being 'bailed out'. Criminals don't care about selling the rest of us out. We the people who love our freedom above our pocket books and value doing what is right for its own sake, need to call this government intervention what it is. It is not a 'bail out', it is a government buy in and when government gets it fat rear-end in the door and sits down on the couch,we will be unlikely to ever get it to go home.
"Crisis is always an opportunity for government."---Cavuto---
LL
Lady Lavender,
Morals? We are not allowed to talk about morals anymore, it seems to me the U.S. is working hard to wipe out morals from our teachings. I think it is funny how far they take the separation of church and state, the founding fathers never meant it to mean 'wipe out God' from our system and if you don't want to dare use the word God, then morals. And by golly, today no one wants to agree on a yardstick for morals. We have chucked our morals and it is probably part of the reason why we are where we are today.
Lucy,
You probably know that before the sixties, seperation of chruch and state was applied to the state staying out of the church. Only in recent decades has this application been reversed and used to keep religion out of government. I don't want to have a state religion but I do want men and women of good morals in charge of running our country.
I wonder how seperation of church and state will be applied to this new president whom many call 'Messiah'?
LL
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