The Common Sense Politics Blog welcomes FB Adams as our newest contributor this week. Take it away, FB!
I haven’t written much lately as I have been doing a lot of reading, attending to business and trying to work on a book.
But I do keep reading and paying attention to current events in Des Moines and Washington, and the outlook is grim – things look worse for America and the economy with each passing day.
The Scott Brown blip on the political radar, while huge, seems to be losing its luster as we learn that Brown may be just another RINO Republican, ready to sell out conservative ideas in the name of compromise.
What we all know is that with the impending implosion of the economy now is not the time to compromise with those bent on the destruction of America and its economy.
The national mood exhibits a sense that nothing will save us short of a complete restructuring away from socialism – no more social programs, no more government support of classes of people who refuse to become educated, productive citizens, and no more supporting the rest of the world that stands against our way of life but believe that America owes them a debt.
With free trade we have provided jobs for the rest of the world, work that has raised their standard of living beyond any history has ever envisioned. And when disasters strike America is always there alleviating pain and suffering.
When people suffer under tyrants or barbaric religious regimes our government has entered the fray to protect the weak and powerless, often having our hands bitten by the perishing we have rescued from the clutches of a murderous religious system and its prophet of death.
In the case of Haiti, a land of tragic human suffering largely due to its satanically corrupt form of government and its apparent lack of national character to demand right governance, America was portrayed in some foreign capitals as trying to take over the country after its devastating natural disaster. The base moral character of Haiti’s people over the past 200 years is of course off limits for discussion because it is insensitive to point out historical signposts that have led to Haiti’s being one of the poorest countries in the world.
Closer to home we observe daily an underclass that remains content to perpetuate generations of welfare mentality, living off the productivity of others and brassily demanding that another class provide them a living as reparation for a myriad real and perceived past infractions.
They are the people who line up in Detroit to get their share of “Obama money” without understanding or caring that all government largess is at the expense of some other who was taxed on their hard work. The same underclass finds it somehow “repressive” to step onto a path toward education, to eschew destructive social lifestyles, and to delay gratification of normal desires and passions.
For nearly a century, especially since the time of Woodrow Wilson, America has flirted with, danced around, and finally embraced a philosophy of social government that runs diametrically opposed to the free-market capitalism our founders envisioned when they implemented limited, small government less intrusive by magnitudes than the current monster that has evolved.
It is instructive that three facets of current government more than any other act as a hydra strangling our prosperity:
- A political class who believe themselves entitled to careers in government, instead of citizen representatives doing a job and then going home to obscurity;
- An evolved system of rules, regulations and laws so byzantine as to impose almost insurmountable costs on productivity such that vast segments of our national production have been outsourced to business climates more favorable to profitability; and,
- The development in government of a paternalism that attempts to convince the citizenry it has a responsibility to equalize outcomes by redistribution of resources and wealth.
These three impediments to national growth and prosperity, coupled with an unhealthy tendency to become entangled in outside alliances, problems and wars have worked to bankrupt the national treasury.
In fact, current fiscal spending policies along with overwhelming unfunded mandates have converged in a perfect storm to produce a debt so monstrously large as to be mathematically impossible to repay short of printing money out of thin air and devaluing productivity while inflating prices.
When that time of reckoning the unsustainable debt dawns upon ordinary citizens the subsequent pain and suffering will release social pressures the like which we have only seen in collapsing societies – lawlessness, violence, death, and collapse of social constraints, a time of great tribulation if you will.
Given these observations, verifiable daily by observing the staggering rise of unemployment figures, the wildly fluctuating currency and stock markets, and the political storms that rack our capitals propelling our representatives into ever heightened spending frenzies, what should be an American’s response?
Is it time for any of us to begin a withdrawal from the current system and enter a survivalist mode whereby we can preserve founding principles that once lofted this country to levels of safety and prosperity hithertofore never dreamed of in human history?
Or do we continue to delude our collective selves into believing that the current system is somehow salvageable with a bit of tweaking here and there as we limp into obscurity as yet another relic of civilization joining countless others in the dusty annals of history?
Unless we are willing to act to drastically alter our present course, America cannot survive in its present crisis. We have a rapidly closing window of opportunity to undertake such a monumental task to save a patient that cannot recover absent major surgery.
ROLL BACK GOVERNMENT NOW!
American Conservative Endeavor
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Frank, I’m curious as to what “drastic action” do you see?
I see a rousing turnout of anti-constitutional representatives in favor of new people who have come to the understanding that we can no longer do business as usual in Des Moines and Washington. Furthermore, in light of the fact that by 2020 entitlement programs will consume 80% of the national budget (the top three are social security, medicare, and interest on the national debt) we will have to forego them, or else every taxpayer will fork over 95% or higher in taxes (if we do the math it is frightening).
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