Eating America's Seed Corn

Townhall.com ^ | August 23, 2012 | Victor Davis Hanson

[econjack]

This guy is the dumbest president we've ever had. If he's serious about gas prices, he should issue an Executive Order and simply say: "Both off shore and deep water drilling are reinstated and the permitting process will not take longer than 60 days. Also, ANWAR is now available for lease. Have a nice day."

And to those idiots who say: "It will be 10 years before any of those changes affect price", I say BS. Just the announcement would cause the spot price of oil to crater. Nope...this guy doesn't give a damn about America.

[Flintlock]

Real AMERICANS are willing to do what’s needed.

The Muslim ANTI-American Kenyan POTUS and his tribe want to bring us down to 3rd world status.
So far, they are doing a very good job of it.

How’s that there hope ‘n change stuff workin for ya?

[Flintlock]

Stupidity has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with it.

Barry’s tribe has been planning this destruction for DECADES. It has been very well thought out, FUNDED, and SOLD by experts.

[SpaceBar]

You need to reevaluate your definition of “dumb”. Obama and company have been the most successful criminal enterprise in recent history. They have single handedly brought this country to its knees economically, looted the treasury of trillions, run roughshod over the law with absolute impunity, and mobilized an army of brain dead morons as their shock troops. We are the fools, not them.

[txrefugee]

The Greatest Generation started the gravy train rolling by voting for politicians who promised them they could live forever on their grandchildrens’ dime. The Boomer Gerneration eclipsed them by putting their every spending whim on credit cards and saving nothing for the future. The ones holding the bag are the Gen Xers and their children, if they have any. Many will never marry and will have video games and dogs.

When its citizens decided everyone could charge the future to someone else’s credit card, the USA began its decline.

[SERKIT]

When the tax rate exceeds the profit margin, who should really be deamonized? The ‘profiteers’ (any American or pensioner who is a stock-holder) or the confiscatory tax collectors who over-regulate, and spend more than they take in?

[spodefly]

BTTT

[khelus]

Stupidity has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with it.

Barry’s tribe has been planning this destruction for DECADES. It has been very well thought out, FUNDED, and SOLD by experts.

Excellent point. Many are unaware how long the enemy within has been at it. Zero is just the icing on the cake.

[conservativesister]

I don’t know what Victor Davis Hanson was drinking before he wrote this article, but it’s obvious this is the worst article he has ever written.

Maybe he was smoking SEED CORN!

He should take a trip to a Seed Corn Farm and just see what goes on it’s totally different from any other type of farming, maybe he would get an idea!

[X-spurt]

Jeez..... ever hear of the term metaphor?

[Starstruck]

And to those idiots who say: "It will be 10 years before any of those changes affect price", I say BS

They were saying the same thing 10, 20, 30 years ago and will 10, 20, 30 years from now. Nothing gets fixed because these guys can't see pass the next election. Same with SS, medicaid, medicare etc.

[conservativesister]

JEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ, ever hear of an opinion!@

[Carry_Okie]

When its citizens decided everyone could charge the future to someone else’s credit card, the USA began its decline.

When Brokaw deemed the Rossevelt era generation as "the Greatest Generation" he was implying that it would all go downhill from there, as intended. These were the first suckers to buy into socialism, lock, stock, and barrel. Their Social Security will go untouched.

Hanson is wrong here: GenXers won't be the first to bear the brunt of the entitlement collapse; the boomers will get screwed first.

[loveliberty2]

Thanks!

Any person who grew up on a small farm in Depression-era days or later understands their grandfather's cautions about not "eating the seed corn" as a means of assuring future food for the family.

Fast forward to post-WWII America and beyond.

Using the "seed corn" analogy, citizens needed to focus on preserving the kind of environment which would assure and secure the ability of their manufacturing sector to thrive, innovate, produce and compete, and grow into the 21st Century.

The "seed corn" of that future for their posterity was the foundation of freedom, rule of law, Constitutional protections, and the profitability of their industries.

Previous generations understood that in the American system of freedom of individual enterprise, "profits" (not "seed corn") constitute the "engine" that fuels growth, opportunity, and jobs.

Along the way, however, the blessed Americans, who had come through a World War, began to allow a determined, and so-called "progressive" movement to "change" and "transform" their "People's government" from an instrument for preserving "peace, liberty, and safety" (Jefferson's First Inaugural) into a tyrannical tool to "take" from them, all in the name of "helping" them.

The word "profits" became, in that tyrannical political setting, a perjorative--a word which denoted something sinister and to be disdained.

So it was that, gradually, the real engine which had fueled the prosperity and plenty America was known for, began to sputter. The things which should have been going up, were going down, and the things which should have been going down, were going up.

In other words, the "seed corn," along with the savings of previous years, began to disable the economy. As the "redistributionist" prophets preached their failed doctrines, they doubled down on the "taking" and "redistributing" until, today, America's light of liberty and freedom of individual enterprise are not even understood among those who need it most.

"Seed corn" may be an old and unfamiliar analogy, but "profits" should be reconsidered as a beautiful and desirable word as the only means to restore creation of wealth and prosperity.

The following cartoon, published in the 1980's, illustrates the consequences of the foolish and dangerous policies of so-called "progressives." Too bad Americans weren't heeding the cautions of Texan Eddie Childs and other business leaders of that time! Talk about "seed corn"! This hog is eating everything in sight!!

[loveliberty2]

"In other words, the "seed corn," along with the savings of previous years, began to disable the economy. As the "redistributionist" prophets preached their failed doctrines, they doubled down on the "taking" and "redistributing" until, today, America's light of liberty and freedom of individual enterprise are not even understood among those who need it most."

Ooops! Sorry, that paragraph should have begun: "In other words, using up the "seed corn," . . . ."

[X-spurt]

Opinion? As a writer, don’t quit your day job.

[conservativesister]

so what you are saying is I’m sub human and not entitled to an opinion? or not entitled to be an American with an opinon?
Hope you don’t talk down to your family like this!
Have you ever even seen a seed farm? Bet not!

[X-spurt]

Might be good to defuse that high BP and reread last post. Lots of imagination to come up with your reply.

Matter of fact I have been on a seed farm south of Santiago, Chile. They produce seed sweet corn for US farmers. By the way you are on a big circular detour taking “seed corn” in the article, literally.

[X-spurt]

Might be good to defuse that high BP and reread last post. Lots of imagination to come up with your reply.

Matter of fact I have been on a seed farm south of Santiago, Chile. They produce seed sweet corn for US farmers. By the way you are on a big circular detour taking “seed corn” in the article, literally.