Posted on 08/27/2003 8:06:08 PM PDT by Lando Lincoln
Hillary's fascist vision for America
James Henry
BrookesNews.Com
Thursday 28 August 2003
Nearly five years ago I wrote of the Clinton's fascist vision for America. The dreadful possibility of Hillary becoming president has forced me to revisit the subject.
The state of American education being what it is, the vast majority of people are totally incapable of recognising a fascist economic program, even when it is used to slap them in the face. This is because they have not been taught that fascism means state direction of the economy, cradle to grave 'social security', complete control of education, government intervention in every nook and cranny of the economy — and the belief that the individual is responsible to the state.
This was Clinton's State of the Union vision, which is why those chowder-heads who call themselves journalists loved it and him. People cannot grasp that fascism is socialism because they have not been taught to distinguish between form and substance. They do not realise that once the state controls everyone's property that property now belongs to the state because control is ownership, no matter who possesses the deeds. In this situation, might is right.
The Clintons' audacious plan to confiscate the earning of Americans so that politicians like themselves (the couple that helped empty the Madison Guaranty in Arkansas) can use these earnings to gradually socialise the economy is a typical statist tactic and one to be expected from the Clintons and their leftist supporters.
This is no exaggeration. Just reflect for a moment on the Clintons' proposal to save social security by investing taxpayers' money in the stock market. By controlling a company's shares the state would come to own the company. It would not even have to control a majority of the shares. It would then dictate where the company would invest, in what it would invest and where it would invest.
This is precisely how Mussolini and Hitler ran their economies. The term for this is central planning.
But America is different, or so our leftwing dominated mainstream media would assert. Does anyone imagine for a moment that the likes of Hillary would hesitate to use that power? The same woman who supported the suppression of the military vote in Florida and used goons to push people around.
Does anyone really believe that the huge bureaucratic machinery Hillary's policies would give birth to would not use its power? (Just think IRS). Business funding for free-market publications, organisations, foundations and think tanks would quickly dry up, leaving the field of ideas completely dominated by the left. Under this scheme — which Hillary is still nursing — investment would have become a function of the state, just as it was in the late Soviet Union.
Politicians and bureaucrats playing at being entrepreneurs with trillions of dollars. That such policies have always resulted in the destruction of liberty, economic collapses and mass poverty would not faze Hillary's Fan Club, particularly if they figured they would get slice of the action. One only has to think of what the Clintons did to Arkansas.
That the Clintons' have only contempt for the mass of Americans was made clear by Bill Clinton's arrogant statement that "We [I love the Royal We] could give [the surpluses] all back to you and hope you spend it right . . . But if you don't spend it right" Social Security are shortfalls are "just 14 years away." Let us dissect this statement. He was literally telling Americans that they were too dumb to know how to spend their own money. (Perhaps his poll ratings gave him that idea).
This is what Adam Smith had to say about bill Clinton's view of the little people:
"It is the highest impertinence and presumption . . . in Kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people . . . Let them look well after their own expense, and they may safely trust private people with theirs. If their own extravagance does not ruin the state, that of their subjects never will."
So what is the Clinton Democrats' solution for a burdensome tax structure? Massive government intervention combined with massive increases — and I mean massive — in government spending.
Don't be fooled by cries of fiscal conservatism, particularly from the likes of Dean, Schumer and Hillary. As Brookes' economics editor, Gerry Jackson, pointed out: "A fiscal conservative is not defined by a belief in balanced budgets but by a responsible approach to spending and taxation. Would we call someone a fiscal conservative who taxed away 80 percent of your income in order to balance the budget?"
If you think Bush has been bad, and he has, just think of what Hillary Clinton would do. She agreed without reservation with her husband when he told the American people they were too stupid to know how to spend their own money. Yet Hillary drools at the thought of profligate proposals that would see trillions wasted on huge government programs. For these ideologues history has no meaning. It certainly is not something they intend to learn from.
Through sheer chutzpah the Democrats have been able to paint Clinton as a responsible economic manager. But if his spending programs had not been blocked by the Republicans they would have consumed not only every penny of the surplus but would have increased federal spending by at least 20 percent. And this would have happened during the boom. Once the inevitable recession hit the economy, as it did, the Clintons' actual deficit would have made Bush's projected deficit look like small change.
Adam Smith surely had the likes of Hillary Clinton in mind when he wrote:
"The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had the folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it."
This should be shouted from the housetops, along with the FACT that Hillary Clinton had card carrying communists as her mentors in her formative years and beyond. Forget the terms socialists and progressives, these are hard left communists.
Originally published on FR about 5 years ago and still worth a read IMO.
Regards,
L
I hate the markets and the military
You hate them too? Vote for Hillary!
Progressive enlightment is what we need
Not Republican ways and their codes of greed.
Your taxes will go to a for the children cause
Once I've tinkered and drafted appropriate laws.
As you see fiscal plunder, fiscal rape and pillage
Just remind yourself that it takes a village.
Campaign finance? Don't you question me!
My masters want America on it's knees.
My reason for being is so easy to see
Socialism spreads poverty e-v-e-n-l-y.
Heil To The QUEEF!
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