Small Government R.I.P.

FR | 4-27-06

[Conservative Coulter Fan]

If you were to ask me for a position on Social Security, I would tell you that it is an illegal government program maintained by an unconstitutional administration that forcibly transfers wealth from employers and employees operating on the exact same principle as a pyramid scheme (outlawed in all 50 states). I might add the State has no business meddling with an individual’s retirement, the program’s demographic defects will cause it to hemorrhage in red ink in the trillions of dollars, and it is on the road to bankrupting the country. Of course, the only glimmer of hope for me was the initiative by President Bush, which only allowed workers to invest a small portion under the supervision of Big Brother. Even this so-called reform went nowhere leaving us with the same old system and the same problems.

A friend once remarked that I live in a libertarian “dreamworld” (even though I’m very much conservative) and therein lies the problem. I hear a lot of talk about small government, but that’s all it is. Far from being a guiding principle, it is nothing more than a hallow mantra for many. I marvel how those who scold socialism are corrupt and hypocritical enough to uncritically accept this notion that we must provide “social safety nets.” The other form of corruption is this farcical attempt at rationalizing it by the defeatist attitude that the have nots are too many and the country too unwilling making it virtually impossible to kill the beast.

Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty in 1964 with a host of government programs aimed at eradicating poverty and in his words creating a “great society,” which was borrowed from a Fabian Socialist in Great Britain as were his ideas. Over forty years later, trillions of dollars legally stolen and transferred, the catastrophic failure continues unabated only growing in size, budget, and predictable bankruptcy. This promised “great society” was as much a reality as the “worker’s paradise” in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc.

So why do the very people that clamor for small government concede in the same breath? You won’t demand an end to the Welfare State, which is the essence of what one calls “Big Government,” but then you fill the air with the mantra of small government? To chide such senseless droning only stirs angry attacks and accusations of ideological purity. To this, I laugh. Do you really defend such blatant and glaring hypocrisy, by attacking my commitment to principle and conviction (consistency and honesty) as purity? The mockery and audacity of people who lack all conviction! You attack my “purity,” because I disdainfully regret you’re corruption.

How can you speak reverently of our beloved Constitution of the United States when we have a Government that has ripped it to shreds? Our forefathers, often called the founding fathers, were willing to fight a war with the greatest military power at the time, Great Britain, but I can’t even get my fellow conservatives to stand with me in opposing the massive federal behemoth, but they’re for small government! The Minutemen marched barefooted through the snow and endured great burdens, they risked their very life and limb to secure liberty, but you can’t even get people to stand by their words. I’m reminded of the words of Barry Goldwater, “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of freedom is no virtue.” Others are only reminded he was largely defeated by Johnson in 1964.

Progressive propaganda teaches us that the poor must be lifted up, as they say, by soaking the rich. The prophets of radical egalitarianism (i.e., modern liberals), demand “fairness,” but not of opportunity - only result. The idle among us are “entitled” to a share because instead of seeking gainful employment they occupy their lives as couch potatoes, they drink, they abuse drugs, or are otherwise so worthless and superfluous that they won’t get up in the morning and get a job, they won’t educate themselves, they won’t learn a skill or trade, and they just flat out won’t do a damn thing. These deadbeats are entitled to a caning - they shouldn’t eat - much less be afforded the luxury of living off people who work for what they have. I don’t sympathize with the deadbeat or the drunkard and think their failure should be subsidized and encouraged. We’re only breeding poverty by doing it! That’s not fairness - that’s bestowing privilege on the most undeserving! The new aristocracy, people that are so sorry they won’t work for a living! I’m with Neal Boortz when he says poverty is a disorder.

Thomas Woods, in ‘The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History’, pointed out one of the more interesting of government boondoggles. Job Corps was established to provide 100,000 young men job skills, education, and work experience. Amazingly, there were no shows and some were arrested, but of those that showed up - two-thirds didn’t bother to complete a free government training program that spent the equivalent of an Ivy League education. Those that did complete it didn’t find work, of those who did less than half of those found work in the field they were trained in and the average wage was a little over five bucks an hour.

The situation is getting so ridiculous that Hillary Clinton, in an interview with Barbara Walters, boldly told her big lie: Bush is trying to “dismantle” Medicare. If only! The phony conservative President was accused of this because he gave speeches proclaiming the $225 billion dollar a year entitlement was the “commitment of a compassionate society” and passed the largest expansion of Medicare in its history with a $600 billion prescription drug coverage. On Planet Hillary, this is considered dismantling Medicare! Of course when Hillary was President, I mean her “husband,” she was pushing for the complete nationalization of healthcare at a time when the Federal Government is already the largest third party payer in healthcare covering almost HALF of all medical costs through Medicare and Medicaid.

Under Bill Clinton, I criticized Title 1 Education spending, because despite the infusions of more and more tax dollars, test scores and proficiency continued to decline. Worse yet, there was reportedly around a billion dollars that couldn’t be accounted for, but the books were so bad that a private accounting firm couldn’t perform an audit. George W. Bush espoused quasi-conservative ideas in 2000 like school vouchers, but in the end he let Ted Kennedy of all people write his education bill, which was the largest single dollar increase in the Department of Education. Multi-cultural P.C. curriculum is still being dictated, the far left NEA still has dominion, and government schools are still God-free zones. Scores are still on the decline and high school drop out rates are on the rise. Yet, the most popular solution to the problem remains, you guessed it, spending more money! This is the very definition of insanity.

As for the War on Terrorism, I was for leveling Afghanistan, and eradicating al-Qaeda & the Taliban from the face of the Earth. I was miffed when President Bush and other officials in his administration went from moral clarity to politically correct proclamations about Islam being a religion of peace. The White House trumpeted the fact that it dropped more food than bombs on Afghanistan, which was enough to make me hurl. In 2003, when war was declared on Saddam Hussein, I was on board. Then, we took a detour called nation building that Bush promised he was against in 2000. Now the United States’ focus is on basically forcing U.S. taxpayers to fund the new Iraqi Government and its infrastructure in addition to the government and infrastructure of Afghanistan. So were too P.C. to call the War on Terror a war with Islam, which it is, and now citizens of the United States are paying taxes for their own spend crazy government plus the governments of two middle eastern countries that are stuck in the Middle Ages.

So while Bush has earned the distinction of being the largest spending in history, with the help of a Republican Congress, the 2.7 trillion discretionary spending pails to spending on the Welfare State (mandatory entitlement spending), which comprises nearly 3/4 of the whole Federal Budget. Social Security is almost a quarter by itself, Medicare is something like 12 percent, Medicaid is around 6 percent, other entitlements make up another 5 percent, and all of this generates an additional 15 percent in interest. With discretionary spending, defense is about 12 percent and the remainder of the budget is non-defense spending.

Let’s just acknowledge reality here: small government is effectively dead. The republicans have proven beyond all shadow of a doubt that we have a corrupt one-party system and we live in an ever increasing socialist nation. The people are mere livestock, over half the country doesn’t vote, it has been documented time and again that the Democrats bring out their dead to vote. We’re forbidden to require I.Q. tests or literacy tests, because apparently people believe it is unfair to deprive some dunce who can’t even read (or is borderline retarded) of making such an important decision such as who our elected representatives should be.

We are light years away from Jeffersonian Decentralization, our market economy is being demolished day by day, and the hope of Ronald Reagan seems to have collapsed like the Berlin Wall. We have a run away judiciary legislating liberal “morality,” a Congress intent on running our lives from cradle to grave, and a culture degenerating into hedonism. Hollywood and the “Rap Industry” have made “entertainment” the national dope, envy is the order of the day, and intellect has given way to Miss Cleo. Universities are merely left wing indoctrination camps administered by a fifth column, Churches exchanged Judeo-Christian teachings for the “inclusiveness” espoused by the secular papacy, and the media is merely a ministry of propaganda for the Modern Liberalism and the Democratic Party. America seems to be on the way of meeting the fate of the Roman Empire.

You might think I”m being pessimistic, but I can’t look at a glass that’s nearly empty and say it is half full. Small Government, it sounds nice, but it can’t be taken seriously given the size and scope of government - especially with the relentless growth. The confiscation (legalized theft) and redistribution of wealth is both common and popular, eminent domain is the end of private property in America, and the government quite frankly has the power to oppress each and everyone of us. Small Government, R.I.P.

[antaresequity]

My head grows numb from the banging...

Time to sit back and drink beer...and hope that critical mass is on the horizon, and not a hemisphere away...

Tic Toc Tic TocK!

[freepatriot32]

ping you gotta see this great post

[G.Mason]

" ... We have to, unfortunately, write-off most of those who are already hooked either on the entitlements themselves, or the warm fuzzies they get by supporting them, and focus on those who haven't been brainwashed into "thinking" that the government is the best solution to every problem."

Not to rain on your parade, but consider the following:

There were 59,028,439 persons, dead and alive, legally, or illegally, who voted for J.Effin Kerry.(The "Brainwashed")

Aditionally there were 35 million persons over 65 (the "WarmFuzzies") in the U.S. (2000 census)

That makes a mountain of about 95 million to climb.

Add to that the ever increasing population of uneducated youths being foisted upon society by the "public" educational system and there is now grease on the mountain.

IMHO the only way out of this morass is to have a complete meltdown, such as is happening with our borders, and gasoline prices.

Then, and only then will we begin to remedy the problems.

Hell, most people I talk to (seemingly intelligent people) think that Exon-Mobile, by making less that 10% profit, are raping and pillaging, yet think it perfectly alright for Yahoo to make 37%. Of course one doesn't need Yahoo to drive around.

[traviskicks]

Great vanity ping! Good stuff.





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[traviskicks]

FYI, if you're interested in some charts and graphs of some of the results of the 'war on poverty' and the scaling back of it:
http://www.neoperspectives.com/summary.htm

[verity]

The real problem is the unbroken cycle of politicians pandering to an ignorant and selfish electorate.

[rob777]

I think the real tragedy is not only that Republicans no longer try to implement smaller government...they no longer even talk about smaller government!






BINGO!!! They are not even pretending any more.

[Dawgreg]

This is good stuff CCF! I feel the need to put on my widow's weeds.........now more than ever before! :)

[rob777]

Perhaps we could get Mike Pence to run in 2008! There is a candidate I might be able to really get behind.




Agreed, but what is the chance that he will run?

[Supernatural]

We will remember in November.


End of story.