Beware of Hillary Clinton and the ''Common Good'' Ruse

Chron Watch ^ | 07 July 2004 | Jan Ireland

[Lando Lincoln]

The Bush tax cuts enabled America to climb out of the Clinton recession despite the financial devastations of 9/11 and stock market downturns.  Ten straight months of economic progress and job creation have made the economy robust.

        So it is incongruous that Hillary Clinton would tell a San Francisco audience recently that Democrats will rescind the Bush tax cuts for the ''common good.''

        Mrs. Clinton’s plan is not only wrong, but it’s socialist.

        Ronald Reagan defeated communism, but we are still being leeched by creeping socialism.  The 45 communist goals read into the Congressional Record in 1963 linger, and they were supposed to be for the ''common good'' also.

        A few decades ago, the phrase itself was anathema.  It does not appear in the 1945 United Nations charter, though that institution is about nothing if not socialism.  Mrs. Clinton’s rarely mentioned very radical mentor, Saul Alinsky, revered it.  ''The radical is that unique person to whom the common good is the greatest personal value.''

        The inscription on the famous Liberty Bell exhorts ''Proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.''  And Ronald Reagan reminded ''…the guiding hand of  Providence did not create this new nation of America for ourselves alone, but for a higher cause:  the preservation and extension of the sacred fire of human liberty.''

        In the coming presidential election, America has a clear choice:  Mrs. Clinton and universal socialism versus Ronald Reagan and universal freedom.  George Bush has Ronald Reagan’s fire of freedom.  John Kerry must bow to the Clintons, though his personal record certainly is also socialist.

        The rapacious Mrs. Clinton wants to empower the government to take what it wants.  We see her proclivities in the monstrous HillaryCare health program (“It’s time to put the common good, the national interest, ahead of individuals''), in the idea that the ''village'' (state) should raise the child, in the greedy timing of the eight million dollar book advance, in the shrill escalating rant similar to Dean’s and Gore’s.  (Socialists always exempt themselves from the restrictions they place on others.)

        Founder James Wilson wrote ''Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression.''  It is irrefutable.  Government taking from one group to give to another approved group is socialism, Marxism, and/or communism.

        The words ''common good'' are not of themselves evil of course.  A group called Common Good works to reform the lawsuit culture in America.  Bayer relaxed its Cipro patent during the anthrax scare for the ''common good.''

        But a religious group wants ''…to develop religiously and politically informed advocates for the common good.''  Another has a vote litany.  Libertarian Socialist Noam Chomsky wrote about ''The Common Good.''   The European Union demands to manage markets for the ''common good'' despite the incomparable success of America’s capitalism and the obvious decline of socialist and communist systems in recent decades.  Right under our noses in Congress is the Progressive Caucus, a group of about 50 legislators who are
openly socialist.  Libertarian Ilana Mercer writes ''The common good piety should raise as much suspicion as Hillary Clinton’s reference to ‘our children’ ought to.  What is paraded by government and its lapdogs as the common good very often conceals an intention to override individual rights and interests.''  Objectivist Ayn Rand said ''America’s abundance was created not by public sacrifices for ‘the common good,’ but by the productive genius of free men …''

        Socialism reaches into our pocketbooks and lives incrementally, always cloaked in some ''common good'' guise exhorting us to make America better, fairer, more equal.  Life is not fair and equal.  Socialism takes from producers what it cannot and will not produce itself.

         George Washington warned:  ''Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.''

        Mrs. Clinton courts socialism.  We’ve defeated communism once in our lifetime, but ''common good'' socialism could revive the scourge.  Patriotic Americans must actively reject the shill--at the ballot box this November.  For the real common good.

For Further Reading:

Congressional Record, 1963, Communist Goals read into Congressional Record by Albert Herlong, Jr.;

 

''Protestants for the Common Good'';

 

Baptist Editorial, ''Support Common Good, But Keep State Out of Church'';

 

BFW, ''A Litany for an Election'';

 

Noam Chomsky, ''The Common Good'';

 

Eliot Van Buskirk, MP3 Insider: ''Preserving the common good to accelerate progress'';

 

John Blundell, ''Friend or Foe? What Americans should know about the European Union'';

 

Thomas Lenz, ''Building a Force for the Common Good'';

 

Ronald Reagan, 1991;

 

Rush Limbaugh, June 29;

 

Saul Alinsky, ''Reveille for Radicals'';

 

Barbara Olson, ''Hell to Pay'';

 

Common Good, http://www.cgood.org/; 

 

 http://www.newswithviews.com/;

 

http://www.conservativeforum.org/;

http://www.stophillarypac.com/;

 

 Ilana Mercer, ''Business Has its Hand out to Government, Too'';

 

http://www.atr.org/;

 

Ayn Rand, ''Atlas Shrugged,'' and ''The Fountainhead''

About the Writer: Jan Ireland is a prolific freelance writer, former teacher, and community activist in the South. Jan receives e-mail at janireland@hushmail.com.

[Lando Lincoln]

Lando

[rageaholic]

Hillary stole the White House china.

[scott7278]

I'm sure it was for the "common good," right?

[Puppage]

Hillary stole the White House china.

She stole OUR CHINA!

[pookie18]

[underbyte]

I like it - Call them what they really are SOCIALISTS

[rageaholic]

Yeah, Hillary wrote a book called "It takes a Village to Raise a Child." She believes children should be raised by communes, that makes Hillary a Communist.

[old3030]

Reminds me of a classic Archie Bunker-Meathead exchange -- "People who live in communes are com-mun-ists."

[gatorbait]

Thanks ,Lando.Terrific article.

[Poohbah]

Beware of Hillary Clinton and the ''Common Good'' Ruse

Unfortunately, we have many FReepers using this very argument to demand higher taxes.

[freekitty]

"(Socialists always exempt themselves from the restrictions they place on others.)"

This is what I don't understand about the Socialists. Do they really think anyone below Hillary will be exempted from slavery? I'll bet she would be the first to put old Bill in slavery.

[Lando Lincoln]

Wow....old FRiends....I sincerely hope you are well!

Lando

[rodeo-mamma]

Thank you, someone had to say it.

[jmc813]

Unfortunately, we have many FReepers using this very argument to demand higher taxes.

And the PATRIOT Act, the drug war, Social Security, etc.