Posted on 07/07/2004 10:00:46 AM PDT by 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. Clintons plan is not only wrong, but its 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. Clintons 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 Reagans 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 (Its 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 Deans and Gores. (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 Americas 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 Clintons 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 ''Americas abundance was created not by public sacrifices for the common good, but by the productive genius of free men
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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.
Hillary stole the White House china.
I'm sure it was for the "common good," right?
She stole OUR CHINA!
I like it - Call them what they really are SOCIALISTS
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.
Reminds me of a classic Archie Bunker-Meathead exchange -- "People who live in communes are com-mun-ists."
Thanks ,Lando.Terrific article.
Unfortunately, we have many FReepers using this very argument to demand higher taxes.
"(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
Thank you, someone had to say it.
And the PATRIOT Act, the drug war, Social Security, etc.
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