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". . . I . . . would add that we need to recognize the fact that we have been at war with anti capitalistic forces, both within and without our government, for quite some time now . . ."

Take a bow Bigun.

I have been amazed to see that, after the complete and utter failure of socialism we witnessed in the collapse of the Soviet Union, that the basic lesson of the failure of economic and social planning has not sunk in. How can they not get it? IT DOES NOT WORK! And I want to share one of my recurring observations about how the most basic aspects of economic theory are completely ignored by Democrats and others on the Left when presenting their arguments to the public.

Have you ever noticed how Democrats will start talking about how we "need to pay more attention to our economy" and then immediately go on to discuss anything but economic policy? Bill Clinton was the true master of this deception and I have raged against those who attempted to counter his arguments for their failure to call him down on it. Clinton would start off by saying "it's the American economy that matters here" and then go on to talk about health care, affordable housing, Social Security, jobs for African-Americans and the like. None of those were aspects of economic policy. Those items fall under the heading of social policy. And no matter how much Democrats and the Left try to pass them off as economic policy, they still remain parts of their agenda on social issues.

Of everything I can point to in the public pronouncements of Democrats and the Left that identifies them as anti-capitalistic (your well-placed comment Bigun), this is what leaps out at me most. Democrats and the Left simply will not discuss economic policy because they know that they do not have a chance of making their arguments stick. They will discuss social policy, and falsely call it "economics."

Forgive me for my rant, but this is one of my recurring observations of deception in national policy and I needed to get on my soapbox for just a moment to vent it out.