Posted on 07/28/2008 12:01:54 PM PDT by BGHater
The dangers inherent in the foreign policy advocated by the neo-conservatives are well known. While many Americans have become increasingly aware of those dangers, far less attention has been focused on the dangers of neo-conservative economic policies. This issue is of critical importance right now, because many are mistakenly pointing their fingers at the free market as the culprit behind our current economic plight.
There are only a few in elected office who have any real loyalty to free markets and limited government. The agenda of neo-conservatives in the economy calls for a very active central government. Indeed, while there are some neo-conservatives who continue to use the rhetoric of limited government, and who oppose increases in the federal income tax as a way to maintain the political benefits that apply to those who talk about free markets, it is now the neo-conservatives who promote fiat monetary policies even more than those on the liberal left.
While I have been a strong proponent of cutting taxes on all Americans, and therefore supported the tax reductions offered by President Bush, the neo-cons argue that tax rate reduction alone is the key to “getting the government out of the way” of economic growth. Moreover, they invariably argue for tax reductions targeted toward the wealthy, and toward multinational corporations.
Over the years, I have offered several tax plans designed to assist hard working middle-class Americans to pay for their needs, whether these needs be health-care related, educational or to pay the costs of fuel. A few years back when I introduced one such bill, a prominent Republican approached me on the House Floor and asked, half in anger and half in amazement “why did you do that?” Shortly after that, the committee chairman at the time, also a Republican, sent out a release strongly attacking my tax cut bill.
So, while the liberal economic agenda includes more taxes and spending, the neo-con economic program simply looks to target some tax cuts to preferred groups, but ignore the economic big picture. The neo-con economic agenda is to “borrow and spend” and it is that agenda, even more than the tax and spend ways of many liberals, that has cast us in economic peril at this time.
Simply, on spending, the neo-cons and the liberals share views, just as they share similar views on foreign policy. While each side tries to claim the mantle of change, reality is that more of the same is not change.
The fiat monetary policy we now follow is the most significant factor contributing to our economic peril, and it is central to the neo-con agenda. As we hear new calls to empower the Federal Reserve Board, we should be aware that underlying all neo-conservative policies is the idea of monetary inflation. Inflation is the technique used to pay for the regulatory-state and the costs of policing the world.
My worldview is more ancient and "primitive" than yours.
It is because of the foundation of America resting on this false deistic "gxd" of nature that America was flawed from the beginning. There is only One G-d, the ancient Biblical one, not the "gxd" of "enlightened" eighteenth century deists and Freemasons.
You and I can argue till the cows come home. It's useless. Our worldviews are too divergent.
No, you’re projecting views on me that don’t exist. Your premises are wrong, and as it always is in such cases, you therefore draw false conclusions.
Not surprising, since you’re doing the same to the founders of this republic.
Hey ZC, just curious...do you like Spinonza?
‘Spinoza’
You have to ask?
I’ve never been one to resist temptation.
AS if the two are opposites!
LOL!
FYI: "Neo-cons" are NOT conservatives, but LIBERALS!
The Neocons have claimed the mantle of conservatism, but in reality, are still liberals to the core.
So you see, Ron Paul is being consistent in his criticism of liberalism.
Are you claiming to be a "neocon"?
Well who do you think has been setting policy around here, some PATRIOTS?
LOL!
et tu, Uncle Miltie?
Oh, Lord!
Where have we failed you?
Failure to understand the terminology is not acceptable.
Please look up the definition before posting your ignorance out where everyone can see it.
Who would be a neo-con? Is it somebody new to Conservatism? Would it be a young person like myself? Would it be somebody who had a transformation from being a Liberal to being a Conservative?
According to my dictionary; "neo-concervative - A former liberal espousing political conservativsm."
So no, not a young person who just now realized he is a conservative.
IMO, these people are still liberals, just using the term to confuse the general public, and to enlist their unsuspecting aid in implimenting their agenda.
Which reminds me; somewhere there is a post that outlines their agenda. about 15 or 20 line-items that are anything BUT conservative.
You search and I'll search, meet back here.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054354/posts
post #72 courtesy of SJackson
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