Posted on 08/29/2008 5:54:35 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
The Democrats have titled their party platform, "Renewing America's Promise."
A more honest and accurate title would be, "We'll Give You More."
The soul of the Democratic philosophy is summed up in this passage from the platform: "For decades, Americans have been told to act for ourselves, by ourselves, on our own. Democrats reject this recipe for division and failure."
Note the disdain for the ethos of self-responsibility. Democrats do not merely regard it as insufficient. Instead they regard the idea that people should provide for themselves as divisive.
Even more significantly, Democrats regard self-responsibility as a "recipe for failure." In other words, Democrats don't think the American people are capable of making it on their own.
And so, Democrats have a government program for, well, everything.
Democrats want government to help you raise your kids, send them to college, train and retrain for a job, buy a home and save for retirement.
They must be saving the burial assistance program for 2012.
If you want an abortion or want to keep the child, it doesn't matter.
Democrats want taxpayers to help pay for it either way.
Democrats are also big on "investment" in "infrastructure." Of course, in the Democratic view, everything is infrastructure. It is paradoxical that the Democrats are stressing the need for public investment at the same time that their tax policies will shrink private investment.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Self responsibility is off the table now for Americans who are drawn to Obama and the democrat platform.
Obama tells them that factory workers ‘showed up’ for work at a brake factory that was scheduled to close within months because they knew that: ‘AMERICANS DEPENDED ON THEIR BRAKES’.....and by implication, NOT simply working for a paycheck to support their own families in a competitive world.
In true marxist form, we are all now to ‘work for the greater good’..’each according to his abilities’...’each according to his need’.
That is what I heard in the speech last night.
Be prepared for capital to start fleeing this country every time Obama’s numbers rise in the polls.
Who Is John Galt?
“For decades, Americans have been told to act for ourselves, by ourselves ... Democrats reject this recipe for division and failure.”
Wow. The Dems hate individualism.
I wonder what other gems of politically correct marxist gibberish are in their platform.
Am I the only one who sees this as a bribe. Vote for me and I will give everyone $1000.
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