[JeepInMazar]

Now, today, we have witnessed an expansion of government into every corner of economic and social life that has been as sudden as it has been extraordinary.

Read the Truth For Muslims article about Shariah Finance.

[Sharrukin]

“nothing more than a herd of timid and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherd.”

I believe that is known in the modern age as ‘Europe’. The loss of freedom seems to be galloping in the past few years and I very much doubt Obama’s administration will slow it down. This may in fact be the curtain call for individual responsibility and the final triumph of the welfare state.

The question is, how do you reverse these trends? Is that sort of reversal even possible with an electorate with whom the majority pays for nothing in return for the largesse of others?

[Cacique]

btt

[Republic of Texas]

Welcome to the Dark Ages!

[AprilfromTexas]

4 later

[timestax]

bttt

[GOP Poet]

It is a disgrace!

[XR7]

[raybbr]

It doesn’t look good for the U.S., does it?

[Jacquerie]

I lay a large portion of the blame at the feet of Scotus, the supposedly last check against the abuses of the other two branches.

Since FDR beat the supremes into submission they found social security, progressive income taxes, agricultural supports, and the assignment of legislative power from Congress to unelected central planning boards to all be Constitutional. Without these, there could not be a federal leviathan powerful enough to threaten our freedom.

Rather than serve as a check, the Supreme Court for 70+ years served as handmaiden to the deep erosion of our liberties.

[Hardastarboard]

as Daniel Henninger noted in The Wall Street Journal, “place some 48 percent of Americans … out of the income tax system.”

I get tired of having to remind everyone that the income tax was originally sold to the American public on the theory that it would only apply to the richest one percent. Taking people out of the taxable pool only returns us to that original vision.

[LowCountryJoe]

Bump!

[Lauren BaRecall]

Save for later.

[rabscuttle385]

All that the nation’s founders understood two centuries ago about the imperative of limited government, all that we learned from the long struggle between collectivism and free markets during our own time—all this could soon simply evanesce.

We are being asked to unlearn what we know, to surrender the virtues that can only be acquired in conditions of freedom, and to become a lesser people than we are. The land of the free and the home of the brave could soon be transformed into the land of the dependent and the home of the infantilized.

The RINO quislings have betrayed us all.

[Gondring]

Excellent post.

No going for the spurious Tocqueville quote in this publication!

Do you find them to be a worthwhile periodical?

[bamahead]

Over the last several years, he observes, we have witnessed, under a Republican administration, a prescription drug program that “represents the biggest expansion of the welfare state since the Great Society.” At the same time, Congress sharply increased domestic spending and passed “the biggest farm bill in history, a massive transfer of resources to the 2 percent of the population still engaged in agriculture.”



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