Posted on 07/13/2009 9:27:43 AM PDT by Tolik
Just a partial list. More at the link: http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/victordavishanson/index
Let me know if you want in or out.
Links: FR Index of his articles: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=victordavishanson
His website: http://victorhanson.com/
NRO archive: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson-archive.asp
Pajamasmedia: http://victordavishanson.pajamasmedia.com/
...and the resulting anti-government backlash will make those Michigan Militia confabs from the 90’s look like a PTA meeting
The underlying - and false - premises are that achievement is oppression, profit greed, property theft. All of that works much better in fictional socialist manifestos than in practical application, but it does sound good, and it feels good to tell oneself that the theft is justified because the victim is evil.
That is the model here in California and that is the model we are soon to see in Washington: the government worker and those who receive his largess, are kings; those who pay for them, and who work in private enterprise for far less, are, well, less than fools.
Bingo. I've been thinking this for some time. We scrimp and save to just barely get by and have a small nest egg for retirement. All the while public employees are retiring with full pay, generous benefits and even double dipping at the public trough by retiring from one government job, then taking another one.
The rich-poor division is resembling more and more that of banana republics where the government employees have it all and everyone else is poor.
Hanson basically lays out the Cloward-Piven strategy here. I imagine he knows the name, but seems reluctant to use the term. Maybe “Cloward-Piven” is just something that the tinfoil hat brigade believes in and VDH doesn’t want to be associated with it. But, clearly, he’s watching Cloward-Piven unfold. No tinfoil required.
Atlas Shrugged Ping.
Unfortunately, I have the bad feeling that we have passed the point of solution by any sort of reasoned reform and will likely have to suffer through the entire collapse of this gigantic house of cards before the concept of sane government by rational adults can recapture the imagination of the American public at large.
I have a good idea. Instead of taxing earnings, capital gains and interest how about we tax accumulated wealth. Surely the likes of Soros, Buffett, Gore, Feinstein, Kennedy, et al don’t need all of those homes, boats, retreats and jets. That way the working stiff making 200K before taxes can pay for their kids’college tuition, home and vacation,
BTTT
mark
Where are all the hard luck stories about how bad the economy is? If we had had this mess under President Bush, reporters would be camped out in homeless shelters...
Hanson had another good one on it: President Palin’s First 100 Days. Imagine if Sarah Palin had Obama’s record
Note to self:
Read “Atlas Shrugged” for the 8th time......
Great read - ping.
needs an Ayn Rand bump...
the comments on that link are also very good, everyone should read them...
When American Plan Socialism unravels, it could all come undone rather swiftly, much like the Berlin Wall:
“And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved”
Even Americans, ingenious as they are, cannot make socialism work, except in the fatally familiar way.
See tagline.
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