[Southack]

While it is true that the Left found ways to expand Government at every step, the Left has run into an unplanned and unexpected (for them) problem: funding.

If you look at the UK 40 years ago, it was then in the position of being overwhelmed by bureaucratic overmanagement as is the U.S. today.

...and the UK was broke. Along came Thatcher to make the mandatory reforms, and the socialistic behemoth was rolled back across Britain.

Likewise, U.S. cities, counties, states, and the federal government are bumping up against Britain’s 1970’s-era funding issues.

You see, government can only grow so large compared to the private sector...at which point poverty sets in at government and private levels alike.

So there is a natural limit to the expansion of Socialism. China didn’t get rich by remaining orthodox communist, after all!

The U.S. has advantages today that China and the UK did not, too. For one thing, private citizens have won the tax cut debate and have won the firearm ownership debate.

OK, granted, we’re losing the gay rights debate, but really, that’s pretty trivial in the grand scheme of things so long as we win the eventual battle over abortion being banned.

Next, we’ve got to fight and win the spending debate...but fiscal reality is on our side (because spending cuts *must* be made as there simply isn’t enough wealth to pay for all of the current level of promises for pensions and benefits).

Anyway, time is on our side. Fiscal reality is on our side. Facts are on our side. Historical inevitability is on our side.

No need to be impatient. It’s OK if California goes broke first before we restore fiscal sanity. Really. It’s OK if union goons see their pension funds fail first before we restore fiscal sanity.

We’ll live.

[waterhill]

Yeah, I think so too ( We’ll live )

It is just gonna suck in the meantime...

[Lazamataz]

Your ideas, as usual, have merit. However, I would point out that the required patience you advise, has historically been two generations (the USSR) or more (China)... and even in both those cases, the subsequent regime is substandard. Russia has its Kleptocracy, and China, it's Totalitarian Capitalism.

Our case may differ than the above two, with the dollar as likely as it is to collapse and fall as it is. We have a great dice-throw ahead of us. I give it 2 to 10 years before a serious collapse in a dollar -- which represents and backs our unsustainable debt level.

Will it be back to true Capitalism, or something else?

It is more likely to be Capitalism and a return to the Constitution, but only if we Infiltrate and Educate.

[B4Ranch]

>>While it is true that the Left found ways to expand Government at every step,<<

Head stuck? Bush was the one who formed the Department of Homeland Security and in doing so almost DOUBLED the size of the Feds in DC. Yes, he ran on the Right, was elected by the Right but his zealous spending reminded me of the current maniac we have from the Left.