Budget crisis has its roots in erosion of values

One News Now ^ | 10-14-13 | Star Parker

[ReformationFan]

We ought to think about the cultural roots of the budget crisis in Washington.

The political left says the shutdown is all about an ideological tantrum of a handful of Republicans.

Certainly, tea partiers have an ideology and vision about what ground rules would produce a more prosperous, freer and fairer America.

But let's be honest. The gentleman in the White House, our president, is as hard core in his ideological dispositions as any tea partier.

Each side believes America would be better off if it were run according to their vision.

What's the crucial difference?

As a tea partier, I'd like my neighbors to agree with me that personal responsibility, traditional values and limited government is the best way to build a healthy and prosperous personal life and nation. If they don't agree, they can do what they want.

But the world according to the big-government, morally relative left is much different. In this view, yes, nobody is forcing me to agree that personal responsibility and traditional values don't matter. But in their view, it's also only fair that I pick up the massive costs of their failures.

Take, for instance, poverty.

We all agree that we want to get as many people out of poverty as possible.

The evidence abounds that a lifestyle that reflects personal responsibility and traditional values -- like traditional sexual attitudes and marriage and family -- reduces dramatically chances that an individual will wind up in poverty.

[ReformationFan]

Social liberalism leads to more poverty and more calls to statism and socialism. I think Star Parker puts it very well.

[PGalt]

Is this an ideological battle? Of course it is.

HOORAY Star Parker!

DISMANTLE totalitarian mandates and DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic.

live - free - republic

[Fee]

Corporations played a role in impoverishing the US. Teach China and India how to do our IT and manufacturing jobs, then send entire factories over there, and dumping the unemployed onto the taxpayers. Corporate America were big advocates for illegal immigration amnesty. Flood the US with workers who take jobs that automatically entitles them for food stamps and welfare. Who pockets the difference in payment of lower wages, corporate America, who is stuck with providing free medicine, food stamps etc etc for the imported poverty - TAXPAYERS!!!! Even with high unemployment corporate America wants all illegal given pathway to citizenship and more H-1B high tech workers. Great lay off Americans, refuse to hire US college grads but want more H-1B workers!!!!!!! There should be three trees to hang the traitors, one for the socialist Dems, one for the NAFTA/free trader GOP and one for corporate CEO’s.

[ReformationFan]

Sadly, corporate America is about as left wing as any socialist could hope for. Why the left constantly complains about them is beyond me.

[AlanGreenSpam]

“The gentleman in the White House, our president...”

I almost stopped reading right there...

Any writer would have to be insane to refer to cowardly PunkBama as a “gentleman.”

[VerySadAmerican]

I watched 60 minutes last night to see a story on a man who saved 105 Viet Namese refugees. Another story was about a 14 year old kid who has developed a procedure to test for pancreatic cancer. He was being interviewed by Morley Safer and the kid was talking about going to the White House and seeing “Barrack Obama”. Safer corrected him and said “President Barrack Obama.”

[Vanders9]

I think he puts it extremely well. The whole nub of the problem is that both sides ARE very convinced that their vision for the future is the correct one, and the result is a massive idealogical divide. The most Centrist Democrat in the senate is still to the left of any Republican. The biggest RINO going is still to the right of any Democrat.

This situation is not healthy. As Lincoln said, a nation divided against itself cannot stand.