Posted on 10/09/2002 8:58:50 AM PDT by B. A. Conservative
The election is now only a month away. FreeRepublic blindly backs Republicans regardless of issues or the Republican platform. FreeRepublic and the Republicans expect conservatives to prefer Republicans, if nothing else, because Republicans are the lesser of two socialists. The Emperor has no clothes, and faced with a socialist or a clone, Democratic voters will have no trouble picking the real thing. Conservatives willing to demand a real choice have other options.
The "boomers" will start reaching Social Security's retirement age in October 2008. By 2012, Social Security will become cash flow negative. There are no (none; zero; nada) assets in the so-called Social Security Trust Fund. The intruments in this so-called "trust fund", at best represent promises that Congress will raise taxes, cut benefits or both sufficiently to bring Social Security back into cash flow equilibrium. Political rhetoric and political reality differ. We have all heard the derivative debate regarding counter party risk and the risk of off balance sheet accounting typified by Enron. Social Security and its so-called "trust fund" encompasses the very worst features of both counter party risk and off balance sheet liabilities. Social Security makes Enron, Worldcom, and Global Crossing look good in the off balance sheet accounting department. And Social Security makes JPM and Long Term Capital Management look good in the counter party risk department. All of the financial catastrophes that have come to the United States in our 200 year history have been linear events. If we deal with the impending Social Security crisis within the next five years using the complete voluntary privatization of SS using the Chilean model of the Cato Foundation Plan, the crisis can be contained and kept linear. If we wait longer than five years to completely privatize SS or leave SS under government control, SS becomes a non-linear event with derivative implosion a certainty. It is not financially or politically possible to fund the unfunded liabilities of Social Security much beyond 2012. Politicians will address this problem by destroying the full faith and credit of the United States or by destroying our currency or both.
Speaking as a retired physician, it is not possible to fund the unfunded liabilities of Medicare. Medicare becomes cash flow negative in 2008, well before the "boomers" become eligible for Medicare beginning in 2011. The unfunded liabilities of these two programs are too large to fund through payroll taxes alone. And these liabilities are too large to fund through combinations of benefit cuts or income tax increases. All Americans are over taxed. Government has become a monolithic vulture crippling every American family. It must end now before American families are bled dry.
Every democracy in history has ended in bankruptcy. When the Democratic Party subverted the Constitution, and turned the United States into a serfdom based on socialism, it was necessary to democratize our republic. They succeeded in spades. In order to fund the unfundable, it will be necessary for the government of the United States, no matter whether controlled by Democrats or Republicans, to borrow to or beyond the limits of our credit, to print dollar bills in an unending inflationary spiral until the dollar is worthless and the United States and almost all of its citizens are bankrupt. And this reality will come to pass before there is a presidential election in 2016. All democracies in recorded history end in bankruptcy and so will ours. This is absolutely predictable and if we act now, preventable. We must restore our Constitutional Republic before it becomes too late shortly after the end of the current decade.
Democrats paved the road to socialism in 1936. That road goes off a cliff somewhere between 2012 and 2016. There is a fork in the road to the RIGHT dead ahead. This road offers the only realistic way to avoid the collapse and disintegration of the United States and the only chance to restore freedom and Constitutional law to the first country to realize these dreams or to the people from whom they have been stolen. If FreeRepublic will take the right fork, the Republicans will follow.
I do not want to mislead you into believing that enough Americans will follow the Republican lead. We have seen three clear elections where this is true. Ronald Reagan won two landslide elections running on a strong conservative Constitutional agenda. The Contract with America was a landslide success and gave Republicans control of Congress for the first time in most voters' voting lifetimes. But make no mistake, there are large numbers of Americans now addicted to socialism and serfdom. And this group of Americans is determined to impose slavery on the rest of us. Socialism spawns the unproductive and/or the weakly productive. It penalizes the productive. It is unrealistic to believe the myth that the people of this country are united. Study the map of the 2000election if you have any doubts. I am no longer willing to allow Democrats to impose their socialistic programs on me or my family. If we cannot defeat socialism with ballots, then let them have their own country and run it as they see fit. I intend to excercise my God-given rights and secede if there are sufficient like-minded souls. If not, I will simply leave and find another country that is willing to respect my freedom and the God-given rights of its citizens. And if the Democrats and other socialists choose to interfere with my right to secede or my right to leave peacefully, their blood will be on their own hands. I can speak for no other man, but I am going to live free or am willing to risk death in the attempt. Who among you will join me in demanding the return of our freedom? I am no longer willing to vote for a lesser tyranny. I invite all conservative freedom loving Americans to join me. The battle for freedom doesn't take campaign contributions nor does it require taking to the streets. All it requires is the quite determination to cast your votes only for candidates willing to act to restore the Constitutional rights that we have already lost.
The YOU was YOU the Republican party. If you arent a member, (you sure are a supporter) then it doesn't apply to you.
And as far as the differences you cite, you might be surprised if you think that my views are the same as the Libertarian Party. And it is doubtful you know what that party says about some of those things based on your comment. So I guess you make the same mistake you accuse me of.
So you read that Libertarians are fallen away Republicans? And that isn't being told? And BTW, it is false.
I directed you to the information because it was available, yours was not. I checked, it lacked that detail or I wouldn't have asked.
As to generations having to answer for things, that is a preposterous idea. People answer for their own actions, not the actions of others who happen to have been born around the same time.
Amen, again I say................Amen!
If you feel belittled, maybe it is a personal problem. The reason I raised the point of your age is that I grow bored very quickly of being lectured by people who were playing little league when I was making the same observations that you are now. I'm not new to the game, been there, done that as Bush elder used to say when you were 15.
It would be too difficult for me to try to hold my nose and pull my wallet out of my hip pocket at the same time. No sale.
Nonsense. They agree on some things but disagree on many others. And I'm not trying to stir up trouble in anyone's little clam. What is is. The fact that you see this great coalition against the great evil Democrats doesn't change that.
The fact that you see this great coalition against the great evil Democrats Fascist (third way types)....
Yes I do "see" a great hope for our nation. More than one coalition is apart of that, but never with fascist.
Maybe your stuck in your ways and cannot see an opportunity and take it. I am not.
Or maybe you need to get a grip on reality. I have hope for you, as you grow up, you may see things as they really are.
Have a nice weekend kid, it's Miller time.
If you sit on your hands, you might as well be voting personally for Paul Wellstone.
You are repeating the Media mantra and myth that continues to confuse the public and the Republican leadership. Republicans have earned and continue to deserve the title of The Stupid Party.
When Republicans try to win votes from socialists, there are three predictable consequences:
All the other roads of good intentions lead you know where. The socialists' paths lead to the edge of a cliff. You can take the fork in the road to the right or you can follow the lemmings. So far, it is one of the few choices that the socialists have not taken away. But that hasn't stopped network television election coverage of the Florida election returns or the Florida Supreme Court from trying.
Occasionally, we need to take the same tack as the Fabian Socialists. Only in the opposite direction.
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