Bush is spending money and toying with the Constitution in ways about which the klintoons could only DREAM (wet, to be sure).
CALL GEPHARDT/DASCHLE UNREALTY, EXCLUSIVE AGENTS
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.
You write a long screed again with a lot of what if's, wouldyas, willyas, if'nonlies, so why don't you take the time to display a list of those candidates that you are so positive will save us from this malady you see. Don't go half way, go the entire mile and finish what you started or else people will have to guess which is the candidate that will lead.
That is the kind of statement that makes people run away from Republicans apace.
It means David Duke is better than any Democrat.
It's clear that you don't live in Illinois under George Ryan.
I think he's from Texas, not the Granite State.
Bush is spending money and toying with the Constitution in ways about which the klintoons could only DREAM (wet, to be sure).
CALL GEPHARDT/DASCHLE UNREALTY, EXCLUSIVE AGENTS
If only those RINOS could be reined, we seem to say. But they won't, it's a "big tent" remember? And you have no other place to go, so there, vote Republican and don't waste your vote on some big earred freak, right?
Sadly true. Alexander Tyler wrote, "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result being that democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship." He was writing about the fall of the Athenian Republic, but it sure sounds like the U.S. today.
Then they get the DEMONcrats they deserve, and they should shut their mouths and not complain about them.
Or do an Alec Baldwin ...
"I will simply leave and find another country..."( B. A. Conservative).
Hopefully, B.A. Conservative will carry through with his promise, unlike Alec.
Well written, well reasoned. The replies speak volumns as to why we are in this situation...
Tsk, tsk! Such a pessimist you are.
The solution is simple... just as the baby boomers are about to retire, we pass a brand new prescription drug entitlement. Current bidding for the votes of the New Seniors ranges from $320 billion (Republican) to $1 trillion (Democrat) over the next ten years. Then it gets worse.
Whatever the final tag, no entitlement stays within budget, so the minimum will likely be at least twice the GOP's Pharmaceutical Ponzi scheme.
But there's hope... just say "Take back the Senate!™" three times and click your heels together.
It's a beautiful dream...
Except that B.A. Conservative is going to run, not fight ..."I will simply leave and find another country."
If B.A. Conservative and his ilk truly believe that it is as bad as they believe it is, then they should either continue to struggle within the system to elect (..and note that I say "elect" ... that leaves the Libertarian Party out of the picture), carry out the above-mentioned promise, or take up arms and fight for their lost rights.
In the end, I would be willing to bet money that he (and the rest of the no-compromise conservatives) does none of the above ... but simply remains here and continues to complain. If he asks nicely, I'm sure that someone will give him some cheese to have with his whine.
ROTFLMAO!
Oh man...I gotta use that one someday!
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