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Russell Kirk

The American left embraces class warfare to move society toward a mythological equality.  The right, however, knows that you cannot improve America by destroying the elements that enabled and built our greatness.  Obama’s agenda enhances class division in America–increases the size of the class of citizens who use America’s social welfare net, and decreases the size of the class of citizens who pay for America’s social welfare net.  Whole continents of countries have devoted themselves to the pursuit of the utopia of equal outcome, invariably to their ruin.  History proves the futility of this direction.

No Reform Without Skin In The Game
By PAUL D. TORTLAND | Posted Thursday, August 27, 2009 4:20 PM PT

The scenario is all too familiar, and plays out daily in my office. After evaluating a patient I recommend a particular course of treatment. More often than not, the first question from the patient is not, “How effective is the treatment?’ or “How safe is it?” Rather, the refrain is “Will my insurance cover it?” If I tell them, yes, your insurance will cover the treatment, their eyes glaze over and they couldn’t care less what their care will cost. If, on the other hand, the procedure is not covered, the bargaining begins: “Do you give cash discounts?” “Can I set up a payment plan?” Or, “That’s too much right now.”

It’s easy to spend someone else’s money. It’s a different story when your wallet is on the table. (more…)

“Fascism is a type of state socialistic government. The Merriam-Webster dictionary definition is: “a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.” Fascism is most often associated with the regimes of Mussolini and Hitler during WWII. The difference between fascism and communism is that in communism, the state owns everything outright; in fascism, a thin veneer of private ownership is maintained while the state exercises absolute control over industry. So the biggest difference between communism and fascism, which are both state socialistic governments, is that communism is complete state ownership, while fascism is complete state control. In economic and political effect, both are remarkably similar, and both oppose true free markets. Both communism and fascism value collectivism over individualism, and see the state as the ultimate expression of good, with the individual only existing to serve the state. Both communism and fascism have given rise to totalitarian police states, where the freedoms of individuals were sacrificed for the good of the state. In both communism and fascism, the state is everything, the individual is nothing. It is interesting to note that though both communism and fascism claim to be ideological enemies and complete opposites, for someone who values individual freedom and free markets, there is really no difference.“ 

From: Strike the Root

 ”The president accurately says Americans are “reluctant shareholders” of GM, AIG and Citigroup. But is he?If the Corker-Warner legislation is defeated, as Alexander’s bill was, on an essentially party-line vote, this will be redundant proof that Obama’s professed reluctance is fictitious. If it is, then what is real is what the Democratic left desires, an Obama Doctrine that says the trumpet of state capitalism — capital increasingly controlled from Capitol Hill and the Treasury Department — will never sound retreat.”

From: No Going Back On New Style Of Capitalism?

9/11 Revisionism

9/12 Remembrance

The Perspective Of A Russian Immigrant
By SVETLANA KUNIN | Posted Thursday, August 20, 2009 4:20 PM PT

In the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, I was taught to believe individual pursuits are selfish and sacrificing for the collective good is noble. In kindergarten we sang songs about Lenin, the leader of the Socialist Revolution. In school we learned about the beautiful socialist system, where everybody is equal and everything is fair; about ugly capitalism, where people are exploited and treat each other like wolves in the wilderness. Life in the USSR modeled the socialist ideal. God-based religion was suppressed and replaced with cultlike adoration for political figures.

The government-assigned salary of the proletariat (blue-collar worker) was 30%-50% higher then any professional. Without incentive to improve their life, professionals drank themselves to oblivion. They — engineers, lawyers, doctors, teachers — earned a government-determined salary that barely covered the necessities, mainly food. Raising children was a hardship. It took four to six adults (parents and grandparents) to support a child. The usual size of the postwar family was one or two children. Every woman had the right to have an abortion and most of them did, often without anesthesia.

There is a comparative historical reality that plays out the consequences of two competing ideologies: life in the USSR and in America.**  (more…)

Obama’s Stimulus Spending Chart

So, the stimulus package was really a “stimulate the government” package with unprecedented inflationary deficit spending.  How does transferring the country’s wealth and treasure to government agencies that do not produce new goods and services, that do not make a profit, that only redistribute after first confiscating private wealth, and that consume tremendous overhead expenses, stimulate the productive sector of an economy?

In tough economic times, stimulating the dead-weight of government is the last thing we should do.

Obamanomics: Part One, The Hidden Agenda

Obamanomics: Part Two, The Hidden Agenda

Obamanomics: Part Three, In Defense of Capitalism

Obama Propaganda for Kindergartners in a Public School

The Power and Danger of Iconography

 
Nationalized banking, nationalized automobile manufacturing, socialized medicine, socialized energy production, community organized voting, property rights down the commode, environmentalist eco-diversity global warming zealots prosecuting government of the lawsuit for the lawsuit and by the lawsuit, you can’t do or say anything without upsetting some hyper-sensitive aggrieved victim-in-waiting, history re-written by the volume on a daily basis, and the public square dominated by the anarchistic rules for radicals.  The cruel irony is that our elite leaders are doing all this in the name of the public good.  One wonders just how much dope they smoked for all this nonsense to seem reasonable to them.

Oh, and memos to David Letterman, Conan OBrien, 9 News, and Bill OReilly:  I turn all your shows off whenever you deliver propaganda.  Sometimes I’ll get to see a whole 30 seconds of one of your programs before that happens.  That’s Ok.  I need the sack time more than I need your nightly political re-education.  I guess the segments of your audience who consider propaganda to be news-worthy or entertainment are an easy-sell for your advertisers.