Posted by
Diocuore on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 8:37:04 AM
''While our woes have crept upon us slowly, masked in part by the wealth generated by science and technology, they are "creeping" no more. In Washington today, we are seeing an astonishing acceleration of the tyranny of statism, socialism, fascism and Marxism that has come upon us – but it is no longer clothed in its many disguises. We are seeing it stark naked.'' Yes, we know it
feels like rnidnight – and would even if Ronald Reagan were here in person to cheer us up, but we must get through the night in order to enjoy the morning. The difference is that the sun is not going to rise for us automatically. We are going to have to pull it up by ourselves.
American freedom has been unconscionably abridged and American resources wasted. While the Obama regime has sharply accelerated these trends, most of the damage was done over the century that preceded his Marxist reign.
Our constitutional republic and the vast engineering miracle that its freedom made possible have been slowly strangled by creeping socialism and fascism – in the form of government-sponsored taxation, regulation and litigation, plus the profligate waste by government of the resources that it has seized from us. These confiscated resources have paid for seemingly endless war, character-destroying welfare and the rise of a bureaucratic elite of government employees that now comprises almost 20 percent of our "workers" and is paid, on average, twice as much in wages and benefits as those still working in the private, free-enterprise sector.
This deadly parasitic malignancy – the mutant that has arisen from our original form of government – has spread throughout our land. Not content to merely live upon its host, the thing is killing the republic upon which it depends for sustenance.
Imagine the prosperity and technological wonders that the $10 trillion in capital earned by the nuclear power industry would have made possible – but that our government made impossible.
Imagine the similar losses that have occurred in most of our other industries as they have been strangled by regulation, litigation and tax-caused loss of needed capital – until they can no longer compete in world markets and are overcome by foreign competitors.
Imagine the prosperity and accomplishments we have lost by being required to conduct our economic affairs with fiat money – printed by government whim – rather than honest money, which has been a core component of human prosperity for thousands of years. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=115608