The civil war in Syria is being won by Islamic extremists while the US does nothing. Egypt is being taken over by the Muslim Brotherhood while we give them billions of dollars in foreign aid and sophisticated weapons. Al-Qaeda flexes its muscles in Africa while we pretend they no longer exist. The Taliban gains strength in Afghanistan as we withdraw. Iran gains influence in Iraq while we close our eyes. It is quite clear that Barack Obama will go down in history as the president who ignored reality and allowed the radical elements gaining power throughout the Middle East to become a belligerent anti-American threat. Combined with the growing conventional and strategic military capabilities of Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan and who knows how many others, it is obvious this president and his first term Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have conducted the most damaging and potentially devastating foreign policy of any administration in American history.
Domestically the US is suffering its slowest economic recovery ever with government spending and debt out of control. Unemployment is stuck at unacceptable levels. Society is the most polarized it has ever been since the Civil War. Barack Obama's only solution to every issue is more government spending, higher taxes and more regulation of American industry. These policies have never worked before anywhere they have been implemented and they are not working now. It is undeniable that this president and his Federal Reserve Chairman, who is supposed to be independent of political influence, have conducted the most detrimental and destructive domestic policy of any administration in American history.
Yet the media continually tells us what a great job Obama is doing. It is quite clear Barack Obama could not remain in office without the unwavering obsequious support of the sources of information in America. What is up with that? Obama the world's smartest man? Obama the sportsman? Obama the peacemaker? Obama the benevolent? Before long he will be starring in the Most Interesting Man In The World commercials, drinking a Dos Equis. You can already hear the voice-over: "He lives vicariously through himself"; "He has won the lifetime achievement award, twice";
"He is fluent in all languages, including three that only he speaks".
Obama the caped crusading action hero can't be far off. The next big Hollywood blockbuster may well be "Obama of Planet Earth, Intergalactic Superman", coming to a theater near you. Now the creators of the propaganda tsunami are trying to turn his wife into a glamorous super-celebrity, because his exalted status demands one. How soon before the media declares him God? One can only imagine what they would claim he is if he were actually competent. We are living in the Twilight Zone.
Karl Marx said capitalism carries the seeds of its own destruction. He was wrong. It is democracy that carries that seed. The problem with democracy is that what begins as a meritocracy eventually evolves into a plutocracy of the super-wealthy; a kleptocracy that takes money from the productive and redistributes it to the unproductive to buy their votes; or a theocracy that worships a charismatic charlatan and false prophet making impossible promises - and clearly liberalism, or progressivism as the neocommunists now call their ideology, has become a religion. Today in America we have a combination of all three running the country. Liberty, justice, equal opportunity and economic affluence for all are on the way out the door. Too bad. It was great while it lasted.
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Saturday, March 02, 2013
The Simple Solution
Conservatives and most liberals in America have traditionally believed that private enterprise and free markets create economic growth. But for some inexplicable reason the current group of liberals in charge of the Democratic Party think government spending does. It is not a profound revelation that bureaucracies are the most inefficient, unproductive, unaccountable and most corruptible form of organization in existence. Government is the biggest organization there is, so it follows that it is the most inefficient, unproductive, unaccountable and corrupt. Most Americans used to understand that. But it is quite clear that today's Democratic Party no longer believes in capitalism and democracy. They have evolved into hard-core autocratic dictators, and there actions are not to be questioned by us mere lowly citizens. They are now indoctrinated in Marxist theology which does not tolerate different opinions, much the same as Islamic theology does not tolerate non-believers.
The purpose of government regarding economic activity is to legislate and enforce rules and regulations that produce and maintain a fair and competitive commercial and industrial environment with as little intrusion and interference in the marketplace as possible. It should not be involved in determining how investment capital is allocated or in awarding subsidies or tax preferences to stimulate specific political agendas. Its only influence in the economy should be in purchasing goods and services from private organizations in fair competition that are necessary to effectively carry out its duties of providing national security and in the administration of required public services. Those services include the provision of a reasonable safety net for the less fortunate citizens who truly need support.
Despite being on the right side of the less versus more government issue, conservatives are losing the argument against the Progressives / Socialists / Marxists of the Democratic Party. They are losing the argument for two simple reasons. One is that this far left wing of the Democratic Party controls the vast majority of the popular media, incessantly indoctrinating the public with non-stop lies, misrepresentations and propaganda regarding the conservatives motives and agenda. Demonization of the opponent by fabricating lies and then accusing the opponent of lying is very effective politically when all the information the public hears is biased bullshit.
Since the electorate is still nearly evenly divided despite the brainwashing, as evidenced by the closeness of the last election, the lies could be easily overcome if conservatives would pull their heads out and understand the second reason they are losing the argument. The majority of Americans at all income levels really do believe that the top one or two percent on the income scale do not deserve the outrageous amounts of money they make, particularly corporate CEO's and the Lizards of Wall Street. And they are right. Why is that so hard for the most vocal conservatives to understand?
There really isn't a good argument against eliminating all tax preferences and raising tax rates on the mega-earners, those with the seven figure and up annual incomes. Tax preferences are nothing but government directed allocation of capital that promote special interests and increase corruption, a blatant violation of free market principles. Furthermore, I challenge anyone to produce strong evidence that raising marginal tax rates by another five to ten percent on the mega-wealthy will have a significant impact on capital investment or diminish incentives to work hard. Productive people will always strive to innovate and make more money than their peers. A marginal increase in taxes on earnings at the very top will not stop folks from working to maximize their income.
Certainly increasing tax rates and eliminating tax preferences must be leveraged with more spending cuts. After all, offering tax increases is the only way to get Democrats to do the right thing even though we always have to suffer through their tiresome temper tantrums. Lord knows there is still room for massive cuts in federal spending. The Government Accountability Office, a supposedly non-partisan agency that works for Congress, identified 1,362 government programs that duplicate positions with nearly identical jobs and similar responsibilities at a cost of $364.5 billion each year. That is the fat that needs to be eliminated, not the meat that Obama says is being cut by the $85 billion sequester that Chicken Little and his Democratic Party cohorts are throwing conniption fits over. That doesn't even mention the out of control entitlement programs that have us on a collision course with disaster. Of course the problem for the Dems is that cutting the fat instead of the muscle means canning their most reliable voters, and they couldn't possibly put the country ahead of their own selfish interests.
If conservatives would advocate higher taxes on the mega-wealthy the Democrats would lose their most effective issue. Until conservatives recognize that the majority of people think those at the very top unfairly make too much money, they will continue to lose. And by the way, the top one percent in America includes a considerable number of people who financially support the Democratic Party (see below). For Republicans, raising tax rates at the top is a win - win proposition. So what is the problem?
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/02/obama-campaign-reveals-biggest-donors-around-election-day/
http://legalinsurrection.com/2011/10/the-top-1-probably-voted-disproportionally-for-obama/
The purpose of government regarding economic activity is to legislate and enforce rules and regulations that produce and maintain a fair and competitive commercial and industrial environment with as little intrusion and interference in the marketplace as possible. It should not be involved in determining how investment capital is allocated or in awarding subsidies or tax preferences to stimulate specific political agendas. Its only influence in the economy should be in purchasing goods and services from private organizations in fair competition that are necessary to effectively carry out its duties of providing national security and in the administration of required public services. Those services include the provision of a reasonable safety net for the less fortunate citizens who truly need support.
Despite being on the right side of the less versus more government issue, conservatives are losing the argument against the Progressives / Socialists / Marxists of the Democratic Party. They are losing the argument for two simple reasons. One is that this far left wing of the Democratic Party controls the vast majority of the popular media, incessantly indoctrinating the public with non-stop lies, misrepresentations and propaganda regarding the conservatives motives and agenda. Demonization of the opponent by fabricating lies and then accusing the opponent of lying is very effective politically when all the information the public hears is biased bullshit.
Since the electorate is still nearly evenly divided despite the brainwashing, as evidenced by the closeness of the last election, the lies could be easily overcome if conservatives would pull their heads out and understand the second reason they are losing the argument. The majority of Americans at all income levels really do believe that the top one or two percent on the income scale do not deserve the outrageous amounts of money they make, particularly corporate CEO's and the Lizards of Wall Street. And they are right. Why is that so hard for the most vocal conservatives to understand?
There really isn't a good argument against eliminating all tax preferences and raising tax rates on the mega-earners, those with the seven figure and up annual incomes. Tax preferences are nothing but government directed allocation of capital that promote special interests and increase corruption, a blatant violation of free market principles. Furthermore, I challenge anyone to produce strong evidence that raising marginal tax rates by another five to ten percent on the mega-wealthy will have a significant impact on capital investment or diminish incentives to work hard. Productive people will always strive to innovate and make more money than their peers. A marginal increase in taxes on earnings at the very top will not stop folks from working to maximize their income.
Certainly increasing tax rates and eliminating tax preferences must be leveraged with more spending cuts. After all, offering tax increases is the only way to get Democrats to do the right thing even though we always have to suffer through their tiresome temper tantrums. Lord knows there is still room for massive cuts in federal spending. The Government Accountability Office, a supposedly non-partisan agency that works for Congress, identified 1,362 government programs that duplicate positions with nearly identical jobs and similar responsibilities at a cost of $364.5 billion each year. That is the fat that needs to be eliminated, not the meat that Obama says is being cut by the $85 billion sequester that Chicken Little and his Democratic Party cohorts are throwing conniption fits over. That doesn't even mention the out of control entitlement programs that have us on a collision course with disaster. Of course the problem for the Dems is that cutting the fat instead of the muscle means canning their most reliable voters, and they couldn't possibly put the country ahead of their own selfish interests.
If conservatives would advocate higher taxes on the mega-wealthy the Democrats would lose their most effective issue. Until conservatives recognize that the majority of people think those at the very top unfairly make too much money, they will continue to lose. And by the way, the top one percent in America includes a considerable number of people who financially support the Democratic Party (see below). For Republicans, raising tax rates at the top is a win - win proposition. So what is the problem?
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/02/obama-campaign-reveals-biggest-donors-around-election-day/
http://legalinsurrection.com/2011/10/the-top-1-probably-voted-disproportionally-for-obama/
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