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The ‘American way of life’, small government, free market economics, has been under constant attack for over 100 years by Progressive’s, beginning even before the election of President Theodore Roosevelt, in 1904.
One may pick and choose which Historian one reads, but it appears, in general terms, that both organized Labor and the Suffragettes’, were instrumental in questioning the Constitutional limits placed on government powers.
Modern Liberals and Progressive’s cheer the efforts of those, a hundred years ago, who began regulating business and expanding the role of government in the affairs of the citizenry.
It has never been as simple as Conservative versus Liberal, Democrat/Republican, or even Right versus Left; never.
It is something much deeper, rooted in, one might suggest, the true feminine mystique, that part which finds comfort in being taken care of, and more; on the sliding scale of masculinity, those who are less able to provide for themselves.
An incremental and continuous expansion of the power of government; the consequential weakening of the rights of the individual, over more than a century, has brought us to the present time.
The set-aside of Federal Lands for National Parks, the institution of the once unconstitutional Income Tax, the ‘Trust Busting’ regulation of Oil and Railroad companies, the rise of Union Labor Laws supported by a friendly government, to re-create the ancient Guild society of Mercantile Europe, all, little by little set the scene.
The Neo-Socialist era of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who imposed Social Security on a bewildered public panicked by Depression and a general doubt about the ability of a free market to recover. Unemployed that continued to deplete the hope of people; until the onset of War when Defense Spending began to approach full employment once again as it was in the 1920’s.
As the current Speaker of the House of Representatives stated, “Public Health Care has been a goal of Progressives for over a Century…” That hue and cry was resumed at the close of World War Two, again, under Democrats and has been attempted time and time again until the present day.
Taxation now consumes approximately 30% of GDP, if the Nationalized Medicine passes Congress, it will add another 18% of the economy controlled by Government. The Cap and Trade Legislation would add even more.
The tipping point should have arrived earlier, but at 48% of all wealth being taken by Government, the question will no longer be in doubt, America will have become a ‘Social Democracy’, quite like modern Euro Nations.
The ‘Cross Roads’ implied by the title, is the crisis of a Nation to remain free or meekly accept a socialist form of government.
The dye is cast, the future, in a sense, pre-determined. The only question that remains is whether America the Beautiful will fold with a whimper or raise a fight to regain freedoms lost.
Amicus Veritas
One may pick and choose which Historian one reads, but it appears, in general terms, that both organized Labor and the Suffragettes’, were instrumental in questioning the Constitutional limits placed on government powers.
Modern Liberals and Progressive’s cheer the efforts of those, a hundred years ago, who began regulating business and expanding the role of government in the affairs of the citizenry.
It has never been as simple as Conservative versus Liberal, Democrat/Republican, or even Right versus Left; never.
It is something much deeper, rooted in, one might suggest, the true feminine mystique, that part which finds comfort in being taken care of, and more; on the sliding scale of masculinity, those who are less able to provide for themselves.
An incremental and continuous expansion of the power of government; the consequential weakening of the rights of the individual, over more than a century, has brought us to the present time.
The set-aside of Federal Lands for National Parks, the institution of the once unconstitutional Income Tax, the ‘Trust Busting’ regulation of Oil and Railroad companies, the rise of Union Labor Laws supported by a friendly government, to re-create the ancient Guild society of Mercantile Europe, all, little by little set the scene.
The Neo-Socialist era of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who imposed Social Security on a bewildered public panicked by Depression and a general doubt about the ability of a free market to recover. Unemployed that continued to deplete the hope of people; until the onset of War when Defense Spending began to approach full employment once again as it was in the 1920’s.
As the current Speaker of the House of Representatives stated, “Public Health Care has been a goal of Progressives for over a Century…” That hue and cry was resumed at the close of World War Two, again, under Democrats and has been attempted time and time again until the present day.
Taxation now consumes approximately 30% of GDP, if the Nationalized Medicine passes Congress, it will add another 18% of the economy controlled by Government. The Cap and Trade Legislation would add even more.
The tipping point should have arrived earlier, but at 48% of all wealth being taken by Government, the question will no longer be in doubt, America will have become a ‘Social Democracy’, quite like modern Euro Nations.
The ‘Cross Roads’ implied by the title, is the crisis of a Nation to remain free or meekly accept a socialist form of government.
The dye is cast, the future, in a sense, pre-determined. The only question that remains is whether America the Beautiful will fold with a whimper or raise a fight to regain freedoms lost.
Amicus Veritas
