Click on the link below for a very well written, easy to understand article explaining where we are economically in the United States right now. You will notice immediately that our government is not currently, nor has it been for over twenty years, ANYWHERE NEAR these principles.
http://dailyreckoning.com/the-magic-formula/
The author, Nathan Lewis, calls the combination of:
1. lower taxes
2. stable money
the "Magic Formula." For proof of his claim, all one has to do is look to history.
But then again, this combination leads to freedom and prosperity, two things people in the United States don't seem to appreciate, understand, or even desire anymore. I guess years of indoctrination against what made America great are finally paying off.
Freedom is okay as long as YOU don't get to exercise it. After all, bureaucrats in Washington know better than you how you should live, and there is no shortage of special interest groups and whacko extremists who want to pass laws limiting your behavior.
Prosperity is only "allowed" if the government says you can have it. And the answer is probably "no" unless you receive it from them directly in the form of a handout, subsidy, bailout, welfare check, tax credit, or "redistributed benefit."
The "Progressive" movement was started in the late 1800's and is still lovingly adhered to by most of today's politicians (in both "parties," by the way). What does it mean? Let's get a quote directly from one of its early leaders, good ol' Teddy Roosevelt. Here's what he said:
"We grudge no man a fortune in civil life if it is honorably obtained and well used. It is not even enough that it should have been gained without doing damage to the community. We should permit it to be gained only so long as the gaining represents benefit to the community."
Hmmm, only someone who didn't earn his money himself could talk like this. But that's not all, even though this would be enough to make Karl Marx blush. He went on to say:
"Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it."
Aah, now we're to the "Greater Good" Communistic nonsense.
One has to wonder: did this guy ever, EVER read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights?
Have any of today's Progressives?
The founders established the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to guarantee the American people protection from exactly this kind of government overreach and control. But we cannot be protected by something we have forgotten exists, or if we become complicit in its destruction. We have got to stop falling for the Progressive bracket creep of our government, which takes an inch of freedom, then pushes for a yard.
There is no "progress" in the Progressive movement, unless you are part of the governing elite growing fat on its bulging power over the people. For the most part, the Progressive movement means:
Progressively higher taxes
Progressively more laws
Progressively more government involvement in private industry (can you say banks, automobiles, healthcare?)
Progressively inflated and therefore devalued money
Progressively less freedom
Progressively less prosperity
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