Economic Warning: Progressivism has brought us to the brink

clipped from www.cbsnews.com When the stock market soars or plunges, everyone pays attention. But short term results aren’t that important to the man you’re about to meet. David Walker thinks the biggest economic peril facing the nation is being ignored, and for nearly two years now he has been traveling the country like an Old Testament prophet, urging people to wake up before its too late. Who is David Walker and why should we care? As correspondent Steve Kroft first reported earlier this year, he is the nation’s top accountant, the comptroller general of the United States. He’s totaled up our government’s income, liabilities, and future obligations and concluded that our current standard of living is unsustainable unless some drastic action is taken. And he’s not alone. It’s been called the “dirty little secret everyone in Washington knows” – a set of financial truths so inconvenient that most elected officials don’t even want to talk about them, which is exactly why David Walker does.

We are in deep you know what! Wake up people and SAVE YOUR FREAKIN” MONEY. I suggest buying Euros. We need to regroup, America. We have been destroyed enough by these idiots in Washington and the useful idiots that carry the banner for the Republicans and Democrats. A vast majority of this country is Conservative or Libertarian and we have no party. We only have the Constitution and that is being ripped apart by International treaties on which the people have no recourse.

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“I would argue that the most serious threat to the United States is not someone hiding in a cave in Afghanistan or Pakistan but our own fiscal irresponsibility,” Walker tells Kroft.

“He calls it a fiscal wake up tour, and he is telling civic groups, university forums and newspaper editorial boards that the U.S. has spent, promised, and borrowed itself into such a deep hole it will be unable to climb out if it doesn’t act now. As Walker sees it, the survival of the republic is at stake.”

Mommy Fascism ( or Statism, if you like )

clipped from www.americanthinker.com Liberals would say that “liberal fascism” is an oxymoron, and a hateful one at that.� How could liberals have anything to do with right-wing fascism?� But sixty years ago Hayek in The Road to Serfdom had already made the connection.� He quoted Peter Drucker:� “Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.”� Communists and fascists, Hayek continues, “compete for the same type of mind and reserve for each other the hatred of the heretic.” they belong to the same nostalgic tradition as the communists and fascists. For Goldberg American liberal fascism begins with the Progressive movement that flourished at the turn of the twentieth century and reached its full flood in the “we planned in war” economy of the Wilson administration in World War I.� American voters turned the Progressives out in 1920, so when the Progressives returned to power in 1932 with the New Deal they rebranded themselves as liberals.� Liberal or Progressive, the New Deal was fascist

“When we get to today’s liberal fascism Jonah (Goldberg) describes what I would like to call mommy fascism. The fascism of the 1930s was a daddy fascism featuring a militarized command economy and smart CCC uniforms with everyone marching in step. Mommy fascism is different and Jonah takes the reader through Hillary Clinton’s It Takes a Village to show how it works.”

“If Orwell’s 1984 described a masculine dystopia then Clinton’s Village echoes the feminine dystopia of Brave New World “where man is smothered with care, not cruelty” from the very cradle. ”

New Bill of Rights

clipped from www.manbottle.com We hold these truths to be self-evident: that a whole lot of people are confused by the Bill of Rights and are so dim that they require a Bill of No Rights. ARTICLE I: You do not have the right to a new car, big screen TV or any other form of wealth. More power to you if you can legally acquire them, but No one is guaranteeing anything. ARTICLE II: You do not have the right to never be offended. This nation is based on freedom, and that means freedom for everyone – not just you! You may leave the room, change the channel, express a different opinion, etc., But the world is full of idiots, and probably always will be. Accept it. ARTICLE III: You do not have the right to be free from harm. If you stick a screwdriver in your eye, learn to be more careful, do not expect the tool manufacturer to make you and all your relatives independently wealthy. ARTICLE IV: You do not have the right to free food and housing. Americans are the most charitable people to be found, and will gladly help anyone truly in need, but we are quickly growing weary of subsidizing generation after generation of professional couch potatoes who achieve nothing more than the creation of another generation of professional couch potatoes.ARTICLE V: You do not have the right to free health care. That would be nice, but from the looks of public housing, we’re just not interested in public health care. ARTICLE VI: You do not have the right to physically harm other people. If you kidnap, rape, intentionally maim, or kill someone, don’t be surprised if the rest of us try to see you fry in the electric chair. ARTICLE VII: You do not have the right to the possessions of others. If you rob, cheat or coerce away the goods or services of other citizens, don’t be surprised if the rest of us get together and lock you away in a place where you still won’t have the right to a car, a big screen color TV or a life of leisure. ARTICLE VIII: You don’t have the right to demand that our children risk their lives in foreign wars to soothe your aching conscience. We hate oppressive governments and won’t lift a finger to stop you from going to fight if you want to. However, we are not required to parent the entire world and do not want to spend so much of our blood and money battling each and every little tyrant with a military uniform and a funny hat. ARTICLE IX: You don’t have the right to a job. All of us sure want you to have one, and will gladly help you along in hard times, but we expect you to take advantage of the opportunities of education and vocational training laid before you to make yourself useful. ARTICLE X: You do not have the right to happiness. Being an American means that you have the right to freely pursue happiness – which, by the way, is a lot easier if you are unencumbered by an over abundance of idiotic laws created by those of you who were confused by the Bill of Rights.

In the name of fairness and tolerance

clipped from www.intellectualconservative.com The attack upon free expression is more varied than one may think, but I’ll start with the obvious.� Most have heard of the euphemistically-named “Fairness Doctrine,” Then we have hate speech laws, which empower governments to punish people of politically incorrect passions.� In Europe, Canada and elsewhere, average citizens have suffered persecution for criticizing homosexuality and Islam and voicing other unfashionable truths.� And as hate speech laws become more entrenched and accepted, the list of taboos of the tongue grows longer�– and more widespread.� Two Canadian “Human Rights Commissions” are investigating columnist Mark Steyn and the country’s bestselling news magazine, Macleans, because it published an excerpt from Steyn’s book containing criticism of Islam. A great victory for the Left is that it has dumbed-down civilization, And what of us�– you?� If you are a “hater,” your voice will grow fainter, fainter, fainter . . ..

Excerpts from The Race for the American Mind. An article by Selwyn Duke.