Progressive Destruction

"It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of it laws and constitution." Thomas Jefferson , Notes on Virginia Query 19, 1781


For over a century we have allowed the Progressives/Liberals from both parties to extend their noses under the tent that houses our constitution. It was Teddy Roosevelt who made the first pronouncement on national health care calling for its implementation. As president he signed the infamous Sherman Anti-Trust Act, a major intrusion on capitalism that would ultimately see a very cozy relationship develop between business and government. Teddy, darling of the conservative Republicans to this day, was not a conservative based on the standards of our Founders and Framers.


Teddy's cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, put us on the path to socialism with a wide variety of monstrous spending programs among them the world's greatest Ponzi Scheme, Social Security. In addition to this program, now on the verge of going bankrupt, FDR proposed a "Second Bill of Rights" that included a right to a job, a right to a house and a host of other rights that were not ever going to be rights. A Right is something the government can never take away from you such as the right to free speech and the right to defend yourself and your family. The government that is large enough to buy you a house can also take that house away.


Since 1960 we have steadily headed into fascism. It was John F. Kennedy who would take us into the Viet Nam war when he sent Special Forces there to assist the South Vietnamese. This action was taken to get even with Khrushchev for the tongue lashing he gave Kennedy at their meeting in Berlin. Let us not forget that it was JFK who ignored the warnings that the Soviets were putting missiles in Cuba. At the last moment the US sent a flight over Cuba to take pictures. Lo and behold we found missiles that were moments away from being capable of reaching the US. Kennedy's tardiness put us on the edge of nuclear war.


With Kennedy's assassination, Lyndon Johnson ascended to the office of the president of the United States. Known for his slick ways in Congress, Johnson would continue them as president. He gave us the "Great Society" with its "War on Poverty" (note the crisis mode with "war"). How did Johnson fight this contrived war on poverty? Well, one of the things he did was declare that mothers would get a government check for themselves and their children as long as there was no man in the home. This in and by itself was devastating on the inhabitants, many of them black Americans, who lived in the inner city. Johnson proudly proclaimed that his administration had passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, with the help of Republicans not his Democrats, single handily did more to destroy the black family since the days of slavery. He did not create a Great Society, he laid the ground work for minority dependence in a "Welfare State." To date trillions of dollars have been shoveled into the hands of the poor who have now, as Benjamin Franklin warned "become comfortable in their poverty."


In addition to the "War on Poverty", it was LBJ who would give us Medicare and Medicaid. These programs were actually a fulfillment of promises made in Social Security. Both of these programs are on the verge of bankruptcy and yet we are now discussing a massive health care program that will ruin us.


The two remaining stars of the Progressives in the waning days of the 2oth century were Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Carter took us into one of the worse recessions that we had ever seen. Unemployment rose and we found ourselves in an economic state called deflation. On top of that interest rates raced into the stratosphere. On top of that Iran went through a revolution and at the beginning of that revolution grabbed a host of Americans and held them hostage for over 400 days. These hostages were released as Ronald Reagen gave his inaugural speech. Jimmy Carter was so paralyzed by this event that he all but boarded himself in the White House.


Bill Clinton is another star Progressive. Telling the nation that he would not raise the taxes on the middle class he proceeded to do just that. Under his administration we had Islamic Terrorists attack the trade center and the USS Cole. Like Obama, Clinton and his wife attempted to give us a massive health care program that would have given the government control of one seventh of the economy. He put the cherry on the sundae of his administration with his affair, something he lied about, with Monica. George Will was kind when he noted that Clinton was a lousy man but a good president. Clinton fans told us how smart he was. This was a guy who couldn't keep a sleazy affair with a woman, but a few years older then his daughter, hidden. On top of that Mrs. Clinton was lauded and pitied by the media elite who told us she was the smartest woman in the world. The vote, at least here, is quite the opposite and I believe that to be the case with most Americans. We know when we have put a skunk into the White House.


By way of full disclosure I want to note that I was not thrilled with Richard Nixon. I disagreed with his Price Controls because they solve nothing. I certainly did not support his cover up, however, had he decided to stay I do believe that if you look at the charges drawn up by the House of Representatives, that Nixon would not have been found guilty by the Senate. Nixon, however, followed Truman's advice and got out of the kitchen


Neither Bush did a whole lot for me. I was not thrilled with Bush 41 who told us in his inaugural speech that we had to be a "kinder, gentler nation". He missed an opportunity by ending Desert Storm and he certainly disappointed the Kurds when we did not come to their aid. At the same time it was rumored that Bush 41 was a globalist something I believe would cost us our sovereignty.


Bush 43 was also a concern with his "compassionate conservatism." Conservatives by their nature and with their wallets have shown for decades who is compassionate and who isn't. I felt a bit insulted by that phrase. On top of that, Bush 43 made a number of missteps the first being the failure to bomb Afghanistan, the home of bin Laden, on 9-11 or 9-12. In addition, he allowed the Progressives to beat him up on Iraq and didn't bother to fight back putting his house in order. His cherry on the sundae was the failure to notice or warn us about the economic mess we are in at this time.


This leaves us with one relatively good president in the past four plus decades and that is Reagan. Reagan realized that we needed to maintain a position of strength while praising democracy and trading with nations around the world. One of the basic beliefs of our Founders and Framers. He stated that we had to keep the money out of the hands of Congress because they were of a nature to come up with programs to help us and these programs would cost money. Here we are looking at a national debt in excess of 11 trillion dollars and that does not include the price of Social Security and Medicare. Ronald Reagan recognized the Democratic Revolution that was going on and he knew that the USSR was in trouble economically. He moved to end the Cold War. He was the only president to believe that we could win the Cold War and it was a central point of his administration. Those who followed dropped the ball. Now we are in the hands of a fascist. Coming at us with guns ablazing. Barack Obama is intent on making this a fascist nation. Pray it does not happen.