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Originally Posted by Boon Mee taking more of my money thru tax increases |
The plain fact is the Bush administration has left the US government in such a financial hole, mainly thru' a combination of the tax cuts and the Iraqi fiasco, that whoever gets in is going to need to raise more taxes. Either that or radically cut the expenditure of the US government- which would be nice, but it won't happen. End of story.
When you consider the fact that the US gov't was in surplus when Clinton handed over the reins to Bush, the turnaround is quite staggering. Surely you are bright enough to see that a government or household spending Borrowed funds has to pay it back sometime? And it is you that has to pay it back.
Anyone can repeat simplistic catch phrases, and Collectivist people on the Left and Right regularly do this. It doesn't make them true. As things stand, the facts on the ground show that it is the Democrats that are the party of fiscal discipline and balanced bookkeeping, the Republicans the party of deficit financing, currency debasement and amateurish budgeting. This fact is undeniable when you look at the past four US government Presidential administrations, divided between Clinton and Bush, and their financial record.
So, currently, the Republicans are more Radical than the Democrats, who now stand as the only mainstream Conservative / Centrist party- if you abandon the PR hype, and look at the facts on the ground.
Ultimately though, both parties are Collectivist in nature and Federalist in action. Their actions expose the hollowness of their words- they believe in Big government, Big Government spending, and Federalism or the supreme power of the central government, and it's right to interfere in virtually all aspects of individual life. The Democrats are at least more honest about this fact.
Another laughable piece of blue collar Republican Hype is that the GOP is the party of small government!
No US government- certainly not in my lifetime- has increased the power, opacity and lack of accountability of the central government as much as the Bush administration. Nowhere near- so once again, the facts on the ground demonstrate the hollowness of words. Yet how few people see it?
Which brings me to my final observation.
Big government encourages stoopid people! 
Not because it necessarily reduces their ability to think, more that with the massive government resources devoted to PR and advertising (i.e selling their policies and actions), and de facto Central control of the Mass media and Academic establishment, people (who are generally intellectually lazy) just plain do not think for themselves, but as a Collective- not only are they told what to think, but what to think about. Subtly.
I am not a Collectivist, I am an Individualist. So I have to point out- America, you deserve the Government you've got. Your system has been warped and twisted away from under you, leaving most of you powerless and manipulated. It is up to you to take the power back.
Why do you think that the majority of the self described 'Right Wing Individualists' on TD have abandoned the US and live here in Thailand, you great Patriots you!
Just as I live here and not in Australia- to many the Nirvana of the western world.
Personally, I want as little as possible to do with central government.