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Welfare-State Socialism

Wednesday, February 01, 2012

The Majority Consensus

Jeff Lukens recaps our sufferings under anti-Constitutional, atheistic, materialistic socialism.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Just Doing What Comes Naturally

Even the bluest of mainstream, socialist media express dismay over Jon Corzine’s misconduct.  They shouldn’t be surprised by it.

After all, Corzine, a huge financial contributor to the Democrat/Socialist Party when he was co-head of Goldman Sachs, became a Democrat/Socialist Senator from New Jersey, then that state’s governor.  In all those roles, Corzine displayed the liberal-progressive-socialist presumption that money other people earn is, of right, property of the socialist state to be redistributed as liberal-progressive-socialists see fit.

It’s hardly a big step from there to the presumption of entitlement to convert $1.2 billion of clients’ money to his firm’s use.

Monday, December 05, 2011

We Can Fervently Hope So

The welfare state’s reckoning

Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson makes the point that conditions for the unfolding economic disaster in Western Europe are dead ahead for the United States.  In both cases, disaster’s source is the same: the religion of liberal-progressive-socialism, which is conceived in fantasy and divorced from reality.

Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Democrat/Socialist Prefers Unemployment To Non-Union Jobs

Pelosi Vs. Boeing — And Jobs

Monday, October 31, 2011

Justice

Schadenfreude is not an admirable emotion.  But Jon Corzine deserves his misfortune.

As a Goldman Sachs partner he became immensely wealthy, as did his colleague Robert Rubin, who became Treasury Secretary under President Clinton.  Mr. Corzine became a United State Senator, a role in which he did his best to further our national bankruptcy with liberal-progressive-socialist deficit spending.  Later, as governor, he essentially bankrupted the state of New Jersey.

Now, displaying the same degree of imprudence, he has driven MF Global, his broker-dealer firm, into bankruptcy. At least he has finally done to his own money what he did his best, as a leading liberal-progressive, to do to the rest of us.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Mirror, Mirror On The Wall

Who’s the biggest comedian of all?

Joe Biden has to rank near the top of the list of politicians who entertain us with foot-in-mouth contortions.  None of the Republican candidates can lay a glove on his almost 40-year record of comical verbal blunders and outright fabrications.

Read the Washington Post’s Biden’s shocking job-loss figures.

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Buying A Pig In A Poke

Just What Is a “Green” Job? Obama’s minions don’t know; it’s just whatever they decide to call “green.” But that doesn’t stop them from wasting money on undefined targets. 

Doing so is in the Keynesian economic tradition, which says that government spending on anything, e.g., digging holes and refilling them the next day, re-digging the day after and re-filling ad infinitum, is “investment” in our future that, Obama promised in 2009, will revitalize the economy and drop unemployment below 8%.

It’s in that vein that New York Times socialist propagandist Paul Krugman clamors to increase Federal deficit spending to at least $8 trillion.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Liberal-Progressive Social Engineering In Retrospect

Read Nathan Glazer’s Warning: Social policy often does more harm than good

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Democrat/Socialist Party At It Again

To make Obama look less awful, a phony chart, reportedly concocted in Nancy Pelosi’s office, falsifies Federal debt increases since President Reagan’s terms in office.

Maybe Pelosi hired Michael Mann, Penn State’s global-warming climatologist, because of his experience in creating fraudulent data exhibits.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

The Morality Of The Liberal-Progressive Collectivist State

In Paul Krugman’s perspective, Judeo-Christian spiritual religion is immoral.  Only the collectivized, liberal-progressive-socialist political state can be the source of morality.