SNIP


Problem is, we may have gone too far to get back. We have attained a
weird sort of government and economy that has creeping socialism on
one end and those in favor of and reaping the benefits of that have

It's not "creeping". We have leapt into the socialist sewer on
virtually every front given almost any opportunity. It is ironic
that Comrade Obama has admitted he may have to give up his
communist health insurance ambitions to make room for the socialist
economic bailout. Evil begets evil.

allowed a sort of reckless captialism on the other end to fund it.

Well, the problem is that it wasn't really free market capitalism at
all. It was more like oligarchic capitalism in which the largest
center of money in the private sector took profit when it appeared (as
they should), but laid off the risk and losses to the taxpayer
whenever possible (which should never have happened). This is not a
free market economy, it's a con game. This doesn't stop the Obama
communists from claiming that this was a "failure of the free market".
It was no such thing and they know it, but like all collectivists, at
their heart, they are liars.

Pretty much every left government in the past 100 years has
participated, but so have a good many of the the so-called right
governments. I note with disdain that the airlines got protection from
the Bush administration in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 even though
their problems long predated this, for instance. Why? Because the
sheeple howled that they had a "right" to a "fair" price. Just like
Clinton told them they have a "right" to housing. Just like Comrade Obama
invents a "right" to healthcare and so forth. In my very jaundiced (I
admit) view, it is this body of invented and fictitious rights
promised the sheeple that actually paved the way for the taxocrats and
the oligarchs to pillage the country's coffers, private and public.

Maybe you're right, we need to find a softer landing for now. But on
the other side of that, as you say, we need and immediate return to
limited government, individual responsibility, and self-sufficiency.
Every time some drooling ideologue insists on using tax money to
"help" people, we need to point out that this was a large part of what
led us to the meltdowns of 2008 ...


Even though the game is all but over, nobody is going to give up their
position if they don't have to.


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