Posted by
Mike Silverman on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:56:27 AM
That it's even being considered to bail out the auto industry ( again ), is a crime against the founding principles of our country, and puts the government ( and thus the nation) squarely onto the slippery slope of fascism, in fact at this point we have already fully engaged a part of our economy in fascist measure, with the tether of the lone rope keeping us from falling into the black hole below fraying at the edges. You must realize what it means to have the government taking ownership of formerly private industries. Does the name Hugo Chavez ring a bell? For "the good of the country" he took away private ownership of all oil companies in Venezuela. There is a theory called incrementalism, which states that the masses will accept anything if it is done gradually, allowing slow acclimation by the public. We are THERE. We are in the midst of incremental government takeover, inch-by-inch, of any industry on which the wealth of the nation is measured. The only brake we have is the right to vote, and possibly the Supreme Court, if it will intervene in this ..., which is itself questionable. The right to vote has proven USELESS in this past election cycle since the masses have voted in the most liberal president in history and given him a majority party control of the congress. The blindness of the public eye to the incrementalism of the weakening of free market capitalism is ASTOUNDING. Not that McCain would have been a lot better, after all he voted to allow Paulson to do the ridiculous things he's done so far with his multi-billion dollar budget. This is why we need genuine Conservatives to win the positions of power in our government, to stop this incremental destruction of our system of capitalism and economic freedom.
- Mike Silverman, Milford MA