Posted by
Dave Kooker on Friday, February 29, 2008 12:56:05 PM
I am in the firm belief that another free-market Great Depression is a healthy cleaning practice to the American soul. From all my observations, the human spirit does not work well for long in a complacent and/or affluent environment. The human spirit is programmed to work at its best when it is challenged. How many of you have observed a trust fund recipient or someone on the government dole? They are mediocre are best. A father starts and establishes a successful business then to only pass the operating responsibility of the successful business to a third party because the son/daughter has no initiative/drive to run a business but to spend his/her time drinking and other boredom breaking activities.
Since Ronald Reagan, America has enjoyed the longest and the most prosperous economic period of any time in America’s history. It took the efforts of an immoral tax and spend Democrat president Bill Clinton and a hyper-government spender Republican president G. W. Bush to break the back of America’s capitalistic based economy.
While America enjoyed the fruits of affluence and life’s struggles were minimized because of technology advances, many deviant behaviors went on an accelerated rate of progression. Bored ‘Orwellian’ liberals had time to justify their existence by promoting experimental worldviews into legislation just for the sake of finding something to do. Adults of children were too preoccupied with the pursuit of their own pleasures and allowed others to socially experiment with their children to create political activist who can not read and write and to become experts in the entire spectrum of human sexuality in the government school environment. The legal system was allowed to strip morality out of its laws to justify any deviant action that was considered unlawful 50 years ago.
The era of affluence also filled the government tax coffers to further strengthen the government’s confiscation power of taxation to accelerate the rate of taxation and the ability to expand wealth re-distribution to facilitate dependency behavior to the government. Now half of America’s population is on the recipient end of wealth re-distribution or have been taken off the income tax roles as political favor for their voting habits of expanding the entitlement functionality of government.
Our House of Representatives and Senate have become almost irrelevant and resembles more the Roman Senate during the times of Caligula. The enforcement & observance of the US Constitution is absolutely ignored. Politicians act in the manner of pure self power acquisition against Constitution at all cost which I would classify as treason against the sovern interest of America. The Federal governemnt is more concerned about steriods and pergury in Major League Baseball than the moral and financial survival of this Republic.
I believe that another free-market Great Depression is what America needs to bring ‘Hubris’ back to the American spirit. Return this country back to the ‘Yes I can conquer and handle any challenge myself and not the government’ attitude. Families and individuals without the distractions of affluence will be compelled to face challenges with Christian moral permanent solutions. To occupy their time with a time tested activities and re-align cause and effect relationships. Challenges bring the human mind to contemplate what is really important and reconsider spiritually of a religion that brought our founder fathers here in the first place.
There is another huge benefit of a free-market Great Depression. There would be a large reduction in the government taxes collected. Without the current amount of government taxes collected, the infrastructure of the tyrannical parasitic government would be crippled that facilitates the enablement of dependency and its power to forcibly confiscate private property of those who achieve. I like to describe the cure like chemotherapy where the body has to be sickened to kill the cancer, which is Liberalism/Socialism.
A weak Federal government would return this Republic to its intended structure of the 10th Amendment of the US Constitution (Sovernty Of The State). Power would be restored to the County and State level allowing taxes to be used more efficiently and taxes collected would be used kept local. The locality can choose the level of civility and prosperity they want to live. Socialism cannot take root when other areas are prosperous. Socialism has to inflict misery and poverty to all (except the ruling class) within its country’s boundaries to maintain its power.
Without the ability of the tyrannical parasitic government to redistribute wealth, those on the receiving side of the re-distribution will be forced to be responsible for their own actions. A woman knowing she will not receive any more money for producing another child will shut her legs tighter than Fort Knox. A hungry man will buy food instead of beer and cigarettes. Those jobs only considered fit for illegal aliens will be filled by anyone who is needs to purchase life-sustaining necessities. The illegal aliens without work would have to travel to another destination to find work, hopefully their home countries.
America will not have the funds to supply foreign aid to pay for worldwide alliances, let these hostile countries retaliate against us with unfair trade arrangements. America has so many resources (natural and labor) that we refuse to develop. Our need for energy will force us to use our own resources and be energy independent. America used to produce its own clothing, toys, and cars. A self-sufficient market will bring all available products to its real free-market price. Nothing will be subsidized.
The government has done more damage to this Republic by separating consequences from actions. Allow the consumers to pay the true cost of a product. Crime will be actually punished without being treated better than the taxpayer. Hard work and integrity gets to acquire its just reward of success. Let the American citizens experience the Islamic barbarians beating on the gates of the Western Civilization to understand the real animals they are instead of pacifying them in temporary peace with foreign aid.
I believe a free-market Great Depression will strip the warm blanket off of America and wake-up this once great Republic to the ideals what made it a great nation; God, Family, Country. I welcome the attitude adjustment. A country’s affluence without Christian morality is doomed to fail.
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