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Audacity of Truth
Spinsational:
"We were so busy just getting stuff done and dealing with the immediate crises that were in front of us that I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people about what their core values are and why we have to make sure those institutions are matching up with those values."
-Obama, explaining recent Democrat losses, 1/20/10
Velvet Lair- The sexiness of winning the battle of good versus evil January 26, 2010
- Ever wonder why? January 12, 2010
- The decision to bench Peyton Manning: Right or wrong? December 28, 2009
- Is my dad turning into a metrosexual? November 24, 2009
- My “Things To Do For Christmas” list November 23, 2009
Fading capitalism
(H/T – Doug Mataconis)
Rassmussen Reports released a poll today saying that just 53 percent of Americans surveyed believe that capitalism is better than socialism, with 27 percent unsure which is better and 20 percent saying socialism is better.
The worse news is that those under 30 are almost evenly divided, with 37% saying capitalism is better, 33% saying socialism is better, and 30% unsure of what they think. It is not a coincidence that the radicals of the late 1960s were entering the decision-level positions of the education establishment 30 years ago.
The person responsible for the linked write-up attempted to mitigate the implications by pointing to another survey done at the end of last year that found 70% of those surveyed believed a free-market economy was better than one managed by the goverment (with 15% each saying government-managed economy and unsure which is better). Even that poll contained bad news; that same poll found 52% believed government needed to regulate “big business” more than it is.
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It could be said that there is a measure of poetic justice that the people that will be destroyed and who will be responsible for paying interest on the obama trillions in deficits are those same young people.
Now, the thing to do is figure out how they are going to repudiate these same debts that dear leader is going to run up. Will they abrogate or inflate away?
It goes w/o saying that they will not feel responsible for these debts that their dear leader is going to run up. They’ll find blame somewhere, and that somewhere will be their political opponents, no doubt.
They’re both worse.
Well, nations have life spans, just as much as people. The US is approaching the end of its own, due to the cancer known inaccurately as ‘liberalism’.
Perhaps the lesson is, that humans cannot govern themselves as free men and women–inevitably, the lure of having a ‘Big Mommy’ in the shape of ‘intrusive government’ will always be too seductive….