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Has the GOP Run Its Course?

Posted by Mike on Thursday, October 29, 2009 1:19:29 PM
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The 23rd congressional race is shaping up to be a battle in upstate New York between two liberals and one conservative. The Republican candidate was hand picked to represent views antithetical to most conservative Republicans. This sends the clear message that the Republican Party is just another materialistic, bureaucratic monstrosity that does not represent real American citizens.

Is there room for a fledgling third party?

The country is leaning more and more toward doing away with abortion. Any sensible person realizes that jobs and the economy cannot take precedence over whether future generations of Americans are allowed to be born, or are killed off. The great lie foisted upon America is slowly being unraveled.

Independents are more likely to choose a third party candidate when both of the major parties show contempt for American good sense and values. The real problem is a lack of real community. Capitalists abhor authentic community spirit because it means that people will not be as easily cajoled into accepting bribes in exchange for their liberty. Authentic immigrant communities did exist, but were put down and ridiculed by greedy upstarts who themselves lived isolated from any real community. These cynics in turn were rewarded and built up by the wealthy class, until even the political leadership of the communities lost its authenticity and became part of the materialistic mass culture. This is the source of America's problems today. But it is also the source of a greater good, because the seeds of the communities that have disappeared still exist and are indestructible. The cultural war rages on.
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Redistribution not Enough

Posted by Mike on Thursday, September 17, 2009 7:19:37 PM
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The current health care debate brings out the need to go beyond a simple redistributive model so that there can be real health care reform.

Private health insurance derives from the capitalist system. Insurance corporations are allowed to exist and regulated by the state for the purpose of making a profit for investors. Thus there is an incentive to cut costs by not providing adequate medical services. This is analogous to corporations outsourcing jobs overseas to bypass local taxation, environmental and safety standards, and to obtain a cheap source of labor. Many manufacturing jobs have already been lost in America because of this. This is not the fault of labor unions which protect workers. As there are no guarantees in life, the outsourcing of jobs happens because workers have the power to effectively demand justice. With this power comes responsibility, and the risk of possible job insecurity.

Moving beyond the capitalistic model, there is a need for all those directly affected by corporate activities, whether workers, consumers, or people living in the local community, to become stakeholders and actively involved in the decision making process. In the case of plant relocation, for example, an enterprise organized as a cooperative would factor in the harmful effects on workers and their families. Decisions could then be made perhaps for managers and workers to take a pay cut in order to make the business more competitive, or perhaps to scale back production for local consumption only. At least these alternatives would be better than stopping production altogether.

The same should apply with health care. The current proposals will not work. They will require more government spending and government mandates which will drive private health insurers out of business. Neither the American families nor the health care providers will be given a stake in decision making. That will all be done by a government czar.

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Helping People Help Themselves

Posted by Mike on Monday, July 20, 2009 11:10:55 PM
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Democrats begin with a misconception or flawed premise that diversity in government and in industry is always good. This may derive from flaws within the capitalist economic system.

It does no good to elect or appoint people to run a nation or enterprise based upon their ethnic differences. Individuals of minority status bear the burden of offering something of value to the majority culture. If they have nothing good to offer, they should not be given a free handout. That only results in dependency.

It is the responsibility of the people to secure peace, tranquility and happiness. Government at the local level can always offer assistance for people genuinely trying to help themselves. This is subsidiarity. Simply sending out more welfare checks doesn't solve anything. Federal and state government must therefore be reduced to only handling problems too complex to be handled at the local level.

The reform of health care is a local issue, not state or federal.

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America Needs Less Government

Posted by Mike on Monday, June 15, 2009 5:55:21 PM
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In an advanced capitalist society like the US, the ruling elite maintains control by insuring that those who are appointed to high government office, and those who decide what is allowed through communications media, are not part of mainstream America. To a large extent, money controls both politics and the media. This means that the American people are not getting their just due. The system is basically rigged so that key appointments are given to those unworthy to serve, but who are sycophants or "boot lickers" of the wealthy elite.

The United States is a small country. The standard by which our judges make decisions is not based upon principles of justice, but rather upon conformity with past legal precedent. Judges are in effect bean counters, doling out penalties utilizing an elaborate schedule based upon what is most irritating to the powers that be.

Today, we have on our Supreme Court one justice who is a son of Italian immigrants, one who is African-American, and one who is a Jewish woman. We are about to see another woman on the court who happens to be Puerto Rican. Each are outside the traditional mainstream of the legal profession. There is nothing wrong with them being outside the mainstream. It is simply the case that these appointments all have one thing in common, that is to perpetuate control by wealthy capitalists over the mainstream majority of Americans. These dynastic elitists believe that they are ordained to control society by virtue of their birth into wealth and privilege. They are good at exploiting those outside the mainstream by offering them a "ticket" to advancement, this being to take the places of those in the mainstream who would otherwise replace the elitists, namely the majority of white males but also many white females and others in America who are part of the mainstream, through such means as racial and gender preferences and affirmative action.

The debate about health care, for example, according to one liberal Senator from Vermont, is not about whether the government will dictate health care decisions, but whether doctors will dictate health care decisions, including life and death, as they are already doing in many managed health care programs. Of course, government will always set the standards by which the doctors are allowed to dictate. It is assumed by the liberal elite that the majority of people have no right to make their own health care decisions. To the globalist elite, the people of America are just pawns.
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