Thursday, October 30, 2008

Socialist

An old friend of mine recently wrote in his blog about America electing a socialist in the upcoming election. The move has been a slow one. It started during WWI with Woodrow Wilson who tried to start the League of Nations. It continued with the Income Tax and the elimination of one of the powers that the States had over the Federal Gubment, with the passing of the 17th amendment. The state legislatures had always elected them as they were seen as ambassadors to the federal government. Then you throw in the Federal Reserve System and Fiat Money the progressives just got about all they wanted.

Then during WW2, FDR tried to pack the supreme court to pass the new deal. The Constitution does not say how many Justices the SCOTUS is supposed to have but tradition has always been nine. FDR wanted to add at least three more. FDR also tried to enact a Second Bill of Rights with things like a guaranteed wage, a house and other things that are not guaranteed in the US Constitution.

Then we have LBJ and the greatest expansion of Federal Power that this country has ever seen with the Great Society Program. We are still paying for it today with money and cultural destruction and the Gubment being the slave master with mostly minorities paying the price.

My point is that we have been drifting towards it for awhile as many American realize that they can vote themselves a pay raise and politicians more than willing to give it to them to maintain power.

The only reason that we are not as far down the road to socialism as we could be is because of the 8 years of the great one himself, Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening tonight...

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

So the "The One", the new kind of politician, is just a re-tread? So, his "change" is not really change, just the same old thing with a new spin on it? Those are some great points. I hope people take notice.