Central planning
Each person is unique. Americans, perhaps better than any collection of people on earth, understand the power of individuality and its potential to fuel achievement. We know this because it has been proven throughout our history.
We have all witnessed how individual Americans, blessed with constitutional freedom, achieved greatness and prosperity -- ultimately for the common good of the nation.
They did so through the unfettered application of their unique talents and ambitions.
This innate freedom, this American liberty that encourages the individual to produce and that energizes our nation, is the very essence of our national being. Constitutional freedom was never and is not "bestowed" or "given" to Americans by any person, government, or temporary presidential administration.
It is our right, a right chronicled in our founding documents and sanctified in our nation's founding spirituality. It is also a right defended and paid for many times over with the blood and sacrifice of countless individual Americans.
Hype and chains
Today there are elitists in Washington who accuse us of
being "greedy" or "extremist" if we want our families safe and prosperous, our small businesses successful, and our nation secure.
These statists condescendingly scold us if we do not cede our individual rights, bend the knee to commonality, and succumb to mediocrity. We are purposefully guilt-mongered if we strive to be the best, to attain greatness, to succeed as individuals.
And especially if we justifiably spurn the radical environmental cultists and their false religion.
We now have power-wielding statists who accuse American citizens of radical extremism simply because we happen to be military veterans, require the security of our sovereign national borders, or balk at condoning or funding infanticide.
Such Americans, numbering in the tens of millions, are now routinely monitored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the IRS, and various covert surveillance agencies. We know this because Janet Napolitano, DHS Tsarina, stated so in her agency's now-infamous assessment on extremism.
Imposed central conformity demands obedience.
Obey and sacrifice
Have you noticed how well the "stimulus" is working?
Trillions squandered in TARP, TALF, TIFF, and PPPIP; $800 billion in pork stimulus; $3.5 trillion federal budget; a record $1 trillion budget deficit; Statist takeover of the auto industry; Statist takeover of the bank and mortgage industry; Increased taxes on small businesses and producers; Planned statist takeover of all U.S energy, education, and health care industries.
For every one public-sector job (and new mandatory union employee) created by the statists, 500 private-sector jobs are lost. General Motors and Chrysler have ceased function as private businesses. Business growth, investments, and re-investments are in the tank. Wall Street shows no confidence in the current administration. GNP and GDP are insignificant.
Other than ACORN, Planned Parenthood, special-interest activists, and Democrat politicians, just who or what has been stimulated?
The statists require Americans to sacrifice, give, share -- all while bearing the burden of job layoffs, tax increases, escalating energy costs, rising consumer prices, and fewer or shoddier public services.
Some must give, many will take
Take it local; Look to your own city, town, or village. How have your local economy or businesses been stimulated? They haven't and they will never be, at least not from the trillions of dollars wasted as outlined above.
Oh, you say your town has a new cop or fire fighter? Guess who will be burdened with their salary, health, and retirement costs three years hence. Or perhaps your village has a new consignment of stun guns, new community "organizers," or a new abortion clinic. How, exactly, does this stimulate the economy?
In any statist society, central planners have always required obedience and sacrifice from the producers.
On this many have quoted Ayn Rand, who reasoned: "...Where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there's someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice speaks of slaves and masters. And he intends to be the master."