The Auto Bailout

November 13, 2008 | Filed Under Business, Communism, Congress, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, GOP, Government, Corruption, Media Bias, News, Publius Contributor, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Thomas Brewton | No Comments

-By Thomas E. Brewton

Classic socialism in action.

Socialism is characterized by ignoring the free marketplace and empowering intellectual planners to control the economy with a cocoon of regulations and directives. In Europe (and today in China) economically moribund companies are designated national champions and kept alive at taxpayer expense, even when they can’t compete in the free market without government subsidies.

This flows from socialist governments’ belief that full employment can be maintained only by massive deficit spending. J. M. Keynes, the economics guru of the the New Deal era, opined that it would be suitable government policy to hire men to dig holes one day, fill them up the next day, then re-dig them and refill them ad infinitum.
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Pursuing the Common Good

November 9, 2008 | Filed Under Budget, Business, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Corruption, News, Publius Contributor, Society/Culture, Taxes, Thomas Brewton | No Comments

-By Thomas E. Brewton

R. R. Reno explores the moral dimensions of capitalism.

History demonstrates conclusively that free-market capitalism increases everyone’s standard of living far more and far faster than any variety of liberal-progressive-socialism. The question Mr. Reno asks, however, is whether free-market capitalism must be indifferent to the broader aspects of the common good. Must it be, as liberal-progressive-socialists contend, driven by selfish greed?

My own view, frequently stated in this blog, is a supplement to Mr. Reno’s analysis. It is that a society of limited government, one with wide economic and political liberties for individuals, must be counterbalanced by a strong commitment to individual religious morality.
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Gnostic Education

November 7, 2008 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Education, Government, Corruption, News, Publius Contributor, Socialism, Society/Culture, Thomas Brewton | No Comments

-By Thomas E. Brewton

Why are today’s students often taught to hate the United States?

Phyllis Schlafly sketches the aims of too many teachers’ colleges who train our teachers (Teaching “Social Justice” in Schools).

Those aims are the ones notoriously espoused by Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, Senator Obama’s friends and co-workers in the Chicago schools project funded by the Annenberg Foundation.
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Labor Unions: A Brood of Vipers

November 4, 2008 | Filed Under Business, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Media Bias, News, President, Publius Contributor, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Thomas Brewton, Unions | No Comments

-By Thomas E. Brewton

Labor unions make us poorer and they prolong recessions.

Senator Obama’s short-sighted support for wealth-redistribution taxation and for socialist labor unions is nothing new for Democrat/Socialist politicians.

Both in England and in the United States, labor unions led the political assault to overwhelm the individualistic traditions that made those nations great and to impose socialistic planning and regulation.

Between 1933 and 1940, Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal nationalized agriculture, promoted the expansion of membership and power of communist-led labor unions, and pushed businesses into the National Recovery Administration (NRA), an imitative version of Mussolini’s Fascist state corporatism.
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Crowding Obama

November 3, 2008 | Filed Under Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Government, Corruption, Media Bias, News, President, Publius Contributor, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Thomas Brewton | No Comments

-By Thomas E. Brewton

The mindless throngs assembled to worship their savior, Senator Obama, bring to mind José Ortega y Gasset’s The Revolt of the Masses.

Street mobs and mass demonstrations are a product of socialism, beginning with the Parisian mobs who assaulted the Bastille on July 14, 1789, then dragged government ministers from their homes and hanged them from the lamp posts.

Everything about these mass demonstrations is anathema to the Constitution’s Bill of Rights, which was intended to protect individual political liberties from the power of the mob. Today, liberal-progressive Federal judges justify abrogation of individual liberties, particularly property rights, by reference to mob sentiment.
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Mandating a Perfect World

October 25, 2008 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Communism, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Europe, History, Media Bias, News, Publius Contributor, Security/Safety, Socialism, Society/Culture, Thomas Brewton | No Comments

-By Thomas E. Brewton

Liberal-progressives’ conception of social justice always requires the political state forcibly to impose some form of equality.

Social justice, in the catechism of the socialist religion, is no more than an exertion of raw power to force people to conform to what liberal-progressives believe conditions ought to be.

Forced equality was the mode in the world’s first socialist political state, Revolutionary France. After the 1789 Revolution, France was reeling under wild swings from monarchy, to attempts at constitutional government, to the rule of street mobs. Matters came to a head with the execution of King Louis XVI in January, 1793. The Assembly’s Revolutionary Tribunal and the Committee of Public Safety announced, “It is wholly necessary to establish briefly the despotism of freedom in order to crush the despotisms of Kings.” (quoted in André Maurois, A History of France).

What “the despotism of freedom” meant was the bloody Reign of Terror. The Revolutionary Tribunal, during fourteen months of continuous sessions, condemned thousands of people to the guillotine as purported enemies of the Revolution. Altogether, more than 70,000 French citizens – men, women, children of all ages – were murdered in the name of Freedom, Equality and Brotherhood.
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Murder by Abortion Leads to Societal Death

October 23, 2008 | Filed Under Abortion, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Family, Media Bias, News, Publius Contributor, Society/Culture, Thomas Brewton | No Comments

-By Thomas E. Brewton

Liberal-progressivism’s preoccupation with self-indulgent hedonism, evidenced glaringly in abortion advocacy, is literally death, the abnegation of social cohesion through abandonment of personal responsibility and morality.

A vote for Senator Obama is a vote for death. The spread of AIDs via rampant sexual promiscuity, facilitated by abortion, is only one small aspect of the phenomenon.

Read At Long Last: Obama, Abortion, and the Courts.

Abortion “rights” leave us only a short step away from the eugenic birth-control policies advocated by openly tyrannical socialist regimes such as Adolph Hitler’s National Socialist German Workers Party and Mao’s socialist China. Hitler forced sterilization of supposedly inferior races and regulated marriage to promote Aryian culture. Mao and subsequent Chinese regimes limited families to a single child and encouraged infanticide of female babies.
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