THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XIII, Issue # 273, November 19, 2011
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
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SYSTEM FAILURE ON A GLOBAL SCALE
By Alan Caruba
THE TIMES IN WHICH WE LIVE: LOSS OF FAITH IN NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL BANKING SYSTEMS, AGGRAVATED
BY THE FAILURE OF SOVEREIGN NATION-STATES TO ACT IN A PRUDENT FASHION TO PROTECT THE WEALTH, RIGHTS, &
NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY OF THEIR CITIZENS -- COMMUNISM, SOCIALISM, STATISM, & THE REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH
BY GOVERNMENT MANDATE -- ISLAM, THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION, & THE ISLAMIST JIHAD AGAINST AMERICA & THE WEST
-- CONTROL OF POPULATIONS FOR THE ENRICHMENT OF THOSE HOLDING THE REINS OF POLITICAL POWER -- EXPANDING
BODY OF LAW & PUBLIC POLICY DESIGNED TO KEEP POPULATIONS FROM DEMANDING MORE FREEDOM FROM RAPACIOUS
TAXATION & WASTEFUL GOVERNMENT BORROWING & SPENDING
FULL STORY:
We are living in times when the structures involving the global financial system, national security, and self-governance
are under attack, decaying or just self-destructing, due to all the ills to which humanity is prone.
Wars in the Twentieth Century were always an example of either the failure of nations to resolve their differences or of
the ancient human inclination to steal whatever they can from their neighbor. Wars organize this into armies for that
purpose. The other cause for war is the necessity to rid the neighborhood of the crazy guy who’s hoarding weapons
and building bombs.
What is occurring of late, however, goes beyond the usual casus belli to something far greater, a loss of faith in national
and international banking systems, aggravated by the failure of nations to act in a prudent fashion to protect the wealth
of their citizens and their national sovereignty.
The cause of this is Socialism, the polite name for Communism. Like Islam, it exists for world domination, the control of
the population for the enrichment of those holding the reins of power. It is no accident that the U.S. Congress is filled
with millionaires or those who soon will be.
Communism, the creation of a man who never held a job in his life, Karl Marx, and its theoretically gentler version,
Socialism, has proved to be a failure wherever it was implemented. It is always introduced as the antechamber to utopia,
a better life for everyone and it has always led to the slaughter of millions in the name of achieving it. It is just another
form of slavery.
Socialism, as practiced throughout the United States and Europe, dependent as it is on the “redistribution of wealth” in
the form of “entitlement” programs is now crashing down around the heads of various elected leaders.
As the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher, once famously said, “Sooner or later you run out of
other people’s money.”
When you pile on debt beyond the mind’s capacity to imagine and you empower “super committees” or hold desperate
meetings as are occurring in Europe, public faith in national currencies begins to disappear and, with it, a rational world
in which goods and services generate income.
We are now 66 years since the end of World War Two, the war that followed “the war to end all wars,” World War One.
Peace — the absence of war — lasted a scant twenty-one years in Europe before the latter cataclysm began in 1939.
Times of turmoil are the perfect opportunity for tyrants of every description to emerge, organize the collective anger,
and launch new wars. In the past 66 years of “peace,” there has been a succession of wars, usually between Communist
and Capitalist nations such as the Korean and Vietnam Wars or civil wars. The recent wars and revolutions in the
Middle East have been about oil and who gets to pump it out of the ground.
Threatening the entire world is the rise of the Islamic Revolution. Islam is less a religion than a battle plan for global
conquest that has the added fillip of enslaving its adherents in a faith system that demands total obedience on pain of
death. Unbelievers, in general, face this threat. Israel, in particular, always has.
Capitalism isn’t a perfect system, subject to periodic cycles of recession and depression, but it does require a greater
measure of individual freedom than any other in order to encourage the kind of innovation and risk-taking that creates
vast wealth-producing economies.
The problem the West is facing has been brought on by the profligate and often corrupt waste of the people’s wealth.
This has been the result of metastasizing laws whose ultimate purpose is to keep populations from demanding more
freedom from rapacious taxing, borrowing, and spending. Even central banks are powerless against this. Ours, the
Federal Reserve System, has responded by printing dollars out of thin air.
On November 18, 2011, a proposed constitutional amendment that would require Congress to balance the budget failed
in the U.S. House Representatives. The U.S.A. is currently $15 trillion in debt. The worst fears of our Founding Fathers
are coming true. Presiding over the nation is a Marxist ideologue and his henchmen.
When the Congress of the United States of America refuses to obey the limits of the U.S. Constitution, you have failure.
When that same Congress refuses to reform “entitlement” programs and reduce massive spending, you have failure.
When the Federal Reserve System — a central bank that is not a part of the federal government — owns most of the
nation’s debt, you have failure.
In my lifetime, the United States of America went from a largely Capitalist system and society to one of near total
government control. It is Socialism, supported by an insane system of taxation lacking even the appearance of fairness.
The United States has moved too far away from the purpose of the Constitution, established to “form a more perfect
union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and
secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity…”
We are that posterity.
In the decades since the last Great Depression, a succession of Congresses has bankrupted the nation once again. It is
also happening in Europe because nations like Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, and France thought they too could
defy common sense and fiscal prudence.
It is system failure on a global scale.
Americans and the citizens of Europe are the unwilling victims of too much government, too much regulation, too much
corruption, too much taxation, and the general inclination of those in charge to acquire as much wealth for themselves,
while keeping the rest of the population complacent with “redistribution of wealth” schemes that always fail.
The Tea Party movement is calling for a restoration of America. We have precious little time to do that and it is the
Democratic Party, in league with labor unions, who oppose that goal.
© Alan Caruba, 2011
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Alan Caruba's commentaries are posted daily at Warning Signs, his popular blog -- and thereafter on dozens of other
websites and blogs. His monthly report on new books is posted at Bookviews.
A business and science writer, Caruba is the Founder of The National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information
about "scare campaigns" designed to influence public opinion and policy.
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