If anything, America has slouched toward socialism under Republicans.
To borrow from a great American, Frank Chodorov, McCain and Obama’sglib talk about property not their own amounts to the followingdeclaration:
Your earnings are not exclusively your own; we have aclaim on them, and our claim precedes yours; we will allow you to keepsome of it, because we recognize your need, not your right; butwhatever we grant you for yourself is for us to decide.
This is both socialism and serfdom – the blight of which GOPerscould have lessened during their interminable tenure, but didn’t. Ifanything, America has slouched toward socialism under Republicans.Perhaps not as far as direct taxation goes, but certainly in as much asborrowing and printing money is concerned. For this is how wastrel “W”has funded his orgiastic spending.
Taxation hits the pocketbook directly; government’s borrowing and counterfeiting does so indirectly – it devalues Joe the plumber’slabor, assets, purchasing power and savings. Unaware of how he’s beingground down, Generic Joe keeps on consuming until he crashes.
Speaking of whom, the trashing of Joe the plumber by the left hasbeen contemptible. Republicans, however, have countered incoherently.In the absence of first principles, not one Republican has been able todefend a man’s absolute right to his property – all of it.
None was able to explain why it is not up to some central planner –McCain or Hussein – to determine how much of Joe’s life is his; and howmuch of it is theirs.