I’m glad someone in the media is being honest about what they really believe is really going on here! Now we can at least engage in the battle for ideas without being called alarmist. The time to act to preserve freedom is now.
Follow-Up:
Some great points in the article to consider. It’s worth reading. I thought this was particularily insightful:
Bush brought the Age of Reagan to a close; now Obama has gone further, reversing Bill Clinton’s end of big government. The story, as always, is complicated. Polls show that Americans don’t trust government and still don’t want big government. They do, however, want what government delivers, like health care and national defense and, now, protections from banking and housing failure.
We must carefully consider the costs of such a government before we willingly embrace with open arms all that the government offers to deliver.
-MT
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so this is saying that we are all now socialists or that both (red and blue, republican and democrat) are acting as socialists?
I mean if our leaders are acting that way and we did elect them that does say something about us but i feel like what this article was saying is that our economy and the people… gov are the ones pushing it there…
thoughts??
I agree that Newsweek seems to be simply stating the obvious here, that we need to acknowledge what is really occuring in our economy and our nation. The process started with the Bush administration nationalizing (to a certain extent) many of our financial institutions, and is being continued by our pursuit of a giant government spending “bail-out” bill. We have, in fact crossed the line into socialistic governmental practices, and they have come from both sides of the aisle.
the article is worth reading.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/183663
I think it’s safe to say that the American people, myself included, are spoiled with the freedoms we enjoy and have enjoyed. Now that the going is tough, we look to the government to, (pun intended) bail our wallets and preferences out. Its probably also safe to assume that the American people might never be happy with the way the government works. Because for it to provide for us adequately, and to contain this growing world, government must grow. Encompassed with this growth however, is the animosity for governments expansion.
I think it’s a pretty accurate statement to say that the Republicans and Democrats are both big government entities. However, I don’t think that the Republicans and Democrats represent everyone in our society. The bipartisan system is both a curse and a blessing. With many more parties, our government could be a constantly changing power struggle, with each new party implementing its own dogma, and no one staying in power long enough to change anything. That said, it also means that when the two parties are as similar as our parties are currently, voting comes down to a couple major points for most people. In this case, either party would have spent a ridiculous amount of money attempting to bail out a sinking economy.