AMERICA'S GREATNESS UNDER ATTACK FROM WITHIN: Thomas Sowell on Our President

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It was started to create follow-on dialog to an 'advocacy' ad placed in the March 31, 2009 national edition of the Wall Street Journal - entered on the April 2, 2009 post of this blog.
Our goal is to provide a forum for intelligent dialog re: the extraordinary greatness of our Country that has made it, by any measure, the most prolific contributor of 'goodness' in the history of mankind. We are concerned about the ignorance and complacency that currently surrounds this subject. Read "More About The Blog" below to learn more.

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These are really scary times. The President and the Congress are aggressively pursuing an agenda that attacks or ignores the private sector and building up a staggering national debt while a good part of the Country is sitting on the sidelines hoping that our first black President will "succeed" - with no clue as to what the disastrous consequences of that success will be for our children and grandchildren - saddled with debt and little chance to create wealth.

No serious thinker doubts the fact that we are at a tipping point in our history - torn between adopting the European model of worldwide political correctness, a socialistic concern for the welfare of the general populace and its result in mediocrity vs. continuing the pursuit of the qualities that has made America great - a premium placed on individual freedoms (that has attracted immigrants from all over the world), capitalism, ingenious hard work and its result in exceptionalism.

While it is disconcerting that a good part of the developed world (whose current well-being has, to a large degree, been the result of the goodness and sacrifice of America's citizens) resents the strength of our leadership postion in world affairs and is hoping that we will follow them into their state of mediocrity, our primary challenge is to deal with the attack from within. This 'attack' includes the misguided pursuit of a socialist ideology that preys on the complacency and ignorance of Americans - a phenonomen that has been growing for at least two decades.

A supermajority of those who read the WSJ ad understood its underlying premise (the heading for this blog). Yet, it is disturbing that those who disagreed prefer to focus on the need to punish the few that have unjustifiably benefitted. In order to satisfy their small minded emotional desire for retribution, they are prepared to trash the basic freedoms that have made our economic system the best in the world as well as a specific provision of our Constitution that specifically prohibits the Congress from using the power of the government to retroactively tax selective individuals .

There is good reason for concern that a growing segment of our citizenry is buying into the 'teaching moments' now emanating from Washington DC and being spread through multiple worldwide venues.
~The flaws of America's free market and private sector driven system are relentlessly exaggerated.
~The enormous generosity and sacrifice of Americans in making the world a better place for their children is forgotten or denigrated.
~The utter irresponsibility of millions of our citizens who continue to make foolish choices - like borrowing beyond their means is encouraged.
~And, the dangerous role that the US Congress has played in all of this is ignored. They have made it easy for the less fortunate Americans to live outside of their means while passing laws that require the more fortunate Americans to bail them out.

The irony of all of this is that it will be the participants in the game of blaming everyone but themselves for the sins of the world who will wake up someday and wonder what caused America to sink into mediocrity like Japan, Germany and France where the government controls almost everything and individual freedom is sacrificed for the good of all.

AMERICA'S GREATNESS UNDER ATTACK FROM WITHIN

Friday, January 13, 2012

Thomas Sowell on Our President

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