Sithe,
Obama’s “Stimulus Bill,” that stimulated nothing, cost more than the whole Iraq Campaign. I won’t go into the strategic arguments for that campaign, I doubt you would understand them. I will say only that the Bush Administration had good reasons, and showed foresight, in waging that campaign within the larger war against the jihadists. Um, you do remember the jihadist terrorists, don’t you? WTC, twin towers, and all that? The US did not start this war, and one does not avoid a war by not fighting it. All that not fighting it means is that you lose. Got your burkha picked out, your male owner identified? That is what bin Laden and his merry men want to force all women into. There are good reasons for fighting against the Jihadists, even if dim-bulb, reactionary leftists don’t understand them.
Liberalism/Progressivism or any other kind of socialism do not help the little guy. They actually make it harder for him. The situation is actually even more pernicious than it appears at first. Once people are accustomed to the government handing out to them and become dependent on the government continuing handouts, they will be totally bereft when the collapse of government’s ability to continue the handouts arrives. And that day will inevitably arrive. As Thatcher said, eventually the socialists run out of other peoples’ money, then the whole scam collapses. Our current economic problems were the result of such a scam, the push to get more and more people to “own” houses through mortgages they could never pay for. So much money was diverted into that, at government insistance, to pay for such shaky deals, that the whole world financial system was thrown into danger by it. If we had been practicing laissez faire capitalism we would never have got into that trouble.
Greed and selfishness are human traits, not limited to capitalists or Republicans. History shows that greed for power results in much worse problems than the relatively innocent greed for money. Bill Gates established no Gulags or Auschwitzes. Such things come from the collectivisty, totalitarian mindset of people like yourself.
It’s funny to see you denouncing Bush. Quite apart from his “compassionate conservatism” being liberalism lite, you denounce him for being out of date while Obama is giving us the new ideas of the liberals, which date back to Otto von Bismarck, originator of the welfare state.
Too bad we can’t run Calvin Coolidge in 2012. He’d be the perfect President to get us out of the hole we are in.
