Krugman: So Utterly Wrong, Again

Former Enron advisor and liberal "economist" Paul Krugman opines the following today in his New York Times column:

"And this third depression will be primarily a failure of policy. Around the world — most recently at last weekend’s deeply discouraging G-20 meeting — governments are obsessing about inflation when the real threat is deflation, preaching the need for belt-tightening when the real problem is inadequate spending."

I would offer this statement as Exhibit A in his involuntary commitment hearing.

The primary, secondary, and tertiary cause of the present economic condition is too much GOVERNMENT POLICY. World wide, we are suffering from too much government, too much spending, too much government economic regulation, and too much government-enforced wealth transfer, and too many government schemes designed to try to legislate around the market.

The real fix to the present economic condition is not just less government spending, but less government period.

Until liberals like Krugman come to understand the truth that governments are a net drain on the economy, they will continue to visit this government-approved pox of malaise upon humanity. Governments produce nothing and generate no profit. Every tax dollar to the government is both a market distortion and a violation individual economic rights.

More importantly to the current condition, every dollar provided to the government is worth less to the economy than a dollar left in the hands of the person that earned it.

More government, more spending, and more stealing of the wealth of the future generations is not just bad policy, it is criminal. Paul Krugman should be ashamed for suggesting otherwise. But we all know that liberals have no shame whatsoever.

Open Questions About The Healthcare Meeting

Why are the Democrats involving Republicans in the discussion about the bills only AFTER the bills have been written and passed by both houses of Congress? The bills have not been withdrawn or rebuked by the Democrat leadership, and the Democrats have had for a year all the votes they need to put a health care takeover on the Anointed One's desk. This was not the Democrats seeking advice and counsel. This was the Democrats seeking a criminal accomplice.

What I did not hear from the Republicans is just as concerning as what I continue to hear from the Democrats. Not one Republican (and certainly no Democrat) said that it is the responsibility of the individual, not government, to provide for his or her own health care. The GOP has bought into this notion that someone other than the recipient must pay for a person's health care.

And that mindset is how we got into the fiscal pickle in the first place.

The price of freedom is not vigilance; the price of freedom is self-reliance. You are a slave if you are dependent upon any other person or entity to receive your needs. If you depend on the government for health care, you are a slave.

Update: People are starting to get it. A CNN poll shows that a majority of Americans now see the government as a threat to their rights. It's been that way all along - slaves have no rights. Glad the "moderates" are catching on.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/02/26/cnn-poll-majority-says-government-a-threat-to-citizens-rights/?fbid=iT32dtaoaK5

Reflections upon the Notion of American Independence

I’ve spent a fair part of this month - the month in which we Americans celebrate Independence Day - thinking about the meaning of Independence. I am struck by the irony of celebrating a national holiday commemorating cutting the ties of dependency upon a government while at the same time laboring under a Presidency and Congress leading the nation toward greater government dependence, even subjugation, of its people.

Independence is what is celebrated in this Nation, and with good cause. We have no national Dependence Day celebration.

Independence Day does not celebrate the mere notion of being independent. Independence Day celebrates the act of declaring our Independence. Independence in the United States is not just an ideal, a philosophy, a goal – it is our national birthright. The act itself founded a confederation of independent states.

Independence is not a death rattle, it is the cry of life! Independence has been the goal of self-conscious humans since humans achieved self-consciousness. Hundreds of Thousands of Americans have lost their very life and all they own in the pursuit and preservation of Independence, and with it, Liberty and Opportunity.

The pursuit of Independence is what fueled the rush of immigrants to this nation. The pilgrims were pursing Liberty from oppression. Later waves of immigrants were pursuing Opportunity – Enterprise – a better life for themselves and their descendants.

Government dependency is antithetical to Independence. Statism is antithetical to Independence. Blame shifting is antithetical to Independence. Failing to speak out against a power hungry, all-powerful central government is antithetical to Independence.

Where are our Patriots today? Where are the successors of Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Madison, and Adams in our government? Where are the successors of Thomas Payne in the press? Where are the successors of Samuel Adams in the grassroots?

Whither courage? Whither conviction? Whither truth? Whither self-reliance? Whither our frontier spirit? Whither the United States.

A government which seeks to make slaves of its people is no successor of our Founders. Such a government – such men and women -- cannot legitimately govern a free nation founded in Independence.

This nation has never celebrated or feted those who would not or cannot do for themselves. They are pitied, and with good cause. Not because their lives are valueless, but because their independence is lost.

Socialism is slavery. A government that issues intrusive decrees is a tyranny.