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March 30, 2005
Liberal Democrats grow increasingly desperate
For instance, Rep. John T. Salazar, D-Colo., said last week: "Creating private accounts will only hasten the demise of Social Security, by draining trillions of dollars from the Social Security trust fund." And: "We cannot forget the lessons that we learned from Enron: A retirement that relied on the stock market is simply not a secure benefit." Enron? Nancy Pelosi got into the act through a spokeswoman who stated, "We want to show that Democrats are unified against raiding the trust fund to create private accounts." Good grief. Someone needs to let these people know there is no trust fund, just a pile of IOUs the U.S. Treasury will have to start making good on in about a dozen years. This is a major problem, but not one the liberals want to discuss as an issue. After all, it was their party that began raiding it in the 1960s when they controlled both Congress and the presidency. Another is the deficit. Remember during the last election cycle how the deficit was out of control and the liberals were calling on President Bush to cut spending by giving up on the war for world liberty? They didn't call for cuts anywhere else because while they were in charge of the government they took most of the $2.6 trillion now being spent off the table for discussion or reduction. Unless Congress reopens those programs the fact is there is less than $400 billion available to cut. And most of those line items are either in the Department of Defense or the Department of Commerce. This makes sense for liberals, but it left our country exposed to terrorists and our economy vulnerable to foreign competition from government subsidized conglomerates. Liberals refuse to take credit for the consequences of their good works, of course. They deny there is even a problem, as if by some magical mantra all of the IOUs they have saddled our country with during their 60-year reign will magically be made good. Their latest effort in this regard is based upon defining as "principal" to our society the sanctity of the Social Security tax. Don't let them fool you, that is all it is, a tax. The Supreme Court has ruled on two separate occasions there is no social contract or right to benefits of any kind. That is why Congress was able to loot the nonexistent trust fund for new social engineering programs like the Great Society. But even with all factual evidence to the contrary, liberals continue their mantra and the true believers, who rarely if ever allow an opposing idea to muddy their thinking, repeat the falsehoods. And the biggest disinformation programs originate in those hallowed halls of the U.S. Senate, and from our own Senator, Harry Reid, who is currently trying to conjure up another yet to be demonstrated Constitutional argument allowing the Democrats to withhold full Senate votes on judicial nominees. You see, the greatest secret the liberals have is the absolute necessity of continuing the half-century old practice of packing our court system with judges who make rulings not based on the actual words written in our national and state constitutions. Their causes are based upon these liberal judges being able to write laws through decisions the liberals cannot get passed through the legislative process. This one issue is so critical to their basic power structure that Sen. Reid has chosen to continue the unconstitutional act of preventing judges from even receiving a yes or no vote if they might rule that nowhere in the Constitution do the words "separation of church and state" reside. After all, this same judge might also question where many of the "rights" granted felons, prisoners, special interests and illegal aliens are to be found. And worst of all, a judge who takes the time to read the limitations on the federal government might question what has happened to second, third, fourth, ninth and 10th Amendments to our Constitution over the last 50 years. This possibility scares the living daylights out of liberals. They know if the people were given the opportunity to vote on these issues, liberals lose. This is why Sen. Reid has threatened to shut down the government if they are denied their judicial source of power. And I hope he does. When the people of America see what liberals really stand for, it may be possible for us to finally return to the actual written words in the Constitution providing for a fiscally disciplined, limited government which understands its number one job is providing for the common defense of the people. This may in fact, be the only way for future generations to know the value of liberty not granted by government, but bestowed upon all people by our Creator. Little writes from Pahrump. His column, "The Other Side," appears here on Wednesdays. |
