In the Eighties, I learned a valuable lesson from the John Birch Society.  The political spectrum is not really a flat line running left to right; it is actually more like a horseshoe.  The curve is home to constitutional republicanism (small r). where the ends nearly meet consist of Marxism (left) and Fascism (right). Marz fathered radical socialism or Communism. Most forget that Fascism is National Socialism (Nazi).  Both ends share a powerful oligarchy controlling the economy picking winners and losers.  The rich get richer while the middle class dissolves into the serf masses.  Bread & circuses are provided to keep social unrest at a minimum.

Keynesian Liberals see government as a cure-all. They never met a program they did not like.  Confiscate as much revenue as possible from the haves to redistribute to the have-nots. Great Society billions have been spent over a half century and poverty levels continue to grow while the traditional family and the Puritan work-ethic are disintegrating.  International financiers and mega-corporations control our elected officials with their lobby money.  They sell their ethical compass in pursuit of the almighty dollar. They destroy the middle class blue collar worker moving to use overseas labor.  They promote sources for enemies to continue war profiteering.  Both sides would continue the march toward an integrated global economy and political system to the detriment of our constitutional liberties and private-ownership, free-market system.

Both parties are riddled with members of these overlapping blocs.  To stay in power and continue to rake in federal benefits, they answer to the Oligarchy rather than the electorate.  Competitive primaries and greater third-party access are the most legitimate answer to the threat faced as of now.  Congressional perks: insurance, retirement, travel, etc., should be eradicated entirely.  American foreign policy should be based on nationalist concerns; we cannot go on as the world’s policeman. That practice broke the British Empire and we are sliding headlong down the same path.  American companies must bring jobs home, but the government should encourage them to do so with a carrot & stick approach, ie, tax policies on imports and fewer regulations and unfunded mandates.

The country is truly at a crossroads. The choice is whether to preserve the Republic with its constitutional liberties in regards to equality of opportunity in economics, political speech, and Judeo-Christian morality; or, do we continue incrementally towards a Corporate/ Financier class oligarchy overseeing a Welfare State on its way to full integration in a New World Order with a global economy on an uneven playing field and the emasculation of our Bill of Rights ?  Standing still is no longer an option for we are robbing our children’s generations of a way of life that was unequalled in History.

Reading our local paper this week as the Forsyth County School Board, Forsyth County Commissioners, and the NC State Legislature get down to business framing the next budget, it becomes clear these politicians still remain blind to the reality of the economic crisis before us.  Many of the politicians and the good folks, concerned citizens, showing up for the public discussions are still relying on the “tooth fairy” to magically continue leaving the money for their interests under the pillow clandestinely as in the past.

The State Govt is overdrawn; the counties are overdrawn; which leaves the school boards overdrawn.  Bush’s bank bailout and Obama’s TARP I & II on the backs of 2 long unfinanced wars have broke the United States’ budgets since 2008.  Where does the road America is on lead to?  Look at Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, and Great Britain to find out.  Cradle to Grave govt welfare programs threaten to destroy these countries and the EU as an entity.

Does Germany really want to underwrite their problems w/o major concessions?  Where does the money come from for the IMF to underwrite their fiscal mess? Can you say Uncle Sam; a large percentage of the IMF support is drawn from American taxpayers.  Remember, the US deficits are already huge. The FED merely printed $800 million last year with the Stimulus Pkg.

The bottom line is this:  No one could run a household like this… no one could run a business like this…. and the days of running a nation like this are eventually numbered and the bill of incremental socialism comes due.  It didnt work in Soviet Russia or Eastern Europe; not in Red China nor Vietnam; hasnt worked in Cuba nor Zimbabwe.  Marxism is a failed system.

“Root Canal Politics”–  drastic cuts in spending w/ the associate pain involved is the only way to a brighter future.  More to come on the solutions…