printIn “Socialist America Sinking,” Pat The Patriot pulls open and holds back a curtain to reveal what the blind and bombastic leadership and commentariat don’t see: an America in permanent decline, “far … off the course the Founding Fathers set for our republic”:
“In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson called George III a tyrant for having ‘erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.’
What did George III do with his Stamp Act, Townshend Acts or tea tax to compare with what is being done to this generation of Americans by their own government?
While the hardest-working and most productive are bled, a third of all wage-earners pay no U.S. income tax, and Obama plans to free almost half of all wage-earners of all income taxes. Yet, tens of millions get Medicaid, rent supplements, free education, food stamps, welfare and an annual check from Uncle Sam called an Earned Income Tax Credit, though they never paid a nickel in income taxes.
Coming to America to feast on this cornucopia of freebies is the world. One million to 2 million immigrants, legal and illegal, arrive every year. They come with fewer skills and less education than Americans, and consume more tax dollars than they contribute by three to one.
Wise Latina women have more babies north of the border than they do in Mexico and twice as many here as American women.
As almost all immigrants are now Third World people of color, they qualify for ethnic preferences in hiring and promotions and admissions to college over the children of Americans.
All of this would have astounded and appalled the Founding Fathers, who after all, created America – as they declared loud and clear in the Constitution – ‘for ourselves and our posterity.'”
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A must read, as is the case with most of Mr. Buchanan’s columns. He is assuredly one of the few patriots left among the government-fed news filters.
Update I July 20): Actually, there is no chance of “turning things around”—not so long as the US practices unfettered immigration, importing millions of people each year, into a country that no longer transmits or practices its founding values. The nature of immigration policies is such that it ensures most newcomers will end up consuming rather than paying taxes, and voting for more and more Statism. I wish people would realize that there will be no liberty when America is a Third World country. The reason Americans refuse to articulate this simple fact—that the American people are being dissolve and a new people elected—is, I suspect, because they are brainwashed about the wonders of diversity and multiculturalism, and have been taught that America is nothing without this tsunami of immigrants.
So no, Pat knows as I do that it’s all over. Pat is sad. Smart people will be sad.
Update II: Myron; you misunderstand Pat, who is 100% correct in his assertion about taxpayers vs. tax consumers. He is referring to those people–50% or so–who get back more from you and me than they pay in all taxes combined. I call them net tax consumers.
Update III: As I mentioned, people refuse to concede–are unable to due to a hippie, left-liberal state of mind—that not all immigrants come to this country to be rugged individualists. In fact, most are lured by a generous welfare state. Or, as I have pointed out a million times in immigration columns; one productive immigrant brings in a tribe (under the family reunification program), which falls to you and me to support.
The premise for our good reader’s optimism is precisely what has just been said: the goodness of the immigrants the law selects. So what if the economy is rapidly being socialized? There are still a few Atlases who carry the $13 trillion economy on their weakening backs. It takes a while to break the backs of the best. Decades hence, immigration will slow. Until then, the hordes will come to feed at the trough, which is still relatively full compared to other troughs.
But as I complain again and again, a liberal state of mind among Americans refuses to recognize that American immigration policy guarantees that socialism spread like kudzu. But since we have a mixed economy; not one in which all the means of production are nationalized, there are still a sufficient number of good people for the parasites—via the state—to feast upon for decades to come.
Ol Pat nails this one, and when i read a article like this , it makes me glad I took Ron Paul’s advice and supported Pat in 92 against GHW Bush and while I do not agree with Pat on everything , I will stand with him and others who are ” taxaphobic, liberty-loving people. ” and as Ben Franklin said “Those who would exchange liberty for security deserve neither ”
When we get a majority of Americans to think and act along these lines we have a great chance to turn this country around from the socialist cesspool it is becoming, and back to a liberty loving , empowering each individual to succeed our fail based on there own talents and abilities country it used to be.
Ilana, I agree with you that the United State as a whole is doomed. Surely, though, parts of it may save themselves in due course?
[If acts of economic and legal secession are not squashed, sure.]
I read both Buchanan’s and Hunter’s articles. What a breath of fresh air. I hope more people began to search out the distinction between paleo/libertarian conservatism and neo-conservativism. Buchanan quoted Garrett while Hunter mentioned Kirk. I talk with many of my conservative friends and about the only person they may have heard of or read in F. A. Hayek. Most of them not only have never heard of Garrett and Kirk, but they have never heard of or read von Mises, Rothbard, or Hazlitt. One friend of mine, a conservative economics major from a large university in Texas, although knowing of Milton Friedman, has never read The Road to Serfdom.
To your comment about “founding values,” I’d add, “based on biblical values as understood by the Christians who established this country, who did not believe that Romans 13, or any other book of the Bible, called them to pay homage to the State and its leaders.”
I agree that the jig is up, in terms of “restoring” our Constitution, but I think that Christian statism has had a negative effect, as well. Pastor Chuck Baldwin recently addressed the sad results of America’s pastors encouraging their flocks to blindly obey those in authority, http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin521.htm, while Pastor Greg Laurie recently averred that “…the military and the police are in place to keep order,” and that “…the Bible is saying that the one who enforces the law has been placed there by God.” http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=104288.
The latter comments are unhelpful in restoring any semblance of what the Founding Fathers bequeathed, and would be simply ridiculous if not for the statist mentality to which many American Christians succumb.
My only disagreement with Pat’s column is the implication about few Americans paying taxes. Just about every wage earner pays SS and Medicare taxes, and nearly everyone pays sales taxes, excise taxes, utility taxes, and state income taxes (lower deduction thresholds). Indirectly, we pay property taxes and business taxes as well. Statist governments have done their best to CONCEAL taxation from the booboisie so that the masses think they are coming out ahead when, sadly, we are a nation of lemmings pulling each other downward.
“College education for EVERYONE” is a concept that goes beyond idiocy. Ironically, I once saw a exam that one had to take in 1926 to ENTER secondary (high) school which included questions such as: what was the last state to ratify the Articles of Confederation and why? I would stack up the average high school graduate of 1939 against the bottom 25% of college graduates circa 2009 in classical knowledge and put my money on the former. Of course, it is a good make-work program for 3rd rate teachers of 4th grade mentalities – probably in such relevant subjects as History of Hip-Hop and Transgendered Hispanics in Movies.
Eternal optimist that I am, I can’t help but observe that the Obama administration will unwittingly solve the immigration problem. As a typical communist country with a typical communist economy, America will no longer attract immigrants of any kind from anywhere. We can expect most immigrants, legal and illegal, skilled and unskilled, to repatriate. Of course, none of this will be pleasant for those of us who remain.
Again we in CA. lead the nation:
http://www.chuckdevore.com/blog.asp?artid=94