THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XIII, Issue # 182, July 27, 2011
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
AMERICA'S CURRENT FISCAL CRISIS IN PERSPECTIVE
By Christopher G. Adamo
U.S. FISCAL POLICY & THE DISASTROUS REPERCUSSIONS OF LEFTWING LIBERALISM: COLOSSAL FISCAL PROBLEMS
COMING HOME TO ROOST ACROSS THE U.S.A. -- THE HUGE FEDERAL DEFICIT & THE INCREASE IN THE NATIONAL "DEBT
CEILING" DEMANDED BY PRESIDENT OBAMA & CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS -- THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY LIBERAL LEFTIST
POLITICAL AGENDA: FISCAL IRRESPONSIBILITY, UNENDING SOCIAL WELFARE, & MASSIVE ECONOMIC
REDISTRIBUTION -- THE INEVITABLE RESULTS OF CONFISCATION & RAPID REDISTRIBUTION OF THE PROPERTY & RESOURCES
OF THE PRODUCTIVE CITIZENRY: BANKRUPTCY OF THE AMERICAN NATION, DESTRUCTION OF ITS ECONOMY, &
IMPOVERISHMENT OF THE PEOPLE
FULL STORY:
Behavioral counselors overwhelmingly agree that people cannot break destructive habits without first being made to
recognize the harmful nature of their actions, thereby accepting the responsibility and consequences for them. The
same is true of societies and, ultimately, governments. Unfortunately, even with an abundance of worldwide chaos
serving as proof of the disastrous repercussions of Liberalism, America’s indoctrinated Leftists are at once too arrogant
and too ideologically blinded to concede their errors and change course before society around them reaches a point of
no return.
The nation has not yet hit rock bottom, but certain sectors appear determined to get it there before any serious effort
can be made to change course. A couple of recent events in California, arguably America’s bastion of mindless Liberal
sanctimony, incontrovertibly make this point.
On July 25, Governor Jerry Brown signed the “California Dream Act,” which paves the way for greater access to
California schools by illegal aliens. In its present version, the measure is privately funded, as if anyone really believes
that tuition is the only resultant cost of students who do not legally reside in the state. Furthermore, all those involved
with passage of the California Dream Act have made it clear that they fully intend this legal outrage as merely another
incremental step towards taxpayer funded assistance for illegals seeking higher education.
Amazingly, on the very heels of this betrayal of the Golden State (along with the rest of America), California Treasurer
Bill Lockyer is demanding a $5 Billion “loan” from the U.S. federal government in order to keep the handouts flowing
from every bloated and corrupt government institution under his jurisdiction. In other words, while ultra-Liberal
ideologues such as Jerry Brown continue their demolition of any sensible fiscal discipline, his minions shamelessly
insist that the rest of the nation foot the bill for their abominable actions.
Thus, like the self-consumed addict, California has every intention of maintaining its present course, while parasitically
consuming America’s resources in the process. And, to an unimaginable degree, their kindred at the federal level are
willing to accommodate them. Barack Obama’s 2009 “Stimulus” spending measure, in which the federal government
squandered $850 billion, was ostensibly intended to jump start the U.S. economy. In reality, its purpose was to maintain
the bloat and largesse at every level of government, and, as such, was merely an enormously expanded version of the
California scam.
Even the unfathomable $5 billion demanded by Lockyer, and the manner in which it will be criminally wasted, represent
only a microcosm of the colossal fiscal problems coming home to roost across the nation. The strings of zeroes are
becoming hard to manage, yet every dollar wrongfully spent by any government official represents the industry and
diligence of some citizen, which was forcibly confiscated in the form of taxes, and is now being fumbled and shelled-out
with an indescribable degree of callousness and incompetence.
The astronomical sum “borrowed” by the state of California is itself less than one three hundredth of the federal deficit
for 2011 alone. And even that sum pales in comparison to the increase in the national “Debt Ceiling” demanded by
Obama and his Democratic Party accomplices on Capitol Hill. In short, an attack has been made on not only the U.S.
national treasury, but ultimately on the pocketbooks and paychecks of every American who goes to work and strives to
play by the rules. In the name of Leftist “social justice” (the euphemism for unending welfare) the property and
resources of the productive citizenry is being stolen and redistributed just as fast as Washington can do it.
Yet, even this monstrous waste is not enough to satisfy those ravenous government bureaucrats who will not be
content until future generations are as thoroughly bankrupted as the current one. Longrange debt spending, once a
desperate emergency measure employed only as a last resort in times of national crisis such as war, is now the standard
means by which taxes are levied on those who, having not yet been born, can in no way defend themselves against the
theft. In this manner, the profanity of “taxation without representation” has been expanded in its most sinister
dimension.
Meanwhile, rather than dealing honestly with the issue in order to avoid the catastrophe that will, at some point,
become inevitable, entrenched Democrats play blame games with the Republicans, offering only empty promises of cost
cutting at some fictitious future date. But only if the binge spending that generated the current crisis can continue
unabated.
As the political jockeying presses on, it is becoming increasingly obvious that those on the political Left are neither
concerned with an eventual default nor sincere in their professions of wanting an end to the crisis “for the sake of the
nation.” First and foremost, they know the benefit to their political fortunes of a Republican surrender, so with each
putrid ensuing “deal” they propose, it becomes more evident that they hope to create a breach between the GOP and
the grassroots who brought about the 2010 landslide elections. Only as an afterthought, are Democrats attempting to
keep the flow of tax dollars going out to the special interests that ultimately enable them.
Much to the dismay of the Democratic Party Liberal political cabal, the people of the Heartland are awakening to the
fraud being perpetrated in their name, and the grave consequences of its continuation. Despite a media/Democratic
Party misinformation campaign so vast and permeating it could rival anything from Joseph Goebbels, real America is
far from convinced that it needs to continue this downward spiral into ever worsening debt so that, according to
Obama, we can “keep our word and meet our obligations.”
The American people have witnessed this ongoing theft for too long, and have had enough. No facades or empty
promises will suffice, nor will any shortterm spending sprees, presumably offset by vacuous “assurances” of
longterm spending reductions. International news is rife with disturbing scenes such as those in Greece and Spain,
where the inability of socialist states to perpetuate the proverbial “free lunch” has resulted in bloodshed in the streets.
The people of Real America are not about to sit idly by while such things happen in their midst.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Fiscal Policy: Taxation & Government Spending
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, Marxists, & Other Leftists:
The Democratic Party, Academia, & the Mainstream Media
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES:
COMPETING SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Conservatism
Traditional Conservatism: Questions & Answers
Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status
Constitutional Conservatism: American & British
Liberalism
Classical Liberalism: Intellectual Foundations
Classical Liberalism: Conservative Liberalism
Manchester Liberalism & Social Darwinism
Modern Social "Liberalism": Statist "Liberalism"
Radical & Totalitarian Ideologies
Radicalism, Utopianism, & Totalitarianism
Christopher G. Adamo is a resident of southeastern Wyoming. He has been involved in politics at the local and state
level for many years. His contact information and article archives can be found at www.chrisadamo.com
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