From June Cleaver to Madonna

This book (Unequal Democracy) by Larry M. Bartels is yet another socialist tome from the 1960's hippie, university mono-culture. The entire point: democracy should produce equal economic results, is wholly anti-American. If the Constitution had said that the goal of democracy was to affect equal economic outcomes throughout our society the theme of the book would have been perfectly compatible with America. But, for some reason, our founders, who created the greatest, wealthiest country in the history of humanity, forgot that little detail in the Constitution. In fact, it seems not to have occurred to anybody until Karl Marx conjured it up out of a deranged mind that eventually could be held directly responsible for impoverishing billions and killing 100-200 million human beings. Despite the deadly failure of every socialist gov't since Marx, the university mono-culture still imagines that its' wisdom can perfect the infinitely failed socialist formula in America even as billions in Russia, China, and India are instantly lifting themselves out of centuries of poverty with the capitalism that our founders miraculously gave us.

One can only wonder in stark disbelief at how liberals are so blind to what is happening so obviously right under their noses. Recently, I had dinner with a friend who suggested a Republican understanding of America quite different from the one commonly suggested by university mono-culture liberals. She teaches elementary school in the South Bronx. She told me about how some of her students had recently immigrated from Bangladesh where just 2 weeks before the start of the semester they had lived, literally, outside; with no modern conveniences including electricity, toilets, or running water. But somehow, she said, those students were performing better than native Americans who were born in the South Bronx. How could this be? The answer is simple: the South Bronx is the most liberal place on earth. Native American kids bring that culture with them to school. They feel the liberal, Marxist, Democratic entitlement attitude in their souls. In their souls they are victims, or the children of victims, who are entitled to have their needs retributively and judiciously met by their victimizers. Why should they work hard in school when Marx instructed them long ago: "to each according to his [entitled] needs".

Conversely, the Bangladeshi kids have the American, colonialist, capitalist attitude. They and their families are thrilled to be free in a capitalist country where they can create and enjoy their own lives based on what they can provide for themselves, not based on what they are "entitled" to from more productive people. Serendipitously, in a capitalist system, to provide for oneself one has to, firstly, provide more for other people. Hence, capitalism has produced the greatest wealth for all, although not the same quantity of wealth for all at any given time. After all, some have just arrived from Bangladesh, and some who arrived a long ago are liberals.

Additionally, the author bemoans the loss of union jobs in America. To the author, it is intuitively obvious that unions jobs are good jobs because they are higher paying jobs which, accordingly, result in more equal democracy. Completely and wholly lost is the idea that in a free, wealthy, growing , competitive, capitalist society one should get wages or prices that other free people agree to pay for one's goods and services, since other people provide an impartial point of view about what goods and services, at what prices, actually constitute a standard of living improvement for the purchaser. When liberal professors or socialist gov't bureaucrats makes those choices they choose wrong and standards of living go down, rather than up, as socialist history has repeatedly shown.

The liberal, union principle is that one gets whatever one can by blackmailing one's employer for higher wages. Forgotten is that, 1) everyone, including union members, must then pay more for expensive union made goods, thereby eliminating any net gain, 2) blackmail, rather than greater productivity, as a means to get ahead, diminishes an individual's, company's, and economy's focus on productivity, competitiveness, and wealth creation, 3) non-union companies and countries will have lower prices and more competitive products so that unionized companies will ultimately go bankrupt and cost the blackmailing union members their jobs.

For example, American liberals now seems poised to bankrupt GM, Ford, and Chrysler and the millions of jobs that they directly and indirectly provide, in large part because of unions. So why on earth do university liberals still imagine that unions and socialism are a good thing? The answer is that it is only way for them to participate meaningfully in a free capitalist society, that functions very precisely and with spectacular sucess, without their irrelevant academic disportment. They can come up with childlike or absurd new theories and arguments to promote old fashioned socialist regulation, and try to foist them upon us, but in the end they can't educate one child in the South Bronx or produce one competitive automobile .

If economic equality is the real issue for liberals, why do the top 1%, under Bush, now have to pay 40% (up from 32% prior to Bush) of all Federal Taxes? Why do the poor get free health care and education from birth through high-school, in addition to numerous other entitlements, without which their lives would not be possible let alone sustainable? Why did Bush introduce the first $2 Trillion budget and then the first $3 Trillion budget if not to help the poor in America with the most lavish entitlement spending is human history? Why did Bush introduce the Prescription Drug Bill - the single costliest entitlement since the 1960's - if not to help the poor? The issue obviously isn't that the poor need yet more economic democracy, it's that liberals (some of whom are truckling or confused Republicans) have declared war on the poor with their caring, preposterous, and counterproductive programs. The liberal attitude toward education and unions constitute only two of the many battles in the liberal war on the poor.

At another time one might mention how liberal, hip hop, feminist, welfare culture destroyed the idea of love and family in poor America by replacing June Cleaver with Britney Spears and Madonna. Today, close to 30% of American babies are born to single, impoverished, and liberal mothers. When the most sucessful black leader of the last 35 years, Rev. Jesse Jackson, looks at this and then wants to castrate Barak Obama for advocating responsible paternity, we don't need "economic democracy," we need liberals who can think above the retarded level.

Ted Baiamonte
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