How did a nation that was conceived in
liberty and individual freedom become a welfare state that welcomes
progressive socialist politics while at the same insisting they are
not socialists?
While Randall
G. Holcombe contends that the move toward a limitless
government began in the Constitutional Convention, it does not
explain why those that were architects of the Constitution of the
United States would place limitations upon the central federal
government and its accompanying state governments if that were so.
Historians and political scholars place
the blame upon the era of the New
Deal spearheaded by the closet socialist, Franklin D.
Roosevelt; but it truly began during the political movement that
occurred in what is called the Progressive
Era within the Woodrow
Wilson administration. Wilson can be recognized as the father
of liberal-socialism, which the Democrats hail as progression. It is
true, however, that the liberal-progressive socialism grew more
quickly with the FDR administration; statistics reveal that Herbert
Hoover's four-year tenure showed federal government growing
beyond constitutional limitations more than the first seven
years of the New Deal.
The unconstitutional growth of the
federal government began in 1913 when the 16th Amendment
to the Constitution was ratified. It marked the beginning of
government taxing income directly, beginning with 2.5% of the GNP to
20.5% of the GNP that the income tax system gouges today. Government
had moved from 1776 as a protector of individual rights
to 1913 as an instrument that presumed to guarantee welfare of
its citizens.
Income tax is not the only instrument
that allowed the government to move beyond its constitutional
limitations, it was the growth of the federal government's legal and
regulatory power. Powerful financial moguls of the time planned the
power of that movement that created the Federal
Reserve in 1913, coincidentally the same time that the 16th
Amendment was pushed through and legislators were convinced that more
government power was required in order to maintain economic well
being. It was orchestrated by the most wealthiest and powerful men at
the time in a secret meeting held
on Jekyll Island.
The Progressive movement was
temporarily interrupted when the United States became involved in
World War I, despite Woodrow Wilson's political campaign to keep the
US out of the affairs of European conflicts. The war meant increased
spending, which ushered in an increase in the new income tax system
justified by the 16th Amendment. Presidents Harding and
Coolidge were unable to stop the progressive movement backed by
big-spending Democrat administrations of Wilson and FDR. The advent
of a world-wide economic depression provided more political support
of the progressive's and their socialist ideological movement. The
Democrat Party relied on the political support of the racist Southern
Democrats and the power and funding of labor unions that had been
created by indoctrinated American socialists via Europe. Organized
criminal organizations became powerful because of Wilson's
prohibition policy and soon saw the potential of becoming warlords of
the labor movement that socialists had established.
Some good did come out of that period,
like improved relationship between employer and employees, better
working conditions with benefits like safer working atmospheres and
workplace accident insurance. However, it also moved the government's
unconstitutional growth beyond the limitations set forth by the
creators of the US Constitution.
Later Lyndon Johnson would usher
in the Great
Society, a continued growth of government magnitude at the
expense of individual liberty and loss of freedoms like property
rights and personal choice. That was not only what Johnson ushered in
…
President BH
Obama has escalated the movement started by Woodrow Wilson,
snowballed by FDR and cemented by Lyndon
Johnson – it has become the continued progressive
deal of a great society. The Progressive
Socialist control over academia and economic and regulatory
policies can only continue to strengthen unless the People stand up
and declare that true reformation must take place in order to recover
the balance and the suppression of a government that continues it
march away from personal individual liberties to loss of liberties
like property and choice; to a system that is collective,
over-burdened with regulations, and lives dictated by the ruling
class.
Mike Patton at Forbes
provides the statistics and numbers of government expansion (1980 to
2012) and growth of taxation under a tax system that is unfair
orchestrated by the political entity that continues its false
declaration of being the party of fairness. Republicans, on
the other hand, refuse or are afraid to stand up and declare that
previous legislation and regulations that are intrusive and against
individual liberty to be revoked and repealed. Despite that a flat
tax system based on consumption, not income, has been shown by
economic experts and on paper as a true fair tax system – a bill
introduced in 1999 – still languishes in Congress with neither side
of the political fence taking responsibility and action to repeal the
16th Amendment that should never have passed and get rid
of the Federal Reserve that should never have been granted the power
it has and continues to wield.
Chris Edwards at Cato
Institute wrote in 2007 in a paper entitled Federal
Aid to the States: Historical Cause of Government Growth and
Bureaucracy …
The theory behind aid to the states is that federal policymakers can design and operate programs in the national interest to efficiently solve local problems. In practice, most federal politicians are not inclined to pursue broad, national goals; they are consumed by the competitive scramble to secure subsidies for their states. At the same time, federal aid stimulates overspending by the states, requires large bureaucracies to administer, and comes with a web of complex regulations that limit state flexibility. At all levels of the aid system, the focus is on spending and regulations, not on delivering quality services. And by involving all levels of government in just about every policy area, the aid system creates a lack of accountability. When every government is responsible for an activity, no government is responsible, as was evident in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Since
I have touched on the subject of the Lyndon Johnson corrupted legacy,
investigators have uncovered the rift between Robert Kennedy and
Lyndon Johnson, the former who believed that Johnson
was instrumental in the assassination of JFK. Five years later,
Robert himself would be assassinated
as he prepared to run
for office of the President of the United States.
It was after Robert Kennedy was killed
that the Secret Service policy began to protect presidential
candidates.
Obama is a representation of continued corruption and big government agenda.
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