This is a great article for your friends sitting on the fence, for the "idealists", and for high school and college students. This article reminds me of the thought articulated by Winston Churchill that any man under the age of 30 who is not a liberal has no heart and that any man over the age of 30 who is not a conservative has no brains(a little hyperbole, but you get the point). I think this has alot to do with paying taxes and raising children. Here's the link:
http://townhall.com/content/4adee782-70ed-4fe7-992d-bcfa3baf1714
While working out at the health club today I watched the TV with incredulity as the politicians and bureaucrats were summarizing their brief meetings during the first day of the "fiscal responsibility summit". Isn't this event, associated with many of these attendees, beyond oxymoronic? After the events over the last 8 weeks, our national deficit for 2009 stands at a staggering $1.4 TRILLION or 9.6% of GDP. Many of the people in attendance just recently provided us with the 1071 page "stimulus" bill (that not one of them read before voting on it) that has you, me and future generations on the hook for over a trillion dollars ($787 billion plus interest on that borrowed money). The doublespeak today, and in the recent past, is right out of Orwell's 1984 or the Marxist playbook, i.e., touting transparency while concealing everything ("When there is a bill that ends up on my desk as president, you, the public, will have five days to look on line and find out what's in it before I sign it, so that you will know what your government's doing"), speaking of integrity while appointing individuals with tax problems and conflicts of interest, supporting energy independence while nixing off-shore and domestic oil-drilling and nuclear power and feigning optimism while speaking on a daily basis of impending "catastrophe". Thank goodness I could read the closed caption but didn't also have to listen to this drivel. Is anyone else out there a little skeptical?
Genesis of the "NO" Logo
In history there have been two basic forms of social organization: collectivism and individualism. In the 20th and 21st century, collective variations have included socialism, fascism, Nazism, and communism. Under collectivism, a ruling class of “intellectuals”, bureaucrats, politicians and/or social planners decides what people want or what is “good” for society and then uses the coercive power of the State to regulate, tax and redistribute wealth in an attempt to achieve their desired objectives. Individualism is a political and social philosophy that emphasizes individual liberty, belief in the primary importance of the individual and in the virtues of self-reliance and personal independence and responsibility. It embraces opposition to controls over the individual when exercised by the state. The Preamble to our Constitution makes it plain that all power rests originally with the people, as individuals.
The “O” within the circle represents collectivism in its various forms. The “N” represents an emphatic repudiation of collectivism. The red, white and blue circles encompassing the “NO” are emblematic of our Republic. It is the responsibility of the individuals in an engaged and enlightened republic to limit the influence of the government, especially one that attempts to wield power outside the boundaries delineated by the Constitution.
The “O” within the circle represents collectivism in its various forms. The “N” represents an emphatic repudiation of collectivism. The red, white and blue circles encompassing the “NO” are emblematic of our Republic. It is the responsibility of the individuals in an engaged and enlightened republic to limit the influence of the government, especially one that attempts to wield power outside the boundaries delineated by the Constitution.
