This political cartoon sums it up. The Democrats under Obama talked about Change, "Change we can believe in," however this 1934 cartoon shows there is nothing new under the sun. The Democrats tried in the 1930's to spend our way into prosperity; the only thing their Keynesian Economics did was prolong the Great Depression. The Democrats are at it again. It wasn't enough to give unscrupulous banks $750 billion in TARP funds; it wasn't enough to give away $787 billion in "Stimulus funding"; it wasn't enough to give away $410 billion in the Omnibus Bill; it's not going to be enough to give away $800 billion to over $1.2 trillion in the next ten years under the guise of Health Care Reform; no, it will never be enough because it DOESN'T work.It's not just Democrats or Liberals that don't understand how an economy functions, it's this notion that solutions lie within government; a Progressive ideal supported by Democrats AND Republicans alike, that's the root of all economic failure in this country and any other country that believes solutions lie within government. There is an absolute failure to understand that all forms of government are inherently corrupt; some forms less corrupt than others. When you couple this corruption with a nefarious agenda, you get evil in its purest form; you get your Lenins, Stalins, Hitlers, Mussolinis, Mao ZeDongs, Ho Chi Minhs, Pol Pots, Saddam Husseins and Kim Jong Ils and that's just the last 100 years. Those figures supported communism, national socialism (Nazis), fascism and despotic rule.
Our Declaration of Independence states we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, and among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. When a politician or body politic begins to declare exactly how we can live life, exercise liberty and pursue happiness, he has replaced our Creator with himself, he has become a tyrant. When we accept the premise of this tyranny; we subject ourselves to the aforementioned types of nefarious leaders. These leaders promised change for the better, and the people believed them. The rest, they say, is history.
