It looks like the election of Brown to the Senate seat from Massachusetts may slow down the freight train of socialism but it wasn't stopped, much less reversed. Government will continue to grow in size and power. Brown can't stop it and furthermore I've not heard him say anything that would lead me to believe he intends to. Sure, he's mouthed the expected Republican Reaganisms of lower taxes and more opportunity. So what?
Reagan did reduce taxes and that reduction did spur economic growth. I'm not going to argue that point. But, because Reagan didn't shrink the size and power of the government the gains made economically in the end meant nothing. What does money mean without freedom? And because those economic gains were the end result of government manipulation of the markets through the tax code only the connected benefitted. The middle class in America has seen a collapse of earning power that has been unabated since the early 70's. The Republicans, even St. Ronald, have done nothing to reduce the size of government. It has grown under them just as it has under the Democrats. And our freedom has been steadily diminished under both parties.
The election of Brown may serve the immediate purpose of slowing the rush to socialist slavery but it has not really changed anything of substance. Both parties will continue to drag power to the central government in complete disregard for the Constitution and the wishes of the majority of the people.
From the battle at the Concord Bridge to last nights election Massachusetts has been the starting point for long and costly wars. The question is, do we have the courage and the resolve of our Revolutionary forefathers? Only time will tell.
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Your write-up is essentially correct. Both Republicans and Democrats are to blame. I am also disappointed that Scott Brown is pro-abortionist. As a nation will will have to sacrifice mightily if we wish to save the Republic. Otherwise, we shall be faced with the steady decline into a national Demokracy whose end result is always Diktatorship.
ReplyDeleteAs you wrote elsewhere, America is an abberation.
I would like to point out one thing, though, that you referred to in your post on Haiti: without oil there is no cheap energy. That isn't true. There is enough uranium and thorium in earth's crust to fuel not just six, but nine billion people at the same level of energy consumption as today's average American. With energy from uranium and thorium, cheap synthetic fuels can be manufactured and used to replace oil and natural gas. With fast neutron burner reactors, all the long lived actinides in spent nuclear fuel can be consumed, making long-term geologic repository a moot point. With the inherent safe designs of GEH ESBWR and ABWR, and Westinghouse's AP1000, the probability of core meldown is reduced by orders of magnitude. And no western light water cooled and moderated reactor can undergo an event such as occurred at Chernobyl (a graphite moderated and light water cooled weapons breeder), simply because the laws of physics prevent it.
Nuclear power is safe, with zero deaths in the public for the 400 reactors operating world wide and only 50 deaths for Chernobyl - contrast that with 30 thousand deaths from lung disease each year in the US due to coal fired power plant pollution.
Nuclear power is clean - no green house gas emissions.
Nuclear fuel is plentiful. We've got more uranium and thorium than we know what to do with. So all this talk about no cheap energy is incorrect. the problem is oil, coal and natural gas company greed and politician addiction to the revenue therefrom.
Ask yourself: WHO benefits from no nuke power? Oil, coal and natural gas.
All our problems on Earth are because of our own greed. God gave us plenty of everything that we need to prosper, but acheiving that propserity takes being considerate about someone else besides my own selfish desires, and few want to do that any longer (but you pointed that out yourself).
Ioannes,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on this. I guess what I was trying to say is that considering the current state of affairs and my generally pessimistic view of the future, I don't believe we have the time or the financial resources to establish nuclear power as a viable alternative.
We should have gone nuke years ago while we still had time and money. But we didn't and here we are.
The other part of the equation is the vast number of other products created from oil. We are dependent upon it for so much besides just fuel.
I believe in Peak Oil, not because I believe we are running out but because I believe that the political, financial and social systems that have developed around oil based energy are falling apart. Because we didn't choose to take action years ago by doing things such as investing in nukes and natural gas we are going to fall so quickly and to such an extent that we will not recover. I believe that our window of opportunity to develop alternatives that could truly replace oil has closed.
I think that this is happening as part of Gods plan. We are entering a new era, stripped of the supports we have propped our lives up with. We are going to be humbled because God knows that it is only through humility that we will see the truth. We are going to return to the life that God wants us to have, centered on Him and not ourselves.
When we finally accept that we are not God and that everything depends on him we are going to have our eyes opened to sources of energy that we never imagined. I believe that our self deification has blinded us to the resources that we were meant to have access to. I don't believe we are at the end of the world, just the end of an era.
For a pessimist, I'm actually quite hopeful.