The Death Liberalism Brings

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Liberty Dies when the Government expands, and forces unreasonable mandates on the people. With cradle-to-grave welfare entitlements in our system, we are becoming much more like Greece with every passing moment. Greece, by the way, is rioting because their dying economy is taking away the Greek citizen's precious "entitlements." Nobody really cares that their government is out of money, and that their economy is collapsing, just as long as they continue to get their free stuff from the socialists in power.

What is happening in Greece is quite literally the opposite of the revolution that forged America. The people are rioting in the streets not because they wish to get the state off their back, but to keep the state firmly on top of their lives.

Greece has spent and borrowed its way into a financial crisis that is rapidly leading to the collapse of their entire system. The welfare trained Greeks can't even keep up a decent work force, having dropped their fertility rate to around 1.3. Think about it. They have created a full-blown welfare state, and have simultaineously underbreeded themselves into a situation where there are not enough workers to support the entitlement nanny state. Europe won't bail them out, and their government has no money, so they. . . riot, crying for the return of their government-run everything.

Meanwhile, here in America, we are destroying the last vestige of the American system that has made us different, exceptional, and prosperous.

The passage of Obama's Health Care idiocy is evidence that the horrifying specter of a socialized, government-operated health care system looms on the horizon. The other aspects of socialism are sure to follow, and a European-style nanny state is nearly a fact on the shores of America.

The Democrats won't stop with just socialized medicine. Amnesty, Cap and Trade, hate crime legislation to eliminate freedom of speech, as well as a continuing push to finish the fascist takeover of the financial and automobile industries is on the docket, and the Democrats won't stop until The State is in complete control of our lives, and liberty is dead.

And that is the death that liberalism brings. Liberty is dying under their continuous assault.

And someday, if this continues, we will be the Greeks. The brainwashed Americans dependent upon the government for their every move will rush to the streets in a rage when the economic system finally collapses, and the unsustainable policies of big government destroys America.

But we can stop the madness. We can save the death that awaits America, if we return to the limiting principles of the U.S. Constitution. The battles must rage at the local level, as we continue to battle on at the federal level. Constitutionalists must replace the politicians. America must return to the form of government given to us by the Founding Fathers.

If we don't, our posterity will be rioting in the streets, and the United States of America will become just another failed civilization mentioned in the margins of some future history book.

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