"ONLY" government?

I found it exceedingly hard ... struggling through our President-Elect's "economic package" speech. Basically he wants to double the size of our national debt (roughly), in a single piece of legislation, around $800,000,000,000.00. That is his so called "stimulus" to jolt the American economy into prosperity - unprecedented deficit spending on, in his words, "infrastructure, health care, alternative fuels and education." My response? Ummm, uh huh. Ya, that ought to do the trick Barry - double the national debt on non war making projects, of your choosing - that ought to shoot the dollar to ... well lets just say Pesos may seem appealing.

But what I found particularly disturbing was the following excerpt from his speech, which I might add, sums up his entire ideology quite succinctly, in my opinion ...

"Only government can provide the short-term boost necessary to lift us from a recession this deep and severe. Only government can break the vicious cycles that are crippling our economy."

I do not even begin to have the time to delve into how ridiculously uninformed and naive this statement is in its entirety. Not to mention, how damaging.

First and foremost, "only government." The fact that he can make a declarative statement (with a straight face) such as that, only one generation removed from a landslide winning Ronald Wilson Reagan, and receive accolades from all quarters no less, sends a cold shiver both up AND down my spine. It speaks volumes of how far off the reservation the American electorate's mindset has traveled (at least those among the 52 million Obama voters which defected from Reagan/Bush).

And even the very premise that the "government" can stop or start business cycles, or SHOULD, is asinine in the extreme. Any "free" society, and by extension their "free" markets are cyclical. Boom and bust times, bulls and bears. To expect government to prevent nary another down cycle again is, well ... to be an Obama supporter I suppose, i.e. ignorant of basic economic principles.

The strength of this nation, in the economic sense and every other, isn't, nor has it ever been, in her government, but rather the rugged individuals that take risks and create jobs, goods and services that other rugged individuals want or need. The government can either enhance the effort of the individual by getting out of his or her way, or hamper them by being IN the way - THAT'S IT, no in between. The government does NOT "make" anything. Its very existence is vampiric in nature. It doesn't make sofas, nor sell them. It taxes, thus it must limit "some" of your freedom for its existence to be maintained. It's why Jefferson brilliantly quipped, "At best government is a necessary evil; and at worst, an intolerable one." But not now - NO, NO NO, government is benevolent, acting in the best interests of "the people", all knowing, all caring, all supplying. Such a role for government has been the prelude to the most sadistic, murderous, oppressive regimes the world over, to numerous to mention here.

Let me quote someone else. Some one else whom acted, in his opinions, for "the good of the people", which after all is the founding premise upon which Obama builds his "only government" house of cards ...

"The people is always worth more than individuals. The people is sublime, but individuals are weak - or, at any rate, expendable."
-Robespierre

THAT is the path we are on. A nation whose founding principles championed the rights and worth of the individual is traveling the road of the "sublime peoples."

Jonah Goldberg, in his book: Liberal Fascism (and YES, I read this rather voluminous book Titus), wrote:

"Whatever else it might have been, however, one thing is clear: the French Revolution was the first totalitarian revolution, the mother of modern totalitarianism, and the spiritual model for the Italian Fascist, German Nazi, and Russian Communist revolutions. A nationalist-populist uprising, it was led and manipulated by an intellectual vanguard determined to replace Christianity with a political religion that glorified "the people," anointed the revolutionary vanguard as their priests, and abridged the rights of individuals."

Does that not describe the modern Western leftist ideology, so prominently brought to power in America 4 November, 2008?

How long before "only government" become "government only?" I shudder at the answer ...