tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959556.post3333791073308623079..comments2024-02-21T17:30:40.448-05:00Comments on An Objectivist Individualist: Continued High Unemployment -- A Manufactured Crisis to be ExploitedCharles R. Anderson, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09610765984333672076noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959556.post-38660003428280931242011-06-24T20:12:24.636-05:002011-06-24T20:12:24.636-05:00Michael, I long overlooked your comment in my stre...Michael, I long overlooked your comment in my stream of e-mails and then long thought I had published it.<br /><br />The Republicans as a whole differ in scale with the Democrats on how much they embrace socialism. Generally, they spend less and run smaller deficits. It was the Democrats who decided to spend $1 trillion more per year since 2007. Yes, Bush did not veto the Democrat Congress big spending of 2008 as he should have and that does point to a general cultural problem. We also see such a problem in that most older Republicans do not want to entertain reductions in benefits in either Medicare or in Social Security. Nonetheless, they will eventually accept them more readily than will Democrats.<br /><br />The very generous welfare state of today is not at all sustainable. It will collapse and people will once again see that there is no substitute for productive work. The major cultural change will occur then. Some people have moved well along in learning that lesson and many are in the Tea Party movement. But, that group is still a clear minority and many of the remainder of society will learn nothing until they are seriously worried they will be cast homeless into the streets. Of course those who actually are cast into the streets will claim a right to be cared for, while those who narrowly avoid it will learn from it.Charles R. Anderson, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09610765984333672076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959556.post-8391055948407941102011-06-15T18:15:55.923-05:002011-06-15T18:15:55.923-05:00Thank you Claudia. I really appreciate your comme...Thank you Claudia. I really appreciate your comment. When government messes with the individual's sovereign rights to life, liberty, property, the ownership of one's mind and body, and the pursuit of personal happiness with central planning to impose values and to micromanage our lives, disaster strikes every time. Unfortunately, the presumptuous progressive elitists are so enamored of their religion that they can dish out social justice that no evidence to the contrary ever registers with most of them. There may be a few we can pick off from the edges with the painful truth of their failures and some independents can be picked off for a while. It is hard to pick up independents for long however, since most of them are reluctant to think in terms of principles.<br /><br />We need more Americans who love freedom for its own sake and will be immune to the bribes of big, illegitimate governments. I am happy you are one such person.Charles R. Anderson, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09610765984333672076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959556.post-58776250098887859642011-06-15T14:15:07.993-05:002011-06-15T14:15:07.993-05:00An excellant article and so true that this is a 3 ...An excellant article and so true that this is a 3 year long ObamaDemocratic recession.Claudia Roazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12512774961174296659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959556.post-41152744664324389382011-06-11T09:56:59.125-05:002011-06-11T09:56:59.125-05:00Thanks for the numbers. I appreciate the empirica...Thanks for the numbers. I appreciate the empirical analysis because it gets us past anecdotes. <br /><br /><b>"The Great Socialist Recession is very unlikely to end until Obama is no longer occupying the White House and the Democrats no longer control the Senate."</b> <br /><br />The Republicans will be just as bad, only different ... or maybe not so different. <br /><br />The basic problem is cultural, which is to say, at the personal level it is philosophical. Those myriads of persons aggregate into trends. Today, in the USA, depending on the hoopla 40% to 60% of eligible voters stay home. When 75% to 90% do, it might indicate a changed culture. But the change cannot be political, except as a consequence.<br /><br />What do you think it would take to change the implicit philosophy of our culture?Michael E. Marottahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14402515044482988601noreply@blogger.com