FREEDOM IS NEEDED AT HOME

How ironic: the more we spend in young lives and treasure chasing fascism all over the world, the more fascist we become at home. Are you free to hire and fire whom you choose? No. Are you free to sell your house or your goods to whomever you choose? No. Are you free to decide where you will lend money, or where your employees will work or make deliveries? No. Are you free to set their terms of employment? No. Has the federal government constitutional authority to intervene in, offer and/or fund such social programs as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, education, welfare, food stamps, housing, loans, racial spoils, etc? No. Or to control abortion? No. Or to manipulate the economy, trade and society with tariffs, quotas, and subsidies? No. Or to hand out foreign aid, or to underwrite the security, economy and survival of Israel? No. Or to cancel Third World debt? No, it belongs to the taxpayers. Or to fight wars of revenge (i.e. most of them) and police the world? No. Or to build a new Iraq? No. Or to bribe states, communities, and institutions to do what Congress itself is not authorized to do? No. Can you pay your taxes with confidence they will be used for your benefit? No; they may well be used to build a redundant, make-work aircraft carrier or another gov't building in West Virginia, or for unauthorized social programs or forbidden Robin Hood transfers. Government interventions in society or the economy do some good for some people some of the time, always including the politicians who create them, but they are almost always negative-sum. Collectively, they are called socialism or welfarism or redistributionism or statism or Marxism or communism, but their real name is fascism. How does the government get away with it? To keep their jobs, our politicians ignore the Constitution out of fear of or to do favors for unions, the Farm lobby, the Israeli LOBBY, the AARP, large fundraisers and donors, and others with political or financial power. Unorganized voters are kept at bay with handouts and the opium of progressive taxation/redistribution, i.e. the forcible transfer of the wages and savings of those who earn them and own them and have the right to spend them, to strangers who do not. Our ancestors had more freedom under King George III! The only proper function of government is to protect the lives, liberty and property of all within its jurisdiction, and not to improve, reform, educate or equalize people or society! hm

World War II

None of the leaders of the West understood that Fascism was containing Communism free-of-charge. Instead of letting them go at it, the Brits and the French declared "a war of revenge" [Neville Chamberlain's words to Joe Kennedy] on Germany that they could not win. The Brits threw down their weapons after two weeks of engaging the Germans and ran home. The French threw down their weapons and surrendered in six. Together they had lost their land war in Europe! There is no way, morally, strategically or constitutionally to justify FDR's wasting young American lives bailing out Britain and France from their own folly, PLUS Hitler's partner in dividing Poland, Stalin! Basically, it was masochism: We had to punish our enemies no matter what the cost to ourselves! "We have to remember that twice in the 20th century, Europe came close to committing suicide by wars that in retrospect seem senseless." Paul Johnson. "To save your world, you asked this man to die. Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?" W.H. Auden. Motivated by the same sort of arrogance as Neville Chamberlain, FDR provoked Japan's attacks on P.H. and P.I. by embargoing her scrap steel, oil, and financial credits, and then forced us to chase her all the way home at vast cost in lives and destruction (69 cities destroyed on her home islands). We did not need to invade her. We did not need to force a beaten foe to surrender, and we certainly did not need to use "those awful things" [Ike's words]. Surrounded as she was by the U.S., USSR, Korea, China, Indo-China, Burma, India, Australia, et al., all bitter enemies of her and all good fighters, Japan had been DOA for years. We never should have provoked her, we never should have avenged her attack on P.H.(a pure military target), and we never should have destroyed her. All we had to do and should have done was to get out of the P.I., leave our Pacific Fleet on the West Coast [FDR ordered it moved to P.H. to intimidate Japan against the advice of his admirals], and watch it all unfold. hm