Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Murdering the “American IDEA”

How much stuff do you own?  Is owning stuff the reason for your day to day existence?  Is that why you toil?  Does owning stuff make you materialistic?  I don’t think so.  Owning stuff is simply the result of individual desires to trade personal productivity (earnings) for some stuff they may not have, say a teevee or a car.

But individuals owning stuff, especially if they own more stuff than some other individual or individuals, is what consumes the United States government.  The U.S. government feels that all incarnations of stuff must be redistributed, whether they have a right to or not, and if they do not (and they do not), the United States government and the lackeys ostensibly serving American individuals’ interests promulgate some feel good law to force individuals to comply with their redistributive policies.  The United States government is attempting to kill the “American IDEA.”

The Gunslinger, at Gunslinger’s Journal, has some additional thoughts on this topic and states them in a post titled Why Stuff doesn’t make us “Materialistic.”  The opening three paragraphs.

America is an IDEA. It’s not about an accumulation of cool “stuff”.

Communists, aka Democrats/Progressives/Socialists are all about the “stuff”. They see ours and want it. And they believe that when they get it, they’ll have what we have. That they’ll be “equal”.

What they don’t get is that our stuff is just the byproduct of our IDEA. And without it there just isn’t that much stuff to go around.

Linked via American Mercenary.

Posted by John Venlet on 03/31 at 05:53 PM
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Kiss My Ass, Too, Westboro Baptist Church

Freedom of speech, no matter how despicable the speech, should be inviolable. 

With that said, I hope the asshats who make up the membership of Westboro Baptist Church rot in hell.  Despciable beasts, all.  I hope they burn, along with their “Thank God for dead soldiers” signs.

Dad of a fallen Marine perseveres against protests at military funerals

Posted by John Venlet on 03/31 at 03:22 PM
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