Good Era

When I see what's happening to our country today I can't help being forever thankful that I lived through the era that I did.

The people in power today that are calling themselves Democrats are not Democrats. Years ago, Norman Thomas, who was a six time candidate for president under the Socialist Party ticket, stopped seeking the office and said that he no longer found it necessary to campaign for the presidency because the Democrat Party had adopted all the things he stood for.

That is never more true than it is today. Never has it been more apparent than after the Obama team of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Rahm Emmanuel and other extreme leftists have taken over the reins of government than that there are so many people in this country that are attracted to Socialism and Communism. The enticements of these systems are that they appear to provide cradle-to-the-grave economic security. Those who are allured to their philosophies don’t have the foresight to see that their benevolence has a short life-span.

Unlike today’s socialists that are trying to purge the country of having any recognition of God, Thomas was not a Marxist. “Despite his membership in the Marxist SPA, Thomas himself was never an orthodox Marxist, instead favoring a Christian socialist orientation.” (The article subtitled Wikipidea .... in the Internet)

In a conversation I was having with “Terry” the technician that was doing a doppler examination of my legs at my doctor’s office, she said, “Well the younger people don’t have the benefit of being able to compare our times to theirs’.” This was in response to me saying, “I’m sure glad I came through the era I did.”

No one could have been a bigger fan of President John Kennedy than me. The life issues of abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research etc. had not yet become a topic of discussion in 1960.

Kennedy was not a socialist. When Kennedy, in his inauguration speech said, “Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country,“ he meant it. He was a great supporter of the free-market capitalist system and was the favorite of the working man and knew how to bring about recovery of a stagnant economy. He lowered the tax rate on highest income earners from 91 to 70 percent and lowest earners from 20 to 14 percent. It brought about a period of real economic growth and put a lot of the unemployed back on the payroll. Revenue that came in from the employers and the wage earners helped fill the government coffers. That tax system could not be locked in however and the economy was doomed to stagnate again. It was to last till the second year of President Reagan’s first term in office. Reagan, having the same mindset as Kennedy, put a hatchet to the burdensome taxing impositions and once again the economy had another life. Revenue again rained on the government.

These are the cycles our capitalist system goes through. As taxes gradually go up growth becomes stunted. Four presidents, two Democrats and two Republicans had the sense to revive the economy by having capital investment loosened by cutting taxes and the economy revived and revenue flowed into the treasury both from the businessmen and the people they employed. Of course if our illustrious leader has another agenda - to bring about a new world order modeled after the failed Socialist states in the rest of the world, the best way to do that is to create such chaos that people will believe that our only salvation is to turn ourselves over to a grand-master who knows how to manage our affairs better than we can do for ourselves.