Another Note From The CDPR

Another note from the Center for the Development of Personal Responsibility (aka – the Loneliest Place on Earth): Exactly what is the going price for America’s soul?

It’s a great time to be a liberal in America today. A liberal Democrat controlled House and Senate is in place and in just a few days the most liberal President the United States has had in decades or perhaps ever, will be inaugurated into office. There will be dancing in the gold paved streets and America will once again be brought to greatness in the eyes of the United Nations and the diplomatic hacks that grace its halls.

The mantra of “Change” will become the reality of new legislation relieving weary American citizens and businesses of their burdensome personal responsibility. No longer will we need to worry about people either individually or as corporate directors making poor decisions or more importantly suffering the consequences of poor decisions. Wealth will be redistributed, taking from those who have worked for it and giving to those who have not. All those who have not succeeded in taking advantage of the opportunities already in place to advance themselves out of poverty will be given their free shares of milk and honey ration stamps further tightening the shackles of welfare slavery and dependence on government for their very existence.

New stimulus packages are already being drafted so that once the President is officially installed he can make the redistribution of free money his first priority. New and even broader bail outs of failing union controlled businesses are in the works to protect the promised quid pro quo. And new construction projects of roads and bridges will provide a plethora of new dues paying members.

I hate to be a party pooper in the midst of this liberal love fest but I do have a few questions. First off, have we learned nothing from the crisis caused by the government inflicted infection of welfare into credit markets? And secondly, how much of our economic freedom are we willing to cede to government controls in order to avoid taking personal responsibility?

In his 1986 book “Free Enterprise Economics” author Tom Rose makes the following remarkably prophetic statement:

“If Americans value liberty, if they value individual freedom and self-responsibility before God as a desirable and moral state of affairs, then civil government will play a minor role in their lives. Its role will be limited to that of protector of property and a punisher of those who rob, steal and cheat others.

If on the other hand, Americans come to fear self-responsibility, if they attempt to escape the self-responsibility which is inherent in the free market system, then civil government will play an ever increasing role in their lives. Instead of servant and protector of property, civil government will become a regulator and master of the people as well as a redistributor of wealth.”

To the glee of Kremlin officials and the Russian state run media Russian academic Igor Panarin has come out with a prediction that the U.S. will implode by the year 2010 under the debt load proposed by the incoming administration coupled with the backlash of all those who will come to the realization that this new President is not a Messiah but rather just a charming liberal politician who is retrying the same failed economic hocus pocus that didn’t work every other time it was tried.

Comrade Panarin is a former KGB analyst and is now the dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry. He admits that his calculations show only a 55% chance of the U.S. collapse which he points out “One could rejoice in that process, but if we are talking reasonably it’s not the best scenario for Russia.”

It would be easy to pass off Panarin as a crack pot looking for some Russian TV face time. But considering the additional $1 trillion debt load to be incurred if the new president does what he says he’s going to do as well as the reduction in tax revenues from the increase in income taxes he may not be that cracked a pot after all.

No foreign government has the power to strip Americans of their freedom. But if Americans choose to surrender that freedom to their own government in exchange for a bag of silver and a release of their own personal responsibility we will all lose an important piece of our collective freedom.

Freedom and personal responsibility are like conjoined twins where trying to separate one from the other will mean certain death to both.

And that is too high a price to pay.