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Financial types have provided reports in recent months suggesting the greenback may be replaced by another standard-bearer for the world. Comparisons have been made to our nation’s oversized government, political climate and economic woes leading us to the status of a banana republic. Major crisis is also present within both major political parties demonstrating ‘the cultural divide’ and ‘polarized’ constituencies they court. This continues to fuel the respective and opposite arguments from the left and the right. Conservatism and liberalism are the underlying philosophies competing for the hearts and minds of the American public. That which until recently was the strategy for bringing democracy to failing states around the world.

What has liberalism given us so far? One can cite the popular topic of FDRs New Deal and Social Security as well as other socialist mechanisms it represents. Like its current grandchild, healthcare reform, gargantuan quantities of available wealth are targeted for a losing proposition that fails over time. Liberalism is nothing if not patient.

Then there is the Great Society of LBJ that gave us Medicare and Medicaid. No real need to express the folly of this similar liberal dream. A subtle coup from the liberal ranks is given by the example of the Community Reinvestment Act of the Carter years. Recent examples feature retiring Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) who was fully vested in this fiasco as were other liberals contributing to the financial crisis the left blames entirely on Bush 43.

A sneak preview of what can happen to America is found in California these days. A column by George F Will emphasizes this with a recurring phrase ‘it took years’ referring to the long siege of a liberal agenda and its consequences.

It took years for liberalism’s redistributive itch to create an income tax so steeply progressive that it prompts the flight from the state of wealth-creators.

It took years for liberalism’s mania for micromanaging life with entangling regulations to make California’s once-creative economy resemble Gulliver immobilized by the Lilliputians’ many threads.

It took years for compassionate liberalism to make California’s welfare menu contribute to the state becoming an importer of Mexico’s poverty. It took years for servile liberalism to turn the state into what Voegeli calls a “unionocracy,” run by and for unionized public employees, such as public safety employees who can retire at 50 and receive 90 percent of the final year’s pay for life

In less than a quarter century California has lost a quarter of its factory jobs and a third of its high tech ones. Union perks and welfare state imports in conjunction with tax, regulation and government over=control have crippled a former leader of American innovation. That’s because those in the private sector who create the jobs and the wealth have left the land of fruits and nuts en masse. Only New York can claim a higher failure rate in this regard. Something often stated by conservative talk radio which is often criticized by the left for giving liberalism a bad name.

Another current story on the liberal fable is featured on MichelleMalkin dot com. As much as the left enjoys promoting education they have a strange way of showing it. Perhaps, like the rest of their ideology, those who should benefit reside on a selective list.

Liberal racism in Berkeley: Cut h.s. science labs for “diversity’s” sake
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