LIMBAUGH: The usurpers

COMMENTARY:

America’s Founders believed that federal power was a necessary evil that would swallow the liberties their ancestors left Europe to obtain unless it was severely limited. But today we seem to have forgotten that freedom cannot survive the unrestrained governmental encroachments that are raining down daily from our nation’s capital.

You need not have written a doctoral thesis on the political theories espoused in the Federalist Papers to understand that socialism impoverishes nations despite the professed good intentions of its benefactors. You needn’t have a master’s in history to realize America is the freest and most prosperous nation in world history because its prescient Framers devised a Constitution that would maximize liberty by imposing restraints on government. And you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to grasp that unless we put the brakes on our out-of-control federal government soon, we will go the way of all other great nations before us.

While there has long existed a tension between liberty’s usurpers and watchdogs, rarely have the usurpers been in such ascendance. They are in firm control of the executive and legislative branches and are using the full force of the federal government to stack the deck in their favor in perpetuity. Just look at the taxpayer-funded payoffs of defaulting mortgagors, unions, governors, big-city mayors, liberal “public interest” groups, and ever-expanding dependency constituencies, including illegal immigrants.

But why can’t they be honest about what they’re doing? Have they even tried to dispute the charge that an untold amount of this so-called stimulus money will not be spent in the near future and that much of it, even when spent, will not stimulate? No, because they cannot explain away their subterfuge in such shenanigans as allocating billions of taxpayer dollars to community organizing groups, such as ACORN, whose real function is to secure elections for like-minded “progressives.”

It’s as if President Barack Obama and Congress were trying to turn us all into conspiracy theorists. Indeed, only the grossly naive believe the usurpers are not calculating their systematic power grabs.

Those with nothing to hide don’t mask their intentions in deceitful language, such as establishing deliberately and hopelessly vague yardsticks - e.g., using “we’re going to save or create 3.5 million jobs” to measure the success of the “stimulus” bill.

Nor do those with nothing to hide:

• Call a mostly pork bill a “stimulus bill that has absolutely no pork.”

• Call a bill eliminating secret ballots in union voting “the Employee Free Choice Act.”

• Call Marxist programs “measures to strengthen capitalism.”

• Call taxpayer-funded health care “free medical coverage.”

• Call across-the-board cuts in defense spending “shoring up our national defenses.”

• Call greater-percentage tax cuts for middle- and lower-income groups “tax cuts only for the rich.”

• Call government-coerced transfer payments “economic justice.”

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