When America Weakens and Withdraws
Claudia Rosett has a short, powerful article on the efect of Obama’s policies onthe world. The Rosett Report » If Obama Turns America Into Europe…. It isn’t positive or pretty:
Europe — sclerotic, bureaucratized and social-democratized – has for decades enjoyed the protection, inventions and security afforded by its more laissez-fair, strapping, and exuberant cousin across the Pond, the United States. America, with its free markets, its market incentives, and its relatively large private sector, has been the engine of global growth. America’s system, based fundamentally on individual risk and responsibility, has been the great incubator of innovations that have become the staples of the modern age — from medical advances, to computers, to the internet and beyond. Around the world, people have benefited in ways beyond measure.
All that energy poured into progress is likely to fade, as America devolves into a nation of carbon-capped civil servants, tending to a much-shrunken private sector, and a growing line of people on the dole. However high-flying President Obama’s rhetoric, he can’t re-engineer human nature. If you tax and subsidize Americans more, they will — like anyone else – produce and create less.
That’s about half the article. it’s tempting to quote it all. More and more, I think the dividing line in politics and such is not religion, policy, or economics. IThe line is drawn between those who understand and accept the limitations of human nature, and those who believe they can alter or ignore human nature.
