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We are all socialists now Harold Pease, Ph. D. Special to Valley News The near panic associated with the possibility of Bernie Sanders, after winning the New Hampshire primary and doing so well in South Carolina and Nevada, overtaking Hillary Clinton and becoming the Democratic nominee for president, is treated by the establishment press as a gigantic move into socialism, but it shouldn’t. Seven years ago, Feb. 16, 2009, Newsweek’s cover story proclaimed “We Are All Socialists Now.” Editors Jon Meacham and Evan Thomas wrote, “Whether we want to admit it or not, the America of 2009 is moving toward a modern European state,” toward socialism, www.anzavalleyoutlook.com
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they observed, “even before Barack Obama’s largest fiscal bill in our history.” The cover of the magazine featured a red hand (Republican) shaking a blue hand (Democrat) in favor of socialism. Both parties accepted the “growing role of government in the economy,” they observed. “The U.S. government has already—under a conservative Republican administration—effectively nationalized the banking and mortgage industries.” Moreover, “it was, again, under a conservative GOP administration that we enacted the largest expansion of the welfare state in 30 years: prescription drugs for the elderly.” If the “growing role in government” was how Newsweek measured socialism, the Obama years thereafter were even more socialist than they could have expected. In this time period the federal government obtained a controlling interest in General Motors, absorbed 1/7th of the economy under “Obamacare”, and expanded the power of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to oversee most homes in America. This land expansion was in addition to their ownership of a third of all the landmass in the United States known as federal land. This does not count the controlling influence overall businesses by the 80,000 new pages of bureaucratic rules and regulations descending upon businesses annu-
Jane Chastain Special to Anza Valley Outlook It’s time for Dr. Ben Carson and Gov. John Kasich to leave the race for president of the United States. The high-speed train for the 2016 GOP nomination has left the station, and these two aren’t on it. In the case of Carson, it pains me to say it. I was among the thousands of people who urged him to run. In fact, I still have a Carson bumper sticker on my car that has yellowed with age. My husband and I have donated more to his campaign than we have to any other candidate. Carson maintains that he is staying in the race because his supporters don’t want him to drop out. Well, take my name off the list. It’s not because I don’t believe that he would make the best president, perhaps the best we’ve ever had. His goals for this nation are deeply held and well thought out, not like the current front-runner, who seems to be making them up as he goes along and, yes, feels free to change his mind on any given issue on a moment’s notice. I want Dr. Carson to drop out because his message is important, and I don’t want it to be lost in a sea of inevitability. Dr. Carson is a brilliant person. He’s knows that in this
Mallard Fudd Special to Anza Valley Outlook When I was a young lad of about 10 years old in Anza California my father gave me a 410 gauge shot gun. He advised me on how to use it. Never point it at yourself or anybody else. Always make sure exactly what you are shooting at and behind what you are shooting at. He showed me how to load it, cock it and shoot it and how to clean it. I was then allowed to go hunting.
On the surface, his record in Ohio is impressive. He is fond of telling us that during his time in office, the state went from an $8 billion (more like $6 billion) deficit to a $2 billion surplus – and he cut taxes $5 billion. In addition, his state has fewer employees and has slowed Medicaid growth. However, the Cato Institute, a free-market think tank that produces a biennial scorecard on the nation’s governors, gave Kasich a “B” in 2012 and a “D” in 2014. What gives? Cato reports that state spending under Kasich from 2012 to 2015 increased a whopping 18 percent. He simply used federal dollars for transportation, education and Medicaid to hide the overall growth. That’s why he earned the worst score of any Republican governor. Also, a white paper on Kasich from Club for Growth points out that the governor’s record is a lot better than it would have been if he hadn’t been stopped on numerous occasions from going overboard on taxes by a Republican legislature. Kasich also brags about being the architect of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 while head of the House Budget Committee. True, but hidden in that budget deal was
the No. 1 goal of the Clinton administration: the S-Chip program, which now provides government health insurance to children in a family of four making up to $95,400 per year. “Hillarycare” had been soundly rejected by the voters, but after that defeat, Kasich let what amounted to this camel’s nose under the tent, through his backdoor. Kasich is also fond of telling us the BBA led to surpluses for the next four years. Also true, but those surpluses were not a result of a decrease in spending, but of the growth that occurred after the capital gains tax cut. Kasich has not been challenged on his record, but should he begin making headway in the swing states, he most assuredly will be. Jane Chastain is a Southern California-based broadcaster, author and political commentator. Despite her present emphasis on politics, Jane always will be remembered as the nation’s first female TV sportscaster, spending 17 years on the sports beat. Jane blogs at JaneChastain.com. She is a pilot who lives on a private runway. For more opinion, or to comment on this story online, visit www. anzavalleyoutlook.com.
My father was a hardworking man who got up before sunrise and usually worked until it set. The first time I went hunting by myself he told me, “Don’t go too far and be back by sundown.” Youth being like it is, about the only thing I would take hunting with me was the shot gun, some shells and my dog. I hunted a lot. Almost every morning at that age I would get up and couldn’t wait to get into the fields. One day during the summer, I arose early grabbed my shot gun
and headed out. This time I wanted to see some country where I had never been before trying for different game. I walked throughout the morning not much really thinking about hunting but really just enjoying the beauty of the country. As I got into the new area that I had never seen before I became enthralled with what was behind the next bend. Long about that afternoon, I started getting thirsty and thought I had better get back. I hadn’t realized how far I had walked. I was
miles from home. I turned around and started walking back the way that I had come. As usually happens when you are walking through the brush in Anza, it is sometimes very difficult to go back the exact way that you came especially when you are young and climbing boulders and pushing through brush up a ravine. I found that I had to take a different route several times. The day had gotten hot and now thirst was very present on my mind. I walked and walked and the thirst got worse. The day had become blistering hot after the noon hour. I kept walking thinking now that I would make it. I would be all right. My mouth was dry. I kept walking. Finally, I had to sit down in the shade of a redshank tree to cool off. By now the thirst was serious my mouth was dry as a bone and I had a headache. Even at that age I knew I was in trouble. I didn’t want to get up; my head was really hurting and I felt really tired. Finally, I realized if I didn’t get up and try to get home that I might not make it. I got up again and started walking. As a young boy will do, my mind pictured me dying, never to be found. I walked on. Then a thought. I had heard from someone somewhere that you could put a stone in your mouth to draw water. Reaching down I found a small smooth stone and put it in my mouth. Didn’t work in fact I didn’t have enough saliva to even
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stepped-up primary process (some say rigged) he is not going to win. Let’s face it: The public has a short attention span, and voters are angry. They are tired of being sold down the river by their elected representatives. They are tired of shouting at the TV, and they are ready to support someone who shouts back, even if it is often done in a tasteless manner. If Carson leaves the race now, he doesn’t have to leave the stage. He has an important message and will have the opportunity to carry it forward. If he leaves the race now, he will have greater influence over the eventual nominee and can build for the future. If he keeps on at this point, it will cast doubt on his judgment. The next president would do well to tap Dr. Carson to head the Department of Health and Human Services and give him the responsibility of rebuilding our broken welfare system and replacing “Obamacare”. He would have the bully pulpit necessary to get that accomplished. It is also time for John Kasich to get out and work to unite the party around the eventual nominee. Kasich believes, as the last governor standing that voters eventually will come to their senses.
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under which Shafarevich lived. The idea of equality to a socialist had a special character. It meant the negation of the existence of any genuine differences between individuals: “equality” was turned into “equivalence.” Socialism aims to establish equality by the opposite means of destroying all the higher aspects of the personality. Newsweek’s invitation to “think more clearly about how to use government in today’s world” should dissuade us from going there at all. Why would anyone want to embrace a system that ended all semblances of freedom and which, for them, self destructed in 1989? At least in the USSR, at that time, they would have been happy to trade their socialism for our freedom. Are we smart enough to listen to them and avoid all socialists in either party, of which there are several, this election? Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He has taught history and political science from this perspective for over 25 years at Taft College. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www. LibertyUnderFire.org.
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ism eventually worked out to be in practice. This is, of course, after any significant means of resistance had been removed by gun control. That is the first thing that goes in any tyrannical government. He found the economic definition of socialism, the meaningful governmental control of the means of production and distribution, shamefully incomplete. Socialism resulted in complete control of private property. Property was defined as anything that existed including one’s own family and person. This included subordination of the individual to the power of the bureaucracy and state control of everyday life. Sexual promiscuity is first tolerated, even encouraged, but ultimately procreation on a selective and supervised basis follows. For the USSR socialism meant the destruction of the family as the basic institution of society and the rearing of children away from their parents in state schools or day care centers. Marriage, as an acceptable practice, was also minimized. One of the most defining characteristics of all profoundly socialist countries was the government’s extreme hatred of religion and their commitment to its ultimate destruction. It competes with the state as God. The destruction of the hierarchy into which society has arranged itself was yet another characteristic
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ally that effectively manage most everything else. Clearly we were replacing our constitutional Republic, which emphasizes limited government and individual freedom, with socialism long before Sanders became a household name. His appeal to tax the rich even more to pay for free college is but a deeper step into the socialism that already exists in the United States. Newsweek observed correctly then that this was just the beginning. In light of their honesty it might behoove us to understand where socialist might be taking us by noting where socialism has taken others. In 1975 the book, “From Under the Ruble,” authored by a variety of Soviet dissidents, all but one of whom were still living in the USSR, was published in the West. The participants were fully aware that their commentary on the socialist system smuggled to the “Free World” would undoubtedly unleash the wrath of the Soviet Bear and result in imprisonment, torture and possibly death for them. Nonetheless, they felt that the West could avoid the loss of freedom they experienced if only it were warned. Igor Shafarevich, a corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and former Laureate of the Lenin Prize, attempted, in his chapter “Socialism in Our Past and Future,” to tell the West what social-
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