The Very Title Offends Me

The man has an active imagination if nothing else. He really believes that liberals ”saved America.” I haven’t read the book, and I probably won’t because the only way to back up such a title is with lies and misconceptions and I refuse to suffer fools gladly. The Examiner says about it, “Alan Colmes’ book, ‘Thank the Liberals for Saving America,’ is a Leftist’s fantasy about the philosophy of Atheist liberalism being responsible for the establishment and success of America and not Christian conservatism. He believes liberals, progressives, or one of many other names by which Leftists in modern America are called, is the philosophy that his the source of all that is good and righteous. The basis of his reasoning is as flawed as his philosophy.”

One of his ideas is that “the nation was based on a liberal idea.” In that, he is right, in a way (to begin with, anyway). The original colonists first operated under the collectivist (socialist, communist, Fascist) idea of giving each colonist a plot of land, to be held in trust by the entire community and what he produced was OWNED by the community to be distributed among them regardless of what they produced themselves. What he doesn’t tell you is that this idea caused the death by starvation of most of those first colonists, including the wife of the governor by removing INCENTIVE. It was when the governor changed it to let the colonists keep what they produced and sell it at a profit that the colonies prospered. This is the kind of misdirection this book includes, and that offends me.

He talks about FDR’s starting Social Security (you know, that Ponzi scheme we all had to pay into at the point of a gun that (maybe) gives us back one-TENTH of what we could have made in interest on the same money if we could have invested it ourselves and for which liberals are even now plotting to decrease the payouts) and other ideas like Medicare, (that CLAIMS to pay “up to” 80% but never pays even 40% of costs) that CAUSED most of our economic troubles. Most of what he praises is the liberal “giveaway” programs that have made INCENTIVE go away. The only things he praises are the SOCIALISTIC things liberals have done that are DESTROYING this nation’s economy by sapping its INCENTIVE. I will never BUY this book because I will not put a penny in his pocket to read it. If someone GAVE me a copy I MIGHT read it for comedy relief. (The Examiner)