The state of statism

In our largest cities we have one party control.  That’s statism on a smaller scale--the belief that a government should control either economic or social policy, or both.  Arlington County where all the DC politicians and worker bees live has a 100% Democrat city council and they are asking for more taxes while promising to cut 20 jobs and give up one holiday, but still want a raise for government employees.  Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?  Tiny cuts (which usually don’t materialize for 10 years), big tax increases (which begin right away).  It’s the one party way. Protect your folks, the public service unions.

Also left of center, and siding with the Democrats, is our “free press.”  We don't have a watch dog for the public, so in the largest one party cities like Detroit and Cleveland (Columbus has a Democrat mayor, but has not yet gone completely under due to the state government offices which are more balanced) schools will not educate, the streets and bridges will be unsafe, the crime rate will be high, fathers will not be in the home because mothers are paid to keep them away, and children have no role models.

It is a serious thing to want no conflict between philosophies and parties, or to say "they are all the same." Once upon a time the black man had to go to the back of the line for a job or education. How much better off is he if there is no line at all--which is what Obama's "recovery" has given us by passing out the stimulus money to the unions, banks and weak companies that needed to go bankrupt.  Blacks went to the polls in November with the October labor report showing 40.5 percent unemployment for young blacks, rising from 36.7 percent in September. But none of that mattered to them.  It is a one party system for American blacks, and they’ve got a man, working against their interests, in the White House who promises free stuff without working.