Continued from last week
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: WATCHDOGIE ROUND-UP Part One – Diverse Strays
PATRIOTISM: Maintaining the values and principles of America’s Founding Father Patriots who stood up to the tyranny of an oppressive government. Those principles emphasized limited government, individual freedoms, personal responsibility, free market capitalism and their revolutionary extremist conviction that all men are created equal.
AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM: ‘While most nations evolved from tribal clans and royalty the US was born, and born of ideas: that all men are created equal, that they have been given by God certain rights that can be taken from them by no man, and that those rights combine to create a thing called freedom’. – Peggy Noonan
The American spirit was essentially anarchistic – the antithesis of collectivism-statism-socialism – an exceptional spirit which has bedeviled radicals around the world to this day.
SOCIETAL COLLAPSE: The fall or disintegration of human societies including abrupt societal failures such as the Mayan Civilization as well as gradual declines like the fall of the Western Roman Empire and Soviet Union. Government central planning overreach and disintegration of cultural mores (fundamental moral values) are typical catalysts.
ACCULTURATION and ASSIMILATION: Acculturation is the process of learning and adapting to the practices and customs of a new culture. Assimilation involves being absorbed into the new culture. People can assimilate without being acculturated.
INTEGRATION: The stimulus for the entire civil rights movement. Motivated by equal opportunity for all, integration is a two-way societal process where there are cross influences from differing cultures and both change a small bit to accept the minority culture into the majority culture.
MULTICULTURAL SALAD or MOSAIC: The racial identity politics of modern political correctness fosters multicultural segregation over integration. Immigrants often come to America seeking all the freedoms and benefits without any desire of abandoning their failed national culture nor have any desire for social contact with any outside their own ethnicity, even seeking to alter the American legal system to conform to their own cultural norms. Prior to the welfare state, immigrants escaped cultural and racial oppression, abandoning their previous nationalities while still retaining ethnic pride and assimilating into a new American culture. Multiculturalism as we know it is not about respecting or celebrating the salad bowl of cultural or ethnic diversity, but about indicting American civilization for its imperial, colonial, xenophobic, and racist sins.
EUROPEAN MULTICULTURALISM: The United Kingdom, Germany and the famously progressive and permissive Netherlands have declared multiculturalism as a failure and are seeking obligatory integration, assimilation and acceptance of British, German and Dutch values.
ANCHOR BABY: Politically incorrect for ‘automatic birthright citizenship’. Among developed nations, only the US and Canada still offer automatic citizenship to children born on their soil. Not a single European country follows the practice.
UNLAWFUL IMMIGRANT DEFICIT: An extensive Heritage Foundation 2010 study utilizing US Census Bureau data revealed the average American unlawful immigrant household paid $10,334 in taxes annually. They also collected $24,721 in government benefits and services for a net annual deficit to lawful taxpayers of $14,387.
GUN CONTROL: Russia has one tenth the number of firearms per capita as the U.S. Their murder rate is four times greater. The only question that needs to be asked is, what happened to the Russian culture that made them so dysfunctional and violent?
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM: A PC euphemism for controlling free speech. If the goal is to get money out of politics, the real solution is to get politics out of money. In other words, shrink government
THE PARTY OF POLITICAL DONORS: Of the top 40 organizations making political contributions 24 give almost exclusively to the Democratic Party while only four give exclusively to the GOP. Some 20 labor unions give almost exclusively to democrats yet on the generosity index for charitable giving they are far down the list. Corporate giants such as Walmart, Alcoa and Koch Industries are the most generous organizations in the world for donations to charity.
GENEROSITY INDEX: Despite now being the party of the super-rich, the Democratic Party are still tightwads. Several studies reveal republicans give 30% to 50% more to charities than democrats. Similarly in European countries they love to provide government safety nets for the poor yet give far less as individuals than Americans.
FEEDME RATIO: You might call this a ‘change-my-diaper’ ratio as well. It is the number of clients drawing from the government (welfare recipients, generously paid government employees and people collecting government pensions) compared to those chipping in by working outside the government and paying taxes. When the ratio goes above 1.0 the departure of jobs can lead to an economic death spiral. Of the six states with a feedme ratio over 1.0, including California and New York, New Mexico is far in the lead at 1.43.
ECONOMIC DEATH SPIRAL: The government burdens remain but too many of the providers - employers in the private sector - shrink or depart. Why add jobs in a state that asks each productive worker to carry not just his or her own weight but also the weight of one other person or more? What happens when employers tire of the burdens and leave? Detroit, Puerto Rico, Greece and the former Soviet Union is what.
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By Joe Schaller
