[aageneral] Liberals Are Always Wrong

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Title: Liberals Are Always Wrong
Author: Jan A. Larson
Word count: 790
Copyright: (c) 2005 All rights reserved.

Liberals Are Always Wrong

By Jan A. Larson

FedEx, the worldwide shipping company, has recently been
running a television advertisement [1] in which one character
tells his co-worker, Ned, that, "he is always wrong." Apparently
"Ned" thinks that a popular tourist attraction in Italy is called the
"leaning tower of pizza" and that his employer provides "French
benefits."

Much like Ned, those on the political left, especially the far left,
("liberals") are always wrong. Virtually every idea that liberals
embrace is wrong; especially anything that has a basis in
economics.

Liberals want to raise taxes on the most successful until there is
no reason for anyone to try to be successful anymore. John
Kerry campaigned on the idea that the President's tax cuts were
an "unfair" giveaway to the wealthy. Liberals like Kerry would
take those taxes (until they dried up) and fund more and more
programs designed to do nothing more than further every
citizen's dependence on government.

Liberals like Ted Kennedy want to raise the minimum wage.
Sure everyone would like to make more money. The problem
with raising the minimum wage is that many of those that would
ostensibly benefit from an increased minimum wage will end up
unemployed. That is the economic reality. Nice, Ted.

Capitalism allowed Americans to build the most technically
advanced, affluent society the world has ever known, but liberals
would turn the United States into a socialist welfare state not
unlike failing European states such as Spain and France.

Liberals don't know what makes capitalism work. It isn't
income redistribution or higher taxes on "the rich." It isn't
rewarding people for their stupidity or laziness. It isn't more
regulation or more government. There isn't a fixed size pie of
wealth that must be carved up and distributed. What makes
capitalism flourish is less government and lower taxes. It is
providing opportunities for people of all backgrounds to be
successful and that means getting out of the way. With less
burdensome government intervention, capitalism is the engine
that creates wealth and increases the standard of living for
everyone.

Liberals believe that government is always the answer, but time
and time again, it has been shown that government is not only
not the answer, but is often the problem. The Social Security
program is a looming mathematical disaster waiting to happen.
It is only a matter of time. The liberal solution? Leave it alone.
Let people take ownership of their retirement? Nope. Liberals
such as Harry Reid figure that Americans must be too stupid to
do that. The liberals are wrong again.

Worse than being simply wrong about something is being
hypocritical. Liberals preach tolerance, but liberals are the most
single-mindedly intolerant people you will ever find.

Doubt it? Tell that to the Boy Scouts of America. One of the
most honorably intentioned groups for young people in America,
the Boy Scouts are hounded at every turn by the ACLU and
other liberal elites that don't like the Scouts' membership
practices, despite the fact that the U. S. Supreme Court has
upheld those practices.

Never mind the First Amendment, liberal college administrators
routinely implement speech codes that stifle any speech that
might be interpreted by anyone as offensive and those elite
administrators get to decide who is offended. Hypocritically,
those same administrators will invite America-haters such as
Ward Churchill to speak on campus, paid by student fees.
North Carolina�Wilmington professor, Dr. Mike Adams,
regularly provides examples of such campus nonsense in his
TownHall.com columns [2]. I suggest Dr. Adams' work be
required reading for anyone with college students in their family.

Liberals will fight for the rights of murderers and terrorists,
witness the furor over alleged abuses of the Koran at
Guantanamo Bay, but the state sanctioned killing of Terri
Schiavo (make no mistake, it was a killing) as ordered a liberal
judge George Greer, was perfectly acceptable.

Liberals advocate more "affordable housing" but in the San
Francisco area (as well as others), there are so many restrictions
on land use that developers cannot build suitable housing for
anyone less they disturb the "natural environment." Liberals
advocate personal freedoms but lead the fight to implement
smoking bans. Liberals have so effectively opposed forest
management in western states that virtually every summer brings
devastating fires.

Economically challenged and hypocritical, liberals don't stop
there. Liberals are also paranoid. The most extreme would have
you believe that if left to their own devices, conservatives would
turn rivers and lakes into cesspools, fill the skies with acrid
smoke, chop down every tree, kill every animal, re-institute
slavery, and force everyone to recite the Ten Commandments
every hour on the hour.

Wrong at every turn, liberals would be funny if not so
dangerous. They are dangerous because so many don't see just
how wrong they are.

[1]
http://www.fedex.com/us/about/unitedstates/advertising/tvads/wrongwm.html
[2] http://www.townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/archive.shtml

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Jan A. Larson publishes a weekly commentary, "What is the
Deal?" at the Pie of Knowledge
(http://www.pieofknowledge.com). His work also appears on
NewsBull (http://www.newsbull.com), OpinionEditorials
(http://www.opinioneditorials.com), American Daily
(http://www.americandaily.com), ChronWatch
(http://www.chronwatch.com) and The Conservative Voice
(http://www.theconservativevoice.com).

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