Alan Grayson… Idiot Child of the Left

I didn’t have a ton of time to write again tonight. I had actually decided that I was going to skip the night and try to get some other stuff I have been procrastinating on done. But then I stumbled across this article, another of the open letters Representative Alan Grayson seems so fond of writing over there at the Huffington Post (one of the few places that will give a voice to fruit cakes like Grayson). As you all know, I have no beef with HuffPo. They have some interesting articles and some good ideas that come from a very intelligent group of writers. Unfortunately, they also have become a place where hatemongers such as Bob Cesca and Fools such as Grayson are given a podium from which to spew their nonsense. What they will not do, however, is allow for any dissenting opinions to be offered to counter folks like Cesca and Grayson. And that is a shame, because the surest way to ensure that your writers won’t be taken seriously by anyone other than those who already agree with your ideas is to limit the ability to to offer rational responses.

I would offer a little advice to HuffPo: If you want people to take you seriously, as in see you as something other than a far left site that plays the partisan game, you need some dissenting opinions. You need some people who hold your far left writers feet to the fire when they offer ideas, statements, and stances that are simply not honest, not accurate, or not based in reality. If you want to take a cue from somewhere, you need go no further than SUFA, where dissenting opinions are treated with respect and debated honestly. To be honest, I hope to one day have a regular writer for this site that is on the other side of the political spectrum from me. I would love to have, say every Wednesday night, an article from the left, where the author will be available to debate the topic. I think it would make SUFA the best site ever. So long as the respect for others concept is kept, I think the conversations and discussions would be outstanding. Whether that will ever happen is up in the air. I know those on the left who frequent SUFA (who I greatly appreciate being here) don’t have the time to devote to a role such as that. Perhaps someday.

For now, I present you with Alan Grayson’s latest article. How he became a United States Congressman simply baffles me. Because most of what he says simply doesn’t play out in the world of reality. Since HuffPo won’t publish my article responding to him, I will do so myself. I will offer Grayson’s article, followed by my responding article.

Half a Century Under the Whip
Alan Grayson, US Representative

Alan Grayson... The latest Congressman to earn his "Jackass" merit badge

I was two years old when President Eisenhower gave a stunningly precise prediction of our fate for the next 50 years. He said that for the first time in human history, America had created a permanent military-industrial complex that employed millions and spent billions. “More than the net income of all United States corporations,” he noted.

Now, the military-industrial complex dictates our foreign policy. Wall Street dictates our economic policy. Big Oil dictates our energy policy.

Eisenhower told us that the domination of this military-industrial complex would have “grave implications” for the “very structure of our society.” He warned against “the disastrous rise of misplaced power.” But he hoped that an “alert and knowledgeable citizenry” would protect us.

If only. As if. You wish.

For the past half century, the military-industrial complex has perpetuated one war after another, at enormous cost in both blood and money. In its lust for oil, it has broken country after country, and now the sea floor. 9/11 cost Osama bin Laden $500,000, while U.S. military action afterward cost us well over $500,000,000,000.

Now, it’s nine years later. And the war goes on. My five children cannot remember a time in their lives when America was at peace.

And no one in power seems to be able to deliver on the things that matter to us — deliver on jobs, on health, on education, on clean water and air, on better roads. On peace. On meeting human needs.

I’ve done my best in Congress to show the way. Now I need your help. On June 28, we’re going to hold an online ‘Peace Party’ event, where thousands of us come together to support this campaign. We need to raise $200,000 or more by that day, to show BP and other corporate behemoths that the “small people” (as BP put it) still matter.

We need a peace dividend. We need new priorities. We need people in government who will tell the military-industrial complex, and Wall Street, and Big Oil, to go to hell. And I’m one of them.

A Full Century Slowly Leaking Away Our Freedom
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I wasn’t yet born when Dwight Eisenhower  gave a stunningly precise account of what will be the downfall of the Republic as we know it. He said, “A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” He further went on to say that, “There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure,” and more succinctly, “Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.” The Progressive movement in America is one that has zero faith in freedom. They only have faith in the state, but none in individuals or in the ability of free people to solve problems.

What Eisenhower was foretelling was the reality that the only way that we could lose the greatness that America had become was to lose sight of her values, to begin to believe that what we are “entitled” to is more important than the fundamental principle of freedom that was the basis for the formation of this great country in the first place. To believe the nanny state is better than personal responsibility.

Now expressing embarrassment at US prosperity dictates our foreign policy. Keynesian manipulation of the economy dictates our economic policy. And environmentalists who believe humans are a plight on the world dictate our energy policy. And perhaps worst of all the most unethical individuals in America, politicians in DC, dictate our national “moral” policy.

Many in the past warned us that the Progressive movement was one that usurped the individual liberty concept in favor of the greater good. We were warned that the sacrifice of liberty bought with blood was the first step towards submission to the whims of a statist mentality. We were warned that freedom would die with the belief that there are those entitled to what others have earned. Even by Eisenhower we were warned that the fall of America would come when Americans no longer believed in the power of Americans to solve problems without government pulling the strings. The founders believed a document narrowly defining the powers of government would protect free men and women from tyranny.

If only. As If. You wish.

For the past century the progressive movement has perpetuated one crisis after another, at an enormous cost of both freedom and liberty. In its lust for power and control, it has broken generation after generation, and now finally seems poised to seize complete control over every aspect of our lives, creating a society where individual accomplishment is encouraged only when it benefits the state. The 16th Amendment began with taxing only 1% of the income of the top 1%. It now seizes the fruit of the American workers labor to the tune of 2,000,000,000,000 a year.

It is now decades later and freedom is at an all time low and more of what I earn is taken from me than what I am permitted to keep. My son cannot remember a time when America was truly free. For that matter, neither can I.

And no one in government has even remotely been able to deliver to us any of the things that they promise as a reason to take our freedom. Regulation and oversight is a joke that fails monumentally every single time. Health care plans and programs continue to decrease the level of care and innovation in America with each passed bill. Monumental intrusion into the free market for the last 100 years has resulted in economic crisis after economic crisis. Our federal government has become a behemoth that has neither the ability to effectively govern, or the values to lead our country into the future.

I’ve done my best with Stand Up For America to begin waking people up and show them the way. Now I need your help. Beginning this November, and occurring every other November after that, we will be holding election events, where millions of us come together to choose who represents us in the federal government. We need to educate millions by that day, to show the politicians who currently reside in the US Congress and other elected positions that the the American people are they serve, not who they rule.

We need representatives that represent the people, not their parties or special interests. We need a newfound appreciation for freedom and individual liberty in America. We need people educating the American public that government is there to secure our freedom and liberty, nothing else. We need people who will tell the United States Congress, and the State governments, and the usurpers of liberty to go to hell. And I am one of them.

So thanks for letting me start with you Grayson.

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You can find the original article at the Huffington Post here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-alan-grayson/half-a-century-under-the_b_620283.html