Depending on Failure

Just the other day, I was reading an interesting online article. It was written well (save one spelling error) and related a relationship problem between a conservative and a liberal who had been friends for many years. Though an interesting read, I found the first six comments even more illuminating. Combining the theme of the blog and the responses, I have come to some conclusions about both the black population of the U.S., the Leftists, and their role in the forthcoming socialist playground.
Both depend on redirecting blame for failure to someone else. In each of the cases, the supporters of socialism or the supporters of racial equality both assume that the cause of their failures come from an outside source. While the groupthink may spout some platitudes about racial equity or social justice, I am now certain that the individual in these groups is vitally certain that they are unimpeachable in their actions and all failures must come from some mysterious evil force.
Ergo, a black man will believe in the power of racism, while still deperately trying to enforce a racial discrimination in the workplace, and the socialist believe in the power of social justice, while still seizing the possessions and the hardwork of the successful. Both of these are contradictions in their desire and implementation, yet the individual will irrationally defend any contradictory action in fear of or in hopes of some solution to their failure. Eventually, though, they become inured to the sensation of failure and simply become minuature defenders of their failure without taking any real individual steps to secure success. They join the group and try to garner the sensation of success through others, usually rock star presidents and over-funded "non-profit" groups helping the exhalted disadvantaged. With failure being supported and excused from primary school to university to non-profit group, how can we possibly expect to turn the ship of state towards a universally successful capitalism? Major changes have always required major sacrifices.

Obama, are you listening?

"I want to speak to you this evening about my highest duty as president: to preserve peace and defend these United States. ... One cannot sit in this office reviewing intelligence on the military threat we face, making decisions from arms control to Libya to the Philippines, without having that concern for America's security weigh constantly on your mind. We know that peace is the condition under which mankind was meant to flourish. Yet peace does not exist of its own will. It depends on us, on our courage to build it and guard it and pass it on to future generations. George Washington's words may seem hard and cold today, but history has proven him right again and again. 'To be prepared for war,' he said, 'is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.'" --Ronald Reagan

Tax Day Tea Party, Daley Plaza, 2010

National Cell Phone Reform Act

"A few weeks ago, The New York Times ran an editorial noting the amazing fact that, by the middle of this year, there will be an estimated 6.8 billion people on Earth -- and 5 billion will have cell phones! ... How did that happen without a Democrat president and Congress using bribes, parliamentary tricks and arcane non-voting maneuvers to pass a massive, hugely expensive National Cell Phone Reform Act? How did that happen without Barney Frank and Henry Waxman personally designing the 3-foot-long, 26-pound, ugly green $4,000 cell phone we all have to use? How did that happen without Obama signing the National Cell Phone Reform bill, as a poor 10-year-old black kid who couldn't afford to text-message his friends looked on? The reason nearly everyone in the universe has a cell phone is that President Reagan did to telephones the exact opposite of what the Democrats have just done with health care. Before Reagan came into office, we had one phone company, ridiculously expensive rates and one phone model. Reagan split up AT&T, deregulated phone service and gave America a competitive market in phones. The rest is history. If you can grasp how inexpensive cell phones in a rainbow of colors and wonders like the iPhone could never have been created under a National Cell Phone Reform Act, you can understand what a disaster ObamaCare is going to be for health care in America." --columnist Ann Coulter

Quote of the Day

"Every so often, I read something written by other people that I wish I had written. For instance, Thomas Paine observed over two centuries ago: 'To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, is like administering medicine to the dead.' In 21 words, Paine perfectly summed up the frustration faced by a conservative every time he attempts to debate an issue with a liberal." --columnist Burt Prelutsky

Quote of the Day

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." --author and philosopher Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

Only Fill out One

Americans are told that information gathered in the census will never be used against them and the House of Representatives, in a Census Awareness Month resolution passed March 3, proclaimed that "the data obtained from the census are protected under United States privacy laws." Unfortunately, thousands of Americans who trusted the Census Bureau in the past lost their freedom as a result.

In the 1940 Census, the Census Bureau loudly assured people that their responses would be kept confidential. Within four days of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Census Bureau had produced a report listing the Japanese-American population in each county on the West Coast. The Census Bureau's report helped the US Army round up more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans for concentration camps (later renamed "internment centers").

In 2003-04, the Census Bureau provided the Department of Homeland Security with a massive cache of information on how many Arab Americans lived in each ZIP Code around the nation, and which country they originated from — information that could have made it far easier to carry out the type of mass roundup that some conservatives advocated.

Instead of viewing census critics as conspiracy theorists, the nation's political leaders should recognize how their policies have undermined public faith in government, all the census really needs to know is how many people live at each address. Citizens should refuse to answer any census question except for the number of residents.