THE LIBERAL DRUG-OF-CHOICE: Backlog of Social Security Disability Cases Leaves the Terminally Ill Waiting - WSJ.com

Backlog of Social Security Disability Cases Leaves the Terminally Ill Waiting - WSJ.com

You wrote, "...the right wants to turn Americans into starving slaves, motivated by pain."

Perhaps you've never heard of such terms as "regression to the mean" and a "free lunch" - but, clearly, these are issues which the left and unions (and many less educated are both ignorant of and would choose and do choose to ignore).

The US has shown that education and new skills are necessary to compete (e.g. Apple, Facebook, etc.) but the government and unions believe labor-intensive manufacturing jobs can be brought back to the US (e.g. totally ignoring the regression-to-the-mean global economic situation).

To compound the liberal mistake, liberals buy into telling people they can continue to live an economic life that circumstances globally have changed - plus, additional social and entitlement benefits.

This is like living on credit cards when either prices go up and incomes don't - or both.

The US has known and been lectured since the 1960's and 70's that a day will come when its use of an outsize share of the world's resources will end.

To this day, Obama and his cohorts are telling voters they can ignore such a situation.

What I learned about socialism in Eastern Europe under communism and one reads about daily with respect to countries such as Greece, Italy and Spain is that more and more of what goes on economically is being done away from high taxes and the regulated economy - i.e. by the "grey economy".

Of course, this is anathema to those who believe socialization and government has all the answers - but, history attests too well otherwise. Yet, false beliefs and selective evidence can be all-too-comforting.

So, the apparent "drug-of-choice" is belief that doing the same things again and again in terms of social justice (read: equalization of economic outcomes) will somehow also incentivize growth - eventually. It may belie logic - but, such thoughts can be so liberally comforting.