But then he serves up a definition that he says he and Mr. Reagan were using before they met each other in 1965.

To me, conservative means believing in a minimum amount of government and a maximum amount of freedom –– and keeping government out of people’s lives and business –– and leaving people alone. I recognize you have to have national defense and have to finance the government. But government does not have to be the be-all and end-all.

Mr. Nofziger, like the neocons he criticizes, is starting a fight within the Republican ranks using a fool’s rationale. Pitting isolationist “conservatives” against those “neocon” Republicans, those that want to democratize the world, Lynn totally misses the point: the tragic failures of big government and the silence of Republicans are the real problems that must be faced or the United States will continue to sail on as a “Ship of Fools”.

A simple listing of just a few of these failures should convince even those “stuck on stupid” that we need to make a course correction. It is up to Republicans, as Democrats have become the party of “no”; no to new ideas, no to progress, no to anything advanced by Republicans.

“Nofziger” IS Stuck on Stupid.

Lynn believes most of the peoples on Earth cannot be democratized. A strange conclusion by someone who believes in a “maximum amount of freedom” and “keeping government out of peoples lives”. Is Lynn brain-dead or has he missed the memo the Iraqis sent in the last two elections. Under threat of instant death they went to the polls in greater numbers than Americans do to establish a democracy. Given a choice, human beings chose freedom not bondage. It’s in their genes irrespective if Lynn believes certain men possess lesser instincts.

“Conservatives” Stuck on stupid. The rightwing of the party, the one that believe we must precisely balance the budget, are a terminally brain-dead lot. We borrow $350 billion (the deficit) and increase the country’s net worth by $7 Trillion and they say we are making future generations pay for our sins. Huh? An increase in net worth of $6.650 trillion are assets we are building for them. What in the world are these people thinking?

Americans stuck on stupid. The people go merrily along believing that Democrats and some Republicans can deliver on the promises they make. To date these Congressional illiterates have run up a $12 Trillion unfunded debt in entitlements. The $12 trillion being that amount that should be in the bank today that will grow to pay off the $12 Trillion already incurred.

Yes already “incurred” through promises made by an irresponsible Congress of big government Marxists. And yet that debt is not part of that published “National debt” of $8 trillion. Why? Because we are so stupid, ill-informed and subject to a con in need of a sting.

“Republicans” stuck on stupid. Because we have a “criminal” Congress who exacts from businessmen their signature guaranteeing that no fraud exists in their financial statements why can’t they sign the same pledge? The deficit incurred each year is over $1 trillion when entitlement costs incurred are included. Congress deludes the public that the $12 trillion isn’t a real debt. And Americans believe them, and George W. Bush doesn’t pull out the Perot chalk board and tell the truth preferring to refer to 2018, 2028, 2042. What a scam, Ponzi-style. Republicans wake up, the Democrats are vulnerable.

“Republicans” stuck on stupid. Congress made a deal with the devil. They take 15.3 percent of all wages earned by Americans each year in return for a promise of a less-than-poverty level pension and partial health care when the wage earner reaches 67; if he lives that long. Even a $20,000 a year janitor would accumulate $1.6 Million under a privatization plan but Republicans felt the fight against the media and the minority party wasn’t worth supporting not even George Bush’s token privatization plan.

“Conservatives” stuck on stupid. Conservatives believe in strict cash method accounting. It’s not your net profit for the year; it’s your cash balance. So America continues to float its boat under threat of sinking when its net worth is over $100 trillion and its external debt is a measly $4.6 trillion. And we print the money the world relies on. Is the world aware of how stupid we are or are they banking on our continued stupidity for their own safety?

“Republicans” stuck on stupid. The Republican Party is still aground with regard to poverty. They have surrendered the concept of ending endemic poverty for the nonsense of temporarily taxing the rich and giving to the poor. They have completely run silent on making the poor, rich.

How so, you say? For starters take that 15.3 percent taken from their wages each week and invest it for 40 years and make them rich. Being rich allows for a college education for your kids, eliminates the need to stick up your corner 7-11, brings fathers the respect and the ability they so desperately need to get out of gutted poverty ghettos.

“Conservatives” stuck on stupid. By espousing isolationism the conservatives fall in the senseless Democrat PC trap of treating their enemies like they would their fellow citizens. You know the guilt trip about prisoner abuse. Funny thing happened on the way to the forum, US soldiers in Iraq listened and made their own rules for survival. “Do not get captured because they will behead you”.

So because of the worthless brain-dead notion that the enemy will treat us like we treat them American soldiers are executing the enemy on the spot; not capturing them. You haven't heard a lot about beheadings lately, have you? You have heard a lot about 72 virgins, however.

“Republicans” stuck on stupid. Private pensions are going bust. Congress passed a law making taxpayers responsible for any shortfall in those pensions. So the unions blackmailed corporations into passing along the increased cost to consumers and now globalization has eliminated those corporations’ pricing power.

They can’t pass those costs along anymore. As a result the rubber is hitting the road and the ship has sprung a leak. We are heading for a calamity of European proportions but haven’t enjoyed the 35-hour work week on 7-week vacations along the way.

“Republicans” and “Conservatives” stuck on stupid. The main issues of Republicans are cutting taxes and reducing spending. Unfortunately “payroll taxes” are ignored when Republicans think about really “cutting” taxes. They have been co-opted by Democrats into treating social security and Medicare like the Holy Grail of government.

How tragic can a political party get when privatizing these entitlements would constitute the largest tax cut in American history and cut the Federal budget in half. The real growth in government is the annual increase in entitlements. Cut that off and the Democrat ship sinks; not a unpleasant thought in itself.

“Republicans” and “Conservatives” stuck on stupid. Marx brought us collectivist nonsense. Roosevelt nee Carter almost sank our boat with it. Reagan saved our bacon and chartered a new course. Unfortunately our current President has been loath to speak the truth in order to appear Presidential.

As a result spending is “going” out of control in grand Marxist fashion according to “conservatives” who now want to splinter over petty cash. What a bunch of numbskulls. Limiting government means privatization not microscopic budget cutting. Pay attention to the macro and give up on the micro, fellas, you are going to miss the boat.

“Republicans” and “Conservatives” stuck on stupid. In California, the Marxist unions of teachers, government workers, policemen, fire fighters, etc. just cleaned the Republican clock. And what do Republicans do? They have scattered, unorganized, undirected meetings of the concerned reviewing micro issues. Why not clean the clocks of these Marxists. Privatize all pensions and create wealth for these workers and the power and need for unions evaporates. Pretty simple, but deadly.

“Republicans” and “Conservatives”stuck on stupid. By failing to privatize, we are sticking our kids with the impossible task of paying for our increasingly greater numbers of elderly citizens. By privatizing we will be saving 15 percent of our income rather than the paltry 1 percent and 2 percent we now limp along with and in the process create great wealth for those same children; not to mention fueling our economy with much needed capital to democratize the world.

“Republicans” and “Conservatives” stuck on stupid. The ever-increasing intrusion of the state into people’s lives has caused stress. The inability of Marxian philosophy to end poverty has caused stress. Financial insecurity in a country with hundreds of billionaires has caused stress and resentment. “Can’t we all get along” and recognize that the state doesn’t solve personal problems, people do. Can’t we privatize and make them get a leg up on the psychiatrist couch with wealth we can so easily create with privatization.

At the end of this first year of trying to interest Republicans and Conservatives into backing privatization, I find I am further behind than when I started. Why? Apathy and the Democrat media’s ability to control the national dialogue. Without a President and his right-wing media supporters drawing a line in the sand, we are destined to keep floating on this “Ship of Fools”.

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Dick McDonald can be found at The Right Scale. Here you will find excellent work on social security and national debt fallacies.