Newsweek magazine published the following headline on the cover of its February 16 issue: “We Are All Socialists Now: The Perils and Promise of the New Era of Big Government.” Of course, it’s hard to imagine that we have only now entered the era of “big government” — weren’t we there already? But there is no doubt that both money creation by the Fed and spending by the federal government are accelerating to finance the proliferating bailout and stimulus programs.

Newsweek claims: “In the absence of a robust private sector, the government will fill in the gap.” In reality, the private sector has not been robust because the government has been anything but absent. As The New American has repeatedly pointed out, the economic downturn is a result of too much government spending, too many government regulations, too much government borrowing, and too much new money being pumped into the economy by the Fed. Yet these are the very same steps that the powers that be are undertaking to reinvigorate the economy  — only at an accelerated rate compared to the past.

But Newsweek’s choice for a cover headline — “We Are All Socialists Now” — in one respect points to a bit of good news. After all, the dominant thinking in Washington has been socialist for a long time, but the policies have not been identified as “socialist.” This is particularly the case when Republicans are in the White House yet are able to push through socialist policies — e.g., last year’s $700 billion financial bailout when George W. Bush was president — yet still retain the “conservative” label. Yet more and more the “S” word is being used to identify the socialist policies for what they truly are, and that growing recognition should cause many more people to sit up and take notice.

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McLeod said:

... Is there no one willing to fight to reclaim this nation and return it to the constitutional government our forefathers sacrificed so much to give us? Are we all ready to concede that our republic, along with our liberty, is gone?

February 12, 2009

Lee said:

Fighting For The Republic The John Birch Society was founded in 1958 by Robert Welch precisely to fight and to win back the Republic. Robert Welch formed the organization so that Americans could be organized as one body of men and women to fight for Truth,and Freedom. Robert Welch loved Knowledge and Courage. He founded the JBS to work to restore the Republic under those four guiding principles. We welcome anyone who wishes to fight for their country and apply those priciples to the struggle we are in. Running away to South America to escape the Obama administration won't get the job done. Buying gold and silver won't either, hiding your food and storing up ammunition is a defensive strategy. Joining the JBS and going on the offensive right now is the only safe strategy to win back our Republic. Freedom has an address: www.jbs.org:)

February 12, 2009

HMacK said:

The end of the empire It is utterly incredible that Americans have allowed themselves to be cheated into swallowing a Kenyan-cum-Indonesian President and one who is already going to bite hard into your precious freedom that you love so much you have given it away to his deceitful exploitation of your own political naivete & your electoral system. Acorn has bullied, lied and fraudulently unseated the opposition with BOs support. He is using his budget to further propagate his political machine and to undermine the liberties you have voted him in to destroy. Enjoy it, it can only last 8 years at the most,that is if he does not attempt to rewrite your precious constitution that you have neglected enough for someone to do this. Finally, here, you ought to listen to some of the BO voters before the election being interviewed about why they wanted him in - many of them thought he was anti-abortion and that his running-mate was Sarah Palin - how about that for ignorance?

February 13, 2009

Paul Sammon said:

... WE ARE ALL SOCIALISTS NOW? Newsweek and like minded magazines that are run by CFR members(and are CFR corporate members) are now finally coming out of the woodwork after all of these decades. These arrogant, power hungry, globalists are feeling very embolden these days. Ever since 1913, when these traitors gave us the Federal Reserve and the progressive income tax we have been sliding towards socialism ever since. The most egregious examples being the afforementioned, the FDR administration, the "Great Society" welfare programs and now these "stimulus" socialist bankruptcy bills. This mess will amount to corporate welfare for the Wall Street, payoffs for well connected political favorites, massive expansion of government and the further devaluation of the dollar. Of course, former Russian(bolshevik) dictator Vladimir Lenin once said, "the best way to ruin a society is to debauch the currency" which sadly seems to be the way we are headed. Newsweek wouldn't make such a stark admission of their real feeling unless they were sure that victory was inevitable. In 2002, insider kingpin David Rockefeller in his book "Memoirs" admitted that he and his cronies were "involved in a conspiracy for world government working against the best interest of the United States and I stand guilty and I am proud of it". I am not suprised that Newsweek let the cat of the bag, I am a little bit surprised that they waited this long. PS-God save us from the evil Rockefellers, the CFR, the Trilateral Commission and all other satanic globalists that intend to enslave us and the rest of the world.

February 15, 2009

Dr Michael Williams said:

This too shall come to pass "The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) Looks like even the French saw it coming.

February 16, 2009 | url

Leo said:

... Oh well, we already knew Newsweek was Socialist, only now they admit it.... But they still can't speak for the rest of us, who still fight as Cavaliers against the "ists", including Socialists....

February 18, 2009

My Name said:

... Americans need to remember this founding document and enforce it as our founding fathers had planned. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness

February 19, 2009

T.J. said:

There are people willing to fight for Liberty.... ...to the death if necessary. Such people do not, however, have enough support, or has not reach enough levels yet, and as such will be labeled domestic terrorists, and will be mercilessly hunted down and assassinated, as the rest of the country enjoys their newfound "benefits", oblivious to the fact that they live in a hologram in which only the State has control over peoples lives, and people merely, maybe, influence the future of their Great Society... Maybe once they start telling mothers that their children belong to "The State", those mothers will furiously terminate those in charge, and hopefully, among the citizenry, one will rise up, to regain the individual sovereignty once gained and a thousand times lost... or else, our children shall live in dim darkness forever, loving it, having never known light.

March 04, 2009

Goatskull said:

... "it is utterly incredible that Americans have allowed themselves to be cheated into swallowing a Kenyan-cum-Indonesian President" It is utterly incredible that people like HMacK are still unaware of the fact that the president it U.S. born. He is an American born citizen.

March 04, 2009