Our debt crisis, in sum, has everything to do with the transformation of morality and government effected by the late-19th- and early-20th-century Progressive movement. Far from being largely ineffectual reformers, the Progressive academics who articulated the new conception of Freedom and the “positive” State, outlined above, were also the initiators of the entitlement programs that lie at the core of our crisis today. How Americans ultimately decide to resolve this crisis — by reining in spending or meekly submitting to far higher taxes — will serve either to revitalize the Founders’ conception of freedom, and the idea of limited government that flows from it, or seriously accelerate America’s century-long slide into the “overlordship” of Progressivism.
We hear a lot of talk about how we'll repeal Obamacare, but I think we shouldn't stop there, but push to REPEAL IT ALL. What does REPEAL IT ALL entail? It's all about going back to the root of the problem, the Progressive Agenda and getting rid of it. Even if Obamacare gets repealed, we still have to address the unfunded liabilities of Medicare and Social Security, not to mention all of the areas that the federal government has wound its unholy tendrils.
Let's start at the beginning:
