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By Bill Flax
01/29/2013
Confession: I plucked the inspiration for this piece from my father. Given the premise, perhaps thats appropriate. The common underlying current to the progressivism which has saturated Americas social, political and economic firmament is an erosion of Americas multigenerational purpose. The federal apparatus has supplanted families as our primary support mechanism.
Families provide the sure foundation undergirding Western Civilization. No laws or economic remedy can arrest social breakdown if the family structure fractures. Yet, progressives have commandeered the political realm to overhaul culture. Marriage withers under easy divorce, subsidized illegitimacy, and the desire among progressives to make it anything and everything. The only liberties the Left touts grant license to repudiate traditional morality.
Economics writer Warren Brookes foresaw, So the continuing, ever-mounting assault on traditional family values may well be more destructive to our economic well-being as a nation than any of our faulty fiscal or monetary policies. An effete or wayward people wont yield a plentiful harvest. Morals matter to markets. But the perverse side-effects of Washingtons fiscal policies are too frequently overlooked.
For all the Rights frustration over the recent fiscal cliff and debt ceiling fights, the existential crisis afflicting America vis-à-vis soaring entitlements, isnt financial. Sure, headlines insist social security may be insolvent by 2016. Obscene spending risks capsizing the federal fisc. Still, our gravest threat stems from the state replacing the family as the centripetal force around which American culture revolves.
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Congress's Policies Steal Our Freedoms While Rewarding Irresponsibility - Forbes
01/29/2013
Confession: I plucked the inspiration for this piece from my father. Given the premise, perhaps thats appropriate. The common underlying current to the progressivism which has saturated Americas social, political and economic firmament is an erosion of Americas multigenerational purpose. The federal apparatus has supplanted families as our primary support mechanism.
Families provide the sure foundation undergirding Western Civilization. No laws or economic remedy can arrest social breakdown if the family structure fractures. Yet, progressives have commandeered the political realm to overhaul culture. Marriage withers under easy divorce, subsidized illegitimacy, and the desire among progressives to make it anything and everything. The only liberties the Left touts grant license to repudiate traditional morality.
Economics writer Warren Brookes foresaw, So the continuing, ever-mounting assault on traditional family values may well be more destructive to our economic well-being as a nation than any of our faulty fiscal or monetary policies. An effete or wayward people wont yield a plentiful harvest. Morals matter to markets. But the perverse side-effects of Washingtons fiscal policies are too frequently overlooked.
For all the Rights frustration over the recent fiscal cliff and debt ceiling fights, the existential crisis afflicting America vis-à-vis soaring entitlements, isnt financial. Sure, headlines insist social security may be insolvent by 2016. Obscene spending risks capsizing the federal fisc. Still, our gravest threat stems from the state replacing the family as the centripetal force around which American culture revolves.
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Continue reading: --->
Congress's Policies Steal Our Freedoms While Rewarding Irresponsibility - Forbes
