Socialism - 1
Free Market - 0
Over the Christmas holiday, our family was discussing the "compromise"
budget deal as negotiated by Rep. Patty Murray and Rep. Paul Ryan - the
deal that Tea Party Patriots - and veterans - are outraged about. One member of our family had
watched Rep. Murray making the talk show rounds and was favorably impressed by Murray, who was touting
the value of compromise. The Washington Times
reported one of those TV interviews:
Sen. Patty Murray said Wednesday the budget deal
she
struck with Rep. Paul Ryan “wasn’t easy,” but it had to be done to rebuild
trust in Washington and clear the way for work on tax and entitlement reform.
she
struck with Rep. Paul Ryan “wasn’t easy,” but it had to be done to rebuild
trust in Washington and clear the way for work on tax and entitlement reform.
Mrs. Murray, Washington Democrat, said she knew both sides of the
political spectrum would not be pleased with everything that went into the
deal, but that’s the price of
compromise.
of
compromise.
“In order to deal with the long-term challenges that our country
faces … we have to have the trust of the American people, we have to have the
trust of each other in Congress — in a divided Congress — to do that,” she told
CNN’s “New Day.”
Compromise rebuilds
trust, so compromise is a good thing. Or is it?
Here is another way
to look at these "compromise" pieces of legislation. Imagine the United
States is the football, and Congress represents the competing teams. The blue end-zone
represents the Free Market, supposedly the goal of the conservative team (supposedly comprised of Republicans). The red end-zone represents socialism, the
goal of the Democrats/Socialists/Progressives. One could make the case that the
United States is already about 2/3 of the way down the field toward the Socialism goal
line.
The "compromise" budget means that instead of
Socialist/Progressive getting, say, a one yard advance, they got only an inch this
time. But it is another inch in the wrong direction. These much-touted
"compromises" (including tax hikes and elimination of sequestration budget restraints) end up being compromises for only one side: those
who champion the free market. For Rep. Murray and her team, "the price of compromise" was pretty much zero.
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