The American Spectator

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 2.12.10 @ 6:47AM

Another masterful article!

Americans do not seem to realize that for every ounce of authority the government creates or takes, the average citizen forfeits a ton of freedom.

Eric Cartman| 2.12.10 @ 10:23AM

Dittos SHO above! WW is always spot on. One wonders where Bob is to teach WW a lessen in economics and chart reading.

Indiana Alex| 2.12.10 @ 1:48PM

Bob is representing the United States today in the ski jumping competition at the Winter Olympics.

Alan Brooks| 2.12.10 @ 7:20PM

Bush 41 was a good and gracious man with a great foreign policy, but his lack of charisma and vision...well, no need to belabor the point, is there?
Last year the Derb wrote "eight years wasted", but it has been 12 years wasted:
Four years Bush 41
Twelve years Bush 43

Did you know the Prescription Drug program is much more costly than the Disabilities Act of 1990? and who does the Disabilities Act affect most?: bus drivers who have to hoist and strap cripples in.

J.T.| 2.12.10 @ 8:25PM

Imagine you and 3 other castaways are washed up on a desert island.
In order to survive you need food shelter and clothing and arrange for some services like water, sanitation and waste disposal. You split the work between yourselves and trade those skills and possessions that are yours to trade.
Then one day another castaway washes up on the island. This person does not become involved in the work the others were doing. His function is different. He is there to promote the 'public welfare' - he is your first public servant.
He inspects your living, sanitary and garbage disposal arrangements and if they are satisfactory he gives you a certificate to prove it. He inspects your housing structures, organizes your working conditions and lays down rules for hunting and fishing and farming.
He stipulates that if you want to start a new activity, build a boat, construct new homes, knock down trees and clear land or improve things you already have - you must see him first and if he agrees he will issue you a permit. These are the changes this person introduces into your life to make things better for you.
Of course, because he's so busy managing all of this, he doesn't have time to build his own house, or provide his own food and clothing, so he charges you a tax for his services. Henceforth, one fifth of what you produce, or a fifth of your time you must give over to providing for HIS needs. This allows him to continue to provide his services.
Over time he becomes a broker of privilege, favoring those who see an opportunity to get him onside. Having the means to secure a coercive monopoly in most activities he is able to dictate inequitable terms of trade to justify his political maneuvers.
This is analogous to what is happening in America today. One person in five in the workforce works for the State. And by and large, their functions are not productive, they are regulatory. The bureaucracy is like a giant sponge, soaking up ideas, wealth, initiative, creativity and time.
If only the first public servant on the island had been fed to the sharks, how much better off we would all be.

Ron H.| 2.14.10 @ 9:00PM

J.T. you have nailed it. What a great comment. If you don't have your own blog, you might want to consider it. I, for one would be a regular reader.

Perhaps it's not too late to deal with the public servant problem. After all, the sharks are still waiting. :-)

dullgeek| 2.15.10 @ 12:03PM

The sad part of this is that it's optimistically over simplified. 20% work for the state, yet it costs roughly 30% of our national income.

In your story 25% work for the state, yet cost only 20% of the national income. I wish our actual government were that efficient.

Alan Brooks| 2.20.10 @ 6:32PM

"Is this what Americans wanted, a federal government that spends a third of our income?"

They do want govt funds transfered to a certain number of grandparents who don't even need the money at all.

KC| 3.4.10 @ 11:15AM

Well said JT! Well said!

Bill C| 5.10.10 @ 9:08PM

"And by and large, their functions are not productive,"

Can you name a part of government that is productive, i.e., contributes directly to economic growth?

Tampa Personal Injury Lawyer| 5.16.11 @ 9:45PM

J.T. good point.

Alan Brooks| 2.13.10 @ 5:45PM

"Because our discoveries and inventions change the human environment faster than that of any other animal, there is always a temptation -- to which today's techno-conservatives, like Newt Gingrich, often fall prey -- to think that such changes may usher in an age of harmony and plenty that will solve the dilemmas of politics. Evolutionary biology shows that this is simply a pipe dream. Our nature assures that we will simultaneously be obsessed with our relative status in society and possess unequal abilities for acquiring higher status. Thus individuals will always seek to use the government as a means to rearrange their relative positions. No matter how much wealth free trade produces, no matter how much information the Internet transmits, the central problem of politics will remain: how to empower the government for safeguarding life and property, and yet simultaneously constrain it from eviscerating civil society and expropriating property."

Truer words never written.

Bill C| 5.10.10 @ 9:12PM

"Thus individuals will always seek to use the government as a means to rearrange their relative positions."

Those who possess and value integrity will not. They believe in the ideas expressed by the founders who pledged; "... our live, our fortunes, our SACRED HONOR ..."

Weight loss | 7.15.11 @ 8:31PM

the average citizen forfeits a ton of freedom.yes, i like your blog .thanks

Jon| 2.12.10 @ 7:17AM

Mr. Williams, your insight is informative and appreciated. I only wish those wearing blinders could see it.

A Fellow American,

Ret. Marine| 2.12.10 @ 7:27AM

As it goes with the People, it also goes with the politicians. Maybe the first thing to reconize of any problem is to first reconize there is a problem. Then go about to educate the population and demand accountability to our founders worthyness. It is truely a sad state of affairs we have ourselves in. On one hand the Ye the Plunderers of society demand the Government provide for them while scamming anything and verything available to them through the many programs designed to rob them of their liberties, on the other We the People are forced to pay for them. It cannot continue to work both ways. Obama may be giving us the gift that keep on giving. If he coninues to go towards the bankruptcy route, it will not take long before the financial system completly goes under, a clean slate if you would. On the other side to this equasion, a system failure might bring about another system so undesirable to most of us we will be forced to bear witness to many deaths of our fellow countrymen/ladies because many of us would rather go down fighting for the truth than to live our lives as slaves to the class of people who depend upon our support through taxation because they have voted to legally rob us of our natural rights.
I find myself going to the survival mode, that part that see's the end coming and it's going to get real ugly for many, it is true as in nature as it is with humans, only the fittest will survive. Those of us prepared for the worst and praying for the best out of humanity will weather this coming storm. Every day I hear more of the same bad news coming from family, friends and neighbors, which tell's me they are wiseing up to this fraud sitting in We the People's house and they are just about to throw the towel in. I find it extremly hard to convince them that this is a storm worthy of a good fight with so much stacked up against us, it is almost daunting to even ponder.
One day this country will have a civil war between the welfare class and the paying class, if not for anything else the very idea that they think they deserve what belongs to me, be it my right to live in peace or keep what is rightfully mine through the one thing they failed to think properly about or do, I worked for it.

Bram| 2.12.10 @ 7:34AM

I hope the Tea Party movement might just break through the ridiculous American perception that the government isn't spending their money. Maybe people are waking up. Otherwise we will simply drive off the cliff Greece, California, and Argentina have already gone over.

Somehow we have convinced ourselves that Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc... are good deals.

Shamus| 2.12.10 @ 7:49AM

I think that only a constitutional convention could save our current form of government. It's hard to see how our current regime can sustain itself.

TennesseeVolunteer| 2.12.10 @ 8:11AM

So that's it Walter? A politician must be elected be3cause that is what he is, that is what they do? and we should like that?
No, our public servants were originally elected as part time legislators while keeping their jobs as farmers. doctors etc.
What you describe is the road to serfdom. we need citizen legislators who will term limit themselves and do the right thing. this is the Reoublics last chance before we will eventually fall into revolution as described by our friend , the Retired Marine.
You are giving up b y giving us this tripe from Helms. His goal is to get elected , not do what is right. I was raised to do what is right and trust in God that things will come out alright. You are saying "do what gets me elected because I can't help myself! Those are the words of a coward.
You spend 95% of your article talking about how it can't be done, and leave a solution at the end.
Someone once said about America "where do they get such men?" Men who would go to Iraq and get blown up for freedom and peace. Men who would go to Europe and die in WWI when we had not even declared war. Men who would fight the British in winter with no idea what would come of it.
Talk about these men, not some 'feel sory for themselves" politician from NC.

Crusader| 2.12.10 @ 8:12AM

Who's to blame? Our Whig 16th president is. He began the high taxation+govt subsidies to his pet constituents. In his case, it was the railroads. Anyone who takes an honest look at history would agree with this.

JS| 2.12.10 @ 10:00AM

Our 16th president was the first in a long line of statists. Thw War of Northern Agression was not a war to free the slaves as is taught today. It was a war to maintain the Union. Lincoln in his own words to Horace Greeley - "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause."
Statism, no matter the justification is bad. It stifles individual liberty and is therefore inherently evil.

Wm. Paterson| 2.12.10 @ 2:14PM

Speaking of statism, the decades leading to the Civil War are filled with examples of a rapidly expanding Federal government whose handlers voraciously sought to increase their powers over individuals. The proper and admirable Christian-based abolitionist movement was hijacked by the Republicans in an attempt to gain further control of the states. The Reconstruction was an unmitigated Federal power grab while the only defender the defeated states had in Washington D.C. was Andrew Johnson. While his racism should be deplored, his attempt to slow the Republican onslaught on States’ Rights while the South was unrepresented in government and the Union needed to heal, should be noted.

Tom Osterman| 2.12.10 @ 11:57PM

If the "War of Northern Aggression," i.e. the Civil War, wasn't about freeing the slaves, then how was it that the slaves were freed and the Constitution amended to prohibit slavery? It always amazes me that these facts are ignored by prople who make that argument.

Frank Davis| 2.14.10 @ 8:07AM

Tom, the freeing of the slaves was just a by-product of the war. Pres. Lincoln in his famous address didn't even make it until 1863, two years into the war. And it did not free any slaves in Northern states, only states at war with the north. Now I do believe that prohibiting slavery was a good thing for the slaves, the nation and humanity. But that was never the reason for the war. The other side affect was a strong central government which is leading us all to serfdom.

Frank Davsi| 2.14.10 @ 8:04AM

Yes, the war was not a civil war at all, just as you say. We need to keep educating folks.

S.L. Toddard| 2.12.10 @ 8:35AM

We will only be able to judge the sincerity of all this anti-spending sentiment if it doesn't magically evaporate when the next Republican administration takes the reins. We know, for instance, that all the anti-Big Government squawking during the Clinton adminsitration was cynical and feigned, because it disappeared for the entirety of the Bush administration.

I would wager it will be the same deal this time.

Shamus| 2.12.10 @ 9:36AM

Debt levels will be so high that no one will want to lend the government more money. Already there is discussion of lowering the AAA credit rating of the federal government. The first indication of this kind of problem would be an increase in the rate of interest on the 10 year bond. Once this happens it will be a bipartisan crisis.

Al Adab| 2.12.10 @ 10:35AM

SLT old friend,

See below. Never confuse the GOP with the Conservative Movement.

S.L. Toddard| 2.12.10 @ 11:08AM

Why not? Whatever the Conservative Movement's alleged positons and motives, their solutions are (with very few exceptions) always the same: vote for the Republican in the genral election, no matter who he is or how much he'll spend.

Al Adab| 2.12.10 @ 11:38AM

Sorry, but your history is flawed.

While all too often the Conservatives supported Republicans as the "lesser of two evils" they have often opposed GOP candidates they found wanting and have certainly opposed GOP positions on many issues. The Conservatives remain a minority of the GOP. Should they ever again regain the upper hand, perhaps our disappointmets might end.

GW| 2.12.10 @ 1:25PM

Taking a break from your Jew-bashing today I see. Conservatives everywhere were against Bush's spending and wrote about it. Where were you?

GW| 2.12.10 @ 1:25PM

Taking a break from your Jew-bashing today I see. Conservatives everywhere were against Bush's spending and wrote about it. Where were you?

Mary Louise| 2.12.10 @ 9:55AM

Dear Professor Williams,

Thank you for putting it so truthfully. We're a pendulum people, as the election of Obama and Brown illustrates. It's only when faced with extremes do we react with passion, the kind of passion the Founding generation reserved for liberty, and living and dying a free-necked man. Their sins obscure little.

Your piece reminded me that during the D'Amato/Schumer race, I was forced to conclude that D'Amato represented the better choice because he was head of the Banking Committee, and as such could help Upstate more than Schumer could if Schumer won. And so I voted for Senator Pothole.

How would you structure such an amendment to allow for exceeding the percentage in times of emergency? How would such an Amendment deal with defense of the Nation?

Whatever the merits of this eternal call to ad fontes are, the collapse of standards for living and the social incoherence it produces, places us in a predicament that the Founders understood would come to be, based on being 'bedollared and bebanked,' and growing in population to an unwieldy mass.

I'm not in favor of demonizing banks. Bankers have always been good to me, though they didn't risk much in doing so. For a few years I considered buying a condo or townhouse and worked with a realtor to find one. I finally came to the conclusion that I didn't really want or need my own 'piece of land.' The loans that were made available to me were far too generous based on my income. Should it really take me 30 years to pay off a loan? I don't think so. 15, maximum. No more or I really can't afford it.

Was it Lord Acton, no friend of porkies, no foe liberty who wrote:

"The issue which has swept down the centuries
and which will have to be fought sooner or later
is the people versus the banks."

donserge| 2.12.10 @ 9:55AM

Anything we do now, short of a revolution, will only be a 'band-aid'. Our country is well over the historical 200 year 'time limit' for republican/democratic governments such as ours. We must return to constitutional principles, otherwise why have it?

Galen| 2.12.10 @ 10:20AM

I tire at neo-confederates. No one askedthe black population of the South if they wished to secede.
The South,rightly,did not believe Lincoln as they understood the house divided speech. It was a war to end slavery. Thank God we won!

GW| 2.12.10 @ 1:20PM

Did not the South start the Civil War? Did not the South attack the Union Fort Sumter? Lincoln never freed the slaves (1863's Emancipation Proclamation was meaningless, and this happened much AFTER the beginning of the war), and States Rights don't include treason.

This isn't to say the North acted in a morally high superiority, but the South has no leg to stand on with regard to their motivations for the Civil War.

Vic Coffey| 2.12.10 @ 8:51PM

I would think that when a government no longer respects the life, liberty, and happiness of its constituents, it is the right of the people to throw off such government, and form another.

At least that was the argument our founders gave to King George.

Kuzey Güney| 6.18.11 @ 11:57AM

America, look in the mirror. There is the source of our problems. As an example, don't blame the IRS for their tactics, they are a creature of the Congress. The Congress is the creature of the American electorate. Did these Representatives elect themselves? Does the country have to collapse before my fellow citizens realize that Pogo was right? http://kuzeyguney.biz

Clarence Causey| 1.29.11 @ 9:27PM

In regard to your comment "...did not the South start the Civil War?...". I believe what you will find is that Jefferson Davis warned Abe Lincoln that any attempt on the part of the North to supply Fort Sumter would be considered an act of war by the CSA; thus the Citadel Cadets firing upon a federal supply ship making that attempt and later P. G. T. Beaureguard ordering a bombardment of Fort Sumter. So, no, the South didn't start the Civil War, the North did.

Al Adab| 2.12.10 @ 10:33AM

Mrs. Williams husband once again comes through.

Conservatives have been in opposition to budget deficits and debt since at least 1964. That was one of the platform positions of the Goldwater campaign. Conservatives opposed the bailouts and the increasing debt. They opposed as well the government takeover of insurance Co's, banks and auto manufacturers.

The party now in power spent the last several years excoriating the Bush deficits. It worked, they won an election. However, they chose that moment to launch the biggest spending spree in national history.

The Tea Party seems today to be the only organized opposition to such reckless policies with a few Conservatives in the GOP also standing firm. Those who mistake the GOP for The Conservative Movement- perhaps like our friend Toddard- are in error. The two are not synonomous. It was only when the Conservatives directed the GOP in say 1980 or 1994, that the party enjoyed success.

What the future holds for Conservatives and for the Tea Party and GOP remains to be seen. What is clear is that without a voice in opposition, the centralizing and spending will continue until the load is ponderous and untenable.

dcd| 2.12.10 @ 10:46AM

Saying no crop subsidies is easy, slashing feral policing and border control tough, cutting military spending to a mere 200 billion will cause irrational panic. These programs all cost tax money.

Sam| 2.12.10 @ 11:45AM

Great article. Rather than blame the politicians, we must admit that it's often our fault for what the demands we put before politicians. As a moderate, the one that really irks me is when we ask the government for new programs, but refuse to pay for them. If we want an entitlement state so badly, then let's fork over our incomes to the government. Oh you don't want to do that? Good because I don't either!

Pete| 2.12.10 @ 11:59AM

"Once legalized theft begins, it pays for everyone to participate."

This is why more power should be concentrated at the local/state levels. Then, state by state, people can decide on what level of theft they are comfortable with. Can you imagine the exodus out of CA, MA and MI, to name a few?

CJohnson| 2.12.10 @ 12:47PM

Last night FEMA told me they are taking another 1000K per year from me (that is another 1000K) and will also be denying met the right to rebuild my home. EPA took away my right to burn wood to heat. DOT took away my right to have a circular driveway. DNR took away my right to sell my gravel. OSHA won't let me hire my unemployed neighbor to shovel my roof. USDA won't let me sell my chickens. WTF?

Seapuss| 2.12.10 @ 1:29PM

Although politicians and their constituents bear much of the blame for a federal government that spends like a drunken sailor and exceeds its constitutional powers, I would put most of the blame on the Supreme Court of the United States.

The Founding Fathers understood the basic facts of human nature, and accepted that fallible human beings would sometimes hold the reins of government and engage in all sorts of mischief. That’s why so many institutional roadblocks to majority rule were thrown up by the Constitution, such as requirements for super majorities, two separate houses of Congress, presidential vetoes, and a Supreme Court with life-tenured justices.

What the Founding Fathers didn’t quite anticipate is a Supreme Court that would refuse to fulfill its institutional role to interpret and enforce the Constitution as written, thereby constraining the mischief of temporary political majorities. Instead of acting as an institutional roadblock, the Supreme Court has all too often become an eager participant in policy-making and an enabler of our national political folly.

Sue| 2.13.10 @ 8:08PM

You are so right! It all started way before the Warren Court too. It is all so sad that the lawyers are taught to base decisions on "case" law instead of a plain reading of the Constitution. There is a lot of "case" law out there that is just plain wrong starting with the dreadful "Dread Scott" decision by Justice Taney.

Jeff Perren| 2.15.10 @ 1:29AM

Good points, but I would go deeper than to blame SCOTUS, who do bear much responsibility.

It is the philosophy of the people that has changed in the past 100 years. No political system can withstand a shift of the magnitude that has occurred during the past century in the basic beliefs and values of the population of America.

The twin partners of Pragmatism and Progressivism - the philosophy of John Dewey - have increasingly corrupted four generations of Americans, most of whom would have no idea what I'm talking about.

Equally problematic, far too many of those that do know what I'm talking about are all in favor of the corruption and continue to push it with all their energy.

azcIII| 2.15.10 @ 1:52AM

Ratification of the 17th Amendment was the act that removed the major hurdle, stripping states of their representation in Congress. If the states still controlled the Senate, the unfunded mandates handed down by the federal government wouldn't happen or the states would rapidly send new representatives. The Founding fathers also didn't foresee that we would facilitate the dismantling of the checks and balances they put in place.

Drew| 2.12.10 @ 1:39PM

Is it not possible that the world has changed a little since those halcyon days of 1920, when the US Federal budget was a mere 3% of GDP?

In 1920 the Federal Govt. could get away with a relatively tiny budget because of geography. with two wide oceans the US govt. could provide perfectly adequate protection for the nation with a decent sized navy (and an unofficial alliance with the then largest naval power, Britain.)

But the rise of Fascist nations in Europe, and the march of technology - including the threat of, at first unlimited submarine warfare, and later intercontinental bombers and missles, put paid to the days when a dozen battleships would guarantee American national security.

But the problem is, you cannot just have a large military. You also need a civilian infrastructure to support it. You need (at the very minimum) a network of highways to move goods around. You need research institutions to create the technology that powers the military. And none - NONE - of those things are going to happen without the Federal government making them.

This harkening back to the Federalist Papers, and "what would the founders do" is a bunch of ill-informed hogwash. And supposed "intellectuals" who go peddling it have even less excuse than the clueless Tea Partiers who think it actually makes sense.

Indiana Alex| 2.12.10 @ 1:53PM

The biggest problem is with the Ponzi schemes of socialized security and medical care. Remove them from the budget and not only does the % of GDP drop significantly, but the wealth of the people begins to once again continue to outgrow that wealth of the government.

Drew| 2.12.10 @ 2:07PM

Leaving aside the political impossibility of actually doing away with social security or medicare, you need to consider that providing at least a basic level of social safety net is what separates us as nation from barbarism.

Free market economics provides only so much for so many people. What happens to those who, through misfortune or disease, literally cannot provide for themselves?

Do you really want to live in a society where the aged and infirm are left to literally die in the street? Where passersby are beseiged by beggars? Where what wealthy remain are forced to live in walled compounds protected by private security guards, existing in fear of kidnap or home invasion?

Because that is precisely what would happen. The workhouses of Dickens day were just as real as the favellas and slums of Rio and Mumbai are today.

In our own history, fully a quarter of young men drafted for military service by the US army in the years just prior to WWII were malnourished when they showed up for induction.

Social Security and Medicare are not some criminal "Ponzi scheme" foisted on a reluctant nation. They are an essential component of a social contract. A contract, might I point out, that for fully half a century made the United States the richest nation on earth.

Al Adab| 2.12.10 @ 2:39PM

The Social Security fix is actually an easy one. Leave the deduction in place, let the numberholder invest in a 501 or IRA as seen fit and have the total amount available at say 591/2. Then medical costs would be covered, the earnings and the million or so in the acount would provide income, and people could control their own spending instead of being wards of the Govt.

A secondary benefit to us all would be the vastly increased capitalization of the national economy. Of course we no longer would be dependants of the Govt. so they will oppose this plan. Free men don't beg.

JP| 2.12.10 @ 4:14PM

Drew,
Are you saying that the West was barbaric before 1880 (the year Bismarck introduced social security to Germany)? In 1939 Nazis Germany not only had social security, but also unemployment benefits, universal health care, and workman's comp. Are you saying that Germany in 1939 was more civilized than Great Britain or the US?

Your stance on this reveals a rather childish belief that if we just wished for something it shall come true. If you look at Germany in 1880, thier females averaged between 5 and 6 children per generation. In 1936, when FDR implemented many of his New Deal programs, the average female in the US had between 3 and children. It grew to 5 per female from 1946-1960. In both cases, the labor pool was young enough to allow for the kind of income redistributions needed for an expansive "social contract". But as the decades progressed and the safety net expanded in ways not even FDR or Bismarck imagined, the birth rates plummeted. In Germany today, the non-islamic female averages barely 1.4 children; in the US it is about 1.8 children. Yet, we have this belief that we can continue promise a huge array of permanent entitlements. A nation can have a large, generous safety net; it can also promote vigourosuly a libertine program of birth control and abortions so that its citizens can enjoy the good life -but it cannot have both.

In order for this nation to continue to provide very generous social security payments, generous unemployment benefits, subsidized medical care for the elderly, poor, and indigent it needs to increase its fertility rate to 6 children per female. That is, abortion and artificial contraception would have to be criminalized. In order to ensure that the children have stable parents, the federal government would have to end the state's practices of no-fault divorce, as well as make adultery very expensive (ie fines, etc...). Fornication, teen age sex etc... would aslo have to be dealt with.

Social Contracts are great things as long as the people understand what they entail. You have a sentimental attachment to liberal abstractions, and like most liberals you chose jargon over reality. And the reality is quite simple: we face a $100 trillion unfunded liability vis-a-vis Social Security and Medicare through 2100. There are simply not enough people who could make the kind of wages needed to fund these 2 programs. Both programs are headed for insolvency within years. And as they stand, they are both financial ponzi schemes. And no Social Security and Medicare didn't make this nation the richest one on earth. Niether program generated any wealth -they consumed it.

Look over the Europe, and you can see our future in the near term. The nation's with the smallest fertility rates, but with some of the most generous safety nets on earth are in viritual default (Greece, Spain, Italy, and Portugal). France, the UK, the Netherlands and Germany are not far behind.

Sue| 2.13.10 @ 8:17PM

I'm not sure the government should be the ones operating the "safety net." Charities did a great job of it before all of the government programs. Also, why is it that the recipients of the taxpayers money are never asked to repay it when they can?

The credit programs of today are very helpful in arranging personal financial needs - home equity loans, credit cards, savings accounts, 401Ks, IRAs, etc. These financial programs were not around in the early 20th century and before.

The real issue is the permanency of the federal programs and the transfer of wealth from one American to another without "just" compensation.

It has now reached the inevitable point where a recipient's SS check barely covers the utility and medical supplement bills. And the government medicare program rations health care so that you have to have a supplement to survive simple surgeries and therapies.

I don't know where you got the "fact" of the 25% malnourished young men - but, you fail to remember that the Country was in a depression which was exacerbated and extended by FDR's ridiculous policies - slaughter millions of pigs to increase the price of pork which no one could afford!

Jeff Perren| 2.15.10 @ 1:39AM

"you need to consider that providing at least a basic level of social safety net is what separates us as nation from barbarism. "

Rot. I owe no one a living, housing, or anything else but to refrain from violating their right to freedom. The proper purpose of government is not welfare, but the protection of individuals against force and fraud, nothing else.

If you wish to provide for the needs of others, you're free to contribute your time and income. You have no right to pick my pocket to do so, nor ask proxies to do it for you, no matter how noble you believe your ethical values may be.

My life does not belong to you.

Jim Wilson| 2.12.10 @ 2:07PM

The escalation of legalized theft is of a piece with many other parts of life. Once the Darrowite lawyers began no-holds-barred tactics to prevent capital punishment, all in a good cause of course, the prosecutors had to escalate right back. Same thing happened in civil law; once the ambulance chasers started calling an expression of 'I'm sorry' for running over a kid who ran in front of somebody as an admission of guilt, lawyers for insurance companies and anybody with deep pockets had to escalate too. Now the only thing certain in any courtroom is that nobody will tell the truth unless it benefits their side.

Same thing happened with unions vs. management, advertising, men vs. women, military vs. civilian, etc, etc. There are so many feuding rivalries these days that the mind boggles.

And the worst part is, you can't blame them. It really doesn't matter which side started it. Once the escalation begins, it's not always the one who started it who escalates the most or does their worst. In most cases you'll find abuse, corruption etc on both sides.

Right now a slight majority of the people in the United States are thieves--they rob the minority of their money for their own benefit. In most cases this amounts to very little. If one pays $5,000 in taxes and receives $5,001 in benefits, he's a net thief; but it doesn't follow that he's evil and wicked and a bandit who longs to cut your throat at night. Lots of people don't even realize that the Earned Income Tax credit is giving them back more than they paid. They look at the big check they get back and think they're geniuses at fooling the government.

Just think of how many sides we each have to choose, on how many issues. It's often unclear which side to choose--while we were bombing Serbia a few years back you had conservatives on both sides--some backing the Serbs to the hilt, some backing the Kosovars just as eagerly--when in reality both sides were rotten. Elian Gonzalez was another such case, where you had Conservative talk show hosts declaring that he should go back to his father because of family values--and others declaring that there's no such thing as family values in a communist system so he's better off with distant relatives. Even those of us supposedly on the same side can't see eye to eye on every issue, and the genius of Reagan was his 11th Commandment: "Thou shalt speak no ill of a fellow Republican."

The fractures in society are not that deep, but they seem deep because there are so many divisions, so many sides you have to sort through to figure it out. Glen Beck is currently trying to parse history into a single narrative of a progressing progressive movement, deciding which historical figures are good guys and bad guys accordingly. Lots of those of libertarian bent hate Lincoln (see Crusader above) as a statist, as if every decision of every person through history be so neatly cast as pro- or anti-statist. These escalations from disagreement to detestation are not only counter-productive, they weaken freedom and our republic. I have heard countless conservatives lament that it's impossible to argue with a liberal because they only respond with ad hominem attacks. Very true. But it's also true WITHIN the 'conservative' side of things; libertarians calling movement conservatives 'Republicrats,' Repbublicans replying with the ever-so-witty 'losertarians,' 'Birthers' are nuts, John Birchers are the 'lunatic fringe,' and countless other examples. Since the right takes no trouble to argue reasonably within, why would anyone expect a reasonable argument without?

Biting your tongue instead of coming back with a witty, cutting rejoinder is at least 10x as hard. I reckon it's time to reclaim moderate from those who can't decide which side to support and use it as a model for responses to rivals--moderate responses, reasoned and reasonable arguments, and humor humor humor--but not the cutting sort.

Because once we get to the point of drawing knives, it turns a lot of people off. Wonder why there are so many undecided people in the middle? Because the high dudgeon and intemperate name-calling makes it hard to decide who's right. Even when you have logic, history, science and common sense on your side.

The escalations have gone about as far as they can go without a civil war; it's time to be the voice of reason, the moderate, calm, reassuring, but still firm and fervent voice of reason. And really, if the nasty names we hurl back and forth were true, then what recourse would there be except civil war? If Republicans were really bent on starving the elderly, poisoning the children, murdering gays, enslaving blacks and nuking the entire Muslim world then what other recourse is there but violence. After years of getting riled up I have come to the conclusion that I will not be offended by anything that doesn't warrant violence. If my only honorable recourse is to start shooting, then I'm offended. Otherwise I'm annoyed, irritated, peeved...etc.

No doubt there are some who would welcome the opportunity to start shooting Democrats or Republicans. But I don't think that's even close to a majority feeling on either side and I can't imagine anything less likely to restore our republic to health.

aware| 2.12.10 @ 3:55PM

"....makes it hard to decide who's right. Even when you have logic, history, science and common sense on your side."
Well exactly what criteria is it you would prefer, if not these, to "decide" this for you? And are you saying that we(the angry peasants) should relax and get used to it?
"Wonder why there are so many undecided people in the middle?"....no, I'm pretty sure about why that is but I'll keep it to myself.

"Lots of those of libertarian bent hate Lincoln...". Read his first inaugural address and try to make it fit the myth about the War Between the States. (Hint, tariffs)

Consider that people have very good reasons to be worried about where this ends. What W. Williams is talking about is what Herbert Spencer called "political momentum" (Man vs the State). There's no doubt what direction that momentum is and has been pushing for the last hundred years or longer.
Some ideas are just better than other ideas and you have to be able to tell the difference, even if there is some nastiness involved.

Thom| 2.12.10 @ 4:08PM

Aware,
please don't explain "why there are so many undecided people in the middle?" I really don't think unprincipled people can handle the answer.

HKidd| 2.22.10 @ 5:25PM

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Thom| 2.12.10 @ 3:42PM

I’m confused as to how an amendment to a document no longer enforced on many levels would even be a good start? As Seapuss eluded to above, the Supreme Court is a willing accomplice in all this and short of putting some enforcement mechanism in place my money says should such an amendment ever pass by the end of the first week Congress would redefine what government spending is and the Court would find no body that challenged this had “standing” indefinitely. About the only amendment actually enforced by government with vigor is the 16th and as long as an “income” tax is in place, be it progressive or flat this problem will continue until we collapse or civil war breaks out. I realize some are offended by that thought and some think we were barbarians before Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid came along but history says otherwise. I don’t see trying to cap the problem rather than dealing with the root of the problem as workable. The “government” already takes 40% of GDP and rising fast and I don’t see any justification within the current Constitution that authorizes this nor any enforcement against it in practice.
The only way this is going to stop outside of the two reasons I listed above is for proportionate fiscal responsibility being laid back on every voter’s back equal to their power at the ballot box. That’s neither novel nor original and has a lot do with why we weren’t in this mess before the 1920s. With a majority of taxpayers paying a tiny minority of the income tax burden and a majority of voters not paying any income tax what would you expect to happen when the majority gets government services, products, etc for “free”?
The first responsibility of the Federal Government is National Defense and when we aren’t in a shooting war or two that represents anywhere from 3-5% of GDP. We are around 7% now with all that is going on but the rest of the Federal Government is spending nearly 20% more. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and a host of other Welfare programs are approaching 40% of the Federal budget and my generation will more than double that in a decade. Any one not understand why “transfer payment” based welfare programs like above aren’t sustainable?
Short of putting the burden of government cost on all able bodied potential voters and enforcing enumerated constraints on “government” we are eventually going to see one of the two above options put in play. We’ve kicked this ball down the court for nearly 7 decades and we are at first and goal. There is no more room left for political theater, shell games and smoke and mirror routines. If we fall, we certainly won’t be the first attempt at self rule to end up on the ash heap of history but we will probably be the last best hope of this world.

Mary Louise| 2.12.10 @ 3:45PM

Land grants to railroads, land grants to pioneers very early on, forces one to see our Nationhood as longstanding.

Where did the State acquire the right to parcel it out? And, does working the land that was given to you constitute true ownership? It has to because I don't see a better system.

Honestly, if I thought that giving up my right to vote would restore the principles that moved the Nation to grant the land and moved the people to work the land, I'd do it in less than a New York minute.

This excerpt is so beautiful, I have to post it for readers and lurkers:

**...The natural instinct of man seeks for power in unbroken activity, to which the mass, with its varied needs, aspirations, and passions may submit; through which it may acquire the impulse of activity, and the principles of order; in which it may find amid all the subversions of willfulness a standard of truth...Power is great and terrible, because it is a sacred thing...Power exists not for itself alone, but for the love of God; it is a service to which men are dedicated. Thence comes the limitless, terrible strength of power, and its limitless and terrible burden...From this also springs the creative force of power, the strength to attract just and rational men...To power belongs the first and last word -it is the alpha and omega of human activity...

Thus the work of power is a work of uninterrupted usefulness, and in reality a work of renunciation. How strange these words must seem beside the current conception of power!...Yet the immutable, only true ideal of power is embodied in the words of Christ: "Whosoever of you will be the chiefest of all shall be servant of all."...The first neceessity of power is faith in itself and its mission. Happy is power when this faith is combined with a recognition of duty and of moral responsibility! [Konstantin Petrovich Pobiedonostsev: Reflections of a Russian Statesman, 1898]**

Mary Louise| 2.12.10 @ 3:51PM

After reading Power Line's tribute to Abraham Lincoln today, and after re-reading posted excerpt, I don't ever want to hear anymore about the greatness of Obama's writing and speeches.

Please spare me and the whole bloody Nation such nonsense. He's only a good reminder of the demise of education.

For A Cheeseburger Today| 2.12.10 @ 4:07PM

Eloquence will not lead a nation down the path to a rebirth: nothing short will eliminate any of the concerns voiced above.

I know this fellow, he is not so swift... OK, he is actually not at all bright but quite a gentleman.

He has this problem: money.

You see, he spends money all the time, but rarely a lot. All these little purchases add up, as they always do, leaving him in a bit of trouble.

His trouble is in the form of exceeding his credit limit(s). You see, this gentleman, Sam, thinks he is safe because he has several ways to defer his debt. No secret to many is the interest alone, never mind fees and the like, will put him in debtors prison for sure!

The young child that touches the hot stove only to get burned... Eventually the child stops touching the hot stove, really.

Unfortunately, Sam will never figure this out as he is not the one feeling the pain from the hot stove.

Thom| 2.12.10 @ 4:42PM

Well said! The world's most expensive Cheeseburger and we don't have to pay for it till next......... Tuesday......

Dein| 2.12.10 @ 4:17PM

Bushes spending?2002-2006:Let's see-who was going to pay for 9/11,2 necessary wars,a bailout of the airlines,revamping airline security,damage of Katrina.Also remember all the complaining about the cost of presciption meds?I didn't agreew/the med plan, but the Dems didn,t think Bush was spending enough

Al Adab| 2.12.10 @ 5:33PM

One war, several theaters of operations. Don't fall into the semantic traps of the Left. When we let them define the debate we cede the high ground.
Health care "reform" is simply another example. Nothing about the proposals reforms anything.

Thom| 2.12.10 @ 5:47PM

Imagine if we had tried to define WWII the way modern Leftist do today? Three wars, one against Japan, one against Germany and the other against Italy and only Japan attacked us and the other two were no threats to us at all (Like Iran, North Korea, etc today). Germans would have rejoiced…

Al Adab| 2.12.10 @ 6:16PM

Thom:

Add in the liberation or defense of all the other countries, Egypt, Tunisia, Phillipines, etc. Can any say that the United States overstepped its bounds in fighting, on those various soils, the self same enemy? We should pursue these international bandit organizations wherever they may be found.

That being said, yes I recognize the sensitivity of the Pakistan issue. However, Syria, Iran, Yemen should all be considered. Defense spending should take priority over all the social welfare proposals and dreams of the Left.

Thom| 2.12.10 @ 7:37PM

Al Adab, I agree. I'm from the Patton School in that if you are going have a war do what is required in the shortest period of time possible and end it. The honor of our people demands their sacrifice not be in vain as was the case in Korea and Vietnam. I don't know if we have to go into every country but we do have to be decisive with the use of our rather small combat force pool. That we haven’t speaks to why some are trying to “bribe” our way out of this and let the situation fall apart on someone else’s watch.

Howard Ino| 2.12.10 @ 8:18PM

As a former school board member, when a mom or grandmother called with an issue... I called the Superintendent and then gave her an answer... or lobbied for a change in our policy or fair implementation of that policy.

She always got FAIR representation!

Try calling the White House or Reid or Pelosi with any concern...

UNLESS you have a major lobby or union behind you... NADA!

Government closest to the people is the best government!

Such Brave men| 2.12.10 @ 9:11PM

What happened to the you guys? GAT, NAFTA, and all the other rights given to "free enterprise". Big Pharm, Oil monopolies and insurance monopolies etc etc are still winning to manipulate your lives and your focused on government.
The press never had it so good. Our last administration gave NO access to no one except the aristocrates. In the last administration the press had no where near the access to the White house. Remember that bill for homeland security...talk about big government...Bush expanded government more than all previous administrations combined. Also took more vacation time than all president previous. The last administration had eight 8 years to get the job done and all it seem to roll out at the end was a panicky Hank Paulson asking for a 700 dollar blank check...but I guess you forgot that since it is after all only a year ago. Are you sure you read the fake news out there?

LiveFreeOrDie| 2.12.10 @ 10:20PM

Random thoughts:

TERM LIMITS, let's say one 4 year term in both houses. That would be a good start. "Senator" should not have the potential to be a lifetime occupation. There should be no such thing as a "career politician." If a senator or representative couldn't get re-elected wouldn't that free up their time and redirect their motivation?

Of course congress will never even consider such a notion so how about national initiatives?

How about a convention of state governors? Collectively they would have every right under the constitution to make some real changes.

It seems like there ARE solutions but they don't seem possible given our current structure.

Brian Mc| 2.13.10 @ 7:55AM

Allow me to ramble:

Get back to State Legislature-elected Senators.

Civics 101, 8th Grade style: seven out of ten right and you get to vote. The ballot box is no place for the ignorant. And if you can't take the time for a minutes-long quiz, you don't deserve the right. If implemented, I'll be first in line to hunker down in the books.

Abolish the Electoral College...how about one county: one vote...or would that be 'unfair'?

Last resort: Demarcate the Mississippi River, a huge wall and all must choose which side they wish to reside. Conservatives on one and Liberalism/Socialism to the other. And never the twain shall meet, ever again. I'd even allow liberals the right to choose first. Who needs who?

Gee, let me be the first to state, "Those that would sacrifice their liberties to gain security, deserve neither".

As has been embellished elsewhere and ad nauseum, we have forgotten (or fear to recall) that you can NOT legislate away the dangers of ignorance or legislate in compassion...they are part and parcel to the human experience and without them we have desensitized our own life experience and wonder aloud why life has lost its value and meaning. The government cannot be compassionate; it is too Draconian by its very nature. And when we attempt, (down through history), to give government that power of compassion, we sit back after washing our hands of personal responsibility and smuggly wonder why our State(s) is/are going to hell in a handbasket...!

My heart trembles at the coming harvest.

Jim O'Brien| 2.13.10 @ 9:56AM

Some of us want a balanced budget amendment, such as that proposed by Senator LeMeiux (R-FL), coupled with the Fair Tax (www.fairtax.org) which would dismantle the entire federal income tax system and the IRS. And, what if Congress were to repeal all the laws which violate a strict construction of the Constitution, starting with Socialist Security. Obviously this Congress won't do any of the above, but we can start cleaning house in November.

Donald Wilson| 2.13.10 @ 1:02PM

Reading thru these post and I can see that some of you still don't get it. The Dems did this or the Reps did that - yada yada yada . Wake Up! They are both screwing us over. Repeat - both parties are sticking it to us. Our government is no longer OUR government. It does not look out for our best interest. We as a people need to come together and force a real change - not bicker over what party did what.

Stephen MacLean| 2.14.10 @ 12:10AM

When writing that ‘It’s not our politicians who are to blame for our Leviathan government and subsequent loss of liberties. It is the American people’, Dr Williams recalls the wisdom of Frédéric Bastiat’s The Law (to which he wrote an enticing introduction).

In this slim masterpiece, Bastiat acknowledged that

Under the pretense of organisation, regulation, protection, or encouragement, the law takes property from one person and gives it to another; the law takes the wealth of all and gives it to a few—whether farmers, manufacturers, shipowners, artists, or comedians. Under these circumstances, then certainly every class will aspire to grasp the law, and logically so..

Dr Williams suggests a constitutional amendment limiting federal spending. Perhaps. But the possibility of passing such an amending is slim, and being governed by it if passed more remote still—Rep. Ron Paul is quite emphatic about the unconstitutionality of fiat money that has no firm, redeemable grounding in gold or silver (see, for instance, Federalist No 44).

A better first step may be more—and better!—education, so that a right understanding of the limits of government is firmly planted in the civic consciousness, where it cannot be so easily led astray by political legerdemain. Again, as Bastiat wrote:

in short, the happiest, most moral, and most peaceful people are those who most nearly follow this principle: Although mankind is not perfect, still, all hope rests upon the free and voluntary actions of persons within the limits of right; law or force is to be used for nothing except the administration of universal justice.

Bill Koehler| 2.14.10 @ 8:50AM

Perhaps the trillions of debt will change America's attitude about what happens when government continually steals from one and give to another. The parties just about over.

Richard Baker| 2.14.10 @ 10:22AM

America, look in the mirror. There is the source of our problems. As an example, don't blame the IRS for their tactics, they are a creature of the Congress. The Congress is the creature of the American electorate. Did these Representatives elect themselves? Does the country have to collapse before my fellow citizens realize that Pogo was right?

Charles Stevens| 2.14.10 @ 6:11PM

CJohnson above brings up a major point which this article does not address: even if our elected officials somehow became responsible, we now have a huge unelected bureaucracy churning out regulations in a totally uncontrolled, unsupervised process. It has come to the point where, every day, we unknowingly violate some regulation from some government agency. The only reason we are not arrested is because there is a paucity of law enforcement. However, when politics of the moment randomly shifts its focus, we hear news articles of yet another poor schmoe being harassed mercilessly in court and/or being sent to prison for some strange violation. This is totally arbitrary, gratuitous, and highly yet deceitfully politicized.

We are no longer free, we only have an illusion of being so. Our society is bureaucratically frozen, with a legal system that creates conflict in order to get its cut no matter who wins. Over the past decades, our worthless elected officials have foisted their responsibilities off onto a vast hidden world that is so complex, arbitrary, and politically motivated that no American has a snowball's chance in hell of confronting it.

No President, even Reagan, has ever successfully closed even one agency of the federal government. The only way I can see to fight this monster is to starve it by withholding funds, and the only way to do that is to pass an Amendment that restricts the absolute size of government via both funding and personnel caps. This type of Amendment and another one limiting Congressional terms of office should be absolutely essential, primary goals of the Tea Party Movement.

FTM| 2.14.10 @ 10:06PM

Bravo Mr. Williams. I am happy to read what your intellect produces. Thank you sir.

Nick| 2.14.10 @ 11:24PM

All you conservatives praising Mr. Williams don't fool the likes of 3/5 Bob and Marxist Reader.

They know you people are just a bunch of raaaaaacists!

Quit pretending that you agree with a black man.

Brian Mc| 2.15.10 @ 8:23AM

Something to ponder from yesterday's service that bears heavily on this discussion:

Jeremiah Ch. 17 Vs. 5
"Thus saith the Lord, "Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord."

We wonder at our tribulations once we have made government our god and hope and faith chase that same government that embellishes laws which purportedly defend an offended few; in so doing, refutes the Creator's existence.

God used to 'bless' this country...

Alice Temnick| 2.15.10 @ 5:03PM

As a high school economics teacher, I feel there are few points more important that yours: Government has no resources! Perhaps a new generation that understands this is what is needed.

Tenn Slim| 2.16.10 @ 5:54AM

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If our founders could see today’s federal government, it would be unrecognizable to their vision.
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This is precisely why I have intitated the following request, and I would ask you all to follow with similar requests.
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Senator:
In Lieu of Statistical, Accurate, and Honestly developed data, RE: Climate Change, AKA Global Warming, I request the following.
Bt
1. A freedom of SENATORIAL Information request be delivered to the Obama Administration concerning ALL Climate Change, Global Warming, Czar related Memorandum, Letters, Written, or otherwise published, since the inauguration date of 20 Jan 2001.
2. An immediate halt to all Czar agencies activities appointed to the OBNA Administration RE: Climate Change, Global warming.
3. A n immediate halt to all Related EPA Environmental Regulations RE: Climate Change, Global Warming.
4. The above SENATORIAL REQUESTS via your office, or via Caucuses, or via Direct Senate Leadership need to be IMMEDIATE, w/o Delay.
Bt
The purpose being, to RE INSTALL the Relevance of the Congress RE: Climate Change, Global Warming, due to the recent revelations regarding the INACCURACIES, Fraud, and out right lying regarding the BASIC DATA of the Subject.
Relevance of the CONGRESS on this vital issue is being subverted. Your attention to this issue is key, not only to your own personal RE- Election opportunities, but to the Security of the Nation.
Bt
Once and IF the OBNA complies, the Senate and your offices, can and will, by the USA Electorate demands, effect a RE direction of the OBNA Agencies Agendas, steering the USA onto a path of Energy Independence that is sound, accurate, and worthy of the Congress of the USA, best efforts.
End
Semper FI
We will Prevail.

Charleylake| 2.16.10 @ 4:54PM

Curious, but one of the greatest frauds our government has produced is Social Security (of which I confess I am a beneficiary). Why, pray tell, should the workers of the nation pay taxes to re-distribute to me simply because I am 65 years of age??? (And don't tell me I am "entitled" because I "paid in' during my working years.)
It seems much more equitable if we are to re-distribute wealth to do it to benefit those young families in their 20's who are struggling to get a foothold in life and raise their children, rather than to provide social welfare (regardless of wealth or income) to us old geezers simply because we are old geezers.
And it was all designed knowlingly and is perpetuated as a ponzi scheme.
Where am I wrong.

jake| 8.3.10 @ 2:39PM

" Men who would go to Iraq and get blown up for freedom and peace. "
These are the real heroes. Its too bad they wouldn't put George w Bush in the front lines for good measure.

Charles Kaluwasha| 8.23.10 @ 9:27PM

I was curious to read about the article. The headline captured my eye. In every situation we blame the politicians because they are the ones that make the laws. I guess as citizens we have the right to contribute to these laws that may be manipulative!
Thanks for the article.

Randy Brickhouse Sr.| 8.24.10 @ 6:38PM

How does it read," For the people, by the people." Look everyone, we can blame the politicians until doomsday. The by the people part means that we are to blame. The government is supposed to be representative of the citizens, we can't complain if we let our representatives run amok.

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Politicians are always to blame as they are the ones that normally get themselves in the mess

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Who is to blame? If we are to be honest, we must say ourselves. It's the man in the looking back from the mirror :)

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Dee| 12.20.11 @ 12:02AM

I don't think that a change in the constitution is necessary. I don't even think that reducing the spending is necessary. There is a need to spend for liberty because there are also a lot of people who are working hard to snuff it out.

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As a former school board member, when a mom or grandmother called with an issue... I called the Superintendent and then gave her an answer... or lobbied for a change in our policy or fair implementation of that policy.

She always got FAIR representation!

Try calling the White House or Reid or Pelosi with any concern...

UNLESS you have a major lobby or union behind you... NADA!
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