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Conservatism is Dead
By Chuck Baldwin
March 2, 2001
Bill Clinton did more than destroy America's moral conscience; he destroyed
the conservative movement. What passes for conservatism today isn't even
closely related to the true meaning of the term.
At one time conservatism stood for limited government and personal freedom.
No more. Today, conservatism stands for an ever increasing, ever encroaching
federal monstrosity, promoted in the name of bipartisanship and compassion.
Nothing illustrates this reality more than President Bush's proposed budget.
Hailed by Republicans everywhere as a model of conservative ideology, the
Bush budget actually inflates federal spending to just under $2 trillion. If
this trends continues throughout Bush's presidency (and it will), federal
spending will more than double what it was when Republicans took control of
Congress back in 1995. And we are supposed to believe that these people are
conservatives?
Bush began his speech before Congress by giving himself away. He said,
"Tonight I challenge and invite Congress to work with me to . solve the
problems of our people."
Genuine conservatives knew at that very moment that Bush was not one of
them. Requisite to conservative understanding is that government is not the
solution to our problems. Just the opposite is true: government encroachment
only serves to exacerbate a problem. To quote Ronald Reagan, "Government is
not the solution to the problem; government is the problem."
Today's "conservatives" have forgotten Reagan's sagacious instructions. Just
like Democrats, Republicans now believe that our nation's problems can be
fixed by throwing more federal tax dollars at them.
Instead of dismantling the federal Department of Education (which
Republicans promised to do back in 1994), Bush's budget increases
expenditures by more than $5 billion. Welfare and other entitlement programs
are increased by over $81 billion. The Bush budget also more than doubles
expenditures for the National Institutes of Health.
Have conservatives forgotten that it is through the NIH that pro-abortion
groups like Planned Parenthood receive tax dollars? If Bush were truly
pro-life, he would insist that such organizations be eliminated from the
federal budget. Instead, the Bush budget insures that these left wing,
extremist groups will receive even more funds from the public treasury.
Bush's desire to reduce the tax burden is commendable, but it misses the
major component of conservatism, which is reducing the size and scope of the
federal government. The Bush budget gives us more IRS, more ATF, more FBI,
more NEA, more welfare, more socialized medicine, ad infinitum, ad naseum.
If Republicans want to continue to take our country down the road to bigger
and bigger government, that's one thing, but they should at least be honest
enough to stop calling themselves conservatives.
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