As I posted earlier, Cory Heidelberger mocked Rep. Hickey's idea to study how South Dakota should deal with an upcoming economic crisis like we had in 2008. The details of Hickey's bill tells us why liberals like Cory don't want to even consider the conservative approach to economic planning:
(1) What might a significant reduction of twenty percent or more of federal funds mean for South Dakota on a state, local, and individual level?
(2) What might the collapse of the dollar mean to main street, South Dakota, and to the state's significant financial sector?
(3) Considering the level South Dakota is dependant (SIC) on federal and other unstable revenue, does this level insulate the state, or make the state more prone to the effects of a national economic crisis? What are the possibilities for reducing the state's dependency on federal and other unstable revenue sources?
(4) Might current state statutes exacerbate difficulties in buying and selling or trade in the event of a national economic crisis? What measures, if any, can the state adopt to alleviate these potential difficulties?
(5) Might current state statutes interfere with the ability of citizens to take care of themselves and their families or might the statutes prolong an economic recovery in South Dakota? What measures, if any can the state adopt to avoid those difficulties?
The last thing liberals want is a reduction in government. The only opposition during the committee hearing was one of Daugaard's budget and finance guys. This fits Daugaard's liberal tax and spend policies that has arisen. And Hickey explains what happened at the conclusion of the SDGOP Establishment controlled House State Affairs committee hearing:
It was quickly shot down by the committee 12-1. Actually, it was decided in the meeting before the meeting.
So we have the South Dakota Democratic left and the SDGOP Establishment firmly against setting up economic plans to reduced our reliance on the federal government. That would in turn make South Dakotans more independent, stable, and self-reliant. This is not the kind of economic planning crony capitalists want. This explains it:
Skelton then quotes MP Michael Meacher, who “describes Bilderberg as ‘the cabal of the rich and powerful’ who are working ‘to consolidate and extend the grip of the markets … beyond the reach of the media or the public.’” But Skelton misses something basic. Whatever crony capitalism there is at Bilderberg thrives to the degree it does because the governments of the Western powers have grown so large. They have penetrated into virtually every facet of our overlapping economies.
That excerpt provides support to what I have been telling Cory and his fellow New Age cronies in regard to crony capitalism: big government is the fuel that drives crony capitalism. The solution is reducing the size and scope of government. When I make that argument, the left many times charge me with being anti-government. Not so, because limited government based on the original Constitution is not the same has having no government. Here is a message for the left (from the previous link):
To those on the left who have put their trust in the leviathan state to protect the cause of the poor and disenfranchised, but who now see the limits of that strategy: you need not wholly abandon your faith in government. Governments still have an indispensable role in extending ordinary justice — the rule of law — to the poor and disenfranchised.
Instead of dissipating its energies squeezing the jam industry and every other sector of the economy until business leaders feel compelled to play the hob-nob lobby game just to survive, what if Western governments were disciplined by their citizens to focus their primary energies on protecting their citizens from violence, theft and fraud. This would include providing swift and fair trials that discourage crime, including white-collar crimes such as embezzlement, fraud, insider trading and toxic dumping?
With a narrower focus, maybe our roads and bridges wouldn’t be crumbling in many parts of the country.
Sadly the Democrats will join with the SDGOP Establishment to make government even bigger by adding more taxes for maintaining South Dakota roads and bridges. And this is in the wake of South Dakota's dramatic increase in government that was fueled by Obama's Stimulus. As President Reagan said, government is not the solution, government is the problem. Sadly, the SDGOP has lost that wisdom, and those of us who are reminding them are being blackballed. I have had one legislator tell me that he can't let anyone know that he is using by budget analysis or he fears he will also be blackballed. I am not surprised by that as for some time I attempted to get the folks at Madville to understand this (again from the previous link):
The conscientious left complains about all the big lobbyists at places like the Bilderberg summit. But an unlimited government is a lobbyist magnet. And the bigger the magnet, the bigger the pull. If you want to end the culture of cronyism, shrink the magnet.
I guess we can say that the socialistic totalitarian style of government has taken hold in South Dakota. And that was done with Democrats crying about one-party rule by those nasty "conservative" Republicans. There are many things crony capitalists are good at, and one is the art of deception. Socialism is not conservative and neither is crony capitalism. The GOP propagandists forget to include the word "crony" when they speak of their brand of capitalism. In fact those liberals don't like it when conservatives use that label. The last thing they want is for conservatives and independents to understand that they are just as much in favor of big government as the Democrats. So I have concluded both parties are responsible for the totalitarian structure that has been established in Pierre, and controlled by the crony capitalists, which is lead by the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce.
Keeping the false fighting between party members at a fevered pitch is exactly what the crony capitalists want. The establishments of both political parties are wrong, because they are supporting the agenda of the crony capitalists, whether they know it or not. And the liberal cronies at the Madville Times have no excuse because I have been explaining all of this to them for some time now. Both party activists are deceiving members of their respective parties, with many of those deceived members having good intentions.
Sadly, my efforts to bring the truth to Madville has me excommunicated, yet again. So not only am I blackballed from the right, I am also blackballed from the left. One could make the argument that I therefore fit the definition of a moderate, but I will pass on that label. I don't want to be put in the same class that the liberal Republican Establishment is deceptively placed.
The South Dakota Blogosphere has the Democatic Establishment mantra being pushed by Madville Times, and the SDGOP Establishment is represented by the Dakota War College. That leaves me as the lone tree on the South Dakota political landscape. Thus you may now understand why I changed the banner to this web site. But I don't need anyone feeling sorry for me. I don't mind putting the truth above my popularity. And I mean no disrespect to Cory or Pat. I enjoyed my experiment over at Madville the last several months, and I appreciate that Pat still left me on is update module. I am also aware that there are other bloggers out there.
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