Let's start with this simple premise: congressional conservatives recognize the economic problems Americans are facing today, but they also recognize that it's the marketplace that will remedy the wrongs and create opportunities -- with a minimum of government regulation -- for greater wealth and freedom for all citizens.
On the other hand, liberals look first to expanding government in order to solve economic woes facing the nation, and they don't give a hoot about history.
Contrary to liberal fairy-tails, Franklin Delano Roosevelt did not end the Great Depression. In fact, he prolonged it with his centralized economic policies. What ended the horrors of the Great Depression were Japanese planes bombing US ships and air bases in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. That's when America's private sector began building the planes, tanks, ships, bombs, and guns that brought us victory in World War II.
The collapse of the Soviet Union also failed to enlighten liberals in the US. They continued to believe in government solutions with economic policies dictated by them rather than the marketplace. Remember the Soviet's Five Year Plans and Ten Year Plans? How often have you heard liberals in the US talk about their own Five Year or Ten Year plans?
The result will always be the growth in the number of programs that redistribute wealth -- a guiding principle of Marxism. It's also a tenet of insanity, which is defined as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
We need look no farther than the recent irresponsible spending spree by many US political leaders and lawmakers.
In furthering their so-called progressive agenda -- and led by a belief not in equality of opportunity but in equality of results -- liberals overlook the inconvenient historical fact that as government becomes more involved in economic policy, it exercises increasing control over individuals and their freedom. And it does little to help individuals create personal wealth.
They do not wish to explain themselves to conservatives because they have no clear answer to a primary concern: when will the government stop expanding its power over the marketplace and over the lives of Americans in general.
Winston Churchill likened taxing citizens and corporations in order to help the economy, to a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift it up by the handle. It just doesn't work. And conservatives know it doesn't work.