By Brian Decker

I have spent hours trying to convince true believers that the socialist road we are heading down is counterproductive and more importantly that it is unconstitutional.

You can bombard these people with statistics and figures that show in spite of all the money spent on poverty in the last 40 years, the percentage of people living in poverty has remained virtually unchanged.

You can show how the tax structure has gotten more progressive not less (that means the rich pay more not less and that half the population pays virtually nothing).

You can show one precedent after another before the “New Deal” that found virtually all socialist type programs unconstitutional before President Roosevelt added judges to the Supreme Court allowing him to overrule those precedents.

You can show that money spent per student and academic achievements have no relationship across the country what so ever... and on and on and on.

It’s like trying to teach a pig to fly. So, I’d like to try a new angle.

If you remove Social Security funds from the budget, we have had two years in surplus since 1968. Even if you throw Social Security funds in, there have been only five. These years have had more to do with sudden economic expansion creating unexpected revenue increases than spending restraint.

Federal spending has gone from $178 billion in 1968 to $2.73 trillion in 2007.  Even if Jimmy Carter had been President that entire time, inflation wouldn’t have been that high.

You don’t need to be a rocket scientist (or a CPA) to see that this is unsustainable. It is irrelevant whether prescription drugs as a part of Medicare (or Medicare itself) is a good idea. It doesn’t matter whether subsidizing ethanol is unconstitutional. It is unaffordable on a permanent basis.

This utopian world that Neo-Socialists in government promise us is a mirage.

 It cannot be created on Earth by man.

What we choose to ignore is that between us and this mirage is a cliff without a bottom. If we continue to pour money into the dream of this Socialist Utopia we will destroy this country and our very way life.