Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

February 12, 2009

Newsweek?s February 16 cover story triumphantly announces: ?We Are All Socialists Now.? According to the publication: ?Whether we want to admit it or not ? the America of 2009 is moving toward a modern European state.?

The magazine points out that ?the U.S. government has already ? effectively nationalized the banking and mortgage industries?. [I]t was ? under a conservative GOP administration that we enacted the largest expansion of the welfare state in 30 years: prescription drugs for the elderly.? Republican-led state governments are likewise clamoring for ?stimulus? funding from Washington.

While all of this is true, Newsweek overplays its hand by insisting that there is no choice but to accept the emergence of a full-blown American socialist state. The impending bankruptcy of the government will re-shuffle the political deck thoroughly, and provide ample opportunity for defenders of free market capitalism to re-build our society on a more rational basis.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.