'Progressing' to what, exactly?

AuthorGrigas, Matt
PositionEditorials

Byline: Matt Grigas

Progressivism is 'progressing' to what, exactly? Something better, more "enlightened''? Or bureaucratic, central economic planning?

Our republic is based on the U.S. Constitution and limited government, where the people are sovereign, checks and balances, individual liberty granted by our creator, not the central government. No mandates.

Since Barack Obama was first elected to the presidency, we've had lying, spying and targeting of American citizens: the "Affordable'' Care Act, IRS-gate; NSA spying; racial divisiveness and new prejudices (blacks can't be racist? La Raza?); "green'' energy "investments''; Fast & Furious; Benghazi, etc. Consider:

*Selective enforcement of our laws, lies regarding Obamacare (i.e., Professor Gruber and Barack Obama).

*In Massachusetts, one-party domination of the Legislature has resulted in scandal after scandal: Sheri Killens; DCF and missing/dead children; Boston Children's Hospital and Christina Pelletier; Annie Dookan and the state DPH crime lab; the drug compounding center and nationwide deaths; record revenues, record Massachusetts state spending, always increasing taxes/fees and record state borrowing, $1 billion for the Boston Convention and Exposition Center alone. And at present we have a $768 million deficit in the current fiscal year.

*Free enterprise/free market capitalism, a system of voluntary exchange between buyer and seller, which resulted in the highest standard of living in history, has been under attack, with increased crony capitalism. Yet many still misunderstand that it was the federal government which fundamentally caused the financial crisis of the last recession.

*Manmade global warming -- the biggest farce in history?

The January 16 edition of the Telegram & Gazette carried another Associated Press article by Seth Borenstein, asserting that 2014 was "the warmest year on record'' ('Globe sizzles to hottest year on record'). However, the London Daily Mail carried another, entirely different article, titled 'NASA climate scientists: We said 2014 was the warmest year on record... but we're only 38% sure we were right', which revealed the temperature increase to be 0.01 degrees C, but the margin of error was 0.1 degrees C. 10 times the supposed increase. Ridiculous.

The Keystone XL pipeline has become an overt symbol and people with little knowledge of pipelines assert that this is bad for Americans and bad for the planet. Presently, there are thousands of miles of...

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