Make my cake chocolate, please

As the Occupy movements continue (somewhat surprisingly, to me at least), this piece by Ian Millhiser (entitled, appropriately enough with Halloween just around the corner, "What If the Tea Party Wins?") of the Center for American Progress delineates just how important this movement is, especially as the antithesis to the Antoinettes.  For the Antoinettes, the idea of the United States providing any kind of assistance (FEMA, food stamps, Medicaid) to its people in need, is unconstitutional.  The idea of the government providing any of life's necessities (healthcare via Medicare, retirement income via Social Security, education of any kind) is unconstitutional.  And they won't stop until these programs--and with them, America as a viable nation--are destroyed.

I've had my ups and downs with Bill Clinton throughout the years, but he can always be counted on when the chips are down.  And I think President Clinton knew exactly, from a timing and factually relevant standpoint, what he was saying when he made this point:

"You know, there’s not a single solitary example on the planet, not one, of a country that is succesful because the economy has triumphed over the government and choked it off and driven the tax rates to zero, driven the regulations to nonexistent and abolished all government programs, except for defense, so people in my income group never have to pay a nickel to see a cow jump over the moon. There is no example of a succesful country that looks like that."

And these two things are why, despite the disappointments, we need to keep fighting the good fight, to keep Americans living up to our ideal of "e pluribus unum."

Peace,
emaycee