Great News! The good life will soon return to America. Auspiciously, months before the holiday shopping season began, Americans were told that after more than a year of fiscal recession, or what some have characterized as akin to an economic depression, consumers were optimistic. The confidence index and other indicators were much improved. Manufacturing executives assured the public, the engine that drives the free enterprise system was in a "sustainable recovery mode." In the very near future, products, and people's sense of need, would be fabricated again. Everything will be right with the world, economically. Few feared the threat that, long ago, Americans had come to accept. The foundation of a democratic system had eroded in favor of consumption.
Today It makes me very proud to see a 37 year old fellow Indian-American, literally one of us, become such a shining star in the higher circles in US. Granted, the Republican Party is not very popular in US these days due to the recent harmful influence of the right wing of the party that forced a narrow and one-sided agenda on the nation. For the welfare of US the Republican Party must correct its course and get back on track as the party of Abraham Lincoln that abolished slavery in US and fought a civil war to end the oppression of African-Americans in US.
The leader to bring back the Republican Party to its original moorings of fairness, free enterprise and efficient government is Gov Bobby Jindal. America became a great nation not by pursuing the regressive socialist policies favored in Europe and Asia, but by following the unique free enterprise policies that encourage initiative in every individual and rewards them. We all who come from South Asia know very well what following socialist policies means for a nation.
Universal health care?
Leaving aside the question of whether anything Obama is proposing resembles actual socialism, can somebody please illuminate for me what is the monolithic/reducible/essential racial memory of South Asians that he avers regarding socialism?
fairness, free enterprise and efficient government
Fairness and efficient government are core values of liberals, and have been recognized as such since FDR.
As for free enterprise, to thrive it needs the vigorous regulation and regulators that only the Democrats are willing to provide, so count free enterprise among the liberal's core values too.
I will be very impressed if Jindal can lead the conservatives into liberalism...
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