Liberal achievements will come crashing down

To the editor:

In Geoff Schumacher's Friday column, "Road map for liberals," he quotes author Tony Judt, who says that liberals "need to apologize a little less." Mr. Schumacher says it is time for liberals to remind themselves of all of their achievements, and he quotes Mr. Judt again, who says,"We take for granted the institutions, legislation, services and rights we have inherited." Well, let's examine their accomplishments.

-- We have the highest debt ever. Yes, both of the Bushes contributed, but it was their liberal sides that did it. Mr. Obama has contributed to the debt more than all previous 33 presidents put together.

-- Every institution they have created has failed miserably, i.e. education, the U.S. Postal Service, Social Security, Medicare -- even environmentalism. If the environmentalists had not forced us to drill a mile deep instead of on-shore or inland, we would not had the problem we had with the Gulf oil spill.

-- It is the "services" that are drowning us in debt. Small businesses do not have the resources to hire, so they cautiously wait to see what big government does next.

-- Exactly what have they done for rights? Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have done more to encourage racism and hatred than any person or organization ever.

Mr. Schumacher presents a question posed by Mr. Judt: "Why have we been in such a hurry to tear down the dikes laboriously set in place by our predecessors?"

Well, when you build buildings of provisional truths, immorality, victimhood, socialism and government as God on top of a foundation of absolute truths, high moral fiber, personal responsibility, capitalism, small government, and there is only one God and it is not government, then there can be only one outcome: Everything will be destroyed, because when the foundation goes, everything else crashes right along with it.

Jim Blockey

Las Vegas