I agree with the notion of defunding PP in itself, but I think we are missing the larger picture about what?s going on around us when the overtones of the arguments we have to make seem to be all about money and the one thing most of us have put the stake in the ground and refuse to compromise on as if we could salvage anything among the losses it should be the unborn. When it comes down to these kinds of arguments we have already lost because our problems that encompass these issues aren?t just about money or abortion. They are about the culture of death and enslavement promulgated by the nanny state that says if you?re not wanted by your biological parents, you?re not wanted by society and are better off dead; if you?re elderly and infirmed or disabled you?re not productive and are better off dead than having the state pay for your care. It?s about corrupt politicians stealing from posterity for political power today and making command and control choices with that power about what life for those who come after us will be like with their money. After all, we will not be repaying anything that is being spent today ? we can?t.

With the 150th anniversary of the bombardment of Ft. Sumter getting the press lately, it seems that we would be reminded of the reasons that the old compromises that kept the nation united despite the existence of slavery were no longer valid. At least from the Northern perspective, it wasn?t so much about slavery itself as it was about what happened to slaves after they were acquired, and something lacking in humanity in treating human beings as property, measuring their worth in terms of productivity and treating them accordingly.

I don?t think people realize that the nanny state is no longer about societal benevolence and command and control economy isn?t about protecting investors or anyone else, as if they ever were. Especially with the radical left coming to the fore, it?s about leveling the playing field with the insistence that what is good for the poor is good for everyone else with a certain kind of disregard and disrespect for those who can and do take care of themselves. They hold deep contempt for those who have the means to do so and intend nothing but violence toward it as a matter of progressive principle. If this were not the case, they would not have made health care the center piece of their agenda in the face of the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression. And some folks wonder why they seem out of touch with reality, but the truth of the matter is that they detest the current reality and wish to create a new one in their ideal image, one that likely resembles China.

I also think many conservatives forget that conservatism isn?t just an economic theory or for those who feel morally superior to the rest in capitulation to the entire goings on of big government in the process of molding society into an ideal image. And when we make it about the bottom line and moral superiority, at least to the rest of the nation, we do violence to the philosophy of republicanism as the foundation and protector of freedom and personal liberty shared by our founders. We also end up losing the battle because we fail to present the underlying philosophy behind the cuts in the budget wherever they are made making them appear as arbitrary and capricious. In that state, they are open to attack from all sides and we have very little to defend them with in the absence of articulating the principle driving them.