Freedom, Common Sense, and the "Nanny State"
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Why the title, Freedom, Common Sense, and the Nanny State? Freedom is the individuals ability to choose. The more choices one has in life, the greater ones freedom. America is world-famous as the Land of the Free. Common sense is the stuff wise decisions are based upon. Freedom and common senseand lots of good, old-fashioned ingenuityhave built the greatest nation the world has ever known, the United States of America. But freedom can be frustrating, because it allows for philosophers and fools. And common sense is not as plentiful as one might hope.
We Americans are currently embroiled in a continuing culture warself-reliance vs. Social Justice. Social Justice is liberal code for the Nanny Stategovernment supervision from cradle to grave. Where has freedom gone when a few bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., can dictate to more than 300 million Americans what kinds of light bulbs and toilets we can use, to the quality of health care we must accept? And where is the common sense in SPENDING our way out of bankruptcy? May freedom and common sense replace the Nanny State in America before it is too late.
Richard T. Stanley
Dr. Stanley earned masters’ degrees from Long Beach State and Whittier College and an Ed.D. from Pepperdine University. He taught American History and Government at the high school and adult school levels before becoming a high school administrator. He recently retired after many years as a successful adult school principal. Dr. Stanley has authored nine books on history and politics, and has also taught at the university level.
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Freedom, Common Sense, and the "Nanny State" - Richard T. Stanley
Freedom, Common Sense, and the Nanny State
Richard T. Stanley
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Freedom, Common Sense, and the Nanny State
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Table of Contents
Dedication
Preface
Chapter 1 – Deficit Spending
Chapter 2 – National Defense
Chapter 3 – Social Security
Chapter 4 – Foreign Aid
Chapter 5 – Federal Justice
Chapter 6 – Green Energy
Chapter 7 – Big Government
Bibliography
Endnotes
DEDICATION
This book is dedicated to all individuals who love freedom, have common sense, and loathe the Nanny State.
PREFACE
I began writing, Freedom, Common Sense, and the Nanny State
the morning after President Barack Obama was reelected. I was saddened by America’s choice at the polls. But I was not shocked. The Election of 2012 was one of the most divisive national elections in American history. Not since the Election of 1828—General Andrew Jackson vs. President John Quincy Adams—has character assassination played so great a role. During the campaign, Republicans claimed President Obama acted like a malevolent (and possibly foreign-born) Santa Claus who wasted precious tax dollars on Stimulus
boondoggles and bogus investments
—and worse. Democrats cleverly countered by characterizing Governor Romney as a 21st Century Ebenezer Scrooge who hated the bottom forty-seven percent of Americans, and as a man who would not hesitate to push ol’ grandma over the edge of a cliff (or deprive Tiny Tim of his crutch) just to save a buck. On election day, a slim majority of