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I am going to start off this week with a couple of definitions according to MSN Encarta’s dictionary(no plagiarism here!)
Change: transitive and intransitive verb: become or make different: to become different, or make something or somebody different
Progress: noun: positive development: development, usually of a gradual kind, toward achieving a goal or reaching a higher standard
I could end this week’s blog with just that, those definitions are a very clear statement of the difference between liberals and conservatives. For those of you that cannot connect the dots, liberals are the ones that are using “change” as their running platform; and the people of the United States voted in a President on that single word. Let’s examine for a minute the word itself; become or make different, well that doesn’t sound so bad right? There are a lot of things that people see in our society that they want to make different. The biggest problem with change is there is never a goal associated with that term. We can sit here and change the way we do business, change the way we provide healthcare, change the rules for the stock market, and change the amount of involvement the government has in our everyday lives, but are we really moving towards something better? Or is it simple change for the sake of change? Are we simply changing things because we didn’t like the status quo?
Now that we have examined the blind thinking individuals on the left of the political spectrum, that want change just because with no actual goals, we can look at progress. Progress is the positive development over a gradual period of time towards achieving a goal. That last part is the kicker, towards achieving a goal. And no sports fans I am not talking about that thing on the end of the field with the bright orange net, I am talking about moving towards a specific, measurable, realistic and time oriented outcome. Another thing that I want to mention about the definition of progress is the gradual piece. Our society has become one where we rarely have to wait very long for anything; we go through the drive thru and get angry if we have to wait longer than five minutes. We have on-demand and DVR’s because we don’t like to wait through the commercials during our favorite programming.
Well ladies and gentlemen change can happen very quickly and progress happens over a period of time, which is why the American public bought into all of the change bravado that the liberals were spinning in the last election. They needed their quick fix, well as we have examined in the past couple of paragraphs; change has no direction, there is no light at the end of the tunnel. With change we don’t know if we are moving forward on the timeline or backwards.
Many people on the liberal side of thinking, at least in my experiences, have thought of conservatives and old fashioned, set in their ways and unwilling to change. I think that we as conservatives just take our change to a higher level; we are concerned with progress which takes change and controls it to push towards a goal. When conservatives look at a problem we do not just start changing things hoping to solve the problem, we sit back and analyze what is causing the problem and set up a plan to fix the problem.
Is there anyone in this nation that thinks Barack Hussein Obama and his puppets in Congress have a plan?
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