Excerpts

On the world's first free republic:

"Where the Greeks had failed in their attempts to establish governments on the far right, the Romans succeeded. Broad personal and economic freedoms led to Rome rising to become an economic powerhouse. The Romans used their economic power initially to fund the wars required to unify Italy and later to launch the Roman Empire."


On our Founding:

"Hence, 2300 years after the Romans formed the world's first free republic on the far right, our founders formed the world's second free republic on the far right. Like the Roman Republic, it was a government of limited scope, led by elected officials in three branches of government, with built-in checks and balances. It was a republic in which people were free to produce and free to keep the results of their production.

Again, like the Roman Republic, America quickly rose to world power status and became the world's leading economic power. Europe was shocked that within one century after its birth, the United States had risen to parity with the great European powers."


On Socialism:

"The degradation of attitudes is in large measure why socialism is a utopian myth...Social programs have never lifted a population out of poverty, nor have they ever created wealth in over 2000 years of history. In every case, socialism has, at best, resulted in a slow growth economy with masses increasingly dependent upon the government."

"Only the left could take a system as superior as capitalism and the free market, transform it into something as economically inferior as socialism and call themselves "progressives" for having done so."

On the Political Spectrum:

If asked to construct the political spectrum, few Americans would get it right. Most would respond with some vague notion of communism and socialism on the left, dictatorships on the right and democracy in the middle. They would be wrong on two out of three of these placements.

On Ronald Reagan versus the Evil Empire:

"Then, in 1981, into the fray stepped Ronald Reagan with a plan that was absolutely brilliant in its utter simplicity: unleash freedom, particularly economic freedom...Ronald Reagan was one of the few Americans, perhaps the only American, who actually understood the imperative of winning the cold war, knew how to accomplish it and believed it could transpire within a decade. …He never doubted that America's freedom, once unshackled from regulatory and taxation burdens, would economically crush the despotic USSR."

On the 2008 Financial Crisis:

"The Community Reinvestment Act forced bankers to abandon their own prudence to satisfy the social engineering and political objectives of the left. Our freedoms were usurped by government, with predictable results."

The Future:

"In just two short centuries, the United States, has managed to squander the huge advantage our founders gave us over the rest of the world. We should have been the world's leading economic power for the better part of a millennium, yet we are poised to relinquish that title after only a century. This is the true cost of progressivism…However, China and others overtaking us is not a preordained event. How you vote matters."

Visit our Blog

Bill Cima maintains a blog on which he brings a historical and economic perspective to today's issues. To view his latest posts, click on the following link:

                                                                                                             moveamereicaright.com