”Change” is the catchword repeated ad nauseam by both presidential candidates. The question left unanswered is, ”Change to what?” The reason for silence on this obvious question becomes clear when one learns the answer: politics as usual.
Clinton`s idea of ”change” is semantic. Instead of the standard liberal policy of ”tax and spend,” Clinton proposes to ”tax and invest.”
”Invest” here means taxing private investment to spend for public works, education, health care, etc., expenditures which neither earn a profit nor pay for themselves. Rather, they, as all government spending, constitute consumptive expenditures, not productive expenditures. In other words, Clinton`s policies represent not change, but standard liberal tax and spend.
Bush`s idea of change is returning to ”family values.” In other words, further attempts to impose his party`s moral values on us through government coercion. That is, standard Republicanism. No change here.
Bush and Clinton are returning to the politics they never left, that is, government control of our economic and spiritual lives. If either advocated true change he would demand an end to government control of its citizens in either realm, and return government to its original, proper purpose as conceived by John Locke and the Founding Fathers: the protection of individual rights through the police, army and the courts.
