Let's make some real change

Jeff Perren of Shaving Leviathan writes on the Progressive hold on America and how to break their grip. An excerpt:

..the influence on American culture of progressive ideas goes far beyond and far beneath politics. They represent a full-scale assault on all classical liberal values: reason, objective ethics, natural rights, capitalism, and their products — freedom and industrial production. Cleaning up Washington will be the barest beginning to reversing a century-long slide in America, one that has accelerated in the last four decades.

Ending bailouts, lowering federal spending, and tinkering with Social Security will give everyone some economic breathing room. But these actions won’t right a country that’s been increasingly tilting left for the past 40 years. And without fundamental change even those victories will be too small, and woefully short-lived.

Forced to become an expatriate. Now where to go?

Since our government seems driven to devalue the American dollar while continuing to implement massive wealth distribution schemes, some of us may sadly have to live out our retirement abroad where our dollars may have more purchasing power. Here are some lovely places for about $500 a month.

Corporations That Donate

From Forbes.com here are the top ten corporations that make cash donations to charities. Note that some of these are companies Progressives/Liberals love to hate:

Walmart: 301 million

Bank Of America: 211 million

ExxonMobil: 173 million

Citigroup: 146 million

Johnson and Johnson: 127 million

Chevron: 122 million

AT&T: 119 million

General Electric: 114 million

Microsoft: 110 million

Wachovia: 103 million