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# Don’t trust the lefties
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/dont-trust-the-lefties-editor/
- Published: 2005-01-25T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T06:02:25.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import, Homelessness

*By Thomas Kenney Santa Monica*

One of the great things about George Bush is that you know what you’re getting. His inaugural speech was no exception. The inaugural protesters, however, never cease to amaze me. How could anyone disagree with the president’s vision of a world without tyranny and oppression?

Simple. Organizations like A.N.S.W.E.R. and MoveOn.Org need them. The oppressed, that is. That is why the socialists we elect will never solve homelessness. They need them. If there was no poverty, who would the socialists pretend to fight for? Everybody loves it when the big bully gets beat by the underdog.

That is why their protest speeches spoke about keeping the U.S. from “interfering” in Iran, Syria and North Korea. But it didn’t mention “interfering” in Sri Lanka or Indonesia.

Their speeches damned our military spending while the Indonesian government has just dispatched a team of 40 elephants to continue clearing debris and searching for survivors. They damned Christianity while Pat Robertson’s charity group was the very first and most effective in sending aid.

The government of Guyana just requested that our military go there to evacuate a town cut off by flood waters. Why did they ask the “dog eat dog” capitalists and not the “bleeding heart” socialists? Easy. Socialist Canada, for example, is not capable of sending a naval vessel out to sea for at least one year. Hang tight, Guyana and South Asia, the socialists are on the way.

Italian P.M. Berlusconi had to officially “ask” his citizens to stop taking medicine that they don’t need because they are destroying their socialist healthcare system. The reason that nations like Algeria, who don’t pay for water, are always running out of it is because they don’t pay for it themselves. When you don’t pay, you abuse.

That is why California had the power outages a few years ago. It’s typical of leftists to blame the corporations, but the true reason is that the cost of energy was set, but not the supply. As a result, the users abused the privilege. Power companies were sending out power but not taking any money in. They had no choice but to shut down or go bankrupt.

What these enemies of capitalism don’t understand is that it’s not an issue of generosity, as we are the most generous nation on Earth. It’s a matter of sustainability and freedom. Freedom is synonymous with capitalism. And oppression with socialism.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 25, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/012505.pdf?ref=smdp.com)