National security is a major tenant in regards to national success – if not the most important tenant. But, let us expand our understanding of national security to mean economic, political, and military "security" (or the ability to maintain a nation’s current standing in these fields). So, what does is this require? “Security” in the overarching since of the term requires a proactive and aggressive policy making and implementation: an economic policy that favors corporate trans-national capitalism, a domestic political policy that pursues national unity, a foreign policy that actively seeks the fulfillment of national interest (especially, the control of international institutions), and a defense policy that utilizes “preemptive engagement” of international threats.
What does this mean for the United States? – We are headed in the complete opposite direction that we need to be driving towards. Deficit spending needs to be cut, NOT increased (the slashing of entitlements programs and the implementation of a reverse income tax). Defense spending needs to increased, not cut (defense spending makes up less than 1% of the U.S. GDP, while entitlement program spending composes 80% of federal spending). We need to pursue unilateral influence over the international institutions like the United Nations, rather than encouraging corrupt and devious, heavy foreign, non-free world influence.
Yes, I understand international cooperation is well and good, but we must ask ourselves, what do we prefer? Do we value wellbeing over freedom? The end game is to die of your own freewill or by the whims of a Politburo in Washington who has you bound hand and foot to nationalized healthcare program? Take your pick right now, for we are on the precipice of a slippery slope, covered in the deep red hue of Marx’s blood. Shall we remain free, ladies and gentlemen, or are we to find ourselves two decades from now dependent on the handouts of a centrally planned economy?
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