The left’s new favorite buzz word is sustainable. In theory, it has an obvious meaning, basically building things that can last and are easy to maintain and even self-repairing. Like clean air, it’s a concept no one can object to. Or is it?
The problem is that the left uses words to guide thoughts, while the right uses thoughts to guide words.
Take the phrase “Sustainable Economy”. If you Google it, you get a bunch of liberal web sites promoting environmental causes and income redistribution. To preserve things as they are forever, never change, never grow. So it does not mean building to last to them, it means building towards communism. To quote Mark Levin, “Yes, I said it!” Communism. What else can you call it when the goal is getting away from free market capitalism?

Or, to look at it the other way. What economic system is actually sustainable – built to last, easy to maintain, and self-repairing? The only one is free market capitalism. Every other economic system has failed miserably every place it was tried. The problem with our economy is not that we have too much capitalism, it’s that we have too little.
As a result, we now have idiots like Timothy Geithner pushing the idea that the rich should have to pay more for the privilege of being an American, in order to achieve fiscal sustainability.
I, for one, am tired of liberals telling me I need to pay for my privileges, when all they are really asking me to do is pay for THEIR privileges. Not only that, I have a right to be an American, it is not simply a privilege, and under our constitution, I am not required to pay anything for those rights. What I am supposed to pay for is the general good, which should include serving my needs too. Instead, my taxes are being used to promote the needs of people who have opted to drop out of participating in our society, as well as to benefit an elected class intent on accumulating power and personal wealth.
Capitalism is inherently self-repairing. It only fails when people who do not believe in the fundamental advantages of capitalism have enough power to prevent the system from the corrections it would otherwise make.
Remember that the next time someone shoves the word sustainable into a sentence. They are not trying to create something that lasts, they are trying to tear down something they hate, and get you to agree to it one word at a time.