Plunder and Deceit by Mark R. Levin Page A

generations from big government’s reckless and unconscionable designs on the civil society.
    This book is, against heavy odds, an appeal to reason and audacity. It is intended for all Americans but particularly the rising generation, which is the primary, albeit not singular, target and casualty of the federal Leviathan’s improprieties. It is an appeal to younger people to find the personal strength and will to break through the cycle of statist propaganda and manipulation, unrelenting emotional overtures, and the pressure of groupthink, which are humbling, dispiriting, and absorbing them; to stand up as individuals and collectively against the strong hand of centralized government, which if left unabated will assuredly condemn them to economic and societal calamity.
    The challenge is formidable and the outcome uncertain, as is the case with most momentous causes. But there is no alternative short of surrendering to a bleak and miserable fate. There is solace in knowing that throughout history others have stepped forward and successfully led peaceful movements against mighty forces and their injustices. And make no mistake, pillaging America’s youth and generations yet unborn is a colossal and disgraceful injustice.
    What is required is a New Civil Rights movement—not of the sort that exists today, which has been co-opted by statists, is often led by hucksters, and serves as a surrogate and advocate for centralized government and its pervasive agenda. But a truly new civil rights movement organized around fostering liberty and prosperity for younger people and future generations and against their continued exploitation. Indeed, the well-being of America’s younger people through the restoration and then preservation of the nation’s founding principles should be the primary objective of public-policy decisions.
    For example, the emphasis in education must be on the best interests of the students, not the contractual and bargaining demands of tenured teachers and professors, the virtual monopoly control of education through government schools and public sector unions, the politicization of school curricula for the purpose of indoctrination and social experimentation, and the massive student loan debt young people incur to attend college for a few years, most of which subsidizes out-of-control university spending. This may serve the statists’ ends, but it certainly does not improve the education of America’s youth.
    Immigration policy must no longer focus almost exclusively on the perceived or real interests of the alien, including alien children, while ignoring the economic, cultural, and societal consequences for America’s youth and future generations from uninterrupted waves of unassimilated illegal and legal immigration mostly from Third World countries. Ethnic pandering may improve the political lot of statist politicians looking for electoral advantage, it may serve the interests of self-appointed leaders of ethnic groups promoting balkanization and demographic advantage, and it may help incompetent foreign governments that prefer exporting their next generation to the United States rather than reforming their regimes and economic systems, but it certainly is not pursued in the best interests of America’s children and future generations, whose well-being is rarely considered in the making of these decisions.
    Social Security and Medicare were sold to the public as insurance programs. They are not. As such, they now rely mostly on the “contributions” of younger workers and massive federal borrowing to subsidize them. Despite repeated and dire warnings about their unsustainable fiscal condition from the trustees appointed to oversee them, younger workers are compelled to continue to pay into these programs, from which they are unlikely to benefit upon their retirement and for which future generations will bear the brunt of their eventual collapse. Even so, the statist