America needs a Margaret Thatcher

The world is a better place for having experienced England's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

We in America desperately need a Margaret Thatcher.  We need a strong leader like her, because our problems require a person of character to resolve them.

When she was elected Prime Minister, we'd been living in England for two years.  The grip "labour" (organized labor AKA unions) had on the country was horrible, as illustrated by the mass transit and other strikes.  Socialist policies did not encourage young men and women to seek either education or employment.  In fact, it actually encouraged them to go on the dole.  The giveaways were astounding.  Government funded housing, called council housing, proliferated and were the petri dishes in which violence, sloth, and football (soccer) hooliganism bred.  It was not a pleasant time to be in England.  Then she was elected Prime Minister.

As George Will notes, "When she left office in 1990, the trade unions had been tamed by democratizing them, the political argument was about how to achieve economic growth rather than redistribute wealth, and individualism and nationalism were revitalized."

Does his description of Thatcher's achievements sound appealing?  Certainly does to me.  Most likely because the same type of issues are upon us.

Somewhere in our great nation, there must be a Margaret Thatcher who can rise to lead the nation back to its greatness and away from the socialist agenda of the current progressive liberals.