Ok, time for mourning is over. Yes we Republicans lost in 08 and that Barrack Obama is President-Elect, but all that means is that we just lost one battle, the war is still going and we need to regroup and look ahead to 2010 and 2012. The reasons for the loss on November 4th, 2008 are greatly numbered, the economy, the war in Iraq, scandal, and etc. Many articles have been written about what the party needs to do to re-vamp its image. Some have called for a total revamping, moving to the center, others have said that sticking to our base is the way to go. The former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee said it best in my opinion when he wrote “Our problem is not that our views aren’t acceptable, it is that many in our party have abandoned the very principles that once drew Americans to trust us.” John McCain and the Republican Party gathered 57 million votes or nearly half of America. Voters in California, called the “most progressive” state, passed a ban on gay marriage, preserving the traditional American family. Don’t tell me the conservatism and the values of the Republican Party are dead, they are very much alive, we just need to regroup, reorganize, and start getting our message out and getting it out now! The Republican Party doesn’t need plastic surgery, just a little makeover.
First thing is first, we Republicans need to remember that we are Americans first, then Republicans. I saw so many people after the election say that they will no longer salute the flag and are ashamed to be an American. This is the wrong message to send to America. We need not to be sore losers, lets not be like the Dixie Chicks and proclaim to the world that they are ashamed of the President. Lets rally around the flag, we live in a great nation lets never forget that. We can change our nation’s leadership, a privilege that few counties have. Let’s show America the we republicans are patriotic and have America’s best interest in mind, lets be better then the democrats and how they have acted over the past 8 years.
Give it to the democrats, they ran a campaign that was eight years in the making. They were devastated in 2000, soundly defeated in 2002, vengeful after 2004, tasted victory in 06, and won in a sweep both houses of congress and the Presidency in 2008. If the democrats can come back, we Republicans can come back too. We need two things, new and better leadership from the top down, and using technology to our fullest advantage, especially when recruiting young people.
If anyone can answer this question without looking it up, then they should be on Jeopardy. Who is the head of the Republican National Party??? …That’s what I thought, most of you are stumped. The answer is Mike Duncan, now wasn’t that obvious, I mean who hasn’t heard of Mike Duncan and 75 year old + looking co-chair Jo Ann Davidson, I mean they are everywhere. The truth is, they are not everywhere, and most Republicans haven’t heard of them, but almost anybody can name the Democratic Party leader, Mr. Howard Dean. Yes, Dean was made famous by being a screaming manic in 2004 after his third place finish at the Iowa caucus, but at least people can name him. To save the Republican Party, we need new and recognizable leadership at all levels. The leadership we have at both the state and national levels of the party has failed us and has led the Republican Party to defeat in consecutive election cycles. The American people believe in the core principles that define the Republican Party, principles like lower taxes, less government, preserving morals, and etc. We need new leaders in the party, fresh leaders, ones who will not embarrassed the party by scandal, ones who can invigorate the base and take the Republican message to all corners of America. We need leaders who have succeeded in their political careers, leaders like Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, and former Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas. All three of these leaders represent the core of the Republican Party and each can energize the Republican base. The Republican Party needs to run campaigns not based on how evil the other person is, but why the Republican Platform is better. A new breed of Republican leadership can show America that we are not the same party which they have seen so negatively over the years. New leadership can sow America that we are a party of hope, a party of fewer taxes, less government, and a party of the people. Republicans believe that less government = the strongest government and the government closet to the people is the most effective government. A city council is more able to help its city then a national government can, a school board can best address the needs of the citizens it represents, not a national government.
The Republican Party needs a new strategy and a new image and the only way to do this is get fresh leaders in, and old ineffective leaders out. After the Republican Party gets in fresh leadership, we need to be able to take our message to all corners of America. To be able to do this, we will need to take advantage of all technology resources available to us, most importantly, the internet. I not sure about you, but whenever I signed on to the internet, went to Yahoo.com, AOL.com, or others. Barrack Obama and his “change and hope” message was everywhere. I couldn’t hide from it. It wasn’t till the last week of the election that I actually saw McCain/Palin ads on the internet. Obama also had a network of text messaging that kept his followers in the loop, not to mention all the blogs, MySpace, and facebook pages.
The Democratic Party pretty much destroyed the Republican Party when it came to recruiting young voters, college age voters. The new Republican leadership needs to be able to implement a strategy to real in these voters, because when the older generations of Republicans die out, who will replace them? This is a serious issue for Republicans, because the sheer numbers that the Democratic Party has when it comes to young support over republicans is almost overwhelming. If the Republican Party doesn’t recruit new and fresh members, then the party will be extinct in a few years. That why replacing the aging Mike Duncan and Jo Ann Davidson with someone not quite as aged will be a key step into recruiting young people. We need people in leadership positions who understand the technology that the young recruits use. We need text messaging networks; we need more blogs, more MySpace and facebook profiles. We need more email networks and newsletters. As stated earlier, the Republican Party does not need plastic surgery, just a simple makeover. We need new and fresh leadership at all levels of the party. We can no longer afford to have Senators, Representatives, Governors or etc being plagued by scandal or corruption. We need to recruit younger voters and implement the technology necessary to do so. The challenge to save our party starts at the top, but it doesn’t end there. State and local leaders need to be more involved, college leaders need to start getting the word out, instead of being a club for people who already believe, they need to focus on getting the message out and recruiting new members. Most importantly the Republican base needs to get energized. We were not energized in 08, not compared to the democratic base anyway; they were borderline insane, but obviously it worked. We need to not run smear campaigns, but campaigns based on our principles and our beliefs and why we are the best party to fight for Joe the Plumber, Sally the Teacher, Arnold the Butcher, José the Mechanic and etc.
If the Republican Party can do all of these things, there is no reason why we can’t be successful in 2010 and 2012. New and fresh leadership will erase the negative stigma that so many people have of us. Better integration of technology will help spread our message and help recruit young people to our cause. We can save our great nation, but first we need to save and unite our party, and it starts with you, the individual. You need to get fired up and ready for 2010 and beyond. Help spread the word, help save the Republican Party because if you are one among millions united, we can take back our party from corruption and take back our nation from democratic control and restore it a nation the resembles what our great founding fathers had in mind.
Monday, November 24, 2008
How to Survive the National Hangover
November 5, 2008 (orginal writing appeared on redstate.com)
Dan McLaughlin posts on REDSTATE, how to survive the national hangover. Most important is that we need to get in gear for 2010. Those House and Senate races begin today. Conservatives, start running for city council, mayor, state assembly, state house. We need to build a grassroots base of good conservatives and get these weak ones out. If you are in state house or have enough money, start campaigning for your district’s house seat tomorrow after you dry your handkerchief of the tears.
(1) Oppose Obama, Not America: The absolute wrong way to react to life in the minority is … well, what we saw from too many people on the Left the past 8 years: calling everyone from the President on down to individual soldiers and Marines war criminals, parroting the propaganda of our enemies, exposing classified national security secrets on the front pages of the newspapers, and generally doing whatever possible to stymie the national defense and convince the nation and the world that America is the bad guy. We’re better than that. When Obama fails to act to defend America and its interests and allies, or violates the basic common sense principles of national security and foreign policy, we will of course be unsparing in our criticism. But we should not emulate the Left; indeed, the day may even come when Obama needs defending from the Left for doing what needs to be done, and we certainly want to encourage him to take actions that provoke that reaction.
(2) No Chicken-Hawking: This is a corollary of #1: given his shaky draft history, Bill Clinton at times appeared afraid of criticism over deploying the military on grounds that he didn’t serve. We should never make Obama feel that he should blanch at defending the nation simply because he never wore the uniform (fortunately, on that score, Obama’s defining personality trait is hubris). We’ve had civilian leadership before, we’ll have it again.
(3) Don’t Question The Verdict: Was there voter fraud in yesterday’s election? Were there other shenanigans both legal and illegal? I’m sure there were, and others who follow those stories will no doubt be expanding on them in the weeks to come. Chronicling specific instances of misconduct is an important service - to expose the miscreants and their connections to the Obama campaign, to punish and deter and provide a basis for someday preventing a recurrence (although don’t expect the Obama era to see anything but massive resistance to taking even the most tepid steps against voter fraud). And likewise, of course, there is still plenty more to be examined in Obama’s fundraising, to say nothing of the untruths he told to get elected and the really shameful behavior of the media.
But fundamentally, he got more votes where it mattered and he won the race. Supporters of Gore and Kerry who refused to accept those realities in 2000 and 2004 ended up doing a lot of lasting damage to public confidence in our electoral system. The step of challenging the results of an election is a grave one not to be taken without serious evidence. Let’s not repeat their mistakes with conspiracy theories.
(4) Don’t Blame The Voters: Yes, it’s tempting to go off into the place where Democrats were fuming about “Jesusland” four years ago. And yes, Obama got a lot of votes for bad reasons or from vacuous people. Hey, there are a lot of stupid people in the world, and in America, and a fair number of them vote - they vote when we win, they vote when we lose. Winston Churchill was a great believer in democracy as the least-worst system of government, but he’s also the guy who once said that the best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
For all that, it’s counterproductive to lose faith in the collective wisdom of the American voting public over the long term. Even when the public makes a mistake, it usually has a reason - and while electing Obama will be clearly shown over time to have been a mistake, the GOP also has some serious introspection to do about how we let things come to the point of giving the public a reason to do what it did. And we need to retain faith that rebuilding our party around the principles that have succeeded in the past, and adapting those principles for the world of the next decade, will win them back.
(5) Don’t Get Mad, Get Even: Yes, it’s a cliche, but unfocused rage goes bad places. There’s a lot of work to do to prepare the ground for the GOP to come back as it did in 1994, 1980, and 1966-68. The Left drew first blood on the Bush second term only a few weeks after the election, with the Bernard Kerik nomination. We’ll have a target-rich environment to work with as the kind of urban machine politics the Democrats have made famous comes to the White House, and we’ll have fun doing it.
(6) We Play For 2010, Not 2012: I’ll be writing up shortly my early thoughts about the GOP presidential field in 2012, and plenty of others will too. Do it, get it out of your system, come to the aid of the people who will make up future presidential fields, but whatever you do, don’t get into primary-season, my-gal/guy-or-the-highway mode again until we are through the 2010 elections. There will be a need in the party’s future for Palin and Jindal and Sanford and Huck and Mitt and all the rest; we’re all in this together.
(7) Prioritize: More on this later, but Obama and the Congressional Democrats are going to have a long list of issues they want to press, and we can’t stop all of them. The GOP needs to divide issues into four buckets
a. Things we are prepared to go to the mat to stop
b. Things we want to force the Democrats to commit themselves to so we can take the dispute to the voters
c. Things, however modest, we actually think we can accomplish even with the Democrats in power
d. Things we want to propose as positive agenda items even knowing they’ll go nowhere, to lay out our own roadmap for the future.
(8) Watch Your Budget: We’re all going to have to prepare for tougher economic times, plus the burden of Obama’s tax hikes. Don’t overextend your own finances.
(9) Grow A Thick Hide and Get Your Taxes in Order: Joe Wurtzelbacher won’t be the last Obama critic to feel the weight of government intrusion for standing up to Obama. David Freddoso and Stanley Kurtz won’t be the last conservative journalists to have their investigations stonewalled and campaigns organized to drive them off the radio. And get used to being called a racist, as everyone who gets in Obama’s way is, sooner or later. Understand now that you will need to stomach all that and more, and you won’t get rattled.
(10) Buy More Life Insurance: Well, at least if, like me, you live or work in a city that’s a top terrorist target, and have roots too deep to leave. Our risk tolerance will have to go up.
(11) Pray: Well, this one speaks for itself. Pray especially for the unborn.
(12) Get On Living: Life is short and there’s more to it than politics. We’ll need committed activists, and as a whole our movement will need to be relentless - but thinking about politics too much is unhealthy, especially when you have a long wait ahead for any progress. For my part, starting tomorrow I’ll be back to doing more baseball blogging. Take a break whenever you need one, spend more time with your family. And teach your kids that every minute of life is worth it even when the world seems to have gone mad. Many generations before us have done so in tougher times than these.
WE REPUBLICANS ARE NOT GOING AWAY
Want to know why?
· Employee Free Choice Act
· Fairness Doctrine
· Freedom of Choice Act
· Nationalization of health care
· Estate tax increases
· “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” (driver’s licenses for illegals)
· Capital gains tax increases
· Defense cuts
· Liberal judicial appointments
· Racial and ethnic preferences
· Income tax increases
· Bans on oil drilling
· Global poverty tax
Dan McLaughlin posts on REDSTATE, how to survive the national hangover. Most important is that we need to get in gear for 2010. Those House and Senate races begin today. Conservatives, start running for city council, mayor, state assembly, state house. We need to build a grassroots base of good conservatives and get these weak ones out. If you are in state house or have enough money, start campaigning for your district’s house seat tomorrow after you dry your handkerchief of the tears.
(1) Oppose Obama, Not America: The absolute wrong way to react to life in the minority is … well, what we saw from too many people on the Left the past 8 years: calling everyone from the President on down to individual soldiers and Marines war criminals, parroting the propaganda of our enemies, exposing classified national security secrets on the front pages of the newspapers, and generally doing whatever possible to stymie the national defense and convince the nation and the world that America is the bad guy. We’re better than that. When Obama fails to act to defend America and its interests and allies, or violates the basic common sense principles of national security and foreign policy, we will of course be unsparing in our criticism. But we should not emulate the Left; indeed, the day may even come when Obama needs defending from the Left for doing what needs to be done, and we certainly want to encourage him to take actions that provoke that reaction.
(2) No Chicken-Hawking: This is a corollary of #1: given his shaky draft history, Bill Clinton at times appeared afraid of criticism over deploying the military on grounds that he didn’t serve. We should never make Obama feel that he should blanch at defending the nation simply because he never wore the uniform (fortunately, on that score, Obama’s defining personality trait is hubris). We’ve had civilian leadership before, we’ll have it again.
(3) Don’t Question The Verdict: Was there voter fraud in yesterday’s election? Were there other shenanigans both legal and illegal? I’m sure there were, and others who follow those stories will no doubt be expanding on them in the weeks to come. Chronicling specific instances of misconduct is an important service - to expose the miscreants and their connections to the Obama campaign, to punish and deter and provide a basis for someday preventing a recurrence (although don’t expect the Obama era to see anything but massive resistance to taking even the most tepid steps against voter fraud). And likewise, of course, there is still plenty more to be examined in Obama’s fundraising, to say nothing of the untruths he told to get elected and the really shameful behavior of the media.
But fundamentally, he got more votes where it mattered and he won the race. Supporters of Gore and Kerry who refused to accept those realities in 2000 and 2004 ended up doing a lot of lasting damage to public confidence in our electoral system. The step of challenging the results of an election is a grave one not to be taken without serious evidence. Let’s not repeat their mistakes with conspiracy theories.
(4) Don’t Blame The Voters: Yes, it’s tempting to go off into the place where Democrats were fuming about “Jesusland” four years ago. And yes, Obama got a lot of votes for bad reasons or from vacuous people. Hey, there are a lot of stupid people in the world, and in America, and a fair number of them vote - they vote when we win, they vote when we lose. Winston Churchill was a great believer in democracy as the least-worst system of government, but he’s also the guy who once said that the best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
For all that, it’s counterproductive to lose faith in the collective wisdom of the American voting public over the long term. Even when the public makes a mistake, it usually has a reason - and while electing Obama will be clearly shown over time to have been a mistake, the GOP also has some serious introspection to do about how we let things come to the point of giving the public a reason to do what it did. And we need to retain faith that rebuilding our party around the principles that have succeeded in the past, and adapting those principles for the world of the next decade, will win them back.
(5) Don’t Get Mad, Get Even: Yes, it’s a cliche, but unfocused rage goes bad places. There’s a lot of work to do to prepare the ground for the GOP to come back as it did in 1994, 1980, and 1966-68. The Left drew first blood on the Bush second term only a few weeks after the election, with the Bernard Kerik nomination. We’ll have a target-rich environment to work with as the kind of urban machine politics the Democrats have made famous comes to the White House, and we’ll have fun doing it.
(6) We Play For 2010, Not 2012: I’ll be writing up shortly my early thoughts about the GOP presidential field in 2012, and plenty of others will too. Do it, get it out of your system, come to the aid of the people who will make up future presidential fields, but whatever you do, don’t get into primary-season, my-gal/guy-or-the-highway mode again until we are through the 2010 elections. There will be a need in the party’s future for Palin and Jindal and Sanford and Huck and Mitt and all the rest; we’re all in this together.
(7) Prioritize: More on this later, but Obama and the Congressional Democrats are going to have a long list of issues they want to press, and we can’t stop all of them. The GOP needs to divide issues into four buckets
a. Things we are prepared to go to the mat to stop
b. Things we want to force the Democrats to commit themselves to so we can take the dispute to the voters
c. Things, however modest, we actually think we can accomplish even with the Democrats in power
d. Things we want to propose as positive agenda items even knowing they’ll go nowhere, to lay out our own roadmap for the future.
(8) Watch Your Budget: We’re all going to have to prepare for tougher economic times, plus the burden of Obama’s tax hikes. Don’t overextend your own finances.
(9) Grow A Thick Hide and Get Your Taxes in Order: Joe Wurtzelbacher won’t be the last Obama critic to feel the weight of government intrusion for standing up to Obama. David Freddoso and Stanley Kurtz won’t be the last conservative journalists to have their investigations stonewalled and campaigns organized to drive them off the radio. And get used to being called a racist, as everyone who gets in Obama’s way is, sooner or later. Understand now that you will need to stomach all that and more, and you won’t get rattled.
(10) Buy More Life Insurance: Well, at least if, like me, you live or work in a city that’s a top terrorist target, and have roots too deep to leave. Our risk tolerance will have to go up.
(11) Pray: Well, this one speaks for itself. Pray especially for the unborn.
(12) Get On Living: Life is short and there’s more to it than politics. We’ll need committed activists, and as a whole our movement will need to be relentless - but thinking about politics too much is unhealthy, especially when you have a long wait ahead for any progress. For my part, starting tomorrow I’ll be back to doing more baseball blogging. Take a break whenever you need one, spend more time with your family. And teach your kids that every minute of life is worth it even when the world seems to have gone mad. Many generations before us have done so in tougher times than these.
WE REPUBLICANS ARE NOT GOING AWAY
Want to know why?
· Employee Free Choice Act
· Fairness Doctrine
· Freedom of Choice Act
· Nationalization of health care
· Estate tax increases
· “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” (driver’s licenses for illegals)
· Capital gains tax increases
· Defense cuts
· Liberal judicial appointments
· Racial and ethnic preferences
· Income tax increases
· Bans on oil drilling
· Global poverty tax
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
All is not lost, Obama may have won but faces, A NATION DIVIDED
Landslide, Public Mandate, a butt kicking, not even close, a decisive victory
All of these words and phrases have been used to describe President-elect Barrack Obama’s historic victory on Tuesday, November the Fourth, 2008. And yes, while it was a historic election in American history, it was history that was almost not made. In the Electoral College, Barrack Obama won by a margin of 364 – 174 a difference of 190 electoral votes. But that margin of 190 electoral votes could have been easily erased by a spread of only 745,000 votes across seven states. Only 745,000 votes total separated Obama from McCain in Iowa, Ohio, Virginia, Florida, Nevada, Indiana, and North Carolina. Any or all of those states could have gone red instead of blue and if they did, McCain would be President-elect, not Obama, and those states could just as easily go red next election. Barrack Obama did not sweep America off its feet; he did not win in a landslide. He won, but barely.
President-elect Obama’s Presidency will be one filled with massive challenges, not only because of the financial crisis in this country (which was the democrats fault anyway) or the wars in Iraq and Afganistan, but because he is a very polarizing individual. People either love Barrack Obama, calling him the next messiah or they think he is the anti-Christ and will lead America down a path of destruction.
The reality is, 46%, nearly half, of America did not vote for Barrack Obama. Nearly 57 million Americans cast their vote for Senator John McCain. Many people do not trust Barrack Obama and do not want his radical, socialist, far-left agenda to govern America. What does this mean, it means that he DOES NOT have a public mandate to lead America as he sees fit. No, if he is to survive re-election, he will not be able to implement his liberal far-left agenda on the American people. Because of this, to keep the democrats in power in congress for more than 2 years and to help him get re-elected, Obama will be hard pressed to govern from a more conservative position. To remain in power more than one term, he will have to govern just to the left of center not from the far out left field where he stands now. The American people are more conservative than they are liberal by nature. If Barrack Obama comes out making abortion on demand, over-turning state gay-marriage bans, taking away the rights guaranteed by the second amendment, replacing capitalism with socialism, and making other of his and the democratic parties far-left notions law, in the 2010 mid-term election the American people could replace the democratic congress with republicans and then for the next 2 years President Obama will be ineffective and very vulnerable to defeat in re-election in 2012.
Obama ran on a platform of “Hope”, “Change”, and “Unity” but with half of the USA against him, fearing him, it will be very hard for him to unify the nation in any way, shape, or form. The radical change he wants to bring about in America will be met with fierce and swift resistance and lead to a more divided nation. The people, who voted for him just because he wasn’t Bush, will soon realize what horrible mistake they have made if Barrack goes off the wall with his extremely liberal agenda, and could easily change their vote come 2010 and 2012, putting the Republicans back in power.
Because of the sharpness of division in the United States today, one that has been present in America since the 2000 election, Barrack Obama faces opposition from half the country if he plans on running the country from a very liberal standpoint. Yes he does have a very democratic congress to help him pass his agenda without much trouble. However all is not lost. The Democrats have not gained the magic number of 60 yet in the senate. This means that the democratic agenda cannot go through both the house and senate unchecked. The Senate Republicans will have to fight like they have never done before, but they are the only hope for the 57,000,000 voters who did not want Barrack Obama to be their president.
Obama said in his victory speech that he would be a president for the people that didn’t vote for him as well as for those who did. The only way to do this is if he governs from the middle, reaches across party lines, and works with republicans. With one of the most liberal voting records in the senate, working with republicans is something he has rarely done before. If he does not do this, he will further polarize the United States of America and turn off the many independents who voted for him and the democratic party.
Barrack Obama faces an uphill battle in his Presidency and that can be favorable to the Republican Party . No matter how he leads, he will face a divided nation. If he leads from the left, he will alienate 57 million + Americans, if he governs from the center, he will piss off his far left party base. If Obama fails on his promises to fix the economy, end Iraq, and unify the nation and/or attempts to push his liberal policies down the American people’s throats, he will lose the power and the people can turn against Obama and the democrats removing them from power. The great thing about the American people and democracy is that we can just as easily take a person out of power just as quickly as we bring them into power.
Yes the Republican Party lost this election, but nearly half of America is for the principles that the Republican Party stands for and the Republican Party can soon be back into power, and serving the American people
Monday, November 3, 2008
So, the democrat’s economic plan stinks; is the republican plan smell better???
The Democratic plan for America (as stated in post1) is a flawed and dangerous plan. The plan of Barrack Obama and Congressional leaders like the extreme Nancy Pelosi will lead this country down a dark path of large government, struggling businesses, and socialism. If the election goes how the media says it’s going to go, it will be a big day for the Democratic Party and a sad day for America. Democrats will control the house and senate, with possibly enough seats to prevent a Republican filibuster; they would control a majority of the state legislatures and many governor positions as well. They would be able to rein supreme, unchecked, with no one to really stop them from turning their “agenda” into law.
The democratic agenda will hurt small business, it will hurt big business, it will take away from the American people who have worked hard to find economic success, those who pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and achieved the American dream. Barrack Obama’s tax plan of “spreading the wealth around” is a plan that completely undermines the American way. All his plan does is increase the people’s need and reliance for government. It makes the government more powerful, which is something our forefather’s did not intend for. Obama will increase welfare; he will tax business, both large and small, which will result in job losses. Those who have lost their jobs will look to the government for help, either via welfare, unemployment or etc. And don’t worry, Obama will be there, with his pen in hand and a warm smile on his face, writing check after check for all who need. But who has to pay for these checks, the working man of course. The people who try to make a living, try to make money, try to better themselves and actually find success will have to take their hard earned money and give it to the government to redistribute, pure socialism , like the old saying goes “Republicans—Working hard so you don’t have to.”
Whenever a person goes into debt to someone, the person they are indebted to has power and influence over that person. Because of the Democratic plan, led by Barrack Obama (if indeed he is elected), The American people will go into debt to the US government and the democratic plan offers no hope for them to escape and move up the economic ladder. They will be enslaved, held in bondage to the power and allure of the government money they receive. “Man is not free unless government is limited.” Said Ronald Reagan, and with the Democrats in power, government will grow and our independence and rights as free men could slowly be replaced with more and more centralized government, regulation, and control.
“The fact is, my friends, most Americans don’t want more government. They want less government.” Mike Huckabee said those words, and it is the basis of what the Republican Party is all about. The Republican Party is about supporting and defending the working man and woman, Capitalism, and the American way. Republicans believe in lower taxes and less government. They believe the citizens of America should be free to make their own decisions. In a debate with McCain, Obama criticized him for his tax plan that would cut corporation taxes. If you believe what the media and democratic spin tells you, giving corporation a tax break is a bad bad thing, and is anti-working man. However consider this. Everyday corporations in American are laying off workers; they are closing plants and moving them overseas. The fact is that these corporations, the ones that the democrats want to tax more are the same corporations that provide jobs to the average hard-working American. How many jobs has Ford, and GM cut??? Maytag left Newton, Rubbermaid left Chariton, and just recently Lennox announced that it will cut almost 300 jobs in Marshalltown, in favor of building a new plant in Mexico, where labor is cheaper. All over Iowa and the United States factories and plants are closing and people are losing their jobs. This is happening, because in a world where globalization is in its prime, it’s a fact that it’s cheaper to do business outside of America.
Businesses are in businesses to make money and if it is costing them more to be in the United States, whether it’s because of the cost of labor, which democrats keep raising and in return prices keep soaring, or taxing corporation revenues, which leaves them with less money to pay their workforce or expand their company they will move to Mexico or to China, or wherever it is cheapest to remain in business. Currently the US taxes corporations over 30%, one of the highest in the world and the Democrats expect them to remain competitive and profitable in the United States without a decrease in their taxes, and even want to tax them more to pay for their nice sounding “spread the wealth around” socialist plan of theirs. To help the working class of America, we Republicans must help the businesses that provide them jobs, stay in business, and more importantly stay in business in America. Once we have secured jobs for the working class of America and made it so that it makes sense business wise for companies to build in America, we can start cutting government spending by reducing the number of Americans on welfare or on food stamps.
If the government doesn’t have to pay for social programs because the citizens are making money on their own (the American and capitalist way) then we don’t have to tax the working American as much. When we reduce the taxes of all Americans and businesses, then we create more money in the economy naturally (without government interference, Adam Smith’s invisible hand model which is the basis for capitalism) for people to spend for themselves. The main difference between Democratic and Republican economic policy, is that the democratic policy is a quick fix, while the republican policy will provide long term benefits, stability and prosperity to the economy.
When business taxes are cut, the company retains more money, year after year they can spend this money on improvements and upgrades to their company. If they save some each year they can affords to expand their operations, create more jobs, give pay raises, and etc. Same thing happens on the individual level. When a person is able to keep more of the money they worked hard for, they are able to save it up, and eventually spend more money in the economy, whether it’s a family trip to Disney Land or a new computer. When this money is spent, business will make more money and give more raises and create more jobs. Fact is, people and businesses will have more money, they will spend more money, and have less need for and reliance on the government. It may take a while for the ball to get rolling, but once it does it will be hard to stop. Take a look at the economic success of the 90s, do you really believe that was because of Clinton and his economic plan for America, NO!!!!! It was due to the Reagan tax cuts taking effect finally; remember it’s a long-term solution, not a quick fix. Bush’s tax cuts worked as well. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was at an all-time record high just after his re-election in 2004, and in 06, before the democrats took control and ruined the American economy; the unemployment rate was at its lowest since July 2001.
Ever since 2006, when the democrats took control, the economy has been going down faster than Monica on Bill (and that’s pretty damn fast!!!). Unfortunately, President Bush was President @ the time, with the Democrats in control of both houses of congress, there was little he could do to stop their agenda, and because he is the figurehead for America, he and the Republican Party took the blame for it.
The Republican Party is the party of the people, for the people, and by the people. It is the party that makes economic sense for both the individual and for the corporation. Republicans are unselfish, they want less government, they want to lower taxes for all, they believe in America and the American people. Republicans believe that individuals should be in charge of their own money and that the key to success is through hard work and sweat and the pride and satisfaction that comes when the hard work pays off, not relying on the government when times get tough. Where did that notion come from anyway??? Looking for a rescue check when a hard moment comes along is not an American value, and it’s not the American government’s job to ensure that everyone can afford their wants, just their needs. Times will be tough at times; but with patients, hard work, and the economic principles of the Republican Party, America can overcome and be stronger then ever.
The democratic agenda will hurt small business, it will hurt big business, it will take away from the American people who have worked hard to find economic success, those who pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and achieved the American dream. Barrack Obama’s tax plan of “spreading the wealth around” is a plan that completely undermines the American way. All his plan does is increase the people’s need and reliance for government. It makes the government more powerful, which is something our forefather’s did not intend for. Obama will increase welfare; he will tax business, both large and small, which will result in job losses. Those who have lost their jobs will look to the government for help, either via welfare, unemployment or etc. And don’t worry, Obama will be there, with his pen in hand and a warm smile on his face, writing check after check for all who need. But who has to pay for these checks, the working man of course. The people who try to make a living, try to make money, try to better themselves and actually find success will have to take their hard earned money and give it to the government to redistribute, pure socialism , like the old saying goes “Republicans—Working hard so you don’t have to.”
Whenever a person goes into debt to someone, the person they are indebted to has power and influence over that person. Because of the Democratic plan, led by Barrack Obama (if indeed he is elected), The American people will go into debt to the US government and the democratic plan offers no hope for them to escape and move up the economic ladder. They will be enslaved, held in bondage to the power and allure of the government money they receive. “Man is not free unless government is limited.” Said Ronald Reagan, and with the Democrats in power, government will grow and our independence and rights as free men could slowly be replaced with more and more centralized government, regulation, and control.
“The fact is, my friends, most Americans don’t want more government. They want less government.” Mike Huckabee said those words, and it is the basis of what the Republican Party is all about. The Republican Party is about supporting and defending the working man and woman, Capitalism, and the American way. Republicans believe in lower taxes and less government. They believe the citizens of America should be free to make their own decisions. In a debate with McCain, Obama criticized him for his tax plan that would cut corporation taxes. If you believe what the media and democratic spin tells you, giving corporation a tax break is a bad bad thing, and is anti-working man. However consider this. Everyday corporations in American are laying off workers; they are closing plants and moving them overseas. The fact is that these corporations, the ones that the democrats want to tax more are the same corporations that provide jobs to the average hard-working American. How many jobs has Ford, and GM cut??? Maytag left Newton, Rubbermaid left Chariton, and just recently Lennox announced that it will cut almost 300 jobs in Marshalltown, in favor of building a new plant in Mexico, where labor is cheaper. All over Iowa and the United States factories and plants are closing and people are losing their jobs. This is happening, because in a world where globalization is in its prime, it’s a fact that it’s cheaper to do business outside of America.
Businesses are in businesses to make money and if it is costing them more to be in the United States, whether it’s because of the cost of labor, which democrats keep raising and in return prices keep soaring, or taxing corporation revenues, which leaves them with less money to pay their workforce or expand their company they will move to Mexico or to China, or wherever it is cheapest to remain in business. Currently the US taxes corporations over 30%, one of the highest in the world and the Democrats expect them to remain competitive and profitable in the United States without a decrease in their taxes, and even want to tax them more to pay for their nice sounding “spread the wealth around” socialist plan of theirs. To help the working class of America, we Republicans must help the businesses that provide them jobs, stay in business, and more importantly stay in business in America. Once we have secured jobs for the working class of America and made it so that it makes sense business wise for companies to build in America, we can start cutting government spending by reducing the number of Americans on welfare or on food stamps.
If the government doesn’t have to pay for social programs because the citizens are making money on their own (the American and capitalist way) then we don’t have to tax the working American as much. When we reduce the taxes of all Americans and businesses, then we create more money in the economy naturally (without government interference, Adam Smith’s invisible hand model which is the basis for capitalism) for people to spend for themselves. The main difference between Democratic and Republican economic policy, is that the democratic policy is a quick fix, while the republican policy will provide long term benefits, stability and prosperity to the economy.
When business taxes are cut, the company retains more money, year after year they can spend this money on improvements and upgrades to their company. If they save some each year they can affords to expand their operations, create more jobs, give pay raises, and etc. Same thing happens on the individual level. When a person is able to keep more of the money they worked hard for, they are able to save it up, and eventually spend more money in the economy, whether it’s a family trip to Disney Land or a new computer. When this money is spent, business will make more money and give more raises and create more jobs. Fact is, people and businesses will have more money, they will spend more money, and have less need for and reliance on the government. It may take a while for the ball to get rolling, but once it does it will be hard to stop. Take a look at the economic success of the 90s, do you really believe that was because of Clinton and his economic plan for America, NO!!!!! It was due to the Reagan tax cuts taking effect finally; remember it’s a long-term solution, not a quick fix. Bush’s tax cuts worked as well. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was at an all-time record high just after his re-election in 2004, and in 06, before the democrats took control and ruined the American economy; the unemployment rate was at its lowest since July 2001.
Ever since 2006, when the democrats took control, the economy has been going down faster than Monica on Bill (and that’s pretty damn fast!!!). Unfortunately, President Bush was President @ the time, with the Democrats in control of both houses of congress, there was little he could do to stop their agenda, and because he is the figurehead for America, he and the Republican Party took the blame for it.
The Republican Party is the party of the people, for the people, and by the people. It is the party that makes economic sense for both the individual and for the corporation. Republicans are unselfish, they want less government, they want to lower taxes for all, they believe in America and the American people. Republicans believe that individuals should be in charge of their own money and that the key to success is through hard work and sweat and the pride and satisfaction that comes when the hard work pays off, not relying on the government when times get tough. Where did that notion come from anyway??? Looking for a rescue check when a hard moment comes along is not an American value, and it’s not the American government’s job to ensure that everyone can afford their wants, just their needs. Times will be tough at times; but with patients, hard work, and the economic principles of the Republican Party, America can overcome and be stronger then ever.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Socialism and How Democrats have Destroyed our nation’s Economy
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who are not.”
– Thomas Jefferson
– Thomas Jefferson
With those words, Thomas Jefferson, one of our countries most influential founding fathers warned of the consequences of having the government interfering too much into economic policy. We are a nation based on Capitalism, which is the economic engine that has driven us to be the greatest nation on this planet. Capitalism is a friend of democracy and individual choice. It makes the American dream possible. It motivates people to create new ideas and innovations. It was Capitalism that brought upon the great industrial age and it was capitalism that has thrust this nation from a thirteen colonies into the grand and powerful nation it is today. When the government interferes too much it destroys the basis of Capitalism, people tend to relay more on the government for help. When this happens, the concept of the American Dream is shattered. People will no longer be motivated to try to work hard to better their lives. If I work hard to make a living and my neighbor Sally Sue gets government hand out checks basically equaling what I make, what would motivate me to continue working as hard when I can get along just the same by receiving a welfare check???
I’m not against the government helping out people when it is absolutely necessary, but Barrack Obama’s “spreading the wealth plan” is a plan that borders on total socialism, an enemy of Capitalism. He plans on taking away from small business, punishing them for their success. Barrack Obama will put a cap on the American Dream, and spread the wealth around, AKA Socialism.His plan will take away from the hard-working Americans, who are just trying to better themselves by working hard (the American way), and giving it to the folks who are just waiting for Obama’s hand me out check. Under Obama, we can expect to see an increase in welfare. As the great late President Ronald Reagan once said “We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.” This possible economic policy of socialism, favored by the democrats, is just one of the many reasons why if the Democratic Party takes control of both congress and the presidency in this upcoming election, the United States will further plunge into economic depression and into total dependence on the government. Socialism in America will be born on November the 4th, 2008 if this happens. That why it is vital for John McCain to win on Election Day, because if he doesn’t Thomas Jefferson’s warnings will turn into a dark reality for our great country.
What Barrack Obama doesn’t understand that his tax plan will hurt small businesses, the backbone of the US economy. Most small business owners make above the $200,000 dollar threshold in which Obama wants to increase taxes on. The majority of these small business owners file one tax return, not one for themselves and one for their business. It’s just easier to file one. Joe the plumber may make $250,000 according to his tax return, but most of that is eaten up by the expenses of running his own plumbing business. If Joe has to pay four other plumbers and an office manager, plus pay into healthcare for his employee’s, plus pay for equipment and supply costs, there is not much left over for his own salary. For example let’s say that each plumber makes $35,000 a year; the office manager makes $28,000, his cost of providing health insurance is $15,000, his rent for his office is $15,000, loans payments for the five company trucks cost $12,600, and supply, managerial overhead, and unexpected expenses cost Joe an additional $10,000 per year. That’s a total of $220,600. That’s leaves Joe a total of $29,400 to pay himself and Barrack wants to tax him more and spread the wealth around. What wealth??? Joe makes less than his employees. To make being in business worth it, Joe will probably lay-off either one plumber or his office manager resulting in the loss of two jobs. Now imagine this scenario on a large scale. Hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost, small business may close their doors forever, and the US economy shrinks and becomes more dependent on the government, hence socialism.
Today’s economic shortfalls are not the result of the failed policy’s of George W. Bush as the media and democratic would like us to believe, no, it is the result of economic policy’s enacted by past democratic presidency’s and laws passed by democratic congress clashing with the values of Capitalism. The administration of former President Bill Clinton, a democrat, encouraged companies like Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac to buy high-risk loans, which encouraged more and more banks to hand out loans to people who did not have the money to afford that loan. As we now see, many many people defaulted on their loans and the whole banking enterprise of America collapsed leading to the problems we are facing now.
The minimum wage increase, implemented by Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic controlled congress, is the other reason why the economy not only slowed down in growth, but actually shrank in size. Now I’m not saying the minimum wage should be increase, but only to ensure that people’s “REAL WAGE” is kept the same. Inflation is normal, prices will go up and wages should increase at the same rate. The minimum wage was nothing to do with the economy or how much money a person has. The Real Wage does. The real wage is a person’s buying power. If the minimum wage was $40 per hour we would think, this is great I’m goanna be rich, but if bread cost $30 a loaf, then in reality we would be poor because we really have no buying power in the economy. That is why no matter how high we raise a person’s minimum wage, if we don’t increase their real wage, they will never get out of the economic situation that they are in. It is really simple economics if people would actually think about it, but most people don’t think, they are weak-minded and are lured in and enticed by the words “Hope”, “Change” and “Spreading the Wealth Around”.
When the democratic controlled congress raised the national minimum wage (and yes republican’s voted for it because it would be political suicide if they didn’t) they created a domino-effect of collapsing business and higher prices. Raising the minimum wage just didn’t affect those who made the minimum wage, but anyone who made in-between the old and new minimum wage also saw a pay wage increase, but the result was a negative one. If John Smith made $7 per hour, $2 more per hour than the minimum wage and minimum wage was increased to $7.20 per hour, John would most like see a pay increase to $7.20 per hour, not to $9.00 per hour to remain at the same economic stature he was in. John just went down the economic ladder because of the minimum wage increase. Prices will go up to compensate for the higher wage and his buying power, his real wage has just gone down. This concept is proven by the testimony of an Iowa woman who called into the Des Moines Register’s 2-cents Worth Column, her testimony is as follows: -- “So, last year I was making $7 an hour, 80-cents about minimum wage. Now, I’m making $7.25 (the new minimum wage) per hour and prices have gone up. Please Legislature don’t do me any more favors. Signed Poor Des Moines Woman”
Why do prices increase when the minimum wage is increased? The reason is simple as well. Businesses are in business to make money. That’s a fact. To make the most money they have to increase their revenues and reduced their expenses. To most business, labor is the expense that costs them the most. When the minimum wage increased, their expenses increased, they made less money. That means less money for company growth/expansion, pay raises, innovation and etc. To compensate most businesses raised their prices to make the same amount of profit. However the economy struggles to adjust because there are now many more people making minimum wage or now very close to it and prices have increased. Hundreds of thousands of hard-working American’s just saw their buying power decrease to the point where they can now barley afford their needs, let alone their wants. If it’s a choice between food and mortgage, food wins and they lose their house.
Every American, regardless of wage see’s his or her buying powers go down. The economy doesn’t just slow down, it shrinks because less money is being spent. Even with the price increase, businesses still struggle because people can’t afford the new prices. They sell fewer products and to remain in business they may have to close plants, lay-off workers, stop pay-raises, and etc. It is an economic nightmare and we have the democrats to blame for it and unfortunately they may get away with it. They have successfully manipulated (what democrats do best) people into believing that it is the Republican Party’s fault.
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