"You supported Barack Obama in 2008. Why? Did you miss something?"
Last night on Hannity, that question was asked of Daniel Hannan, Member of European Parliament,who has been very critical of the policies of the U.S. government these last three years. He maintains that America is just a few years behind Europe in the financial crisis, just a few years behind Greece. Mr. Hannan is very conservative fiscally. Why did he support Barack Obama in 2008? Did he miss something?
"Part of that was I was incredibly underwhelmed by the Republican Party by the end of 2008. They had become a party of big spending, big deficits, bailouts, nationalizations. So I thought, how much worse can it get? Well, I had no idea how much worse it could get." ARE YOU LISTENING, REPUBLICANS? Mr Hannan says that one reason Obama won in 2008 was because the Republican Party was UNDERWHELMING. That is a very kind, British way of saying the Republican Party had nothing to offer different from Barack Obama. The Republican Party and the Democrat Party are birds of the same feather. Maybe there is a difference in the colors of the feathers, but they are the same species, "RULING CLASS", a class unto themselves, separate from the rest of the country. The Republicans are not really different from the Democrats, except the Republicans may not be so bold, so intense. They are just a mild form of the Democrats, Democrat-lite. In some ways, that makes them even worse than the Democrats, because they hide behind the skirts of the Democrats and then expect the voters to support them. What a crock!
Republicans, if you want the support of the grassroots movement, you better come out from behind the skirts of the Democrats. If you don't, the grassroots movement will move on without you, indeed opposed to you. Is that what you want? Stop supporting big government! Stop supporting government regulations for our lives! Stop using government to force your agenda down the throats of the American people! SHRINK GOVERNMENT!
Showing posts with label small government. Show all posts
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Thursday, October 6, 2011
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Tipping Point
"We are getting very close to the tipping point, where we will not be able to save this country." "We need to work hard before we get to the tipping point when there will be no hope of avoiding disaster."
We hear statements like these two every once in a while. "We have to turn this country around before it gets to the tipping point."
Where is that tipping point? Daniel Hannan, author of "The New Road To Serfdom: A Letter Of Warning To America" and Member of the European Parliament made a very interesting statement this evening on Hannity's news show: "There are lots of ways in theory you could get out of this mess, by spending less and bringing your borrowing under control. In practice, the state in Europe has now reached a size that makes that kind of behavior politically impossible." The size of government creates a huge problem. When government gets so big it takes too much of the GDP to run, then the country runs grave danger of not being able to set aside enough funds to cover their expenses and still continue a real economy. And it does NOT help to borrow more to cover the expenses. That does not help the economy thrive. Instead, government borrowing takes away from the private economy funds needed to borrow to grow business. And so, the more government borrows, the less private business grows. And the less private business grows, the less tax income the government has and so the government has to borrow more and raise the tax rates. Raising tax rates takes more money from the private sector and so business has even less to use to grow. And so it has to borrow even more. It is a vicious circle.
And what is really sad is that the people affected the most by all this government growth and waste are the poorest of society. The job market gets tighter and so they have trouble finding jobs. The private sector cash shrinks and so they have less for charitable giving. It is not the rich that suffer from big government; in fact, the rich suffer the least from big government. It is the middle income and below that bear the brunt of this burden. What a shame! What statists try to cure with big government is made worse by big government.
Well, what do we do? Daniel Hannan on Hannity: "It is not something you can fix with tinkering around the edges, cutting one or two programs here and there. There has got to be a fundamental rethink aimed at bringing the budget back into balance within a couple of years, not within the next forty years or whatever the Republicans in Congress are talking about. We don't have that length of time to play with, I'm afraid."
We have to do some fundamental rethinking. One thing we need to rethink is the idea that government can solve our problems. Government CANNOT solve our problems; government is the problem. The only thing government can do is protect us and mediate between states whenever struggles arise. Government needs to shrink drastically so that the private sector can grow. When that happens, EVERYONE will benefit from the lower levels of society to the upper levels. Repeal most federal agencies. Start with the EPA and the Dept of Education. Do you know that the regulations of the EPA are causing more environmental damage than they are preventing? Do you know that since the federal Dept of Education was started, the U.S. has continually fallen in scholastic achievements?
Another agency, even though technically it is not a government agency, that should be shut down is the Federal Reserve. Even though it is not technically a part of the government, the government uses it to control our money supply and to redistribute wealth. One reason we find ourselves in the recession we are in, is because of the Federal Reserve and its illegitimate connection with the federal government has caused inflation and controlled the money flow to the detriment of the private sector and to the benefit of the big banks that are part of the Federal Reserve. Fire Ben Bernanke and close down the Federal Reserve!
The list could go on and on. The government has gotten so big that if it was shrunk to its proper size, none of us would recognize it. It would take decades for us to get use to living without the government interfering in our lives. And this includes our state governments also. SHRINK GOVERNMENT NOW!!!
We hear statements like these two every once in a while. "We have to turn this country around before it gets to the tipping point."
Where is that tipping point? Daniel Hannan, author of "The New Road To Serfdom: A Letter Of Warning To America" and Member of the European Parliament made a very interesting statement this evening on Hannity's news show: "There are lots of ways in theory you could get out of this mess, by spending less and bringing your borrowing under control. In practice, the state in Europe has now reached a size that makes that kind of behavior politically impossible." The size of government creates a huge problem. When government gets so big it takes too much of the GDP to run, then the country runs grave danger of not being able to set aside enough funds to cover their expenses and still continue a real economy. And it does NOT help to borrow more to cover the expenses. That does not help the economy thrive. Instead, government borrowing takes away from the private economy funds needed to borrow to grow business. And so, the more government borrows, the less private business grows. And the less private business grows, the less tax income the government has and so the government has to borrow more and raise the tax rates. Raising tax rates takes more money from the private sector and so business has even less to use to grow. And so it has to borrow even more. It is a vicious circle.
And what is really sad is that the people affected the most by all this government growth and waste are the poorest of society. The job market gets tighter and so they have trouble finding jobs. The private sector cash shrinks and so they have less for charitable giving. It is not the rich that suffer from big government; in fact, the rich suffer the least from big government. It is the middle income and below that bear the brunt of this burden. What a shame! What statists try to cure with big government is made worse by big government.
Well, what do we do? Daniel Hannan on Hannity: "It is not something you can fix with tinkering around the edges, cutting one or two programs here and there. There has got to be a fundamental rethink aimed at bringing the budget back into balance within a couple of years, not within the next forty years or whatever the Republicans in Congress are talking about. We don't have that length of time to play with, I'm afraid."
We have to do some fundamental rethinking. One thing we need to rethink is the idea that government can solve our problems. Government CANNOT solve our problems; government is the problem. The only thing government can do is protect us and mediate between states whenever struggles arise. Government needs to shrink drastically so that the private sector can grow. When that happens, EVERYONE will benefit from the lower levels of society to the upper levels. Repeal most federal agencies. Start with the EPA and the Dept of Education. Do you know that the regulations of the EPA are causing more environmental damage than they are preventing? Do you know that since the federal Dept of Education was started, the U.S. has continually fallen in scholastic achievements?
Another agency, even though technically it is not a government agency, that should be shut down is the Federal Reserve. Even though it is not technically a part of the government, the government uses it to control our money supply and to redistribute wealth. One reason we find ourselves in the recession we are in, is because of the Federal Reserve and its illegitimate connection with the federal government has caused inflation and controlled the money flow to the detriment of the private sector and to the benefit of the big banks that are part of the Federal Reserve. Fire Ben Bernanke and close down the Federal Reserve!
The list could go on and on. The government has gotten so big that if it was shrunk to its proper size, none of us would recognize it. It would take decades for us to get use to living without the government interfering in our lives. And this includes our state governments also. SHRINK GOVERNMENT NOW!!!
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Hope
There is hope for us who want to return our country to its Constitution. The hope is that the statist form of government never works. Over time people recognize that such leaders cannot fulfill the promises they make. That is what happened in the USSR, is happening in China, happened in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. It will also happen here. We are beginning to see it already. The left is getting ready to throw BO under the bus because he is not fulfilling the promises he made. The public in our country is getting ready to throw our whole government out because the politicians are simply not able to fulfill all the promises they make. These politicos make all kinds of promises in order to get elected and then fall flat on their faces after they get into office. We the people are getting tired of such foolishness, such lying. "The claim that a planned economy would produce a substantially larger output than the competitive system is being progressively abandoned by most students of the problem. Yet it is this false hope as much as anything which drives us along the road to planning." (The Road To Serfdom (Abridged Edition), Friedrich A Hayek; The University of Chicago Press, 1994; p 14)
It is this claim that a planned economy would produce more than the free market is what has driven the leftists to press for a dictatorial government, one planned from the top. Yet this is a false hope. And many people are beginning to see that. A planned economy is supposed to feed the hungry better, take better care of the poor, provide better health care for the sick, make our country more loving and kind and better, but we are finding out that such a plan is just a pipe dream. Such a government does not help poor countries more, does not protect our environment better, does not help the poor in our country better, does not do anything better than a free market. And then to top it all off, such a planned society, a government that plans everything from the top down takes away all our freedoms and liberty. So it just makes matters worse. It does not help the weak and frail and it crushes anyone who is strong. What a complete failure.
So let us return to small government---a government that only serves to protect us from enemies external and internal and serves as a mediator within our boundaries and leave the rest to the free market. I bet we will find that the poor will be taken care of better and the strong will be able to do what is necessary to provide for themselves and those around them. SHRINK GOVERNMENT!
It is this claim that a planned economy would produce more than the free market is what has driven the leftists to press for a dictatorial government, one planned from the top. Yet this is a false hope. And many people are beginning to see that. A planned economy is supposed to feed the hungry better, take better care of the poor, provide better health care for the sick, make our country more loving and kind and better, but we are finding out that such a plan is just a pipe dream. Such a government does not help poor countries more, does not protect our environment better, does not help the poor in our country better, does not do anything better than a free market. And then to top it all off, such a planned society, a government that plans everything from the top down takes away all our freedoms and liberty. So it just makes matters worse. It does not help the weak and frail and it crushes anyone who is strong. What a complete failure.
So let us return to small government---a government that only serves to protect us from enemies external and internal and serves as a mediator within our boundaries and leave the rest to the free market. I bet we will find that the poor will be taken care of better and the strong will be able to do what is necessary to provide for themselves and those around them. SHRINK GOVERNMENT!
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