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Republicans, Can We Trust Them?
Republicans have gained control of the House of Representatives. They now have the ability to cut the federal budget down to size and put us on the road to fiscal stability. This is their stated goal.
It doesn’t matter what kind of budget President Obama turns in. In doesn’t matter what the Senate does. Not a dime can be spent unless it is approved by the House of Representatives.
All the Republican-led House of Representatives has to do to control federal spending is put its collective foot down.
Bottom line: There can be no deficit spending next year, unless House Republican’s cave. Read the rest of this entry »
After the 2010 Election: The Follow-Through
Every athlete knows the importance of the follow-through. Once you hit or release a ball, it will not reach its intended target unless the athlete stays engaged until the projectile is well on its way to the desired destination.
If the 2010 election was about cleaning out the entrenched political elites who have run up a staggering national debt and mortgaged our future, then the 2012 election must be about the “follow through.”
Gone are the days when voters can afford to wake up a couple of weeks before an election and, once it’s over, hit the snooze button for another two years. Read the rest of this entry »
The 2010 Election: Us versus Them
Along the road of spending, the government either takes over, which is socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is fascism.– Herbert Hoover
Off-year elections are usually yawners. Not this one. Our economic problems have awakened voters and ignited political passions.
In the last two years, the country has taken a hard left turn and is traveling at the speed of light away from the free market, which isn’t perfect but has given us the highest standard of living in the world.
The new destination is socialism, a system that has brought much of western Europe to the brink of economic collapse and thrown Greece and France into chaos.
This election is not about political parties. It is about ideology. Read the rest of this entry »
Bobble Heads vs. Wing Nuts
The bobble heads who rule the two major political parties refer to outsiders as “wing nuts,” which is short for “right-wing nuts.” No bobble head ever views a left-winger as a “nut.” If so, he or she keeps quiet about it. To do otherwise might make one appear “extreme” and the left-wing bobble heads, which dominate the news media, would say or write mean things about them.
Bobble heads are those little plastic dolls that are images of major the political figures. They show up every election year on the dashboards and office desks of the party faithful. Unfortunately, party leaders, behave in much the same way as these miniature characters. With the slightest breeze or movement, the heads of these dolls bob up and down on a spring. They are incapable of nodding right to left as if saying “no.” In fact, the party establishment seems incapable of saying “no” to anything proposed by the party’s top elected official, no matter how unreasonable or harmful an idea may be. Read the rest of this entry »
The Election and the Eighth Commandment
The economy is at the top of every list of voter concerns. As pollsters dig a little deeper, it’s not the economy in general, it’s one’s own personal economy that troubles voters. If one’s personal economy has not taken a hit, the fear that it will be affected is enough to cause every one of us to carefully consider his or her vote. Buzz words like “hope” and “change” simple won’t be enough this year.
I have come to the conclusion that this election may hinge – not on the economy per se – but on the Eighth Commandment: “Thou shall not steal.” Read the rest of this entry »
