Tea Parties Protest Both Bush and Obama Spending!

While you would never know it given the lack of coverage from the media, the Tea Party protests that sparked up all over the country on April 15th, were great successes. Average Americans are protesting the encroachment on individual freedoms, regulation of private business, tax increases, now and in the future, and fiscal irresponsibility. Up to 750 protests ensued across America on April 15^th and continue to this day. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered to express their opposition to our irresponsible government. It’s not only the bailing-out of failed companies; it is the superfluous expansion of liberal social policies as well. Under the guise of urgency, the Obama administration has blatantly incorporated a mass expansion of liberal social policies to the “economic stimulus,” which have nothing to do with economic recovery. 

A big complaint coming from the Left is that conservatives never protested the increase in government spending and expansion during the Bush years. In reality, conservatives were fuming that Bush supported the first bail-out bill in September, 2008, signaling the beginning of trouble. Even then, fiscal conservatives, Republicans and Democrats alike, contacted their representatives, imploring them to vote against the stimulus bill. As we all know, Congress did not listen to the American people. Protest was building!

 

During the Bush years, government was growing, but much more subtly. While Bush significantly expanded welfare, Medicare drug benefits, and the Departments of Education and Labor, the expansions were spread out across his eight years of presidency. People were upset, but by the time the next expansion was implemented, the previous one was mostly forgotten. The main difference between Bush and Obama is the rate of change. Not only does Obama’s spending plan dwarf Bush’s, he has introduced this behemoth during the first 100 days of his presidency, when everyone is watching! The American people have woken up and will no longer tolerate this unnecessary spending. I believe the American people are more attuned to politics than ever before! Had Obama implemented these expansions little by little, we may have never seen the eruption of protests across the country. Fortunately for the American people, Obama did force this upon us! The sleeping conservative giant has awakened! Let’s not go back to sleep!

Public Dissatisfaction Leads To Political Involvement

Dr. Michael Munger, the 2008 Libertarian gubernatorial candidate for the state of North Carolina and Chair of the Political Science Department at Duke University said in a recent meeting for North Carolina State University’s “Society for Politics, Economics, and Law” (SPEL) club that the general public shouldn’t have to feel the need to get involved in politics in order to get the government’s attention. If the government was really doing it’s job, political issues would not be at the forefront of people’s minds.

As we are all aware, politics is a huge issue in our society today. Almost everyone is declaring their opinions about what they want the government to do for them, for others, or to others. This is a tell-tale sign the public is dissatisfied. Dr. Munger stated (paraphrased into my own words of course) that during times of minimal government intrusion and people are satisfied with their representatives, political issues are not in their immediate thoughts. However, during times of increasing government restrictions and intrusions, people feel driven to get involved in order to have their voices heard because they feel underrepresented.

We are living in a time of increasing uncertainly and fear. Mostly due to the actions and statements of those who should have things under control.

Crisis Averted! Pelosi Has The Answer!

After centuries of critical thinking and testing, Western economists are still struggling to agree on the best way to minimize the effects of an economic contraction. Is it the supply-side approach? Or maybe it’s applying Keynesian principles? Fear not oh people of these great United States, for Nancy Pelosi has uncovered the secret that has been missed by the greatest minds known to man! The answer you ask? Birth control funding, of course.

Birth control funding? The answer to our recession? Yes, that is the very question going through the minds of rational thinkers everywhere. Dr. Roy Cordato, Vice President of Research at the John Locke Foundation writes in the JLF Locker Room that Nancy Pelosi wants to use federal revenues for birth control and “family planning” practices. She argues it would stimulate the economy by saving the states money they would otherwise spend on social services. I am seriously trying to wrap my head around this insane logic, but with little success. Is her message simply that babies are a potential burden to society and that we, as a society, would be better off if those babies were aborted?

The explanation to Pelosi’s thinking is best explained by Dr. Cordato himself. Here is his full post:

“Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said yesterday that federal revenues spent on birth control and family planning will help save states money on social services and therefore should be considered economic stimulus. Of course what she is more than suggesting is that procreation among poor people is a burden to society and therefore needs to be stifled by the Feds. This is completely consistent with the views of those who were the pioneers of the progressive movement during the early part of the 20th Century. Most of Pelosi’s intellectual forefathers and mothers were ardent advocates of eugenics, a philosophy based on pseudo science, which suggested that population growth among the lower classes needed to be controlled because they were a social burden. For example, economist John Maynard Keynes, father of “stimulus package economics” was on the board of the British Eugenics Society and Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, was an outspoken believer and advocate of Eugenics who saw her organization as a tool of accomplishing her goals in this area.” http://www.johnlocke.org/lockerroom/lockerroom.html?id=18703

Can you believe the nerve of these liberals? These extreme liberal democrats are using the nation’s economic troubles in order to push their extreme, vile agenda onto the public. The Speaker of the House of Representatives actually condones the use of federal tax dollars to fund “family planning” a.k.a abortion practices in the U.S. This is absolutely treacherous!

Ms. Pelosi does not concern herself with the fact that there are a huge percentage of Americans that are against abortion and believe it to be morally wrong? Forcing pro-life individuals to pay for abortions or other questionable birth control practices via their tax contributions would be a severe case of taxation without representation.

The Government “Bail-Out” Machine Is Out Of Control!

I woke up this morning in a cheerful mood, but that cheer was instantly dashed when my local news radio reported that the government has decided to “help” homeowners by lowering their mortgage payments.  Keep in mind that these homeowners have not even defaulted on their mortgage payments yet!!  What possible logical explanation do our lawmakers have for “bailing out” a part of society that doesn’t even need it!  I am still trying to stomach the government bail out of irresponsible corporations!  I say LET THEM GO DOWN!  And let the people who irresponsibly purchased homes they couldn’t afford to go down also!!  Renting is not the end of the world!!!  It seems that it is now the government’s goal to make everyone’s life easier??  At this point, who in their right mind would keep paying their mortgage?  I would certainly be tempted not to.  All you have to do is show a little hard times and voalla, help is on the way! 

The only possible conclusion to this type of action from the new American federal regime is that they want control of as much of society as they can.  The more they control, the easier is will be for them to implement a system that is based solely upon government control, Socialism, or worse, Communism.  We are already dangerously teetering on the edge of Marxism and people are just clueless! 

Check back for an upcoming post comparing American policies to the 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto!  Hopefully it will wake you up!