Posted by
rycK on Saturday, September 02, 2006 10:39:07 AM
Conservatives: Take Control of Debt and Government Growth Issues.
If we listen to the whines and shuddering howls of both the Democrats and conservative Republicans we constantly hear the complaints about the national debt and growth of big government. Who knows what the moderates think? They have no power and apparently don’t want any. The left condemns President Bush for deficit spending pointing out that President Clinton ran a huge surplus, one he refused to refund giving the excuse that “…they wouldn’t spend it right.” Conservatives join in the chorus about debt and government size.
A realistic approach to dealing with these political problems must begin with a rational assessment of the current financial status of the US economy and not collide with rigid, non-uniform and outdated ideological notions. The first consideration is the debt, debt service and deficits. There is no way the Democrats would consider reducing the debt given the spending levels currently in effect. To think that they would cancel the War on Terrorism, a realistic political approach for them, and then use that money to pay down the debt is sheer folly. To suppose that they would raise taxes, which they certainly will do if they get into power, merely to ease the debt service is more than fanciful. They would raise taxes for more overstuffed, disorganized government given the chance.
Given the 1992/1993 efforts to nationalize the US healthcare industry, thus attempting to form a behemoth four times the level of the Department of Defense, we have to wonder about the accusations from the left on ‘big government.’ Hillary Care would have cost each taxpayer other $300-500 (1993) dollars per month based on this fiasco after accounting for the inefficiency, sloth and welfare-oriented designs universally inherent in socialism and ingrained in this program in particular. The liberals would pass the Conyers ‘pay everything for everybody’ healthcare law in a nanosecond notwithstanding the cost of the tax burden. They would ‘tax the rich’ to pay for it. The problem is that there aren’t enough ‘rich’ to tax. The middle class gets whacked again.
The liberals would quickly cancel the War on Terrorism, celebrate defeat, sing the praises of our enemies as they did Ho and Fidel and divert millions in tax revenues to militant Islamo Fascists to ‘solve’ their short-term problems as they spend more millions trying to understand why they hate us. They demonstrated this marvelous political technique with North Korea. Such a piece of statesmanship and diplomacy!
No. The Republicans must use the following approach: The must preempt the left and take away their options. There is no reason why if government must increase due to items like Homeland Security, Katrina and other matters that the new departments should be structured by the Democrats. There is no reason why the National Debt would need to be reduced when the liberals would just use that a benchmark to spend more saying that ‘the Republicans did that too.’ Raise taxes!
Wrong. We need to spend more on necessary domestic programs and the War on Terrorism and Immigration in such a manner that it blocks the left by limiting how much the taxpayers can stand. We need to increase government in conservative terms thus preventing the left from creating new, outrageous, phony programs like the War on Poverty, The Great Society, HUD, and more. Just elbow them out.
Keep the deficit high, build bigger government in necessary quarters and get to the proper programs first. The left can be squeezed out and left (pun intended) with no options. With low taxes and continued growth we Americans can handle the costs, debt and social problems and marginalize the rabid left who want to see the US fail in the War on Terrorism and in economic terms. We can and must do this.
Lower taxes; spend more on the war and structure new, well-tailored government programs and encourage economic growth. Find a cost-effective healthcare program. Seal off the borders. That wins several ways.
rycK