I’ve read some policy points of various Republican candidates for office. One of the most common refrains is something about cutting spending – working towards reducing the deficit; repeal Obama’s bail outs; bring fiscal responsibility to government. On and on – but I’ve yet to read one which makes this simple statement:
“A nation $12 trillion dollars in debt cannot afford any more debt; I will not introduce, sponsor or vote in favor of any budget which is not balanced.”
This is the proper complement to the various tax pledges most Republican candidates will sign. They are two sides of the same coin. A no tax pledge is a promise not to take any more money from the people of the United States – but it is a false pledge if the money will just be taken in the form of borrowing from the future.
The United States is in fiscal crisis – for decades we have talked about “out of control spending”, but never really did anything about it. Now, we must. The debt we are currently piling up threatens our ability to maintain a first class military, to pay for high skill law enforcement, to maintain the roads and harbors we need for commerce. We must stop piling up debt. Right now.
Now, our liberal friends – seconded, as always, by RINOs – will protest that the drastic cuts necessary to balance the budget will cause the most vulnerable to suffer. This is a flat out lie – it isn’t budget cutting which threatens the vulnerable, but there is the fact that the supposed tribunes of the vulnerable who will see to it they suffer as a means of getting the budget restored.
The United States government is shot through with waste, fraud and abuse. No one knows just how much money really flows through the government agencies in a given year. Investigations have shown that literal tens of billions of dollars have gone missing over the years – missing as in “no one knows where it went”. Right now, President Obama and his Democrats are set to spend, in deficits alone, $1.6 trillion dollars in 2011. There is no way to wrap one’s mind around such a sum – but one can easily understand that with such large amounts, a lot of chicanery is sure to be going on.
If you go to the A-Z Index of US Government Agencies, you’ll find the following: Domestic Policy Council, Economic Business and Agricultural Affairs; Economic Development Administration, Economic Adjustment Office, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Economics and Statistics Administration and the Economic Research Service…with all that, just found in a short glance, our economy should be booming. Right?
Wrong – and of course we know its wrong. How much duplication of effort is there in all that? How much entirely wasted effort? How many people could be let go in there and still get the vital job done? If there are any vital jobs contained therein, at all. This is the monster we’ve fed for nearly 80 years now. It grows by leaps and bounds and adds agency to bureau to department and it never stops growing and things, once grown, never dies away.
Our opponents will lie and say we are determined to kill granny or the children or what have you with our draconian cuts – but we know we would not be doing that. And now, in 2010, I think that the people are willing to hear and act upon the brutal truth. It is my bet that at least half the non-defense and law enforcement personnel of government could be let go with no negative effect on the day to day lives of the American people, including the most vulnerable. What is more, I’ll further bet that you, reading this, will admit to it (even if, as liberals, some of you will still stoutly deny what you know to be true). Finally, I think the American people in general know this, as well.
If we wish to save our nation, it isn’t good enough for us to pledge to tinker around the edges of the problem. The sad facts of life are that, as far as government goes, all we conservatives have managed to conserve is FDR’s New Deal. It is now time for us to conserve America and our Constitution – and that will require a revolutionary change, and a complete end to the false promises of the welfare state.
If we whittle away at liberalism, then it will eventually grow back – we must hack at it, root and branch. We must have done with it, for good. To do this, we must pledge ourselves not to merely being not-Democrats, but being true conservatives set on a revolutionary rescue of our nation and our people. Plant that flag of liberty, defend it ferociously, and let the chips fall where they may because in this year of 2010, I think the chips will all fall our way.
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