As in cut the budget, grow the economy – from NRO:
In his first press conference in his (nearly official) capacity as majority leader, Rep. Eric Cantor (R., Va.) outlined his vision for the new Republican-led House. “I think you could sum up what our new majority is going to be about by saying it is a ‘cut and grow’ majority,” he said…
…Cantor laid out a three-part rule he by which he would seek to abide in the new Congress, which would entail asking every day if the Republican majority’s actions are focused on 1) job creation and economic growth, 2) cutting spending, and 3) shrinking government while protecting and expanding liberty. And if not, to ask, “Why are we doing it?”…
All very good, and we’ll see if they can deliver. We are at a crisis and at a cross road. The United States of America – the most powerful and best nation in human history – is bankrupt; our economy – mining, manufacturing and agriculture – has been hollowed out; our people are in disarray as creeping social breakdown erodes civilization; the world is at risk as a feebly led government seeks accommodation with enemies. If we don’t change course, we’ll die; its really both as simple and as stark as that.
We don’t have many years in which to fix things. If we don’t get our budget under control then we’ll default by 2015 or so. If we don’t revive a wealth-creating economy (all that make/mine/grow stuff I’ve been harping on for years) then even without a default our economic death spiral will continue. If we don’t roll back our moral disintegration (standing firm against gay marriage, starting to work at curtailing pornography and violence in popular culture, reviving a sense of shame at being on public relief, restoring the virtues of hard work, thrift and sobriety) then even if we don’t default and die out economically, we will die as a people – committing slow suicide as our European cousins are doing. We must start to act, now – even as we know that under Obama we won’t really be able to get as much done as we should.
It is good that Cantor will think on those three things – each of them will play a roll in averting default, restoring the economy and, by restoring our Constitutional liberties, allowing we, the people, to take control of our civilization from a Ruling Class which has led us to wreck and ruin. But thinking about it and talking about it won’t be enough – even the upcoming vote to repeal ObamaCare won’t be enough. We’ll need to see the GOP fighting all down the line against everything liberalism stands for. Whatever liberalism might have been about at one point, it is today about nothing other than power and wealth to the Ruling Class and social and economic disintegration for the rest of us.
It is, of course, up to we, the people, to hold the GOP’s feet to the fire. We daren’t for a moment let them out of our sight, as it were. Just ease up on the pressure a bit and the RINOs will come roaring back and start cutting deals with Obama and his Democrats.
And so, to work; and with a will, my fellow Americans. Our country is at stake.
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