But if you look at the past half century or so you have to think: How come even when Republicans are in charge, even when they're dominant, government has always gotten larger and more expensive? It's always grown! It's as if something inexorable in our political reality—with those who think in liberal terms dominating the establishment, the media, the academy—has always tilted the starting point... (WSJ - Peggy Noonan)The 1900's: A Progressive Century
The 20th century saw the founders' constitutional republic grow into a monster, gobbling ever more money and personal freedoms. Sure, some good things happened: Womens suffrage, civil rights, taking care of the elderly. But we also got a pay-for-play government of czarist fiat and special exemptions. America's ruling oligarchy makes money crafting dense bureaucratic sludge and then selling indulgences to the moneyed class who don't want to eat it.
The 21st Century: A Tea Party Nation?
Big Business is scared of the tea party, because we know their big government crony crapitalism has nothing to do with free market capitalism and the rule of law. Progressives are pro-big business; tea partiers are for free markets and free people. We want a capitalism ruled by the invisible hand and continually cleansed and purged by Schumpeter's creative destruction. Big business wants to gorge itself on government money while hiding from competition behind government-constructed ramparts of bureaucracy.
Here are some excerpts from the Wall Street Journal that should make all tea partiers proud and happy.
some executives and lobbyists say they are growing spooked by the populist rhetoric they are hearing from some tea-party Republicans.
Some candidates have said they want to take aim at a $30 billion annual package of tax breaks for a range of businesses—among them Wall Street firms, the timber industry, fast-food restaurants and the owners of NASCAR racetracks.
Good! They should be scared. Government has no business handing out taxpayer money to any of those businesses.
Trent Lott: Poster Boy for Country Club Republicanism
"They may view some of the tax incentives as some type of corporate welfare," said Trent Lott, the former Senate Republican Leader and now a lobbyist. "But if you care about jobs and the economy, you have to give people incentives."It's all corporate welfare, Trent! You're exactly the kind of Republican lawmaker we're glad to see gone! And Lott is oh so wrong about "giving people incentives." We have aspirations and we bring them to the marketplace. We produce goods and services useful to our fellow man, and we are rewarded. Nobody needs motivation! We want to feed ourselves and our families, and make a better life for ourselves, that is motivation enough.
Here is Idaho State Rep. Raul Labrador, a tea party favorite for election to US Congress...
Mr. Labrador said he opposed all government programs that help one segment of the business community over another. "I'm against all of them," Mr. Labrador said in an interview. "I don't think the government should be picking winners and losers."
He included tax breaks for particular industries. "We should have taxes low for everybody, and not just for a particular industry or segment," he said.
Mr. Labrador understands that the rule of law is not a Swiss cheese, but a simple set of rules that everybody in the marketplace must follow, no exceptions! May God bless us with many such politicians
Free Market Conservatism will win this battle
We will win this battle, my friends, and here's why: We stand for the power of people, they stand for an ever increasing power of the state. We throw our bums out, they refuse to. We have an overarching philosophy of Hayek and the founders, they have Chomsky and Michael Moore. It's no contest.
WSJ - Tea Party's Rise
10 comments:
Silver: just a hypothetical question for you: who would you rather sit down and have a beer with, Friedrich Hayek or Noam Chomsky?
No contest! Conversing with Chomsky would just make one dumber.
Fredd said...
Silver: just a hypothetical question for you: who would you rather sit down and have a beer with, Friedrich Hayek or Noam Chomsky?
For me it would be Alex Rodriguez or Mark Teixeira.
Old guard guys like Karl Rove know that they are becoming obsolete. Funny how libs go after the Tea Party much more than the Republicans. Neither party seems to know how to deal with it.
We stand for the power of people, they stand for an ever increasing power of the state...yes we do my friend!
See you at the polls! We the People will speak and the politicians will learn a hard lesson about listening to their constituents.
Mr. Labrador is spot on.
"But if you look at the past half century or so you have to think: How come even when Republicans are in charge, even when they're dominant, government has always gotten larger and more expensive? It's always grown! It's as if something inexorable in our political reality—with those who think in liberal terms dominating the establishment, the media, the academy—has always tilted the starting point..." (WSJ - Peggy Noonan)
The answer is very simple, the big money 'one world' George Soros elitist snobs control both political parties, and they have for many many years.
Bingo Reverend!
We're fixin' to take it back from Soros' evil clutches!
I admit it: I like seeing the establishment people in the GOP running scared.
I haven't been happy with either of the two major parties for a very long time.
Even if they take back the house, we must hold the GOP's feet to the fire. We can't let them become democrat-lite.
In the process, hopefully the democratic party will return to the sensible center and people will have a real choice again.
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