Posted on 08/06/2009 4:45:16 PM PDT by street_lawyer
It is more than proper now for conservatives to be able to say “I told you so.” Conservatives have spent hundreds of thousands of hours studying the political landscape. I did so as a Political Science major and Law School student. Today the headlines read: “WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For the first time, more than 34 million Americans received food stamps”. Who is to blame for the current economic catastrophe?
During the recent Bush administration, Americans might have been alerted to the weakened economy, the devastatingly large unsecured debt in the private sector, and the incompetent regulation by the public sector, but instead, the Democrats and the media were vilifying a President who was consumed with a foreign war. A gentlemen who unlike the current occupant of the White House did not respond to the liberal propaganda that misrepresented the state of the economy To read the entire article visit http://www.georgiaright.com
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A thousand years from now the Dems will still blame everything bad on Bush 43.
Right. My bumper sticker quotes Franscisco d’Anconia:
“Brother, You Asked For It!”
12 step program to economic recovery
1. A Strong National Defense: In these times of nuclear threats from rogue nations, America needs a strong national defense machine, the ability to deal with terrorists, not as common criminals, but as representatives of the nations that support them. These oil rich nations should not be allowed to develop nuclear power plants. They need nuclear power as much as a fish needs a boat.
2. Revise the Federal Reserve. Congress should require greater transparency and oversight. Reestablish a sound monetary policy that keeps the U.S. Dollar strong. A currency that is backed by gold can not be monetized. Limit the FDIC to individual depositors, and require that lending institutions have full asset protection for the loans they make.
3. Appoint judges to limited terms in office who will strictly interpret the Constitution. Federal Government must be limited to the expressed powers granted to it by the original States, and each State must have sovereign power over all commercial activities that take place within its borders
4. Establish liability for false news reporting, similar to the liability that exists for false advertising. The freedom to express opposing political points of view is meaningless if the FCC is permitted to censor content. The power to regulate is the power to destroy.
5. Amend the Constitution to allow national public referendums that will return to the people the control of their government by overturning taxation legislation passed by Congress, and social welfare programs that invite single parenthood and fatherless homes, and the decisions of the Supreme Court that are contrary to the will of a majority of Americans.
6. Healthcare will require deregulating the insurance industry to promote competition and give consumers the choice of which company offers the best coverage for them. Open the field to international participants, and return to doctors the right to make medical decisions they believe are best for their patients. Medicare and Medicaid are relics of a failed policy of government performing proprietary functions that belong to private enterprise.
7. Revise the Clean Air Act to immediately remove carbon dioxide as a toxic gas subject to regulation by the EPA. Create a public global warming database where scientists from the United States can publish their findings and gain access to all of the research on the subject. Hold public hearings to inform Americans, by presenting testimony from scientists who disagree on global warming and required a preponderance of evidence through a general consensus among experts before a regulation is place into effect, and if the economic consequences prove to be burdensome on industry, then public hearings should be held to resolve the dispute giving industry leaders and private citizens an opportunity to make their case. This certainly will depoliticize the process and allow greater transparency and voter participation in the ultimate decisions. The power to cast a vote every 2 or 4 years for a candidate who will deal with a multiplicity of issues can immunize public officials on issues that do not directly effect a majority of his constituents, or on issues about which the general voting public is ignorant.
8. Place a temporary moratorium on EPA regulations on manufacturing, mining, and fossil fuel production that do not directly contribute to the quality of air at the surface of the globe or the ground beneath until the effect of the proposed regulation on global warming can be quantified in the short term. Permit oil companies to build new refineries, drill for domestic oil, while they devote a portion of their profits to developing renewable energy resources. Return Bethlehem Steel to Americans as well as other industries that have fled from under the weight of the Code of Federal Regulations.
9. Prohibit the use of Federal funds for bailouts of private industry, including failed State and Local Governments. Competition among the States for tax revenues and credits will provide incentives to encourage economic growth and create high paying jobs, especially when the resources of those industries are not overburdened by both Federal and State imposed mandates and high taxes. The one-size-fits-all mentality of the congressional plutocracy has produced a failed economy, declining dollar, and is in the process of bankrupting the United States.
10. Prohibit government ownership or control of private enterprise. Currently we have incompetent bureaucrats running national concerns and these neophytes are dictating policies to highly qualified executives who have weathered the storms of government intervention, high taxation, and foreign competition.
11. Level the playing field by developing trading partners who impose the same mandates to combat global warming as are imposed upon U.S. domestic concerns. It is imperative for America to insure that the global community is able to freely trade their commodities and natural resources.
12. Return to free market principles. Central government planning has never proven to be effective and history has recorded a long list of its failures. Establish a flat tax that is proving to be successful in 24 foreign countries, which include those of the former Soviet Union.
It should be obvious to all that we are in the grip of an enormous socialist/fascist machine that is dramatically changing our nation’s character.
The 12 steps set out your website can only be accomplished if we gain back control of Congress in 2010 elections. Some believe the damage will be irreversible if the attack is not apprehended by 2010.
Not only will we need to challenge existing Republicans, all of whom have been living the good life and not protecting the Republican position, but we will need replace the RINOs with responsible Republicans.
How do we define “responsible”?
Perhaps with a local “Contract with (fill in the name of your state)”.
Perhaps, the voters out to tell the Republican party what should be included in a national Contract with America.
Any politician who chooses to not subscribe will understand their office is at risk.
At least under Bush, I had a job. Actually, I had 2. As soon as the joker was elected, one company folded up and moved our jobs to the Phillipines. Life wasn’t this bad under Bush and I will NEVER blame him for this mess. It’s all the DEMS now. I’m sick of their ducking responsibility.
I heard Mark Levin say one night that Bush told him the reason he spent was because the DEMS controlled Congress, and it was the only way he could get the funding for the troops. For some reason, I believe him.
Bush = Employment
Obama = Unemployment
DUH!!
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