If the Republican party loses the presidency and continues to lose seats in the House, it’s because they’ve ceased to be the party of the bigger pie.
Ronald Reagan won a landslide because he believed the pie could be bigger. While Democrats were busy arguing over quotas, set-asides and affirmative action, Reagan believed that a growing opportunity would benefit all Americans. He believed we could cut taxes and increase defense spending. Reagan refused to play the zero-sum game. He said that the rich could get richer and the poor could get richer at the same time. And given the choice between a candidate that believed in a bigger pie and a candidate that promised to redistribute the pie, Americans chose the candidate with the vision of a bigger pie.
Today’s Republican Party seems to have lost faith in the bigger pie. We don’t seem to believe that we can create more jobs than we have citizens. We don’t seem to believe in an expanding American empire where Americans can greet each other with “Hola” in Puerto Rico, “Aloha” in Hawaii, and “Hafa” in Guam. We don’t seem to believe that we can tap new oil fields, improve the environment, and become the world leader in renewable power. We don’t seem to believe that liberty is essential for freedom to survive. We don’t seem to believe in an America that is both the richest and the most generous nation on the earth. We’ve lost a vision of an America that is great because America is good.
Instead, we want millions of hard-working people seeking the American dream to leave the country. We want to forbid the printing of the word “Aloha” on Hawaiian government publications through English-only legislation. We want to give up our liberties for the sake of security. We want to kick Rudy and Geraldo out of the party. We want to preserve our share of the pie.
Meanwhile, there appears to have arisen a new candidate that embraces the idea of a bigger pie. He ends his stump speeches with the exclamation, “Yes we can!” And the expansionist candidate of hope is attracting larger and larger audiences away from the protectionist party.
so to solve our problems of our Citizens being murdered by someone with no right to be here, the “yes, we can” crowd wants to continue to problem. It appears this candidate is saying “yes we can” let the Citizens continue to murdered, and “yes we can” feel good about it.....(shaking head)
You mixing apples and oranges.
We’re the party that loves the million legal immigrants.
We don’t hate the half million illegals that get in, but we want our government to take it seriously and do something about it. We don’t want a two-tier labor system, one set of laws for legal workers and another for the people in the shadows. We don’t want two classes of people, some who are protected by the laws and another class who are not.
That means that everyone needs to come through the front door. That can’t happen when it is so much in everyone’s short term interest to leave the back door open and unattended.
I love it that people say Hola, Aloha, Hafa adai, and hey buddy, Puerto Rico to Guam as you say. Those people are all here legally, they belong here. The others, who aspire to be here, welcome, take a number, do it right, and you’ll come in with all the rights of a citizen minus the vote, and in a couple of years you’ll have that too.