Jack Wheeler: The Speech I'd Give If I Were Running For President

[Note: No, I have no intention whatever of running for president. This is the address that Palin or Perry or Bachman or some major candidate needs to give if we want an end to our current political insanity.]

I am running for president because freedom in America is being systematically destroyed by Demagogues in Washington, and I am determined to restore it.

That capital "D" is there because it is the more appropriate label for Democrats. The Democrat Party should be referred to as the Demagogue Party, and that is what I shall do until the day comes when they abandon their opposition to fundamental American values and their advocacy of Marxist-Fascist ideology.

We are gathered here today to discuss solutions to the economic crisis the Demagogues have created - a crisis to which they claim there is no solution. Their Treasury Secretary, Mr. Geithner, has stated this publicly, saying that for a lot of Americans, their lives are going to be, quote, "harder than anything they've experienced in their lifetime now, for a long time to come."

This is a textbook example of Demagogue Marxist idiotic nonsense. But it is nonsense with a purpose. Its purpose is to con people into believing it is true, into getting people so depressed and hopeless that they feel they must depend on government handouts for a living - so they will vote for Demagogues providing the handouts, instead of Republicans who want to provide economic opportunity and freedom.

Folks, restoring prosperity in America is easy. It can be achieved quickly, virtually overnight. Not automatically. It will require a lot of energy, a lot of focused and intelligent effort by all of us. The solution to America's Malaise is so simple it can be summarized in seven words.

The Speech should contain some indication that the speaker actually understands economics so that the hearer knows that the speaker not only wants the outcome we want but knows how to get there. Bush wanted the right outcome but did not know how to get there. Romney wants to be elected. Period. Palin wants all the right things and maybe knows how to get them but she has not yet indicated she has read and understands Adam Smith or von Mises or even Henry Hazlitt. Reagan is the only president we have had in almost a century that actually understood economics. Several have desired free markets and economic liberty but ultimately thought that government manipulation was the way to get those things or the only way to protect them. Saying you want smaller government and less or no government intervention is not enough. One also needs to show that one knows why that is so or when things appear to be collapsing one will be tempted mightily to intervene to “save the economy” and will thereby throw all his good intentions overboard.

This is true, both sides have the same creatures about, infesting our nation like some biblical plague. I love this part, on the current BS and media propaganda regarding the Debt Limit. He said -
The insane debate right now over raising the debt ceiling is a classic example. For Demagogues to play Chicken Little and claim the sky will fall into default and economic Armageddon if the debt ceiling isn’t raised is a bald-faced lie.

To be specific, Mr. Obama lied when he threatened on July 12 that there wouldn’t be enough money to send out Social Security checks on August 3 if the debt ceiling isn’t raised.

The federal government receives more than $200 billion in tax revenue a month. Interest on federal debt per month is $29 billion. Social Security costs per month are about $49 billion. Medicare and Medicaid about $50 billion. Active duty military personnel and veterans programs some $2.9 billion each. Those monthly costs add up to around $134 billion - which leaves $66 billion per month left over.

The problem is - and get ready for this - the federal government is spending $108 billion more than it takes in every month now. The CBO estimates are that Washington spent $973 billion more, which means borrowed, than it received for the first nine months of FY2011. The Demagogues are digging the hole we’re in $108 billion deeper every month - and they say the only way out is to keep digging and borrowing more!

I say no. I say this has to stop. Which is why I must admit I am keenly disappointed by my fellow Republicans in the House leadership, whom I feel have been suckered into a red herring trap on this.

They keep proposing ridiculous alternatives to Mr. Obama’s impossibly destructive demand to raise both the debt ceiling and taxes - such as “entitlement reform,” and agreeing to raise the debt ceiling by trillions right now in exchange for what Congressman Allen West appropriately terms “fairy dust” cuts in spending years from now.

I feel what they need to insist on is spending reform right now. As we saw in the numbers above, this requires the following actions by the House:

*Refusing to raise the debt ceiling. (Remember that only the House has the Constitutional authority to raise it, or indeed to authorize any and all spending by the federal government.)

Is that not to the point?

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