The work begins
Posted on 5 November 2010 | Comments Off
In the coming months, the democrats will increase there attacks on grass roots movement to reduce the influence of the federal government over domestic issues. So will the Republicans. The fact is that the so called tea party movement is a threat to both parties as they currently see themselves. The future of American government is not a fundemental change but a shift in focus. It is time to focus on what made this country great. Innovation, competition and creativity. These things do not naturally come from Washington, but rather from the day to day interactions between the individual states that make up the republic.
If we are to regain our needed prosperity we must cut federal regulation. After de-regulation there is no need for the massive domestic policy departments that exist today. We can then begin to reduce the number of federal employees.
These are considered great jobs, however, with wages and benefits not available in the private sector. So, they will not disappear without a fight. And the first step in that fight will be to drive a wedge between the coalition of voters that make up the movement. David Kirby explains where they will try to drive a wedge between us in a post on the CATO Institute blog. He points out what is obvious to those of us active in the movement. We are made up of people who hold both conservative and liberatarian views. Though many would not call themselves either. The weak point between these two is our radically different approach to social values. The glue that binds us is a desire to eliminagte federal government intrusion that is robbing us of our personal liberty. Here is where we must stand strong. I can agree with the most ardent liberal, Christian conservative and radical libertarian that Washington needs to concentrate on foreign policy and leave domestic policy to the states and local government exclusively.
They will try and weaken us by attempting to expand conversation and make us agree on things outside the scope of our unity.
Here is the take away:
We can agree we will never agree on everything, but you can have anything you want in your local, state or regional government. I will pay for the services I elect to embrace in my local government, you pay for yours, we mind our own business but stand united against federal intervention in our personal liberty.
The morning after
Posted on 3 November 2010 | Comments Off
My first thoughts on reading the early morning results, on the this the day after election is that the progressives have survived with their leadership intact. The I read the morning briefing at Red State and remembered this is about the tea party. It is about traditionalism. And that is about a grass roots movement to take back control from a centralized goverment.
So, take a minute to savor the results. Then check back so we can talk about the next step in regaining our liberty.
Since Erick Erickson did such a good job explaining it, I let Erik explain it, and ask you to take a look at what he wrote at Red State in the Morning Briefing.
Really worth it.
Food for thought 2010 1101
Posted on 1 November 2010 | Comments Off
Change starts with you! Send a message!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StSSb9ohQrw
Food for Thought 2010 1031
Posted on 31 October 2010 | Comments Off
1. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/10/28/102804/concerns-grow-about-election-fraud.html
- As concerns grow about election fraud and voter intimidation, it is more important than ever that we remain diligent to report any incident. Remember, dictators and despots throughout history have taken additional power through rigged elections. It is the belief of some that Barack Obama will only get more extreme and unpredictable now that the American people are clearly repudiating his leftist agenda.
2. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/31/free-birth-control-health_n_776597.html
- Free Birth Control for US Women as “preventative medicine” under Obamacare. With government funded abortion and birth control, how deep does this slippery slope go?
3. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/chris-christie-im-a-sensitive-guy/
- God Bless Chris Christie. We need more state and local officials who will also fight big government at those levels. Listening to Governor Christie gives me hope for America.
4. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/shock-radical-muslim-cleric-describes-islam-for-cnn/
- Radical Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary in his own words, no interpretation needed
- Not much “Hope and Change” left in Obama’s campaign speech. Watch for the President and those around him to lash out when backed into a corner by the Republican landslide victories coming on Tuesday.
Labels don’t lie -NOT made in America
Posted on 29 September 2010 | Comments Off
Everything from the food we eat to the appliances we depend on used to be made in America. Not anymore. In response to the very real and very accurate predictions by Sen Inhofe that America would even loose more of it’s remaining manufacturing jobs,if EPA rules to force industrial, commercial and institutional boilers and heaters to use “maximum achievable control technology” to reduce harmful emissions were implemented EPA spokesman Brendan Gilfillan wrote in a written statement reported by Fox News
But the doomsday predictions we hear now are the same sort we have heard every time EPA has taken any step to implement the laws that Congress wrote to protect Americans from pollution in the air we breathe and the water we drink.Experience has consistently proved those doomsday predictions wrong for the past 40 years.”
It appears to me they were not wrong. Manufacturing has been the driving force that built the middle class in America. Sure, the sons and daughters of the successful go off to New York and Washington where they become extremely wealthy speculating on Wall Street or lobbying on K street, but it is the blue collar jobs that drove this economy. It is the smoke stack industries that made America the great country that it is.
And the truth is, the majority of those smoke stack industry jobs have been driven out by the regulatory excesses of the Washington bureaucratic industry. A regulatory industry created, funded and foisted on America by well meaning but wrong headed elected officials more interested in sound bytes then sound policy.
The damage the Democrats are doing to the very people they claim to represent, unions, working families, the underprivileged extends far beyond bad tax policy. Regulatory excess has made America an unfriendly environment for business. Business, not government is responsible for prosperity.
So what do we do about it?
The first step is to is winning in November. We need to send a message to the democrats, and all the petty bureaucrats that the American people are fed up with their agenda. Period.
Removing the power the progressives that have taken control of the Democrat party are wielding against the American working person is really only the first step, but right now the most important. We must stop the madness by voting out the incumbents in November. But the second step is to keep our eye on the ball. This is not a one election cycle issue. You can fault the Republicans for loosing their way, but it us up to us to maintain the pressure. The tea party showed us that the time and place to make that pressure known is in the primary elections. The time to send messages is when you vote in the primary. If the incumbent isn’t living up to expectations then we have to remove them from the ballot. Re-election should be earned, not assumed.
Smaller government, a rightful return of control over the domestic issues to the incubators of democracy that are the states that make up this republic, and local control over spending and taxes free from federal interventionism begins by dismantling the Washington Beltway bureaucracy. Rebuilding the manufacturing base, the “smoke stack industries” that provided the impetus for opportunity and innovation that made America great depends on keeping the pressure on our elected officials and restoring sound policy managed intelligently and responsively at the state level. Not dictated from EPA officials who can’t see the terrible harm that forty years of dire consequences have done to America.
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