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ELECTION 2008 PRO AND CONS: CONGRESS IS WHERE THE POWER RESIDES

November 2, 2008 Leave a comment Go to comments

Cartoon from here.

Cartoon from here.

There is fear in the air.  Some people are worried.

If Barack Obama is elected into office as the 44th president of the United States on Nov. 4 and voters, in tandem, give the Democrats 60 seats in the Senate and give them a solid majority in the House. What happens after Inauguration Day?

Single-party rule is inherently totalitarian whether the people consent to it or not. In most cases, one-party states rise out of authoritarian regimes, including former monarchies, or socialist revolutions. There are currently seven – China, Cuba, Eritrea, Laos, Vietnam, Syria, Korea. The United States would become the eighth.  (from here)

Do Conservatives have reason to be worried?  The answer is yes.  However, the problem and the solution resides with the People.

We are weak.  We hate to wait and postpone our pleasures.  When given a choice, we too often opt for immediate gratification.  And that is how salemen often sell us on things we should not buy.  They offer us immediate gratification and the opportunity to pay latter.

In Gainesville, Virginia, we have two open seats in Congress.  We will be filling Congressman Tom Davis’ seat and Senator John Warner’s seat.  In each case the candidates offer us the choice between immediate gratification and building for the future.

Republican congressional candidate Keith Fimian, in particular, asks us to sacrifice and build for the future.  Back in July I wrote a post describing a campaign breakfast (see here).  Well before the economy had become the big issue of the 2008 election, Fimian had made excessive government spending and a building mountain of debt a central issue in his campaign.

Fimian is running for office so that his children can have a country like the one in which he grew up.  He wants his children to live in a land where there is an opportunity to dream big and to pursue those dreams.  He does not want to bequeath his children a mountain of debt.

Republican Senate candidate Jim Gilmore knows how to balance a budget WITHOUT RAISING OUR TAXES.  As governor of our state, he proved that.  On the other hand, his opponent promised not to raise taxes, but he did so anyway (see here).

Think of the price of immediate gratification.  Remember that when our political leadership chooses how our money will be spent, that spending rarely serves as an investment.  Of necessity, political leaders do not choose to spend tax dollars as an investment in OUR FUTURE.  Instead, they use OUR MONEY to invest in THEIR FUTURE.  Politicians spend OUR MONEY to buy votes and influence.  That is why you can spend YOUR MONEY more wisely than any elected official.

Consider this example well.  It is the story of the Washington area traffic jam.  What happens whenever our local political leaders decide to build a new road?  First they advertise the new road as a parkway.  Then once the road is built, they allow developers to install stoplights all along the new route.  Instead of building roads for us, where we need to go, our local leaders build roads for developers.

When we relinquish too much control and too much of OUR MONEY to them, politicians waste our time and our money.  If you care for our nation’s future and your children, please vote for Conservative and Responsible leadership.

Other Views

The Mud Pit suggests how you can invest in the future by taking the day off (see here).

Raising Kaine raves over Obama’s promise to invest in family farms (see here).

Bacon’s Rebellion debates the Rescue Plan to Revive Credit Markets (see here).  The issue is the advisability of government investment.

VACostCutting explains the unintended consequences of the Community Reinvestment Act (see here) (This is where our current fiscal crisis came from.).

Leslie Carbone explains why government is an inherently bad investor (see here).

This is the seventh post in a series on the 2008 election candidates.  Here are the earlier posts.

Cartoon from here.

Cartoon from here.

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