Reaganomics, Liberal Style

We once heard about “Trickle Down Economics”. The theory advanced by Presidents Reagan and Bush was if American businesses did well by selling more products and services, they would need more employees -- creating more jobs which in turn would expand and grow our economy. Conservatives did this by cutting tax rates and passing business friendly legislation. TDE simply stated was if those at the top of the economic ladder did well, it would benefit everyone by passing the increased wealth down the economic ladder. And for all of its critics, trickle down economics worked.
But our new President has a different theory. I refer to it as “Trickle Up Poverty”. As he explained to Joe the Plumber, you simply “spread the wealth around” which is to benefit everyone. I guess it’s an OK idea, until you run out of wealth - which you eventually will from punishing the very people who create it by raising taxes and passing legislation unfavorable to business. Trickle Up Poverty is where you keep taking wealth away from those that earn it and give it to those that didn’t. And over time, those that create the wealth and jobs will layoff employees, close their doors, or move to more business friendly countries and leave the United States for greener economic pastures. In the end, overall wealth in our country will decrease until there isn’t much wealth left to “spread around”. That leaves us all on a march towards a collective level of poverty -- and perhaps that's the goal.

“One nation under Obama, indivisible, with health care and poverty for all."

We obviously need health care reform, according to our socialist administration. Never mind that a recent Rasmussen Report says 70% of Americans with health insurance rate their heath care good or excellent while 62% of Americans without health insurance rate the health care they have received as good or excellent. But we have a health care “crisis” in this country - at least that’s what the administration and his comrades in the liberal press have been selling us.
So why does the liberal run Congress feel the need to cram government run, socialized health care down our throats and place us an additional $1.2 trillion dollars in debt? Simple answer: More government control over our lives, higher taxes, and a reduction of our freedoms.

The Tax Man Cometh….

“Eat the Rich” is now the battle cry of the spend, spend, spend, liberals. A leader in this rush to kill any economic recovery is Congressman (D) Charles Rangel. Using one of the standards of the Democratic Party, which is sell a tax increase by advertising it as a tax only on the rich, they usually can fool the middle class that they won’t be effected. His plan is to tax only those people who make more than $250,000 a year. Now, to the Old NCO, that’s a bucket full of money. But, America wasn’t built by people working hard to become poor.
Charlie’s plan has worked in the past, but the average Joe is more informed today than before and most have wised up to the liberal’s fraud. Fact is, raising taxes on any American, taxes us all. Only a flaming idiot thinks that “the rich” won’t pass on any tax burden by raising the price on products their companies produce, laying off employees, or closing the doors of their businesses all together.
Bottom line - raising taxes in the middle of an economic downturn only makes the economy worse. It’s a dumb idea. It didn’t work for Jimmy Carter, and it won’t work for Obama.

And Now You Own It

Congratulations to Al Franken, the newly sworn in junior Senator from Minnesota. Democrats have now reached the magic number of 60 - a super majority for the Democrats in the Senate. This eliminates the possibility of Conservatives using a tried and true liberal process of filibustering the opposition party’s legislation or nominees. The Democrats can cram down our throats all the socialist legislation or leftist nominees they want unfettered by any opposition voices -- and of course, they won’t hear anything but cheers from the liberal press.
But here’s the thing -- be careful what you ask for. By finally getting their much sought after super majority, the Democrats own whatever happens. So far, they have practically bankrupted the country, nationalized businesses, and increased the national debt more than all the previous administrations before them - combined. Foreign countries hold over 50% of our debt, and now they are looking at moving away from the dollar as their monetary standard. Interest rates are starting to creep upward - all pointing to signs of runaway inflation.
So what’s the Administrations answer - blame Bush. Vice President Biden’s recent statement that he and President Obama “underestimated” how bad the economy was that they inherited demonstrates they are returning to the only thing that liberals have ever done well - and that’s blame President Bush for everything.
How sad - these elected officials are to be our leaders - and all they do is blame others for their mistakes.

Robert McNamara dead at 93

Most will not even take notice of the passing of Robert McNamara. But I will. As a young kid, I heard his name almost nightly on the TV news in the 1960s in regards to reports on the war in Vietnam. Serving as Secretary of Defense for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, Robert McNamara had his critics, and his name and life has forever been connected to his directing of the war in Vietnam, back then, an advocate of the war, but later in life stating the war was a mistake.
For what you may think of Robert McNamara, he was a patriot. He had the courage of his convictions. He acted on what he believed regardless of politics and popular sentiment.
You hear these are trying times today, but nothing what this SecDef faced during his time in Washington. One can look at the news reports of the protests in Teheran and draw a comparison to riots in Chicago at the 1968 Democratic Convention - and today, some get all excited due to conservatives having “tea parties” -- how times have changed.
In 2003, the documentary “The Fog of War” detailed the 11 lessons Robert McNamara learned during his life - simple lessons that can have massive implications. I felt it was his final contribution to America, and in a way he was saying goodbye. Rest in Peace Bob.

The Continued War on Conservatives

It seems liberals aren’t satisfied with winning the election, taking complete control of Congress, and turning America into a Socialist country - it’s obvious they feel the need to kill all opposing voices who they perceive a threat to their liberal doctrine. Take the case of Sarah Palin. No person in the history of American politics has ever been the assaulted by such vicious, hateful, unrelenting attacks as Governor Palin. With her announcement today, the Democratic National Committee did not pass up the opportunity to stick one more knife in Gov. Palin, by saying her decision to step down as Governor and not seek re-election “continues a pattern of bizarre behavior”. This on the heals of David Letterman’s over the top personal attacks on her family. The fact is that nothing is out of bounds for liberals when attacking conservatives - for example the thousands of jokes about Ronald Reagan when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease -- for liberals to make fun of anyone with this horrible affliction - how classy.

The Bush Effect

Freedom and democracy are infectious. When an oppressed people see their neighbors living in freedom without oppression from their government, they soon seek a means to obtain the freedom enjoyed by their neighbors. The news reports coming out of Iran demonstrate this very thing.
What I don’t understand is that no one is talking about the connection between what happened in Iraq to what is happening in Iran today. It’s fairly obvious that when President Bush liberated the people of Iraq from the brutal dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, and helped them set up a democracy in the center of the middle east, that it would not be long before the people in the surrounding countries began to question why they don’t live with the freedoms of their Iraqi neighbors. The people of Iran are questioning their government which has forced that regime to show what steps it will take to remain in power.
With President Bush’s decision to go liberate Iraq, it may have just started a world wide movement for oppressed people everywhere to question why they don't live in freedom and democracy. And while the leftist press in our country will never credit George W. Bush for doing anything positive for the world, I believe history will.