Tea Party Has It Backwards

Tea Party activists, Conservative Democrats, and Fiscal Republicans have it backwards.

Don’t talk about cutting government. It is not what should be cut from our federal budget. It is what should be left in to support our federal government’s constitutional functions—to protect the individual’s right to their life, liberty, and property. This means a strong military to protect the Americans abroad and to protect and secure our home borders from all external threats, and a judiciary to guarantee equal administration of law and contracts.

And why not government guaranteed food, housing, education, and healthcare for everyone? It did not work well for those living under Joseph Stalin. Stalin’s government controlled production and distribution of food, farming, housing, and healthcare. The result, death, starvation, and poverty for millions.

Past experience shows it does not work out well for those under any socialist system. Communism, Fascism, and all other forms of secular socialism go against the self interest of human nature. Force is needed, requiring a transfer of increasing power from the many to the few and ending in oligarchy. Certainly not a direction America should be going, but we are.

“President George Bush the younger sought to build a one world based on democracy at a cost in wealth and American life. The result, a President Obama oligarchy at a cost of the freedoms and financial blessing of America’s middle class.”

Greed and envy against our nation’s well off can not solve our financial difficulties. As history has proven, taking from the haves—using taxes or other forms of force—to give to the have nots will not solve the problem, only compound it.

“Forrest Gump’s momma’s ‘stupid is as stupid does’ simply means an intelligent person who does stupid things is still stupid.”

It is irrefutable, the more federal government gets into housing, education, and health care, the more it costs and the poorer a product it produces—and the bigger our national debt.

To balance our federal budget, where to start?

1st What should be left in? The federal government’s constitutional functions—to protect the individual’s right to their life, liberty, and property. A strong military to protect the safety of Americans abroad and secure our home borders from all external threats, and a judiciary to guarantee equal administration of law and contracts. All else left to individual states.

2nd then what?
1. Pay interest on federal debt instruments. Start paying down the debt. And, instead of raising the debt ceiling, start lowering it.

2. Insure military personnel health care and other promised costs are paid. Stop getting involved in no-win ongoing nation-building wars.

3. Honor past Social Security and Medicare entitlement obligations. Do not add to unfunded obligations. Raise Social Security age eligibilities. Start with those now 30 or 40 years of age. Give them private options as well.

We are at war. But, “ . . . we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places . . . ” Prayer is our most powerful weapon.

Our prayers can end the corrupting influence of self-indulgence and moral decay, replace spiritually bankrupts who rule our public and private institutions. And finally fill our judicial system, public institutions, corporate boardrooms, and legislative halls with those who understand and stand on the truth of moral absolutes.

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” ___ G.K. Chesterton

It is not too late. Be Informed Be Involved ___ Michael E. Odell

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