I Don’t Want America To Be Like Europe…I Don’t Vote Democrat
Part of my problem with what Hillary said is that her idea of the common good is not good for me or my family (pretty typical commoners:-). I cringe at the fact that her and her ilk want to take more away from my family to support the leftist government run economy the Democrats seem to want. Hillary and her party don’t want to get rid of recent tax cuts as part of a program of spending cuts that will bring the budget into balance. Current Democrat rhetoric from John Kerry’s website supports an increase in the involvement of government in nearly every part of our economy and an increase of funding for nearly every government spending program. John was right in his comments to the post below; I don’t want my money spent to support the current incarnations of Social Security and Medicare. I want those to be seriously reformed because I’m not ignorant of the danger they pose 15 years down the road. Their catastrophic failure will ruin the U.S. economy.
I could support the Democrats if they really were the party of fiscal restraint. I could probably even support their tax increase if this were the case. It clearly isn’t. Their platform includes moving toward Canadian style socialized medicine, increased and expanded agricultural subsidies (the largest current form of corporate welfare), fully funding education at the federal level, and a general increase in nearly every other source of government spending. This is not creeping towards socialism, this is racing towards it. I don’t want America to be like Europe. I don’t vote Democrat.
John and Nate are right about the Republicans in their comments to the post below. The level of irresponsibility displayed by this administration and Congress is staggering. They clearly don’t have a better plan than the Democrats for building America.
That said, it is completely disingenuous to propose that the Democrat party is a pillar of fiscal restraint since that is clearly not the case and never has been. Common people like me who really do want smaller government that isn’t spending our grandkids money with abandon are unrepresented. That is the main source of the frustration I expressed towards Hillary’s statement.
1 Comment
RSS feed for comments on this post.
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
I have the same issue with current government. It’s like watching cheaters play cards. Nobody can win unless we adopt honest fiscal policy.
We had a very large discussion on the subject over the past few weeks in my international economics class (my professor is a member of the IMF committee).
Nobody is willing to step up to the plate to tell Americans that they will have to suffer a little now in order to save their children. We’ve been getting more than we deserve now for decades. For a few hundred a year for the next 10 years per family, we could practically erase the national debt. I’m not absolute on a balanced budget, in times of need, it’s OK to dip…..but not for years on end.
Ultimately it’s our fault for not being educated on what the current economic future holds and how it can be changed. We are also greedy. As soon as somebody mentions taking more money, and we don’t get any kickbacks, we get mad. Needless to say, we don’t trust any politician who says more money is needed.
The donkeys and elephants are both wrong, you are correct. We need somebody to represent my children. It’s already gonna be bad enough for me in 40 years….
Comment by Cody Andersen — July 9, 2004 @ 5:52 pm