Why the Republicans Should Be the Party of No
Published By: All Right Magazine on March 8, 2010
The A1S8 Society
By BRYAN BJORNSON
In politics the answers to important questions rarely can be answered either yes or no. Compromise in the world of politics is important, often distasteful, but important. Yet there are times when compromise is not only distasteful but wrong. Are we in such a time? Yes! On some issues there can be no compromise, there is but one option and that is to stand for what you believe in. What are the issues on which the Republicans should refuse to compromise? Why, on these issues, is compromise wrong? Let us take a look at the issues on which there should be no compromise.
Health Care
The response of the Republican Party to any and all ideas or plans for our government providing health care to anyone other than a Federal employee or a veteran should be a flat out unequivocal NO. Why should the Republican Party say no? For the simple reason that for our Federal government to provide health care for every American citizen makes as much sense it would for it to provide auto insurance for every driver. The Federal employees could probably find their own health care at a better price than what our government pays. What business is it of our government if someone does or does not have health care? In response to this Democrats will say that there are 46 million people without health care. This number suggests that to not have health care is a problem. That for our government not to provide is to be cruel and lacking in compassion. Then to play on our sympathies, they will bring forth someone who is struggling with financial difficulties due to a serious medical problem. This is done with the idea all of the 46 million without health care are all in financial difficulty solely because they don’t have health care. It makes it look like there is a health care crisis when there isn’t one. It makes the so called health care crisis one that the American taxpayer must pay for.
Why should the American taxpayer pay for the health care of illegal aliens? They are 9.7 million of those without health care. Why should the American taxpayer pay for the health care of those making over $50,000 a year? That is 17.6 million of those without health care. Why should the American taxpayer pay for the health care of those under 34? They are 18.3 million of those with out health care. Add those numbers up and that is 45.6 the 46 million who are without health care. So the claim that there are 46 million Americans without health care is not an entirely accurate statement. That 400,000 Americans are without health care is hardly a crisis by any stretch of the imagination.
Cap and Trade
This is nothing more than a tax on businesses in the energy industry. Its primary effect will be higher prices for the energy needed to run all of the businesses and homes in our country. The push for this is to stop global warming/climate change. Why has a problem that supposedly endangers our ability to survive, the problem of global warming, is now called global climate change? To call it global climate change means that our planet is not warming because of the use CO² has not created the dreaded greenhouse effect of trapping heat in the earth’s atmosphere. Our planet is now either cooling or the predicted global warming has stopped. However to turn around and try to claim that the use of CO² is now causing global cooling is something that Democrats know would destroy their credibility. To maintain their credibility the problem is now global climate change. Global climate change has been going on ever since our planet was formed. It is not a man made problem! Global warming/climate change is an idea held by some but not all members of the baby boomer generation that their mortality is somehow connected to the destruction of our planet. This selfish generation, of which I am a member, is so arrogant, so conceited that it thinks it has the power to either save or destroy the world. In their selfish attempts to “save” our planet these baby boomers want to destroy the economy that gave them the great life that they have. The only thing man made about the global warming/climate change crisis is the idea that there is a crisis. Global climate change is as natural as the weather.
The Economy
This is where the necessary evil of government is especially dangerous! While there is a need for government regulations they must be written with care and should end after five years. If there is a need for them to continue they must be reintroduced and passed as brand new laws. This is because government regulations are a hidden method of taxing businesses. Regulations increase the cost for a business to provide their goods and services. That cost is passed onto the consumers of those goods and services. There are also hidden costs for starting a new business with an increase in government regulations. Those costs are the increased amount of funding needed and difficulty of raising more money to start a new business. When the cost of starting a new business is too high then we the consumers lose out. We lose out because a new product isn’t available. We lose out because jobs are not created. We lose out because established businesses have less competition. Less competition equals higher prices. But our biggest loss is when our economy doesn’t grow because someone couldn’t get their new business started.
How Saying No Is Actually Saying Yes
As President Ronald Reagan said in his first inaugural address “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” Then if government is the problem the solution is to reduce the size of our government! When the Republicans in Congress says no to these proposals to increase the size of our government they are saying yes to the limited Constitutional government our Founding Fathers created. Our Founding Fathers wrote our Constitution not to create a government that will solve everyones problems. They wrote our Constitution to prevent our government from becoming the tyrannical government they had just fought a revolution to get rid of! These three issues are just but a small part of the ways the Democrats, who now control Congress, want to make our government the type of government our Founding Fathers pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to get rid of. Is it too much to ask the Republicans in Congress to take the non-life threatening political risk to vote against bills that would prevent our government from becoming what our Founding Fathers fought against?
Bryan Björnson is a self-confessed right-wing revolutionary.
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March 24th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
The U.S. Government is killin’ us. Doesn’t everyone see that this monster of a bill is going to drive up taxes for everybody and even invent new ones for everyone?