Posted by
Bert Chapman on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 7:19:27 PM
Recent campaign rhetoric over the encounter between Joe the Plumber and Barack Obama speaks volumes about the economic philosophies of the two presidential campaigns. Those of us supporting John McCain believe that our country is strengthened by all individuals working and taking responsibility for our actions. We believe our economy should benefit individuals who apply themselves in school, strive to live intelligent and moral lives, are prudent and save for a rainy day, and that government's primary economic role is creating and sustaining the conditions necessary for creating more wealth and allowing individuals and organizations such as small businesses to reach their God-given potential.
Those supporting Barack Obama, regardless of their socioeconomic status, tend to take a different view. They believe government is the only entity capable of promoting economic growth. They believe individuals are pathetic victims of supposed racism, sexism, homophobia, or some other victimology du jour to improve themselves. A core tenet of the Obamaites is that you don't need to apply yourself in school, live within your economic resources, or engage in moral and intelligent lifestyle practices. They believe you should consider yourself a victim and be a parasite who lives off of the governmental dole and the hard work and productivity of law-abiding, intelligent, and moral Americans like Joe the Plumber and a host of other individuals from all walks of life and sociocultural backgrounds who make the United States the greatest economic and moral power in history.
Our ongoing economic difficulties have, unfortunately, strengthened the hand of the whining petulatant parasites. Because of this we are in danger of repeating the biblical maxim of Proverbs 26:11 which admonishes "As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly." Rather than using this economic crisis as a teachable moment to promote the virtues of thrift, fiscal prudence, long-term economic thinking and saving for a rainy day, we have succumbed to the belief that we need more infusions of credit to incompetent businesses and imbecilic homeowners who knowingly took on more mortgage debt than they could pay for. Instead of relying on new fiscal stimulus packages or governmental takeovers of the financial sector, we should begin the painful but necessary practice of restraining government spending and reducing our budget deficit and national debt.
This is an excellent opportunity for our governmental leaders to build a financial policymaking institutions that effectively regulate a 21st century global economy and dismantle unnecessary governmental entities. Updating the 1980s Grace Commission reports on governmental agencies and actually implementing such recommendations would be an auspicious beginning to restoring governmental fiscal and administrative probity. Such reform must also occur in Congress and our legislative branch needs to reform its oversight system by eliminating committee turf battles and developing one committee each in the House and Senate to oversee our financial system instead of having a patchwork of committees that our now doing this. Now is also an excellent opportunity to reform entitlement spending and make our tax code more efficient and less burdensome.
An Obama presidency would mark the reemergence of a parasitic welfare state mentality that would do further damage to our socioeconomic fabric and societal development. Instead of promoting real and market oriented change, false prophet Barack Obama and his simpleton followers and more sophisticated acolytes are advocating redistributionist polices which would resurrect the worst failings of LBJ's Great Society liberalism and Jimmy Carter's malaise economic policies.
We can hope and pray this commonsense realization will hit voters as they go to the polls. Unfortunately, our fear that our current economic frustrations will cause many Americans to take their Barack Obama flavored Jim Jones poisonous Kool-Aid and cause this nation to commit political and economic suicide.