This is great. The government approaches these problems as "If we subsidize your life, we can tell you what to do." The private sphere says "If you follow our incentives, we will subsidize those behaviors that are positive, and let you pay for negative ones."
Common sense hurts so good.
An interesting Meet the Press today; the first time I heard national media talk conservative vs. republican policy.
ReplyDeleteThis blog host is a conservative first. We need more like him.
I appreciate that description Anonymous. The GOP is becoming more and more anti-Obama than pro any recognizable policy. They seem more interested in tea parties than recruiting and supporting strong candidates or good ideas.
ReplyDeleteAs far as being conservative, I will also say that a TRUE conservative things government should get out of people's lives. That principle, which is central to my own philosophy, has tremendous reverberations in social policy that many who share most of my views may diverge from.
Quite a backbone. Admirable.
ReplyDeleteThe republican party is not going to bounce back as long as their Too Big To Fail compatriots have control.
Limited control and healthy oversight for both government and business involvement in government would work better. People recoil at the notion of government being controlled by Evangelicals, but business has a much bigger hand (money) in government. Locally, some businesses are more political than the actual politicians and the power wielded by the select few is shattering our economy and our future as they are subsidized by taxpayer money while returning the favor in "campaign" money for favorable decisions. Money drains from the 90% of us outside of this inner circle, soon to be too parched to press onward.
The struggle for republicans nationally is that Evangelicals want control and will walk if they don't get it. TBTF business wants totalitarian control and they'll pull money if they don't get it. What's left is a smattering of unorganized conservatives. Not a good outlook.
Democrats have ideals that are paraded about, even while they are making selfish decisions they have something to put on campaign literature. Republican ideals have been overtly replaced by a 1980's style personal gain filter - if it's good for me, then it's good.
Each time a Democratic politician makes a fiscally unsound decision, I blame the Republicans because they were supposed pull for the taxpayers on fiscal issues.