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Sunday, July 25, 2010
Currently Reading: Getting America Right
Have been reading Getting
America Right: The True Conservative Values Our Nation Needs Today.
So far the 2006 book has been refreshing, with emphasis on practical
questions to drive towards government being representative of what is in
our Constitution and what our Founding Fathers intended.
The
essential questions in the book that all Americans should ask from their
government are:
Is federal action necessary?
Does this measure
promote self-reliance?
Is it [fiscally] responsible?
Does it make
us more prosperous?
Does it make us safer?
For any answers
that are no, the programs should be not funded, canned, done away with.
Some
of the grotesque ways that the U.S. government has expanded over the
years, the waste, the graft of politicians getting rich from coddling
with lobbyists and special interests are covered. Being written by the
head of the Heritage Foundation one would expect heavy criticism of
liberal programs by Democrats, which is included as well as the "borrow
and spend" Republicans.
Unless you have been living in a
cave, you realize that America today is seriously off the tracks. Our
way of life is unsustainable. Runaway government spending and a
resulting Federal budget deficit that is hovering at $13 trillion which
can never be repaid have Americans on edge. The Federal Reserve bank
continues to print money backed by nothing since President Nixon took us
off the gold standard. Inflation has been a problem ever since. For good
reason, the economy today is showing little results from "stimulus"
packages and big bank bailouts, with unemployment at all time record
levels, and the Obama Administration looking for ways to increase taxes
in 2011 that will further hammer businesses, the Middle Class and the
wealthy (who create the jobs along with small business).
America
can be great again, but only with wisdom and integrity and a razor focus
on accountability.
Read the book. Be fully informed. You will be like
me and excited to vote come November.