"The most significant threat to our national security is our debt," Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, August 27, 2010


Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Putting Government First

Our posting today is a link to Pat Buchanan's recent essay describing with fact and focus the horrible disconnect between the larger private, wealth producing portion of America with the bloated, piggish, smaller public wealth consuming portion of America.

You can read his comments at:  http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38536

We encourage you to read this essay and share it with as many as possible. 

America does not need 22+ million wealth consumers in publically funded jobs enjoying, at the expense of the larger private wealth creating workforce, ridiculous levels of pay, benefits and retirement plans.  It most certainly does not need a misguided national government borrowing monies it does not have and will never create to fund this piggish behavior. 

Pat hits the issue dead on with his comments that the states are required to balance their budgets and their cutback efforts are needed to bring fiscal sanity to years of fiscal promiscuity.  All the national government has done is violate the US Constitution and imposed its pathetic pandering to public employee unions with no regard for the larger public good.  This act, on the part of the party in power, warrants their entire dispatch on November 2, 2010.    The national government has no business in law or precedent to over ride the sovereign acts of the states of the United States.

Please pass Pat's article to as many of your friends and associates as possible.

Thank you.

1 comment:

NDDillon said...

This is offensive for both its statements are false and those that merely overstatements. The primary false statements are that (1) we are better off without teachers, firemen and policemen.
(2) the states wanted to get rid of these employees but the federal government would not let them.
(3) that the bill that was passed increases the deficit.

Why does Pat Buchannan need to spout these lies? Why are they repeated here as if they were true.

The misstatements are equally harmful. The premise seems to be that there is some level of demand in the economy that this spending is taking away.

The second is that somehow cutting the deficit has some salutory effect on the economy. Seriously, have any of you looked at interest rates? If the deficit was such a drag on the economy, the interest rates would reflect this market fear and some form of a risk premium would be present.

There are many interesting articles here. This one is just horse manure.