Posted by
Ron Devito on Friday, November 13, 2009 3:17:04 PM
by Gary P. Jackson
The Speech: A Time for choosing -- http://thespeechatimeforchoosing.blogspot.com
During
the election cycle, and those heady first days of Barack Obama’s
presidency. Barack Obama sold himself, depending on the audience, as
Abe Lincoln, FDR, JFK, and the Great Ronald Reagan. Of course, it was
all smoke in mirrors, as the President Obama most resembles is Jimmy
Carter, our worst President in history, up until Obama took office.
Obama
has us caught in an economic quagmire, and there is no end to this mess
in sight. It’s not just that Obama is horribly inexperienced, or that
he has zero experience in the private sector. It’s not even the fact
that he has zero business experience, never running a business, or
having a job in business, not even a lemonade stand. The rest of the
problem lies in the fact that he has surrounded himself with Marxist
and "scholars" who also have no idea how business, and capitalism
works. All they have are theories, and theories don’t put food on the
table.
With that said,
Obama has reverted back to his community organizing days. Rather than
setting a course that is tried and true, a course that we know for a
fact will work, Obama has called for yet another summit to ask for
suggestions. Some leadership, huh.
This
will be the same Marxists, "scholars" and other assorted misfits and
malcontents who steered Obama in the wrong direction in the first
place. But as always, Obama pretends he wants "all ideas" and has made
a token invitation for input from those in the know. Not that he’ll
listen, of course.
With that in Mind, Sarah has give Obama some solid advice, follow Ronald Reagan!
Thank you, Washington, for Requesting a Demonstrably Good Idea
I
commend the president for acknowledging today that "there are limits to
what government can and should do" to ease our 10.2% unemployment rate
– the highest it’s been since 1983. I also applaud his call for
suggestions and expression of openness to considering "any demonstrably
good idea." Taking him at his word, I’d like to suggest this one: let’s
learn from history and follow the example of the man who occupied the
White House in 1983 and was able to transform an even worse recession
than the one we’re currently experiencing into the largest peacetime
economic expansion in American history.
When you realize the
magnitude of President Reagan’s achievements, there is absolutely no
reason why anyone would ignore his "demonstrably good" example. If you
want real job growth, cut taxes – including capital gains taxes and
small business payroll taxes – and slay the death tax once and for all.
If you want to stimulate the economy and help poor and middle class
families, cut payroll taxes so that more Americans can keep and invest
more of what they earn.
If you want lasting economic expansion
and prosperity, get the federal government’s budget under control.
Instead of more pork-laden stimulus plans, let the free market correct
itself. That’s what Reagan did, and history proves it worked.
In
his comments today, the president honorably suggested that he welcomes
our ideas on how to put America’s economy on the right track. But,
there also seemed to be a suggested chastisement of the private
sector’s efforts to right some economic wrongs when he said, "...small
businesses and large firms...have not yet been willing to take the
steps necessary to hire again."
As business owners seek to
expand, or just to keep doors open today, it’s not as if they are
refusing to hire out of spite. Given a pro-private sector environment
they will be only too happy to hire more people and grow their
businesses. Perhaps if leadership in Washington reassured them by, for
example, cutting tax burdens and making government more efficient, it
would send our businesses a message that it’s safe and smart to expand
today.
These are difficult times for so many Americans who are
out of work. I implore our leaders to not threaten our economy’s job
creators with increased taxes and job-killing schemes like cap-and-tax
and the government health care takeover. Government needs to get out of
their way and off their backs so that they can grow and hire again.
The
lessons of history are clear. We’re blessed to have so many lessons
from which to learn, and we’d be smart to emulate successes in
America’s past. Our economic recovery decisions should be based on the
same free market principles that Reagan employed. They work, history
proves it, and I thank our president for asking for this input.
- Sarah Palin
Sarah
Palin herself knows about economic turnarounds. When she took over as
Governor of Alaska things were a mess. Not only was the budget out of
whack, there were huge ethics issues and other issues left over from
the Murkowski administration. Sarah quickly set things in motion by
slashing budgets as well as putting the Governor’s unneeded jet up for
sale. She even got rid of the executive chef, and staff, at the
Governor’s mansion. She also went on to drive herself, in her own car,
most of the time.
The
results? Sarah balanced the budget, and left a surplus, using core
conservative values and common sense. She passed sweeping ethics
reform, to boot.
Folks
who have studied Reagan know that his presidency is a model for how to
do things, especially on the economy. Reagan’s efforts gave us the
longest, and largest, peace time expansion in history.
Let’s hope that Barack Obama listens to Sarah Palin rather than the usual suspects, and does the right thing, for once.
