Mr. Schock I did have a few questions
A close knit farm community does have much to teach the nation at large. Our new connectivity tools put us in touch with a disaster anywhere in an instant. We have this opportunity to communicate, build dialogs, and coordinate efforts. Unfortunately, we do not know how to turn these opportunities into a national community. Our new tools are not used to help our nation work together, but to divide and manipulate us from the top. There were always those in a small community who opposed everything, never helped anyone, and tried to chisel a few dollars in every trade. A community knew who they were and everyone went forward in spite of them. In our modern world those few who care nothing for anyone else, have learned to use modern tools to manipulate the nation. The politics of no compromise, legislative paralysis, and economic unfairness are acceptable goals to the power lobby. The power lobby is not concerned with a better future.
The most centrist Republican fiscal policies are now heresy in the new GOP/Tea Party cult. The party of conservative fiscal policy has gone on a bender. Apparently, the parents left town and the rebellious teens took over. The Iraq War cost more than the Obama stimulus program. It was not paid for and the debt is spinning higher on the interest. None of the Iraq spending built anything in the United States. I can not imagine 1960 Midwest Republicans allowing such irresponsibility as occurred in the decade of the naughts 2000 to 2010.
This chart shows spending increasing
Tax cuts, spending increases, and financial collapse with solutions apparent to the objective.
In 2011 a policy of raising some revenues and cutting spending is unacceptable to every presidential candidate in the GOP debates. Is that a sensible approach? Will it strengthen our nation? Unless the GOP/Tea Party is forced to change policies; our deficit and our debt will never be contained. Turning our nation into a future looking community will never become a reality. Deficit, debt, and future obligations can not find solutions without factual assessments. The well built house, the well managed farm, or a sensible government can survive a hurricane, drought, or economic collapse.
So Mr. Schock would you engage in a fact based discussion?
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