Thursday, October 22, 2009
Tea Party is out to save the nation
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Chip Tarbutton
Tarbutton, of Fincastle, is a board member of the Roanoke Tea Party.
President Obama and the congressional leadership in Washington have a really sweet deal working. They have passed unprecedented spending bills in 2009, with the cornerstone being the various stimulus/buyouts that occurred late in President Bush's term, then were accelerated madly over the past few months. We have been told by leaders in Washington that without this spending the nation's economy will collapse due to the mess created by the Bush administration. Based on this paradigm, any failures are Bush's fault, any successes are attributed to government spending. What a great way to never be accountable for anything. We all need a deal like that in our business and personal life.
It's always convenient to blame errors at work on the last guy who left the company. I think we've all seen that. And it often works, since sometimes the last guy out left because he wasn't doing a good job. Bush's last two budgets were loaded with pork and spending and TARP was a train wreck. He certainly has some accountability for the current mess.
But before we let the Democrats continue to blame Bush for everything, we should ask them a couple of questions. Since most of the media can't do anything but reverently repeat Obama's pronouncements, as if he and his teleprompter had descended from the mountaintop, it's left to private citizens to ask these questions.
If Bush's economic policies were so bad, why did Obama vote for the last two Bush budgets and TARP?
Job losses continue, although at a slightly lower rate than before. Obama continues to trumpet that the administration has saved millions of jobs. Can anyone please ask how the White House counts this?
Can anyone ask for a list of the permanent jobs created by the various stimulus packages?
Who creates jobs?
Those are basic, commonsense questions I would think that a first-year journalism student would ask. But no one does because there are no good answers to these questions, and the whole illusion that the stimulus package is helping the economy would collapse like a deck of cards if anyone looked closely at this Ponzi schemish government program.
The stimulus package hasn't worked, won't work and can't work for one simple reason. The government doesn't create jobs. Businesses create jobs. And nothing that has passed will help businesses create jobs.
Yet by all measures the economy is slowly improving. Why? You can thank your local Tea Party movement and town hall meetings for that. What makes America great is the ingenuity of Americans and their entrepreneurial spirit. Not the government. It takes a lot to destroy the engine that is America, and what we are seeing is the strength of our economy fighting back from the brink, driven by the hard work of the American people.
They have been able to do this because grass-roots movements have delayed passage of job-killing bills like cap and trade, medical reform and card check. Running up massive debt eventually is going to kill our economy, but these bills will quickly hasten our economic decline. By fighting to stop these measures, the Tea Party has given the American economy a fighting chance for a short-term recovery.
So thank your local community activists for saving the economy, at least until the Democrats get their act together, ram these bills through and really wreck the economy.
If that happens, it will become increasingly difficult for Democrats to simply blame Bush as the economy spirals toward the abyss. We need to elect leaders in 2010 and 2012 who understand these basic facts. And then hold them accountable, since we know that the press is not able to do that anymore.
Join your local Tea Party to continue to save our nation.
