My liberal friend showed up today with a Cheshire cat smile. She could not wait to have me explain why in this cruel world a super billionaire like Warren Buffet should pay a mere 17% in income taxes. Even Buffet himself said that his taxes were too low!

 So I asked her a question.

 ”Is the income tax for people that pay over 6 million in taxes annually set at 17%?”

 ”No.” she said.

 ”Is there a special waiver for millionaires and billionaires?” Again she said “No.”

 So how is it that Warren Buffet pays less than half the taxes that his secretary pays?

 ”He makes most of his money on Capital Gains.”

 ”I see. So very little of his money is income as defined by the IRS?”

 ”Correct.”

 ”Well let’s try to correct this travesty. What rate should we set for the income tax of millionaires and billionaires? Perhaps we should double the tax rate? That should teach them. Right?”

 ”Ok.”

 ”Well, if we did that Warren Buffet would be paying all of 19%, you see, he still would be making almost all of his money in Capital Gains. He would hardly break a sweat asking his overtaxed secretary to fetch his check book. On the other hand, all of us less than billionaire and very salaried people would choke on a doubling of our federal tax rate to near 70% and would be unable to afford our state income taxes, and property taxes, and water fees, and sales taxes. Small businesses would collapse. the rest of the real estate market would disappear, and most of us would be jobless. You don’t want that do you?”

 ”Of course not. I just want it to be fair.”

 ”I see. Maybe we need to leave the tax rate alone, and raise the capital gains tax rate to the same as income tax rates. After all, most small businesses file as individuals and the capital gains are counted as ordinary income. That would make it fair and it would be certain to bring Warren Buffet’s tax rate up to and maybe even beyond the rate of his overtaxed secretary.”

 ”Well now that certainly sounds fair.”

“Is it? Do you think that if you invest your capital in something, and take all the risk, the government should automatically grab 35% of all the goodies? What would that do to the ability to raise capital? How would that make American businesses, already burdened by regulation, litigation and local taxation,  more competitive.”

 ”Well, you’re not being reasonable. Warren Buffet is a smart man. He knows all this. He still thinks its a good idea.”

 ”Yes, Buffet know all of this. With the misdirection of a practiced magician, he makes us all believe that he and his friends want to pay more taxes, but in fact, he just wants the rest of us to pay more taxes and think that he is leading the way.”

 As she left the room, I reminded her that there were more overtaxed secretaries than under-taxed billionaires, and I suggested that she concern herself with them instead.

I am seeing it all over the place now. The Tea Party is Extremist. Perry is weird, Bachmann is a weird extremist. The Republican Party is held hostage by inflexible, bible thumping whackadoos.

We are in virgin territory here! We have tax payers that do not want to pay off small, out of the way airports for flights that never happen. We have politicians that discovered, with Casablanca like shock and dismay, the government hid hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars in a 2400 page healthcare bill and we have citizens that feel a mandatory government installed GPS in your car denies the very meaning of Freedom. How dare these people complain?

Go figure.

Yesterday, our president, who started every 2008 campaign speech with “Only the government can…” implored his followers to call their GOP representatives and get them to compromise. Last week, his sycophants spread out on the talk shows and called the bond downgrade the “Tea Party Downgrade”, hoping we wouldn’t notice the coordination of the effort or the Pravda-like way it inverted the facts rather than reflect them.

Well… I have more faith in the American people than that. It is not extremist to understand that you cannot spend more than you have Ad infinitum. Any person who has had to do a household budget understands that. Funny thing is, almost all of us know someone who has not figured that out. He is a charmer. He lives on your couch, dodges the debt collectors, and has borrowed from everyone he has ever shaken hands with, and in the real world he is the guy we never put in charge of the household economy.

The American people know, they just know, that they cannot spend themselves rich. Imagine your significant other coming home one evening and saying, “Honey, I just lost my job. Let’s go out and buy a new Escalade to make up for the lost income!” Weird? Extremist? A candidate for a visit to Shady Pines? Yet, this government, this president, wants us to believe exactly that. He is the grown-up in the room, and all of us who are telling him that spending money you don’t have is foolish are supposed to be the whackadoos.

They try to tell us that we cannot be competitive in the 21st century with low tax rates. Really. They do. Its as if they strung a bunch of random words together and hope we synthesize the meaning from them ourselves.

For my misguided friends on the left, being competitive in business means creating better with less. If you have high taxes, high energy costs, high labor costs and a high barrier to entry, you are not competitive. Period. It’s not a question of fair or unfair, good vs. evil. It’s simple. An uncompetitive environment chases away business or drives it to bankruptcy. To believe otherwise is weird, extremist and whackadoo.

The taxpayers and the Tea party in America demand low taxes and low regulations because that creates a competitive environment. That’s not weird. That’s a jobs program.

Now this president is covering himself in the mantle of President Bush. Yesterday, in Iowa when he was told by an Iowa voter that they stood for a balanced budget, he retorted “Where were you in the Bush years.” That is an argument from the only grown up in the room? Most Americans did not like Bush’s deficits either. In fact, most Democrats, including this president, voted against them. Those deficits were 450 billion dollars, less than a third of the 1,600 billion dollar deficits that Obama is running each year.

How weird is it that those deficits concern us? How extremist are we to want an end to them? Because we do not want our children and our children’s children to be saddled with this expense are we the whackadoos?

I don’t think so. I know that government is a poor investor of money, because a politician is not responsible for an economic return. Over the last two year’s I watched the federal government spend 41 million dollars of YOUR tax money as they rebuilt the train platforms in my home village of Ridgewood, New Jersey. There was nothing wrong with the old platforms. It is not an Amtrak stop. It is a commuter railway station. Not a single dollar of additional output or services will be created by the project. Sure we have a nice and shiny new platform, but it wasn’t necessary. As an “investment” it will have no real return. Worse still, the president complained yesterday that 72 billion dollars worth of repairs need to be done to the nation’s bridges. I’ll bet they could have used that 41 million “invested” on the station platforms.

Only a whackadoo would spend money he didn’t have on this project. Only an extremist would tell the American people that “unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program.” like Nancy Pelosi did. Only a weird person would announce ” There is no chance that the U.S. will lose its top credit rating” mere days before it actually happens, like Tim Geitner did.

No less an expert on propaganda than Herman Gobbels bragged that if you tell a lie often enough, it starts to be believed. Don’t let this happen. Sure I’ll compromise. I understand we cannot do everything at once. But I will not tell my whackadoo and jobless significant other that we can’t afford the Escalade, so why not just get a new Suburban instead. That’s not compromise. That’s weird. That’s extremist.

Dear Mr. Perry,

Thank you for joining the race for president. Your country needs you. Also thank you for announcing at Red State.

That said, you will quickly feel like you have walked under a bucket of Bat Guano.

In the day or so that you have announced I have already heard that The Texas Miracle is no miracle at all. Although Texas has done well, you had nothing to do with it.  I heard Texas is only doing well because its an energy state. My personal favorite: Texas is only doing well because housing is cheap there and so is the cost of living!

I understand that you got a “C” in goat husbandry. I heard that you were a Democrat, once. I heard that you were too right for the Republican party and too left for the Tea party. I heard that you were a televangelist!

Perhaps the most telling blow of all, America is not ready for another Governor from Texas.

Mr. Perry, it is time to refute all of this.

The Texas miracle is no miracle at all. It is merely the understanding that if you leave people alone they will tend to create their own prosperity. In Texas the legislature meets every two years. For most of the time it doesn’t do anything. Nothing at all.

Business owners have the kind of stability that allows them to invest and gives them the time to have that investment pay off. Simply put, Texas rewards prudent risk.

Yes, housing costs in Texas are certainly cheaper that they are in the Northeast, but people do not move if they have no way to pay for it. So, Mr. Perry, before there were houses there were jobs. Jobs were created in Texas by GM when they just spent 331 million dollars to renew the plant in Arlington.

New innovative businesses like Carter Aviation, are designing an altogether new kind of  aircraft, and they are based in Texas.

Heathcare has decided to base itself in Texas due to the strict laws against frivolous suits.

Oh, and yes, there is Oil, Black Gold, Texas tea. Oil in Texas has contributed 13% of all the jobs Texas has added in the last year.  Great, but that still leave 87% of the jobs that were added in the non-oil sectors of the economy. Ya know, its funny, because our misinformed friends on the left fringe of American politics never seem to comprehend the scale of anything. 13% will never equal 100% just like all the money of “millionaires and billionaires” will never equal the amount of money that they are borrowing.

Texas is not alone in having an Oil sector. California does too, but it hasn’t kept them from having the highest taxes in the country or energy costs that are 50% higher than elsewhere.

New Jersey has oil off its coast, but it has chosen not to exploit it. Florida has oil off its coast and Obama withdrew the leases that were going to let that oil contribute to the Florida economy. North Dakota has shale oil, but this government won’t let them get at it. Texas could have gone that way too. You could have stopped oil production in the state to pay homage to the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard, but frankly that is stupid, so it didn’t happen. The government did not meddle, like an overbearing mother-in-law, in the act of creating prosperity.

No, Mr. Perry, Texas works because it gets out of your way.  Carl’s Jr. moved its headquarters to Texas because it takes up to two years to break ground a restaurant in California, but only six weeks in Texas. The people came from Detroit, and St Louis and Chicago because you were offering them something they could not find at home; a job.

This election will be fought on the economy, but that will not stop the left from trying to distract the voters with your “weird” love of God. Well, Mr. Perry, there was a time, not too long ago, when every president had an annual day of prayer. In fact only Obama has not done that. There was a time when the Marxist teachings of Black Liberation Theology were considered the lunatic fringe and antithetical to everything we stood for in America. There was a time when we asked God to bless this country, not damn it. and we never apologized for our success.

You have the left worried. Really. A governor is an executive who must be practiced in the art of the deal, or nothing would happen. (Like in DC right now) They know that your record will be over the same time frame as Obama’s record. They know that you are the longest serving governor in the US and they know that you are the only Texas Governor to be elected three times in the state. That is not an accident. That is not lucky and that does not happen if you are unable to represent all of the people. If the worst that can be said of you is that you are the governor of Texas, well, you have my permission to gloat.

And Mr. Perry, don’t you worry about that “C” in goat husbandry, we haven’t had goats on the White House lawn for over a hundred years.

Sincerely,

Gregory Stewart

Today, a little before 6am, we became a second rate power.

It had been coming for a couple of years now. The Senate has not passed a budget in 813 days. We cannot figure out how to pay our bills, and we borrow forty three cents for every dollar that the government spends.

We seem to couch our international interests in the interests of others, and extend our rights of citizenship to all we deal with, including those who would destroy that citizenship altogether.

Our schools are broken. We rank 27th out of 33 in Math, and 22 out of 33 in Science according to the 2009 OECD figures. The real world tells us that we have done far worse than that for our neediest children. The illiteracy rate in Detroit is 47%. That is two points WORSE than Afghan males!

We are unable to build our own infrastructure any more. The new San Francisco Bay Bridge is being built in China and shipped to the city by the bay. It will save half a billion in costs.

Yes, the signs were all around us. We have regulated and cost our selves out of competitiveness in virtually every sphere of business. We have not built a new nuclear plant since 1977. We are canceling permits to mine coal in West Virginia, and we are dragging our feet on allowing any permits to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. We can forget about Alaska and our shores. As our president said “Of necessity, electricity rates will skyrocket.”

We knew this day was coming, even if we just couldn’t imagine it.  We read articles suggesting that double digit unemployment was the new normal, and others that showed 40 weeks to be the average time of unemployment. Yet others suggested that the road to happiness must come from having very little of what you had before.

But today it happened. At 5:57am Daylight Savings Time, The United States of America became an Earthbound country. The shuttle Atlantis landed for the very last time.  Our country will no longer lead in the exploration of outer limits. We will hitch a ride with the Russians, like the Dutch, or the Finns.

Today, we put the finishing touches on a policy of insignificance. Today we gave up the mantle of leadership, much as we did in Libya, or for that matter, as we have done in much of the rest of the world. We will be content now , to squabble over the dinner crumbs of prosperity or at least those that can still be found, without giving a second thought as to how we became a first rate and prosperous power to begin with.

…And while we are at it, there needs to be more of them. Since we elected Barack Hussein Obama president, this government has been at war with business. They pledge to increase TAX PERCENTAGES so that “Millionaires and Billionaires can pay their fair share.” During the election, Obama agreed that an increase in the capital gains rate might net no gains at all, even perhaps less would be collected, but that he would do it anyway, as a matter of fairness. (He did not raise that rate. He didn’t have the votes, but the investment chilling message was sent anyway.)

Obamacare will put a tremendous unfunded mandate on employers, who have struck back by refusing to hire unless it was absolutely necessary, and who have withheld raises, reduced investment risk, and reduced quality of life issues to save for this upcoming disaster.

Little noticed by the mainstream media, our world has changed dramatically when businesses have to deal with bureaucracy. The level of regulations seem to be doubling every six months. Oil platforms in the Gulf cannot get the permits to reopen, and energy companies cannot get the permits to explore. Coal companies that have already received their permits seven years ago are having them taken away from them, and businesses are being told which states they are allowed to operate in. This takes as large a toll on business as taxes or Obamacare, but it takes the largest toll on small business. Carl Jr’s CEO Andrew Puzder told the California Chamber of Commerce that it takes 8 months to get a permit to build in California and the same permit takes six weeks in Texas. The additional cost is more than 250 thousand per store. Small businesses do not have that kind of additional startup capital, so the company does not open and the jobs are not created.

Need proof? Texas gained a million plus jobs in the last decade while California lost them. As Puzder said “You can’t build stores in California, you can’t manage them in California, and, even if you can build them, you have to pay a big tax. In Texas, you can build them and run them, and you don’t have to pay (income) tax.”

Still, the Democrats have a point. We will not get out of this crisis unless the rich pay more. It won’t due to pick around the edges, and a couple of percentage points won’t add anything to the coffers, as it will only serve to dampen the entrepreneurial spirit of our investors. A whole lot of percentage points will demolish what prosperity we still have, and in any case, we couldn’t balance this budget with this economy, even if we confiscated the total income of our “Millionaires and Billionaires”.

No, we will need to take a radical path, a path untried by our left leaning friends. We will need to help the wealthy create new wealth, so that they can pay more taxes.

The first step would be to get rid of the Orwellian notion that a Tax Percentage Increase raises taxes. Oh, sure it does, if the nominal sum is so small that an increase would go unnoticed, but in the world that we live in, an increase in tax rates would likely mean less money collected, not more. The tax increases that are proposed pretend that the economy will stay the same or even grow as we sap the lifeblood of every small businessman, and every company that contributes to the economy. That is a conclusion that lives somewhere between deceitful and dumb.

No, we will not be able to get the rich to pay more just by raising their tax rate. We cannot force them to be prosperous while we declare war on them. Instead we will need to entice them to pay the government more. We need to promise that their tax rate will either stay the same or DECREASE.

We need to repeal Obamacare. It only makes sense if we are completely oblivious to the damage it costs our economy on every single level.

We need to reduce or eliminate regulations that sap the strength of businesses and the will of investors.

Of course these businesses and investors will need help to get richer, and some ordinary people will need help just to get rich in the first place. If only we had 14 million people sitting on the sidelines, willing to help them, and get paid for it. Wait! We do. They will take the jobs that are being created and then these people collecting unemployment, will start paying taxes themselves, and Social Security, and Medicare too.

Stock brokers and fund managers will take advantage of a rising stock market, and they will pay much more in taxes. Indeed, many will pay three or four times what they pay now. C’mon, admit it. In Obama’s wildest dream he was never thinking about getting three or four times the money from fund managers as he is now. Let’s face it. That is real money.

All those 14 million newly minted workers will have new wants and needs as they move from hopelessness and destitution to prosperity. They will buy things. The sellers will make more money and Bingo! They will pay more taxes as well. Small businesses will have an environment where they will want to open their doors and they will be permitted to do so. Regular people will become wealthy. Wealthy people will become millionaires and millionaires will become billionaires! Better yet, They will ALL be paying more taxes, and happy to do so as well!

The recall vote in Wisconsin deserves all of our attention. This is not a local event. This is a national event. Right now the national pro-labor forces are consolidating their power on six districts in Wisconsin. That means an army of pro-labor volunteers and a ton of pro-labor money, intent on buying or bullying there way to power. Why? Why here in this normally blue state? Why not in Ohio, or for that matter New Jersey, where Republican Chris Christie got the cooperation of Democrats in passing laws that will constrain labor a whole lot more than Wisconsin’s new laws? Why? Well, it’s really simple; without the immediate help of all of us, they will succeed in Wisconsin.

These local elections are usually very low turnout affairs. If labor can turn out their base, while the rest of us yawn through July 12^th, The Democrats could turn out all of the six legislators up for recall. They have the money. They have the carefully tailored pitches going to the most loyal union supporters, They are campaigning as if this is life or death while the rest of us assume this is some local election.

If they succeed, they will have sent a warning shot across the bow of every state legislator in the country. This will have the effect of a wide pinstripe-suited, fedora-wearing thug visiting a candy store. They will promise an era of non-stop campaigning and recalls by the bushel until and unless their demands are met.

They will disrupt Indian, and Ohio. They will attack in New Jersey and New York. They will impose them selves in every state, with the threat of recalls just over the horizon for any recalcitrant legislator that needs to be whipped into compliance.

I have seen the articles that say Obama is a one term president, but a labor force with the kind of power that they aim to achieve in Wisconsin will be the strongest soldier in the field or Obama’s re-election.

We need to help. Here are the web sites of the six legislators up for recall. Write in support, but give them the money to turn back this onslaught.

State Sen. Robert Cowles

http://voterobcowles.com/

State Sen. Alberta Darling

http://albertadarling.com/

State Sen. Shelia Harsdorf

http://harsdorf.com/

State Sen. Randy Hopper

http://votehopper.com/

State Sen. Dan Kapanke

http://www.kapankeforsenate.com/

State Sen. Luther Olsen

http://www.lutherolsen.com/dev/

I am no huge believer in coincidences, and we have the mass resignation of all the top Gingrich people from a campaign that was stuck on “cruise” control, at the same time that a Perry staffer leaked the Governor has decided to enter the 2012 race. Coincidence? I think not. Ron Johnson has already run Perry’s successful gubernatorial campaigns, and Dave Carney comes from his camp as well. Also, call me crazy, but normally, most sane people don’t quit a job, unless they have another waiting on the side lines.

As head of the Republican Governors Association, Perry has ready access to the shakers and movers that can fund a presidential campaign, and in the New York Times today, it was announced that Perry would be visiting New York City and LA. Funny, what could a conservative Republican find in those two cities? Oh, I know: Funding.

So, yes, Perry is getting in.

He will be able to compare his job growth program with Obama’s job growth program. He will be able to compare his low taxes to Obama’s high taxes. He will be able to compare his twelve years of executive experience to Obama’s years as a community rabble rouser … Opps !, I mean Community organizer.

Just look at the census folks. Texas added four congressional seats! California added none. New York lost two. Illinois lost one. People go where prosperity lives. Let’s get behind Perry so that prosperity can live amongst all of us.

The New York Times, and especially Paul Krugman, continue to force feed us the hypothesis that we can fix our economy merely by spending more money. According to Krugman, we can tax the rich. That one or two percent of the population have an almost unlimited ability to pay for whatever ails the nation, and our access to this pot of gold is only denied by the feckless nature of elected Democrats and the evil nature of Republicans.

But even Krugman admits that the rich cannot bail us out all on their own. He now claims that promises to keep taxes low on the middle class should be shelved as well. Krugman sees higher taxes for the entire productive class. In addition Krugman and the New York Times, have floated the idea that we can continue to borrow, with essentially no limits and no policies that would control costs, other than military costs.

This puts on display an absolutely amazing inability to figure out how humans really work. If I am an employer, (The only people who hire are employers) and I see that the poorer half of Americans are getting a ONE TIME ONLY check from the government, I’m sorry, but it does not inspire me to go out and add workers, that I will spend months training. It does not help me decide to put everyone in their family, up to the 26 year old college graduate, on a Healthcare insurance program that I will pay for. It does not overcome the resistance I might have towards all the forms I have to file and regulations I need to understand both when hiring and later on when firing any new employee. No, by the time I get up to speed, that $500 check will be gone and I will be saddled with expenses that I cannot afford. I think I’ll pass.

If I offer to give people a rebate when they buy their car today, but not tomorrow, I will create sales today. Of course I will, but those sales will not come from people who were not going to buy a car anyway. They come from people who would have bought the car, without the rebate tomorrow, and after I have given the rebate out, there will be fewer people buying cars tomorrow.

If the Government hires hundreds of thousands of people to investigate, monitor, supervise, interfere with and regulate private business, those businesses will of necessity,  slow down, because they are being investigated, monitored, supervised, interfered with and regulated. Not only do these jobs create a burden on the taxpayers, but they slow down the ability of the taxpayers to carry that burden.

I call this a Snickers Bar economy. At first it tastes great, and even makes you feel full. Unfortunately, it provides no nutrition, and soon leaves you famished.

We had a stimulus bill with a cost of 870 billion dollars. That is $2,900 dollars of debt for every man woman and child living in the US. We were promised that with this bill, unemployment would not go over 8 percent. In fact, we have not had a single month since the passage of the stimulus, where unemployment was less than 8 percent!

We had a cash for clunkers program, which artificially stimulated car sales but had no lasting effect.

We had a home buyer credit program. It pushed future sales into the timing of the program, and as a result, the April housing numbers were the worst since the great depression.

We knew this was coming. When Obama ran for President, he started every other speech with the claim “Only the government can…” He was not and is not able to understand the very simple statement: “Only employers can hire.” The way he sees it, employers are part of the problem. They need to starve a little more AND do all the heavy lifting.

In the mean time, he has spent all of his political capital and all of our real capital on empty calories. When we need real reasons for employers to hire, Obama is left lamenting the fact that he has run out of Snickers Bars.

Rumors have re-surfaced that Rick Perry is considering a run for President in 2012. Limbaugh announced that he would be the exciting candidate.

Well… I  hope so, but as Yogi Berra might say, “Its getting late early.”

Rick’s campaign manager, Rob Johnson was already snapped up by Newt, and presumably is hard at work extracting Newt’s foot from his mouth.

This early part of the campaign is not only about developing name recognition, but its about recruiting the best soldiers you can find to put on the field of battle, and finding the pay masters that will underwrite your campaign.  Oh,… and yeah, its about doing interviews where you do not alienate all but four GOP congressmen running for re-election.

If Rick gets in Reeeal soooon…. He will win!

Rick is the only Governor who has ever won three terms in Texas. That says something. Politicians get toxic quick in Texas, and Rick has avoided that.

In an anti-Washington Era, Rick refused Washington’s $555 million that came with so many strings attached from the federal government. This made him a rock star with the Tea Party.

Perry is a terrific money machine, and that has made him a rock star with the Republican base.

Thanks to Perry’s policies, Texas is doing very well as a state. Its business is responsible for the biggest chunk of the nation’s economic growth. Texas is attracting workers. It added four congressional seats in the last census. Perry is not a young, naive, idealogue who is long on promises but short of accomplishments. He has accomplished much in an executive position of a major state.

Perry has seen how Cap and Trade would be a disaster for our economy and he is against it. 

Perry understands Obamacare could never work and he is against that as well.

Did I mention that Texas has no state income tax? None, Nada, Zip!

For a quick study in efficiency, look at how hurricane Katrina was handled by Kathleen Blanco, and then how Perry handled Hurricane Rita just a month later.

So here’s a guy who can do the job. Here’s a guy that can add private sector jobs, and by doing that raise the total of taxes collected, so we can start to reduce our deficits, but would he be able to take on the young firebrand who won the presidency with promises of hope and change and speeches in front of Greek columns, at packed football stadiums?

Yes! He can. Go on you tube. Listen to the guy. It turns out he is pretty charismatic.

The married nearly thirty years, never divorced, no kids out of wed-lock, disciplined Perry will be embarrassment free as well. He will not have to explain his affairs, three wives or sudden conversions to new Religions.

I hope he jumps in. Right now we need him. We really do.

What do you think?

DISCLAIMER: I am a resident of New Jersey, who works in NYC, I do not personally know Perry, I am not in the energy industry. I just think he has what it takes to win.

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I just finished reading “Can Southern Dems Rebound” an article by Jamelle Bouie of The American Prospect.

He concedes that race is not the only reason that political colors have changed in the south, but he believes that it is the major reason!

I can only hope that one day he listens to people outside his own echo chamber.

Race has nothing to do with it.

I am conservative because I understand that nations cannot spend more than they take in any better than families can.

I understand that when you tax something you get less of it. We tax prosperity and thus get less of it.

I understand that class warfare IS warfare, and warfare destroys. Most of those 9 percent of the population that is still unemployed are our poorest citizens. I think they would rather work than hold their begging bowl out.

I understand that our unique prosperity since the Industrial Revolution comes from using cheap and abundant energy to magnify our productivity. Making that energy rare and expensive will rob each and every one of us.

I understand that controlled markets are not free, not flexible, and not able to withstand corruption. I notice that all of Obama’s biggest donors got a free pass on the Obamacare  costs. What about all the small companies?

I am conservative because I realize that when a mother and a father BOTH raise a child, that child has a far greater chance of thriving rather than surviving.

I believe that when we grow up we should be treated as adults. I do not want my government telling me what to feed my children, or what size car I should buy.

I believe that we should embrace all innocent life, not just convenient life.

I welcome all American Citizens, all of them, to embrace the market based solutions that made our country the greatest one in all of human history, and offers us the best opportunity to pass that on to our children.