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How To Talk To A Liberal: Big Government

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What in the world do government and mistletoe have in common? Actually, quite a lot. Mistletoe is a parasite that sucks nutrients out of its host tree–I should know with how much is in my backyard. Usually the tree is large enough to handle the loss of some of its nutrients. However when the mistletoe grows so large that it takes more than the host tree can provide, they both ultimately wither and die.

The same story is true with government. In this case, government is the parasite that sucks finances in the form of taxes out of the private sector–again I should know since I pay all of my own taxes. Healthy economies maintain a small government that they can afford to sustain. However, current administrations, from Greece to Italy to the United States, have rapidly expanded their governments at the expense of their economies. As we look in the case of ancient Rome, the outcome of bloated government is the same as that of the bloated mistletoe tree:  death.

Just look at the 2013 government shutdown. 83% of government was still up and running, but who came to the rescue of the other 17%? Of course it was the private sector. Private charities stepped up to fund military death benefits. The RNC offered to fund the World War II memorial for 30 days. Whenever the government needs or wants something, it always turns to the private sector for more and more and more taxes. I’d say it’s time to trim the government mistletoe so we can have a healthier economic tree.

The 25 Republican Senators That Voted For Cloture

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A vote in favor of cloture was a vote to cut off all debate on the House budget bill that would have defunded Obamacare. The following vote was to pass the bill providing the language to defund Obamacare was stripped from it. Cloture required 60 votes to pass, while passing the bill only require 51 votes. As we know the Democrats hold the majority in the Senate, but without Republican support they would not have the 60 votes needed for cloture.

By voting yes on cloture and no on stripping the language to defund out of the House budget bill, these senators ultimately sided with Harry Reid to provide him the ability to save Obamacare. In the process, they created the opportunity to lie to their constituents by saying that they voted for the bill to defund Obamacare, when in reality in the cloture vote that mattered these senators did the exact opposite. Bear these things in mind when next deciding who to vote for on your ballot.

Lamar Alexander (R-TN) reelection 2014 John Cornyn (R-TX) reelection 2014
Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) reelection 2016 Lindsey Graham (R-SC) reelection 2014
John Barrasso (R-WY) reelection 2018 John Hoeven (R-ND) reelection 2016
Roy Blunt (R-MO) reelection 2016 Johnny Isakson (R-GA) reelection 2016
John Boozman (R-AR) reelection 2016 Mike Johanns (R-NE) reelection 2014
Richard Burr (R-NC) reelection 2016 Ron Johnson (R-WI) reelection 2016
Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) reelection 2014 Mark Kirk (R-IL) reelection 2016
Jeff Chiesa (R-NJ) reelection 2018 John McCain (R-AZ) reelection 2016
Dan Coats (R-IN) reelection 2016 Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reelection 2014
Tom Coburn (R-OK) reelection 2016 Lisa Murkowksi (R-AK) reelection 2014
Thad Cochran (R-MS) reelection 2014 John Thune (R-SD) reelection 2016
Susan Collins (R-ME) reelection 2014 Roger Wicker (R-MS) reelection 2018
Bob Corker (R-TN) reelection 2018

When People Try To Shut You Down

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I’m frequently inundated with tweets from so-called “Christians” telling me that I should spend less time talking about politics. According to some, I’m “obsessive” when it comes to divisive and controversial issues such as abortion, and as a Christian I ought to spend more time talking about the Gospel.

My contention is that the reason why abortion has become such a large scale institution is precisely because Christians have not been more outspoken. We’ve been cowered into silence, whether it’s by the threat of losing tax exempt status, or because we’re afraid of push back, or we just don’t care. Christians absolutely need to be involved in political and social issues, as we’re seeing the tragic and horrendous consequences of our ignorance.

Now this is not to say that Christians should not talk about the Gospel–of course we should. However, if the idea of talking about the Gospel exclusively, means ignoring the hundreds of thousands of children aborted every year or pretending that the issue doesn’t exist if we don’t talk about it, then you can count me out. I refuse to have my freedom of speech shut down by people who either disagree with or are threatened by my beliefs.

Keynesian Economics, and Why It Fails

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Keynesian economics. You’ve probably heard the phrase before; it’s usually touted by liberals as the ultimate example of perfected economic policy. My college professor explained that Keynesian economics is the idea that the government should spend extra money when the economy is down in order to stimulate it, then cut back on spending when the economy is good. FDR used this model with his New Deal programs, as has the current president with his 2009 Stimulus Program (though both without ever cutting back on spending).

Well my 18-year-old brain was essentially mush at the time I entered college–not completely, but just about. I bought this ideology hook, line, and sinker…then. Now after 4 years of my own study in the school of common sense I’ve realized that my beloved college professor left half the story out of the lecture. The only way that government has any money is by taking it out of the private sector with the down economy, thereby making the problem worse. Certainly large government picks and chooses who gets the money as it sees fit, but it cannot produce more money–only a thriving private sector can do that.

With all this talk of governments spending money, Keynesian economics begins to sound very much like redistribution of wealth (see theft). Well here’s the bombshell:  it is. Keynesian economics follows the same idea that the government knows how best to spend money, and if it can only spend enough it will eventually stimulate a struggling economy. The big problem is that government spending has the exact opposite effect, dragging a slow economy into a worse and worse state. So it really doesn’t matter if you call it Keynesian, or redistribution, or Marxism–they all have the same economically destructive effect.