Bladen Force

You hear about it on the news: the declining value of the dollar, increased gas prices, lost jobs, lower wages, and what have the Democrats proposed to solve these issues? You hear the words “Windfall profits”, “tax the rich”, “cap and trade”, but you don’t know what they mean. I’ll tell you what they mean. It means tax tax tax tax and tax. The Democrats’ solution to anything is to create a tax for it. The Windfall profits tax is just that: another tax on corporations that will pass it on to the consumer. The “Cap and trade” bill is a monumental cost to the American consumer, without any environmental benefit to it at all might I add, that will shoot energy costs through the proverbial roof. When it comes down to it, a Democrat solution to a problem is to take more of your money and offer nothing useful in return.

The Republicans have offered meaningful, cut to the chase solutions, such as decreasing the price of oil by drilling for more and opening new refineries for processing said oil. They’ve said we have to stop punishing corporations and instead give them benefits for keeping money and jobs in America. We’ve got to stop the Unions, who have gone out of control and become a cartel unto themselves, siphoning the life out of corporations like General Motors, and we have to let the private sector, the free market, figure out how to deal with environmental issues through competition and not through failed government policy. We have to let the free market drive down the costs of prescription drugs and healthcare, not let the government socialize a third of the American economy and threaten to bankrupt our economy like France. We’ve got to protect our borders and send back every illegal alien back to their country of origin. We have to decrease the bloated government bureaucracy and cut government spending. We’ve got to develop new military technologies and send men back to the moon and onward towards Mars.

This is the Republican ideal, no, the Conservative ideal, that America is the greatest country in the world, and we have to fight to keep it that way. The Democrats would have you satisfied with the words of Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter: “Do With Less.” In other words, don’t look for hope, don’t look towards the future with eyes wide open, get your head out of the clouds, close your eyes, bury your head in the sand and look towards your government for the answers; “we keep you safe, we are your hope.”

This is what it boils down to when fighting for your country’s soul: those who want to keep the legacy alive, and those who want to destroy it to seize power for themselves.