What This American Patriot Believes

 Okay, let us go back to what you have said.

Do you believe in self-management or to have the Government manage your life? I believe in freedom and many thing besides, largely rooted in belief in liberty and limited Govt. Thus, I believe in self-management aka individual responsibility.

I don't want government to manage my life, however problems arise such as globalization. It has been around for some 30 years. We have seen the Japanese take most of our steel, our textiles, our electronics, and our cars. It starts with cheap labor, they take market share, and then we lose the jobs. The same is happening today. China, Mexico, and other countries will take the rest of what we have. Widgets can be made anywhere. That means our jobs go someplace else. 

Now, you can sit back and say government needs not to do anything and you can pay more for welfare. Or government can do something through education and coming up with new jobs and that means investment of all kinds, even if we have to subsidize some industries. Without jobs, you can have no country. Other countries do these things, they know what it means to compete with globalization. 

You also talk of limited government, but I assume you want more religion in our lives. So that cannot be limited government.

I believe the government has to do the right things to make us stronger and not be as dependent on other countries.  The republicans, especially the Bush administration has proven just the opposite.

I mentioned tax cuts in 2 out of 18 paragraphs. Thanks for not paying attention. Your blathering about bush and tax cuts misses the fact that we have had hundreds of years of economic history in dozens of countries around the world, to show that Govt intervention fails, high tax rates ruin prosperity, low tax rate aid it. Dont be so narrow-minded and look only at your (skewed and flawed) interpretation of last 8 years. Look at Ireland 1988-2008 for example, or Hong Kong, or Japan 1960-1985. The list goes on and on. Check out Freedom House rankings.

I don't  want high taxes either. It stops the private economy from doing what it is supposed to do. However, you have to pay for the things we have. We have seen the Bush economics of "guns and butter." Bush did not pay for anything. A false economy for 8 years. So you don't have to tell me anything on economics. We saw 8 years of bad economics. Now, can we pay for the war?

Strawman much??? We've pursued free trade since WWII.

We have never been confronted with as much cheap labor. The Chinese has 1 billion people and the Indians have 1 billion people. Free trade has ruined middle class jobs across the Midwest. Look at the electoral vote and see why the votes went to Obama.

That is a failure of fiscal discipline and fiscal responsibility. Maybe I need to add a point that I believe in fiscal responsibility, both by individuals and by Governments.

No. Many towns across the Midwest are seeing the factories close. It means less revenue for the cities and states as our federal government promotes free trade. There is a disconnect here. The people on Wall Street and in Washington say that free trade is good as factories close in communities. The cities and states cannot compete with billions of people with cheap labor. This is where those people on Wall Street and in Washington does not know what is going on on Main street.

Sure, and that 'preparation' sure aint socialized healthcare, a cap-and-trade plan to drive industrial jobs overseas, higher taxes and more regulations on financial sector to kill off IPOs and corporate credit.

I didn't say anything on socialized healthcare, but let's face it, we have a broken system. Corporations cannot compete when they have to pay healthcare and compete with countries with nationalized healthcare. I do not like cap-and-trade, higher taxes are already built in our future with the deficits and debt. You need regulation on the banking industry. A financial collapse is proof of that. No one is stopping IPO's. If anything is killing IP0's and corporate credit then it is a recession or near depression.

What's "Mandatory" vocational training? Will I go to JAIL if I dont go into your stupid Govt program?  Here was my vocational training: I was a paper-boy at aged 12. Since that time I've not been without a job. Ever.  If you go through America's history, you find millions more stories like that than stories of "I was helpless until Big Daddy Govt picked me up."

As for more educated workforce, thanks to affirmative action, this white male missed out on some Govt opptys, but I did manage to get a PhD nevertheless.  Do you think people are clueless and helpless if the Govt is not around to run their lives? That's the attitude that treats adults as children.

I prefer to treat children as children, adults as adults, criminals as criminals. I prefer to treat terrorists as terrorists and not victims of mean-horrible CIA as well...

And so it goes. You have a fictional strawman view of what the Republican party is etc. and throw many non-factual claims that have no relation to the article I wrote.

And if you don't do these things, then you pay for more welfare and we will not have an educated workforce and we will not compete in the world of globalization. Your idea is to have free trade, throw 50 and 60 year olds out of work and tell them "you are on your own." Now, isn't that dumb? You can take a sensible approach or you can create instability. And then you thing it is the cities and states that need to be fiscally responsible. I think you talk with a forked tongue.

Bad CEOs micro-manage. Good CEOs let those most knowledgeable people make the call, putting the responsibility as close to the ground floor as possible. Read up on your Tom Peters for example. In Govt terms it means "That Government is best which Governs least."

Which is why the liberals and Obama will always fail. Bad ideology and bad management theory both.

And we have just seen 8 years of social conservatism and bad ideology running the country. A president that could not run 3rd grade, pumped up by Karl Rove. What a joke. 

You still have to recognize problems and deal with problems when they arise. 

All right.  I'm laying all snark aside for this post.

1.  Tone.  Self-righteousness.  Nobody (well at least not a majority) likes listening to Jesse Jackson and all his pompousness, either.

2.  Policy implications.  How exactly is what Freedoms Truth policy perscriptions different than what the Republican Party has been doing?  They are exactly what Republicans have been doing and he thanked them for it.  The problem of course is that the Republicans have lost badly the past two election cycles.  They might pick up a smattering of House seats, but will probably lose more Senate seats in 2010.  Somethings got to give.

3.  About the marriage thing.  Does anyone here really believe Obama wouldn't legalize same-sex marriage on the federal scale if it was politically popular?  Exactly.  Liberals are winning the fight on marriage equality.  Conservatives seem to be winning the fight over gun control.  Ironically (not) both of them give more freedom to individuals.

4.  Your statement about freedom of expression.  Unless I am totally wrong, any school that attempts to limit a valedictians commencement speech for religious conduct is usually found in the wrong, except where the student used it as a forum to preach or have alter calls or something.  A school district becoming risk averse and stifling expression will get sued just as easily as one who openly preaches to their students.