KLINE: Laissez-Faire….Understand?

“Early to bed early to rise, gives government incentive to make your taxes high.”

It seems that our little friends in Washington just don’t wanna give up on their dream of taking over the lives of the American people. Whether it’s a jobs bill, stimulus package, or healthcare reform, they try to make themselves out to be parental figures.

First we saw the Bush Administration help out the big companies so as not to see them go belly up. Then we saw the current Obama Administration do the same thing. After a couple more Viagra shots to the deficit, we saw our president deciding to excessively tax the top ten biggest companies in America (regardless of whether or not they had yet paid back the bail-out money). While all this is happening, we have seen our government on an endless crusade to take over the healthcare system. They can’t help businesses stay afloat and certainly can’t keep their budget straight, but they feel they can heal the suffering healthcare system. In my view, government trying to help the healthcare industry is like giving grape juice at a blood drive…it may look good but it certainly won’t help.

I know the President loves to tell stories about people and their healthcare problems, so here’s mine. A man’s daughter from Mississippi needed cancer treatments. He didn’t have insurance, so he was going to have to pay for it out of his own pocket. However, he was told that if his daughter was an illegal immigrant, if she was born out of wed-lock, or if he and his wife were separated, then the government would cover the costs of her treatment. Now I’m not personally against people who have children illegitimately or people who are separated with children getting healthcare, but I am against government rewarding groups of people for practicing such lifestyles. I’m also against government using our money for the purpose of funding the healthcare coverage of illegal immigrants. A system where government completely rules would be even worse.

Government interference takes away incentive. It’s time that government left matters up to the American people, and just leave the private industry alone.

KLINE: Misconception in Perception

Warning! the following contains common sense ideas, as well as content supportive of the United States Constitution……… Progressivist discretion is advised.

There are people in this country who are of the opinion that government’s role is to protect the American people. If protection meant non-interference with the lives of the American people and stay with their role of setting constitutional laws, levying taxation of representation, spending responsibly, and keeping a strong defense, then I would totally agree with that opinion in this context.

However, I’m afraid that is not their implication. It amazes me how the government wishes to do even more, when they can barley maintain the responsibilities just given.

In accordance, we find that our little friends in Washington have just passed the proposed jobs bill through the Senate and is now on its way to the House of Representatives. It is their plan that increased massive spending for the purpose of creating short-lived jobs on spring construction is what is needed for the healing of the economy. They would also give tax breaks to those who hired the unemployed. Although I am one who is for government giving tax cuts, I believe that tax breaks in this manner are a mistake.

Now I know that I am not an expert in economics, but you can’t encourage economic healing with overwhelming deficit spending. It’s true that the enacting of this bill could render some hope to Americans, but the enormous deficits, lowering of our currency, and the higher taxes that will come as a result of this will not be enough to heal the economy. We also find, in this bill, that it was not only Democrats who voted for such a credit exhausting bill, it was also 16 Republicans.

Drunk sailors call these people irresponsible spenders, yet they think they can heal our economy. The President would count the jobs bill as a political victory for his administration. So do you still think governments there to protect us?