Posted by
Tom L. on Monday, December 15, 2008 6:00:00 AM
Roll back the calendar to the early days of presidential nomination process…
Today, candidate for the presidency Carl Marks outlined his position on domestic policy. Basically, if elected, he has said he will:
o Spend hundreds of billions, perhaps trillions of tax dollars to buy parts of several major U.S. industries.
o Spend additional billions to make loans to other big industries.
o Appoint new “Czars” to oversee each industry, who under certain conditions will have the power to order the industry as to what they must do/produce.
o Raise the national debt to pay for these new initiatives.
So, would you have voted for this candidate?
No. I doubt many Americans would either, but that is exactly what our elected politicians are doing. With an incoming Democratic President and Congress we can only expect more of the same.
Of course, no one on the Republican side has offered any alternative, other than by saying “no” to the loans to the auto industry.
Clearly, the nation is in difficult economic times. Saying “no” is fine, if you offer an alternative to get the country out of the situation, but just saying “no” is not enough.
The current lame-duck Republican administration and the incoming Democratic administration and Congress have made their plan clear: spend trillions to bailout industry and raise the national debt. What is the “new” Republican and/or conservative alternative? Right now there does not seem to be any.