Share your story: Tell us how Big Government hurts YOU!
March 4, 2013 at 11:45 am in News by Tea Party Patriots 5 Comments
Over the last few weeks, the Obama Administration and its allies in the Senate have indicated sequestration will bring about a fiscal Armageddon in America. They have touted sob stories about the middle-class and states to pressure Republicans into changing course on tax hikes and abandon even modest reductions in the growth of spending.
It’s long past time for Tea Party activists and fiscal conservatives to fight the Administration with its own tactics and tell the real story of this economy – that it is big government holding back economic growth. It is overspending, not a lack of tax revenue, that is sending America down the path to fiscal Armageddon. It is over-regulation that keeps businesses from starting in the first place, as well as driving existing ones overseas for greener and more profitable pastures.
To fight the big government narrative, we are asking you to share your story on how big government hurts you. Fiscal sanity is often portrayed by the mainstream media and Beltway politicians as hurting the lower-class and middle-class, and there is always a person they can put on TV to make that pain seem believable. It’s time we use this strategy ourselves and show that fiscal responsibility is a personal, moral issue for millions of Americans. The mainstream media wants to paint the Tea Party as the Grinch Who Stole Your Entitlements, and the only way to stop them is to beat them at their own game.
To do this successfully, however, we need your help. Share your story with us. Let us know how big government is hurting you and your family so we can combat the over spenders on their own ground. Let’s bring the fight to them. Let’s show them we are not middle-class, or upper-class, or lower-class here in America. We are all Americans, and we are for a government that does what’s best for all of us, not just those with special connections.
explain how government spending hurts the economy when it actually increases the size of it
Except, Will Poundstone, that expansion of the economy is merely an accounting illusion. The amount of goods and services hasn’t necessarily increased. If I spend a trillion dollars paying people to dig holes and fill them back up, the GDP increases by a trillion dollars. The thing is, there are no more goods and services for that trillion dollars. If anything, I’ve taken the resources out of commission and reduced the aggregate of goods and services in the economy. Government services are not contracted in a market. As such, there’s really no way to tell whether the value of said output is equal to the total spend.
The symbiocy between government and the private sector is very misunderstood, while government builds the roads, in doing so out of the general fund places the government as in collusion with retail and distribution interests and against a truly free market as the true cost of conveying a good to market is born by the population en masse instead of being billed to the cost of the product in point.
To state that the use of currency as means of procurment as opposed to means of trade is to assume that services hold intrinsic value rather than adjunct value in the trade of a good, a recipe to debt and disaster as we have seen in our own economy.
Government is a service, it enables the private economy, and if manipulated amorally, may be used by dishonorable men to predate upon it, which is what happens when it get to topheavy and, since it is a monopoly by neccesity, over reaches itself and confuses its place as a service and imposes upon itself the value of the goods its service advances.
When Government continues to interfere, the natural progression is complication, not simplification. My husband is a primary care physician that owns his practice. The level of complexity is two fold: the difficulty of understanding healthcare policy vs. the difficulty of understanding how to maintain control of our small businesses. A doctor should spend his/her time protecting the doctor/patient relationship and engaged in continuous study of the constant changes in the study of the body. This is an impossible situation. This is going to crush my husband, his strength and his passion to heal. The 18 hour days are common. The time in front of mounds of paperwork is increasing. Time in front of the patient is decreasing. What a horrible crime coming from our leaders and impacting our “leaders”…the doctors.
Wife of a Doctor
TN