Doesn't this prove the point. Revenues went up. We reduced the percent of GDP being taken in taxes and received more revenue. We should reduce the percent of GDP going toward taxes until we do not see an increase in revenue. Then we know we have reached the laffer curve's equilibrium point. Of course increasing GDP is more than just reducing tax rates. We need to also reduce the burden of government regulation on business to increase GDP.
That means in ten years, we start reducing the debt. Sorry. Too late. When Greece defaults we can shrug our shoulders and say too bad. When we default, the party is over!!
I don't think McCain ever read the trilogy. Otherwise, he would know that the hobbits saved middle earth. He stands there uttering flowery prose like Denethor, while the rest of us are fighting for his kingdom. We are looking around for Aragorn and he hasn't shown up yet. It looks like the hobbits are going to have to save the earth once again.
The state legislature should take the $3.2 mil from the judiciary's budget.
We need to continue to push public schools back to local control. Get the states out of it. If a community wants to provide public education for its constituency, great! But don't expect the State government to underwrite every educational desire of the larger community. The public education system has proved that the quality of education decreases and the price of education increases when the state and federal government gets involved.
I agee that we need to look at how it is applied. The one thing I look at to see whether a politician truly understands freedom in education is how they treat home schoolers. If the law restricts home schooling then it is just another attempt of the statist to use the socialistic-athiestic public education system to consolidate power into themselves. If the law is written in such a way that affirms the parents right to direct their own children's education, then it is a better law.
The only flaw in this peice is that Obama is going to fight this thing to the end. He is a dyed in the wool Marxist and will not give up the ghost. He would rather be a one term president. He knows someone else will just step up to push the agenda further after he is gone. He will say a lot of confusing stuff, but he will not give up his agenda.
The French revolution was the fruit of secular humanism. The American Revolution was the fruit of Biblical Christianity. The difference between these two revolutions reside in the spiritual realm. We who fight now to preserve an America that created the "Greatest Generation" are fighting a spiritual war between the adherents of secular humanism such as Marx, Voltaire, Rosseau, Dewey, Gramscii, Lenin, Stalin, Bertrand Russell, etc and a Biblical worldview once held in esteem by such authors as Tocqueville. The irony is that most people desiring that past America don't have a Biblical worldview themselves. They pine for the fruit, but reject the tree.
The decline of America is directly related to the public education of our children. You get what you teach. Homeschool your kids.
American Lit is the same way. You read about existentialists like Emily Dickenson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau; whatever pleased the Fabian Socialists. But you would never read about one the most prolific and popular lyricists and writers of the 1800s like Fannie Crosby or Charles Wesley. I wonder why?
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