The Top Ten Reasons Why Conservatives Should Not Be Celebrating the Election Results
Nov 12, 2010 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
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On November 2, 2010, the liberals suffered a defeat at the hands of the people over their policies implemented over the last two to four years. As a result, Many Republicans and Tea Party supporters are jubilant in their celebration, and even the often morose Glenn Beck has been heard to be excited about what he calls a turning point. However, the cold, hard reality is that liberalism suffered a defeat but not a crushing one, and the war is far from won. In the past, victories in these minor skirmishes have resulted in people becoming complacent. The battles that are not making the headlines in the war on freedom continue to rage despite the victory.
Although it may not be festive to rain on the victory parade, it is important that we consider the top ten reasons why there is a lot more work to be done.
10) The aristocracy is still there in Washington. Although many incumbents were swept out of office, the vast number of them were reelected by their constituents. The ruling elite is still composed of self-styled aristocrats who know what is best for you, your family, and your children. They still look down on the masses as unwashed and slightly stupid. They still possess the same arrogance that allowed them to pass TARP and the auto bailouts over such huge numbers of people in bipartisan opposition. The bribery and corruption is still there and as virulent as ever. Furthermore, the aristocracy in Congress still exempts itself from laws it imposes on the serfs. Although term limits for all federal offices could go a long way in solving this problem, no directive to this effect was passed on the 2.
09) The bureaucracy in Washington has never been more powerful. The list of government agencies with the power to control every aspect of your life is astonishing. The FDA, EPA, IRS, DHS, FSOC, and HHS are still out there, and that doesn’t even scratch the surface of the alphabet soup of unelected bureaucracies not beholden to the voter and the whims of the electorate. The power of these agencies has grown massively during the Bush and especially the Obama administrations. They are the government within our government.
08) The Federal Reserve still remains unchecked. There may be a bill garnering bipartisan support from nearly three-quarters of Congress to audit the Federal Reserve, but this bill has been stalled in committee, and the Fed still remains able to do pretty much anything it wants to our currency. Printing money is no longer necessary in a world governed by computers. All someone at the Fed has to do is enter a number in a computer somewhere, and there are suddenly billions more dollars in existence. The Federal Reserve is not an agency of Congress, and Congress has little power to audit it. In fact, the power of the Federal Reserve to control our economy is patently irrational. If you asked Americans if it would be OK that a private cartel of bankers would have the power to do anything they want with the economy and create money at will, I doubt few would say yes. However, that is currently the state of affairs.
07) The spending obligations are still there, and the economy is still bad. Walk around your neighborhood and ask people if it is OK that you cut their government check. Most will be happy if you cut the checks of others, but they don’t want their cut of the supposed pie reduced. Our unfunded financial obligations totaling in the tens of trillions of dollars haven’t gone away because of the election. They are still there, racking up interest and ticking away to financial disaster. Combined with high taxes and increasing regulation, the economy doesn’t look about to improve much anytime soon. In fact, if taxes go up in January, it is likely to get much worse. Until we get taxes and regulation under control and people start to realize that they need to lose that government check, we are still in big trouble.
06) The unions still have control of the government. In this election cycle the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) has come out of the shadows and placed advertisements directly attacking candidates who wish to rein in AFSCME’s ridiculous pension and benefit packages. The government is infested with unions who have lost all shyness in forwarding their free-stuff-for-us agenda. Through union dues collected from taxpayer-funded salaries, they use our tax money to run advertisements for candidates and issues. On top of that, these unions still get health care plans that no one in the private-sector middle class can afford, and they still get ridiculous pension plans that allow some to retire at 55 with 85% of their largest career salary pension as well as health benefits for life. Even this ridiculous compensation is not enough for AFSCME; they want more.
