Conservative's Must Always Climb Uphill in the Battle of Ideas

Hard to argue that we must take care of the "least of us," as the always engaging Alcee Hastings says, but that's exactly what we must as conservatives argue. The schools haven't closed yet, the services are still working, the electricity is still on, the water is still flowing, because the money is still being printed. But, make no mistake, our country is spiraling into insolvency and despair. The death spiral is taking place without insuring the 27 million we are hoping to insure, and with it, we will not only now print more money, but we will lose 5,000,000 jobs in the private sector and reduce our global ability to compete to unpredented levels.

What we need is 1920's-like cuts to our budget, an austerity program, and, yes, some serious attention to how we manage health care in our country. All of the wealth of this nation is not enough to pay our debt by miles. The hope is, as the Rep. from NJ, Frank Pallone expresses, that if 40 million uninsured now become insured (and can we please use the realistic figure of 27 million?), our country will profit. Jobs will be created to serve these new folks. I don't know, maybe they're right, maybe we will somehow create 5 million new jobs and the 5 million jobs lost will be absorbed into our economy. Maybe all these healthy people will now start creating jobs, or small businesses (only under 50, because anyone over 50 employees will not be growing, I can guarantee it), and our defecit problems will go away. My God, we've actually started to believe this stuff. Well, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, says the Vice President, and we're going to be eating it now for sure.

Monetary policy is very simple. There are only three ways out: grow, inflate, or "re-boot" (as Glenn Beck is fond of saying). I prefer growth, and this bill will kill it, dead. Get ready for it, we're about to hit our economy hard. We've taken our gold from the safety deposit box, hidden our guns in our root cellar, and we're selling everything. You might think we're crazy, but when your country is $3Trillion in debt and your representatives are passing laws that will necessarily deplete, destroy (put your own word in here) your tax base, you start thinking about basic survival. Rugged individualism will be the order of the day, because our government will not provide the answers. In fact, it was not created to provide the answers, only the opportunity; which we have squandered. Good luck, everyone.