As Americans we've become addicted to doom and gloom: The dollar's about to collapse! The left wing wackos are taking over! Iran's going to kill us all with their nukes! Oil prices are going to drive us into a recession! The national debt is going to crush us!
This natural gravitation toward pessimism is particularly strong in the political campaign, and I get it. Each of the candidates are telling us how they're going to fix all these problems and save us all.
Do you know why I like Mitt Romney? He recognizes these real problems but he also recognizes the good of our nation. Perhaps the way out of some of these pending crises is to remember how great and powerful America is. He's right when he says there's no problem we can't overcome, and I'm not hearing much of this from the rest of candidates.
Ronald Reagan won the Presidency because he reminded us that we are that shining city on a hill, and I strongly believe that our President should be someone who can inspire, rather than frighten.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Another reason why I like Romney
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Your picture of Mitt next to a tractor reminded me of something:
Yet another example of the greatness of Mitt Romney; but first, some background.
In his infamous speech on the proper role of government, Ezra Taft Benson quoted James R. Even's book "The Glorious Quest" which gave an example of what Benson called "legalized plunder":
"Assume, for example, that we were farmers, and that we received a letter from the government telling us that we were going to get a thousand dollars this year for plowed up acreage. But rather than the normal method of collection, we were to take this letter and collect $69.71 from Bill Brown, at such and such an address, and $82.47 from Henry Jones, $59.80 from a Bill Smith, and so on down the line; that these men would make up our farm subsidy. "Neither you nor I, nor would 99 percent of the farmers, walk up and ring a man's doorbell, hold out a hand and say, 'Give me what you've earned even though I have not.' We simply wouldn't do it because we would be facing directly the violation of a moral law, 'Thou shalt not steal.' In short, we would be held accountable for our actions."
Now, back to Mitt.
In 1994 he stated that he was for a reduction in the farm subsidies program, but back in July 2007, he performed yet another flip flop which you can read about here:
http://www.radioiowa.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=87BBF2FB-FB00-EB86-12507705294DB493
You go get 'em Mitt . . . keep telling us just how big you want to build this federal monster!
Thanks for the shout-out over air-waves. Let's just say that the wicked taketh the truth to be hard for it cutteth them to the very center!!
Optimism comes from truth. Inspiration can only come if we understand what's going on. When Reagan was President we were still the largest lending nation in the world. Now we are the largest debtor nation in the world. Being optimistic doesn't change this. Facing this and realizing that we must change does.
As a follow-up to Neal's comments today, I just want to say that Ron Paul truly is the one that it optimistic. He does want to give the power back to the people and is optimistic that they can fix our nation's problems. Neal kind of contradicted himself when he said that Mitt is the one that will give the power back to the people in one sentence and that Mitt is the one that can has a track record of "fixing" things in the next sentence.
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