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Well, this about seals it

This post over at RedState makes it plain:

Reagan:

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we’ve been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price.

Obama:

It is true that we cannot depend on government alone to create jobs or long-term growth. But at this particular moment, only government can provide the short-term boost necessary to lift us from a recession this deep and severe. Only government can break the cycle that is crippling our economy, where a lack of spending leads to lost jobs, which leads to even less spending, where an inability to lend and borrow stops growth and leads to even less credit.

One could not have a starker difference in philosophy if you tried.  The problem is that what Reagan did had been proven to be right before.  Obama wants to try something else, but that something else failed

Badly.

I lived as a young adult during the Carter years.  I remember friends having mortgages at 18%, unemployment at 10%, and inflation rates way above what we have today.  I really have no need or want to do it again.  It was a miserable time economically and a blot on the national psyche.

Reagan was right – government was not the answer but Americans were, and can be again.  This conservative hero knew that he had to use government in such a way to get it out of the way of ordinary Americans.  Yeah, things got worse while Paul Volcker wrung inflation out of the system under Reagan’s leadership.  Taxes were slashed and the economic boom of the last quarter of the last century took off.

Obama, on the other hand, is going to repeat the problems, excesses, and mistakes of FDR and the New Deal.  Spending at the rate he wants to will be the downfall of us all for the next few years as he spends money we don’t have. 

Even now, economists are saying that tax cuts will work best but not massive spending.  The problem is that Obama’s tax cuts are nothing but welfare checks wrapped in conservative words.  When one just gives REFUNDABLE tax credits, it will have Government sending checks to those that do not pay income taxes.  In other words, borrowed money given to the poor that didn’t pay the taxes in the first place.  Right now, the amount is $500 / person – and like the initial tax rebate that Bush did, this will have little effect either.

Me? Instead of punishing those that have succeeded with higher taxes, how about making it easier for them to put more people to work by making it easier for them to invest.  Lower their taxes!

After all, JFK did, and created a boom.  Reagan did it and and got a boom.  Bush too.

FDR?  He just turned a short Depression into a decade long Great Depression.  And Obama wants to repeat it.

Sheesh….

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