Who's In Your Wallet!? - Granite Grok

Who’s In Your Wallet!?

Who's in your walletThe Republican party has no interest in receiving advice from me, and not just because we’re not exactly on speaking terms.  As a rule, I don’t speak to ‘The Party” I speak to folks who run as Republicans, activists, and voters, who may or may not be Republicans but have traditionally prefered what Republicans run on.

With that in mind,  it occurs to me that someone should be running a (or any) campaign against the progressive plunderers with the under-used tag line…”Who’s In Your Wallet.”

Any configuration of those words works with a picture of Obama, Carol Shea-Porter, Jeanne Shaheen, Ann Kuster, Maggie Hassan, Terie Norelli, almost any New Hampshire Democrat; even the mugs of a few State Senate Republicans will do at this point.

This campaign idea works best for principled Republicans who support the notion that as much money and as many decisions as possible remain as close to the people as possible.  Folk who do not just say such things but act and vote like they mean it.

The answer to the question “who is in your wallet” is obvious.  Lovers of big government.  Democrats, Progressives, and liberals oh my!  Moderate, establishment Republicans are likewise guilty.

The term “Who’s in your wallet?”applies to every part of government, from the moment some bureaucrat reaches out to touch you at the behest of some appointed or elected taxpayer-funded exercise–be it to pave a road, regulate your right to self-defense, or…expand Medicaid–someone had to reach into your wallet to finance that ‘expression of political will,’ also knowns as force.

Without your wallet, they cannot finance the will (or the force), which as I write suggests that another turn of phrase might be equally suited to the defense of state and local control.  ‘May the Force be with YOU!’  With you, as opposed to them, particularly the “Them” in DC, whose plundering funds the very ‘bribes’ to which many a New Hampshire Republican cannot seem to say no.

Medicaid expansion in New Hampshire, but one recent example, is the product of  $2.4 billion promises (plus interest) made on the backs of hard-working America Families, and their children.  It wasn’t free.  It is political plunder extracted by force from American’s who will now have $2.4billion fewer dollars (plus interest, and then some) to make decisions with on their own.  These are men, women, minorities, of all genders, who have just been forked by NH Republicans for nothing more than the spineless ‘averaging’ of odds designed to smooth the road that leads to their own personal political advancement.  Or did they just do it because they are really Democrats?

If you were unclear why we are so aggravated–there you have it.  We elected Republicans to not just see through the “lie of free money” but to defend us from it.  If this makes it into law, as it most likely will, it falls to us to find a way out, around, or through.  To find Republicans that will stand up for the things espoused in their own party platform.  Republicans who will fight hard to embrace polices that will get government out of the way so the marketplace can then work to employ and empower people who will then no longer need entitlements so that we may dial those entitlements back and take control of them at the state level.

If that exercise in electoral tough love fails to provide redress of our party grievances, we’ll just have to leave you to the small satisfaction of being the B-side to the Democrat Party hit single “Who’s In Your Wallet” while we start a garage band that rememberes how to sing the song of liberty.

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