Yet another email thread where I spent time discussing / emailing instead of blogging. The context started off talking about the "Bathroom Bill" that the Democrats tried to steamroll through here in NH as a sop to the LGBT (er, what initials did I deliberately forget this time – I’m JUST so un-PC <smirk>) haters (hey, they use the word for just about anyone that says the slightest thing in disagreement with their social agenda; I refuse to cede the use of that word to them anymore). Rightfully so, that bill was critized highly for being a social issue instead of addressing the main NH issue – the fiscal black hole that the Dems were casting the State into. And being a Conservative, fiscal and social issues concern me and I believe that this subset of an email thread shows how a concentration on a purely Fiscal Issue theme to lower spending can actually be self-defeating. Plus, I have no intentions of allowing the Progressives sole purview of setting the Public Morality, without a fight, that they will force me to change my private morality. They’ve been doing it for decades (if not for a century) drip by drip; it’s time to plug that hole.
It starts with this (Tell me what you think, will ya?):
Sometimes there is a lot of heat about bills that don’t matter (like the ‘bathroom’ bill) and now the budget looms. The NHGOP should have been talking about the budget since day 1.
and someone else agreed:
I would have to agree with <redacted>. Not that I have my finger on the pulse in a big way or anything, but it seemed like a lot of the talk seemed to focus on the bathroom bill and gay marriage and not as much on the budget as I would have liked.
Of course, I could not help myself and decided to wade in – but also tried to turn the discussion to what really matters:
I have to admit – GraniteGrok did fan the flames of the bathroom bill – but (like him or not), it helped in getting an R (Jeb Bradley) elected up north here rather than the absolute disaster of a Dem (e.g., "Bathroom Bud" Martin).
However, and that said, are we now the Party that will cede all social issues to the Dems? After all, when you get down to it, isn’t everything a "social" issue? We’re handing out money like candy for this issue and that issue and more issues – all of them, bottom line, social issues.
And here is where I start to try to tie the Social Issues to the Fiscal ones:
"We’ll pay for this because you are a protected group and society has oppressed you – and we’ll take the place of family and friends in "helping" you with the necessities of life (versus the old Pilgrim way of "don’t work? Die"). Our money goes to their philosophy of removing and thereby mitigating all bad decisions and their consequences in in life. Self-responsibility ? Hah!
Social issues turn INTO financial issues. We literally, in terms that can work, have to tell people to stop acting like children – better yet, stop Government from acting in ways that allows adults to remain children ("kids" up to age 26 on Healthy Kid insurance? Give me a break…..)
Freedom exists only where adults act like adults and take responsibility for themselves (and charity for those around them). Ceding that responsibility, outsourcing that responsibility to be, think, and act personally as an adult turns society into simple wards of the State; both for those that have to be taken care of and ultimately, those that allow and push for it. For the former, it is a dependency on government that impacts the ability to choose what is best for oneself (as ALL government money comes with strings attached). For the latter, as the Progressive need to grow the State progresses, it also leads to less freedom, especially economically, as the State enforces laws that keep the "required" $$ flowing from the Producers to the Moochers.
In all cases, we either become wards of the State or the slaves to it.
More tomorrow.
