The Party of No

"Republicans and Independents are the party of no, NO TO COMMUNIST OBAMA that is"

I put this up on facebook, and one of my friends sent this wonderful reply which I wanted to share, here.

Steve
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http://elianastar.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/the-party-of-no-my-response/

“The Party of ‘NO’”… my response…

Conservatives… whether Republican, Independent, or those misfit Democrats who haven’t realized yet their party left them in the dust several decades ago… seek to CONSERVE and RESTORE what the Founding Fathers gave us in the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. We want that BACK, restored to what was ORIGINALLY granted to us.

Politicians of every stripe can count on us to say NO to EVERYTHING that persists in the dilution of our Republic and that further diminishes our Life, Liberty, and ability to pursue Happiness.

I no longer bristle when the Progressives say we are “the party of ‘no.’” Being defensive is less effective than embracing… but clarifying… what that MEANS!

YES! I say NO to Government-run commerce… just ONE EX: stealing a company from a SUCCESSFUL business owner and GIVING it to someone else with NO compensation whatsoever, as has been done to generational family-owned car businesses. That is not okay!

YES! I say NO to abject fiscal irresponsibility… spending money WE DON’T HAVE, treating the American Citizen like an ATM, and SELLING our country to foreign governments via loans we may NEVER be able to repay.

YES! I say NO to a “governmental parent.” I already had a father and a mother, thank you, I neither need nor want another. I am an adult. I am perfectly capable of making my own decisions for myself and my family, learning to spend my OWN money wisely and well, and choosing my own values and moral choices. If you want to help, empower my local community to provide LOCAL social services, as deemed needed and necessary in MY community… locally. I do not need WA DC to assume they have any idea what I need, and my family and neighbors need, on the other side of the country, the ivory halls of Congress, or the throne room called the Oval Office.

YES! I say NO to “health care reform” that will not promote health, will not provide care, and resembles reform in no positive way whatsoever, while COMPLETELY IGNORING REAL reform measures such as: tearing down the wall separating interstate commerce in healthcare; addressing medical tort reform and medical/legal abuse of the system while still protecting the public from truly irresponsible practitioners; stop mandating what procedures are required to be covered and let the free market dictate those matters; end employer-provided insurance, put the financial decisions back into the hands of the doctor and patient, making health insurance TRULY portable; provide tax credits for medical care to cover individual insurance at a reasonable rate; encourage medical savings plans with tax-free or grossly-reduced programs; provide tax breaks for doctors, nurses, hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, etc, when they donate time/material/etc for those who cannot afford insurance &/or basic healthcare; insurance should no longer cover mild illnesses but work as car insurance does, (doesn’t cover oil changes, new tires, new batteries or alternators, but DOES cover when an accident breaks something or is in the shop for major repairs); … and ; … and; … and; … we have LOTS of ideas of how to address the health care issues, the REAL ones. If you’d bother to listen to them rather than dismissing them out of hand and then saying the Right has no ideas.

I could go on and on and on. It is ineffective to reject the FACT that WE reject the recklessness that passes for policy and legislation these days… because we DO reject them! The accusations are intentionally set up to shut us down. Part of it is right, part of it is wrong. The knee-jerk response is to reject the entire “couch,” when its just the “pillows” that don’t belong. Proudly proclaim the truth, pull the lie out of it. and wave it in their face. Like finding the worm in the apple… don’t pretend it isn’t there, identify it for what it is.

Embrace the truth, reject the LIE!

Do not let ANYONE tell you to sit down and shut up!
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Thank you, Star LySandra from Give Us Liberty :)