A Little Deeper

Let's take that last post a little deeper.  Here are some statements from candidates for leadership office that should automatically disqualify them.

• I'll create jobs
• On Day One I'll [anything]
• I'll ensure the security
• I'll deliver an ultimatum
• I'll undo everything the last guy did (except the parts I agree with)
• What's good for the economy is good for America
• What's good for business is good for the economy (therefore--the logic goes--what's good for business is good for America)

Statements like these are made for one purpose only and that purpose IS NOT accountability.  When the buck is being passed, this guy will ALWAYS make sure someone else is holding it.

Friends, what is good for the people of the nation (as a whole) is good for the nation.  Good for business or good for Undecided Voter have such a small probability of being good for the nation that, to the extent that the candidate is successful in doing these things, they actually do harm to the nation by diverting energy and resources from those efforts that really would be good for the nation.

We simply can't afford to have a leader who has his mind made up before anything happens.  Does anyone believe the world is a simple, easy to understand place?  Does anyone believe that our role in the world is static (that the world moves around us)?

Less taxes and smaller government are standards not morality.  We should have the smallest government and the lowest level of taxation consistent with our place in the world.  Less for the sake of less is not different than more for the sake of more.  Both are evidence of mental imbalance and faulty reasoning.  One is named greed; the other has no name (though it is the opposite of patriotic).

Why do we have government?  According to the Preamble to the Constitution, We, the People, have created the government defined in the Consitution for the purpose of:   form[ing] a more perfect Union, establish[ing] Justice, insur[ing] domestic Tranquility, provid[ing] for the common defence, promot[ing] the general Welfare, and secur[ing] the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.  THAT is the why and it impossible to justify Cut Taxes and Balance The Budget [someday] as the how.