The fallacy of liberal thinking

Since the early days of our nation’s history, we have had labels for members of political parties. For example, George Washington was a member of the Federalist Party. Later on, Presidents Taylor and Fillmore belonged to the Whig Party. Today, the two major political parties in our nation are the Democratic and Republican Parties.

For the most part, each party represents a different philosophy about how the government should serve the people. Within this context, we have given labels to people such as conservative, liberal and moderate. Each of these represents an attitude that a particular person has in terms of how much a government should do for its people.

Today, we identify liberals as people who want to do more and give more to the people they serve. Compare this with the attitude of those identified as moderate or conservative who say that our government has gone far beyond what it should be doing and that it should conserve or cut back on the services it is now providing.

Think about the view that you take. Do you think our government should do more for the people or less? If you say more, you have just identified yourself as a liberal.

Let’s look at the issue further. Today in the United States Congress, there are a number of liberals who say that we should not balance the budget and we should not cut services to the needy. On the surface, that is a pretty good argument if you do not take this line of thinking any further.

Unfortunately, what most poor folks do not know is that they are exchanging their pride, self-respect, financial security and votes for someone in Congress who can vote for their own pay raise or tax exemption. When you increase taxes to pay for more unnecessary services, it is not a good deal except for members of Congress who have just given themselves a pay raise.

A liberal is someone who wants to give away something that they did not earn and that is the saddest part of all. It is the fallacy of liberal thinking. To put it very simply, it is easy to be liberal with someone else’s hard earned money.

The liberal way of thinking and conducting our nation’s business affairs has created a national debt of billions of dollars and still many say that government is not doing enough. At this rate, how much more can we afford for government to do? If we are ever again to have sound economic prosperity in our nation, we must return to the long time principle of an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay. When we earn our income, it instills self-respect and pride and we know its true value.

Every election is important and has consequences, but there have been few times in our nation’s history when the political stakes have been higher than they are right now. Our way of life — the very freedoms, liberty and security — that so many generations of Americans fought to protect could all be destroyed if the Democrats maintain control of the White House in the 2016 elections.

Whoever is elected in November will serve as our country’s 45th president and hold in their hands the security of the United States of America, the health of its economy and the future of our families and individual liberties. And whoever is elected will either carry out Barack Obama’s “third term” or they will begin to undo the damage that eight years of his presidency has wrought upon our nation.

It is up to us to end the Obama era by preparing now to defeat Hillary Clinton and ensure the next president is a Republican who stands firm on our core governing principles of fiscal restraint, smaller government, personal freedom and strong national security.

When you vote on Nov. 8, please consider what I have written in this column today and remember that a liberal is someone who wants to spend our hard earned money in many wrong ways. Also, look at our nation’s huge budget deficit that could cause a tax increase on most of us if the unnecessary spending is not stopped.

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