June 28, 2010

Star Parker: Being strangled by govt..Total govt spending (federal, state, & local) p/American household now $47,000, up 3 fold from 1965


 

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Being strangled by government

There isn't a shred of evidence that government spending us into oblivion makes us better off -- in fact the evidence shows that it's the opposite.

A note from Star Parker
Star Parker, founder and president of CURE
A cab ride in Washington, DC on a weekday afternoon in June gives you a feeling of the national mood.  It's oppressively hot and humid and the traffic is horrible.  By the time you reach your destination, you feel strangled and oppressed and just want relief.

Amidst the current lethargic economic recovery, with unemployment still just under 10%, the one growth stock remains government.  Washington, DC is a boom town today as the answer our current administration proposes for every single problem and challenge facing us is more government.

Government spending is now 25 percent of our GDP.  This is five percentage points higher than the average of the last fifty years.

A new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll reflects the nation's nasty mood.  Sixty two percent now say the country is "on the wrong track," compared to 43% saying this a year and a half ago.

A fascinating online dynamic map display, called "The Decline: The Geography of a Recession", shows color coded unemployment levels county by county throughout the country.  Areas where unemployment is 4-6 percent are orange and red.  Areas of 7-10 percent unemployment are purple. The map display starts in January 2007 when national unemployment was 4.6 percent.  It shows a sea of orange and red across the nation.  You then click, and it changes by month, getting increasingly purple, until ending in March 2010 with national unemployment at 9.7 percent.

Looking at this picture of the whole nation swathed with the purple color of high unemployment, you can't miss the tiny island of orange and red in the midst of all this. It's, of course, the region of our nation's capital.

Another bold graphic of our dismal state of affairs is an outstanding series of charts on the nation's fiscal situation put together by Brian Riedl of the Heritage Foundation.  You just can't get a clearer picture of the cliff we are about to drive over.

Total government spending (federal, state, and local) per American household is now $47,000.  This is almost triple what government spending per household was in 1965.

But consider further that this $47,000 government spending per household is almost equal to the nation's median household income – about $51,000.

In 1970 government spending per household was about half of median household income.

Needless to say, all of this would be just fine if there was a shred of evidence that government spending us into oblivion made us better off.  Not only is there no such evidence, but the proof in the pudding is the opposite.
 
Look around the world.  The economies that are the most free are the ones that are the most prosperous.  Those with the largest encroachments of government are the ones that perform the worst.

A study released a few weeks ago by three professors at Harvard Business School boldly challenged common perceptions about the benefits of government spending.  

Incumbent members of Congress, particularly if they are powerful committee chairmen, often tout their value to their districts by the amount of federal money they bring home.

According to this new study, it turns out that this isn't such good news.  The government money simply displaces the private sector.  According to the study, "the average firm in the chairman's state did not benefit at all from the increase in spending."  Rather, "firms significantly cut physical and R&D spending, reduce employment, and experience lower sales."

Economics, the joke goes, is common sense made difficult.

It just takes common sense to appreciate that our economy is not recovering because it is being strangled by government.    

This will continue until we start going in the other direction. Cutting back government – spending and taxes – and unleashing again private American citizens to work and live free.


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Have you read these other articles by Star Parker yet?
  • Is the role of government to protect life, liberty, and property? Or is the role of government, in the words of President Obama, "redistributive change"?

  • Without the Hispanic vote, it will be tough to reverse the direction that Democrats have initiated – transformation of our country into a European style social welfare state.

  • A culture of blame, entitlement, and hate is a path to nowhere -- this is as true in the Middle East as it is in America's inner cities, put on the government plantation years ago.

  • Americans are looking today for political leaders that understand that this is not just a another country.

  • Today, much of black family life is in shambles, a direct result of the welfare state which emerged the same time as the Civil Rights Act.



Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service


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Michigan FairTax Association endorses it's first political candidate ever


 

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Subject: PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Michigan FairTax Association endorses it's first political candidate ever...
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:32:40 -0400


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Michigan FairTax Association endorses it's first political candidate ever...

 

TRAVERSE CITY (June 28, 2010)  The Michigan FairTax Association has formally endorsed Randy Bishop to be the next Michigan State Senator, to succeed the term-limited current State Senator Jason Allen from the 37th Senate District.  In a written statement from the Michigan FairTax Association's - President, Roger Buchholtz wrote;

 

Dear Mr. Randy Bishop,

The Michigan FairTax Association (MFTA) hereby endorses your candidacy for the Michigan State Senate - 37th District seat.

You are the first candidate for any office that Michigan FairTax Association has ever formally endorsed.  You are well qualified for the position and represent the ideals Michigan needs in its elected representatives.

Your advocacy of the Michigan FairTax proposal serves your potential constituents well by informing them of this great proposal and gives them a direction and hope for a better future for Michigan and its citizens.

Roger Buchholtz
Michigan FairTax Association - President 


To learn more about Randy's campaign please go to:  www.truckerrandy.ning.com

 

The 37th Senate District covers Antrim, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Chippewa, Emmet, Grand Traverse, Mackinac and Presque Isle counties.


The primary election is Tuesday, August 3, 2010.


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