The ride!

Monday – April 18, 2011 The ride! On today’s date, in 1775, Paul Revere and William Dawes warn that the “British are coming!” Today, 236 years ago, Paul Revere rode from Charleston to Lexington. Today is tax day. Today the Federal Government takes our money and it gives money back to those who don’t pay their fair share in tax. Today, the Federal Government takes the tax payers money and does with it what it may. As we consider the ride that was made 236 years ago, we must also consider the ride that we are being taken on today. It is a far different ride that signaled the warning of an encroaching enemy. The ride today is one that is confusing and one that the riders do not see an end to. Over the next few weeks, we will hear the debate over raising our taxes and spending our tax dollars. We will hear the liberal make the argument that higher taxes will create the jobs that will make America prosper. Today, consider the promises of jobs that have been made by the President and consider the results of his presidency. Today, consider why we fought for our independence. Today, consider who among us would be this century’s Paul Revere? Today, consider the tax that is placed on just about everything we buy and everything we do. Today, consider how we got here. Today, consider why the President gets away with the things he does and consider that if another president were still in office, he wouldn’t. Today, consider that this might be the warning that Paul Revere would cry. Today, consider that our cumulative annual deficit under Bush was 2% of GDP. Today, consider why it is now 10% of GDP under Obama. Today, consider why the public debt under Bush was 36% of GDP and now under Obama it is 67% of GDP. Today, consider what will be the case ten years out, under Obama. He will have a 20 trillion dollar deficit. That will equate to 89% of our GDP. Today, remember what you were taught about the GDP in your Junior High School economics class. While you consider the question and importance of the GDP, consider what rising gas prices do to the GDP. Consider that 18 cents of every gallon of gas you buy goes to the Federal Government. Consider, depending on which state you live in, between 15 and 90 cents per gallon goes to your States Government. Consider when the president says that he will save a trillion dollars under his deficit reduction plan some of the experts say it will only save 315 billion. Today, when you check the gas price at the gas station, ask yourself why we aren’t drilling at home and, if we were, how much more disposable income you might have? Consider that our economy cannot afford to give billions to an oil cartel and to foreign nations that are working against our nation and consider that the rise in a barrel of oil is one more nail in our financial coffin. Today, consider all the empirical evidence that says that when you lower taxes more revenue comes into the federal government. Today, consider that, since Herbert Hoover, the Democrats have been in control of Congress 78% of the time. Today, consider that a tax and spend Congress and a tax and spend liberal president is something we cannot afford any longer. Today, consider how that impacts our liberty and our freedom. Today, consider Paul Revere making the ride and consider what that ride stood for! Gregory C. Dildilian Founder and Executive Director Pinecone Conservatives A footnote: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote: Listen my children and you shall hearOf the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; - Hardly a man is now alive -Who remembers that famous day and year. To read the complete poem of Paul Reveres ride go to: http://poetry.eserver.org/paul-revere.html