The showdown:

Wednesday – April 6, 2011 The showdown: The Republicans submitted their federal spending budget for next year and ten years out. There are significant spending cuts that will reduce the federal budget to 20% of what we borrow. This budget takes spending levels to what they were in 2008. The President said the problem with this budget and why it has not been passed are due to “political and ideological guidelines.” What he didn’t say is that his ideological and political guidelines would have a federal spending budget that doubled in his first term and that would triple by the end of his second term. I ask you, what ideology and what political guide line are you in favor of? One also has to ask what is the political and ideological guideline that the president favors? The one question that no one is asking is: why does he want to destroy the American economic engine? It is purposeful or is it just out of ignorance? The showdown this week is because of these questions. One party would reduce spending to save the economic engine while the other party would increase spending to take more away from those that produce and give it to those that don’t. This is the long and the short of it. This is the ideology of some and this is the politics of others. The budget that we are now struggling over is one that should have been passed three months ago and one that the Democrats couldn’t pass even though they held the majority. The president says it is the Republicans who are failing to lead the president. This is a bold faced lie. It was his party that didn’t do their job when they had a chance to. The politics, in the next few days, will be over shutting down the government, because the temporary spending resolution runs out at midnight on Friday. The question I am posing is this: what is so bad about shutting down the government? All essential services will be provided, recipients of social welfare will get their checks and the military will still be in business. What is so bad about getting along without the body that is strangling us? On this date, in 1789, the 1st U.S. Congress began its regular sessions in Federal Hall, New York City. The meeting in New York was the first federal Congress that initiated the committee system, levied taxes and imposts, and enacted a judicial system. The Senate exercised its powers of advice and consent. Most important, the Congress passed the first ten amendments to the Constitution, which became known as the Bill of Rights. I bring this date up because some of the things that we are discussing today should have never gotten to the point that they are. In the early days of our founding, members of Congress were mindful of the public purse and they strived to pay off the nation’s debt that had accumulated because of the Revolutionary War. The members of the original House knew that the debt incurred, that gave us our freedom, would strangle us as a nation, if it was not paid back. The original fifty-six members would never have approved the government printing the amounts of money it has in the last few years to encourage a false growth. They knew differently. The president tells us today that the budget being debated now will be one that will present a “contrasting vision on where to move the country.” My question is why is it necessary to move the country from the concept of limited government and free market solutions something that the original founders of our government wanted. Liberty insures choice. Reduced liberty is a choice we cannot afford. The president says that he “shouldn’t have to oversee a process.” It is his vision, by way of the liberals, that have brought us to where we are today. It is his process that has brought us to this point in our history. Throughout our history there has been the struggle of less government or more government. When facts are presented, the country always sees the dangers of big government. The Democrats will savage this budget as one that strips aid to the poor and that will put people into homeless shelters. It will portray the Republicans as those who want to deny healthcare to our seniors. The lies will be bigger than they have ever been. The new budget is one that provides a fiscal path to prosperity. The time to pick the fight is now! The focus of the debate should not be about party politics it is as the president says where do we want to move the country? The Republicans should be encouraged not to give in because we can get along without the type of government the progressive liberal has grown. Harry Reid says the tea party is driving this debate. The debate is not what the tea party wants it is what Americans are now seeing, it is their government that is spending all of our money. Just as it was in 1789, the First Congress knew what bad debt would do to the national conscience. Our first citizens who fought for independence knew that taxation and tyranny would destroy liberty and freedom. The progressive liberal and democrat party do not use the words liberty and freedom. The democrat party never invokes stories about our founding. They never talk about self reliance and rugged American individualism because these are the things they want to move the country away from. It starts at the top and the president is overseeing this process of destruction and movement. To bring this down to simple terms, if your family spends more than you bring in what happens? If you borrow 40 % of every dollar you spend what happens? If a family continues on this path the family loses its prosperity, because of the debt it will incur. Eventually, the family will lose their house and their belongings. We cannot afford to lose our house, because it is what ensures our liberty and our freedom. There. I said it again; Liberty and freedom. Use it and embrace it. This is the showdown. Gregory C. Dildilian Founder and Executive Director Pinecone Conservatives A footnote: Liberty and freedom is something that cannot be taught, but it is something that can be taken away trough the actions of people who do not believe in it. If you don’t use it then you lose it!