The Plan!

Monday - August 22, 2011

The Plan!

There is a plan to solve the economic problems in the country. There is a plan to solve the political problems in the country. There is a plan to solve the immigration problems in the country. There is a plan to solve the unemployment problems of the country.

The plan is to blame the Tea Party. It’s an easy plan, because there is no single person to blame, except for a group of people who want to reduce the size of government and to reduce the size of the Federal Deficit. The current plan is what they object to. The current plan going forward is to keep borrowing for the increased spending habits of the Federal Government.

All the Democratic talking points are to now blame the Tea Party for the countries ills. The Democrats are saying that the Tea Party held the budget process hostage while the debate of the debt ceiling took center stage three weeks ago. Honestly can 1/8 of 1/3 of the government hold the budget process hostage in the 8 months they have served? They can’t, but the new talking points register with many voters, because the voter wants to be able to blame the other guy as being the problem.

Over the weekend Congress Woman Maxine Waters (D) California said: "As far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell." The crowd, reportedly "more than 2,000 people," cheered her statement. The Congress Woman went on to say “I am not afraid of the big bad wolf.” Her comments were made at a rally in Englewood California in front of members of SEIU union members. The Congresswoman is under investigation for allegedly violating House rules by improperly intervening with federal officials on behalf of a local bank, One United Bank that her husband owned stock in and once sat on the board of directors. It’s not clear yet what would be contained in a Statement of Alleged Violations if the investigative subcommittee determines she acted improperly. Apart from the ethics violations investigation, I contend that her votes over the past 18 years have contributed to the debt and budget problems we have today.

The plan that the Tea Party rejects will not cure the country, the plan Maxine Water’s supports will only divide the country further and put the country further into the hole.

Whether you slice it or dice it, the Tea Party has not caused the economic problems that we have today. The problems we face today are a result of policies that have occurred over the course of the last 80 years. These economic problems are now the cause for uncertainty in just about every aspect of every American’s lives. It affects the discussion on taxes, it affects the discussion over immigration and it affects how unemployment is addressed going forward in the country.

Look back in history and find out for yourself when government started to grow and for what purpose. Find out when the federal budget started to grow exponentially. In the course of 80 years the American people have displayed needs, but have not paid attention to how those needs were being addressed. We have blamed and we have listened to what we wanted to listen to. We have let it happen to ourselves with the people we elect and how we view the performance of the people we elect. We have put self interest over the country’s needs.

We have allowed presidents to overrule the policies of Congress. We have allowed Congress and past administrations to create new laws that are, in many cases, unconstitutional and that don’t follow the blue print of what the forefathers set in motion. This is a result of pandering and yielding to special interests that work against the common good. Every time a right or a policy is diluted from its original intent certain freedoms are affected. Freedoms are violated for political correctness. Political correctness has diluted the national spirit of retaining what are time honored traditions and time tested correct paths.

The voices of those who want to bring back the correct paths as a way to solve the issues of today are now being demonized by an administration who wants to keep the current problems the issues going forward. The plan is to demonize and not to offer real solutions. Just listen to the talking points. If real solutions were offered, support would become the norm of the day. The norm of the day now is to say a plan is on the way. The plan will pit one party against the other and then force the Republicans via the Tea Party to reject the plan and be blamed for obstructionism. Some say this is politics. Some say this is one party not agreeing with the other; and then some say look at the blue print, follow the Constitution follow the path that the forefathers wanted.

I am asking one question; what is so bad about a single group of people that do not have an organizing body to want a semblance brought back to governing, who want true reforms made that will actually protect those Americans who cannot protect themselves and bring back the greatness of our nation through tax reform, immigration reform and budget reform? What is wrong with a group of people who do not want government to grow and who do not want to face a debt that cannot be paid back? What is wrong with a group of people who think that going back to the roots of the founding will actually put us on a track to progressing ahead in the 21 century? What is wrong with a group of people who want change and who do not want to hear the rhetoric of another plan that will be presented after Labor Day?

The nation’s first priority is to tackle the deficit. This week will bring continued swings in the financial markets around the world. It will reflect uncertainty in the over throw of Muammar Gaddafi 40 year reign of terror in Libya. A political vacuum will occur, because there is not a plan to contain Libya in now what will be the Arab Fall.

Europe is close to a recession and the United States is following quickly. The blame should not be put on the backs of those who want to cure it through a conservative fiscal approach of reduced spending and reduced government growth, with a strong, even-handed foreign policy. The blame should not be put onto a group of people who had nothing to do with causing the uncertainty that exists in every financial sector, not only in this country, but now in every political sector of the world. To blame is only a way to defer who is really at fault.

“Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (administrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery”

“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds...[we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers... And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for[ another]... till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery... And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.”

“The system of banking [is] a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction... I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity... is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”

“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement.”

“Agriculture, manufacturers, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.”

This could be part of a plan going forward. Does this make sense? Will this plan take care of those that don’t think they can take care of themselves? Does this plan do for posterity, as it would do for those who are living today? Does this plan create uncertainty? Can any part of this plan be criticized for not doing enough? Can these words possibly be a part of a plan that can bring a semblance to a country and the world?

I would love to take credit for these words, but these are not my words, these are the words of Thomas Jefferson. These were his thoughts. If you have a problem with a group of people who want to recognize these words, don’t blame them, blame Jefferson. If you have a problem with these words, maybe its time you analyze how you came to the position of denying the credibility of these words.
Maybe the credibility of those who blame the other guy should now be examined.

The current plan going forward has not worked out so well, we all know it and the rest of the world now knows it. When Americans can finally determine that the Tea Party and Jefferson are not the threat and the fault of today’s current problems we, as a country, will then be able to blame the ones who are really at fault. The ones who constantly blame the other guy will never blame Jefferson directly, because to do so would be un-American. Now that you know what Jefferson thought and what the Tea Party represents, how can you or anyone say that they are to blame for the current problems we have in the country today?

Don’t blame me for being truthful; maybe that is what differentiates me from the other guy!

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: The plan is there, it’s been there all the time. It doesn’t take a Harvard grad who says he knows about constitutional law to say he’s got a plan. Remember what your wise Uncle told you: the one who always blames is the one who is at fault.