Get the Politicians Out of the Economy: Recipe for Sound Economic Growth
Mandatory reading assignment: Newt Gingrich
What’s at stake is two very different futures for America built around two opposing value systems advocated by two coalitions of power.
Down one road is a bureaucratic, insider-dominated system of litigation, regulation, and taxation with government dominance, with slow growth, expensive and scarce energy, and the eventual replacement of the United States by China and India as the world’s most advanced and prosperous nations.
Down the other road is a dynamic American economy producing its own energy, independent of dictators, using science and technology to create an exciting future, and continuing its role as the most prosperous and technologically advanced country in the world.
Down this latter road too is the America we recognize, the America we want to preserve. An America that demonstrates and lives by the most important insight ever provided by the study of the science of economics — that economic activity, like all human action, relies in the end on moral agency — the moral agency of human freedom, the human freedom God enjoins for all His creatures.
And that this freedom of individuals to go as far and as high as their talents can take them – this is the freedom that is the real source of any wealth and economic progress, a freedom in which the success of one benefits all. Causing a rising tide that lifts all boats is the work of encouraging individual achievement and excellence while discouraging the collectivist schemes and contrivances of opportunistic politicians.
Because politicians and government can only take wealth they can never create it.
Staying true to freedom, then, can create a tide of economic prosperity but also provide what all human prosperity ultimately depends upon – the kind of faith in the future that sees current difficulties not so much as a crisis but an opportunity – an opportunity to affirm the American spirit, to speak for hope, to look always to tomorrow and remain true to our founders call.
And that call – their call to every generation of Americans – is to keep our land “a light unto the nations.”
This is the choice before us. Which America we want, and which America we choose.
In the next few weeks, by your words, by your actions, by the calls you make to your elected officials, by the work you do, by your participation, by your letters to the editor, by your involvement in calling into talk radio, you have a chance to say you want America to get back on the path that works: the rule of law, the responsibility that those who tried to get very rich and didn’t make it, have to somehow go through a process of change, but that you the taxpayer do not owe them your money to bail out their problems, and that we do not want Washington, with its bureaucrats, its politicians, and its lobbyists, to become the center of the American economy because that will limit our children’s future.
We want once again to return to the rule of law, to have a system of low taxes and great opportunity and to have an opportunity to change the institutions that are failing to create even greater chance for our children and our grandchildren to live in prosperity and safety.
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Posted by Jay on September 23, 2008 12:08 am
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