Brushfire of Freedom
The Conservative Cowboy
One more election about change just occurred in our great nation. However, this one was more about the change in the middle. You see there is a new political trend beginning in our country, and it is all caused by people who really don’t know wha
t they want from their Government. One minute they want “Change” and elect the most Liberal president to ever hold the office and the next they want less Government in their lives. I could blame this new mindset on a whole lot of reasons but frankly I just don’t have the time to illustrate how our nation has become fickle and at the whim of the MSM.
Now on to the real insightful stuff. I am quite disappointed in the way my state voted not only on the candidates running but especially on the amendments to our state constitution. “The Ugly Three” as they were called by the various unions and labor groups, as well as one very dear to my heart preventing any penalty for not having health insurance. Now as much as this amendment makes sense to write into law it also would have been a slap to the face of every idiot in Washington that voted for that horrible health care bill that was Obama’s pride and joy.
Back to “the ugly three”, for those of you not living in the state of Colorado I will give a quick overview of what these amendments stood for. One was very simple; a limit on how much the state can borrow in the form of bands for things like road work, telecommunications projects, etc. One took the states right to keep any property taxes that were above constitution limits. And the third lowered the state sales tax and limited the fees for telecommunications services and vehicle registration fees.
I am going to wait a moment and let that sink in for you.
There were typical arguments that the state would not have enough money to fix our roads, or that the prisons and schools would not be able to borrow extra money when they needed it, the list goes on and on and on about how all of these services would go away. Well what I don’t understand is why the Government can just keep raising taxes when cost go up and the private sector has to cut costs. Why does a RTD bus driver make close to $20 an hour to do a job that doesn’t even require a high school diploma but the a person with the same qualifications makes minimum wage Burger King. Why is the Government allowed to run everything they touch in the most inefficient manner possible? Everyone griped when Bush didn’t put some of those Defense contracts out to bid because they were afraid that without competition we would pay too much for each Fighter jet.
Well I say that these three items were a good way to tell the Government that when your checkbook doesn’t balance you need to tighten your belt like the rest of the people in this country.
So to sum up this little rant, everyone is so happy that the GOP took the House, we can fight back, I feel the same way political gridlock will be nice for the next two years, but we will go down the same road again, and again, and again until people stop reading headlines and actually read legislation before they vote for it. Until people can realize that taxation is getting to the point that it is ridiculous, and how does the government get away with it? They hid it in gasoline, tobacco, luxury goods, property tax, sales tax, and that list goes on and on and on. We won back the House and gained ground in the senate but I am not as optimistic as the rest of the people on the right because we failed in everything else that actually would bring this country back to the power that it once was.
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