So you're a libruhl.
Did you Occupy Wall Street with that hard pro-regulation stance? You always wanted big Government putting up barriers for home ownership? You're telling me you didn't like that NAFTA allowed businesses and corporations to do as they saw to be in the best interest of their stock holders and protect their bottom line?
Bullshit.
You're insane.
I want government to protect American business interests.
I opposed NAFTA. Vehemently.
I want the government to protect the American taxpayer (so long as we're forced to pay taxes). When I saw people getting house loans more easily than they could get a loan for a car I knew what was going to happen. I used to sell cars at a "tote your note" car lot. I used to own a furniture store that catered to the economically disadvantaged. I know who these people are and how they behave. You give them home loans? They will get more than they can afford and walk away without a second thought when things get tight.
Some government regulation is necessary because people are, after all, people. There are those who put their own self-interest ahead of anything -- national security included.
I'm not a liberal. I'm not a conservative. I believe in aspects of both.
What I want?
1) I want Obamacare repealed and the concept of "national health care for all" never brought up again. It's not going to work and succeeds only in driving up costs, crushing small businesses which want to provide for their employees, diminishing standards of care and making the situation exponentially worse.
2) Dismantle the IRS and institute a tax on goods and services. Everybody who benefits should pay. Period. If you drive on the roads, if you rely on the American military for protection, you should pay for that no matter what your circumstance. And you should pay the same percentage as I do. If still you want to unfairly tap the rich, do so by implementing higher tax rates on luxury items. If you want to penalize people who make poor choices raise taxes on alcohol, cigarettes and tobacco.
3) I want the federal government out of anything that should be left to the states. That includes education (no more Common Core), marriage (no more federally forced gay bullshit) etc.
4) I want legislation that cripples small business and damages the American workforce eliminated. That means NAFTA. I'm sorry, but I'd rather pay $1 more for a shirt made in the US than be able to get cheap, shitty $5 shirts at Wal Mart celebrating 16 national championships. I want a government that supports American industry rather than making it easier and more profitable for the jobs that built small town America to evaporate to Vietnam and Mexico.
5) I want a federal government that doesn't pander to niche causes (#blacklivesmatter) and that doesn't substitute its own agenda(s) for the will of the people.
6) I want a government that holds people accountable. I help people do their taxes. It infuriates me to have people who paid little into the system to be able to get back enormous refunds because of a plethora of credits. That's asinine. You should not be able to get back more than you put in. You should also be required to perform some community service if you receive government assistance. Have you ever been in a housing project? Have you ever seen the absolute indifference/disdain most people who live there have for their homes and property? There's no sense of pride because it's just handed to them. I've delivered (and repossessed) furniture from places that were full of vermin, had holes punched in the walls, had carpets shit on and torn up by pets, places that were literally demolished by the residents -- residents who then complained, were moved to another free space which they proceeded to destroy while our tax dollars were used to repair all the damage at the first one. If you are on public housing and drawing a public check, you should be required to keep your property maintained, perform cleanup or administrative duties in your block and if you don't? Fuck you. Hit the streets and die.
I want to believe in America, but I don't. Too many people now think that somebody else should pay. Pay for their bad choices, pay for them to have a standard of living to which they are not entitled, pay because they are offended, pay because they are mad, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, pay. And these same fools continue to support people who prey on that while they get successively more dependent, less self-sufficient and more poor.
The only politicians who can reverse that trend are those that believe in the power of American small business. Those who believe in the trickle-up effect of people like me being able to pay fair wages, provide decent benefits and grow my business in free market. You don't think it would be less expensive for me to farm out all my development to a bunch of Indians for eighty cents a day? I could do that, hide the fact by having a few states-based employees and have significantly more money than I do now. I don't. Because I still believe in America. But it's getting harder and harder.
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