The Government is NOT a Charity.

Huckabee seems likable and his personal approach to politics is a strength that other candidates should implement in their own campaigns. His stance on social issues seem also good. However, Huckabee’s record on spending, taxes, and big government is the wrong direction for this country.

Here are some evidences of Huckabee’s spending sprees:

During an interview with Lou Dobb’s on CNN, Ed Rollins, Huckabee’s new endorsement, confessed that Huckabee likes to spend taxpayer’s money. When trying to defend Huckabee’s proclivity to spend money and raise taxes, Collins said that if Reagan were running today even Reagon wouldn’t pass the “puritan’s” litmus test from organizations like the National Review. Collins stated, “There are a lot of things a governor has to do if you are going to be a good governor and make the state function better.” I don’t by it.

Mitt was a phenomenal governor. He reduced taxes, got Massachusetts out of a $3 billion dollar deficit and still managed to (1) get some of the top scores in the nation in regards to the education of his youth, (2) get every resident of his state affordable healthcare, (3) fight for traditional marriage, and (4) enforce immigration law. I guess such should not come as a surprise given the 25 years he spent in the private section revamping failing organizations and saving a scandal ridden Olympics.

In this next video Huckabee and Chuck Norris on Bill O’Reilly’s show. When questioning Huckabee whether he will impose his religious views on the nation he replied, “When we tried to improve education … when we improved health care … when we built better roads … frankly I think is consistent with a person of faith.”

And of course, the Club for Growth put this ad out a few weeks ago that highlights Huckabee’s more Democratic-like fiscal, economic, and tax policies.

Frederic Bastiat once said:

“But sincere or insincere, the intentions of persons are not here under question. In fact, I have already said that legal plunder is based partially on philanthropy, even though it is a false philanthropy.

With this explanation, let us examine the value — the origin and the tendency — of this popular aspiration which claims to accomplish the general welfare by general plunder. . . .

We must remember that law is force, and that, consequently, the proper functions of the law cannot lawfully extend beyond the proper functions of force.

When law and force keep a person within the bounds of justice, they impose nothing but a mere negation. They oblige him only to abstain from harming others. They violate neither his personality, his liberty, nor his property. They safeguard all of these. They are defensive; they defend equally the rights of all. . . .

When a politician views society from the seclusion of his office, he is struck by the spectacle of the inequality that he sees. He deplores the deprivations which are the lot of so many of our brothers, deprivations which appear to be even sadder when contrasted with luxury and wealth. . . .

Perhaps he should consider this proposition: Since all persons seek well-being and perfection, would not a condition of justice be sufficient to cause the greatest efforts toward progress, and the greatest possible equality that is compatible with individual responsibility? Would not this be in accord with the concept of individual responsibility which God has willed in order that mankind may have the choice between vice and virtue, and the resulting punishment and reward?

But the politician never gives this a thought. His mind turns to organizations, combinations, and arrangements — legal or apparently legal. He attempts to remedy the evil by increasing and perpetuating the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. . . .

You say: “There are persons who have no money,” … Nothing can enter the public treasury for the benefit of one citizen or one class unless other citizens and other classes have been forced to send it in. If every person draws from the treasury the amount that he has put in it, it is true that the law then plunders nobody. But this procedure does nothing for the persons who have no money. It does not promote equality of income. The law can be an instrument of equalization only as it takes from some persons and gives to other persons. When the law does this, it is an instrument of plunder.”

Mr. Huckabee, the government is not a charity. It rules only by force. Force is the antithesis of charity. Religion is about charity, not force. It is not charity to force people to pay for things, that is false philanthropy. Perhaps I’m wrong but false philanthropy seems some what inconsistant with religious teachings.

Vote for Mitt. A candidate for less force.

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“It’s a time for action … I believe in the people of America.”

“It’s a time for action … I believe in the people of America … A free American people are the source of this country’s great strength.” Those are a few quotes from Mitt’s first TV advertisement which people in Florida, Iowa, South Carolina, Michigan, and New Hampshire heard. Check it out:

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Will Bush’s New Strategy in Iraq Work? Some Say That Depends on Maliki.

It seems that many people feel that the success of Bush’s new strategy in Iraq depends on PM al-Maliki’s ability to crack down on the insurgency. As noted in One Last Shot, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to cap the number of troops because (1) they believe that Bush’s new strategy has been tried and failed in the past and (2) that PM Nouri al-Maliki doesn’t have what it takes to win.

2008 presidential hopeful George Pataki recently visited Georgetown University to deliver a speech titled “A Way Forward in Iraq.”

Here are a few excerpts from Pataki’s speech taken from the Wall Street Journal: “I don’t think there is anyone who has said that what we have to do is hold the Maliki government’s feet to the fire,” Pataki said. “Let’s make them take the actions that they can take [toward a stable government].”

“You have people now saying ‘No, no surge.’ You have some saying, ‘Yes, the surge is a solution.’ I’m saying: the surge if. And the ‘if’ is that the surge … is to achieve the broader goal of a stable, representative Iraqi government — yes, if in fact that government is a partner, and more than just a wordsmith partner but to the extent it is a capable and effective partner in achieving that goal. We can’t make the Iraqi institutions of government function. We can help them to have a climate where they can make them function.”

It seems that many people are very skeptical about the Prime Minister’s ability to pull this off.

What do you think? Does Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki have the ability to bring stability to Iraq?

Perhaps the following article, videos, audio feed, and transcript will inspire faith in the man.

Article: 400 Shiite Fighters Detained http://www.cnn.com.

Video: Prime Minister Nouri al-Malaki will no longer protect radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr http://www.cnn.com/video.

Video: American Forces Training Iraqi’s http://www.cnn.com/video.

Audio: Maliki’s Address to US Congress on July 26, 2006 http://www.npr.org

Transcript: Maliki’s Address to US Congress on July 26, 2006 http://www.npr.org

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The Strength of the American People

In an address to Awakening 2007, Mitt Romney stated, “At this decisive moment in our nation’s journey into a new global frontier, there are two competing visions about how America must meet a new generation of challenges. We must choose between calling on stronger government – the liberal vision – or calling on the strength of the American people – and that is my vision.”

I agree, the strength of America is in its people. History has revealed that great civilizations have self destructed when its people lose the love of freedom and fail to defend it. “The first free people, the Greeks, died . . . [because a] slackness and softness finally came over them to their ruin. In the end more than they wanted freedom they wanted security, a comfortable life, and they lost all—security, comfort and freedom.” Ezra Taft Benson, An Enemy Hath Done This (Parliament Publisher 1969 p 50-51) (quoting the Indianapolis Star which was commenting on a statement made by the communist leader Lenin).

In the end, if we American’s continue to look to the comfort and security of big government instead of our own ambitions, ingenuity, and labors, we, like the Greeks and other great civilizations, will lose all. Let us stand for freedom and against big government. Let us stand for Mitt Romney.

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