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GOP Issues
The Glynn County (Georgia) GOP has formed a committee to research and priortize issues and
encourage its members to adopt an issue or issues and develop a resolution for submission
to our elected officials and communication to other GOP organizations. Here is a
brief elaboration of the key points surrounding the issues they have identified.
1. Church, State and Culture:
One could trace the apparent moral decline in the culture of the USA to the
increase in secular attacks on Christianity, starting roughly in the sixties.
2. Campaign Finance Reform:
a.k.a. the McCain/Feingold Act.
This legislation should have been named the "Incumbent Protection Act."
It is a poorly disguised attempt to make it extremely difficult for challengers to unseat
incumbents; cloaked in the supposedly noble cause of reforming campaign financing. It is
very dangerous to the first amendment
3. Economic Ignorance:
There is astonishingly widespread and growing ignorance of the media and the
general population on economic issues. Just one example: a lot of Americans
would not be able to tell the difference between profit and profit margin. This
leads our political leaders to make terrible decisions that can wreck our economy.
4. Education:
Teachers have a very challenging occupation. Today, it is made even more
difficult by teachers unions, political correctness, zero tolerance policies,
and, generally, a decline in the encouragement of excellence and achievement.
5. Energy Dependence:
Environmental issues, though possibly well intentioned, tend to make the US more
vulnerable to foreign manipulation of the energy markets, especially when
combined with misguided and ill-informed initiatives like the Kyoto Protocol.
Drilling in ANWR and offshore, new refineries, and new nuclear plants should be
revisited in light of global terror.
6. The Fairness Doctrine:
Sounds good on the surface, but, if passed, will force radio stations to give
equal time to opposing viewpoints of liberals in response to incredibly
successful conservative radio talk shows. The net effect will be the
cancellation of all talk radio because liberal talk does not attract listeners,
and therefore, will not attract advertising revenues.
7. "Global Warming:
"The Supreme Court of the United States has declared carbon dioxide to be a
"greenhouse gas" and, therefore, subject to regulation of its emission!!!
This is wondrously like Alice in Wonderland! The science behind this is faulty and
extremely dangerous to our economy. Mankind MAY (emphasis on MAY) be
contributing to global warming, but this is not an established fact and the
overwhelming majority of warming is naturally caused. Political decisions based
on such faulty science are extremely dangerous to our economy and our freedom.
8. Gun Control: The
second amendment was placed second only to freedom of speech for a very good
reason. Our brilliant forefathers were very concerned that government could get
out of control, as they had witnessed first hand in England. There were a
series of tyrant kings who drove these men out of their homeland. The second
amendment enables citizens to protect themselves not only from criminals, but
also from tyrannical rule. Just ask the Germans.
9. Immigration: We
need hard working people but we also need to protect our country. Amnesty and
an open border is not the answer. This topic has been thoroughly covered
elsewhere.
10. Islam & the War on Islamic
Fascists There has not been an attack on the US since
9/11/2001. Could it be because we are fighting the enemy in Iraq, instead of on
our own soil? Islamic fascists seek to establish a caliphate of the entire
world. Iran's insane leader is anticipating the arrival of the "twelfth Imam"
through, possibly, a nuclear holocaust. Islamic fundamentalists teach that
non-Muslims have three choices: (1.) Convert to Islam. (2.) Submit to Islamic
rule and pay taxes. (3.) Die. This is indeed WWIV (The Cold War was WWIII.)
11. Law:
This issue
goes from one extreme to another. Fundamentally, the US is free, in no small
measure because of the rule of law. Compare other legal systems around the
world where, for example, you are guilty until proven innocent. Yet, we have
ridiculous decisions being handed down by our Supreme Court (see number 7 above)
and, if a Democrat gets elected president, he or she will be able to appoint
more justices like Ruth Bader Ginsberg. We also need to address tort reform
give more power back to the states and away from the federal government.
12. Media Bias: The
first amendment is the cornerstone of our liberty. Yet there would be no
balance or objectivity without talk radio. The so-called "Main Stream
Media" is uniformly liberal. This includes ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, The New
York Times, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Washington Post, etc. ad nauseum!
If the Fairness Doctrine is passed, one could argue that the Republican Party has a
very small chance of surviving as a viable political party. How can we claim to
have a "Free Press" when Condoleeza Rice is viciously slandered by political
cartoons and there is no outrage from the "Main Stream" supposedly objective
media?
13. Race Relations:
If Democrats are elected, it will be very tempting for them to curry favor with
"African-Americans" by entertaining reparations. Is racism still extant in the
US? It would be disingenuous to say no. But it is not nearly as pervasive as
it was in the last century. Do Black Americans deserve equal opportunity? Of
course. But Americans need to move forward. As a point of historical fact,
every human race has, at some time or another, been enslaved. Most of them get
on with life and do not look back.
14. Taxation:
Taxes are an extraordinarily efficient motivator. Politicians know
that they will get exactly the behavior they desire when they pass tax legislation.
If you want, for example, to decrease productivity, you tax profits. If you want most
of the citizenry to be dependent on the central government for its welfare, you tax the
productive part of the populace. i.e. you take the money earned by productive
people away from them, at the point of a gun, and you give it to unproductive
people whom you know will reelect you. If you have not read The Fair Tax,
please get it and read it. It is the solution.
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