An Argument for a Split Executive and Congress
Generally, the best that we as taxpayers can hope for in an election cycle is borrowed from medicine, “Do no harm.” Recently, I have been engaged in a Facebook sparring match with an old high school friend. He, apparently a democrat and angry over what’s happened over the past 8 years, and I, a Centrist-Capitalist, who’s also a little upset over what’s happened recently.
Facebook limits your postings to above a 1/4 of a viewable page at a time (using pretty small type). He and I have had to post multiple items to get our points across. In my latest response to him, I pointed out what I consider to be virtues of having control split between the two major parties until such a time as a legitimate third party can muster a strong minority in Congress. My logic was based primarily on what would likely happen with either of the two current candidates having a mandate and a fillibuster-proof majority. Below were my arguments.
The case against full Democratic control:
1) The Democrats (and Obama) support union initiatives to kill the secret ballot provisions of organization voting. Imagine the pressure co-workers who are PRO, would exert on those who were opposed to organizing at that time. A secret ballot should be just as important in unionizing as it is in selecting a president. I don’t want this passed and signed.
2) Democrats are heavily supported by teachers unions. These organizations make it harder to remove ineffective teachers from the classroom. These organizations, in charge of educating our children for years have seen a decline in education standards in the US relative to other Western nations. These organizations oppose trying new things to turn it aronud (charter schools, voucher programs) and want your children sentenced to the inferior pulic education systems plagueing many of our inner cities. No Child Left Behind was an interesting idea when first conceived, but like everything else created by government, is a disaster. Democrats want to make fixes to the program and I applaud that, but if the fixes are written by the NEA, they won’t have the children in mind. Again, I don’t want this passed and signed in a kissing-booth environment.
3) Raising the capital gains tax will hurt the economy and have lasting impact on your retirement funds.
4) The refundable tax credits are Welfare and are designed to make people dependent on the government and the Democrats who enact them.
5) Jimmy Carter’s foreign policies do not deserve another chance.
6) Foreign trade agreements like NAFTA, CAFTA and the (currently stalled in negotiation) OAS treaty are good for the US Economy and for the world. It is not the place of the United States to require other nations to agree in a treaty that jobs in that foreign country earn US union wages or meat US union work standards. The US has decreased its trade deficits with Mexico and Canada since NAFTA was passed (meaning we’re exporting more). And sometimes it’s okay to let the other country have a little win as well.
7) Continued expansion of an unwinnable drug war. Prosecution of doctors for prescribing marijuana to cancer patients in a state where it was made legal by referrendum.
The case against full Republican control
1) Continued reliance on trickle-down economics. This current crisis, is a relative blip on that radar. At least with tax and spend, there is money raised to cover the new expenditures. At some point, you have to start paying your borrowings off. With that kind of debt, you’re talking about MASSIVE tax hikes and inflation.
2) Nation-building is not our job. We should not poke sleeping bears. However, we should also not be meet with dictators who are sworn do destroy our allies.
3) Separation of Church and State is in the Constitution for a reason. Make sure your own house in order before interfering in the choices of others with their bodies. Abstinence-only education is a joke. There is no reason to force the teaching of creationism in our public schools.
4) Gays should be allowed to marry and pay as much in taxes as the rest of us do. I don’t care if you give it a different name or not. For that matter, if they are willing to die for their country, sign them up.
5) The party of “Smaller Government” created the largest Federal buerocracy in history to create the illusion of security.
6) No bid contracts. Not just in Iraq.
7) Continued expansion of an unwinnable drug war. Prosecution of doctors for prescribing marijuana to cancer patients in a state where it was made legal by referrendum.
8) Privatizing Social Security. In the short term, it diverts funds from the alleged lock box into the market as opposed to being available for deficit spending (that’s not great either, but serves a purpose for now). In the long term, it serves only to enrich those money managers in the good graces of the administration at the time.
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