A Reader Defends Howard Dean

Don Anastas — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

In Howard Dean Tells Us What America Wants I suggest the DNC chairman and left-wing nut feels the recent election has given Liberals a mandate for change. Mr. Dean is arrogant as well as confused.

I also took on Robert Rubin for his recent suggestion the eonomy could withstand a tax increase. Nice advice but it’s refreshing to have the support of the Wall Street Journal to back my reasoning.

However one reader, Joe in Wynnewood said…

Isn’t that true only in terms of real and not inflation adjusted $? I know it isn’t in terms of % of GDP. Isn’t it true that expenditures have way outstripped revenue under the fiscally-challenged Congress and nary a veto in sight from Bush?

I didn’t know that free market meant that when the government pays for stuff it can’t do what every business in America does when it buys from suppliers – negotiate for the best possible terms. When a government agency is acting as a business, shouldn’t it act as a business?

Maybe Gov. Dean isn’t quite as crazy as you’d like to make him out to be…

Of course Liberals never provide specifics nor do they corroborate their bluster with facts. Let’s help Joe out:

Federal revenues in fiscal 2006 were 18.4% of GDP, higher than the 18.2% post-1965 average.
The U.S. economy grew by an average of nearly 4% a year for three years following mid-2003.
Federal revenues in fiscal 2006 were 18.4% of GDP, higher than the 18.2% post-1965 average.
In October, the first month of fiscal 2007, revenues rose by 12% from a year earlier.
The federal deficit for fiscal 2006 was only 1.9% of GDP, which is lower than all but eight years since 1975.
During the late Clinton years, the feds grabbed a record 20.9% of GDP.

Hopefully Bush ’43′ will not follow in Bush ’41s’ footsteps and pronounce, “No new taxes” and tell us to “Read his lips.” This is what the Liberals like Dean, Rubin and Hillary Clinton wish for, have Republicans change tax policy and take the issue off the table for 2008.

If the electorate spoke in volumes then Democrats didn’t win the election or receive a mandate. Republicans forgot Conservative principles and lost the election. The long awaited Liberal agenda was not part of the election campaign, it is now rearing its ugly head.

Republican politicians should now remind themselves of Conservative policies and recall the Tom Delay folly in the house. Earmarks should be dead, and tax cuts should be permanent. As for Joe? We don’t want the government paying for “stuff.” We want our money and control of it. Read my lips!

Howard Dean Tells Us What America Wants

Don Anastas — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

DNC chairman and left-wing nut Howard Dean feels the recent election has given Liberals a mandate for change. Mr. Dean is arrogant as well as confused.

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One, Dean equates the election of the first totally Democrat legislature in New Hampshire to what the nation wants. How did he assume that?

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Two, Dean feels American’s want a return to the “Good Ol’ Days” of Clintonomics. This has been mentioned by others in the “party” as some sort of wonderful time but they, including former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, ignore the Dot.com boom that eventually went bust as much of the economic success of the 90′s. The technology industry temporarily made Clintonomics look successful until the wheels came off.

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Welfare reform was shoved Clinton’s way and he had no politcal choice but to endorse it and sign the bill into law. This helped the 90′s economy and Republicans, then with Conservative values, helped reduce the deficit and balance the budget for Clinton.

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Reduction in government jobs reduced the deficits but the anti-Military Clintons took over 80% of those jobs from the military. Thank you Al Gore. Welfare reform for the civilian population and welfare for our military. Food stamps in every commissary and ration kit.

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Three, Dean feels a need to tax the rich, which he now defines as the top 1% of Americans. Somehow Dean doesn’t equate tax reduction with record revenues into the government coffers.

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Four, Dean wants medicare reform and government negotiating for lower pharmacutical costs. Apparently the left-wing Dean never heard of free market capitalism. Liberals want stem cell research, paid for by the Federal government and wish to regulate the companies whose research develop drugs that cure.

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Five, Deans wants a return to Clinton’s “Pay Go” system of explaining what spending is for and where will go. Isn’t this done already although many time creatively hidden in spending bills? Fiscal restraint might help.

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Six, Dean wants an increase in minimum wages. This is a tax on business in the form of forced higher wages, and increased payroll taxes with government control on business. Smells like FDR economics now.

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Back to Robert Rubin, Clintons “economic guru” who this weeks claims, “you cannot solve the nation’s fiscal problems without increased revenues.”

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“I think if you were to increase taxes right now, you would have probably about zero negative effect on the economy,” claims Rubin.

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Probably have? One thing Rubin never mentions in his speech to the Economic Club of Washington this past week is reduced spending.

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Here’s an economic lesson for Liberals like Dean and Rubin. If the economy is at record revenue because of tax cuts wouldn’t you enhance revenue by simple fiscal responsibility and government restraint in Congress with reduced spending and reform?

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The answer is YES!

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