Dear Senator McCain
I am at once mystified by, and concerned about the speech you gave after winning the South Carolina Primary. As a life long Democrat I find you by far the most compelling of Republican candidates. No one can doubt you love of country or the ordeal you went through in Vietnam. I can not overlook however the irony that as a life long Maverick mistrusted by the Republican party that your speech is pure Reagan 101.
The problem my friends, you say, is that Americans pay too much tax and there is too much regulation. As a life long realist, whose house is completely paid off and who has no consumer credit card debt, I was looking for some straight talk.
A nation that refuses to pay its bills and yet believes that it can continue to under pay on its payments (taxes) must surely be taking a long walk off of a short pier. I wonder how you would evangelize to a nation of debtors the importance of paying their debts when our government says, pay no attention to that man behind the curtain, we can have lower payments (taxes) and deficits too and everything can be hunky dory. We can pay for a War off the books pretend that it does not have to be paid for.
My point, Senator McCain is that a nation that refuse to pay its bills (taxes) and yet believes that the way to cut debt is to cut payments can not long endure as a great nation.
Almost as puzzling is your call for less regulation. What would you regulate less? The SEC, who did not catch the Savings and Loans meltdown or the Sub Prime Mortgage disaster that is currently threatening to undermine our economy even more than our deficit spending, an off the books war, and the transfer our wealth to China and the Oil producing nations? Or would you let the FDA regulate drug companies less because they have such a good record of having the public's best interest in mind when they make decisions. Or how about the EPA, I am sure that our environment is in such good hands that we surely could reduce the staffing levels at the EPA.
My point Senator McCain, as a fellow Westerner, is that I look around and see a land blessed with natural resources and wealth, I see a land scared by mans inherent greed ( an example, to this day the California Gold Rush is Mythologized, when in fact it is one of the West's worst ecologic disasters whose scars cans still be seen today). I see a need to balance the regulation of those who invent and who do not, unfortunately I see that balance is sorely tipped in a direction that is not in our nations best interest.
Just as it was seen as our manifest destiny to expand as a nation from coast to coast, it is now time to create a new destiny. We now inhabit this nation from coast to coast, the west is close to built out without any additional water sources. Now is the time to address the future and what it will take to build it.
If we as a nation believe that we can build this future without paying for it, we will fail. If we continue to believe that we can have butter and guns, we will fail. If we continue to believe that we can have something for nothing, we will fail.
My point Senator McCain, is that straight talk starts with a realistic look at regulation good and bad, and what is in the nations best interest, not just those who would profit from lack of regulations (see the California Gold Rush).
Men of Wisdom can regulate themselves for the common good. Are you a Man of Wisdom?
Straight talk starts with a realistic look what we spend, and how we pay for it, and what is in the nation's best interest, not just for those who would profit from not paying for a future that benefits them.
Men of wisdom can speak the truth when all around them are deferring payment and the truth to a time uncertain. Are you a Man of Wisdom?
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