Bankruptcy or Solvency?

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This November, the citizens of the 12th congressional district of New Jersey, and the rest of us in this state and country, have to decide whether to cast a vote for bankruptcy, or solvency. The choice is supposed to be a simple one, yet, due to our peculiar financial circumstances over the past few decades, it has become a stark choice nonetheless. The ultimate verdict will have immediate and long-term repercussions on us, our nation, and posterity. The overall consequences arising from the critical choice before us will be our own doing. We are the active agents of our destiny. All that one has to do is merely look across the Atlantic Ocean at the countries of Europe, and see that most of them are struggling with the troublesome symptoms of a government controlled welfare state that has steadily squeezed the economic vitality from a small and vibrant population.

If European countries, with small and aging populations mind you, cannot financially sustain a government controlled welfare system, then how can it be expected that this country, with its enormously free and diverse population, can sustain a similar system? European socialism is a premonition of what is to come to our shores if we do not make a firm stand against the tide of financial ruin. It is brought on by the careless winds of insolvency, nurtured by reckless spending habits that seek to eradicate every naturally occurring social malady. This utopian storm, now being conjured up by the most radical forces within the Democrat Congress, will produce a devastating tidal surge of higher debt and deficits that will ravage individual freedom and denigrate personal property in its worrisome wake, leaving us all dependent on a highly centralized federal apparatus to take care of our every need and want. This is not the precious fabric of liberty; it is pernicious chains of slavery.


We, in this district, state, and nation, must finally arrest the mounting national debt and continual budget deficits that are being pushed by a crew of career politicians going on a delusional spending spree with our hard earned wages. Quite frankly, much of our personal wealth and property is wasted on unnecessary functions that are not granted to the federal government by any enumerated power proscribed in any section of the U.S. Constitution. Career politicians use fear tactics, and always point to ideal evils whenever there is an attempt to curtail any discretionary spending. Rush Holt is one of these career politicians. He occupies our seat, is supposed to serve at our pleasure, but shows utter contempt by wastefully spending our money, always at the behest of the Democrat Party and Washington D.C. insiders.

Rush Holt, is fiscally irresponsible. He, and his Democrat wire-pullers, who have controlled Congress for four years now, will eventually shackle us to even more specious tax and spending schemes, concocted in the dark of the night, surreptitiously slipped into the middle of enormous bills, with plenty of procedural gimmicks to get them passed, and with no legitimate debate at all to unmask the manufactured maladies they seek to eradicate. We do not deserve ill-conceived partisanship.

During Rush Holt’s decade long occupation of our congressional seat, he fought vigorously to expand the size and role of the federal bureaucracy, which only added to the national debt, and increased the federal deficit, with not too many salutary benefits to point to. As Rush Holt sat in Congress our debt and deficit grew larger, never really making any serious suggestions about curtailing it, but making concerted efforts to increase it.
We need to face the liberal menace that now controls the Democrat Party, and with it, our seat in Congress. Too many political careerists, along with their cadre of salaried federal bureaucrats, are arrogantly pushing their narrow-minded special interests, with slim majorities mind you, over that of the general interest. We are witnessing a time when extreme political ideologies, on both sides of the political spectrum, are polarizing the populace for political expediency, and distracting this nation from accomplishing real political reform and economic renewal.  American citizens are the active participants driving this experiment in self-government.