Rush Holt Cannot Be Trusted

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Rush Holt is not the right person we need in Congress during these trying economic uncertainties. He has proven to us that he cannot be trusted with taxpayer money, and does not really understand the totality of the circumstances driving our complex global economy and fiscal distresses. What he does understand, very well though, is how to recklessly spend our money. We need to drastically cut back on all spending, scrutinize every expenditure to every department, especially salaries and pensions, and let taxpayers keep more of their income and property, so we can prop up our own families, and with it our national economy, like Americans have done, and will continue to do, so long as we are not hampered by expansive bureaucracies and regulatory impediments, which breed confusion and apprehension, borne from political uncertainties. We do not need the federal printing press and foreign credit to be successful, because it will only debase our currency, defile our national character, and diminish our independence.

The record speaks for itself. In 2006, Rush Holt made the following statements during a congressional hearing in regard to science and technology funding. He was not the least bit concerned about the national debt and federal deficit. “We, each day when we cast our vote, are deciding the future of our nation; we are deciding the future for our children, our grandchildren, and our great-grandchildren. We are creating a legacy for which history will hold us accountable.” I am sorry Mr. Holt, but the citizens of this district need accountability now, we can’t afford to wait for a future generation to determine if you and your Democrat wire-pullers are justified in heaping more federal bureaucracies, debt, and deficits onto taxpayer backs to fund. The legacy that you are leaving, and the reality we currently dwell in, I am saddened to comment, is like an iron wedge chained around the collective neck of posterity, and ourselves. If we do not arrest the expansive utopian schemes now being impetuously erected and radically implemented by Rush Holt and Nancy Pelosi, we are going to carry this burdensome yoke of insolvency and place it around the necks of unborn millions. Are we to believe that the tradeoff between spending more on research and development and having higher debt and deficit spending will eventually be a benefit to all of us? Our generation is standing up right now Mr. Holt, to proudly proclaim that the reckless spending spree that has gone on for decades in Washington D.C. will come to an abrupt end in November.

Further along in Rush Holt’s 2006 testimony, he mentioned that “[i]nvestment and decisions concerning science and technology require an understanding of the scientific and technological development process, a sense of responsibility to understand the potential policy outcomes of our decisions.” Are we to suppose that because our congressmen is a “rocket scientist,” no pun intended, that he has the special ability to understand the investment decisions that need to be made about science and research funding, and the policy ramifications of those decisions? That may be the case. Then we can carry his proposition a bit further, and explore the nature of our congressmen’s assumptions. Should we suppose, then, that in order to effectively deal with the federal budget’s numerable distresses, we need a representative that is capable enough to understand the complexities of our economic predicament, and the implications of policy decisions on the national debt, federal deficit, and small businesses?

If this be the case, according to our own congressmen’s logic, then, clearly, Rush Holt is not the best person to have representing us during a time of fiscal fragility. If we were preparing to leave the solar system on a rocket, then, maybe, we may want him in government. In fact, we need to address the dire financial perplexities we find ourselves in. We need to turn this great ship of state away from a course of fiscal decay, toward one that squarely places us on a path to economic renewal and expansion. We do not need to wait for a future generation to condemn our names because we saddled them with insolvency.