Home | Commentary | News | Forum | The Loft | Online Activist | State News | Resources | Classifieds Subscribe | Mobile | RSS | Contact
Breaking News -- Health care bill clears first Senate hurdle on party-line vote
Comment
E-mail
Print

Republicans Need Shareholder Revolt
By Star Parker
January 12, 2009

Page 2 of 2

Until now, the greatest expansion was under Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal that our president-elect seems to be taking as his model. At the beginning of the 1930s total government take was about 12 cents from every dollar. By the beginning of the 1940s it more than doubled to 25 cents of every dollar.

As Harvard Economist Greg Mankiw points out, the massive expansion of government during those years was supposedly to deal with temporary problems -- the depression and then the onset of World War II.

But there was never a subsequent cut back. The expansion just continued to where we are today.

As the political class in Washington transforms our once great, prosperous, and free country into a lumbering socialist mediocrity, a voice of dissent is needed.

In this sense, I like what Ken Blackwell is proposing in his run for RNC Chairman. Blackwell is calling for a "shareholder revolt" within the Republican Party and to move power, money, and influence to State organizations.

We do need a shareholder revolt in the Republican Party followed by one in the country as a whole.

--------------------

Note -- The opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions, views, and/or philosophy of GOPUSA.

>> Back -- Page 1 2

++ Discuss this topic in The Forum

Current rating: 4.9 out of 5.0 (236 total votes)

Please add your rating:

 

++ Check out the GOPUSA home page for the latest information.

Last Updated:
Saturday 5:45 pm EST



Not a member? Click here.
Will Tea Partiers turn on each other? by Charie
Religious leaders vow civil disobedience on anti-life issues by Charie
Will Tea Partiers turn on each other? by Bob Honiker
Andrea Mitchell Tries Desperately to Ambush Palin at Book Signing, Stopped by the Police by Charie
Discuss Issues in the Forum

Grassroots Survey Team
View recent survey results
Join the survey team!



GOPUSA Cartoons
Click here!

++ Action Alert: No more apologies....get to work!

++ Semper Fi - Now Just Die - Obama Pushes Euthanasia on Veterans

++ New Survey: Future of America's health care