The Economy. I believe that government has no business messing with the economy. Other than enforcing consistent standards and basic rules of conduct (honesty, keeping contracts, punishing theft and libelous lies, etc) and establishing a stable value of the dollar, government should keep its grubby mitts entirely off business. The private enterprise system allows good businesses to prosper and bad businesses to fail, as they should. Anything the government tries to do beyond the basic functions I listed is only a drain on the economy, as any task done by the government can be more efficiently done in the private sector. The only exceptions to this are the functions that require the overarching authority of the government, such as national defense, setting national standards and basic rules of conduct, and executing criminals. Government by definition is force; it has to be to do its job. But we, unique in all the world, have been given a nation founded in liberty and individual rights and responsibilities. The more we cede to government, the less freedoms we retain for us or our children. Once government has taken over something, it is exceedingly difficult to ever get it back.

Democrats believe that their federal ”experts“ know best how to run our lives, and that every problem has its solution in their big-government regulations and spending. The fact that this has never worked doesn’t deter them in the slightest. They don’t know their history. In this, Democrats are exceedingly foolish. They do not understand that more government jobs does NOT grow the economy, it stifles and drains it. More government spending does NOT stimulate the economy, it just builds up a burden of debt for our children to pay. Government must first take out of the economy anything it puts back in,  and in the process, at least half is wasted in governmental red tape, inefficiencies, and foolish boondoggles.

Law. I believe in the rule of law. America was founded with a Declaration of Independence, a Constitution, and a Bill of Rights. These were all based on Biblical law, as is obvious to anyone who knows our history. This foundation gave us the best country in history, which has by God’s grace remained strong and prosperous for many years, and to which people all over the world desire to come for refuge. I believe it is our duty as citizens to defeat laws which conflict with this foundation and to support laws in harmony with this foundation, using interpretations consistent with the writings of our founding fathers.

Democrats believe in the rule of men, and in adding and changing laws with the changing culture. They have worked hard to re-write our nation’s history to remove it’s Biblical foundations, because they hate having an unchanging standard for law. Especially God’s moral law, embodied in the Ten Commandments, must be removed from schools and all public view. How can they make laws according to their own lusts and desires if God’s law is staring people in the face!

Morality. My Libertarian bent says that, other than violent crimes such as rape, murder, theft, assault, and kidnapping, legislating morality is not the government’s job. Government should “stay out of the bedroom” of consenting adults, and neither condemn nor condone things like adultery or homosexuality. That is the church’s job, and the church should have the freedom to speak out boldly against all such harmful and wicked behavior without fear of lawsuit or government intervention. (Yes, this will offend some people, but only those who love their sin and hate God’s righteous moral standards.) The one exception to this is the sacred institution of marriage, which is so valuable to society that government should do all it can to encourage it, such as favorable treatment in the tax code.

 Democrats do understand that immorality is harmful, both to the individual and to society, and they use it like a club to beat up Republicans who fall into sin. But secretly they condone immorality and the growing cultural acceptance of most forms of sexual deviance. Why? It is a fact that straight, church-going families are more likely to vote Republican, while those who pursue deviant lifestyles are more likely to vote Democrat, the party of “Someone else is to blame” for the painful consequences of their immorality. Some Democrats even justify and defend immorality, but only in Democrats (as with President Bill Clinton).

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