‘The real big difference between the two parties’
An obviously one-sided letter to the editor was submitted here Sept. 10 that read more like campaign rhetoric than a fair and honest description of political party differences.
But to be fair, writer Robin Moore did state that she did not know what the Republican Party stood for. That’s quite amazing coming from a person that serves as the chairperson in the Democratic Party organization of Grays Harbor. At least she was honest about that.
A long time ago, in a dictionary that could be used for ballast, I looked up the description of Democrat and Republican. I was somewhat surprised to read them as being almost exactly the same nearly word for word. But then they really should be if indeed a Democrat was still a Democrat and a Republican was still a Republican. But now, Dems are way left and Repubs are way right (pun intended). Indeed, the goalposts have been moved to the left - pretty much by the Left - attempting to relocate what center is. To be fair, it’s evolution in politics, though very one-sided. The results of that are exposed in our upcoming elections.
All 16 of the Republican candidates are Republicans.
50% of the Democratic candidates are admitted socialists.
That’s not bias. That’s the facts. Again to be fair, Democratic Party candidate Bernie Sanders wasn’t picked out by the Left. Sanders entered of his own free will. Clearly paralleling with the ideologues of the Left, he did choose the Democratic side in stating his political party preference for this campaign.
Enough chitchat. The real big difference between the two parties today is that the Left wants a large ever-expanding government that consumes all. The Right wants a smaller, less intrusive government that allows the people to govern themselves.
People made this country the greatest economy on earth — not the government. Overregulation, a tax code that requires litigation, and special interest groups that lobby (buy) political favors are not job makers.
It takes a whole lot of money – your money - to run a big government that insists on handling all your needs because you’re incapable. There are needs, but government spending is out of control and can’t even be accounted for in many cases. We’re talking billions of dollars here — your billions.
Try running your house or business like that and the government will send the IRS right to your door.
Before this current administration leaves office, the national debt will be $20 trillion. Fully half of that will be acquired by the one-sided policies of the current President alone. Refusing any other opinions offered, he owns it.
With economists speculating Sanders’ remedy to ‘fix’ the country will add another $18 trillion, one would think everybody would be looking for something ‘different.’
Dale Rasmus
Ocosta