Posted by
Juliana Johnson on Monday, October 27, 2008 11:41:19 AM
During this Presidential cycle, America has truly become the land of short term memory.
Both political parties embrace socialism as if the ravages of that failed ideology were never visited upon the 20th Century.
On
the campus of the University of Chicago, the legacy of Milton Friedman
is protested while the presence of Bill Ayers across town at the
University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) is heralded.
Against this
backdrop, I am proposing the creation of a new party. Not a party for
"working families" or the "middle class", two categories stretched
beyond recognition and rendered meaningless by overuse.
I want
to be explicit. All successful political parties define their
constituencies and defend them. So today I am launching the People Who
Play By The Rules Party.
In this country, one has to accomplish
three things to virtually guarantee never living in poverty: get a high
school diploma; get married after the age of 20; and get married before
having a child. The People Who Play the Rules Party is their party.
When
you hear that 1 in 9 home mortgages are in foreclosure, the
political-media establishment complex pay attention to the 1 in
foreclosure and treat the other 8 as if they exist only as a source of
spare parts to salvage the 1. The People Who Play By The Rules Party is
for the 88% of American homeowners who, without fanfare, budgeted for
the home they bought.
The People Who Play By The Rules Party is
for the top 40% of income earners in this country--which gets all the
way down to $55,000 per year--who pay 99.4% of all federal incomes
taxes in the name of "fairness".
The People Who Play By The
Rules Party is for the 99.7% of U.S. employers with fewer than 500
employees, the small businesses that don't have lobbyists and that
don't get bailed out by their Wall Street friends in government when
they make bad strategic decisions. All that these employers do, the
true entrepreneurial sector, is create jobs and create wealth.
The
People Who Play By The Rules Party is also a compassionate party, a
party that recognizes America to be a place of second chances and that
desires to help those who veered off course get back on track. What we
are not, however, is Party that believes in the woozy, bipartisan la-la
land of socializing the consequences of individual, private choices.
If
you fit this description, please stand up and be counted. For if the
People Who Play By The Rules that made this country great do not, there
are those who seek to institute new rules to re-make this country into
something it is not and should never be.