"A Return to Sanity"

I remember when gasoline was 27 cents a gallon, and two dollars could keep me going for a week of travel; hot dogs were a quarter and soda was a dime. My first summer job paid $1.22 per hour for a six day week, and I still gave my Mom $20.00 out of my check for “room and board”. I don’t think we will ever return to those prices or wages again; I also don’t believe we will lose the 40 hour work week, paid vacation and holidays. Some things cannot be altered and some things must be altered. We must keep the good, and discard the bad when we make any decisions in life.

I recently read an article that said the Romney-Ryan ticket will bring us back to the days of the Taft Administration. This is only one article in a series of leftist gibberish that is trying to make Romney and Ryan sound cold, cruel and out of touch with the American situation of today.

Does any thinking person believe that either of these men would return to policies that were against the common good of the American people? Does anyone believe that either of these men would return to slavery or child labor? Only a complete fool could buy into that line of thinking.

If we examine what made America prosperous, we have to recognize the free market economy as our key to a vigorous America. Government driven spending will not bail out an ailing economy; even with all of the programs FDR instituted during his time in office, the facts show that we did not recover fully from the depression until the Eisenhower years, and the New Deal was actually a big bust. Truman did his best to keep us from falling into a new depression by regulating prices, but the free market under the Republicans actually spurred the economic boom of the late fifties into the sixties.

For the last 44 months, America has been under an agenda of massive government spending and we have seen virtually zero recovery. Our government expense toward “green projects” has cost us losses of BILLIONS of dollars, and unemployment is the worst we have had in 70 years! A government healthcare initiative has grown in cost from a proposed price of 900 billion to over TWO TRILLION DOLLARS, and that is just the beginning, as it will only rise. Our Gross National Product is crawling and is being exceeded by our accumulating debt; America, we are “BLEEDING RED INK”! This is not a sustainable situation; we can have a financial collapse if we continue on this path.

I know that the 1950s are gone forever, but there are some things which we must salvage from those years. Fiscal responsibility and less government interference can put us on much sounder economic ground than that upon which we now stand. If the free market is allowed to function properly, employment will rise; if we are not taxed to death, government revenue will rise because of that HIGHER EMPLOYMENT: these are the basic principles of the Romney-Ryan ticket. This is not a return to the 19^th century; it is a return to SANITY IN GOVERNMENT!

In November, all Americans will have a clear choice, which is to remain on this downward spiral, or return to those principles which have proven to be the things that have made America the envy of the world.