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The Meaning of the Brown Election |
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Written by Eric Francke
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Wednesday, 20 January 2010 12:29 |
After attending the the 96.9 / Brown Victory Party one would have to acknowledge that you have never seen such an excited bunch. It has been characterized as a populist revolt, akin to the Boston Tea Party, or the "Shot Heard Round the World" at Lexington Bridge 2030 years ago. Today, MSNBC and the Boston Globe will try to figure out what happened. How did the bluest of states side with what they called a "just an excitable boy" and a "homophobe who likes violence against women and politicians"? How did a truck-driving state senator defeat the politically-entrenched Martha Coakley, even when President Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama both came in the last weekend to campaign for her?
The truth is Americans don't want socialism. They don't want big tax-and-spend government, and elitists in Washington who think they can run our lives better than we can. This is a referendum against all big-government politicians, from both parties.
As Americans, we don't want another billion spent on a "Stimulus Package" that is nothing but pork projects, that created no real jobs. Why is it the that average American knows that our current debt will only mean either raising taxes astronomically or devaluing our currency, and the President and Congress don't know that?
We don't want a healthcare bill that can only be passed by bribery and secrecy, especially when we know it is going to cost a trillion dollars that we don't have.
Instead, if you lower the tax burden, the bureaucracy, and crippling regulation, America can prosper. Government needs to get out of the way. We can be innovative, productive and prosperous.
This is not even about being Democrats or Republicans. It is about regaining the American ideals that made us great to begin with .
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