Some Liberal Ideas
Just as we
began recruiting members for our Lake Hills Liberals and displaying ‘Proud
Liberal, Time for a Change’ yard signs and bumper sticker, our King County
Journal published my ‘Proud Liberals’ letter on October 9th, 2005,:
Have you noticed the increasing
presence of Proud Liberals? We're proud because we work to obtain compassionate
and competent government. There are more of us because more people understand
that compassionate and competent government is what we need, but don't have
now.
Ann Corey responded with a letter published on October
15th, 2005:
A recent letter writer seems to think
liberals have an increasing presence. He espoused their pride in working
(?) to obtain compassionate and competent government. The writer has
no ideas how to do what he expounded upon.
Liberals granted press from the liberal media are humorous to the rest of us
now educated on how bias works. Personally, I enjoy discerning liberals’
rhetoric and shallowness of thought.
If the writer is truly looking
for that which he espouses, he should become a Christian and help with what all
the churches are doing to reduce suffering all over the world. Christians
are talking, too, only quietly in their prayer closets to God.
If the writer remembers, we
emerged 50 million strong in 2000 because we heard you talk and found your
agendas unthinkable and already failed. God forbid had we been led these
last five years by Al Gore. He would probably just be telling the
terrorists to "play nice" and we could all be dead.
Give me my leader, George Bush.
He has done a fantastic job facing and handling three great tragedies in our
nation's lifetime occurring in only the past four years. He will go down
in history as one of our greatest presidents, and I am grateful he is in the
oval office. Ann Corey
My reply was
published on October 27, 2005:
Liberal
Ideas
Responding to my letter, a writer
suggested that liberals don’t have ideas about making government compassionate
and competent. Try these
1.
Pay as you go instead of borrowing and spending.
2.
Restore budgetary sanity instead of starving government by
rewarding campaign contributors with tax cuts and pork.
3.
Substitute a progressive revenue-neutral flat income tax
applicable only to income above the medium.
4.
Increase competitiveness and employment by replacing the job
tax (FICA) with a revenue-neutral value added tax (VAT), which would be no more
regressive.
5.
Stop over-competing militarily and under-competing
economically.
6.
Reduce our national debt and increase productivity to keep
social security viable instead of privatizing and reducing benefits.
7.
Spend 2% more of our national production to provide
effective efficient cost-controlled Medicare to all, give every child a
well-paid great teacher in a fixed-up school and every full-time worker a
living wage.
8.
Provide early learning programs to all who qualify, VA type vouchers for college students and life-long
training funds.
9.
Replace our chaotic mess of training and income-security
programs oriented to satisfying congressional power grabbing with standardized
programs for all.
10.
Fund scientific advances to increase our competitiveness,
create jobs and
provide needed new technologies.
11.
Promote non-carbon based energy production and efficient energy
use.
12.
Reward protectors instead of destroyers of our environment.
13.
Protect privacy for people, not privacy for government.
14.
Substitute bipartisan solutions for political homicide.
These are only a few of the many
liberal ideas that conservatives fear to discuss.
Two more of
my letters were quickly published:
King County Journal Published 11/13/05
The Republicans keep referring to the
‘tax and spend’ Democrats. It is a bum
rap. Throughout years of Democratic
dominance, our national debt declined as a percentage of national income. During the Reagan, Bush and Bush years, it
surged due to tax cuts for the wealthy and surging spending for
obsolete defense technologies, subsidies for campaign contributors and pork.
The Republicans continually refer to
estate taxes as ‘death taxes’ and rail against these taxes which only affect a
tiny minority of wealthy people. They
never refer to ‘birth taxes’ which are our newborn’s share of our dramatically
increasing federal debt under Republican administrations, which these future
generations must pay off with interest.
Let’s reduce the birth tax, as occurred
during the
King County Journal Published 11/24/05
Time
to Become a Liberal
Have you become a disgruntled
conservative, unhappy with the direction our Republican president and
legislature are taking us? Huge budget deficits.
Greatly increased government spending and employees.
Incompetent cronies. Indicted
officials. Bridges
to nowhere and other pork. Incomprehensible
hi-cost prescription drug legislation. Gutting
our safety net, including pensions, health insurance and illness-produced
bankruptcies. High gas prices. Self-appointed global police in
You might consider becoming a
liberal. Return to balanced budgets, fair taxes, smaller more competent
government, an excellent economy, a viable safety net, promoting
efficient use of sustainable energy, protecting our environment, supporting new
scientific breakthroughs and new technologies, global respect through
maintaining our alliances. Become a proud liberal.
After
publishing my of my letters over the last two years, the Journal American
rejected about five and I became busy with organizing our Lake Hills
Liberals. I notice that the Journal
American is now publishing many more conservative than liberal letters and is
more frequently espousing conservative causes, especially with respect to immigration. I hope you will submit more liberal
letters. See guidelines and examples on
our website.