A Teaparty Patriot weighs in on Harold Johnson’s stance on the issues

We’ve heard about likeability, the idol effect, Harold not living in the district he’s wanting to represent, etc. We’ve heard about the GOP establishment’s involvement in this primary race and how they’ve chosen Harold.  We’ve heard the lies, and innuendos fed to and perpetrated by the media.  We’ve heard the spin.  Now let’s move on to SEEK THE TRUTH.  Let’s talk about what’s really important, what we should actually be voting on: the issues.

How does Harold see them and what does he propose to deal with them and/or resolve them?

Look at the candidate’s sites and you will see the differences.  Harold is to the middle. Not only that but he is vague and noncommittal. He still believes in Government interference, Government to the rescue and the nanny state.  He still doesn’t understand the Constitution and what LIMITED part the Federal Government is supposed to play in our lives.

Each person we send to Washington takes an oath to uphold the Constitution. So why aren’t they?  Either they don’t know what it says (much like the bills they vote on) or they’re lying.  Either way is unacceptable.

Although we could look at each issue and tell you why Harold just doesn’t get it. for now let’s just choose a couple  issues from Harold’s website to talk about.  Let’s focus on the ones most on people’s minds right now:  Government’s role and spending, along with Jobs and the economy. 

I know all the ways to minimize the role of Government, decrease their spending,  and how to create jobs and boost the economy.  After all, I’ve heard them over and over again from Republicans.  We’ve even heard Obama and the Democrats spout them when they are pretending that’s what they want too.   As I pointed out in an earlier post, they know they have to move to the right to win an election.  They are talking points, buzzwords…period.  Just like Harold, I could type them up and put them on a site, as well.  Other than the words on a page, it doesn’t mean I know one iota of how to create jobs or grow an economy.  Tim D’Annunzio is the only one running in the District 8 race I hear not only stating these talking points, he goes into extreme detail and what do you know…he’s the only one who’s actually created jobs and runs a successful business.  Harold can spout those talking points too but he’s not walking the walk.   By what he has chosen to post on his website, it seems as if he isn’t prepared to either.

Since Harold won’t actually talk about the issues, all we have to look at is his website.  Therefore this is taken from Harold Johnson’s website (displayed in italics) with narration added within ( ) by a Patriot of the Tea Party Revolution.

“Families across the District are hurting and need help. While the free market is a better economic engine than the government, the government must still play an important role in our economic recovery.”

(Harold, the free market is not just better, it is the ONLY option. Government is NOT an economic engine. Government cannot create wealth!)

The government can help by creating a favorable climate for job creation by reducing taxes and streamlining regulations and bureaucratic red tape. The government must also take more steps to protect North Carolina jobs by cracking down on the flood of illegal Chinese imports by increasing Customs enforcement at our ports and borders. We are fortunate to have right here in the District two economic drivers with enormous potential– both the military and the bio-tech industry can be forceful agents for job creation and we must fully utilize both.

(You have it backwards. It is the increase in private enterprises ability to provide wants and needs to the military and biotech establishments that are the economic drivers. When private enterprise does this with government-funded programs, they are being paid by tax dollars, which are taken from the very people that are creating the wealth in the first place. This doesn’t create wealth but only a recycling of already created wealth.)

“Washington should not interfere in the private sector and compete with companies and citizens who already support government through taxation. Government’s role should be doing things for citizens that citizens cannot do for themselves.

(There is nothing that the citizens can’t do for themselves. We are not babies in need of a caretaker. Government is tasked with doing what We The People determine it should do and that is extremely limited and defined in our U.S. Constitution.  Harold is a man that has said nothing of substance in all the days of his campaign and look at what he thinks of government once more…, “Government’s role should be doing things for citizens that citizens cannot do for themselves.”   Harold Johnson, isn’t that what is wrong with government in the first place?  When will you and that status quo of yours get it? If a citizen really can’t do something for himself or herself, isn’t that the job of charity organizations?  I think you need to read the famous story of our great hero Davy Crocket. Then maybe you will understand why the Tea Party refuses to back you. )

We must keep jobs in America but having the second-highest corporate tax rate in the developed world hurts our competitiveness. Lowering the rate would boost growth and help make U.S. companies more competitive. While a lower corporate tax rate does not make the system simpler, it would indirectly help by reducing the incentive for companies to engage in complex and inefficient tax-minimization strategies.  In today’s global economy, it is increasingly easy for jobs and capital to escape high-tax nations and migrate to low-tax nations. This means that the reward for good tax policy is greater than ever before, but it also means that the penalties for bad policy are greater than ever before.  Congress can do much more to help. We can slow the growth of government spending that is adding to the deficit.

Whoa!  Let’s stop here and look at this last line again: “We can slow the growth of government spending that is adding to the deficit.”

(Harold Johnson what are you thinking?  We have been sacrificing great amounts of our time and money to tell governments at all levels to stop growing and start shrinking. And what are you saying? What does slowing growth mean? It means it is still growing, only slower.  Slow the growth? Isn’t that what the establishment has been giving us for ….ever? No Harold, we want it to stop immediately and then shrink it!

We used to laugh when we said, “the Republicans are running us over the same cliff, only slower.” Apparently you think that is OK. We don’t think it is funny anymore. I can see you don’t get it.) 

We can reform runaway entitlement programs that are growing far beyond our ability to pay for them. And we can work to further alleviate the excessive taxation, mind-numbing regulation and senseless litigation that is closing down small businesses and costing American workers their jobs.

(In the end Harold doesn’t understand what causes growth in the economy. A simple analysis of his website reveals his penchant for relying on the Federal government to “Create” jobs with tax dollars. This is the same flawed thinking that gave us the problem we have today. Any jobs, whether direct or indirect that are a result of programs paid for with tax dollars must be refunded year after year or the jobs go away. This means the government must continue to take from some and give to others year after year in order to keep the jobs.  Wealth is created when I am able to produce something that someone else wants or needs. If I find enough people that want or need what I have produced I will receive more return. If there are so many that want or need what I have that I cannot provide this by myself then I must hire someone to help me. This is how jobs and wealth are created.)

Now to private property as it is also an important part of our economy and personal livelihoods.  It is also something that although Tim D’Annunzio speaks of frequently, Harold does not.  (First, private property and ground, land, or dirt are synonymous. Property ownership makes that property, private.  All that we see, whether natural or manmade, comes from property.  Whoever or whatever controls the use of that property is the landowner.  All that is manmade comes from the property and government controls how property is used then they control me.  And they control my ability to take from the ground to provide for wants and needs, including my own and especially food, clothing and shelter.  The crux of freedom, free markets and wealth creation are dependent upon individuals having the freedom to take from the ground and produce products that people want and need.  We must get government out of the business of controlling property.)

(Empty suit.  One day I wondered what that was.  I heard the term before and I heard it applied to Harold Johnson.  So I had to know what that meant.  Here is what I found; “empty suit” has come to mean a phony, or someone inefficient and incompetent.  He is all talk and no action, or all arrogance and no substance.)

On a personal note, I also noticed that missing from Harold’s site, unlike Mr. D’Annunzio’s,  is any discussion on something that’s very important to our local economy and lives in the 8th District,  Agriculture. 

Do you see true conservatism in Harold’s message or stances on these issues?  Do you see the following of our Constitution?  I see more government interference into our lives.  I see a Nanny state.  I don’t see Harold as anyone I could vote for.  Do you?  REALLY?