Posted on 05/09/2013 8:53:54 AM PDT by Arcy
In a survey launched by Young America's Foundation and conducted by the polling company, Kellyanne Conway, Inc., more than 60 percent of college-age students feel that government should not take an active role in their day-to-day-lives, and half of respondents believe that the federal government is mostly hurting economic recovery.
If history teaches us anything, a lower tax rate, less spending, and less regulation is the recipe for success. When President Reagan signed the Economic Recovery Tax Act in 1981, 20 million jobs were created, inflation plummeted, and net worth of families earning between $20,000 and $50,000 increased by nearly 30 percent. Right now, our government seems content with the unemployment rate hovering around 8% and a drastically reduced work force. That's unsustainable and unacceptable.
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Actually, I don’t know and I’ll be the first to admit it.
We see and read nearly every day about ‘this voter thinks’ or ‘[whatever] voter’ thinks from what many call the ‘MSM’. We (here at FR, at least) ALSO read and see from other sources.
Conservative history tells us (me, at least) the MSM always lies if it falls on the Republican, or Conservative side.
So, the actual question for me is (rightly or wrongly). From what source did this story originate.....paranoid, huh?
My inkling is those students with worthwhile degrees never borrowed that much to start with, AND, they feel better about their future ability to pay off whatever needed loans
” My inkling is those students with worthwhile degrees never borrowed that much to start with”
Interesting take, Gaffer.
Pack/herd mentality. They are literally doing what everyone else tells them they're doing. Obama was a "cool" president. He was a hipster. He talked their language.
The problem is that when it comes to policy, Obama never spoke a word of truth. His platform was like the girl running for school board president in middle school. "We're going to have more soda choices in the soda machines! We're going to get approval to have more time between classes! We're going to make it easier for you to lock up your bikes in the bike yard with FREE BIKE LOCKS FOR EVERYONE!"
And then there's the rub. When that person gets into that office on those promises, they find out that not only do things not work that way, it's all an illusion. Smoke and mirrors. They try to back pedal, but it never works. As such, those promises wind up broken.
But then, you never hear about students talking about "the good old days." They don't talk about how there used to be seven periods and not six. They don't talk about how the bike lockup was so safe that it was just a patch of dirt they would park their bikes in, locks weren't necessary. That sort of thing gets people wondering, "What changed?"
We need to change and tailor the message. Tell students that just 30 years ago, the tax rate was X%. The price of gas was $Y. That our Senators were elected by state representatives, not the popular vote. That the President didn't have the authority to unilaterally declare war against a sovereign nation. The problem is that today's kids think that we got where we are because of how we are as a nation. They don't realize that socialism destroyed us. That Communism has failed. They don't know, because they aren't taught the truth in schools. As such, they've become the good little Communists they were raised to be by the schools that got them to the point of idiocy they're at. Until we tell kids how it COULD be and that the mechanisms exist in our Constitution to do it, they'll continue to think it's hopeless. They'll continue to think that "Hope and Change" is a workable business model.
College students need to get themselves up to speed with the Founding States' division of federal and state government powers evidenced by the Constitution's Section 8 of Article I, Article V and the 10th Amendment.
In fact, Judge Andrew Napolitano will read Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution to you which is essentially the first of the two pages.
Judge Napolitano & the Constitution
College students also need to be aware that justices who actually respected 10th Amendment-protected state powers had officially clarified that the states have never delegated to Congress via the Constitution the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for public healthcare purposes, but which Congress could do if the states delegated such power to Congress by ratifying an appropriate amendment to the Constitution.
And here are the healthcare-related excerpts from Court opinions which have been previously posted.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress (emphases added)." --Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824."Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state (emphasis added) and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass." --Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln, 1837.
“Direct control of medical practice in the states is obviously (emphasis added) beyond the power of Congress.” –Linder v. United States, 1925.
I'd be careful about reading a conservative message into the results. I think they are probably more supportive of a libertarian message.
But still they overwhelmingly vote democrat. That is because their idea of government intervention is different than ours. We see it as being left alone to live our lives, spend our own money, raise our own kids. They see it as freedom the live a licentious life without government interference. To them it is about free sex, free drugs, a free college and everyone getting a trophy. They don’t see forcing others to pay for your birth control or making sure life is ‘fair’ for everyone as government interference.
It depends on who the government is. They are the government now.
They are only thinking about gay marriage, abortion, and drugs. Guranteed
Remember this saying:
“When I am 20 and I am not a liberal, than I have NO HEART. When I am 40 and I am a liberal, than I have NO BRAIN.”
“”Want Government to Stay Out of Their Lives”
And 9 out of 10 of them would still vote for Obama and the left and would never make the connection.
Yeah, but then why did the vast majority of college students vote for President Socialist Narcissus?
Dumb and dumberer?
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