Republican Budget & Rick Wagoner’s Resignation
Can you believe it? The republican leadership of the United States legislature has been criticizing President Obama’s budget. President Obama challenged the Republicans to come up with their own budget. I think this is a legitimate challenge. Surely if the Republicans have a beef with how to bring the economy back around that they would have a budget to give to the American people that would depict their plan. The budget that they presented had not one specific number in it. The budget just called for more tax cuts for the rich. Before I go on, let me be clear as I have previously. I am not a democrat, nor am I a republican. I am a Christian, trying to do what’s right. What I am saying is not party based. I am looking at this situation using logic and good cognition. That being said let’s dive in head first.
Party politics is killing the nation. Right now it is the republicans that are playing party politics. They are opposing President Obama because he is a democrat. If the opposition was anything else then they wouldn’t have insulted the American people by offering a budget with no specifics. Wait a minute, this is where my non-partisanship shows; Evan Bayh, has organized some democrats and they also are opposing the President. President Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address: "In your hands, my dis-satisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it." Senator Boehner, we are not close to civil war, but we are close to the country’s fiscal collapse. As President Lincoln advised the South I advise you, President Obama is not assaulting you. You have no oath from heaven to destroy the government. The President has taken a solemn oath to preserve, protect and defend this country. Quit competing and start cooperating.
President Lincoln went on to say: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume V, "Letter to Horace Greeley" (August 22, 1862), p. 388. These words, in my opinion, make Lincoln a racist just as much as many people in the south were at that time. However, he was willing to forego his personal proclivities in order to preserve the Union. Senator Bayh, I don’t know what you call yourself doing, but your efforts to organize other democrats against the President are not an effort to preserve the Union. As President Lincoln was willing to subvert his personal racist views in order to preserve the Union, you should follow Lincoln’s example. I am not calling Senator Bayh a racist, but since he is a democrat, his opposition has got to be something other than partisanship.
In my humble opinion, President Obama is being very pragmatic in his plan to resurrect this country’s economy. Just today, The Obama administration asked General Motors Chief Rick Wagoner, 56, to leave the company and he agreed. The point that the President is making is to not give stimulus money to the person responsible for putting the company in the shape that it now needs a government bailout. Wagoner’s plan to put the company back together was to get concessions from labor unions in 2007, including cutting wages in half for new hires and offloading retiree health care to a union-run trust by 2010. In other words, he jumped on the little people. Wagoner took the little people’s money so the fat cats could get fatter while his decisions where responsible for driving the company into fiscal destruction. President Lincoln also spoke on capitol and labor. He said: "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." Lincoln's First Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861. According to Lincoln, Wagoner would have been more pragmatic if he supported labor instead of trying to suppress it.
This economy must be built from the ground up. Fat cats are going to be required to shoulder more weight than the little people. “Much is required from those who much is given; and much more is required from those who much more is given” (Luke 12:48). It is time for all within the country to start pushing the same way. The preservation of the Union requires that we support President Obama’s leadership. It is what God would have us to do. Unifying helps to decrease the hate and increase the love. Thank you for listening to AjabuSpeaks.
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