Mark Leno Comes to Marin
October 10, 2009
I have no doubt that liberals think they want the best for everyone. They just think their ideas are the only ones that are right, and we should all be forced to follow their rules. Conservatives, on the other hand, want people to be able to do what they want. It’s called freedom. It’s the principle the country was founded upon. This new America that liberals want is old world socialism… which has never worked.
The event was hosted by Progressive Democrats of America and Democracy for America. I assume the Democracy means as long as Democrats are in control. They sure didn’t like it when Republicans were democratically elected and running the country. They started off with bash Bush and Schwarzenegger stories. In fact, in their opinion, all Republicans are evil. Leno said as much in the fact that Republicans are able to use their power as the minority to hold up expensive legislation.
Let me say, they were obviously not used to opposition showing up to their meetings. I’m sure they have gotten comfortable in Marin with the status quo, but that is over. Democrats have run our state into the ground and have successfully blamed Republicans at every turn, even though Democrats have majorities of both houses and have had them for many years. The problems we have are socialism and high taxation not of Republicans’ making.
Leno stated politicians do not cavalierlyraise taxes, but he sure was comfortable talking about taxing oil and pharmceutical companies because Democrats have successfully demonized big corporations for years. What they never talk about is… where will the money come from if they successfully put big business out of business and drive unemployment skyward? As we see you can’t constantly be anti-business and expect the state to flourish. With businesses and individuals (the ones who pay taxes, remember?) leaving California, who will be left to pick up the tab? Who will be left to work for? With Californians on unemployment where will the tax revenue come from?
Bottom line is; there was no common sense in the meeting. The larger number of people were sympathetic to Leno’s positions, so he really wasn’t challenged. I would bet the large majority of the group were active in Democrat politics because many of them knew each other. But the Marin Conservative Forum had at least 15 people in attendance and did get a chance to ask some pointed questions.
Mine was this; with the federal and state governments being broke, how would we pay for health care? This was a topic that Leno brought up first. Liberal lingo is that every individual would make a “contribution” toward it. I spoke up and said he meant tax. Contributions are voluntary, taxes are confiscatory. Leno’s response was call it what I wanted. I said I am calling it what it is! Of course after several people brought up other health care issues, Leno felt cornered and stated this was not a “health care town hall”. Though he brought up the topic first, as it got too comfortable to address the opposition, debate was cut off.
Here’s what I took away from the meeting. Democrats are liars. Leno used parks and schools to point the finger of blame at Republicans who were holding up the budget. My question would have been, how much money is California bringing in through taxes now and where is all that money going if not to the parks and schools? Let’s look at the budget line by line! My guess is we would find much of our money goes to illegal immigrants and their families or other social programs.
In my opinion, we can not afford to let Democrats run the state (or the nation) anymore. We are in a recession and the only people who seem to not understand that are Democrats. They will tax us and force us into unpopular climate change legislation and health care programs we don’t want which will eventually kill our economy. Throw the bums out.
- FedUpEditor
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