Just say NO to raising the cap urges activist former Reagan official
Former GOP presidential candidate and Reagan administration official Alan Keyes has joined the ranks of those calling on House Republicans to reject another hike in the debt limit that will permit the federal government to keep borrowing money to propel its spending programs.
He joins Sens. Jim DeMint R-S.C. and Pat Toomey R-Pa. and Reps. Michele Bachmann R-Minn. Ron Paul R-Texas and Anthony Weiner D-N.Y. in rejecting House Speaker John Boehners concession to raise the debt limit which is expected to be reached toward the end of next month.
We should demand of our representatives in Congress that they refuse to raise the debt ceiling said Keyes. But we must also demand of ourselves that we refuse any longer to choose our political leaders from candidates produced by political parties intrinsically dependent on political vehicles fueled by unbridled government spending. Where politics is concerned restoring the ceiling must be just the first expression of our determination to rebuild as a home for responsible freedom the house of constitutional liberty our forsworn elites are determined to destroy.
Shock the Washington establishment by participating in the No More Red Ink campaign and shut down all new plans for bailouts stimulus spending and even the funding for Obamacare.
Keyes whose coming book And Crown Thy Good: Restoring Americas Covenant in 2012 will address the issue said Boehner tipped his hand late last year when he spoke to House Republicans sent to Washington by Americans fed up with business as usual in Washington: Were going to have to deal with it as adults Boehner instructed his colleagues. Whether we like it or not the federal government has obligations and we have obligations on our part.
U.S. government finance has evidently become a Ponzi scheme predicated upon access to fresh streams of borrowed capital said Keyes. If done in ignorance we might excuse the scheme as childish. Otherwise we call it crooked and treat adults who knowingly perpetrate it as criminals. Many of those who voted Republican in 2008 are demanding an end to precisely this kind of institutionalized chicanery. Sadly they may have cast their votes in vain. Of course in order to mask the fact that the Republicans mean to go on with business as usual GOP leaders are claiming instead that its business as necessary. Naturally the Obama faction Democrats heartily agree.
Keyes continues: They agree because whats happening isnt childs play it is power play. The GOP leaders blather about meaningful cuts in government spending but as Ive pointed out before neither wing of the sham two-party system can have any intention of fundamentally curbing the U.S. governments appetite for the nations resources. The political power of both parties depends on it. They wont give up that power until the force of circumstances compels them to do so.
Keyes made his comments in support of a plan led by Joseph Farah editor and chief executive officer of WND to persuade House Republicans to defy their own leadership and refuse to raise the debt limit an act that will force government to live within its means.
Called the No More Red Ink campaign it empowers America citizens to send messages to every member of the House Republican caucus inexpensively and efficiently with guaranteed delivery by Fed Ex.
This week the campaign will ship the first 125000 red ink letters to House Republicans urging them to oppose raising the debt limit when it comes to a vote in the coming weeks.
Unfortunately if the House Republicans do not hear from the American people in strength they will vote for business-as-usual deficit spending for the next two years and surrender the power they have to force fiscal responsibility on Barack Obama and the Democrats in the Senate says Farah. House Speaker John Boehner says he wants to use the debt limit to wrangle concessions out of the Democrats but when he signals as he did last weekend that Congress must raise the debt limit to keep the government solvent he has already waved the white flag of surrender on the most important vote to be cast in Congress over the next two years.
The only hope Farah says is a major outpouring of protest from tea party activists and true conservatives who recognize that government is way too big and is in desperate need of major cuts just to bring it in line with the Constitution.
For his part Farah has made it easy for the public to make their voices heard in Washington in a powerful way.
The No More Red Ink campaign will flood House Republicans offices with red ink letters that remind them they are holding all the cards in getting government spending under control and that all they have to do is vote no on raising the debt limit.
This is a plan to separate the real economic conservatives from the pretenders said Farah. If you want to reduce the debt that is destroying this countrys economy we have a chance right now to slam on the brakes. Once the debt limit is raised its back to business as usual.
Republicans in the House hold all the cards Farah points out. They dont need a single Democratic vote to side with them. If 218 out of 242 Republicans in the House vote no on raising the debt limit the debate is over and so is the growing U.S. debt.
At that point Barack Obama cant implement Obamacare he said. From that moment onward there will be no more spending initiatives by Obama for the next two years. There will be no more bailouts no more stimulus spending. Its all over. In fact the most significant budget cuts in modern American history will have to be made and the Republican House will still have to approve them.
Farah says he cant understand why so few conservatives and Republicans are pushing the idea.
I have to believe that most Americans are simply unaware of what is about to transpire he said. Everyone is talking about the debt crisis even Obama. But no one is talking about the opportunity we have to start reversing it right now. Its always tomorrow next year next decade. That is a recipe for an even bigger disaster. Borrowing more is never a solution to a debt problem.
The No More Red Ink campaign allows Americans to send a red ink letter to every member of the House majority urging them to vote no on raising the debt limit. The letters are individually addressed to each member with guaranteed delivery by Fed Ex for a cost of just $29.99. It would cost an individual more than $100 in postage alone to send the 242 letters with no guaranty of delivery and certainly nowhere near the impact.
Im here to tell you that the Republicans in the House will be held accountable for this surrender to the Washington establishment and the Democrats in the Senate and White House if they capitulate on more debt spending says Farah. Republicans in the House hold all the cards they need to stop this fiscal insanity this year. If they give in they will be no better than the Democrats who have wrecked this economy.
A similar campaign organized by WND last year delivered more than 9 million pink slips to members of the House and Senate. Farah is hoping a similar response by Americans in the next few weeks will persuade House Republicans to oppose raising the debt limit.
Farah says some in House leadership are already suggesting they will support raising the debt limit in March in exchange for the promise of budget cuts by Democrats.
Why Republicans would bargain for budget cuts that Democrats themselves will be forced to implement if the debt limit is not raised makes no sense he says. By definition a vote to raise the debt limit permits the Democrats to spend more money than Washington collects. Republicans will in effect give Democrats license to keep overspending and increasing debt by approving a debt limit increase.
On the other hand Farah says all Republicans in the House have to do to force Democrats to cut spending radically for the first time in decades is to stick together in opposing a hike in the debt limit.
There is a lot of pressure on House Republicans to simply negotiate a deal with the Democrats on budget cuts or a balanced budget in exchange for a vote to raise the debt limit said Farah. To me it makes no sense. Republicans by merely voting as a bloc in the House alone can force bigger cuts in the budget than they will ever get in any deal with Democrats. Why would they trade that nuclear option. Republicans in the House hold all the cards. This is what they were elected to do last November for a time such as this.
Farah urges Americans to participate in a program to inundate House Republicans with red ink letters that explain they hold all the cards in balancing the budget this year without any help from the Democrat-controlled Senate or House Democrats or Barack Obama.
Weve got to get their attention right now he said. We have only weeks to ensure they get the message. Voting to raise the debt limit will be business as usual. It will give Democrats and Obama license to keep spending to enact Obamacare to keep bailing out the wealthy and to ensure the economic train wreck is bigger and worse than we can imagine. Opposing the raising of the debt limit represents the first major step back from the economic brink for America.
