The central battle in our time is over political primacy. It is a competition between the public sector and the private sector over who defines the work and the institutions that make a nation thrive and grow.My research on the Paycheck Fairness Act reveals how true that is. Who should determine wages, private firms or the government? Who determines how much work is valued, the employer or the employee?
Until the Obama exception, the only recent Democrats electable into the presidency had to be centrist Southerners little known to the country. Every post-Kennedy liberal who tried, failed, including Teddy.Yes, there is a certain distaste for the Massachusetts liberals like Michael Dukakis or John Kerry who have tried for the presidency. No one in the middle of this country could stand someone like them, condescending and beholden to special elite eastern interests.
Enter the Obama administration, the first one born and raised inside this public bubble, with zero private-sector Cabinet members. Act one: a $787 billion stimulus bill, which they brag mainly saved state and local jobs. Then came the six-month odyssey for Obama's $1 trillion health-care bill, dripping with taxes. Independent voters felt like everything was being sucked into a public-sector vortex.
How true. They turn to public teet to fund the jobs that are held by the unionists who vote for them. And they take from the private sector and the people who don't depend on government hand-outs.
It is about anger, though I agree that the media tries to spin in that way. It's not just Republicans who are angry, though. Scott Brown needed some Dem and Independent votes to win. There weren't enough Republicans in Massachusetts for him to win. Now the only hope is that anger will transcend rage and result in reform. I'm tired of Republicans acting liking RINOs. 2008 was a much-needed wake-up call, but I think the electorate finally turned off the snooze alarm and got up out of bed, ready to work.
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