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    RICK PERRY AT CPAC 2014: RED-STATE GOVERNORS LEAD THE WAY

    RICK PERRY AT CPAC 2014: RED-STATE GOVERNORS LEAD THE WAY



    By: John Hayward
    3/7/2014 10:30 AM


    It’s hard to imagine Texas governor Rick Perry sitting out the 2016 election after watching his CPAC speech. He was fighting terrible back pain in 2012, but that’s behind him now. His kung fu is once again strong. I mean that literally. If he had been surrounded by ninjas at the beginning of his speech, they would all have been crumpled unconscious beside the podium by the time he was finished. I didn’t see the hand gestures from him enough on the 2012 campaign trail, and it worried me, because you know the really good part of a Perry speech is coming when the aerobics begin.
    Perry has a terrific campaign theme for 2016, simple and powerful: Voters can take a look at red states versus blue states, and decide which model of government gets better results. It’s no contest, and Rick Perry is here to tell you the score. Why, he might even mention the wee little red state he happens to preside over… a state that’s been pumping out a disproportionate share of the nation’s jobs during the Obama years.

    The great division between red and blue states, in Perry’s telling, is that red states, “the freedom of the individual comes first.” He cited the achievements of Republican governors such as Nikki Haley of South Carolina, Scott Walker of Wisconsin, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, and Rick Scott of Florida – tossing in a great wisecrack about how it’s appropriate for Scott’s prospective opponent, Charlie Crist, to switch parties and become a Democrat, seeing as how he presided over the loss of 800,000 jobs the last time he nested in Tallahassee.
    But even as opportunity flourishes in these prosperous red states, the big blues, such as New York and California, are bleeding population so fast that it’s hard to find moving trucks to facilitate escape. A remarkably experiment has been under way for the past decade, and the results are clear: in states where the government plays a growing role in the lives of its citizens, prosperity diminishes, and exodus soon follows. ”From east coast to west coast, no two states have lost more personal income to other states than New York and California,” Perry noted.
    On the other hand, conservative policies have been so successful that the people of Wisconsin rallied behind their governor, Scott Walker, through multiple attempts by powerful union bosses and left-wing activists to remove him. ”What is the common denominator in these states?” Perry asked. ”It is conservative governors, who cut taxes, who control spending, who invest in jobs… It is conservative governors who trust the people more than the machinery of government. It’s conservative governors who know the freedom of the individual must come before the power of the State.”
    This is an argument often made in the abstract by conservatives, portraying Big Government as a sign of distrust towards a dominated populace that can’t be trusted to manage their own affairs. But Perry is making the argument concrete, not abstract, citing impressive real-world results to show voters the advantages of trusting people over government machinery. That’s a sturdy platform for a presidential campaign. It’s long past time for the Democrat Party to be shamed, good and hard, for the mess they’ve made of states where they have power.
    And then, of course, you’ve got Texas. ”We cut taxes, we didn’t spend all the money, we created fair and predictable regulations, and we stopped personal injury trial lawyers from filing frivolous lawsuits,” said Perry. ”We have created almost 30 percent of the nation’s jobs, while keeping taxes among the nation’s lowest. We have presided over not only an energy boom, but the nation’s largest population boom, and an economic boom of monumental proportions. We have demonstrated that no state can tax and spend its way to prosperity, but with the right kind of system, you can grow your way there.”
    In a contest between “big government protectionist nanny-state vision offered by liberal leaders,” versus the “limited government, unsubsidized freedom state offered by conservative leaders,” who in their right minds would look at the results and prefer the former? Perry is ready to lay that challenge out to voters, along with some lively reminders that the federal government is doing an awful lot of stuff it shouldn’t be doing, while neglecting its actual duties.
    “Nowhere does the Constitution say we need to federalize classrooms,” the Governor declared. ”Nowhere does it give federal officials primary responsibility over the air we breathe, the land we farm, or the water we drink. And nowhere does it say Congress has the right to federalize health care!”
    “It is time for Washington to focus on the few things the Constitution establishes that the federal government runs,” he challenged. ”Defend our country. Provide a cogent foreign policy. And what the heck, deliver the mail – preferably on time, and on Saturday!”
    That one brought the house down. Perhaps the problems of the U.S. postal system are a more potent symbol of Big Government dropping the balls it should be handling, while chasing countless Ruling Class agendas it has no business pursuing, than anyone but Rick Perry has heretofore realized. Perhaps he’s also well ahead of the curve in realizing that voters have been quietly watching limited government win a great contest against socialism, in state after state, and wait only for a down-to-earth man with rolled-up sleeves to remind them of the results.

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    DONALD TRUMP AT CPAC 2014: WE CAN SOLVE ALL OUR PROBLEMS BY GETTING FILTHY RICH



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    3/6/2014 04:50 PM


    There are various theories about why Donald Trump has become a CPAC fixture. I think he just plain loves it there. He enjoys getting up there on the stage and machine-gunning his thoughts at the audience. He made a point of showing that he didn’t need a teleprompter or notes. He might not have needed anything except the complimentary copy of USA Today left in his hotel room that morning.
    Trump’s style lacks the intense focus of the more carefully prepared orations, and that’s what makes him fun. The sensation is best captured with a string of topics and quick hits, like so:

    THE DEFICIT: I have to tell you that our country is in serious, serious trouble. We owe $17 trillion in debt. No one even heard the expression “trillion” a few years ago.
    CHINA: They just devalued their currency – what they’re really doing is saying, we’re really ripping you big league, no one’s ever done it better than us, but we’re going to do it again. Our leadership is so pathetic that they’re doing it again. They’re smart. They don’t respect stupid people.
    PUTIN AND UKRAINE: You look at what he’s doing with President Obama, he’s toying with him. When he goes in and takes Crimea, he’s taking the heart and soul, because that’s where all the money is… that’s the area with the wealth. That means the rest of Ukraine will fall, and it will fall fairly quickly.
    IRAQ: Iran has already taken over, essentially, Iraq. It’s amazing. When we went over there, I assumed we were taking the oil… to the victor belongs the spoils. You know who’s taking the oil now? Iran.
    UNEMPLOYMENT:
    Official unemployment of 6-7 percent is probably 21-22 percent in real numbers. If you stop looking for a job, they consider you employed. [Editorial note: that might be the best one-sentence summary of the problem with our headline unemployment statistic I've ever heard.]
    OBAMA’S JOB APPROVAL RATINGS: We’re getting into Jimmy Carter territory. I lived in that time. It was not a good time.
    OBAMACARE: We either have laws, or we don’t.
    THE CPAC AUDIENCE: The people in this room are people who want to see this country be great again.
    It should be noted that, even though he beats the stuffing out of China during every speech, Trump says the Chinese bankers who rent office space from him consider him a fantastic landlord.
    Trump’s grand solution to all of America’s problems is to get so filthy, stinking rich that they don’t matter any more. ”I want to make this country so strong, so rich, so powerful – we have so much energy, so much money under out feet, we don’t have to take away people’s Social Security and Medicare,” he said. ”The way you solve all of these problems is tremendous wealth, tremendous job creation, strengthen our military… make America strong again, make America great again, we have such unbelievable potential, we have to use it.”
    He makes it sound so easy. I don’t think it’s possible to solve the $100 trillion Social Security and Medicare liability problem without developing a process to turn grapes into diamonds, but he’s got a point that prosperous nations under a light tax burden have a way of generating enough revenue to deal with problems that look intractable when they’re broke. Wealth can be expressed in terms of options – the wealthy individual or nation has many choices, while the impoverished or indebted have few.
    We’re certainly not doing ourselves any favors by making the nation less wealthy than it could be, or dealing with other world powers from a position of self-imposed weakness. Is there enough suppressed and mis-managed productivity in the American economy to grow our way out of the grinding social and fiscal problems of the past half-decade? It would be great to put ourselves to the test and find out for sure.

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