editorial in my paper today-Teabagger deluxe

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the author-debra medina-ran against hutchison for the repub senate candidate...any help would be appreciated in my response..

http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2010/09/26/opinion/doc4c9ee966bf844572332413.txt



‘Seeing clearly yet?’
Published: Sunday, September 26, 2010 1:45 AM CDT
To the Editor,

In its newly released Policy Brief “By the Numbers: Texas Stimulus,” the Texas Public Policy Foundation documents “While the indicators are not an indictment of the success or failure of the stimulus, per se, it is fair to say that despite per capita state and local government stimulus spending of $708.40, Texas’ private sector job market remains weak and the overall economy is performing worse than expected.” The brief notes:

Total non-farm employment has decreased

Private sector employment remains depressed

Government related employment is on the rise

Texas unemployment rate has increased by almost 2 percent

Per capita personal income has decreased slightly

The fact remains, under presumably conservative leadership, the state of Texas has pursued the same big-government policies of the federal government and is effectively driving Texas into a ditch. Texas now suffers under the second largest amount of regulation and state spending of any state in the union— again under presumably conservative leadership.

The Pacific Research Institute, U.S. Economic Freedom Index documents Texas plummet from the 8th most economically free (ergo prosperous) state to #31 on the scale. The metastasis of big government policy afflicts every organ of the body Texas and that body is only beginning to suffer the effect of this insiduous but none-the-less terminal condition.

The prognosis is grave. The condition not irreversible but the treatment painful and severe — kill government largesse and permit private property ownership. Heed the counsel of Jean Baptiste-Say,

“f all the means by which a government can stimulate production, there is none so powerful as the perfect security of person and property, especially from the aggressions of arbitrary power. This security is of itself a source of public prosperity that more than counteracts all the restrictions hitherto invented for checking its progress. Restrictions compress the elasticity of production; but want of security destroys it altogether.”

Accept no compromise: Property Tax must be eliminated in Texas. Get serious about limited government and adamantly resist the temptation to further regulate Texas business and families. You raise your family, and run your business Mr. Legislator and let me take care of mine (as I see fit).

We have had enough of your largesse and we’re choking on it! Either you fix it ... or we Texans will! We’ll not long stand for your continued abuse. We have had enough!

Debra Medina,

Austin, Texas