Republican Roundup 2010
By Jane Dudley | Saturday, October 2nd, 2010 | Politics
Rep. Eric Cantor (VA-7) holds up a bumpersticker someone gave him. The sticker reads, “Less Government, More Freedom.” Cantor said he would try to make that happen.
The crowd, by estimate of 7th District Chairman Linwood Cobb, and of the barbeque providers, was north of 4,000. Cobb believed it was the largest crowd ever for the event.
Cantor signed copies of “Young Guns,” which he co-authored with Reps. Ryan and McCarthy. When speaking at the Roundup, Cantor was brief, echoing themes from the book. (There is more in a recent Wall Street Journal interview with Cantor).
Much more from SWAcgirl, including Cantor’s speech; and from VaRight, here, here, and here.
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Less government more freedom.
Catchy phrase, but what does it mean?
Does Cantor sign on with the Tea Party that insists Social Security is evil? That the only way to save Social Security is to destroy it?
Come on Eric, get as specific in your present campaign as your leadership after you are re-elected will direct our nation towards. Please speak boldly and tell us where you stand. Senior citizens want to know.
Actually LittleDavid, that bumper sticker is the slogan of the Spotsylvania GOP. I gave that to Eric, who loved it and showed it to the crowd.
If you don’t agree with that sentiment, it is unlikely you are a conservative- and we are working to attract more conservatives to the party!
LittleDavid, most of us would not categorize Social Security as evil. However, it is the wrong approach to a problem. One, it violated a contract between the people, the states, and the Federal government – the Constitution. When some decided that they wanted Social Security they should have passed a Constitutional amendment. That said, we can’t just stop it.
Two, it is supposed to be a safety net. So for the “retiree” portion, it should provide just enough so that the recepient can afford a room in a boarding house, some food to live on, and some clothes from Salvation Army. Everyone that receives it should get the same. Those that receive it should realize that it is there in case they failed to succeed in life or met some unfortanate circumstances. That way it is a safety net, to keep people off the streets and not much else. For some, that is about all they receive. But others get a lot more.
It should be means tested. Those that currently receive it should not be affected by any changes, unless they truly are rich. There are some who receive social security who live in country club retirement villages. That is wrong, because they are forcibly taking money from the pockets of younger and poorer people to help them live in luxury. No, they didn’t earn Social Security and no they don’t have a right to other people’s money.
LittleDavid, It took us half a decade to go from talking socialism and practicing free markets to talking free markets and practicing socialism. The grand experiment is a failure.
Abolishing social security for everyone is not the answer that would work for people who are indigent, incapable of taking care of themselves due to disability or.. just too plain stupid to save and prepare for retirement during their younger days. There is a strong case for government to maintain programs for many of them but not for everybody. Privately managed charities are considerably more effective at helping people at considerably less expense. If we were to allow funds to be donated from the private sector to privately funded faith based and secular organizations while offering matching funds and or credits, our unfunded social security debt might be convertible to funded debt and we might have a better chance of not being sucked into the retiring baby boomer funding vacuum which is currently a self licking ice cream cone.
Does social security elimination mean some will fall through the cracks? Yes. And so will keeping it in its current form.
Although I am by no means Cantors biggest fan, not even close, we as a country run a much better chance of making fewer stupid decisions with him seated than the trust-buster we have now.
ks, once a year the Social Security administration sends us a summary of our “contributions” to the system. The summary shows every year you have worked and how much they have confiscated from you as a deduction from your paycheck.
Now you say that those who have paid the maximum into Social Security for many years and who have had the foresight and discipline to plan for a comfortable retirement should forfeit what has been taken from them by “means testing” so it can be “redistributed” to the less fortunate? You Democrats are crawling out of the woodwork on this one.
To many:
Yes I love Social Security even though I am not yet a recipient.
For those of you who argue against Social Security, go argue with the Supreme Court. In Helvering v. Davis (1937) our Supreme Court ruled Social Security constitutional.
It is no surprise to me that Cantor would support that slogan. Fact is, that is what wealthy, country club republicans really want. Get financial regulation off the table so ultra rich multi national corporations can get back to robbing us blind.
Oh, and by the way, Cantor will have his hand out accepting contributions and advertising for him and his party from these same international conglomerates whose greed and corruption caused the financial meltdown from which we are just now recovering.
How short memories are. How absurd are the claims of Cantor/Boehner about trickle down economics, tax cuts for high net worth individuals, and support for small business. For them, a small business is a multi national company that takes jobs overseas. Who needs that?
I made those bumper stickers. I am neither rich nor a political elite. I don’t even vote in Eric Cantor’s district. That goes to show you how far a GOOD idea can travel the old fashioned way.
I want today what every founding father wanted from the English tyranny at the time, less of some other a-hole telling me what to do in our own country.
If you’d like a free bumper sticker– just ask me. I’ll even pitch in the stamp to mail it.
Socialists can have one too: you’ll include money for the stamp, envelope and my time though.
May God bless America.
Nice photographs, Jane!
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