True North

For eight years conservatives have bought time.   We helped elect, then re-elect, President Bush because the alternatives were noxious, vile and dangerous. 

During the Bush tenure we have seen a slower growth in the size of the government than Kerry or Gore would have shepherded us through, but the slow creep of government’s intervention into our lives has almost reached the tipping point.  Almost half of America now receives government assistance of one form or another.

Most alarming are the dictates of the Bush Administration into education.  Instead of devolving the federal reach into education, this administration has grown federal expenditures a staggering 36 percent in his eight years.  Way to go, George!  That’s keeping the eye on the ball!

Now, public education faces the specter of becoming the delivery system for the false religion of environmentalism.  From the Heritage Foundation website:

Tomorrow, Congressional Democrats plan to teach parents and taxpayers a lesson about the Left’s real priorities for public education. The House of Representatives will consider H.R. 3021, the “21st Century Green High-Performing Public School Facilities Act,” a new $6 billion federal school construction program—a big-government handout to environmental groups and labor unions.  The legislation would create a new federal grant program to provide states and local education agencies with federal tax dollars to construct and modernize public school facilities. Among the reasons for supporting the legislation offered by the Democrats’ House Education and Labor Committee are to “create jobs in the construction industry” and “create schools that are more energy efficient and reliant on renewable resources of energy” thereby reducing “emissions that contribute to global warming.”    

Instead of looking at the valued resources we have in online education, home-schooling, industry-based private schools, vouchers, tax credits and other creative – competitive – means of accomplishing Job One – the cramming of data into young brains – we have unions and environmentalists controlling the means, methods and money.

McCain (and Coleman) have signaled they will help the Greenies push their agenda forward.  Now, ask me how much money I’m contributing this year?  Ask me how many doors I will knock on for these candidates.  I may not vote against them, but I am not going to work for them.  They may win, but they’ll have to do it without me.  It took Carter to give us Reagan.  Maybe it will take Obama to bring us the next conservative answer.

Cross-posted at Freedom Dogs. Comments welcome.