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"creative, genuinely conservative policies should be proposed and employed"
what are these self-congratulating "genuine" conservatives waiting for?
"policies that ...." pablum, motherhood, apple pie in the sky, etc, etc.
http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publi...-for-the-rightConservatism properly understood is deeply concerned about society's vulnerable and about the health and functioning of society more broadly. Consequently, conservatives should be concerned about one of the most immediate and serious economic and social problem facing the country today — our deeply troubled labor market — and about the millions of unemployed workers who are suffering, unable to find work to provide for themselves and their families.
Our unemployment crisis is certainly an economic crisis. We are losing a lot of income by having so many productive resources sitting on the sidelines, and (as some Republicans are always quick to point out) we are also spending a lot of taxpayer money on the social safety net.
But work is about much more than production, economic growth, and dollars and cents. Work harnesses our passions by channeling them to productive ends. Work gives us a sense of iden y, a sense of purpose, and allows us to provide for those we love. Our unemployment crisis is therefore also a moral and spiritual crisis — a human crisis.
The solution to this crisis does not consist of massive short-term stimulus programs, industrial policy, bersome new bureaucracy, unnecessary regulation, and cronyist giveaways. Neither will the best solution be found in lower marginal income-tax rates, cuts in federal discretionary spending, and a balanced budget, whatever the benefits of such policies may be.
Instead, creative, genuinely conservative policies should be proposed and employed — policies that empower individuals, support their aspirations, increase their independence, help them to earn their own success, and promote virtue through work and personal responsibility.
Government should not sit idly by and watch the employment crisis. Indeed, government at every level has a central role to play in the effort to get the unemployed working again, and conservative policy solutions offer the prospect of success. It is time for conservatives to recognize this, and get to work.
"creative, genuinely conservative policies should be proposed and employed"
what are these self-congratulating "genuine" conservatives waiting for?
"policies that ...." pablum, motherhood, apple pie in the sky, etc, etc.
Couldn't agree more. While I have no experience starting and running my own business, it seems like there is a lot of opportunity to make it easier to start a business. Even in a state as supposedly conservative and small-business-friendly as Texas.
Starts off with the true scotsman argument when he says, "Conservatism properly understood is deeply concerned about society's vulnerable and about the health and functioning of society more broadly." Then to make matter that much more ideal, he proposes not a single plan but instead asinine ideological bull when he says, "Instead, creative, genuinely conservative policies should be proposed and employed — policies that empower individuals, support their aspirations, increase their independence, help them to earn their own success, and promote virtue through work and personal responsibility" Of course he doubles down on the true scotsman 'genuinely.'
This is the typical 'conservative' propaganda that accomplishes absolutely nothing policywise but gets head nods from the minion base. It NEVER manifests as anything since 1995. It fun watching the US right walk around in circles.
Assuming the absence or negation of government is always to the better ignores that better and worse policy is thrashed out in the political process. Better to strive for better policy than subside into the pure, lazy nihilism of refusing all policy.
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It's significant that AEI "researchers" are suggesting government has a legitimate role in promoting the public weal. That's a novelty on the right, at this point.This is the typical 'conservative' propaganda that accomplishes absolutely nothing policywise but gets head nods from the minion base. It NEVER manifests as anything since 1995.
lol semi-grammatical scoffing.It fun watching the US right walk around in circles.
lol grammatical baggery. You understood it despite the missing contraction.
It's been GOP strategy to give ideological pla udes in place of actual policy for about 15 years now.
You quoted a horrid portion of the article but there is actually policy in there.
Infrastructure developlment and relocation assistance was in there but for the most part it was deregulating licensing, cut capital gains taxes(lol), cuts to SSDI, more right to work, cuts to the min wage (lol), and more tax cuts.
novelty.
Walking around in circles is spot on in regards to policy approach and rhetoric. This swirling goes back decades.
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