Republicans have been reading too much Ayn Rand

Ryan McCullough

There has been a lot of talk about a potential government shutdown in the news lately. Republicans and Democrats just can’t seem to agree. That’s nothing new.The Obama administration proposed a lackluster budget that did little to combat the national debt. Which seems rather misguided since so many Americans believe controlling the debt to be of supreme importance at the moment.

Republicans have retorted with a budget that cuts $38 million. That’s still just a drop in the bucket when you have a deficit of $1.5 trillion and a national debt of $14 trillion.

It all really comes down to ideology.

Many Republicans and Tea Party candidates were swept into office recently for their rhetoric on keeping debt under control and making the size of government smaller. But, how many proposed actual concrete ways of achieving these goals?

Now, there is solid evidence of how these new electees plan to lower the debt and reduce the size of government.

When looking at those cuts, it becomes clear that these cuts are based on a predetermined idea of what government should do and be, an ideology, instead of an objective look at the way government spends money.

The war on women has already been greatly publicized by Nancy Pelosi. The Republicans proposed cuts that have also been labeled as directly attacking the elderly and the poor. The Environmental Protecting Agency has to take $1.6 billion cut. $600 million from community health programs, $414 million taken away from grants to local and state police, and another $1 billion from projects to build and repair federal buildings are other cuts included in the $38 billion.

Now, of course, Democrats have their very own ideology about what should be cut but then again they never ran on a platform of less spending and smaller government.

Maybe the Republican leadership should drop the copies of “Atlas Shrugged “and embrace that word Rand loved so much: objectivity.

  • Mesa Legend Staff

    These are archived stories from Mesa Legend editions before Fall 2018. See article for corresponding author.

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