Reply to a former Democrat(ic) candidate

This is in reference to
1. http://carsonnow.org/reader-content/11/01/2014/amodei-and-minimum-wage
2. http://carsonnow.org/reader-content/10/28/2014/dave-cook-demonstrates-ex...
3. http://carsonnow.org/reader-content/10/25/2014/letter-one-year-obamacare...

These recent articles are a faithful representations of the Party Line. Of course that party line is dead wrong, but at least the writer does a good job presenting it.

1. We don't have to rely on high brow academic studies to show how the minimum wage hurts the very people it is supposedly intended to help. After several decades of experience -- several decades of destructive failure -- you really have no choice but to question the intention, motivation, intelligence or moral integrity of the people still advocating for it. For the simple fact, evident to anyone or everyone who's been alive and conscious, is that every time the minimum wage was raised, more people lost their jobs, more YOUNG people were deprived of a chance to learn vital job skills that they'd need later in life.

When I was in high school more than 50 years ago, it was normal for my classmates to have a part time job in the local fast food and retail businesses. But in the 1970s an ugly trend started -- as always, in California and the other big states -- and by the 1990s all these introductory jobs were taken over by adults. Well, of course they are demanding a hike in the minimum wage. Never mind that the net result is always fewer employees and higher prices for everyone.

2. Would it be unfair to point out that until recently, Dave Cook was a REPUBLICAN, a member of the Carson City Republican Central Committee? You really have to question the thinking of our local Democrats when they were willing to accept a "Republican" as their candidate in AD40. He switched parties, not out of a sense of "dedication" to "civic duty" or "pubic service," but because he had no chance of winning the Republican primary to replace the late and greatly beloved Pete Livermore.

3. As to 0bamacare.... Oh yes, it is working GREAT, ....if you consider HUGE co-pays, HUGE deductibles, HUGE premiums even after government subsidies, and driving HUGE numbers of doctors out of business as GREAT.

As the father of young adults, I see them struggling under today's terms. Recent news reports are that premiums are set to jump up to 78% -- soon AFTER the elections. Yesterday I overheard them discussing whether they can make it on their own for another year, or will have to move back home. Oh, joy.

If you are on Medicare, you might think you are safe from the excesses of 0bamacare, and you'd be wrong -- and soon will be DEAD WRONG, as 0bamacare is driving up the cost of all health care and vital medicines, and the death panels are gearing up to decide if you are too old to benefit from even modest measures to extend your life span and improve the quality of your remaining life.

Oh yes, 0bamacare is something of which the Democrats should be very proud, very proud indeed.

I could just scream. YOU MORONS...!!! The only way to increase tax revenue is to GROW THE ECONOMY. The only way to do that is to get the government the hell out of the way, to MINIMIZE TAX RATES AND REGULATIONS, to minimize the role of government in the economy. Let the people engage in FREE enterprise, to work and innovate and do business, and grow and prosper as their individual drive and imagination may let them. Let the FREE market and free COMPETITION, not politicians, determine prices and costs. That is the only way to minimize both, and let people enjoy an INCREASING, not decreasing standard of living.

History has shown time and again what works and what does not. In the 1970s, Carter's policies, like 0bama's today, had plunged this country into a much deeper recession than we had since 2008. In the late 1970s we had double digit unemployment, interest rates and inflation, all at the same time. In 1980 we had the good sense to elect Ronald Reagan as President, and in 1981/1982 he brow-beat a Democrat majority in both houses of Congress into accepting free market reforms. By 1983/1984 the economy was back and roaring. At the same time, the Soviet Union and its slave states in Eastern Europe were collapsing under the weight of their marxist government-run planned economy. This year we are in the 7th year of "recovery," and still struggling. Another news report just a day or so ago has 0bama advising us to accept continued slow growth or no growth as the new normal.

Yupp, "social justice" economics sure works wonders.

Remember all this as you vote on November 4th.