I’ve been married for twenty two years. That statement requires no clarification. You know what it means.

Last Tuesday North Carolina became the thirty second State to vote to reject same sex marriage. There is a lot more to this than the institution of marriage. It’s about whether there is any limit to the federal government’s control over our lives, which means this fight too will ultimately come down to money.

I believe that when the founders granted Congress the authority to provide for the general Welfare of the United States, they were consciously and specifically denying them the authority to provide for the special welfare of any person or group. The violation of this principle is what makes a member of Congress so valuable to the special interest groups who are running this country. The gay rights movement is just another one of those groups, and they are trying to federalize this issue so they can override the States.

Special interest groups control our government. Congress can’t pass the simplest bill without including 3000 pages of special deals. The tax code has 71 thousand pages of them. Most members of Congress act as if their job is to give as much as possible, to as many groups as possible, while asking as few as possible to pay for it, thus the debt and tax code. You can’t compromise with this. Gridlock in Congress is not dysfunction. It’s a battle that has not been won yet.

Before this election can be about the direction of the country, it must be about the direction of the Republican Party. The Tea Party minority in the House of Representatives has been a thorn in the side of mainstream Republicans for two years. The liberals are so committed to their Socialist agenda that the Tea Party literally disgusts them. They’re trying to re-define the Tea Party as a bunch of radicals and by Election Day it will be a dirty word. It would be more accurate to call the Tea Party wing of the Party Constitutional Republicans. Richard Lugar’s Mainstream wing are Compromise Republicans, and lets just call the Democrats what they are, Socialist.

I received an email in response to a column I wrote a couple of weeks ago asking why the government would spend 2.6 million dollars on Chinese prostitutes? My answer was that if you give someone an unlimited budget, you shouldn’t be surprised when they eventually get around to Chinese prostitutes. If we allow the federal government unlimited control, we shouldn’t be surprised when they socially re-engineer us.

Social Liberalism comes from excess which is the result of Fiscal Liberalism. Social Conservatism is a lost cause if we don’t first control the spending, and that means we have to give up some government. Including some Medicare and Social Security, and don’t tell me there’s no excess in the military budget. There’s excess in every part of the federal government and if you’re not willing to cut your part, none of it will ever be cut and it will bankrupt this country, financially and morally.

Dan Fragoules
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