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The Majority Address:  A Response to President Obama’s Joint Congressional and National Address

 

 

Ordinarily the minority political party delivers a minority response after the president speaks.  This evening that is not necessary, nor is it possible.  It is not necessary to wait to hear the president’s words because we already know what he will say.  More importantly it is not possible to speak in opposition to the president on healthcare as the minority response because an overwhelming majority of Americans fundamentally oppose the president’s plans.  Americans are not willing to surrender 1/5^th of our economy and control of our medical care to politicians with no healthcare experience.  When it comes to decisions of life and death, moral life decisions should not be influenced or dictated by government. 

 

Although healthcare costs grow more expensive, we cannot rashly adopt an untested overhaul of our entire healthcare system.  Reform must be measured, tested, and led by experienced individuals with proven success.  America cannot adopt an untested system at the risk of national failure. 

 

When the president speaks to congress tonight, it is important to remember three key things:

1. President Obama has no plan for health insurance.
2. President Obama and his congress have no experience with healthcare, and he has no credibility on healthcare reform. 
3. President Obama and his congress have been extremely successful passing stimulus bailouts that are colossal failures. 

 

These are key.  When the president speaks, remember the president has no plan of his own, this president has no experience with healthcare reform, and this president and congress’s stimulus bailouts are colossal failures by their measures. 

 

Tonight the president will address both chambers of congress and the nation about his plan to provide universal health insurance for anyone in America.  He will talk about a “public plan”.  It is a government plan for the general public, not a public plan.  President Obama and his congress will be exempt from any government plan they pass.  They will remain free to choose any health insurance.  Remember President Obama has no plan of his own for universal coverage.  He has a wonderful vision of sunshine, rainbows and lollipops:  improved medical care that is cheaper for everyone.  But President Obama has no plan.  Mr. Obama has not produced a detailed document outlining specifics of his plan.  Mr. Obama has never introduced a health insurance bill to congress.  In fact, Mr. Obama has never even drafted or suggested a single amendment to any health bill as president or when he was a senator. 

 

Mr. Obama, let us read your health insurance plan.  Mr. Obama, publish and release into the public record your complete health reform legislation proposal. 

 

President Obama has a wonderful dream where everything can be made better and it will not cost anything.  A seven year old child has that same dream.  And just like the seven year old, President Obama has no plan either.  Mr. Obama will sign the legislation Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid send him.  Even a seven year old child would not do that to us. 

 

President Obama has no plan of his own. 

 

 

Tonight when the president speaks, remember President Obama and his congress have no experience with healthcare, and he has no credibility on healthcare reform. 

 

President Obama is a young, incredibly fit man.  He is blessed with exceptional health.  President Obama never had to deal with the healthcare industry because he is healthy.  He was an attorney while he organized communities.  President Obama never worked in the healthcare field.  He has little experience with the good and bad of our system.  President Obama has no experience with the healthcare industry. 

 

The medical field represents 1/5^th of our economy.  Now Mr. Obama asks us to support his vision to reform 20% of our entire economy.  Mr. Obama promised us our government could provide health insurance without increasing government spending.  How?  And why should we believe him?  The Congressional Budget Office said it is not possible.  What does Mr. Obama, a man with no experience with the healthcare industry, know that we do not know? 

 

Mr. Obama has no experience reforming healthcare, not as a senator, nor as an attorney.  President Obama claims the government can insure all uninsured without spending more money.  The president said he would eliminate billions and billions of dollars of fraud and wasteful Medicare and Medicaid spending. 

 

Mr. Obama, three months ago you said you could save hundreds of billions in fraud and wasteful spending.  Mr. Obama, to date how many tens of billions of dollars have you saved?  How much fraud have you eliminated?  How much wasteful spending have you cut?  As president you have the executive authority to do so. 

 

Mr. Obama has no experience reforming the medical field.  After months in office Mr. Obama has not eliminated any fraud in our government healthcare spending.  Mr. Obama has not cut any wasteful government healthcare spending.  President Obama claimed he would reduce fraud, but he has done nothing. 

 

President Obama has no credibility on healthcare reform. 

 

 

Finally, tonight when the president speaks, remember President Obama and his congress successfully passed bailout “stimulus” plans, but those plans are colossal failures.  Mr. Obama and his congress spent $787 billion to “stimulate” our economy.  Mr. Obama promised pass their bill and unemployment would not exceed 8.5%.  Unemployment rapidly skyrocketed past 9%.  Mr. Obama promised pass their bill and 3 to 4 million jobs would be created.  That many jobs have been lost since they passed their plan, and over 500,000 more Americans continue to lose their jobs every month.  We cannot risk our health on their record. 

 

Yesterday President Obama addressed schoolchildren learning to read.  Tonight Mr. Obama addresses a joint session of congress that refuses to read the bills they pass.  Mr. Obama offered “hope and change” and promised new transparency and oversight.  Yet Mr. Obama’s congress voted for that $787 billion “stimulus” spending bill without having 24 hours to read the legislation over 1000 pages.  So much for transparency.  Mr. Obama succeeded in passing over one-hundred billion dollars in pork that even Joe Biden cannot find.  So much for oversight.  The money in that bill could have created 4 million jobs paying $50,000 for four years.  But the plan Mr. Obama passed spent the money and lost that many jobs in half a year.  President Obama told schoolchildren to study their textbooks.  Hopefully he and congress study proposed legislation this time.  Mr. Obama and his congress have successfully implemented their plans; their plans are colossal failures. 

 

Remember when President Obama speaks:  1.) President Obama has no specific plan for health reform; 2.) President Obama has no credibility on health reform; and 3.) President Obama and his congress’ plans are colossal failures. 

 

 

Tonight as in the past President Obama will speak in broad generalities about reforming healthcare as he explains a wonderful non-plan to reform 1/5^th of the entire economy to provide universal health insurance. 

 

Any plan to reform a system should be led by experienced people with proven success.  Before such a massive widespread plan is implemented it should be tested.  One major objective of healthcare reform is to reduce costs.  The most obvious and proven methods should already be in place.  President Obama should have begun eliminating fraud and waste.  He should follow the lead of governors who have already begun this work.  Many states have also reduced costs through tort reform and cutting frivolous and excessive lawsuits.  A tried and true way to reduce costs is by encouraging competition.  The federal government should bring competition to the health insurance industry.  Health insurance providers should be free to compete and offer health insurance in any state.  If more health insurance options are available, citizens will get a lower price and better service.  Yet one more way to reduce costs is to provide more doctors.  It has been decades since the US has seen a new medical school opened.  As our population continues to grow so should the number of doctors.  Without an increase in our capacity to produce doctors, our doctors will continue to be stretched thin.  Congress must investigate ways to encourage competition and ways for the free market to lower costs. 

 

Mr. Obama’s joint congressional address on healthcare should not initiate a non-transparent legislative rush to pass a bill without providing time for the public or congress to read and critique legislation.  Passing one massive bill lumping many reform ideas together is a colossal mistake.  The state of Massachusetts implemented a state-wide health reform plan that failed.  Americans cannot afford such an untested system at the risk of national failure.  The United States is exactly that, a union of 50 states.  Each state is an independent laboratory where civil servants experiment with their economies and regulations, including the healthcare industry.  Tonight should begin a long period of brainstorming sessions, investigative research, public congressional committee meetings, thorough debate and hard work drafting and amending many pieces of legislation.  Eventually congress should find what has worked best and gradually implement ideas that have already succeeded in our United States. 

 

America provides the world’s best medical care.  We must not trade the world’s best medical treatment for government health insurance that cannot get us any medical care. 

The New Tea Party:
An Explanation for Tea Parties Today (April 15, 2009)
and Similarities Between the Original Party

In 1773 British parliament passed the infamous Tea Act that led to the Boston Tea Party. We all know that law levied a tax on tea for the American colonies, but you may not realize the law lowered the tax rate and made British tea less expensive. Part of the legislation granted a monopoly to the financially troubled East India Company. Britain was trying to bailout the near bankrupt East India Company, which was sitting on stockpiles of tea it could not sell. This monopoly would eliminate all private tea merchants and outlaw all other sources of tea.

American colonialists were rightfully angered for two reasons. First, colonial merchants’ livelihood was being taken away by the government and given to a failing corporation. If the government could do this with tea, it could do this with anything. Second, colonialists recognized the British government’s ploy to trick colonists into accepting and acknowledging parliament’s right to levy taxes on the colonies. Britain thought the colonies would pay the tax as long as the tea was cheap. We all know Americans would not take taxes without representation.

When the East India Company sent tea to America under the new law, ships were turned away in Philadelphia and New York. In Charleston tea made it off the ships, but was locked up in a warehouse only to be sold years later by Americans to fund the revolution. On the night of December 16, 1773, Boston threw their illustrious tea party. So here we stand over two-hundred thirty-five years later in the United States of America.

Why are we here?

Our Founding Fathers wanted a limited centralized federal government. Our founders did limit centralized government. They recognized an important truth that those of us gathered for our tea party recognize today: government can only control the economy by controlling people. When British parliament attempted to bailout the failing East India Company, our founders recognized the attempted theft of economic freedom. They opposed it vehemently.

Government has no business in business. Liberty to practice freedom in the marketplace is an inalienable right outlined in the Declaration of Independence and protected in our Constitution. When our government confiscates large amounts of private wealth and enters the marketplace, it has far exceeded the power bestowed by the people. It has gone far beyond the framework of the Constitution. And those acting in the government’s name have violated their oath and pledge to all Americans.

Indebtedness welcomes our progeny into America. They are beholden to government for a tremendous financial obligation. Every dollar government spent from our children’s piggy banks is one less dollar our children can spend, one less dollar of economic freedom. Government has already deprived our children thousands of dollars of freedom. The government has no permission to spend our unborn children’s money.

The federal government must return power to the people. It has grown far beyond the control of the governed. The union of states constituted the federal government. We cannot permit the federal government to coerce states’ actions through conditional federal payments from locally collected taxes. We must stop the federal bureaucrats from telling the states how to spend their money, our money. We cannot permit centralized power in a federal government lacking authority.

Americans deserve better. For decades our political parties have traded policies of “tax and spend” for “borrow and spend” between one another. Each policy serves the same purpose: expand the power of centralized federal government at the cost of individual freedom. Rarely do they relinquish the powers usurped.

Now in economically troubled times both the current administration like the last fumbles from one crisis to the next. Our woes began with a sub-prime mortgage crisis that grew into a liquidity crisis and a banking crisis then an auto crisis. With each new crisis came a larger power grab in the form of tax-payer funded bailout, which has perpetuated the underlying problems. With each new failing corporation the federal government tries to avert failure by giving out our money, the money we were not willing to surrender by choice to failing endeavors.

America needs good leaders now more than ever. We can no longer accept mediocre leadership that has resulted in the theft of our money. Government has failed us for far too long, at all levels, federal, state and local, running up colossal debt. Now as many large corporations fail wiping out our retirement savings, our government leaders move to protect and preserve them at our expense. To those government leaders I say this, “Let the failures fail.” We must wash away those failures and remove those responsible from their leadership positions. There are good leaders throughout America. We must recognize them and elevate them. We must elect good leaders to the boards of our companies and governments.

One person will not be America’s savior. Everyone must play a role. We must be weary when one person promises to solve all the nation’s problems. We hoped for change and received more of the same. Our problems are systemic of a distant centralized government that believes it can better manage our lives than we are capable. What is best for an elitist distant politician is not best for all Americans.

Our Founding Fathers created America with a limited centralized federal government. Federal government will be limited. Government shall not decide what companies will be subsidized out of failure with tax dollars. Our progeny will be afforded representation before they are taxed any more. America deserves good leaders. Government shall not decide who will run private businesses. Whether in business or government, we will replace ineffective leaders set on a path of failure. As the Boston Tea Party ignited cries against “taxation without representation”, today our tea party puts bureaucrats on notice. We will not tolerate government depriving citizens of their livelihood to save a failing corporation. We will not tolerate taxation without representation.

The Reagan Brat Response:
A Response to President Barack Obama’s Press Conference Speech on March 24, 2009

Let me begin the official response to Mr. Obama’s press conference speech this evening by quoting him:

The most critical part of our strategy is to ensure that we do not return to an economic cycle of bubble and bust in this country. We know that an economy built on reckless speculation, inflated home prices, and maxed-out credit cards does not create lasting wealth. It creates the illusion of prosperity, and it's endangered us all.

Correct, Mr. President, we should not create an economic bubble. 

Right, Mr. President, we cannot live on maxed-out credit. 

Yes, Mr. President, excessive borrowing does not create lasting wealth. 

Right again, Mr. President, running up debt only creates an illusion of prosperity. 

You condemn the policy of excessive spending and excessive borrowing by American individuals.  Yet you force us to accept government’s greater excessive spending and excessive borrowing.

Reckless speculation indeed. 

Mr. Obama, you are creating the largest economic bubble that will burst in disaster.  Borrowing tax revenues from the next 20 years in the future is creating a colossal bubble.  You are stealing money from the future to fund government today.  Since you spent tomorrow’s money to fund government today, how will we fund government tomorrow?

Mr. Obama, in your first 60 days you have over doubled the deficit. After yet more spending you promise after 4 years to cut the deficit to where it was when you took office. 

You promised us transparency.  Why do you and the democrat congress sneak through these plans before anyone can read them? 

You promised us oversight.  Where have our trillions of tax dollars gone?  We know where the lobbyists are. 

Mr. President, you’ve exhausted the promise card.  Show us!  Provide transparency you promised.  Provide oversight for our trillions you already spent. 

Why do you prescribe a planned massive bubble of government we cannot afford?

Is it reckless speculation?

When the Great Depression began, our government borrowed large amounts of money as you are doing now.  As a result the depression lasted over 10 years.  Your plan was tried then and failed miserably.  For the past 60 days you spent trillions of dollars, on top of the trillions you voted for while in congress.  All those plans have failed. 

Reckless speculation? 

Last month you spent $787 billion to create 4 million new jobs.  With that money I could have paid 4 million people $200,000.  Mr. Obama, how is it possible you spent $787 billion and our economy lost jobs? 

We have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.

Ronald Reagan spoke those words decades ago.  Economics taught us that lesson.  History reminds us with facts every time planners come around.  Increased government spending does not end recessions nor create jobs. 

Mr. Obama, your final months in congress you supported a $750 billion plan.  It failed.  You planned us $787 billion of spending to “create jobs”.  It failed.  You gave us a $450 billion plan.  It failed. 

Mr. Obama, do you know how much these plans have cost the American taxpayers (present and future)?  Those plans combined add up to Two Trillion Dollars.  That was enough to pay 40 million people $50,000.  Yet more people lost jobs under your plans. 

Reckless speculation?  No.  There is no speculation involved.  The facts are transparent.  Your plan is an utter disaster.  Two trillion tax payer dollars has been wasted.  No jobs have been created.  No jobs have been saved.  More jobs have been lost.  And the American people must pay for your plans. 

Reckless.  Your plans are reckless.  Reckless in the face of history.  Reckless in the face of present facts.  Obviously reckless in light of common sense.   

 

When the government borrows money from decades into the future, it destroys liberty.  It creates an illusion that we are free, but in reality we are enslaving our children with massive debt for which they had no choice.  It endangers our way of life. 

The president warned us against excessive spending and excessive borrowing.  It would create a bubble, reckless speculation, dangerous to our way of life.  Now he and his party in congress are trying to force that disaster upon us. 

 

My Fellow Americans, contact your elected officials, the planners.  Urge them to stop this recklessness.  Ask government to get out of the way.  Ask government to stop taking our money and our children’s money, so we are free to use our money to fund our businesses to create prosperity.  Only then can we create jobs and end this recession.    

Thank you, 

God Bless these United States. 

February 9, 2009

The Reagan Brat Response:
A Response to President Barack Obama’s Press Conference on February 9, 2009

Earlier this evening our president, Barack Obama, delivered a speech to persuade Americans to support government spending $800 Billion of US tax dollars.

The official response can begin with but one statement of fact:

We have reached this present crisis as a result government excess, over reaching and lack of responsibility. Our problems began with the collapse of our housing markets that spread to our financial markets. It now threatens to harm industries of all nature.
Over decades those in government have sought to help more Americans own their own home. Unfortunately, they have allowed far too many individuals purchase homes they could never afford. Then, our government through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac sold massive amounts of bad mortgages to our financial markets while saying these were sound investments. They committed fraud and left our banking industry with massive debt.

Three months ago our government passed legislation providing over $700 billion in tax payer dollars to “re-liquidate” our financial markets. Just Thursday we learned $78 billion of the first $350 billion was wasted. Seventy-eight billion dollars wasted in an instant! In that time hundreds of thousands of jobs are lost and our hard earned money is wasted.  Government spent our money and solved nothing.

Some members of our congress attempted to create oversight to reign in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac years earlier.  Other members obstructed their attempts at oversight. Members of congress warned us about the fraud that was occurring, but too few listened. Our government spent billions of dollars without oversight to create the initial problem. Government failed to watch Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac close enough to avoid their fraud.

Last October our government told us to avert catastrophe it needed to spend $700 billion more tax payer dollars. In the past three months our government has failed to oversee the spending of $350 billion. We know at least $78 billion of that $350 billion was wasted overpaying by 25%. The government will soon begin to spend the second $350 billion lump sum of tax payer dollars.  Unfortunately, government has still not put any oversight in place. 

Government fraud and lack of oversight began this problem.  Our government lost 25% of the first $350 billion of tax payer dollars intended to solve the problem. Still no oversight exists.  Our government has not spent the second $350 billion. What has the president proposed?
President Obama now asks us to trust his government to spend eight-hundred billion dollars ($800,000,000,000.00) more in tax dollars.

Shouldn’t our government spend the money we have already given it before asking for more? Shouldn’t our government make sure it won’t lose $25 billion of every $100 billion we give it before it spends another dime! Our government has demonstrated a gross incompetence to wisely spend money. This is our money the government is spending.

President Obama paints a grim, dismal picture. His optimism of the campaign trail is replaced with a message of fear and urgency to set aside everything and give government $800 billion more tax payer dollars to spend.

President Obama asks us to support his “Stimulus Package”, but what will it stimulate? This $800 billion government spending package will stimulate one thing, and one thing alone: government.

Our president asks for our support. He claims these government programs will create 4 million jobs. Did you know with $800 billion the Federal government could pay 4 million people two-hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.00) or fifty-thousand dollars ($50,000.00) for four years.

President Obama fails to understand America. I ask you, “Who creates jobs?”
The Federal government does not create jobs. I am not denying you could get a government job, but that job must be paid for by the American tax payers. Americans create jobs and pay taxes so government jobs can be paid. Tax payers work hard in the free market to create economic growth, jobs, and wealth. Our government cannot create wealth. When the government “creates” jobs, it will pay for them by raising taxes, either directly or by printing money. In the late 1970s President Carter similarly taxed us with high inflation from printing too much money, so look out. These jobs will not come cheap.

What is the real solution?
Stimulate the free market, not government. In a democracy the free market creates jobs. Individuals are the backbone of our economy. Men and women work hard creating businesses employing others.

On the campaign trail Barack Obama acknowledged he was not an economic or financial expert. My background in economics is extensive. Government spending has never ended a recession. Mr. Obama has misstated basic historical and economic facts. Barack Obama’s proposed solution has been tried before, and failed every time.

First, he cited the Japanese economy’s stagnation over the past two decades. Mr. Obama said spending $800 billion will prevent the troubles the Japanese faced. During the Japanese recession of the 1990s, Japan’s government implemented an economic policy of aggressive government spending. The result: their economic recession continues today.
Mr. Obama, government spending devastated the Japanese economy!

Secondly, President Roosevelt’s government spending programs prolonged and deepened the Great Depression. Since the 1970s most economists have acknowledged that government spending programs under Roosevelt extended the Great Depression by 5 years. Mr. Obama got the lesson wrong. Milton Friedman, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his related work, taught us that lesson decades ago.
Mr. Obama, government spending extended our Great Depression!

Third, Mr. Obama claims our economic ills are the worst since the Great Depression. Again, he is factually wrong. Our unemployment is high at 7.6%. Inflation remains low. The problems President Reagan faced were far worse than the economic ills of today. During the 1980s President Reagan inherited double digit inflation and double digit unemployment. He reduced taxes and government regulation to free Americans financially and bureaucratically, so Americans’ hard work would create economic growth.
Mr. Obama, President Reagan empowered Americans, so they could create jobs to subsequently increase tax revenue, and it worked!

President Obama told us this evening that the private sector is so badly weakened that only the Federal government possesses the ability to restart America’s economic engines. For a man who strives to be so like President Reagan, he knows nothing about his policies. As Ronald Reagan told in the 1980s, the same holds true today:

American individuals possess the ability create an economic explosion unlike the world has ever seen. Government has a key role in this play: get out of the way. During Reagan’s time people like Barack Obama said the economic engines of America were shut down and would not likely start for years to come. Reagan proved them wrong by freeing the American people from the burdens of government.

God has blessed us with greatness. Given His blessing we must believe in ourselves for we are Americans.

February 6, 2009

The Reagan Era?

Is the Ronald Wilson Reagan Era concluded?

The question is not so simple. From one perspective the era is indeed over. One may deem the closure as the end of his political life or the passing from our world. Nevertheless, from that standpoint the Reagan Era has ended.

The complexity lies in the broader concept of the Reagan Era. The passing of an individual does not always dictate the end of an era. People with the impact and influence on a society, on the global level to garner an “Era” for their movement, will create change long after they are gone through the movement that remains.

There are two presidents who often rank tops with Ronald Reagan. They both serve as examples via comparison to determine whether an era has ended.

First, President Abraham Lincoln, who’s life abruptly ended. Lincoln’s movement to reunite this nation void of the inhumane enslavement of others continued years after he left our world. Post-Civil War Reconstruction continued for years. Republicans continued his cause. Former slaves made great strides serving as US Senators. However, Lincoln’s successor did not share his views. Upon Lincoln’s assassination the new President Johnson and Democrat Party opposed Lincoln’s pro-freedom Post-Civil War Reconstruction. We forget the tumultuous setbacks after Lincoln’s death. His political opponents never garnered the strength to reinstitute slavery. Unfortunately, those who supported slavery eventually instituted a segregated society often by capturing state governments through force. Lincoln’s cause struggled for a leader capable of filing his shoes. Most consider President Lincoln’s era abruptly ended on April 14, 1865, with his assassination. Though Lincoln’s dreams were not fully realized on his watch, his movement did long endure.

A second example is that of our Founding Father’s Era. George Washington remains the ultimate American: General, President, and Founding Father. We don’t deem this George Washington’s Era. Why? The era spans many decades and individuals. Though aren’t Washington’s years really most important? Of the Founding Fathers we also remember Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Franklin, Henry, Paine, and others from the time of revolution through the first few presidents. We remember the revolution and countless precedents Washington set serving two terms. Yet we often forget those years between when Washington went home after the war. The first attempt at American government failed miserably with the Articles of Confederation. Washington’s return of 8 years instilled stability and integrity in a government to last over 200 years. For one and a half centuries no one dared challenge his two term precedent. Washington’s influence and that of our Founding Fathers survives today.

The reason we struggle with the Reagan Era is twofold.
First, no successor has successfully filled Reagan’s role.
Second, we have identified the Era as Reagan’s.

To the question whether the Reagan Era has ended is both complicated and simplified by these problems.

First, since no one successfully filled Reagan’s shoes, it is difficult to believe the era continues. As with Lincoln and Washington you cannot fill their shoes so easily. You cannot duplicate an individual. Washington did not define the movement; he was simply its best leader. However, there were other leaders, other Founding Fathers. After Washington’s departure others continued the cause: Adams, Jefferson, etc. Lincoln’s story is much different. He successfully ended slavery and kept our states united. Lincoln was murdered for his movement. President Johnson opposed Lincoln’s vision of equality. In fact he wrote to Missouri Governor Fletcher, “This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government for white men.” The pro-slavery Democrats were eventually able to hostilely regain control in southern states and institute an economic and new societal form of slavery, which still resides subversively in Democrat party policies. Though no one filled Reagan’s shoes, his passing was not as abrupt as Lincoln’s. He faded from the national spotlight like Washington.

Second, identifying an era for one individual can obscure the underlying movement. George Washington didn’t offer an idea or vision that was his alone. It was a shared vision established by a group of brilliant individuals. The challenge is whether another can pick up the cause after the main leader steps aside. Plus the underlying cause must always be the focus. Adams proved able to continue the cause after Washington. Lincoln’s successor, President Johnson, did not share Lincoln’s vision. Reagan’s Revolution was the conservative movement. He was not the sole individual behind it, but he was the messenger. As “The Great Communicator” Reagan spread the message with an appearance of ease. Reagan’s passing was certainly a relative, momentary blow to the cause. But what is the cause?

The Reagan Revolution was a resurgence of the ideals of our Founding Fathers: modern conservatism.

This leaves us with an answer.
The era of Ronald Reagan is over. It will never be lost. It will never be forgotten. Ronald Reagan rose to the level of a Founding Father. He fully embraced their ideals and continued in action as the Founding Fathers. We came to know this era as the Reagan Revolution. But are they one in the same? Unequivocally, no.

Reagan’s conservatism and his message grew far beyond his own mortality. We embraced it as the Reagan Revolution. The title was intended as honorary for this brave leader. It was never intended a limiter. In Reagan’s farewell address he acknowledged that he and his supporters set out to improve our country and ended up changing the world. He encouraged us to continue the cause. He is right.

George Washington’s rebellion never ended. It evolved into something more powerful than the Founding Fathers could ever have foreseen. An era called the American Revolution evolved into the greatest force this world has seen. Transition is difficult. As the colonies moved to establish government at the end of the war, they floundered. The first attempt at American government was a failure. Lincoln again took up the cause and paid with his life. His passing was a major setback, but America moved forward. Ronald Reagan continued the fight our Founding Fathers began.

The era of Ronald Reagan fades more with each passing day. But we must never forget the Reagan Revolution ended in victory. More importantly we must not forget that the Reagan Revolution was a small piece in a much larger effort. The struggle of our Founding Fathers is now encompassed in the conservative movement.

We recognize and refuse to let go of the greatness of Ronald Reagan, and rightfully so, because he communicated the ideals of America better than any others in over a century.

We have graduated from the Reagan Revolution.

Now is time “to begin the world over again.”