So here are 10 questions the left keep asking

So here are 10 questions the left keep asking
With some answers you might need before you do

1)     If Republicans are so fiscally responsible, why was President Eisenhower (in the 1950′s) the last Republican president to balance the budget?

Many leading Democrats in Washington these days like to point to the fact that the federal budget was balanced for part of the time that President Bill Clinton was in office. What they do not mention is that those balanced budgets occurred only when Republicans controlled both houses of Congress

2)     If President Reagan was such a fiscally conservative hero, why did he quadruple our national debt during his eight years in the White House?

Tip O’Neill quadrupled the national debt. Presidents don’t write budgets, cannot authorize spending, and cannot authorize taxes. Congress does that.

3)     If tax breaks are the main driving force behind job creation, how would we create jobs once tax rates were reduced to practically zero?

Tax breaks are only a part of creating a robust economy that leads to good middle income jobs.  Secondly, no one is or ever has advocated a zero tax. A fair tax has and should be considered along with an overhaul of the Tax Code.

4)     If socialized health care is so awful, why does every country that leads the world in life expectancy have socialized health care?

If you mean single-payer, then your premises are wrong. The longest-lived countries are Japan and Switzerland, neither of which is single-payer. If Single Payer is so great, why do other countries have such bad outcomes?

5)     If you support the freedom of religion (as per our Constitution), and my church recognizes gay marriage, isn’t your support for the banning of same-sex marriage an attack on my religion’s First Amendment rights? 

Your church can believe whatever it chooses.  The legal definition of marriage is not a belief or a violation of your fist amendment rights.

6)     What’s more realistic?  

a.     That an entire region of the United States that supported slavery in the late-1800′s and support segregation in the 1950′s and 60′s suddenly stopped being racist, or

b.     The racist southern Democrats in the south became Republicans during the 50′s and 60′s when the Republican party shifted toward an idea called the “Southern Strategy,” where the GOP appealed to the racism in southern whites who didn’t like African Americans voting for Democrats. 

Both are false premises for which there is no answer to a false premise.  Southern voters in the main did not become Republicans until the 1990s and The Southern Congressional Caucus was Democrat until 1994.

7)     If taxes are at some of their lowest levels in history, and the wealthiest in this country are richer than ever, why hasn’t the growth in the wealth of the middle class matched that of the top 2%? 

Because in a world of global markets are rewarding highly skilled workers and entrepreneurial success where the market are very large, while there is reduced demand on moderate-to-low-skill wages.  This is true for Sweden for example that has a very different tax code.  Democrats want to ignore market forces, yet they will not be denied.

8)     If our Founding Fathers wanted this nation to be based on Christianity, why don’t the words “Christian” or “Christianity” appear even once in our Constitution? 

They expected the republic to continue as a  Christian civilization and not to have a U.S. version of the Church of England.  Further, anyone even slightly versed in the Federalist Papers now the founders intent was for the Nation to remain Christian; they even predicted its demise if it did not.

9)     If a Republican president reduced massive job losses in the midst of the worst recession in nearly a century by more than 50% in his first 4 months in office; presided over 44 consecutive months of private-sector job growth creating nearly 8 million jobs; killed Osama bin Ladin; saw stock markets reach all-time highs; saved the American auto industry; increased domestic oil production to highs not seen since the late-90′s and championed the largest year-to-year deficit reductions since World War II, would your party not be calling him a hero and a legend? 

Another false premise.   All that is enumerated happened in spite of the administrations public policies. The President’s term coincided with the lowest workforce-participation rate in recent history, an illegal war in Libya, and the illegal assassination of U.S. citizens, histories, would you not call him . . . something less than heroic? As for deficit reductions, that is simply the economy pouring more tax dollars into the federal trough.

10)  If Jesus spent his life helping the poor and the needy, how does it make sense that a party which claims to be for “Christian values” continues to cut funding for programs that help the poor and the needy?

The question is vacant.  Jesus did command his followers to care for the poor and needy.  He did not command the government to confiscate the earnings of others to give to the needy.  Moreover, there is more evidence that public policy has not improved the lot of the poor and needy.  It has in fact created a large groups of people that are not able to care for themselves.  Name one program this administration has created or improved that has reduced poverty.