SCRW&M Position Paper 3, re: Calif. budget

Dear Senator,

The following is a position statement from the Southern California Republican Women and Men.

California spends beyond its means. The answer is not an increase in taxes which is proven to ultimately cause a reduction in expected revenue. The long term solution is to match growth in state spending to the normal growth in state revenues. The new money form Washington is just blood pressure medicine for a severely obese patient named California. Our state needs to stop consuming spending fudgsicles and new entitlement bacon cheeseburgers, and dust off the exercycle called common sense restraint.

The membership of Southern California Republican Women and Men.

SCRW&M Position Paper 2, re: Diversity

Dear Representative,

The following is a position statement from the Southern California Republican Women and Men for the month of February 2009

The population of California has among the highest degrees of diversity to be found anywhere. Along with the benefits of diversity, there is also the challenge of encouraging our new citizens to understand and exercise their rights and responsibilities of citizenship, especially that of voting in elections at every level of government, and participating in all of our political processes. Along with the celebration of diversity, our government and the Republican Party should do more to encourage all of our citizens to understand how vital it is that each should try and make the effort to participate in our democracy.

Membership of Southern California Republican Women and Men.

SCRW&M Position Paper 1, re: Global Warming

Dear Congress Person,

There are two central questions as regards the issue of global warming. First, is it occurring as a result of human activity? Second, if it is occurring, what should be done about it?

On the first question, the essence of real science is to question and test new theories–and the theory of global warming, no matter what its fervent advocates may claim, is not settled science. The quest for the truth, regardless of its popularity or trendiness, demands that data continue to be gathered and studied, challenged and tested. History is replete with examples of “scientific facts,” loudly declared as true by–yes, scientists, of their time–which, some decades or centuries later, turned out to be–just dead wrong! The collection of data that is being used to advance the idea of man-made global warming is too recent to be uncritically accepted as truth. There are additionally some 650 recognized scientists who are opposed to the theory.

On the second question, if humanity is causing some gradual warming of the planet over time, what should be done about it–if anything? The advocates of global warming argue as follows: humanity has caused, and is causing, the earth to become warmer; this will raise sea levels and inflict many kinds of damage on the planet–so, let the entire world unite to reverse, to undo all the effects of this human change to the world. The changes envisioned, to date, include using much less energy from the fossil fuels of coal, oil and natural gas and supplanting them with renewable, but costly, energy sources. The greater the change away from use of fossil fuels, the greater the cost–to all the average men and women of the world who happen to be alive today. Even if global warming is real, that does not mean that the people of the world have any duty to impoverish themselves, to make their lives harder and poorer, in order to satisfy the demands of those who wish to make their anti-warming crusade the supreme goal of all people.

Californians, Americans, and all the people of the world, are entitled to do their own cost-benefit analysis on this question. How much should people pay to reduce global warming? (Assuming its validity, for the sake of argument). Individual human beings have the right to assert their own interests. Perhaps many would rather wait and see if the sun and the earth’s orbit about it are the driving force for climate change, rather than a slight increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, than to plunge themselves and all for whom they care into a poverty and a misery that would look drearily familiar to a medieval peasant. To keep our self-respect as free people, those Americans who don’t care to go in the same direction as the stampeding herd of environmentalists have a duty to speak out.

The United States is still a sovereign nation. Our Constitution does not appoint councils of scientists and environmentalists, or world-government advocates, or United Nations panels, however well-intentioned all of them may be, to control our destiny. That is still the right of each of us, and it is our duty to maintain it bravely.

It is therefore the position of the Southern California Republican Women and Men that the California State Budget cannot support what we believe to be unnecessary regulations and costs to the tax payers in the State in a time when the State is overwhelmed with debt. We hope that you will take appropriate action to keep unnecessary Global Warming issues out of our California regulations, fees, taxes, and budget.

Membership of Southern California Republican Women and Men.

Congress Votes Against Victory

 Judging by what one hears from the UN and the World News Media, George W. Bush and his Republican followers are the greatest threat to the worlds harmony since Genghis Kahn. 
 
 The truth is, George W. Bush and America’s Conservatives, are the primary obstacle to the hopes for world domination of two major political movements.  One, the radical Islamist ideology that envisions a Muslim world under a supreme Caliph, and two, the world Socialist Movement that envision one world under a charismatic Socialist leader. 

 The desires of these two movements are not entirely incompatible.  Socialism functions very well within Islam and under Shiah Law, as the Bath Party in Iraq so ably demonstrated.  Both ideologies depend on an all powerful leader to interpret the law, or rule, as set down in their founding documents.  And both ideologies kill the human spirit by suppressing it to enforced order and conformity.  Throughout the fundamentalist Muslim world and in every nation under orthodox socialist rule, the common man is un-inventive, dispirited and poor in material things.

 Even before September 11, 2001 there was evidence of co-operation between the Muslim world and the Socialist world as many young mullahs were going to Russia to complete their education.  But it was mainly after 9/11 that the two great ideologies found common cause against their common enemy George W. Bush and those who supported his resistance against the radical Islamists ideology. 

 The “Left” throughout the world saw the chance to discredit and bring down the capitalist conservative philosophy by being sure it was defeated in Iraq.  The “anti war” movement in America and throughout the world was never anti war when Bill Clinton was bombing Bosnia.  They were only anti war when a Republican was President of the United States.  Early on it was obvious that the glue, the cohesive force that was holding the anti war movement together was hatred of George Bush. 

 Now in the United States, the Democrat Party – with the help of the liberal press – having gained control of Congress by bringing down America’s belief in its ability to win the war, has made an official proclamation that the people it represents want to give up and run away.  All those who wish to defeat the United States have to do is continue what they are doing and the United States will quit.  There can be no clearer way of giving aid and comfort to the enemy than the passage of this resolution.  (non-binding or not) 

 In the short run the Democrats will probably accomplish their goal.  They will humiliate the President and discredit the Republican Party, but at what cost?  Given this encouragement, the terror attacks on Iraqi civilians and police will continue and probably increase, the roadside IEDs will increase and grow more sophisticated, the death toll will grow ever higher and the desire to “redeploy” our troops home will increase.  The war between the Western non Muslim societies and radical Islamist ideology will be much harder to win.

 What the Democrats, and the few Republicans that are going along with them, fail to understand is; we are not just in a war with insurgents in Iraq that we can walk away from, we are in a world wide war between competing ideologies.  On one side Western capitalist democracy, and on the other the totalitarian ideologies of Islam and Socialism.  Iraq is just the current battle field.  All  sides know their victory on this battlefield will seriously cripple their opponent in the larger war.  But, victory or defeat on this battlefield will not  end the war.  The war will go on until one of the three sides wins.  Right now the worlds Muslim fundamentalists and the worlds proto Socialists are allied against the West.  Should the Western Democratic Capitalists loose their nerve and quit the battle or attempt to withdraw behind our own borders, that will be the end of the greatest experiment in human freedom the world ever knew.  The battle would then be between two totalitarian ideologies and it would really make little difference which one won.

 The United States as the most powerful of the Western Democratic Capitalists has been involved in a number of battles in the 20th Century.  In not one of them have we sought to keep land which we have freed from oppression, nor have we sought to impose a totalitarian form of government on them.  But in the currant world view, every time we attempt to liberate from oppression, or defend from attack we are accused of being the aggressors.  The truth is we are not the aggressors,  we are the obstacle to aggression.