Why I Vote Republican

I will vote Republican in national elections for president, US Senate and US House of Representatives almost always.  In fact, I cannot remember voting for a democrat for those offices ever.  I will try to explain why.

1.  The democrat party thinks you cannot prepare meals for your family without government guidance.  Michelle Obama's food police initiative is a prime example.  Also, the war of sugars, fat and sodium in food, and claims of helping you fight obesity is pervasive.

2.  The democrat party thinks the government should stay our of the lives of LGBT community, but cannot extract themselves from your dealing with fertility, birth control and abortion.  The claims that republicans hate women because they refuse to pay for other people having abortions or using birth control are over the top ridiculous.  Sandra Fluck and the animated Julia video prove the democrats definitely continue to have a say so in your bedroom.

3.  The democrat party thinks you cannot choose for yourself where your children get their education, and refuse to support school vouchers.  Instead, while they send their own children to private schools, they deny poor people access to higher quality schools by supporting the NEA and their opposition to vouchers.

4.  The democrat party thinks black people cannot obtain any form of photo identification to show at the voting place.  Even though photo ID is required for countless activities that blacks participate in daily, such as boarding planes, renting cars and hotel rooms, purchasing items with checks or credit, and entering public buildings like the capital, courthouses and federal buildings.

5.  The democrat party thinks jobs a a function of government and not business.  Hillary Clinton, presumed front runner for the democrat nomination for president in 2106 said as much while campaigning for other democrats.

6.  The democrat party calls a 7% increase in the budget a cut because it was not an 8% increase.  Basic math would be better understood if school vouchers were permitted.

7.  The democrat party does not understand basic economics of the free market, and repeats the false narrative that republicans believe in the trickle down theory.  In fact, no republican trickle down theory has ever been promoted.  When Ronald Reagan proposed that if the government collected less in taxes, then people would keep more of their money and therefore spend more, the economy would grow.  Liberal commentators called this the trickle down theory, and democrats repeated it, often.

8.  Democrats do not believe that lower tax rates will generate more tax revenue.  Remember that the rate is expressed as a percentage, and the revenue is the amount of money remitted to the IRS.  John Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush all proved that lowering rates will increase revenue, and yet democrats refuse to see this for what it is.

9.  Democrats claim Obamacare is working and working quite well.  While this is opinion, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, or Obamacare) is not solving any of the problems it has been claimed to address.  Rates are climbing for most, and higher than historical increases.  People did in fact lose their health insurance and doctors despite promises form almost every democrat they would keep them.  Most people in polls state they want to see Obamacare repealed.  And the actions by President Obama to delay and/or wave multiple groups of citizens and multiple requirements of the law, proves this law does not live up to its billing.

10.  The democrat party believes that the science of global warming is settled.  This is patently false as more data comes into the public domain and more scientists profess opposition to the alarm-ism.  To say the science is settled when so little is actually known about climate records and models, and when so many real scientists question to theory, is simply unscientific in nature.

11.  The democrat party thinks guns kill people, instead of people killing people.  The number of mass shootings has actually not increased according to FBI crime statistics, and several studies conclude the same.  The fact that nearly all mass shootings occur in gun-free zones, where no one can shoot back, is proof that unarmed citizenry is at greater risk than an armed one.  While any death by gunfire is horrible and tragic, the gun is not the cause, but the tool.  When an armed citizen is nearby when a mass shooting begins, the shooting typically ends with fewer injured and dead, and there are countless examples of this scenario.

In general, the democrat party does not trust Americans to make decisions about their own lives on  a daily basis, and does not think Americans can get along in life without persistent help from the government.

In general, republicans think that government should be seen and not heard, and should allow Americans to do what they do best: innovate, create, build and improve their lives for themselves, their customers and their families.