Building An Alternate Vision For The Future
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
Those who seek to install the “change” of socialism and Big Brother government at the center of all aspects of our daily lives come to their endeavors with a plan. They arrange their messages and machinery to accomplish these objectives.
Advocates for limited government and expanded opportunities for individuals and the private sector can no longer afford to simply promote a theme of no taxes and opposition to government expansion. The alternate vision needs to have a foundation and framework of constructed components that go beyond a theme of avoidance of the direction that left-wing radicals and the Party are currently taking us.
As Geoffrey Lawrence of the Nevada Policy Research Institute (NPRI) correctly points out, the Stakeholder group assembled by the Nevada Legislative Interim Committee is supposed to do is come up with a vision for Nevada’s future based on their predominate philosophy that government payouts is required, in ever increasing amounts. With the taxeaters having established the need – the Party with further justification from their consultant will vote in unison (as they have done for a very long time) to raise revenue, taxing those greedy and recalcitrant sectors of the business community who haven’t emptied their wallets into the collective trough of “essential” government.
Getting those dots to connect isn’t something that just happened. Leaders of the Party sat in their thinking groups and formulated the ideas taking form. They have and are piecing together their government sponsored green initiatives and other collective projects to achieve the end results of government solutions for all.
When you take a look at gubernatorial candidate Rory Reid’s vision for Nevada, you see even more the details of government at the core of bringing Nevada to the Utopian future the Party wishes to confer for our good and mutual benefits.
Candidates for elected office who have a different vision -- one where private enterprise and capitalism operate productively (the system that actually can work to put people to work and raise the standards of living for all citizens) -- must be working to build their proactive message and game plan to succeed. It cannot be a message of “NO”. It must be an organized and deliberately designed agenda that presents solid ideas and time-tested solutions in a moving forward fashion.
To offset the legislature’s panel of bureaucratic, empire-building, “give-me-more-taxes” believers…Nevada’s private sector needs a researched, documented and organized series of ideas which identify key strategies of effective plans for implementing alternate options for superior results to government-only solutions. We need to understand the elements of legislative actions required to bulldoze away the bureaucratic barriers which prevent greater productivity. Campaigns for election require a unified platform and a package of targeted legislative proposals which establish the principles of limited government intrusion.
We need to aggressively seek adoption of zero-based state budgeting and transparent (on-line checkbook register of state expenditures) government spending.
We need to legislatively pursue actions which achieve meaningful progress in critical areas such as improved education.
As Patrick Gibbons of NPRI has noted the current emphasis of Nevada's educational inner-court cares more about building budgets than delivering results of educated students. This institutional castle of ineptitude must be stormed and the moats must be drained allowing for options such as student vouchers and private alternative education equal opportunity. Competition for producing the best results must be created to replace the state-run, centrally-planned, teach-to-pass-a-test system we have today.
Getting to a reduced role for government and a brighter future for people isn’t something to be accomplished in a passive fashion. We need to understand and press forward in taking back Nevada and our nation through an aggressive assault of ideas and implementation of principled actions that accomplish those desired results.
Those who seek to install the “change” of socialism and Big Brother government at the center of all aspects of our daily lives come to their endeavors with a plan. They arrange their messages and machinery to accomplish these objectives.
Advocates for limited government and expanded opportunities for individuals and the private sector can no longer afford to simply promote a theme of no taxes and opposition to government expansion. The alternate vision needs to have a foundation and framework of constructed components that go beyond a theme of avoidance of the direction that left-wing radicals and the Party are currently taking us.
As Geoffrey Lawrence of the Nevada Policy Research Institute (NPRI) correctly points out, the Stakeholder group assembled by the Nevada Legislative Interim Committee is supposed to do is come up with a vision for Nevada’s future based on their predominate philosophy that government payouts is required, in ever increasing amounts. With the taxeaters having established the need – the Party with further justification from their consultant will vote in unison (as they have done for a very long time) to raise revenue, taxing those greedy and recalcitrant sectors of the business community who haven’t emptied their wallets into the collective trough of “essential” government.
Getting those dots to connect isn’t something that just happened. Leaders of the Party sat in their thinking groups and formulated the ideas taking form. They have and are piecing together their government sponsored green initiatives and other collective projects to achieve the end results of government solutions for all.
When you take a look at gubernatorial candidate Rory Reid’s vision for Nevada, you see even more the details of government at the core of bringing Nevada to the Utopian future the Party wishes to confer for our good and mutual benefits.
Candidates for elected office who have a different vision -- one where private enterprise and capitalism operate productively (the system that actually can work to put people to work and raise the standards of living for all citizens) -- must be working to build their proactive message and game plan to succeed. It cannot be a message of “NO”. It must be an organized and deliberately designed agenda that presents solid ideas and time-tested solutions in a moving forward fashion.
To offset the legislature’s panel of bureaucratic, empire-building, “give-me-more-taxes” believers…Nevada’s private sector needs a researched, documented and organized series of ideas which identify key strategies of effective plans for implementing alternate options for superior results to government-only solutions. We need to understand the elements of legislative actions required to bulldoze away the bureaucratic barriers which prevent greater productivity. Campaigns for election require a unified platform and a package of targeted legislative proposals which establish the principles of limited government intrusion.
We need to aggressively seek adoption of zero-based state budgeting and transparent (on-line checkbook register of state expenditures) government spending.
We need to legislatively pursue actions which achieve meaningful progress in critical areas such as improved education.
As Patrick Gibbons of NPRI has noted the current emphasis of Nevada's educational inner-court cares more about building budgets than delivering results of educated students. This institutional castle of ineptitude must be stormed and the moats must be drained allowing for options such as student vouchers and private alternative education equal opportunity. Competition for producing the best results must be created to replace the state-run, centrally-planned, teach-to-pass-a-test system we have today.
Getting to a reduced role for government and a brighter future for people isn’t something to be accomplished in a passive fashion. We need to understand and press forward in taking back Nevada and our nation through an aggressive assault of ideas and implementation of principled actions that accomplish those desired results.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 11/24/2009 5:40 AM 
Categories: 2010 Elections
Tags: Nevada Nevada Legislative Actions Government Tax and Spend
Categories: 2010 Elections
Tags: Nevada Nevada Legislative Actions Government Tax and Spend
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