The Moderate Republican: Funny Math

What the Moderate Republican Stands For

Republicans came to power as the party of big ideas, and without returning to that model they could be looking at a long winter. Additionally, those big ideas need to focus on Middle America. Three issues that could work are conservation, reform and localism.

Conservation- a return to the Teddy Roosevelt model of conservation. One doesn’t necessarily have to buy into global warming to appreciate the need to protect the natural resources we have.

Reform- the federal government is bigger than ever, and won’t be getting any smaller over the next four years. Republicans need to fashion themselves as national reformers. Much of Middle America wants the government as safety net, but bloated bureaucracies breed corruption that needs to be dealt with.

Localism- this is the lynchpin that brings it all together. If we bought our food locally, shopped locally, governed locally, many of the issue we now have to deal with would go away, or at the least become manageable.

Below is a collection of writers who speak about the things that matter. Some are Right, some Left and some Center, but all intelligent and rational voices.

Yesterday I mentioned the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate that the Baucus bill will cost roughly 830 billion dollars and lead to a deficit reduction over the next ten years — 2010 to 2019. The CBO is required to make a ten-year estimate.

However, what is not clear in all the news reports on this is that the bill wont’t take effect until 2013. And the first-year costs are only a few billion dollars since there are all sorts of provisions intact for first-year glitches and bumps.

The real costs will be more than a trillion dollars over the actual first ten years of the bill’s implementation.

Hat tip to Alex over at Race 4 2012

The Moderate Republican

What the Moderate Republican Stands For

The American Conservative » Rod Dreher

Via Meadia

Front Porch Republic

David Brooks

The Soap Box

Funny Math

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