Mark Souder
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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OK, local Tea Party Patriots, the time has come. It's time to step up and put your money and your picket signs where your mouths are.
Mark Souder has announced that he will be running for re-election. That's right. Republican conservative Mark Souder of Indiana is running for re-election. That deficit hawk that stands up for the free market place and lovers of small government. Mark Souder, the man who abhors government interference with the free markets. The same fiscal conservative Mark Souder, who in October 2008, voted "yea" for the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act which contained the Troubled Asset Relief Program. The Troubled Asset Relief Program or TARP is the program that is also known by the Tea Party Nation as the bank bailout. Yes, that bailout. The same bailout you spent all summer protesting against. The same bailout that was seen by the Tea Party as a communist plot to take over the financial system. That piece of "socialist" legislation, which you tried to pin on Democratic President Obama when it was Republican President Bush who signed it into law.
During a time of high government deficits, Republican conservative Mark Souder felt it was good for the government to interfere in the private sector and use 700 billion taxpayer dollars to prop up the same banks that threatened our entire economy. You know the ones that were considered too big to fail. The country that didn't have enough money to pay for health care reform, or public education, or rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure all of a sudden found $700 billion.
Mark Souder wants you to send him back to Washington to fight for you. The same pro-capitalist conservative Mark Souder who, in December '08, voted for the government "takeover" of the automobile industry with his support for bailing out GM and Chrysler. His decision was supported by that "evil socialist" organization, the United Auto Workers Union. Mark Souder again decided that the free market could not be trusted so he sided with another government "socialist takeover."
Republican conservative Mark Souder followed up his winter of supporting big government deficit spending with a summer of supporting even more big government deficit spending. In June 2009, Mark Souder voted yea to spend $4 billion for the cash for clunkers program. In July 31, 2009, Souder voted yea for an additional $2 billion for the cash for clunkers program. And In July 2009, Mark Souder voted for $192 billion in additional anti-recession stimulus spending. Where is all this money coming from? Apparently, Mark Souder didn't care. He acted like liberals are always accused of acting.
Now don't get me wrong. I agreed with all of these programs. I even believe some of the programs didn't go far enough. But for more than a year we have been hearing the Tea Party leaders speak of being non-partisan. That they want what is best for the country. And that they will support any candidate, regardless of party affiliation, as long the candidate stands up for the Tea Party platform of small government and a halt to government spending. Now, locally the Tea Party has a chance to practice what they preach and support a candidate to run against that deficit spending congressman from Indiana, Mark Souder.
Failure to do so will only reinforce the belief that the Tea Party is nothing more than a partisan organization fueled by fear and funded by republicans upset with the electoral beat down they received in November 2008 and will oppose anything Obama proposes regardless of whether or not it's good for the country.
Robert Betances
Warsaw, via e-mail[[In-content Ad]]
OK, local Tea Party Patriots, the time has come. It's time to step up and put your money and your picket signs where your mouths are.
Mark Souder has announced that he will be running for re-election. That's right. Republican conservative Mark Souder of Indiana is running for re-election. That deficit hawk that stands up for the free market place and lovers of small government. Mark Souder, the man who abhors government interference with the free markets. The same fiscal conservative Mark Souder, who in October 2008, voted "yea" for the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act which contained the Troubled Asset Relief Program. The Troubled Asset Relief Program or TARP is the program that is also known by the Tea Party Nation as the bank bailout. Yes, that bailout. The same bailout you spent all summer protesting against. The same bailout that was seen by the Tea Party as a communist plot to take over the financial system. That piece of "socialist" legislation, which you tried to pin on Democratic President Obama when it was Republican President Bush who signed it into law.
During a time of high government deficits, Republican conservative Mark Souder felt it was good for the government to interfere in the private sector and use 700 billion taxpayer dollars to prop up the same banks that threatened our entire economy. You know the ones that were considered too big to fail. The country that didn't have enough money to pay for health care reform, or public education, or rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure all of a sudden found $700 billion.
Mark Souder wants you to send him back to Washington to fight for you. The same pro-capitalist conservative Mark Souder who, in December '08, voted for the government "takeover" of the automobile industry with his support for bailing out GM and Chrysler. His decision was supported by that "evil socialist" organization, the United Auto Workers Union. Mark Souder again decided that the free market could not be trusted so he sided with another government "socialist takeover."
Republican conservative Mark Souder followed up his winter of supporting big government deficit spending with a summer of supporting even more big government deficit spending. In June 2009, Mark Souder voted yea to spend $4 billion for the cash for clunkers program. In July 31, 2009, Souder voted yea for an additional $2 billion for the cash for clunkers program. And In July 2009, Mark Souder voted for $192 billion in additional anti-recession stimulus spending. Where is all this money coming from? Apparently, Mark Souder didn't care. He acted like liberals are always accused of acting.
Now don't get me wrong. I agreed with all of these programs. I even believe some of the programs didn't go far enough. But for more than a year we have been hearing the Tea Party leaders speak of being non-partisan. That they want what is best for the country. And that they will support any candidate, regardless of party affiliation, as long the candidate stands up for the Tea Party platform of small government and a halt to government spending. Now, locally the Tea Party has a chance to practice what they preach and support a candidate to run against that deficit spending congressman from Indiana, Mark Souder.
Failure to do so will only reinforce the belief that the Tea Party is nothing more than a partisan organization fueled by fear and funded by republicans upset with the electoral beat down they received in November 2008 and will oppose anything Obama proposes regardless of whether or not it's good for the country.
Robert Betances
Warsaw, via e-mail[[In-content Ad]]
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