Letter to Random Lengths News -- Why America Should Be Angry

First of all, I am honored and gratified that my comments on Congresswoman’s Hahn inattention to her current district have attracted her attention. However, I am also dismayed that Hahn is hen-picking constituents, who are rightly holding her accountable for not doing enough by doing too much. To her credit, I support her opposition to the war in Afghanistan, plus her votes against raising the debt ceiling last summer. Still, her incessant talk about “creating jobs” is a wearisome and false tag-line. Government does not create jobs, merely the infrastructure to welcome investment and facilitate trade.

On a second note, I agree that there is a specter haunting America, the specter of Ronald Reagan, whose tax cuts and military might without spending reductions and entitlement reform hastened the debilitating deficits and damning national debt in our country.

Despite my enthusiastic support for constitutional government and spending reductions, I certainly do not walk around wearing a “What Would Reagan Do?” bracelet on my wrist.  I have long questioned the canonization of Ronald Reagan as a conservative scion. Revisionist historian Thaddeus Russell argues persuasively that the infiltration of American popular culture and Soviet Premier Gorbachev’s forced liberalization brought down the Soviet Union, not Reagan's horrendous military build-up. Columnist George Will condemned Reagan’s philosophy as an uneasy mix in which Americans could love and hate Big Government at the same time.

On a final note, I am appalled that Mr. Allen still insists that the Occupy Movement is “placing their anger in the right place.” The arrogant outrage of “Occupy Everywhere” has yielded the self-proclaimed “99%”nothing while desecrating the public square, harming small businesses, and finally eliciting a collective yawn from today’s political and media classes, which follow ideas, not incoherence masquerading as informed social protest.

Those mindless and mind-numbing protests never articulated a coherent policy or list of reasonable grievances beyond “Me Poor! You Rich! Not Fair!” Instead of demonizing capitalism, we need to attack the cronyism of corporations who infiltrate Washington to extract bailouts at taxpayers’ expense. More regulations, more oversight, more transfers of wealth – in other words, more Government intervention as demanded by Occupy Everywhere – beget more government, less reform, and ultimately more corruption. The Tea Party Movement sent 70 + freshmen to Congress in 2010 precisely to limit the spread of Big Government and to stop the private abuse of the public purse. So far, the Tea Party has accomplished far more than the entitlement mentality of the Occupy masses.

Whatever Mr. Allen may think of the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, or Ronald Reagan, the rise of Big Business bullying and buoying Big Government is the biggest culprit for this country’s woes today, and the solution is to demand that our representatives, including Congresswomen Janice Hahn and Laura Richardson, demand an end to this country’s expansive military presence around the world, provide a detailed plan for meaningful entitlement reform, and encourage free market initiatives to increase access, productivity, and quality in health care, job creation, and infrastructure.