Key differences

                Welcome to the first blog entry of mine. This Blog I hope will satisfy my goal of writing about politics in way that is simply informative and not controversial. I hope to give an unbiased measure of what is going on and take very complex multilayered issues and give you both sides of the isle’s perspective. To be unbiased in my opinion is to check your admitted bias at the door. I am an admitted conservative on most issues, but on others I can be very moderate and if not even liberal myself.

                Let’s talk about that because the words Liberal and Conservative get tossed around a lot when people discuss matters of politics. These two terms often refer to the respective extremes on both sides of our two party system. This first blog post will primarily focus differences between Democrats and Republicans that respectively hold Liberal or Conservative ideals.

I’ll give a brief  break down of couple principles they disagree on.

Economy

Democrats: Democrats are the Robin Hood of Nottingham and Republicans are the big bad Sherriff and King in their minds. They feel that the wealthy Americans got rich off the poor and their hard work. They feel that Government not only has the right but the responsibility to give all Americans unlimited opportunity to fail and succeed in making money. They also feel that Government should tax the wealthy heavily and that the richest people should pay for Government services that everybody can use. They believe that Rich people are not to be trusted with all this money. That they will only serve their own interests and by that will just perpetuate their own wealth and will not create jobs for people to get out of poverty. Democrats believe in a lot of Government regulation in private business for a few reasons. One reason for example would be regulating a bank to make sure it doesn’t loan money to a person who never could repay it.

Republicans: Republicans believe that the individual should be held responsible for their actions when it comes to money. People became rich or wealthy because they innovate and work hard or contribute to society. Government gets in the way with regulation because it slows the process and tells private business what to do. People that have a proven track record with money are the ones who should be trusted with said money. By de-regulating private business, they will inherently be successful enough to create more jobs for the people to obtain a position where they can acquire their own wealth. Government does not have the right to take all your money; you have the right to keep most of your earned wealth. Government tends to spend frivolously and irresponsibly when the individual could use it to better their individual life or employ somebody else with it.

Role of Government

Democrats: Government has the responsibility to all individuals even if it means having Government telling the individual they must be subordinate to Government will as opposed to entrepreneurial desires and initiatives (drilling in Alaska for oil for example). Democrat administration desires for centralized power in Washington D.C. with only secondary consideration to the will of communities and individuals. Democrats favor Federal-level interventions that replace community-based solutions to community problems. These regulations tend to put control in the hands of unelected bureaucrat agencies causing erosion to local authority in exchange for centralized federal authority (DHHS case worker as opposed to a community outreach program like a homeless shelter.)

Republicans: Each person is responsible for his or her role in society. Government should enable people the ability to secure the benefits of society for themselves, and their families and for those who are unable to care for themselves. Government should have a limited ability to intervene. It’s lack of authority should be a catalyst for individual prosperity. Government only should step in during specific cases where society cannot deal with things on an individual level. Destiny should be in the individual’s hands, Government power and resources should be kept close to people through their state and community leaders… not centralized in distant federal government agencies.

Immigration

Democrats: As the world superpower, it’s a responsibility for the United States to provide unconditional aid to foreign nationals. Open borders, unconditional amnesty, and laws that are on file get ignored in certain cases to provide legal forms of ID to foreign Nationals and also non emergency assistance.

Republicans: Lack of security along our borders contribute to the flow of Narcotics trafficking, gang violence, and the yearly forced servitude and slavery of over 50,000 women and children from foreign countries by human smugglers. Republicans want to fallow laws to the letter and immigration policies should be enforced securing our borders to ensure safety of our citizens and prevent those seeking opportunity aren’t taken advantage of by American companies looking for cheap illegal labor or Human traffickers selling slaves.

For a more complete list of differences on key issues… please read the following links.

http://www.ontheissues.org/askme/dem_rep.htm

http://www.diffen.com/difference/Democrat_vs_Republican