What Do You Want?

by Tom Balek: When I was a kid I was a baseball pitcher. One coach gave me a great bit of advice. He said, "before every pitch, picture in your mind exactly what you want to happen." He was right. I learned that if you first "see" an inside fastball ripping past the batter at his fists, it's more likely to happen than if you just wind up and throw it. You have to know what you want to make it happen.

Later, in business management, I was taught to actively plan all the time, to determine what result we would consider a "success". In other words, to picture the desired outcome.

I don't think enough people have considered what results they want from our leaders and our government. How many times have you heard "I really like how Trump has improved the economy and got our troops back home, but . . ." The "but" is always something about his personality, not his performance. But . . . he's a bully. But . . . he's too rich. But . . . he has orange hair. Or the "but" is some lie from an anonymous source that is too ridiculous for any thinking person to even believe.

So here's what I want from my federal officials, prioritized:

• I want our officials to follow the Constitution explicitly and protect our individual freedoms and rights as outlined there.
• I want the federal government to get out of the way and let our free market economy roar. A few regulations that prevent citizens from being taken advantage of are in order - laws that can't be administered by the states. But it had better be a pretty obvious threat, and a pretty transparent and straightforward solution. And no picking "winners and losers".
• I want the federal government to protect our states (yes we are a group of sovereign states, not a nation-state) from outside threats, including invasion of our borders.
• I want the federal government to represent our citizen's best interests with other nations regarding international trade.
• I want the federal government to provide a safety net - economic, medical, humanitarian - for Americans with disabilities, disaster relief, and other needs we are unable to deal with ourselves as states or individuals.

That's it. Our Constitution is about perfect as it is.

No, I don't want the federal government to educate my kids, or make decisions about my property, or redistribute income, or build hospitals, or fund police departments, or solve global warming. Not their job.

We not only have to vote for candidates who we think will do what we want, we also need to demand what we want from officials once elected.
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Tom Balek (@TomBalek) is a fellow conservative activist, blogger, musician and contributes to the ARRA News Service. Tom resides in South Carolina and seeks to educate those too busy with their work and families to notice how close to the precipice our economy has come. He blogs at Rockin' On the Right Side

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