Over the summer, I served the Mike Huckabee for President campaign as the Orange County chairman. During this period I was honored to represent the Huckabee camp to the Republican Central Committee, the Irvine Republican Council, and the South Coast Republican Forum and other GOP gatherings.
Now, thanks to the fact that I heard the siren song of the George Washington University hippo, I am ensconced in the Beltway, spouting off my Huckaspiels to my roommate and our occasional listener on The Political Pulse at WRGW. And now, to release more of Huckabee upon the world, I have launched this blog.
But enough about me, here's why I like Mike:
Governor Mike Huckabee understands that we are always standing in the textbooks of the children of tomorrow. If we want future generations to flip through those history books and read of an America triumphant over adversity, victorious over our enemies, and successful in the face of global challenge, we must strike a new and confident course.
America must build a public education system that fosters creativity in our children. In an age where rising powers in Asia threaten America's position as the economic and intellectual capital of the planet, we cannot afford to discourage or discard educational tools that equip our children to, in the words of Governor Huckabee, "not just think outside the box, but outside the cardboard factory." We want the next generation to walk into their first day of work equipped not just to do their job, but to improve their job.
Although it may sound simple, arts and music education can help unlock doors that current school curricula cannot even knock on. In Arkansas, Governor Huckabee signed legislation to ensure that all Arkansas children from grades one through six received music and arts lessons, not just the fundamentals of math and science. It has been shown that students in arts and music programs are much more likely to read for pleasure, engage in community service, and less likely to become juvenile delinquents. Not only that, children who study music have higher math scores, score 20 points higher on the SAT, and can grasp abstract thought and spatial reasoning easier than those who do not.
America must construct a tax code that fosters economic growth. In our rapidly flattening and shrinking world, we cannot afford to remain mired with a crazy-quilt income tax that not just aids and abets in the shipping of jobs overseas, but costs American citizens billions of dollars and millions of man-hours just to pay their share of the tax burden. The FairTax, a tax based on consumption with a prebate system that insures that no American pays taxes on all goods purchased up to the poverty line, is a 21st century tax system that will reignite the U.S economy.
All taxes, payroll taxes, gift taxes, personal income taxes, corporate income taxes, the alternative minimum tax, the death tax, are swept away into the FairTax, a revenue-neutral, yet revolutionary tax system. There's a reason why we have a Daimler Chrysler and not a Chrysler Daimler, and that's because when the analysts looked at the numbers, corporate tax rates in Germany were far less punishing than the corporate tax rates here in America. By eliminating our punitive corporate tax rates, the FairTax will provide the incentive to make America the best place in the world to do business. For more information on the FairTax, visit www.fairtax.org.
America must defeat the Islamic fascists who have waged war against us. As President, Mike Huckabee will not hesitate to strike at terrorists where they live and plot. He understands that this war is not simply a local conflict or a regional brushfire, but a world war, deserving of American attention on all fronts. Mike Huckabee will keep us on the offensive, not allow America to slip into a defensive posture against those who seek to destroy our way of life.
Our fight is against Islamic extremism in all its forms--Sunni and Shiite--and Governor Huckabee will use America's power and prestige to support moderate, modern Muslim leaders, because bringing moderation and modernity to the Arab and Muslim world are the long-term keys to victory against the terrorists. And should he be required to undertake a large-scale military intervention to secure our nation, a President Huckabee will use overwhelming force, not attempt the contradictory "occupation with a light footprint."
As President, Mike Huckabee will fight to secure America's future. Our success in the 21st century is contingent upon insuring that Americans are prepared not simply to participate in globalization, but to win at globalization. Our success in the 21st century is contingent upon unshackling the entrepreneur from a tax code initially devised in 1913 and propped up by 35,000 lobbyists fighting for loopholes for special clients. Our success in the 21st century is contingent upon staying on the offensive against radical Islam and defeating this onerous threat to our liberty.
And that's why this man deserves to be our President.
In Huckabee,
Zac
