Conflicted Libertarian

Ray Griggs’s documentary “I Want Your Money” is worth seeing.  Here is the website.  It does not pretend to be entertainment but the history of big government in the United States since Roosevelt and how lower taxes and less government spending is best for America is a necessary lesson for all to hear.

Griggs pays appropriate respect and admiration to President Reagan and his vision for our nation versus the Obama share the wealth thesis.  He interviews many that conservatives will recognize, including Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee, but also names not so familiar as Cong. Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan and congressional candidate Star Parker.  Parker in fact made the Christian argument against socialism and class warfare as violating the Tenth Commandment (Thou shall not covet) and by implication the Fifth (Thou shall not steal); she’s right.  Class warfare policies that pit the poor against the rich indeed are a temptation to and a cause of sin.  Griggs mixes the historical with the modern in his presentation, moving seamlessly from Reagan to modern day interviews to cartoon stories involving figures of the former Presidents, Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin.  Griggs’ renditions of Bill Clinton nearly cross the line of bad taste but are admittedly humorous at times.  His tape of Speaker Nancy Pelosi promising not to run up debt while breaking the BS meter is classic.

Griggs backs up his assertions with clear facts.  The 1.4 trillion dollar 2009 budget that President Obama blames on his predecessor actually was doubled by the stimulus, a related pork-laden supplemental budget bill, and minor items such as cars for clunkers.  The Bush part was just over $600 billion.  He also shows how California spent a surplus under former Governor Pete Wilson and ran a deficit while running wealthy business owners out of state.  Griggs encourages all to vote to remove the Democrats from control of both houses of Congress as a start to stop the spending and debt.

There is one unpardonable omission:  Griggs did not interview Ron Paul.  Many of his ideas such as the manipulation of the interest rates by the Federal Reserve, resisting the growth of government and going back to constitutional government are pure Ron Paul.  He also admits without any further comment that the Iraq war was a huge reason for the Bush deficits.  Griggs might have had a better turnout at the box office if he had worked in several Ron Paul interviews.  However, we need to encourage such an effort.  I urge my Tea Party friends and Ron Paul supporters to go see the movie anyway.