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Viva la Difference?
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Business New Haven
7/10/2000
By: Bill Welch
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Your Q&A with Philip A. Giordano, possible Republican challenger for Sen.
Lieberman's seat (ON THE RECORD, June 12), illustrates one of the basic problems with our federal government today: There is far too little philosophical difference between the two major parties.
Simply put, we citizens used to have a choice in an ideological faceoff.
Democrats advocated big, far-reaching, centralized government. Republicans argued for smaller government based on a federation of states, with the federal government having only limited powers not better handled by the states, private organizations and citizens. This legitimate debate occupied our country's founders and is a key issue in the question: What is the best structure for government?
Mr. Giordano's answers show that this important debate is all but over. He wants federal funds to improve education. He wants focused tax breaks for business. He wants pork-barrel contracts for Connecticut's defense industries. All very comfortable positions for liberal Democrats.
To give voters a real choice, the candidate opposing Sen. Lieberman should advocate reducing the crushing tax burden on businesses and individuals. This would give us all greater economic freedom and enable people to take better care of themselves and reduce the clamber for government assistance.
Since the constitution does not give the federal government any role in education, Lieberman's challenger should call for an end to this unconstitutional meddling, with its mandates for politically correct curriculum content, forced bussing and other attempts at social engineering.
Voting turnout in our national elections is indeed pitiful. It is often said that people don't care. Perhaps, as in the case of a Giordano vs. Lieberman race, people just think, “What's the difference?”
Bill Welch
Ridgefield
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