Hewitt gives Libertarians' 2019 SOTU presponse (video)

The Libertarian Party State of the Union: 'Americans deserve better' than 'Republicans and Democrats careen[ing] toward socialism and fascism' - Hit & Run : Reason.com - Matt Welch:

February 5, 2019 - "While Democrats bicker over who should give responses to tonight's State of the Union Address, Libertarians have gone the prebuttal route, delivered by the party's biggest star, the recently elected Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Hewitt.

"Hewitt, the pension-reforming former mayor of tiny Calimesa, California, who now represents 438,000 constituents, starts off the message from America's third-largest party by reciting piles of contextual good news that "you won't hear in the torrent of doom and gloom from our nation's capital'.... But ... the mood does turn darker. 'Our national debt has skyrocketed to almost $22 trillion.... [H]undreds of thousands are behind bars for no just reason at all... Our sons and daughters have been deployed to far-flung, never-ending wars without constitutional authorization.'

"And on the political conflict du jour, Hewitt comes out foursquare in favor of immigration.... 'The prohibition of immigration requires an extensive apparatus for mass surveillance and government intrusion into our daily lives. Libertarians say: The United States should welcome immigrants.'"

Watch the whole message here."

Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2019/02/05/the-libertarian-party-state-of-the-union

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Libertarian response to State of the Union (video)

Watch the Libertarian Party’s Response to Obama: ‘We Need to Massively Downsize and Defund the Federal Government’ | TheBlaze.com - Pete Kasperowich:

January 21, 2015 - "Arvin Vohra, vice chair of the National Libertarian Committee, said Obama’s solutions on education, minimum wage, taxes, Internet privacy and healthcare were all aimed at increasing the size of the federal government. Vohra said those ideas, and even those being advanced by many Republicans, are all about letting the government take more control over people’s lives.

"'We need to massively downsize and defund the federal government,' he said. 'But Republican and Democratic politicians only want to make it bigger.'

"Vohra said Obama’s speech, and the GOP reaction to it, show that only Libertarians have any interest in reducing the size of the federal government.

"'When you vote for a Democrat or Republican, it tells them, "Keep doing what you’re doing",' Vohra said. “But when you vote for a Libertarian, it tells them, in no uncertain terms, "You have neither my approval nor my permission to grow or sustain Big Government. Shrink it now."'

"For example, Obama on Tuesday night formally proposed a federal program to make community college 'free,' a plan that would cost an estimated $60 billion over ten years. But Vohra said college would be more affordable if government got out of the business of subsidizing it.

"'Without subsidies and costly mandates, competition will force colleges to decrease their tuition or go out of business,' he said. 'Massive student debt would be a thing of the past.'

"He also said the Department of Education needs to be abolished, along with the Common Core program....

"Vohra said he agrees with Obama’s claim to want an Internet that protects people’s privacy, but said Obama’s words don’t match his actions.

"'You have funded and enabled the surveillance state,' Vohra said. 'To protect privacy, Libertarian candidates have pledged to defund the NSA’s mass surveillance program, repeal the Patriot Act, and massively downsize and consolidate redundant spy agencies.'

"And on healthcare, Vohra said neither Republicans nor Democrats have found the will to repeal Obamacare, and said the Libertarian Party has pledged to repeal that law and make other changes to promote lower costs and higher quality."

Read more: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/01/21/watch-the-libertarian-partys-response-to-obama-we-need-to-massively-downsize-and-defund-the-federal-government/
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