Nebraskans Against the Good Life © 1998 Joe Murray With great fanfare, every radical left wing special interest group that has their hands in our back pockets showed up at the steps of the capitol in Lincoln on Monday. They were there to announce that they oppose efforts to get their hands out of our pockets. Over twenty groups -- representing all the vultures who follow the sower on the capital, picking the seeds of fiscal responsibility, freedom and prosperity from the ground before they can grow and flourish -- have banned together to oppose the proposed amendment to the constitution to place limits on spending and taxation. In typically flowery, liberal diatribe, they have called themselves, "Nebraskans for the Good Life." This gang of thieves who are saying they are for the good life ought to be enough to make anyone with half a brain gag on the hypocrisy. They are the same bunch that have twisted, lobbied and bribed their way to every unwarranted expenditure and tax increase in this state for years. Since 1975, the state budget has increased by an average of 9% per year, from just over 300 million dollars to almost 2 billion dollars a year. To honestly describe this bunch, they need to be called Nebraskans Against the Good Life. Indicative of the hypocrisy, lack of credibility and, yes, immorality of this bunch of scoundrels is their leader, Randy Moody. In my book, Moody is the most contemptible person in this state who isn’t locked up in the State prison. If ever there was a whining radical, left wing troublemaker, Moody is it. Moody joins respectable organizations, then tries to stab them in the back. This is the guy who claims to be a member of the Republican Party, but is always attacking every principle the party has ever supported. This is the guy who claims to be a member of the Catholic Church, but attacks it on a regular basis, as is demonstrated by being the former director of Lincoln Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood is the primary executioner of innocent unborn children in this state. Appropriately, he is currently employed as the paid propagandist prostitute (better known as lobbyist) for the Nebraska Education Association. With Moody involved, the NSEA could have a new slogan: "If you can’t kill the children, turn them into brain-dead slaves to the god of government." In the Lincoln Journal Star’s front page story of this event, Moody makes four absurd assertions against the amendment that are untrue and show the scare tactics that we will be subjected to over the next few months until election day. This will be exacerbated by the propaganda efforts of left wing media, like the Lincoln Journal Star. The Star, in its "unbiased" news reporting, prefaced Moody’s allegations as "four major flaws with the proposal." Notice that they didn’t say, "alleged flaws." Why? The paper has already expressed its opposition to the amendment in its editorial pages. The first absurd charge by Moody is: "It is bad public policy because it will deny taxpayers basic services such as health care, fire, policy protection and education." Three years of law school wasn’t enough for me to decipher the wonky legal-ease of "policy protection," but the rest of it is just plain untrue scare tactics straight from the Bill Clinton Democrat School of Propaganda. "Those evil Republicans (or whoever they want to attack) want to starve your children or take your Social Security." None of it is true, but that doesn’t make any difference. Truth is not in this bunch’s vocabulary. If one takes the time to read the amendment, it addresses every reasonable need to exceed the limits imposed, such as emergencies and federal mandates. It also allows the legislature a method to override the cap. School boards and other groups can override with a vote of the people in the district. "Flaw" number two, according to Moody: "The motives for the petition are wrong because a few corporate executives don’t want to pay their fair share in taxes." We ought to sue lawyer Moody for plagiarism because this is straight from the lips of Marx, Lenin and Mao. The petition has the financial backing of business, but had a record amount of people sign the petition. It gives no special breaks to business and will help taxpayers across the board. Besides, what difference does the "motive" make? If it lowers my taxes, what difference does it make if ConAgra gets a break too? If we want to talk motives, what about the motives of the piglets at the trough of our hard-earned tax dollars that sound like Henny Penney when any talk of limiting the growth of government is mentioned? This amendment does not slash and burn government, but just slows its rate of growth. I, for one, wish it did force the piglets to wean themselves completely from the sow of big government. "Flaw" number three: "The process has been distorted because of the amount of money paid for signatures on the petition and the fact that it would add more than 3,450 words to the state constitution". Translation: we are the groups that have done everything we could do to subvert direct democracy in this state through the petition process so it is impossible to get anything on the ballot without spending a great deal of money. When someone goes to the sacrifice and expense to obtain the required number of petitions, then we turn around and use class-envy scapegoating to claim that it is a trick to subvert the will of the people for the interests of big business. This is true even when a record number of people sign the petition. How dare the people try and take away our power by invoking those evil policies of democracy and constitutional amendment! Finally, in typical Moody hypocrisy, he tries to say the amendment is flawed in a bait-and-switch tactic where he claims these groups really are for fiscal responsibility and less government. "It throws cold water on any meaningful property tax relief and income tax relief for moderate income Nebraskans." If you believe this garbage, then I have a bridge in Tiananmen Square to sell you at a cheap rate. These are the groups that constantly call for more taxes, spending and regulation. Do they really expect us to believe they want lower taxes for anyone? I rate myself a "moderate income Nebraskan" at best and have no doubt I will be better off, if this amendment is passed. At worst, things won’t be any different than they are now. This is just more radical left wing, extremist class warfare garbage. I guess Nebraskans for Peace thinks class warfare is okay because they are one of the merry band of thieves seeking to destroy the good life. The second half of this last "flaw" is the most offensive to every citizen of this state. The amendment is long because it anticipates all the lame liberal lies and offers a solution to refute each one that has the slightest hint of credibility. Using the length of the amendment is offensive because it shows how these elitist, fascist snobs think the people of this state are either too apathetic or, worse yet, too stupid to be able to read an amendment longer than a sentence or two. It is interesting to see what faith the leadership of the NSEA has in its rank and file. If the people are incapable of reading and understanding this amendment, one must ask who taught them to read? It is time for the good people of this state, who work hard and pay the taxes, to send a resounding message in our daily conversations, letters to the editors and (most importantly) at the ballot box in November. We should pass the ballot initiative to limit run away spending and taxes in this state. Also, any politician running for office who doesn’t support this amendment should not get our votes. The choice is clear. Do you want "Nebraska the Good Life" to stand for runaway taxes and spending of a nanny government run by a bunch of radical left wing elitists who hate the people? Or, do we want the "Good Life" to represent the outstanding majority of people in this state who take care of themselves and their families without looking to Lincoln as the solution to all their problems? I believe that the majority of Nebraskans will make the second choice because it is the true reflection of their conservative values, as defined by a great Nebraskan former US Senator Carl Curtis who once said:
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