At a campaign stop in Northern Virginia on Tuesday, U.S.
Senate candidate George Allen visited First Line Technology in Chantilly to
spotlight an example of a business that is being impacted by the potential for
federal budgetary defense cuts.[1]
According to the co-founders of First Line Technology[2],
which sells heat-activated cooling vests and other emergency equipment, the
budget uncertainty has stopped the expansion of their business.
It is ironic and a sign of our political times that a member
of the Republican Party (i.e. George Allen) would be campaigning on the
necessity to prevent defense cuts in the federal budget when it was the
Republican Party who, by and large, put our country in this budgetary position
to begin with.
Under an ideological budget axe, extreme members of the
Republican Party held the entire budget hostage and if defense cuts do occur,
defense spending will be one of the victims of the GOP’s hostage taking
process.
George Allen is hardly the political candidate to convince
his fellow extreme Republican Party members to rethink their brinksmanship
political tactics. As Delegate Kenneth R. Plum (D-Fairfax) noted, “We’ve
already tried it George Allen’s way, and we can’t afford to go back.”[3]
Electing George Allen to the U.S. Senate would be exactly
that, a step back for Virginia and the U.S. as a whole.
The Allen approach to economic recovery consists of slashing
almost every part of the economy except defense[4]
and corporate welfare, and that means a big hit for Virginia’s and America’s
middle class.[5]
Virginia and America has seen the Allen approach to
political solutions and there are few positive highlights to speak about.
Tim Kaine has shown himself as an able statesman and as an
economically minded politician who has a proven record of success. Allen will
do little more than acquiesce to the more radical elements of his party and wallow through the remainder of his visionless political career.
[1] http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/31/allen-points-up-local-impact-of-defense-cuts/
[2] http://www.firstlinetech.com/
[3] http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/31/allen-points-up-local-impact-of-defense-cuts/
[4] http://www.kaineforva.com/news/veterans_address_allens_record_distortions_on_defense_spending
[5]http://www.dscc.org/news?type=press_release&press_release_KEY=2164
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