This week Senator Lauzen had a triptych in the Beacon-News and now that it is finishing up in the paper, I want to highlight them here. So here is part three of three:

GOP aims to build wealth; Democrats promote 'fairness'

This is the third of a three-part opinion essay series by Republican State Senator Chris Lauzen of the 25th District.

Less "bad news" is not sufficient good news. The people I serve are not going to settle for a "permanent recession" and a "jobless recovery" in a disguise of fairness. Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets in Washington, D.C., and thousands turn out at tea parties in cities across this nation to peacefully protest, protecting their liberty and promoting unapologetic economic opportunity for all.

This political fight is not about "How can we win the next election," but rather "How do we save our country from massive, misguided policy changes?" The struggle is between philosophies that produce "abundance" versus those that emphasize "equality."

The majority party in both Washington and Springfield puts a higher priority on the distribution of now-shrinking wealth with its goals of equality and fairness rather than the creation of additional wealth. The minority party, in its better moments, believes that the top economic priority is to incentivize the creation of more wealth, and that a rising tide raises all boats and produces more jobs paying higher wages in the private sector.

Our current leadership borrows and taxes to spend our money, promising that government creates jobs. That opinion is simply false. Individual employers and investors take initiative and risk, fueled by the motivation to prosper more themselves, with the result that more jobs for hard-working and creative employees are created and sustained. John F. Kennedy applied the lesson and encouraged prosperity. Ronald Reagan did it and produced decades of growth.

One economic cycle ago, Democrats decreed, and Republicans acquiesced, that it was everyone's right to own a home. They passed laws that accelerated applications and expectations. Now we all suffer the consequences of their reckless delusion. Bubbles are inflated when government defies common sense by trying to repeal basic laws of economic and human nature.

It was Sir Winston Churchill in 1934 who wrote, "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, the gospel of envy -- its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."

"No" to banker bailouts, cash-for-clunkers, dollars-for-dishwashers, subsidies for delinquent mortgages, seizure of private enterprises, unnecessary restrictions on clean energy generation, takeover of one-sixth of our economy in health care, and naí¯ve trust in government motives as it intrudes inexorably further into our lives.

"Yes" to individual freedom and incentive to grow, the will to limit the size of government, personal responsibility and traditional values.

In January 2009, White House economists predicted that the $787 billion "stimulus" bill would create (not merely save) 3.3 million jobs. Since then, 2.8 million jobs have been lost. Remember what history has already taught us.

In 1939, after a doubling of federal spending failed to relieve the Great Depression, then Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau said, "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. ... After eight years of this administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started ... and now an enormous debt to boot!" Japan made the same mistake in the 1990s (building the largest government debt in the industrial world), and the United States is making it today.

Do not wait for others to say and do the things you feel. The American Republic depends on you to step forward now. If you need specific ideas about how you can help our nation, call me at (630) 264-2334 or e-mail admin@lauzen.com.