Fiscal Discipline is a Core Value for the Entire Party

The Republican Party is defined by three affiliating coalitions:

1. National (Military) Conservatives

2. Social Conservatives

3. Fiscal Conservatives

Because of TEA Party insurgence, the fiscal conservatives are getting more attention than ever before. The United States needs to get its fiscal house in order.

Pundits within the party and commentators from within have pointed out the rift that is widening among the three communities. Fiscal conservatives are pressing for fiscal sanity, some claim, that they would readily cut military spending and ignore fundamental social issues about the survival of the family and the integrity of the culture.

Yet fiscal discipline incorporates interests vital to the agendas of social and military conservatives.

Fiscal sanity is a social issue. The United States is burdened by crippling debt in part because of the United States' immoral imposition into the daily lives of its citizens. The welfare state has aided and abetted delinquency and dysfunction in families, especially in minority communities. The Government monopoly of education has robbed children in poor neighborhoods from seeking an education in more stable and affluent communities. Without spending a dime, Congress may relax its hold on issues which belong within the sphere of local and state governments, enhancing the freedom and quality of individuals. The current Congress' attempt to defund Planned Parenthood, for example, reduces spending and sanctified the lives of the unborn, issues dear to the fiscal and social conservatives.

As for the national conservatives, this nation's continued binging on foreign debt leaves us at the mercy of hostile, specifically China. By slashing, not trimming, excessive spending and military forays around the global, the United States can design a more concentrated foreign policy to protect our borders and provide coherent, qualified assistance to out struggling allies around the world. By engaging less in military operations around the world, the United States can save time, money and resources while also shoring up its defenses.

Fiscal conservatives need not compromise their goals in order to draw in support from other wings of the Republican Party. Rather, their mission coincides with the long-range goals of their conservative colleagues. As in their mission to persuage the general voting public, the Republican Party needs to adopt a more persuasive presentation of their views to resolve Republican intra-party schisms in their favor.