TPX Florida Tour Day Three: Extraordinary Patriots

By Lloyd Marcus

Proud Unhypehnated American

Our Tea Party Express team spent the night in Tallahassee, FL. We arose the next morning and traveled in our tour bus a few hours to our first rally of the day in Panama City.

Ray “the bus driver” parks our Tea Party Express tour bus in back of the stage to serve as a backdrop and our green room. While on the bus waiting for my turn on stage, I heard on TV that NBC's Brian Williams basically accused Governor Jan Brewer of racism for pointing at President Obama. I thought, this whole race thing has gotten totally out of control and insane.

The emcee announced me.

Before singing my parody of “New York, New York” titled, “We're Gonna Vote Obama Out in 2012”, I told the audience how furious I was about Williams' attack on Brewer. I added, “For the first time, we have a president that it is deemed unacceptable and racist to criticize or disagree with him in any way. Even gestures are reviewed as having racial connotations. This is absurd!”

I also told the audience that Barack Hussein Obama is the most divisive president in U.S. history.
 

I later learned that Brian Williams did worse to President Bush than Brewer allegedly did to Obama.

At our second event in Pensacola, I ran into a patriot I met a few years ago at a tea party, Dr. B Leland Baker. Dr. Baker is the author of “Tea Party Revival: The Conscience of a Conservative Reborn: The Tea Party Revolt Against Unconstrained Spending and Growth of the Federal Government”.

After we bear hugged, my patriot brother Dr Baker shared how he has traveled to 35 states so far lecturing, teaching and selling his book. Now get this folks, Dr Baker does this on his own dime and donates the money from the sale of his book to various tea party groups. Wow! What an extraordinary patriot.

I could not help contrasting Dr Baker's passion, love, commitment and willingness to “give” in order to save his country compared to the self serving entitlement minded lowlifes of the occupy movement. How dare the media claim the occupiers are equal to the tea party.

Ninety-nine percent of the tea partiers I have met over the years are people of the highest caliber who are working and sacrificing to save our great country; true patriots who desire the best for all Americans regardless of race, color or creed. And this is why I love them.

Apparently, Pensacola, FL is Cajun country. Various Crawfish dishes dominated the menu. They fry every and anything! I tasted and enjoyed fried pickles. My cup of seafood gumbo was to die for. I ordered the seafood platter thinking it would be broiled. Wrong. It was all fried, a mountain of seafood. I ate a few pieces of fish and shrimp. Delicious. I had the waitress box up the rest (clams, shrimp, oysters and fish). We have a seven or eight hour ride to Orlando tomorrow. I will nuke my seafood leftovers in the microwave on the bus and share them with the team – cause that's how we roll on the Tea Party Express.

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Chairman of The Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama.
Lloyd is singer/songwriter of the American Tea Party Anthem and author of Confessions of a Black Conservative, foreword by Michele Malkin.
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Primary Election 2012: Update Jan 31st

This primary election process of 2012 is starting to be another political three-ring circus, dripping with hypocrisy when it comes to Mitt Romney, who complains about negative campaigning – and that is all he does nowadays. If asked a direct question, he never answers it directly – typical Washington crowd politician. What he say when answering a simple question becomes totally off track from what the question was, and after he is done, he gets blank stares from anyone with any logic in their brains cells. The response is appropriately – “Huh?” The simple, direct question is rarely answered because Romney is too busy trying to make himself look good and others look like fools, but he is the one who comes out the “class clown”. After the first debate, things have gone down hill. The only candidates being gracious is Ron Paul and the candidate from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney couldn't come close to competing against Barack Obama in Election 2012, it must be someone who has the stamina, the experience of debate, and the fortitude to stick to the issues and gain the trust of the American voter. That would be either Newt Gingrich or Ron Paul, who have worked together in Congress, and if they were not campaigning presently, they would be working together now. The debates between Gingrich and Paul have been cordial and professional – they truly respect each other, and if it were not a disagreement concerning foreign policy and military strength and policies – they would provide an extremely difficult choice for primary election voters.

As far as Barack Obama, his State of the Union speech was full of more promises that won't be kept and misleading rhetoric; more like a pep rally rather than the report concerning the state of the union. His under-the-table procedures, his creation of even more czars and government agencies (too many) than we already have, his costly administration has not, as he promised in 2008 decreased the national debt, but instead has increased it drastically. The issue remains as to the legality of his birth certificate which indicates that he was allegedly born in Kenya, but his mother had his birth certificate doctored in Hawaii. Of course, being an infant he could not possibly have had control over such an illegal act and that alone – combined with several other issues that include stacking the Supreme Court, illegal mandates, et cetera. The media ignoring these things or downplaying them is politics as usual -- unless it was anyone that isn't a Democrat.
The following video via Cato Institute will explain how unfair and non-transparent and detrimental to the economy of the United States; as well as using class jealousy to encourage Americans to agree with propaganda to punish those that provide employment and keep the economy flowing -- it is enlightening and shows how other nations' tax systems that do not distribute wealth/income are better than OURS!....

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. 

--Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)

The following Cato Institute video covers points of President Obama's State of the Union Address, keep in mind that congressman Ron Paul has been trying to educate the People just exactly what politicians have been doing in their agenda of control for over 50+ years -- Barack Obama has adopted the socialist views of government, rather than a Jeffersonian republic that FDR initiated, and, who, by the way, was the one who initiated confiscation of taxes from your paycheck before you decide how to spend it ...

Only 5% of the GDP is spent on the military, yet President Obama is looking for further cuts and at the same time involving the US into deeper military commitments in the Near- and Middle-East and adding a military base of cooperative operations in Australia, after a recent talk with the Prime Minister there.

As far as the GOP Primary Candidates …

Besides accusations being bantered back and forth, class warfare tactics of the political left is also being engaged, for example, how little Mitt Romney paid in taxes compared to the other candidates. It is because Romney's income is based upon capital gains and dividends. So, Mr. Romney did not cheat on his taxes, he merely used the incentives provided and the loopholes of the income tax system that we should be working on, through our representatives and senators in Congress and the President of the United States to rid the American people of the intrusive, unfair, inefficient, and costly tax system that allows some to get over while others pay – on both ends of the economic ladder. The FairTax Actbased on consumption, with compensations for lower income Americans and with a flat rate would take care of those problems. Everyone will be paying the same percentage rate and the wealthier one is, the more taxes they will pay because it is based upon the factual concept that the more money one makes the more money one spends.

Mr. Romney, like other wealthy Americans worked for what they make, like the rest of us, except at a larger scale and because of his knowledge and experience – another plus for the advocacy of better education for more Americans. The whiners in society who don't make more are those who have either never had the incentive or lost it, as well as not ensuring they were educated enough to obtain career employment that paid more than minimum wage or annual wages above the government-established poverty level. It is true that some Americans have hit an economic low because of various reasons beyond their control – but too many think that high school education is enough and then complain about how little they make, et cetera.

Benjamin Franklin, one of the founders of our nation, understood the concept of class “warfare” or class jealousy (a childish way to look at things) – an instrument of the leftist politicians using the “divide and conquer” tactics established by the Marxist political system in order to gain favor with the public and gain political control. Here is what Benjamin Franklin wrote in his Emblematic Representations text:

History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened.

If Americans want to make as much as Mr. Romney, or other Americans like him, instead of being envious, they should use those people as models to meet their own personal control of their economic future, and it will not take government hand outs to achieve that goal – it takes education, looking for opportunities, and plain hard work and diligence. The reason why the government, those that operate our government, should adhere to the limitation of government mandated by the US Constitution is a means for Americans to better themselves, which in turn improves the issues and conditions of our nation. Nations are made up of PEOPLE and the government is there only to do what the average citizen doesn't have the time for, the desire to, or the education and experience to do it properly. It is the People who elect those they feel can perform the tasks required to operate our government and ensure that constitutional law is the foremost in their minds – not for personal gain (power or monetary), but For the People.

Mr. Romney's past performance as a governor does not indicate he is the right choice to be our president. It is true that politicians, like the rest of us, sometimes see better options and results by changing their ideology or system of approach; however, Romney has a record of inconsistency where he talks the talk and doesn't perform the actual action needed to change.

Mr. Newt has had personal problems, and yes, was brought before a congressional committee while Speaker of the House, but he was not charged with anything. The $30,000 he was required to pay was for legal services. Newt decided to resign because he was receiving negative attitudes from those within his own political party – someone who was the architect of Contract With America in 1994 when the GOP had majority in Congress; and as usual, the Republicans, as a party, failed to properly use that majority to make some important and rightful changes required. They were too busy trying to please the opposition. Compromise is not bending to the will of one's opponent when facts show they are wrong or heading in the wrong direction.

Ron Paul has been consistent in his policies and ideology his entire political career and is a fair-minded person to deal with; as was evident in his graciousness towards his campaign opponent, Newt Gingrich. His record of consistency and voting in Congress the same way he preaches about fiscal responsibility, cutting waste and fraud, and deleting social programs that are costly but not efficient or do what it was meant to do. The only major difference between Ron and Newt is foreign policy and the role of the US military. However, the American people are tired of sending our sons and daughters to clean up other nations' problems. This does not mean we no longer need to fight against global terrorism headed by Islamic fascists whose goal is world domination through murder and mayhem in the name of Allah. That issue and a few others does affect our nation and it is in the best interest of the United States to continue in coalition with other nations to stamp the organized cancer of religious-political fanatics once and for all. To maintain peace we must have a strong military – this was Ronald Reagan's policy, and it was successful, despite cackling from the hypocritical political left.

I have left Mr. Santorum out of this equation because he is still inexperienced, although has some good points, and doesn't have the caliber to beat Barack Obama in Election 2012 for presidency.

Romney lost last time because of inconsistency, yet there are Americans who have forgotten or ignore his track record. He chooses to use negative character attacks and other negative tactics because his platform is not strong enough to withstand debating or candidate competition.

Gingrich didn't begin with the intent to provide an atmosphere of negative campaigning, but after being insulted several times by Romney and the media constantly doing so, he apparently is in a vendetta stage of campaigning. No excuse given here, just an observation. Newt has the intestinal fortitude, the experience, and the diligence to stand up to the political power of Barack Obama and his political machine. So does Ron Paul, but do you want our national security jeopardized due to Ron Paul's overzealous campaign concerning issues of foreign policy?

All in all, I don't know how other Americans feel about it without getting their comments on the matter or in some sort of poll, but I seriously have a problem deciding between Gingrich and Paul – and even vision them running together on a President/Vice President political ticket against Barack Obama and Vice President what's-his-name.

Well, that is why we have primary elections, one of the major reasons, anyway.

We need candidates who will inform us what the intend to do about issues at hand and less attempts to make the other candidate or candidates look bad – often their record speaks for themselves; it is up to the voters to do their research or take notes during the candidates last term in office and any media headlines that truthfully reports just what the elected official did or didn't do – regardless what political club they belong to.
I respect Mr. Gingrich as a person who tries to be a good statesman; however, he tends to stick to the traditional "good old boys" of the Republican Party, and although a Reaganite, he doesn't always stick to the solving of issues. Ron Paul does. Congressman Ron Paul is America's ticket to get our economy back on track and help return our government back to its limited dictated by the Constitution of the United States; however, he cannot do it alone. Members of Congress must work with Ron Paul, if elected as president, to achieve those goals and get our government back to what it was designed to be and do.

Will continue to watch and research -- and get back to you later.

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Media Shrugs As Obama Ignores Subpoena From Georgia Court

Media Blackout in Obama Georgia Ballot Eligibility Case

By Cindy Simpson

AmericanThinker.com

January 30, 2012

Last week, I noted that Obama turned his back not just on Arizona's Governor Jan Brewer, but also on the laws of the State of Georgia.  I closed my column, "Georgia Ballot Challenge: Obama Walks on By," with the observation: "And most of the media has followed along right behind him."

At the time, I had just witnessed an historic hearing that actually discussed the eligibility of the sitting president of the United States to run for a second term.  The president had been subpoenaed to appear, and instead of his attorney respectfully following protocol to have that subpoena recalled, both Obama and his attorney, Michael Jablonski, simply failed to show up at all or offer any defense whatsoever.

Isn't there a headline in there somewhere?

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Omega File: Obama, Double Standards and Congressional Undersight

From the Obama Files ... 

President Obama's State of the Union and other rhetoric as proved as accurate as much of what he usually states, and what little he explained about just what his idea of “change” was.

First of all, the GOP debates have ended up a class-warfareissue, where Romney was judged by how little he paid in taxes (15%) compared to others, with an annual income of $20 million for the last two years – the only submissions he made to show what he paid in taxes.

The top one percent of the wealthy of this nation pays 36% on income taxes, while the bottom 50% of those with income pay next to nothing. How can the Sociocrats continually put down those people of the top incomes, who produce jobs for others and help the economy flow, actually believe or make the American people believe that GW Bush taxed the rich?

When campaigning and after becoming president, BH Obama demanded that those earning more than $1 million per year pay at least 30% intaxes:

You can call this class warfare all you want, but asking a billionaire to pay at least as much as his secretary in taxes – most Americans would call that common sense.

Yet, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the top one percent already pay 29.5% when ALL federal taxes are accounted into the equation; while the middle class Americans are paying 15.1%.

Mitt Romneyis, indeed, wealthy, making $20 million per year in the last two years; yet because his income is almost entirely capital gains, his tax rate is about 15%. No one pointed out that the gross amount he gained in capital gains was already taxed at the corporate rate of 35% before he was ever paid those dividends. No Democrat squeaked a complaint when John Kerry, also a wealthy American, paid only 13% of his income in 2004. it's the same old story with Democrats, the American Sociocrats – “Do as I say, not as I do” – in everything from ethics to paying their income tax. Indeed, the wealthiest members, in terms of how many wealthy members of Congress there are, makeup the wealthiest of all other members in Congress. Check me out on this one.

By the way, it is no different for the rest of us who are not wealthy. We earn paychecks that are taxed before we see them. Then when we bank it and make purchases, it's taxed again and again and again. What little we can wrestle from banks and financial institutions (less than 1% average) in terms of interest paid, we then must declare income on that measly amount, after using taxed money to save with in the first place.

If any politician (or American in general) would pay attention to history, they would find that true reform is when the corporate rate is lowered to the 15% Mitt Romney paid, annual (or quarterly) and simplifying deductions also helps to stimulate the economy. Government handouts and bailouts doesn't stimulate the economy – any right-minded and truthful economist would tell you that. Lower rates increases economic activity, and that is the FACT.

If President Obama made all the wealthy pay for others taxes, he and Congress still wouldn't have enough to balance the national budget, much less pay for his reckless spending on his sociocrat agenda and policies.

The hypocrites in Washington continue their Marxist rhetoric (right out of the Communist Platform established by Karl Marx), but they do not practice what they preach. That is why wealthy people in Congress can whine and complain and point fingers, as well as pushing for more Americans to be government dependent. The bigger the government the better, the more bureaucracy and smoke screens, the less transparent and the less likely Americans are going to actually SEE where their tax dollars are being spent.

IRS reports that 36 of BH Obama's executive office staff owe $833,970 in back taxes, and thousands of federal employees owe back taxes totaling $3.4 billion. And what was it that Obama said?

We need to change our tax code so that people like me, and an awful lot of members of Congress, pay our fair share of taxes.

That probably, and should, include fines and interest on money owed to IRS/Treasury; but the point is if that was you and I, we would be fined and charged interest and most likely have our wages garnished – or serving time. No wonder people scramble and connive to get a government job – the benefits are great and their wages are much more than comparable private sector jobs, on the average. And, as government gets bigger, they need to hire even more, and soon there is little or no private sector jobs and then government explains to the people why they must take control of business, and guidethe people's personal lives, all in the thought that the populace cannot fend for themselves.

It seems that the only totally truthful statement made by BH Obama to date, is:

I make a mistake, you know, every hour, every day.

Contrary to big lies, like:

We don't begrudge financial success; we admire it.

Sociocrats don't practice class-warfare, they are just following the ten points of Marxist propaganda; and the key to social engineering the populace is through the educational institutions. It the major reason why our educational system standard is 35^thout of 57 nations.

Enuffsaid.

Meanwhile, the American People are wondering what is taking so long to investigate what was going on with the Operation Fast and Furious event. By the way, Eric Holderwas informed about “Fast & Furious” five months before testimony – check it out.

In Obama's public address, he definitely stated there would be no more bailouts. Once again, he lies or is grossly misinformed by his advisers (CZARS).

It occurs like this: banks borrow at 0.25% and then take that borrowed money and don't use it to lend out to businesses, consumers, et cetera – but instead, repurchase short-term treasury notes. And while those banks are making those huge bonuses (with depositors money as well as government funds), the banks are only giving us less than 1% for our savings account interest and keep raising bank fees and services. What's wrong with this picture, Mr. President and members of Congress?

So, indirectly, the bailout continues with government involving itself in private banking and financial business. Money not intended to be paid back is a BAILOUT, Mr. President and members of Congress.

The media shields Obama, so he is afforded the opportunity to push his agenda further and receive little flak from the aforesaid media.

Like the income tax system, it is inefficient, corrupt, and intrusive and a tool to control the People; and like the Federal Reserve, it needs to go into the trash bin. Pass the Fair Tax bill.

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AGU: Let's Get Ready!

We have 10 months to get ready. Let's get ready to send an army of relentless reformers to the U.S. Congress in November.

American Grizzlies United (AGU) has two resources to help you send public servant reinforcements to Washington, DC. These reinforcements cannot be mushy Republicans-In-Name-Only who quickly disregard conservative principles when true relentless reform gets tough.

We must make sure that our new President has a congress of common sense, constitutional, conservative public servants.

To make things easier for you to seek out good candidates; AGU has created:

The Grizzly Doctrine; A Crib Sheet .

This manuscript provides a framework for discussion about the honest and ethical policies that all Americans should expect from our leaders. The Grizzly Doctrine covers the issues that Americans are concerned with, and helps educate ordinary citizen volunteers on the best ways to approach potential voters to discuss candidates positions.

Another AGU resource: Citizen Activism Guide; showcases volunteerism, vetting, and organizing your precinct.

We hope these resources help you in your local communities as we all get ready to retain the House, seize the Senate, and repeal and replace Barack Obama.

Our work continues...



Thomas S Schmitz

American Grizzlies United; Chairman

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Allen West, "One of the rising stars of the Tea Party is about to be sacrificed by the Republican establishment in Florida, led by someone spinning for Mitt Romney."

Allen West being redistricted out of existence in effort led by Romney Florida spokesman
By William A. Jacobson
January 29, 2012

This has not received a lot of national attention, but the Republican legislature in Florida is about to push through a plan which puts Allen West at serious risk, and the person leading the effort is one of Mitt Romney's spokesmen.
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ABC News & Establishment Republicans Jointly Undermining The Constitution And Especially Republican Candidates Like Newt Gingrich

Yesterday I read an article by ABC reporter, Huma Khan, titled "How Mitt Romney's Mexican-Born Father Was Eligible to be President".  Ms. Khan pounced on this topic because Romney mentioned this fact in his Florida debate with Newt Gingrich. In her article, Kahn quotes a CRS report [emphasis added]:

A Congressional Research Service report published in November comes closest to answering that question.

“There have been legitimate legal issues raised concerning those born outside of the country to U.S. citizens,” the report states. “The weight of legal and historical authority indicates that the term ‘natural born’ citizen would mean a person who is entitled to U.S. citizenship ‘by birth’ or ‘at birth,’ either by being born ’in’ the United States and under its jurisdiction, even those born to alien parents; by being born abroad to U.S. citizen-parents; or by being born in other situations meeting legal requirements for U.S. citizenship ‘at birth.’”

As a "reliable source" Kahn turned to a Congressional Research Report conveniently published by CRS Legislative Attorney Jack Maskell on November 14, 2010 titled "Qualifications for President and the "Natural Born" Citizenship Eligibility Requirement". Maskell published this report following numerous FOIA requests to him which officially went unanswered. Those requests challenged a memorandum Maskell circulated to Congress on March 18, 2010 titled "Birth Certificates of Presidential Candidates and Standing to Challenge Eligibility".  

As an aside, my instincts tell me that Maskell is probably a Democrat because his wife Geraldine is registered as a Democrat; while she did not donate to candidate Obama, she did donate to Democrat candidate Gerry Connolly in 2008.  One wonders whether or not Maskell's report was influenced by politics rather than facts.

New Jersey constitutional attorney Leo Donofrio analyzed Maskell's November report, and debunked it as shameful propaganda because of the way Maskell butchered quotations from SCOTUS findings, saying "This deceitful exercise alone strips the entire memo of all credibility".  

Knowing all this, I attempted to post a comment to Kahn's article.  Unsurprisingly, my comments were not accepted, although others appeared following the timing of my comment, so keep ABC's political leanings in mind as you read on, especially when you see the article by Jeffrey Lord in American Spectator.

My comments to Kahn:

Dear Ms. Khan:

By relying on Mr. Maskell's congressional report analyzing the term "natural born citizen," you are behind the information curve and misleading your readers. First, I suggest you read "Debunking The New Natural Born Citizen Congressional Research Propaganda", written as a rebuttal by attorney Leo Donofrio, available at http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/debunking-the-new-natural-born-citizen-congressional-research-propaganda/ . 

Second, you need to read the 50-page Amicus Brief also written by Donofrio, and accepted by Judge Malihi, for the Georgia hearing which was held on January 26, 2012. In case you are unaware, President Obama refused to comply with the subpoena to appear and give testimony. Through a default judgement, he will probably forfeit all Georgia delegates in the Presidential election. 

In any case, multiple plaintiffs, represented by different attorneys, challenged Barack Obama's natural born citizenship status, claiming he is ineligible to have his name placed on the ballot because, among other reasons, his father was an alien when Obama was born in Hawaii.  The Amicus Brief presents abundant historical evidence and Supreme Court precedents that preclude Obama from serving as President.  The arguments also preclude people like Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio from serving as President.  The brief is available for download on Scribd.

AMICUS BRIEF - Georgia POTUS
http://www.scribd.com/doc/79112841/AMICUS-BRIEF-by-Leo-Donofrio-in-Georgia-Presidential-Eligibility-Case

Furthermore, even INS recognizes that there is a delineation between natural born and native born citizens.  See http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/the-current-ins-officially-recognizes-a-delineation-between-natural-born-and-native-born/ . The two terms should never be conflated to mean the same thing.

If you are a journalist in the truest sense of the word, regardless of whom you voted for in the Presidential election, you owe it to your readers to acquaint yourself with the evidence presented, and then share what you learn in a fair and balanced way.

Okay, so the CRS and ABC have done their parts to miseducate the public about natural born citizenship as it relates to the presidency.  Moving on, ABC is now doing all it can to crucify Newt Gingrich's candidacy, and Republicans like Elliott Abrams, who should know better, have become useful idiots for the network's revenge campaign. Read on.

Elliott Abrams Caught Misleading on Newt

By Jeffrey Lord

American Spectator

January 27, 2012

As Ronald Reagan used to say: Well...

Yesterday we took note of former Reagan State Department official Elliott Abrams' piece over at NRO that went after Newt Gingrich on his relationship with Reagan. While voting regularly with Reagan as a young congressman from Georgia, Gingrich, claimed Abrams, "often spewed insulting rhetoric at Reagan, his top aides and his policies to defeat Communism." Abrams then goes on to cite " a famous floor statement Gingrich made on March 21, 1986."

Or sort of cites it. 

In fact, I'm sorry to say, what appears to be going on here is that Elliott Abrams, a considerably admirable public servant and a very smart guy, has been swept up in the GOP Establishment's Romney frothings over the rise of Newt Gingrich in the Republican primaries. He is even being accused of trolling for a job in a Romney administration. No way!!!! Really????

[snip]

ABC News. Now here's a little juicy tidbit. What's been the big news with Newt's campaign in the last week? That's right. The ABC News "investigative" piece by Brian Ross in the form of an interview with Gingrich's ex-wife Marianne. Aired two days before the South Carolina primary, the incident famously backfired as Gingrich launched an attack on ABC during that now-famous CNN debate hosted by John King.

[snip]

Typically, the liberal media of the day zapped Reagan. And sure enough, buried in that March 21, 1986 Gingrich speech on the House floor, Gingrich was tough on the liberal media's handling of Reagan's speech. And who -- quite specifically -- did he single out for criticism? You guessed it: ABC News.

Said Newt:

All too often the news media itself is grotesquely uncritical and grotesquely willing to use Soviet language to explain Soviet behavior. Possibly it reached its epitome when ABC News put on a paid Soviet propagandist following the President of the United States.

In other words, 26 years ago Newt Gingrich was busy incurring the institutional wrath not just of the mainstream media in general but ABC News quite specifically over the issue of their "grotesquely uncritical" treatment of the Soviet dictatorship.

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So, if you want to help Newt fight the establishment media and Republicans, why not contribute to a moneybomb that will serve as a counterbalance to Romney's campaign honeypot?

Go get 'em Newt!!

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Video: Palin says, "Rage against the machine, vote for Newt, annoy a liberal'

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If I Were Elected or For Those Who Seek Election

In the last article, I covered the debate issues and what primary election candidates for President of the United States have stated since 2008, issues that are currently important to talk about in Congress and the White Office; but more importantly what actions must be taken to SOLVE the issues.

If I were running for the office, this is what I have to say and what should be done. Of course, I am not going to run for office, so think of it as passing ideas to viable candidates for elected office in Congress and our next President of the United States, to include a portion, as a warning to Supreme and Upper Court Justices and Judges who have ruled, not from the Constitution, but by public opinion and political leanings. The list is in form of bullets and I have attempted to put them in order according to subject material from my handwritten notes.

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  ABORTION … Take government out of the issue. Stop forcing religious entities and people whose religious beliefs are against abortions, especially in circumstances that does not involve rape or danger to mother's life. In most cases, the “Day-After” pill is more a recommendation than waiting until a fetus is developed. Abortion is murder, there is no way around that, whether you are looking at it from a religious point of view or a humanitarian point of view. Government has created a business and a social program concerning abortion and must remove itself from the equation. Government has literally made it a wholesale operation that has killed at least five million innocent lives since the Roe v. Wade decision that created the nightmare. Repeal that decision because it should never have happened and impeach judges/justices who do not abide by constitutional law or tries to circumvent or legislate from the bench. It would help to relax adoption laws to provide the incentive to go another route besides abortion.
• Illegal Immigration … We have, have had, a national security problem since the government ignores its own immigration laws and caters to a government south of our border who feels that we owe them something or we stole real estate belonging to them. In the case of the latter, it is not historically correct. Before the Spaniards came, the indigenous Mexicans were practicing human sacrifice, and just before the Spaniards arrived, the Aztecs were murdering people almost daily. The Spaniards created settlements and built monasteries for the monks and priests who accompanied the Conquistadors to convert the natives to Christianity. When Spain lost its power on the seas, it also lost its ability to control the colonies they developed and they were abandoned one by one. Mexico is no different. So if there is any real estate claims to be made, it should be made by Spain, not Mexico, who is a hybrid nation of Spanish and indigenous native Americans who didn't cross the Rio Grande River until the Spaniards colonized or built trading posts in California and Texas. If their invasion of illegal immigrants are based upon that falsehood, propagated by the government of Mexico as propaganda in their school textbooks, then it is an act of invasion and an act of war. Otherwise, for purposes other than transporting illegal drugs and smuggling firearms over the border, they are trying to improve their lives. But they still must use the legal method, like so many before them have done. Because of their attitude of making the United States adopt a second language and their belief that United States real estate belongs to them, they have no desire whatsoever to become a legal citizen. They come to America, end up in ghettos, and too many turn to crime; sheep to be used by the drug cartels and street gangs that have developed over the past three centuries. The reason why there are immigration laws and limitations is to: (1) Ensure there are not more immigrants than there are jobs; (2) to provide a medical examination to ensure that infectious diseases are not brought here that could cause an epidemic or pandemic; (3) allocated annual immigration limits to the number of visas for temporary work, temporary attendance to colleges and universities, or a road to naturalization as a citizen of the United States are in place because as reason #1, it must coincide with the jobs available and the unemployment rate – for obvious reasons; and (4) to ensure through a criminal background check that criminal elements, organized crime lords (cartels), and terrorists do not enter the United States. Overall, the legal immigrant is upset at the government not enforcing its immigration laws and providing amnesty programs when they went through the expense, paperwork, and time to do it legally. They have a right to be angry. Overall, immigrants whose purpose is to live and become citizens here, are better and a more loyal citizen than too many born and raised here. It is because American youth have no appreciation of what they have, while immigrants have seen and lived in places where freedom is reduced or practically doesn't exist at all. For example, why would a person escaping from a socialist or communist regime want the same political ideology to be adopted here, a democratic republic? The reason for their exodus would be moot. Employers are just as much to blame as the federal and state governments. The state governments, county and local law enforcement should be allowed to enforce immigration laws, despite being a federal matter as it has been done in the past. The problem is, once again, federal law enforcement are not doing their jobs because their superiors are not making it an issue. Employers who hire and employ illegal immigrants should be fined to the amount it costs for each immigrant to be due processed and return form their place of origin – and for each illegal immigrant found to be working there. In addition, no entitlements must be given to illegal immigrants, and those cities, counties, and states that provide sanctuary or harbor illegal immigrants should be fined just as the employers caught with illegal employees. The amendment must be rescinded that states that persons born here automatically are citizens, to read that if parents are illegal immigrants, so are the children, whether born here or not. One of the major reasons why California continually has financial problems is because of its illegal alien population that they cater to, provide medical care, education and other benefits supposed to be afforded only to those carrying legal green cards/visas or citizens of the United States. Forgery of identification and documentation is a felony; however, the illegal immigrant caught using it should merely be deported and warned if they return they will spend time in prison. The people that belong in prison are the ones providing the forged identification and documentation. If we don't do it that way we will end up with more crowding of prisons than we already have and an increase in cost to the American taxpayer. We must say NO to the North American Union, and if I were in office I would ensure that the offices set up by GW Bush and continued to operate in the Obama administration would be closed and those employees told to transfer or find jobs in the private sector (like the rest of us). No illegal immigrant or children of illegal immigrants should ever be allowed to hold public office that requires citizenship – and certainly someone that doesn't break laws. Disrespect the law in one form, it is easier to disrespect others.
• ENTITLEMENTS and SOCIAL PROGRAMS … Most of these are nothing more than social engineering where those in government set up policies to make citizens become increasingly dependent upon the government. There isn't any real constitutional authority for most of them. Like HUD, Housing Urban Development, an agency that over its long period of time has had little viable results (inefficient) despite its expenditure of large amounts of taxpayer dollars and is corrupted by land and housing developers. If there is going to be such a program, it should be run like and in cooperation with Habitat for Humanity that provides those who want affordable housing a “hand up” and not a “hand out” – and part of their requirement besides making the affordable mortgage payments, with little or no interest, is to put in a given amount of hours helping to build their own house. Habitat is not only national, but international. It is probably the only successful program that Jimmy Carter developed and made popular. It is an incentive program, not an entitlement. I really don't like using the word “entitlement” - replaced from the word “welfare” because of its bad publicity – “entitlement” means that it is something owed to a citizen, or his/her constitutional right to have it – which is certainly NOT the case. I would slowly phase out and kill HUD and all its offices. Constitution states Limited Government. In the case of Social Security, it is NOT an entitlement. It is paid into all of our working lives through payments deducted from our paychecks or quarterly payments sent in by the self employed. It is a retirement program gone wrong, initially a good idea. It has gone wrong because Congress, in charge of our money, or supposed to be, has been stealing from it to pay other programs. It was supposed to be a Trust Fund – which means it is supposed to be used only for Social Security, like Medicare funds are only for Medicare. In addition, it is a retirement program paid into where the government is the beneficiary if you die and there is a balance left and citizens can only use it at the prescribed age or circumstance mandated by government. So, if you are partially disabled or disabled and cannot work, you cannot get your monthly benefit check until you go through a horrible period of bureaucracy, often having to get a lawyer, that you must pay a portion of your money to, in order to get funds that is yours. The system is so cheap that they hold your first payment back one month so if you die before the next benefit check is due, your estate won't owe them money. The Social Security system must be reformed. It must be in the hands of those who paid into it and they must decide, if 30 years of age or younger at this point, whether they want to invest their money in an investment portfolio or let it remain within the Social Security system and the person should be able to fill out a form that designates any funds remaining to a beneficiary of their choosing. Its THEIR money.

• GOVERNMENT AND CHARITY … In line with the thought of welfare, government is not in the business of using (or supposed to be using) taxpayer funding to charitable causes or any other resources financed by the taxpayer. Taxation without Representation was one of the major causes of the American Revolution. Davy Crockett gave a fiery speech against Congress voting on bill that would provide a widow of an American military officer funds from taxpayers because they wouldn't provide charity funds from their own congressional salaries. However, too soon, the government forgot his speech and gradually as time went on, Congress was approving funding that belongs in the private charitable sector. In most cases, private donations are larger than what Congress will provide; and at the same time, the Veterans Administration will not pay veterans owed benefits from service-incurred injuries and illnesses unless the veteran goes through a multitude of bureaucracy until they finally give in. Often the vet dies before the payment is finally approved, despite documentation. I know, I am one of those many who have been cheated of promised benefits. Yet, the military will spend inflated amounts for their equipment, hardware, et cetera that one could purchase far cheaper in the private market. Although the military and the Veterans Administration are two different entities, they are still part of the government, supposedly overseen by Congress – who has yet to take action in my case. They ARE in charge of funds/monies according to the US Constitution. William Shakespeare was right about lawyers, and one of our problems in Congress is that there are too many of them in elected offices – we need more statesmen and stateswomen who have at least one year of college in political science and one year in business before being eligible to campaign for office.
  
• CONGRESSIONAL OFFICES … Congress is paid a salary and they also receive certain benefits while holding office as a senator or representative in the House, to include the President and Vice President and the White House cabinet and staff. However, no legislation should be allowed that automatically provides pay raises, unless voting no to it; when instead, pay raises should be drafted as a bill, like other bills, so taxpayers can respond to that bill before it is passed. In addition, no elected official should be afforded the benefit of a retirement plan, other than that which he/she has paid into the Social Security system or privately funded investment programs. When they are out of office they are out into the private sector like the rest of us. If that is done, you could almost have a sure bet that the Social Security system would be reformed quickly or more quickly. Government employees should be afforded retirement programs that they pay into and copay by their employer (government) like programs in the private sector – no more free rides. In addition, government should not be overseen by unions, a private entity, who have inflated wages and salaries much higher than the average person in the same job in the private sector. Wages and salaries with benefits, for government civilian employees should be determined by national average of that particular career field, with incremental increases according to COLA – which also goes for Social Security, ensuring that the retirement benefit checks match the COLA and up-to-date. Congress should not be allowed to provide themselves a salary increase and/or benefit increase in terms of perks to allay personal costs while in Congress, until Social Security benefit checks match COLA, as well as the military receiving the same required increase in pay.
  
• UNITED NATIONS … The United Nations no longer serves the best interest of the United States or its people, indeed, it is detrimental. Therefore, the United Nations should be informed that the United States will not longer support their agenda nor provide funding or troops, unless it is determined to be in the interest of the US and its citizens. If troops are approved to be sent in a coalition UN operation, no UN authority will be in charge of US troops, only the authority of US officers and general staff, under the command of the President of the United States – any actions requiring use of US military being approved by Congress first. In addition, the United Nations will be given notice of eviction from the United Nations building on our soil, which will be put up for sale to the highest bidder in the private sector. The United Nations will have to find another spot of real estate, as well as fund the building of another headquarters. The United States can no longer support a world body whose goal is to become a world government, where nations lose their sovereignty or support an entity that provides committees overseeing human rights stacked with members of nations who are violating human rights. The United Nations can no longer be considered seriously, unless it drastically reforms and promotes democracy instead of hypocrisy and denies entrance to its union as members, nations who have tyranny for government and violate the accords established by the world body known as the United Nations. It must provide incentives for nations to adopt a free nation that affords certain basic human rights and liberties that we enjoy here in America and some places in Europe, as well as Japan, Australia, New Zealand, et cetera.
• LEGISLATION … Congress must NOT pass ANY legislation without first being reviewed by an constitutional oversight committee – and they also must research as to the short- and long-term impact that would occur if the bill is passed into legislation. In addition, there should be an oversight committee designated to review all legislation still on the books and determine if it is still viable or a waste of time and taxpayer funding. The repeal or amendment of legislation should coincide with constitutional law. No bill should have amendments added at the last minute and no amendments that do not pertain to the summary statement of its use and reasons for legislation. In other words, a senator cannot amend a military spending bill with a clause that provides his home state with a new bridge. It must be passed as a separate bill or a bill whose summary is similar and related. This will help prevent pork amendments to be added into bills and reduce the cost of government.
• LOBBYING SYSTEM … Designed for the good of the People, to hire professionals to represent their cause or purpose or regresses to the legislative body called Congress through its members in the Senate and House. It is not an avenue of bribery, but a means to provide factual and viable reasons to the legislative body why certain legislation needs to be approved. It is not private businesses and corporation’s means to bribe or coerce the legislative body in any manner of form – direct payments, incentives, or gifts. If the people of their state want their state government to give them their constitutional rights of the Second Amendment, then they can orchestrate through a foundation or entity like the NRA to lobby the government for the change to take place. Congress should not cater to special interest groups, like insurance companies who want legislation that stacks the cards in their favor, while the citizens suffer the effects of legislation that is intrusive and unconstitutional.
• FEDERAL RESERVE BANK … This powerful and uncontrolled (at least by the constitutional government) entity needs to be drastically reformed or dissolved and turn the business of banking and finances over to the private sector. Congress is the authority over monies and currency, not the staff at the Federal Reserve Bank. We have clearly seen what happens when the bailout funding checks were handed out – no one either knew or would tell or itemized where the one-half trillion dollars was spent or what checks it was made out to. In addition, it was revealed after a congressional hearing, that billions of dollars were sent to foreign banks like in Germany and France. The bailout was for America, not foreign nations. First of all, the bailouts should never have occurred. Government has no business taking over businesses, like the auto industry and controlling them by providing them bailout money. Government loans can be made, when necessary for the good of ALL, but it must be paid back in a given amount of time and the same interest rate the private citizen must pay at their bank. No more free rides. It causes financial institutions and banks to take unnecessary chances with the funds that people have paid into their system. In the same manner of approach, government needs to reduce its control and upon the private sector industry, financing, and manufacturing in order to provide incentive of the old fashioned way of success – hard work and innovative ideas turned into reality. This also means that we need to produce/educate better student graduates that will be operating these ventures and creating new ways of producing energy, less costly and more efficient. 
   
• FOREIGN POLICY … No more welfare checks to other nations, like the circumstance described above, for any reason other than disaster relief as a good neighbor policy – and then that relief will be in the form of blankets, food, clothing and other materials to help the people of that region or nation in dire need. The United States has had its share of disasters in the last decade, and our nation friends like Japan, Australia, and others have offered their hand in help. That's what friends are for. However, we have developed a policy where the United States attempts to purchase their friends – and it hasn't worked yet. In addition, we should not interfere with other nations and their political business, only providing advice if they wish to receive it – except in the case of aggression that will affect the interests of the American people and the United States.
  
• MILITARY POWER … Our military has and must remain strong, just as our foreign policy must be fair, congenial (if allowed), and yet disciplined in dealing with other nations, friends or foe. Our military changed drastically since the end of the Cold War, as it should have. Our armed forces are now technologically advanced and smaller, but powerful strike forces to meet the demand and changes around us. However, we cannot spread that military too thin, or become the mercenaries or police force of other nations. We do need to tighten up our military budget in several areas, but still remain a strong deterrence against aggression and invasion of our soil and territorial concerns. In other words, not at the expense of our national security or trading and traveling rights around the globe. Recently, President Obama back-stabbed the only nation in the region who was willing to work peacefully with Israel, as well as friendly to the United States – Egypt. He is not doing well with Latin America nations either. Just like improving our education system, we need to elect people with experience and/or education in political science, sociology, and financing/business. If you think of it, a president, a senator, or representative – who truly wish to be statesmen or stateswomen – need to have a background that covers a lot of territory. Of course, their advisers (not CZARS) are there for a purpose, experts from every field that needs attention when operating our government; but he person also requires a sound sense of values, ethics, and good character. If mistakes, especially minor, have been made in the past and the person recognizes and corrects the action or policy – they must attempt to do so in good statesmanship manners, and most importantly, according to constitutional law. 
   
• TAXATION … Every government must have funds to operate, and the means to do so is to provide taxation. However, our constitution was produced to enable and maintain a limited government that allows the People to have the incentive and the means to excel in many areas and provide a robust economy, as well as a better way of life. The income tax must go and be replaced with a flat consumption tax provided by a bill called FairTax Act. The legislation would require the repeal of the 16^th Amendment and require another amendment to take its place that would put in place the Fair Tax, whose rules take up about 750 pages versus 14,000+ pages (and counting) of an unfair, intrusive and unconstitutional income tax system that takes money out of your earned paycheck whether you like it or not. Much cost is assumed by the government to provide the paperwork, the offices and agency of the IRS and the employees (who few of them understand it anymore than you do), force employers to be unpaid tax collectors, in fact it costs employers great deal of money to file the quarterly and annual tax code requirements. It is a mess that should never have happened, and put in place despite a ruling in 1911/1913 by the Supreme Court that it was an unlawful tax system. The only funds taken from your paycheck should be your retirement and Medicare funds for your use when reach retirement age. A consumption tax puts you more in charge of your budget, a word that Congress and the White House don't seem to comprehend or choose to ignore – budgeting. While we change our budget according to the difference between what is paid to us in wages, salaries and funding from self employment careers, the government instead of changing their budget, they demand more funds from the People. Wouldn't it be nice if the real world employees could do that with their employers? When FairTax is ironed out in the details and passed, scrutinized by the best economists we can find in America, the flat tax should be implemented so the first year of the consumption, sales/services tax would be a rate of 20%; the second year, 15%, and the third year at 10% – the same percentage as some religions call the tithe. No progressive rate required with consumption tax – those that make more tend to spend more, thus the “wealthy” automatically pay more and the People can budget their money to provide more money in regular savings, special savings, medical savings accounts and investment programs to supplement their Social Security checks and pay for their children's college expense. In addition to limiting spending and cutting back in the right places, this tax will boost the economy. In addition, when the bad times hit, government will be required to “re-budget” like the rest of us until it gets better. The attempt to change the tax code system has been going on since year 2002 – don't ya think its time to get it done?
  
• NASA AND OTHER PROJECTS OF THE SAME CALIBER … We need to take the funds saved in other places like military and continue to advance in the space program in cooperation with other nations in an international space program venture for the benefit of all. While the Constitution encourages the advancement of the arts and sciences, we need to turn much of it over to private sector donations and funding, and provide incentives by deregulating much of what is holding science and technology back. 
   
• HEALTH CARE … Talked about quite a bit, and the so-called ObamaCare not only isn't going to work but will be the biggest spending boondoggle in American history – we just didn't pay attention to those nations who have already put it in place. It is a fact when someone is under such a program, they abuse the system by showing up at clinics and hospitals for every ache and pain, boosting the cost still higher. The cost of medicine itself has become expensive, partly due to mandate by government and the ridiculous TORT policy in our judiciary. One cannot open a Medical Savings Account if one is not already insured by a health care insurance entity – What's with that? What is the sense of putting money into a Medical Savings Account if the insurance company is eating away your paycheck. Think of all the insurance payments you need to make and then add them up – on the average they are higher than your mortgage and car payment combined. There is home insurance, life insurance, home liability insurance, and health care insurance that only pays 80% of the cost of a hospital visit who charges $500 for just walking into the emergency room (true story) without being attended to, and then the costs start escalating. For one emergency room visit, I was charged $2,000! I was only there for two hours at the most. I am definitely in the wrong business. First thing I would do is repeal ObamaCare and ensure it never rears its ugly head again, then remove all the costly offices, departments and agency that goes with it from government. Those employed in those departments will have to either transfer to another opening in another government agency, or do what everyone else does – put a resume together and start looking for employment. With the FairTax in place and other economical incentives (no more corporate “welfare”) – they should find another job quickly enough. Between 40% and 47% of American employment is in some form of government office, agency or department. That is Big Government, not a limited government – and it is costly and inefficient as its scope enlarges. 
   
• ELECTION PROCESS … Requires a serious reformation: (1) A private citizen or member of military must undergo a security background check if their job requires access to sensitive information or security positions; yet candidates for public office in the Congress and White House are not required to do so. Why? That must change, along with campaign financing and rules about donations. Violators must be prosecuted and removed from eligibility to run for office. We need oversight in this area, badly. Hillary Clinton's staff was caught – nothing was done, as well as other candidates for public office. Obama's funding was found to be coming from known affiliates of Islamic fascism, but the check was immediately returned. A campaign office has no control as to who tries to buy votes, but they can do what is right when received. The two-party system was designed to coincide with the Electoral College process via the Constitution. That process must be examined carefully. In addition, the media must have rights of the 1^st Amendment; however, they do not have the right to refuse the coverage of any candidate outside of the two-party system or determined to have a small percentage in poll numbers. How can a candidate get the public to notice him/her if they are blocked out by the media? Another problem needing resolution.
  
  

  

  The American people who expect government reform must first reform themselves, a step toward reforming our society in general. The primary election is important and needs to be taken more seriously. It is the candidates that is supposed to be campaigning and getting support of the people to fit the need of the issues at hand with desire to solve issues and abide by the Constitution they must swear allegiance to and protect when beginning their term in office. Term limits are definitely in order and the removal of retirement benefits from public office elected officials as well. No one should receive retirement benefits after serving only four to eight years – name one employer that could possible do that? And stay in business. We need to upgrade our educational standards, especially in the area of science and mathematics. We need to focus upon academic curriculum, and if budget cuts are required, take it from the sports department first – while the ancient Greeks aptly proved that a sound body is a sound mind, we must not short-change our youth. Bring back teaching the classic subjects, somethings ancient are still applicable; in fact, its basic ideology was what inspired the drafting of the Constitution and putting together such a great government document between it and the People. We are a republic and should remain so. We do not need to emulate others, but others need to emulate our original system – not what it has become. Learn from our achievements, but also learn from our mistakes – don't repeat them, despite being in another form.
  

Education, and I cannot emphasize this enough, is important in ANY society in any nation, as well as family values; ironically the two intertwine. It is not the government's mission to raise OUR children, but instead it is the duty of parents, teachers, and community to encourage the best standards of achievement that can be presented – not, as our government thinks, money can buy. We need to encourage and stress upon our youth that education is NOT boring or a waste of time (although some teachers make it seem so). Unions do not belong in public schools that are operated by government; yet we must also pay teachers according to their abilities and background education; rewards for their untiring efforts to educate our youth and create better citizens. On the other hand, it is not the teacher's job or any educational administrator, to raise your child – it is the job of parents. There are too many singular “parent” out there. It is because that government and then society, has reduced the respect and the responsibility that comes with marriage and raising children. Citizens must make themselves responsible for their actions, but at the same time, government must allow citizens freedom of choice. Education is also a program of guidance, but it is not a means for government to instill their ideology upon our youth and socially engineer them, as they do the adults in their “entitlement” programs. 

 

Americans and the United States did not become “great” by depending upon others or our government – they were resourceful, incentive knowing they could achieve goals if they were educated, innovative, and diligent. Imagine if the pioneers were “entitled” to government programs, instead of forging out on their own. Government policies have caused more misery than relief over the course of our history and the history of other governments in other nations.

It is a fact of life, in touch with reality, and not pipe dreams of an eloquently speaking politician who makes promises he/she cannot keep or never intends to keep when achieving the power they seek. Tyrants is what the American revolutionists fought against. Tyrants is what American patriots would not let them have their way. Tyrants inspired Thomas Jefferson and others to create a republic like no other republic ever before in human history. The idea may have come from ancient classical philosophy and forms of democracy as well as republics, but they pretty much perfected it. Yet, we still allow our elected officials to circumvent, our judiciary system to legislate from the bench, and allow our national leadership to urinate on our backs, believing them when they say it is raining.

America is still a wonderful place, a great place; but We the People must ensure it remains great and reform it and ourselves.

Supply and demand governs prices, not government. It is the way of the business world, so if we want to improve the economy and make prices more affordable do we side with government intrusion and Big Government policies, or revert to Jefferson's republic which makes the Constitution and the rights/liberties of the People, By the People and For the People the priority over all, especially foreign national interests OR stand up and say we have had enough and demand action or the politicians can find another career.

Voting and education is also intertwined,, it is why Mr. Jefferson stressed upon education for all Americans to the highest possible degree. Educated people, those with knowledge of the Jeffersonian republic system and its laws, can make decisions and not be swayed by smooth-talking politicians and can choose to ignore TV ads that merely put down the other candidate instead of addressing what they are bringing to the table – those citizens who vote responsibly through research of candidate's values, character, and past performance. Out of 57 nations, we were, in 2006, 35^thplace. I haven't researched it, but I doubt if we have moved up the line very far.

We need to not enforce “No Child Left Behind” – citizens should be afforded the opportunity to opt out of the ridiculous program that doesn't work. Government is misinformed when they think that putting more funds into a bad system will make it better – it is just more funds to be wasted.

Put the FairTax flat tax system in place – and repeal any tax that is above the national consumption tax. Tobacco, alcohol, and obesity incentives (heavy tax on “junk” food) is not right or constitutional. The people must decide about those legal products, not the government or the elite that runs it. Insurance companies charge higher premiums, because of the health issues of those products, so let them provide incentive to be conservative with the use of “junk” food, tobacco and alcoholic beverages. After all, any doctor will tell you that wine and beer in moderate consumption is not harmful and proves to aid in a health plus, especially wine. But one can get their anti-oxidant content from simple non-alcoholic grape juice.

If home schooling and private schools are working to improve education, then get out of their way (government). If public schools don't want to be left behind, they better emulate the competition and do what works, not what some political correct panel or administrative moron dictates.

Stand up America. Make a vow to make change. Start with your life and work your way up. In the meantime, do your homework and use your power of the vote – and it IS a power, don't let anyone tell you different.

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