I hear people all the time griping about the people in Washington never being able to come together to get things done. But most people have a hard time realizing that this is by design. Compromise is what we see too much of in Washington—people not sticking to their convictions. The left want social benefits and (with exception of Obama) less war, the right wants war and less social benefits. So what always happens is compromise. The left drops their convictions on less war in order to get the right to drop it’s convictions on less social benefits. So we end up with both parties agreeing to vote on spending measures that appease each other’s wants while turning a blind eye on everything else.
The Constitution, with its system of checks and balances, not only allows for gridlock, it practically guarantees some degree of it. The Founders knew that gridlock can be a very good thing. If nothing can be agreed upon in Washington, harm to the country is limited.
Ron Paul
For those of you who don’t believe that your calls and e-mails to Members of Congress work, let me assure you that they do. Members “freak out” when they receive more than half a dozen calls on any issue.
Rep Justin Amash
I don’t know anyone other than myself personally that take the time to call their representatives and urge them to vote one way or another on legislation that is coming up. And if you think about it, there’s 300 million Americans, and yet we’re all so “busy” that we can’t even make sure that we keep our elected officials in check. Not caring enough to make those calls or emails is going to bite us in the butt. It’s actually already in process with the most likely passage of the NDAA which includes provisions that allow for the indefinite detention of American citizens, yes that could be your or I, without charge or trial.
First off, SPLOST stands for Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax. It’s an additional tax that’s added to the sales tax that voters vote on. The proposed tax always comes with a project list that it would support. E-SPLOST is an educational SPLOST, and T-SPLOST is a transportation SPLOST.
I’m against both of the taxes that are coming up for vote/renewal for different reasons.
I’m against the E-SPLOST because of the way our county operates it’s budget and has managed the previous E-SPLOST. I’m sure many will vote ‘yes’ on this for the sole reason that it has to do with funding going to education. But before one votes to give them another check to spend as they see fit, they need to look at the prior projects that E-SPLOST has provided. It’s almost a running joke around everyone in the entire county how they just can’t seem to ever have enough schools built. I don’t even know the number of schools we have now, because every time you turn around, another $20-30M school is being built. We’re to the point that we’re neglecting the older schools to give way for a future project-that project being to tear down and replace the neglected school rather than go the cheaper route and maintain the school. I went to the school that I’m talking about, and even though it’s been over 10 years ago, there is no way that it would be to the point that it is unsafe for the children if they had not ignored maintenance for so long. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that one of the contractors for all of these new schools has some ties to those that propose these sort of taxes on the voters.
I like to see people standing up for what they believe in, but, it would be nice if they would educate themselves on what it is that they should really be standing up against first.
Not everyone that is protesting is protesting for the wrong reasons. But seeing what some are there for, and their demands, alot of them are. If the movement was protesting the root of all of the problems in this country, our monetary policy, then it could potentially bring about the change that we need. The movement needs to focus on the end of the Federal Reserve, because the Fed is the facilitator of all things that are starving the middle class, and killing our country. It’s ability to print money out of thin air, allows our leaders to lead us into never-ending wars by pretending that deficits don’t matter. It allows the markets to make investments that it would not otherwise make by forcing artificially low interest rates which lead to bubbles that eventually burst, i.e. housing market. The Fed is the problem, plain and simple.
The Tea Party gets alot of attacks from people that don’t understand what the movement stands for, especially from the Left. It’s pretty easy to understand though, those that were sent to Washington from the Tea Party, were sent with the message that the people are sick and tired of all the wasteful spending that is driving up our national debt with these unfathomable yearly deficits. This book is definitely worth reading if you are unsure what the Tea Party is really about, or if you find yourself being one of those people that blindly attack the movement.
As usual, I tuned into the debate last night. I think I laughed more during the debate than on the premier of the new season of Two and a Half Men. Primarily because of the media bias of giving Perry and Romney the most talk time is working against them in the way that they wish it wouldn’t. Unlike the other candidates, who usually stick to informing the people their stances on issues, Perry and Romney used their time to bash one another. I really don’t know which one came out of it it worse shape than entering between the two. And although he’s not my pick, it was nice to see that Fox News decided to let Gary Johnson participate. The fact that he was left out of the last debate is just another attempt of the media choosing our candidate for us. At one point Fox thought they had Ron Paul on the question regarding the border fences, but Paul came out swinging and knocked their attempt to discredit him out of the park.
The town hall meeting today with Georgia Senators Chambliss and Isakson was a very neat experience. I went with Chase and one of our friends, Jim. We all sported Ron Paul tees which attracted quite a bit of positive attention. Having never went to one, I wasn’t sure what it would be like, but as soon as we got there, I felt so much like I had done it many times before. We were greeted as we approached the school by some very friendly people from around the Gilmer County area. A lot of people seemed very surprised to see people our age there, and were excited to see it as well.
The Senators took quite a few questions, and also took quite a bit of criticism from some very angry constituents. As expected, on some questions that were addressed as ‘yes or no’ questions the Senators did what politicians do best, and water down the answer trying to get by without a one word answer. This angered someone in the crowd who made it known that he was not happy with the dodging of the question.
Four years ago, the Federal Reserve was completely unheard of in the news. Now that’s absolutely not the case. Thanks to the awakening of the masses of how much this private institution is effecting our nation daily, it’s becoming the heart of the talks of our nation’s problems, as it rightfully should be. Simply put, without the Federal Reserve, your dollar would buy more, we wouldn’t be extending ourselves into pointless nation-building wars, and we wouldn’t be faced with bubbles such as the housing bubble that has put so many in forclosure.
The poll below that Fox News had up shows who the country thought won the debate. With Fox News’ slogan being “Fair and Unbiased” you’d think they would refrain from being unfair and biased, but that of course never holds true to the mainstream media. Shortly after Ron Paul dominated their online poll for the winner of the debate, they simply removed it from their site (about an hour after it was up) and from what I’ve seen, have made no mention of it nor him winning the debate and poll. He only had 4.5 minutes to speak, yet he slaughtered the competitors in the poll. Not bad for a so called “long shot,” eh?
Fox News GOP Debate Poll - August 11, 2011
I definitely recommend this book to anyone (so everyone) that enjoys the freedoms (even if they are ever decreasing) that we all have and anyone that would like to open their eyes to some of the truths that are always bent or portrayed falsely by our misleading media.
The events that we’re experiencing now, have been, and will be in the near future, are waking people up. And I can only hope that between now and the 2012 elections, this awakening continues to spread at a pace that’s even greater than the greatness that it is today. I encourage everyone to read up on the Federal Reserve, inflation, and our failed policies, both foreign and domestic, of the past century, and realize that we simply cannot continue on the path that we are with more and more empty promises and so called change. The only change that we need now, is to limit the Government’s role in our lives and constrain it back down to it’s limited role as defined in the Constitution.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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