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Comment on Embrace the Constitution

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:04:32 GMT

Your article was well written and your point was clear. I enjoyed all but the sarcasm.

Comment on Got Freedom?

Charles Marean Jr — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:21:27 GMT

I don't know how people get incomes high enough to live on. For a business to need to sell things to support its owners and employees makes no sense to me. I don't believe a system like that would work, so I believe I don't know what businesses do. It seems to me if the government needs higher income without taxes, it would need to increase the tax base by increasing the minimum wage. However, the government could coin high value coins to pay its bills with, if it would consider coins to be of value in themselves. It a matter of legislative attitude. Instead of considering itself like a landlord, the government could consider itself like a manufacturer, and the coins it makes a product to barter with.

Comment on Welcome

Dana — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:46:41 GMT

Yes, this idea has been mentioned but to date no one seems to take it seriously. We'd need major buy-in for it to have any affect. We'd also need more people who are willing to experience some discomfort in the name of liberty--those people are not easy to come by.

Dana

Comment on Welcome

Johnna — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:24:09 GMT

I just learned about this blog. I will spend some time on it, but am curious to know if there is a movement amongst Americans to NOT pay their taxes. With enough joining a total tax revolt, change might be possible. Could be a bad idea, but wondering what others are thinking.

Comment on Tea Party organizers must think beyond Palin and the GOP

Gadsden's Snake — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:24:42 GMT

Andrew,
You're dead on. The Founders of this great nation believed that as well AND they said so time and time again. Government gets its power from the people, it works for us.

Ron Paul also is a good representative, but I think you again you speak of a deeper truth when you correctly talk about each of us being our own leader. he would be against demogoguery as well.

-G.S.

Comment on Tea Party organizers must think beyond Palin and the GOP

Gadsden's Snake — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:18:55 GMT

Dana,
You hit the nail on the head. I salute you. People have to remember what the tea party is about - and it is more than left and right or conservative and liberal. Yes, it has a conservative slant that is sympathetic to Republican, but you are so very right when you say that we can't get sucked into their flawed system. They need to conform to the ideals you laid out and they will find success - not the other way around.

That is the essence of the Tea Party movement and I have never seen it espoused better. I have my own blog that follows along those roots. I think you will find it has the same respectful yet libertarian, self-reliant, and Constitutional tone.

www.gadsdensnake.wordpress.com

- G.S.

Comment on Tea Party organizers must think beyond Palin and the GOP

RehabUncleSam — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:19:04 GMT

I agree, I feel that my views in the letter below are in line with the thoughts above.

Subject: Tea Party Patriots
My Letter to Governor Schwarzenegger,

Governor Schwarzenegger,
Recently I saw you on the Fox News Channel and heard your statements about the Tea Party Patriots.
The TEA PARTY PATRIOTS are not anti-government; but they are for smaller fiscally responsible government.

They are not just angry or disappointed as you say "because of the economy".

They are demanding our leaders stop the additional spending during a crisis. ADDITIONAL means ADDED or EXTRA spending, maybe even cut out wasteful pork barrel spending.
They seek integrity, responsibility and accountability that we can trust in. They know this amount of debt is unsustainable.

They are demanding our leaders be honorable as John Adams once said "we are a nation of laws not men". They know we have elected men who have not even paid their Taxes, and the law does not apply to them.
So what have we become?

They are demanding our leaders and Government stay out of the free market system....do you think GM is better off because they were not allowed to go into bankruptcy protection and renegotiate union contracts? The answer is no.

In order to have any amount of success, people have to be allowed to fail. Do you think all the best ideas or products or businesses were successful because they were too big, or too great to fail or reorganize? The answer is no.

Reagan said "Government can't solve the problem, Government is the problem". Do you think Ronald Reagan was Anti-Government? The answer is no., he knew, as our founders knew Government can't do everything for you.

Thomas Jefferson said "A government big enough to give you everything you want, will be strong enough to take everything you have" was he anti-government? The answer is no.
He also said "When the people fear the government there is Tyranny, but when the government fears the people there is Liberty"

So on the Jefferson scale do you think we have more Tyranny or Liberty?

Do you actually think public servants should earn more income than the average income of the people they serve? The answer should be no.

So please excuse them if the party of “no” is sounding a little better than any other immediate option.

The Tea Party Patriots are American Patriots. Do you really think American Patriots will just go away?

I hope,… no I prey,… you are wrong sir.

An American Patriot

Comment on Tea Party organizers must think beyond Palin and the GOP

Habeas Corpus — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:25:54 GMT

I couldn't agree more with the author. We are in the very midst of an age-old battle of ideas, not personalities. Two simple questions help to set the table: are our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness granted to us by our Creator, or are they granted by the government. It is my belief that these rights are as natural as the tips on the end of our fingers...they don't come from government.

Second, are we to believe these rights are granted to individuals or are they granted to a group as a collective unit? Individualism vs collectivism. It is my belief that we have received our natural rights from our Creator as individuals, not because our skin is a certain color or because of our sexual orientation or because we fall into a certain income bracket.

If I had to pick the true leader of the present Tea Party movement, I'd have to pick Ron Paul based on his values and track record. But Ron would be the first to tell us that it is not about him, it is about each one of us. We are responsible for this revolution! Get out there and get involved!

Comment on Tea Party organizers must think beyond Palin and the GOP

Andrew Ian Dodge — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:00:07 GMT

I have a piece that speaks to this over at the Daily Caller.

Comment on Tea Party E Pluribus Unum!

Lisa — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:27:55 GMT

I do not support the current health care legislation.

I am college educated but my quality of life has suffered because of the U.S. federal government's presence in my life for 10 years. I have been victimized and my rights trampled upon because I have pre 9/11 information. Most recently, in 2005 and 2006, the government decided to implant (electrodes/RFID) me without my consent. Since, I have experienced physical health problems.

Due to income, I qualify for state government-run health insurance. Before this, and many years prior, I had held private insurances. I can contrast and attest to the differences of care I have received from the private and public sectors. The state government-run plan is rationed and includes sloppy communication, long waiting times and red tape inefficiencies. Moreover, the health care overseers refuse to treat problems associated with the implants. They have told me to consult with radiology experts (out-of-pocket expense) outside of their state-run facility to determine what the undefined white splatterings are are around my ears.

I am living proof that nothing good ever comes from government bureaucracy.

The federal government can not regulate, oversee or provide quality health care. Allowing the federal government more control over the health care industry will be disastrous for patients, doctors, investors, researchers and the economy.

Increasing taxes on products and services in the medical industry is wrong. Ultimately, it is the private sector that will be paying unjustifiable bills and the tax money the government takes will be squandered.

I do not want the U.S. federal government overtaking the medical industry. The government created some of the current inflation and health insurance problems within the medical industry. Regulations do not equal quality care. Quality care is achieved through a free market.

Medical doctors and surgeons are the most needed, skilled and gifted people in our society. I feel for them and for those of us at the hands of big government.

I despise the unethical practices of Washington, D.C. politics and I condemn the injustices I have endured these past 10 years. The expanded role of government has created federal employees who think and act without regard to the private sector. I do not want federal mentalities running the medical industry.