Comments on: Whose Side Are We On?

By: Mike Lagree

Mike Lagree — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:48:39 +0000

My family has been in this country since 1640. We didn’t make the journey for Obamacare or big government. We came because we wanted to be free from the restrictions of an oppressive regime. We have fought in every war and most skirmishes that this republic ever engaged in, sometimes on both sides, and we are ready to repeat the performance if necessary.

very sincerely, Mike Lagree

By: Tony Yonkman

Tony Yonkman — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:58:26 +0000

Good luck to you! You don’t need to pick a side… just pick the right candidate. If you want to pick on a local issue… check into your county assessors office and the Tax Commission problems. As you probably know… Franklin County has it’s share of unfair real estate assessments. The local level is the only place that will be fixed… just check out the decisions made by the Missouri State Tax Commission against Franklin County residents. It’s a statewide problem but with 66% of the taxes going to the school system… don’t expect a politician to buck the system without some local incentives…

By: 1776jedi

1776jedi — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:44:10 +0000

I am on the side of
1. upholding the Constitution.
2. ending unnecessary wars
3. shutting down the federal reserve
4. restoring honest money in the form of precious metals
5. federal power being rolled back to constitutional limits
6. states rights
7. eliminating income tax
8. disbanding the EPA, DEA, FBI, CIA, and BATFE
9. Private Property Rights
10. Securing the rights of unborn children
11. Parental Rights
12. Marijuana Decriminalization for Adult consumption
13. real open transparent government
14. Mandatory term limits
15. repeal of corporate personhood
16. trade tariffs to protect US markets
17. NO MORE FREE TRADE!
18. NO MORE FOREIGN AID!
19. Securing the borders
20. getting out of the UN, WTO, and NATO

Amending the Constitution to
1. require treaties to be ratified by the House as well as the Senate
2. have automatic sunsets of all federal laws after 10 years
3. require a balanced budget
4. require a declaration of war by the congress, before the president can mobilize the military beyond US borders and waters
5. add posse comatatus as an amendment
6. require sponsors of Congressional bills to read their legislation before the Congress verbatim in one sitting before it can be considered in committee.
7. Require Congressmen and Senators to be physically in the chamber during bill readings (sickness and family emergencies withstanding) or lose their seat.
8. have a federal recall process for the people to remove any appointed judge, cabinet member, Senator, representative and president

Yeah, it’s a big list, but I love liberty, and the only way I see to secure it is to tie the hands of the government.

Some folks may not like my position on marijuana, but I ask them to look at alcohol prohibition and apply the same lessons. Let the states regulate it as they see fit, like alcohol.

The most important safeguards have to be codified in the Constitution itself. Too many folks in past years complained about the government being deadlocked, they failed to realize that deadlock was the safe guard, we see now what happens when Congress moves too fast.

By: Ruth

Ruth — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:48:06 +0000

Pastor Tom,

I like your reference to the the prophet’s question: “How long halt ye between two opinions?”

Today, we only have to wait for election day to find out the answer.

Most times, I don’t know how to the question “whose side to you fall on” because of the lack of viable choices at the voting booth.

I use the term “viable” because there’s a reality that someone will win, and the winner will make life and death choices for our society for today and tomorrow.

But then, maybe it’s wrong for me to see election day as the day we find out where people stand. Maybe we decide where we stand daily and within all big AND little decisions we make.

Do we want to be a free people? Or do we like the comforts of government regulation and programs so much that we that we don’t mind the chains? Or maybe we don’t feel them at all?

Whose side are we on? It’s a daily decision.

-Ruth

By: Tom Beebe

Tom Beebe — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s the side(s) I’m on:
1. Equal Justice for All (I saw that written somewhere) which includes rich and poor, gay and straight, man and woman, all races, renters and homeowners (why the mortgage interest deduction?, and more segments than I can remember just now
2. The individual over any organization, be it a union, a corporation, The Sierra Club, The Tea Party, even SPEBSQSA (know who they are?) Only individuals should contribute to campaigns; organizational contributions conceal identities.
3. Voluntary, not forced transfer of wealth (what’s the difference between theft and tax-and-spend?)
4. States Rights (a phrase dishonored by those who used it in contravention of item 1, above, but still exactly what the Constitution says)
5. Taxing consumption but not the earnings of either labor or investment
6. Recognizing that Jefferson meant all were equal in God’s eyes, but at the same time all are unique, and that not even equality of opportunity is guaranteed; in fact, our freedom to provide for our children means opportunity will not be equal, but I do believe that government should have no role in supressing that providing act (no estate tax)
7. That government, in its own interest, should exempt from taxation those things which contribute to productivity, and chief among them are health care, education and investment. A growth in productivity means a bigger tax base for essential services.
8. As above, all government economic polcy should be about creating, not distributing wealth.