Tea Party Agenda Revisited
Today, I was utterly disgusted to have to call the offices of both my senators -- John McCain and Jon Kyl -- to urge them to vote against the Law of the Sea Treaty. This is an international treaty which would create an international body in Jamaica to monitor traffic, mining and other uses of the seas, including emissions from shipping and etc. The real purpose of it, however, is similar to Cap & Trade: wealth redistribution, with the people of the United States as the main distributors. The staffers in each office told me that the senators had no stated opinion.
No stated opinion? How is that possible? Why don’t the Republican National Committee and every elected Republican official have a written statement on it? Are we to believe that they have no opinion or that it’s all brand new to them? Yet, here I am in the ridiculous position of having to call two Republican US Senators to urge them, through the filter of their twenty-something staffers, to please not sign away our sovereignty! When is it ever, under any circumstances other than total military defeat, okay to sign away American sovereignty?
It's Time To Get The Agenda Done
We need a tea party agenda and we need one soon. For one thing, having the agenda would solidify and somewhat formalize our millions of voters who call themselves “teaparty”. Secondly, it would give us clout with Republicans. We could demand that they sign our agenda, pledging to carry out the items on it. Failing to do so would result in an elected official’s name being sent out to all teaparty membership, advising of this failure to take the pledge. Thirdly, if establishing our agenda and having Republican elected officials sign that pledge fails to result in winning the policy items pledged, due to half-hearted efforts or total neglect to introduce or pass the items, we would have the basis to form a new party and leave the old, ineffective, unresponsive leadership in the dust.
Is anyone under the impression that Republicans in congress are presently working 24/7 to win the legislative policies we wish to see implemented? I think not -- but then, where would I go to find out? They make a show of protesting Democrat initiatives, but we end up with basically what the Democrats want as public policy. How can there be any question as to how two Republican senators will vote on Law of the Sea? It’ mind-boggling to think that it’s in question. Suppose, however, that both senators are against this treaty and will actually vote against it. Why shouldn’t that position have been previously stated and posted for all to see? We should be able to go to any congressional delegate’s website and see (1) I will vote for the following (list of items) (2) I will vote against the following (list of items) (3) I will introduce bills to achieve the following, in accordance with my pledge (list of items) (4) Here are some things we may wish to consider as a party (list of items). What's difficult about that? Want to know where your representative and your senators stand on Obamacare? Go to their website. It’s not there? Why not?
Decision-making in this Republican Party seems to be far too sequestered and made by far too few people while the rest of us are totally in the dark and out of the conversation. The majority of policy outcomes in terms of voting and positions should be known prior to an individual’s election. They must then be held accountable for those positions.
Obama recently claimed “executive privilege” in order to stonewall information about “Fast & Furious”. Why isn’t there an explicit, detailed agenda, with a list of action items, distributed to the party membership by the Republican Party leadership? I believe that it’s for the same reason as Obama’s executive privilege: they don’t want us to know.
Let’s get a Teaparty agenda written and let’s start to exert some control over these runaway politicians!
Jeff Dover
June 2012
Just for fun, here’s a start. Only a true conservative would introduce this bill:
Local Preservation And Citizen Empowerment Act
“Any program or function of the United States government which sends funds to the states in the form of grants, matching funds or aid is terminated. The government of the United States is hereby prohibited from dispensing funds, collected from the various states and their citizens, to another state and its citizens, for projects or other purposes unrelated to the direct operation of the federal government and/or unrelated to the general welfare and benefit of all citizens of the United States. Neither may the government of the United States take money from any state and then give the money back to that state for purposes unrelated to the direct operation of the federal government and/or unrelated to the general welfare of all citizens of the United States. The United States government is hereby prohibited from funding or contributing to funding public schools. Exceptions to these prohibitions are ad hoc aid to a region following a natural disaster or damage from warfare.”
The purposes and intent of this legislation follow:
1. To permit local decisions as to how local funds should be used. To place decision-making back in local hands, taking the approval of federal government employees out of the equation.
2. To keep citizen money of the various states in those states for local consideration.
3. To reduce the federal tax burden on the people of the United States while shrinking the size of government and the influence of government employees over our lives.
4. To reduce the influence of the federal government employees in the determination of public spending among the various states.
5. To prevent the federal government employees from wasting taxpayer dollars on local projects which would never have been approved if locally funded (meaning they were unnecessary to begin with).
6. To place into local hands more decisions over who receives financial funding from public sources (city, county, state).
7. Place education funding and decision-making once again securely into the hands of the localities.
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Comment by John Wiant on June 22, 2012 at 9:48pm -
Jeff, I have to say Mark Levin would be mildly proud of you (and for him, that is a HUGE compliment). :)
Spoken like a TRUE Conservative.Unfortunately, as so many on this Tea Party site have reminded me so often: My / our expectations for the Republican party may be unrealistic, based on the (lack of ) performance we've been seeing even after the 2010 election (where we only seem to get credit from other Tea Party members, to this day).
Following your excellent example, I am reminded of the questionnaire they using to "Vet" potential candidates for Congress (strictly by the People, Of the People and For the People) at 'Get Out Of Our House' .com :
http://goooh.com/Questionnaire.aspx
You go ahead and TRY to answer all those questions. It is an exercise in frustration for me, since it is a huge reminder just how lacking my overall education may actually be! Surely you'll breeze through it and have no trouble answering those questions and be immediately convinced you're already certain of all those issues and what side you're on. :)
However, I suspect that one of the most common and unspoken "games" they play all day long at the Capital building, is "We can't be SURE".......... and so they often do what we rarely applaud: Nothing.
As for the Tea Party agenda, I suspect you have to motivate Judson to pay close attention to what you suggested and get HIM to call a meeting of "all" the Tea Party leaders and have them all call a sort of "Boston Tea Party" to get them all together over a weekend or more and have them decide how and what to write as OUR little Constitution and/or Declaration and let's raise it up the flag pole and defend it / ASAP. The one thing the Democrats seem to understand is what I would call the Slimey war tactics; The best defense is a constant and completely Slimey offense. In our case, we may need to hire the Ghost Busters, but we WILL get some kind of De-Slime machine fired up, or we'll all be haunted forever more.
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Comment by KYRobinbird on June 22, 2012 at 9:18pm -
Close all alphabet agencies, most are duplicated in states anyway. Change pension systems in Congress...require 20 or 25 yrs of service. Leave FBI & CIA.
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Comment by david chaney on June 22, 2012 at 8:08pm -
Ralph, during Bernanke's last meeting with Congress, a Congressman pointed out the Fed is buying 75%, not 61%, of the Governments debt. That means 30% of the Federal Government Expenditures is printed money. If the Fed buys more than 40%, that can lead to hyper-inflation. I doubt we'll see a QE3 or any other Fed stimulus. If the Fed prints up more money, it could be risky. The Central Banks of the World are now coordinating their efforts and at the G20 meeting other countries agreed to increase spending. Russia is now part of the World Trade Organization. The commodities exchange now has made it possible for those buying Gold futures to take physical delivery of Gold. It will be interesting to see if the World economy can hold off a deflationary spiral. The Fed has it's hands tied -> print more money faster and risk hyper-inflation in the U.S.
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Comment by Ralph Roshto on June 22, 2012 at 3:11pm -
22 Obamafacts:
Our national debt has risen by more than $5 trillion during Obama’s administration, more than what it increased under all previous 43 presidents COMBINED.
The number of Americans on food stamps has risen from 32 million to over 46.4 million in Obama’s three years in office.
At $3.59, the average price of gasoline is $ 1.74 MORE than it was the day Barack Obama was sworn in.
Twenty two percent of American children live in poverty, the highest level in 30 years.
For forty straight months (every single full month of Obama’s reign), unemployment has been 8%.
Forty two percent of American workers are living paycheck-to-paycheck.
Fifty three percent of college graduates under 25 are either unemployed or under-employed.
The Federal Reserve has monetized 61% of our national debt. This means that we are “selling” government bonds to other government agencies.
Eighty six percent of American workers aged 60 or older will continue working past their 65th birthday.
Ninety five percent of the jobs lost in Obama’s depression have been lost by middle-class workers.
To satisfy local, state, and federal taxes, the average working American has to put in 107 days- more than 21 weeks of work.
In Detroit, thanks to Democrat policies for the last fifty years, a three-bedroom home can be purchased for just $500.00 – which is actually a slight uptick over recent years.
Since Obama took office, he has destabilized the national economy to the point that the price of an ounce of gold has risen from $850.00 to over $1600.00.
Last month in Montgomery, Alabama, 20,000 people applied for 877 openings at a Hyundai plant.
In 2011, the average American household spent a staggering $4,155.00 on gasoline.
Currently, there are a record-breaking 88 million+ Americans of working age who are unemployed.
Student loans, NOT dischargeable in bankruptcy, now stand at over $1 trillion, KILLING the future of millions of our young people.
Compared to 1985, our 2011 trade deficit with China was more than 49,000 times larger.
To determine why cocaine makes the Japanese quail engage in risky sexual behavior, the Obama Administration spent $175,587.00 of our tax dollars.
The national debt could not be repaid in less than 440,000 years if we started immediately.
Our debt is growing at the rate of OVER $2 million each MINUTE!
In 2010, 2.6 million Americans fell into poverty. Since 1959, when this statistic was developed, no year saw a bigger increase.
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Comment by Jeff Dover on June 22, 2012 at 10:35am -
Hey Gail, choose your poison: local or federal. It's never going to go away, but it's easier to deal with locally than it is in Washington -- and it doesn't cost the rest of the nation when it crops up in this or that locale. There will always be corruption in the public sector just as there is in the private. It's a part of the human condition. However, we can limit the effects and the reach of it.
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Comment by Judy M Reasoner on June 22, 2012 at 9:09am
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Speaking of funding...here in Texas we have what is called a permanent school fund which is backed by bonds. These funds are intended for the Texas public schools. Recently, legislation was introduced to allow "charter schools" equal access to the funds. Here's the kicker...Fethullah Gulen is a well known Turkish Islamist who has developed many charter schools (Harmony for one) and many of those are in Texas. He is trying to access funds which would help him continue his growth and the spreading of the Sharia law philosophies. WE THE PEOPLE need to be vigilant in our research and attempts to thwart any kind of anti-American garbage. We are not the infidels that the Muslim religion claims we are. Every time they pray they are praying for our demise be it through illness, poverty, war, etc. We cannot continue to allow this growth. Regardless of what state you are in you need to familiarize yourselves with what it going on and shed the light on this evil. Things we need to be doing are 1) monitor your children's schools which includes where they go on field trips, what food they are served, what curriculum they are studying 2) monitor your media and hold them accountable for what they are reporting 3) do your due diligence on any political office personnel 4) monitor any mosques in your area and pay attention to what is going on 5) watch/follow your charitable donations...where do they go, who do they fund 6) monitor your alma mater..who do they support and where does the money go 6) check out your church or synagogue affiliations 7) check out any investments you have and whether or not they are "Sharia compliant" and 8) educate everyone you can on our enemies.
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Comment by Gail E. Engelhardt on June 22, 2012 at 8:49am
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This is all fine and good, and I don't disagree with the premise. There is only one problem with it, and that is some of our local officials and governments have become just as corrupt and greedy as our Federal government, and I live in a predominately Republican County. People are waking up, and they need to be reminded that you get what you vote for, and in some cases it is pretty bad. We have people who are really Liberals who run as Republicans just because they know they have a better chance to be elected with an (R) after their name on the ballot. We need to continue to clean up local governing powers as well as those in State and Federal offices. It has become an epidemic in some cities and counties. It starts at the Local level and works its way up to the State and Federal levels for sure. We wonder why we have so many problems in government over reaching their authority. I say place the education and funding securely in the hands of the people along with working with the localities. We have a BOE in my area that is just as corrupt as the Administration in Washington, which we are trying to rein in from the power structure they have built. They disobeyed the Rule of Law at will, and some concerned citizens (myself included) have filed a case in Court against them. We are awaiting a second hearing to be scheduled just so we can have current law proven to be the prevailing law and to be obeyed by our local BOE. It shouldn't have to be necessary, but unfortunately it is in order to get the County BOE legal counsel to obey the law and stop giving incorrect legal advice to the Board to act on. What a mess, and what a poor example they are all setting for the children of our County by disregarding the Rule of Law. What prevails on this local BOE is people who put their own self interests above that of the children and the people, and they have gotten away with their power structure because people are afraid of their power over them. It is time that it stops, and we must stand up for what is right not what is necessarily expedient in order to go forward. We are losing our moral compass by letting elected officials get away with committing crimes against our Rule of Law.
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Comment by Ed Aihomem on June 22, 2012 at 8:24am -
Don't forget to add Jeff Flake, who wants a coronation to replace Jon Kyl, to the list of RINO's. The guy is terrible. www.dcflake.com
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Comment by Ronald Sorrells on June 22, 2012 at 8:23am -
WeThePeople must decide if we will "restore The Rule of Law" or continue to "Allow The Rule of Man".
A Republic "Constitution" of Rules that ALL Must follow. It matters not "What the Times Bring or that which is popular.....The "Cornerstone Rules Must Be Followed...otherwise We are practicing Democracy rather that a Republic".
Convenience is not credilible for "Now Foillowing The Law".
Ron
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Comment by SHARRON AMSTER on June 22, 2012 at 7:58am
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I'm with you. What you have put before us makes sence. We need to get it together and do something. The head of the Tea Party just isn't doing anything that I can see. We never get feed bake on any of their plans and they never ask us what we want. Let get new people. I pick you.
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