Sent to my email from: Congressman Ron Paul
Subject: Please Read This Note From My Son, Rand Paul
Sometimes, the political process makes us all just a bit cynical and jaded — myself included. We look at what the Washington DC establishment — the career politicians, the corporate lobbyists, and the entrenched bureaucracy has brought us, and we throw up our hands, thinking, "they're all the same."
I don't like to yell too loud, or beat my chest. But I want to take a moment to remind you why I am not your typical politician, and why this is not a typical campaign or movement.
Among the many reasons:
- I will never, ever vote for a taxpayer bailout of a private industry. Whether it's big banks, automakers, or any other industry — you succeed or fail on your own.
- I will not vote for an unbalanced budget. I will not vote for a tax increase. Ever.
- I will fight for new rules like a Balanced Budget Amendment and Term Limits.
- I will not take ANYTHING off the table in the fight to balance the budget. Anyone who says something like they will "freeze non-defense discretionary spending" is blowing smoke at you and hoping you won't notice. That would balance the budget — MAYBE — in about 80 years.
- We have to keep our promises to seniors and keep our country strong, but every area has things that can be cut. Every agency has things that are redundnant or that could be done better or cheaper.
- I will propose and force a vote on an Enumerated Powers Act, to force Congress to point to the part of the Constitution that justifies their bills.
- I will fight for the Bill of Rights. Democrats often love the 4th amendment. Republicans the 2nd. I will fight for them all, which means fighting for your free speech, gun rights, and civil liberties. Laws that infringe on ANY of these make the federal government more powerful, and we cannot continue to allow that.
- I will not allow our troops to be the world's policeman, and I will force a vote on a Declaration of War if any President seeks to commit our military to battle.
What you've just read above is an agenda unlike any politician in the country. While solidly conservative, it also shows first, a great loyalty to the Constitution and to our freedom. You cannot fight for liberty while voting for bills that embolden the state. You cannot fight for some of our founding rights without others. And you cannot enable change in Washington by sending the same old people there.
For anyone who thinks elections don't matter, or all candidates are the same, I urge you to read this one more time. I don't think it's a stretch to say that few candidates running for office this year will so fully embrace this agenda of freedom and prosperity, of fighting the power of the federal government while working to ensure that the rights of Americans are restored.
If you agree, I ask for your help.
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In your every day, act for justice and freedom, and against any encroachment that would take those away. Take this inspiring quote from one of the men who desired our everlasting freedom from tyranny.
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
- Thomas JeffersonGet on your feet. Speak up. Participate. Support only that which is truth and justice and that you wish to see sustained and undermine that which threatens this freedom so that it cannot take root and grow. Watching passively as the vines thicken around your resting feet will be the death of you long before the blow that takes your life and freedom.
At this stage, this is a capitalistic society, before it is a democratic society. YOUR DOLLARS ARE YOUR VOTES all year long, well before and in between any elections. Spend locally. Spend discriminately. Buy sustainably. Know the ownership and spending habits of the companies that you allow to prosper just as you would critique the character of elected officials. At the highest levels these players are making the decisions by putting their politicians in power. So watch your money like it is an ethical vote at the spending of every single dollar. Support local innovation and entrepreneurial efforts that you feel will lead to a distribution of Company Wealth. Avoiding national chains distributes power.
Spend less on stuff and more on healthier food. Buy your food locally grown, raised and harvested. Becoming independent in your food, water and energy takes your back off the wall as a consumer. Would a spike in natural gas, fuel, food or electricity prices crush you? Find the weakness in your own personal independence and fix that. Take small actions to become a little less reliant and divert that spending to local food growers and energy producers.
If you had told me 18 moths ago that on September 12, 2009 I would be joining hundreds of thousand of protestors on the lawn of The Capitol in Washington, D.C., my response would have been one of disbelief. I’m not the protesting type. I don’t like to rock the boat. At least I wasn’t, and I didn’t. I am no longer the person I was 18 months ago.
So there I found myself, on the lawn of our nation’s capitol, along with countless fellow patriots standing together out of genuine concern for the freedoms we once took for granted. Not long ago, we realized we could no longer be the silent majority who held to their word and their honor and left others alone to do the same.
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This is another merging stream of the binary me. It may at times collide or overlap with the real me.
