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Cherie Kail
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| 07/02/2008 8:44 AM |
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Recapping what happened last week, WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE ANSWER!
Our first task tonight is to deal with the idea of limited government. We are going to get ‘cerebral’ tonight. We have got executive powers, so in a campaign is it worth fighting for a line-item veto? Congressional powers, as we spoke of on the show (judicial powers) also fall under the guise of government. A central government was designed for common defense for the colonies, the states and now the fifty states. It is also meant to provide for education and general welfare, infrastructure, so what our goal is tonight is to understand the Constitution. What we need is to educate and understand but that is also a double-edged sword. The Constitution is a guide, but we need more than just a guide that can be bent to another side.
How did the government get to be as big as it is and if we can counteract that, is there a way we can combat the government to make it smaller? As government grew initially, politicians stayed in office longer and longer. There are term limits for congressmen and senators…should we enact them? The overwhelming majority says ‘yes’.
Study Spartan government. The Spartans had their government officials serve term limits, then were in trial and held accountable for what they did while in office. It sounds extreme, but for the Spartans, that was an ultimate form of checks and balances. This was modified by the Greeks and their polis in Athens and each person served a term with x number of people in the senate each year. They did not have career politicians because that is not in anyone’s best interest. One of the things we talked about early on was that the changes we want may take years. The left has changed paradigms and we must change them back, slowly convince the population that one of the things we have to do is introduce the idea of term limits. Limited government is minute compared to what we want. This is an issue that we need to be extreme on. Demolition the government, rip it apart. We are way past limitations.
We have to educate people that reliance on the state is in their best interest. The stupidity that we see is beneficial to the argument. The State Supreme court of California shook off the citizens but the citizens said that ‘they work for us’. The point is that states rights is the flip side of the coin of limiting national government and if the states are doing it then the national government is not. States won’t take control until we force them to. On a state-by-state basis, we have to take back the powers that the Constitution guarantees us, but til then we are only putting on band-aids.
Maybe one way to market this idea is that instead of cutting government we are lending the powers to the state, and maybe that would be easier to grasp. Our generation (35-under) is the last of a dying breed….pull yourself up by your bootstraps..it is not like that for the generation after us. Under 30 is about the laziest, most worthless individual generation….because our definition of boldness and brevity is far more toned down. The generation of (mine) understands accountability and personal motivation.
Barack Obama doesn’t talk about a lot of the things that he really believes in. This is not really a market winner. In 1980 the majority of Canadians did not believe that the government would take away their guns and free speech. Now they have no way of getting those tenets back. You “sell the sizzle, not the steak”. The point is that we don’t have to feel like we are mean to liberals by not highlighting something. When you are dating a girl, do you highlight all the facts? We will stand for this, but we will not highlight this.
When you rely on government you have enslaved yourself to something that you cannot control. When we the people take back the power that we the people are due…this automatically happens. We cannot have government run amok when people are demanding real power and justice. This is a necessary result of these ideals taking hold. Young people want power and change, but they are not necessarily all-knowing of the specifics of power that they want.
On colleges, it is no longer about etiology and the college is not a strong place to find Conservative passion.
The idea of a Nanny State for generations has people who are breaking away and searching for an answer. What is it that we need to grab on to so the larger group of us can come on over? ATTACK SELF-WORTH. Al Sharpton said “we have been supporting you for fifty years and for what”..”The black community feels like the fat ugly lady that is promised a prom date every year and we are beginning to see that we are stood up and are searching for something REAL”. The conversation became Ralph Nader’s “white guilt issue”…..that we give handouts to blacks instead of Freedom and equality. How do you approach them so that they get it? Like lazy white 20-somethings, YOU HAVE TO BE BLUNT. We get hit with silly, corny ridiculous statements…..KEEP HOPE ALIVE, for example.
Empowerment is a narcotic, philosophically, to give people what they want. Personal Responsibility never really mentions power, so how can we make Limited Government appeal to peoples’ EGO’s? This has worked once before when Jefferson wrote “Government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed.” This was the message…we don’t need a king to watch over us. We are fine, we will only allow government the powers we wish it to have. BIG GOVERNMENT ENSLAVES YOU.
If we are the puppets, the master has us believing that we don’t make a difference, so the smaller amount of people can keep the power. If we can turn the people on to all the menuche of the politicos….we can turn people on and start raising generations to create Conservatives in power to say that we need states to do their job and hold every official and every recipient accountable.
One of the ways we can change government is to provide true politicians and instead seek Statesmen. If you find a true statesman and limit how long he can run, then you tap yourself out. We are trying to raise up men and women as statesmen. You don’ t have to give over your whole life, but a limited amount of time is great and then you can go on and be a citizen. Any time you mess with government or ANYTHING there are ALWAYS Unintended Consequences. We couldn’t get FDR out of the whitehouse because he was a statesman. The GOP couldn’t stop it, so they altered the Constitution with a term limit amendment. |
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Cherie Kail
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| 07/02/2008 8:49 AM |
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We talk about Liberty and Freedom, about limiting government, not tiring, not faltering, not failing.
I’ve immersed myself in local politics because I have a burning desire to even the scales, to rip control from the hands that have no means by which to seize it. I also believe that there are basic premises by which to foster the growth of that positive and Conservative change. In order to create change, we must TAKE ACTION. Secondly, we must BE JOYFUL. Nothing speaks louder than a happy, humble Conservative. To know that a person is living within their means and still, it suffices to say they are overflowing with glee. Third is the element of EMPOWERMENT. The Art of War has a spark of empowerment that treads softly into personal Freedom, Liberty The most important part of being a strong Conservative and in marketing that ideology is to REMAIN CONNECTED.
There are a wealth of opportunities here and now. The best way to expose yourself is to quit sitting on the sidelines. There is a meeting almost every single night of the week and throughout most days involving the political goings-on here in Springfield. This city is seemingly a hotbed of action, passion and persuasion---full of people who are fed up with failure and exhausted in their mainstays of averting repetition and dynasty locally.
Between Nick Ibarra and Eric Burlison, there is a refreshing vantage point that means their election made affirmative will create and implement change here and now. They are always needing volunteers, as are many other candidates….for Sheriff (Jim Arnott, Mark Webb, etc), for Mayor (???), for Clerk of the Circuit Court (Steve Helms and Peggy Kubicek), for commissioner Mark Jones, ???. So, offer to put up yard signs. Take a PTO day and work the polls (ask me how and where, I’ll put you in touch!) knock on doors, do phone calls, help with mailouts, offer webpage design help, offer footwork, set up fundraisers and educate your neighbors. Go to the meetings, ask the questions, write letters to senators and to the editors. It never hurts to try and the worst thing that can happen is that you are ignored. It’s not even about self-gain or a resume. But when you get involved and impact the front lines, things will flow more smoothly for both the candidate and your own life….by taking a vested interest in real politics, you can have a huge effect on making positive change!
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