Thank you for your support!

For the past eight months or so I have been an unaffiliated candidate for Governor of Colorado. I will be officially ending my effort and will be off the Secretary of State’s candidate list once I find time to do the necessary paperwork to end the campaign. I learned a few lessons, validated some things I suspected, and now know what is needed to be a candidate in today’s political climate and culture.

I would like to thank all of you that worked on the petition drive and visited my Blog on a regular basis. I hope you continue to come back here as I change my focus to education rather than a political campaign. The Blog will take on current affairs from the perspective of the constitution. I don’t expect to change the world here but I want to do my part to keep the constitution in our political conversation as a nation. We have lost our way because we no longer utilize the constitution as our guide. Both political parties are guilty.

Lessons learned:

• Political campaigns are a full time job which means if you are a an executive at a start-up firm building a business and jobs you will not have time to run for office. This is why we get the politicians we do, rich, retired, or living off the dole.
  
• Politics is broken because we the people have stopped paying attention. The Tea Party movement is changing that but my prediction is that too will fade.
  
• Money is the root of the evil in politics. I don’t care what anyone says politicians today spend most of their time cow towing to political donors and don’t stand on principle anymore.
  
• Term limits now.
  
• The two parties are both corrupt and self interested and we should continue all efforts to end the way our parties control the process.
  

Validations:

• People hate politics in general and suspect politicians have ulterior motives.
  
• We are in big trouble because the people we need with real experience to run for government have too much sense to get into the cesspool we call politics.
  
• The media is derelict in their duties to cover politics in a way that gives citizens a true picture of the political landscape. The media should be ashamed of themselves. They are lazy and part of the corruption.
  
• Family always comes first.
  

What you need to know if you run for office:

• You will be ignored by everyone but your friends and family. It will get lonely.
  
• People will support you privately but most will not lift a finger to help until the bandwagon is rolling.
  
• You can do one thing and one thing only; sell yourself and your campaign
  
• The people that are in politics are mostly good people but the system is so broken it will frustrate you to no end.
  
• Money is the root of evil in politics but it is the only way right now to make a difference. It is why most people hate politics.
  

I am off to educate now. I love teaching my kids about the constitution and anyone else that will listen. It is the key to our future and what we need to fix this nation. Always consider the constitution in every conversation about the government. Always ask; where is the government getting the authority to address this issue (put any issue here)? Show me the place in the constitution…

The constitution and our founders were given to us by God. Always remember without morality and law, we are the same as every two bit dictator and communist nation around the world. It is individual freedom and free markets that have made us the envy of the world not government. Capitalism is the greatest economic system in the world when we operate on moral grounds. Take away morality and every system fails. We must return to a government that was outlined in our founding documents.

The more government grows, the less free we are as individuals, the more bankrupt we become, and the closer we get to tyranny… Our founders knew how to fend this off with the framing of the constitution; now you can too…

Bribes, Bribes, and Lies…

The president will bribe senior citizens again with a conveniently timed “campaign” to sell a very unpopular healthcare program that was passed with an unprecedented list of bribes, and even more lies. He is sending $250 checks to seniors on Medicare to bribe people to accept this program that is actually bankrupt because if we are honest, the entire federal government is truly bankrupt. The definition of bankruptcy; someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts. If not for the power to print money, no one in their right mind would invest in our bonds today.

We have one trillion four hundred billion more debt then we have in Tax Revenue (assets). The federal government is borrowing and using our credit and their power to tax us to cover this debt but that is the big lie. We as a people are not willing to pay more for the debt being created and the truth is we as a people want the spending cut. Sending $250 checks to seniors with this kind of debt will outrage everyone including seniors because we are all onto the federal governments biggest of lies; that we can spend our way into prosperity.

I believe this administration is creating the chaos necessary to break even more laws to institute more powers that the people don’t want. We are at the most critical turning point in our history since the civil war. We are being lied to and bribed to go along with unconstitutional programs, and unsustainable welfare programs designed to buy votes and power.

We need to be aware that any bribe you are offered by the federal government is unconstitutional but more importantly a nail in the coffin of freedom and our republic. How long before we have to actually claim bankruptcy? And then what will that bribe be worth?

Is winning a principle or the result of following your principles?

The republican choir keeps getting louder on the subject of “winning” in November. The fear of third party candidates, independent candidates, and rival republican candidates are getting the inside pundits nervous. Well, they should be. But what they don’t understand is that people are looking for principled candidate’s period. They have seen what happens even when republicans win; many abandon their principles.

That is the reason we are in this mess. The people “in charge” of producing candidates, have become corrupted in the pursuit of winning. So what is winning? In the Republican Party’s eyes it is having one more republican than democrat in congress so they can control the committees, and therefore the agenda. Based on Obama’s lightning bolt efforts to ruin this country that is not all bad. But if the people in Arizona elect John McCain, the man currently pretending to share conservative and limited government values, will we get a candidate for limited government? No way, he is the typical republican candidate willing to “compromise” to get legislation passed and frustrating the rest of us who want principled constitutional government.

The two parties are spending lavishly on themselves while the expansion of government continues. Eighty percent of Americans don’t trust the federal government and I would suggest that number is not far from what people think about the two parties. So what do we do?

Do we continue to vote for the lesser of two evils or do we purge the evil? We need to change the foundation of the way we elect candidates and it starts with principles. We need to find principled candidates and help them win. The culture in political parties is corrupt and we know it. We watch people giving large sums of money for access, and we watch party insiders spending that money on getting more money from big donors that have one principle in mind; their own interest. The money is poisonous, the backroom deals are criminal, and we are focused on winning. We are helping to elect people that are willing to compromise our principles for the good of a party.

Again I ask; is winning a principle or is it the result of following our principles? We can follow our principles but as our founders stated in the Declaration of Independence “we must mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor”… Our founders knew what principle was worth but do we?

The End of Wall Street is the End of America…

I’m sorry if I offend you but you are economically illiterate if you think reforming “Wall Street” is the answer to our economic woes. Reforming government regulation is the answer to our economic woes. I cringe when I read people writing about “corporate greed” and how we need to tax them to make them “pay” for the services these selfish left leaning Americans seek.

Last night the president was on American Idol promoting “giving back” which if done by private charity is a worthy cause. But if we continue to demonize and destroy “Wall Street”, as he and his supporters keep doing, we will destroy America and the ability of individual Americans to give anything to charity. The countries we help now will no longer be the beneficiary of our wealth because our wealth will have been stolen by this president and congress.

The left and our president have no concept of the capitalist system and believe that somewhere there is a “Golden Goose”, but I have news for them, there is no other golden goose. The reason there are corporations that don’t pay taxes is because politicians have created the environment and rules that encourage tax avoidance. Government regulations are the rules that create the culture of corruption. Politicians are the “brokers” that business leaders must pay to get exceptions to punitive rules. If the rules were the same for every business and politicians were not involved in the process, business would never need Washington lobbyists or pay off politicians who are continually changing the rules business must follow to be successful.

And the reason there is poverty in this country is not because of the jobs being created by these corporations in this country, it is the government programs that poor Americans are shackled into because they have put their faith in political promises.

There is no reason in America that someone who seeks a better life can’t achieve one. A better life in America depends on a thriving “Wall Street” and is dead in the water if we have a “thriving federal government” and punitive tax policy. The left needs to get their head out of the government troth and start thinking logically not emotionally.

The left hates America and wealth, but without wealth and “Wall Street” we will see the end of America and the American Dream… Maybe that’s what they really want…

The Party of the “Working” man and the Party of “Limited Government”…

You would think the party of the “working” man (Democratic Party) and the Party that claims to be for “limited government” (Republican Party) would be sensitive to the “average” American out in the real world struggling to make ends meet. The latest report of the two parties lavish spending is out and the spending suggests that neither party lives up to the claims they make.

Both national parties have raised over $100,000,000 (one hundred million) dollars in campaign contributions and many of those contributions come from people that believe each party has their interest at heart. But what they really have at heart is their comfort and lavish lifestyle.

Limos, booze, luxury restaurants and hotels, nearly a million in office supplies, corporate/private jets, golf, fishing, and meetings in Hawaii are typical expenditures. Officials from both parties suggest they have to spend money to get the big donors to contribute. These expenditures totaled $60,000,000 (sixty million) for the democrats and $74,000,000 (seventy four million) for the republicans.

Read the article yourself. Don’t get me wrong here, I believe they can spend the money any which way they want to, and for the places and people they are spending the money on, it is good for their economy. But don’t tell we the people that you represent them. Both parties are part of the culture of corruption that has permeated our government.

They raise money by demonizing each other and they are doing quite well. This is a game to them and they are taking your hard earned contributions and rubbing them in your face. How often do you get private limos in Hawaii, after boozing it up on your private corporate jet? These people are telling you they are going to change the government. It sounds like the way they spend their money, they are just as corrupt, unaccountable, and as out of control as the government they say they want to change.

Is this the change any of us want?

Criminals are running this country…

Extortion, bribes, “rules” changes to usurp the constitution, and defamation of character is the Modus Operandi of our current congress. Every day we hear a new scheme being calculated or pursued to pass an illegal bill. That’s right it is an illegal bill. To make citizens of the United States buy something with the threat of force and imprisonment has taken us to the final step; taking back our government.

I have been arguing here that the only way to stop these criminals is to elect Governors across the country that will end this criminal activity. Return the power back to the people and the states through constitutional government. We are facing a mob in DC that is using criminal tactics to pass bills that have no constitutional standing. These politicians are rubbing our nose in their power, ignoring our clear direction to stop this madness, so I ask what are we to do?

Thomas Jefferson believed we would have to revolt and revise our government often. He knew that human nature was such that people like the ones in congress would always end up in charge. No matter how strong the system of checks and balances was, people would always work the system in their favor. He was a genius. But we don’t have the backbone to do what the founders of this nation were willing to do. But we also have more power than the founders had at the time of our founding revolution.

We have the tools to organize quickly, and we have seen the power of the grass roots movements like the Tea Party and 9/12 organizations. We have access to transportation, information, and have the ability to stop this if we can think like Americans and not leave this up to the politicians.

This congress is sticking an ice pick in our eye while invading our privacy, our property, and our economic prosperity. And while we get angry they continue on their march to take the hill. What are we going to do? When will we say enough is enough? When we will force the change necessary to end this threat we face from our own government. Will we wait until they have destroyed our healthcare? Will we wait until they destroy our financial health through bankruptcy? Will we wait until we are all standing in food lines for our next meals?

This election is not just another election where we can afford to put the same party, different name back in charge. We need to be bold and try a revolutionary idea like voting for the person and not the party. We need you to run. We need to stop playing the games that our political system has created to keep themselves in power. We need to wake up to the criminal activity we have going on all around us in the political world, and do what we need to do to rid us of this madness.

We need to be loud, consistent, and willing to go outside the boundaries in electing the next generation of politicians. We need to look beyond the current “family”. The late William F Buckley Jr, a brilliant conservative once said, “I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.”

I totally agree with his assessment but I would also add along with Harvard University the current politicians and political parties… Let’s take back the hill…

How about a Congressional takeover bill?

Barney Frank is now imposing legislation to cap all pay of companies receiving government funds. I say OK - Congress pay is supported exclusively through our tax dollars and I say we limit their pay to the following scale:

House Members Pay scale:

First 2 year term of House members: $125,000 per year
Second term of House member: $62,500 per year
Third Term and beyond: $1.00 per year

Senate Members pay scale:
First 6 year term of Senate Members: $125,000
Second term and beyond of Senate Members: $1.00

No retirement pay.
Healthcare only during their term.

Effective January 1st 2010 all government funded House and Senate members will be paid according to the above scale.

What say you?

Why pay your taxes?

The nominee for Secretary of the Treasury that oversees the IRS has shown by his deeds that paying taxes is optional. Timothy Geithner has apologized for his “honest” mistake of failing to pay $34,000 in self employment payroll taxes. Now I know a lot of self employed people, and I know that if they didn’t pay their taxes it wouldn’t garner them a nomination to Secretary of the Treasury, it would more likely nominate them to the top of the prosecution for tax evasion list of the IRS.

It wasn’t one mistake but rather his evasion of taxes lasted many years. The question now is will he be nominated in spite of this evidence? This is the guy who will now be in charge of the trillions of dollars of debt we are about to incur.

He has suggested we create a “bad” bank that will house all of the bad debt so that the other banks can lend more money to people that will not pay it back which will end up making the “bad” bank bigger. This is ludicrous. We need to pay down debt not continue the activity that gave us this unmanageable debt that is the lead anchor of our economic ship.

So I say if we nominate this guy we follow his example and not pay our taxes. This way the government has no money to implement this idiocy. It is simply tough love for our government representatives. They can’t help themselves so it is up to us to cut off their supply to end their addiction. Let’s do it before they get any other “big” ideas. Just a thought…

Indictments before Inauguration?

What have we done? Obama has not even taken office yet and he is already surrounded by scandal. I don’t believe he has a monopoly on really shady relationships, but when will we find a politician that is above all of this? I will tell you when; when we reform and reduce the scope of government.

Government controls too much, and so people that understand this play the political game. And what is the political game? Contribute money to elected officials to gain access to the strings of government that open the door to financial gain. The power to control tests an individual’s character, and we need to insure we elect people that have character. We also have to limit government’s ability to control resources.

This latest scandal with the Illinois Governor is no surprise to anyone including the Obama camp. They need to admit their dealings and stop acting like this is something they were unfamiliar with. They are in deep here, and know exactly what this is all about. It is pathetic, disappointing, and typical.

We are in for a long ride until we get rid of all of the corruption. That can only be done by paying attention to politics, and supporting people that run for office that are like you! Get involved; our future depends on ending our dependency on the crooks in politics. Just a thought…