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You can find me at:
Made of Awesome
My Manifesto I am a registered nothing. I tried to register Independent, but Connecticut set me as “undecided” and I’m okay with that. I do not believe all the tenets of the Republican party. I feel they are closer to my point of view than the Democrats, kind-of. I believe in the least amount of laws possible in order to maintain a civil society. I believe that health care in America should be a private industry, as the government cannot be trusted not to abuse the power a single-payer system would give them over our lives. I’d rather die four years earlier than have the government tell me what to do in yet another area of my daily life. This country used to be about freedom, liberty and the risks that come with those ideals. If we’re all willing to step away from government and do more things privately, we can be that way again. I believe in freedom and liberty, and to that end, I support the least amount of federal government it is possible to have. I don’t trust the government to run a our lives, and I don’t think anyone else should either. Governments are good at taxing, building roads and war. Everything else we can do for ourselves or help each other accomplish privately without the federal government taking over. We have city and state governments for a reason, and that is something Americans have forgotten. I do not listen to Rush Limbaugh. EVER. Nor do I listen to or watch Sean Hannity or Bill O’Reily or Fox News or any conservative talk radio. I don’t watch ANY television news. I find it banal, inflammatory, ridiculously biased and often sloppy. I read. A lot. I read more news sites and blogs in a day than most people read in a week. I use two different sources to gather news, an aggregator and a subscription to a news service. I see tens, dozens, often hundreds of different versions of popular stories, from every perspective imaginable. I believe in the inalienable right of gay people to be married, of the state to execute capital murderers, of a woman’s right to choose and in the separation of church and state as a guiding principle to governing the people. I believe the Bill of Rights is the most important document in American history, maybe superseding the main body of the Constitution itself. I actively support ALL ten amendments in the Bill of Rights. I believe that people are primarily responsible for their own destiny. I belong to the EFF and the NRA. I believe in the basic mission of both organizations. I believe that people have a right to be safe from physical harm, and they have the right to defend themselves with deadly force if they feel their life is threatened. I believe the money I earn should be mine, and that taxation should be as small as possible, and the federal government should be as small as possible. I believe that the free market can handle almost anything with a minimum of interference from the government. I think that government’s role should be reduced to nothing more than policing criminal behavior, protecting the borders, defending the nation and building infrastructure. I never met a tax cut I didn’t like. Milton Friedman was a genius. |