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The corruption of culture

Governor Chris Christie, darling of the Republican establishment and Ann Coulter, spoke last week at the George W. Bush Institute. He made some comments about the entitlement society that we have become and its impact on the culture. He said, “We’re turning into a paternalistic entitlement society. That will not just bankrupt us financially. It will bankrupt us morally. Because when the American people no longer believe that this is a place where only their willingness to work hard and to act with honor and integrity and ingenuity, determines their success in life, then we’ll have a bunch of people sitting on a couch waiting for their next government check. “

Any time that a politician - especially a Republican - says something about culture and values, it’s sure to raise the hackles of the liberal media. Myself, I think he had it backwards. The corruption of the culture has led us to the entitlement society. The traditional family structure and faith in God are necessary to preventing culture rot. Unfortunately, too many liberals and RINOs/ CINOs (Catholic) are afraid of being unpopular and lack the courage to stand for traditional values. Instead they support abortion and gay marriage, as Christie does, (the tired excuse that he’s personally opposed but…) because maintaining power is more important to them than the future of our country. Don’t worry, liberal media, you have nothing to worry about from Christie.

~ Rick David, North Liberty

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Prove It!

I've been telling folks for years that a well thought out plan is essential for success regardless of what you are doing. There are those however that say coming up with a plan that proves to would-be constituents that they’ve taken the time to study the issues and provide solutions, of their own, in regard to things such as unemployment and a depressed economy is nonsense, ridiculous, doesn't matter and isn’t necessary. That basically, all that is required of them is to show their opponents faults and discredit them while claiming to be the candidate of change, and for that reason and that reason alone, not only do they deserve our vote, but have earned it as well.  

Candidates that choose to believe this, take us for granted, and assume us to be nothing more than farm animals to be led around by the rings in our noses, take heed. As we are not naive, misinformed, or mistaken about what we believe or expect from candidates that hope to one day represent us, because we do want a plan, we do want solutions, and we do want to win. So either you have a plan or you don’t, and if you don’t, it will be due to your own lack of knowledge and inexperience that unfortunately will impede ‘your’ success. If you want our vote, prove it!

Steven R Rathje Founder/CEO
International Procurement Services, Inc

The 'unholy alliance' of big government and big business

Modern-day Patriots are often misunderstood as merely GOP tools, because these Tea-Partiers found most agreement with Republicans giving lip-service to constitutionally-limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal liberty and free markets, and most incense toward Democrats' usual hostility to those things. 

However, when Democrats do right by the people, and Republicans do wrong, we must be equally vocal. 

Recent Iowa Statehouse activity demands such denunciation. 

Even some Tea-Partiers we last elected, are guilty of the "crony capitalism" we so loath.

On nearly party-line votes, Republicans approved utilities charging customers for new power plant construction (even unapproved nuclear designs), even before beginning, with no guarantees they'll ever be built, ratepayers will ever benefit, or that we can recoup our money in that event! 

This epitomizes the 'unholy alliance' that big government and big business often forms to fleece the people.

Only Senate Democrats stand between us and a scalping, like Floridians already experienced.

Likewise, Dems are more right, and GOP more wrong, on property tax reform, tho' both are still far from the positive wealth-creating tax reform we really need. 

It seems they only agree on shearing Iowa drivers with another fuel tax increase, so farmers and corporations remain shielded from paying the actual damages they cause to our roads. 

Whether using the State's coercive power to steal thru unequal taxation, or force unsecured investment in a publicly-granted monopoly, most government officials, of both parties, are not merely ignorant of our rights, but they are liars and thieves, not just incompetent, but criminal in their machinations. 

~ Larry M. Aden, Jolley, IA.

President Obama doesn't deserve another four years

The spin will only stop when our system is changed to throw out anyone in government including the president when it becomes obvious they are not capable of handling the job.  Obviously this president is NOT qualified to handle the job of president. Because of the wealth they all seem to accumulate at taxpayers expense; all the benefits politicians get while in office and receive after they are out of office; their interest is not Joe Public because they will never have to live by the regulations that they impose on the rest of us.  They will be set for life and that is not right. Waiting 4 years to replace a president when it becomes obvious that they are unqualified to run the country is 4 years to long, just look at how this president has destroyed the country in 3 years!  In my opinion, if he is re-elected we will go into a deep depression, worse than we have ever had and we will be in a civil war again in this country.

 

Follow this president on the news and you will see he TALKS a good game of getting people back to work in the private sector, but does not deliver.  In example, he won't even allow the Keystone pipeline to be put in that would immediately put thousands of people to work instead of them being on the welfare roll and being unemployed, it makes no sense to me.  Right now we have more people drawing government assistance than we have working and he thinks he deserves another 4 years.  He will only run our country in debt further and to keep enough people on government assistance and on the government payroll  to vote him back in to office.   

 

One more thing:

The President and Nancy Pelosi  giving their approval of the Occupy Wall Street movement by giving  encouragement to them even as they were breaking the law is in my opinion no different then what the Chicago 7 went on trial for in 1969 and 1970 ,  http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/chicago7/chicago7.html

 

Someone in the news needs to speak out on this as the President and Nancy Pelosi should not be above the law.

 

Sam Carpenter

Foley, AL

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An anniversary of sorts.....

Today marks the first day since Nancy Pelosi took over as speaker of the House and Harry Reid took over as head of the Senate in January, 2007 that the stock market has returned to 12,600.

So, when the Democrats and the liberal press tell you all our problems associated with the economy are Bush's fault; don't buy their baloney...our current problems lay directly at the feet of what the progressive Democrats have crafted these past five years.

Let's make 2012 the year we return conservatives to power in the White House, in the Senate and in the House.  Progressive politicians are much like vampires...their true policies cannot stand the light of day...and in the 2012 election we can drive a stake through the heart of the liberal agenda.

Stay engaged!

Capt Jim Kinney, USN (ret)