CABL Forum - Re: Citgo Gas !

I buy as many as possible american made. I drive a ford truck, wife is in a pontiac. I dont buy cheap taiwanese or chinese hand tools tools. Most power tools today are at least partially mad oversees. Again, this is a problem we bring on ourselves. Too many in this country want to sit in air conditioned offices and play with computers all day. God forbid you get your hands dirty. We "make" very little here any longer. The economy is service oriented and consumer driven.

But this is also another part of the one world or globalism. I am not a protectionist but I believe our government straddles businesses with way too much regulation and red tape. This gives the rest of the world a competitive advantage over us that they are not afraid to use against us. This is one of the reasons I really like the national sales/fair tax scenario. No corporate taxes, business will be fighting to get back in the US.

All I want from the US Federal government is to follow the constitution as written. It is very clearly written and in my humble opinion is not a "living document". It says what is meant and means what it says. I feel we do our country a disservice when we start "interpreting" the constitution. Tell me I am crazy when I say "if you have to ask if it is wrong, it probably is". When we start having the courts twist it up like origami, to me it is nothing more than judges, whom no one elected, creating laws from the bench. It is also not a suicide pact and does give a way for it to be changed if there is a problem that needs to be fixed. I believe the founding fathers would kick the current congress in the ass if they seen what they have been doing for the last 50 years.

I have also told you before that the government does have a place to keep order. I also believe they do things that no one else would like road construction and prisons. But they have all become so inefficient and corrupt I can barely stand it. I also believe the federal government should be the smallest ( minus the military ) out of fed,state and local. Your local (ie township, county or parish ) should be the largest. They are the one most likely to have a daily interaction with you and perform the most services to you. They should also be the ones with the largest tax bite. I say this for the same reasons, most likely to be used for those who paid the taxes. And it is much more likely that if someone starts to leave the reservation and spending begins to get out of control, you are far more likely to go to the county seat and say your peace than you are to go to DC. Why do I need to send tax money to DC to have them send it back to my home state to be used? And all it does is cost more money because I had to pay the clerk to send it to DC and then pay another clerk to send it back to PA. What good did that serve. States can feel free to set up regional tax scenarios, it is their constitutional right to do so. So why does the federal government stick its nose in. The so called unfunded mandates are the tip of the iceberg, the feds mandate a whole bunch, tax you for it and then send the money back to home state and have the audacity to say they are efficient.

Last thing I have to say is, again, stop thinking about what is good for the political party and start thinking about what is good for the country. Political parties are like the nobility of the past. They believe because they are in the party apparatus, they are above the "common" man or woman. That was one of the things we shed ourselves of in the Revolutinary War. Why are we trying to revive it?

I don't mean to say I know the answers to all of the questions, I just know what I see going on right now is not right. Hasn't been for a while. And I want it fixed.

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Re: Citgo Gas !