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Born in 1954 in Bismarck, ND, out on the prairie, so I am not a tree hugger. A product of the public school system,
but amazingly not a Liberal (in the current denigrating definition of that term). I have delivered newspapers, been
a carryout at a grocery store, been a short order cook in a Perkins clone restaurant, a mechanical designer for 28 years,
a home builder for 2 years (thank you all for my tax return), a worker bee and a contractor's rep for a big box home improvement
company, and a house husband and free lance (writer? thinker?) for the last year. I believe in the Declaration
of Independence where it says "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
That may be one of the greatest sentences ever written by man. I believe there is a definite order to that phrase, that
there is a Creator, that your first right is to Life, that to live a truly fulfilled life you must have Liberty, and
then you can pursue Happiness. I also believe that the most important clause in our Constitution is the 2nd Amendment,
because without that right, Government eventually can and will usurp all the others. I believe in less government, but
even stronger in a more localized government. I believe the Federal Government should be doing Defense, foreign
relations, Immigration, Border control, the Monetary system, a Federal court system, an interstate police system (FBI),
and not a whole lot else. Let the 50 states compete on roads, education, and health care system, and just about everything
else. Even within the states, let individual cities, counties, school districts, etc. compete with each other.
Whatever governmental entity is actually providing the service (like a school district or a city police force) should both
collect and spend the taxes to fund that services as voted by the residents of that unit. That way we all get the level
of service we are willing to pay for, and ultimately deserve. Anyone who doesn't like it is free to move somewhere where
the residents vote more like themselves.
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