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On Debates, Bailouts and Rocklin's Election

9/30/08 by Michael Patrick Murphy a registered "Decline to State" voter.

Despite a recent surge led by young people towards registering to vote as Independents (Decline to State, DTS voters), apathy, dishonesty and a lack of responsibility by "we the people" have brought us very poor candidates, a war, debt and more crime than ever. The people of Rocklin have the country, state, county and city that they collectively deserve and it is all their own fault.

With that said, let's use a little "critical thinking" to head on a path towards fixing this. First, understand that the incumbent candidates, political parties and the national media assume that you are nothing more than sheep, lemmings and ostriches. They assume you can be easily fooled and therefore fool you regularly. In this county, the most conservative in California, it is no different. Voters here, and there aren't enough of them, assume themselves to be more astute than their Democrat friends west of us. This is not true. They have allowed the County and Cities to fall under developer control and have allowed immense social programs to thrive beyond our ability to afford them. Gee wouldn't it be nice to give everyone in Placer County a million dollars? Yes it would be nice! If I never thought I, along with all the other Placer taxpayers, would have to pay it all back, I'd love better schools, roads, a beautiful downtown Rocklin, more public parks, less traffic, more assistance for low income folks, etc. Most Republicans favor this sort of communism, too.

For over 35 years, I've warned America that there's no such thing as a free lunch and communism in all forms is theft-based and therefore unethical. This includes corporate welfare schemes like those currently requested by Obama, McCain, Brown, McLintock and our current Rocklin City Council. Take the bailout proposal favored by Obama and McCain. Notice that they are both in favor of this welfare program backed by our taxes. Ironically, their largest donors are the big banks, that looking forward to the bailouts, and not their constituents.

The so-called debates are where Americans have set themselves up for failure.

The debates are the biggest, most illegitimate, in the history of the United States. First, 4 Republicans and 4 Democrats (Committe on Presidential Debates) set them up to eliminate in real debates and competition for their dying parties. No wonder that all parties and any ideas they might have, are not in the debates. You have been framed. Of course the only candidate that warned America about the coming economic crash and made it his primary issue was Ron Paul who was eliminated using the same unethical methods early on in the primaries where he was given far less time in the debates by design. Sure he was a bit Libertarian, but that is exactly what the country needs today, someone that does not believe in borrowing and printing fiat currency. Only the Libertarians were addressing the spending issues and had the backbone to speak truth to power and the American people on the economy. Where are they in the debates? That's right, it would be far too embarrasing for McCain and Obama who were hand picked for you and promoted by a bank owned media looking forward to your bail outs. The goverment is rigged and, due to the public's lack of discipline, we are now living in an elegant totalitarian state. The developers own the local governments and corporate America owns your federal government and you get on the couch, owning at least 125,000 to that government (before this economic calamity), and turn on the TV to watch the talking heads that never mention third parties or independents. What I say may make you very angry, especially if you're a Republican, however, I know that if you would get beyond your ego and listen to your heart of hearts, you know that what I say is painfully true.

Solutions

Honesty and discipline are essential for good governance. We must train ouselves to be better Americans today so that our posterity can have a better America tomorrow.

• Anybody should be able to print money and back it with whatever they want or be free to use anything as currency if the other party is willing to accept it. The dollar is only worth what folks think its worth. You can't take it to the government and get gold for it unless you buy their specially minted coins. But even if you do that, the amount of dollars you need to buy the coin will vary from day to day. That's why, in a free country, you would probably choose a bank where you could take that banks money and exchange it for the same amount of gold as you could of the day you got that currency. Government dollars are becoming more worthless for foreign goods and ironically, more valuable when it comes to buying American assets. This changes with every congressional whim and should we have a bailout, the dollar will fall again. People have become so lazy in using them that they barely know how to trade in any other way.
• There should be no bailouts, no corporate welfare and no personal welfare from the government. In the first place it is unethical to steal by force of law from one person or group and give it to another. In fact, by control, the government of the United States actually owns everything and everyone. You live and use things at the pleasure of the government. The trick is to make the government give folks total control over their own assets. In the end, even the poor would be better off. If you believe the other way, you will see what happens to the poor when our government is bankrupt (and it already is).
• The public must become more ethical and responsible. Rather than make unconstitutional laws like McCain, Feingold, which took away the secret ballot, the public needs to demand politicians that don't take the money from folks outside their district, from businesses and special interests, and in large amounts from single individuals. Politicians should be unaffiliated with any party and should actually represent the people in their districts. This would be the perfect cure for the Rocklin City Council that assumes it will win without having to show up for many, if any, interviews for the job. The public must look at their records, i.e. the meeting minutes, unfortunately written by somebody who works at the pleasure of the City Council. They must either drive down to City Hall and look at the 460 statements of those running for office or at least click on the links provided on this website to see where a candidate's money is coming from. This is the very least that should be done before a Rocklin voter can call him or herself responsible. You could even run for office or help a candidate that follows the criteria I listed above.

If you do these three things, I promise that you would soon have 100% better national, state, county and local government. Don't wait for your neighbor and quit going along with the current program of voting for the lesser of two evils. Set an example for your children. Learn to STAND TALL and support the best person for the job. Refuse to be a sheep, lemming or ostriche. Grow up and become a real American, not a compromise between a communist and subject of the crown.

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