GOLDWATER AND THE CONSERVATIVE BELIEFS.

[Lock Piatt]

Barry Goldwater believed that the Constitution meant what it said and did not need to be revised reviewed or changed. He supported low taxes and a strong defence. He also railed about the thought police in our bedrooms and schools where to quote him "They have no damn right to interfere in our free right to do as we damn well please."

He fought wasteful spending because it was our money not the governments. Progressive taxes were wrong and not allowed in the Constitution. All taxes and levies must be as to population or equally divided equally amongst the citizens based on a head count. There are many ways the Forefathers tried to protect the citizens from wealth removal from citizens for government purposes.

These unfair actions started the Goldwater conservative movement that carried the country through the Reagan Presidency. Goldwater was the father of the party not Reagan.

[Lock Piatt]

Tomb,

Do some basic research regarding the level of math, reading and writing skills exhibited by the average University student. You will find it flies in the face of your statements. As to a good inexpensive education, history shows that the old one room school run in the rural areas did a very good job of educating the children.

Also if you look at the private schools with open eyes you will find they deliver a better education with less money per student than does the Socialist approach now pursued by the Teachers Unions and the Federal Government. They also have scholarships for the poor so the strawman built of fear and hate falls to the truth of facts. Private schools delivery more for less with the same ratio of student talent.

When I attended University in the 60s and 70s the liberal bias was even invading the business College and the science/engineering Colleges. Ivory tower Professors that have zero real world experience teach feelings and not facts. How can we make the world equal is the question? They ignore the obvious answer - You can not because all people are not equal in abilities.

A 3.0 GPA in our Current Universities is not even going to get you into a good advanced degree school. Ivy league schools, USC, Stanford and other highly regarded Universities never give out a grade lower than 3.0 and most get a 4.0 without even performing that level of quality work product. It is all about reputation for the percentage getting into advance degree programs from their undergraduate program.

Education is little more than a bad joke, it is just an illusion of success.

[Jim Rock]

actually Jefferson was when he split the Dem-rep Party, then got its resurgence under the Parties second father Linclon

[Lock Piatt]

Jimmy, I will stick with Barry because he got all of it right and the others including Taft & Reagan got only some parts correct. The government is to SERVE THE PUBLIC not dictate how we do business or conduct our private lives. All are equal and all have the equal right to fail and suffer the consequences of their choices. If you chose not to get a marketable skill, is it the citizens responsibility through government actions to proved for that person?

Yes, homeless AKA Bums, Hobos have the absolute right to chose their lifestyle - I on the other hand do not have any responsibility to pay government money to give them. The Constitution provides equal opportunity for all not EQUAL LIFE STYLES. That would be Plato's world task - maybe we are leaning towards that belief system. It might take another revolution to save us from the FREE GIVERS OF OUR MONEY.

Jimmy Clendennen said:

"Goldwater was the father of the party not Reagan"

What about "Mr. Republican" Robert A. Taft?

[Lock Piatt]

I'm Back,

The whole political system is locked in the belief that they can do what ever they want and the mindless public will just go on. They all ignore the Constitution except for the Arizona Congressman that puts up a bill each session that requires congress to specifically spell out what section of the Constitution permits the proposed law, after four or five terms 35 out of 535 have signed on as cosponsors. Yes only 35 out of 535 will vote to actually do what they promised to do when they were sworn into office -UPHOLD AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUITON OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.


NOT


I'm Back said:

Hello Lock,
When we start talking about Goldwater, or even Reagan for that matter, we tend to date ourselves. Using your Goldwater quote however, sums things up quite succinctly: They have no damn right to interfere in our free right to do as we damn well please."

Currently, the Republican Party is devoid of morals, ethics, character and fiscal responsibility. Who is there to choose from? Perhaps within the next four years, hopefully within two, someone will step forward to fill the void.

Until then, we are drifting aimlessly, and I'm not prone to be one of the lemmings that subscribe to the Rush-Hannity-Coulter mindless nonsense.

[Lock Piatt]

Lex,

Can you believe it a real conservative think tank funded by the Goldwater Foundation - they will get some of my money. Check them out everyone and you will discover what the Founding Fathers intended America to be governed like.

Lex_Luthor said:

Inflation days are here again
By Byron Schlomach, Ph.D.

Al Gore made a big deal of the United Nations' "hockey stick" graph of the earth's temperature record in his movie An Inconvenient Truth. The hockey stick represented the apparent sudden upsurge in the earth's temperature in recent decades. Riddled with errors, that graph has since been thoroughly debunked. But here's a real hockey stick graph that should make everybody nervous.

This is a graph of the nation's supply of paper money and coins. A lot of the money circulates - a minuscule portion of it is in my pocket right now. A whole lot of it sits in bank vaults and is the basis on which they make loans. The graph shows that the Federal Reserve's printing presses must have been running triple shifts lately, because in only two months time, the supply of paper money increased by an unprecedented 76 percent.


Most of this cash went straight into bank vaults as part of the effort to shore up the nation's financial sector. It takes awhile for banks to turn the cash around and loan it, but when they do, watch out. Just like everything else, when the supply of money increases, it becomes less valuable, meaning it takes more money to buy things. That's inflation. Remember the 1970s when inflation was at double-digit rates? Well, that will pale compared to what we could experience over the next few years.

Byron Schlomach, Ph.D, is director of economic policy at the Goldwater Institute.

[Terrence Abrams]

THERE is a LOT to be said for preserving the Constitution just the way it is!

[Lock Piatt]

Terrence,

If we are to survive as a free nation with a free citizenry it must remain unchanged. May have tried but failed and may they continue to fail.

Terrence Abrams said:

THERE is a LOT to be said for preserving the Constitution just the way it is!

[Terrence Abrams]

You know it Lock! A few amendments over time may be okay, and we're talking FEW and FAR between, but the original framework and lawmaking guidelines & philosophies of our US Consitution is still the best piece of governmental building block ever created.

[Marlene H. Klim]

Lock,

Great start. Thank you for taking the ball and running with it.

Is it even imaginable what the reaction would be if THE WRITERS OF THE CONSTITUTION were to 'drop by' just to see the results of all their efforts and intentions. They did their best in creating a really stellar document, A PLAN. Only a precious very few have truthfully followed it to the letter.

All of us owe all of what we have, both real and personal, to the Constitution and its authors. How many would put their lives on the line as they did to support it. I dare say the number would be disappointing. So many of us and so few true believers.

[Lock Piatt]

Marlene,

it is because so few have actually read the Constitution and it has been reduced to a passing comment by our schools. Mostly it is misrepresented by so called Constitutional scholars like Mr. B.H. Obama LLB. They and the media quote what never was and will never be in the Constitution as actual in the document and no one questions them because they agree it should be a living document. Change it meaning as you please if it advances your belief system.

We must put a stop to this practice and return to the intended words of the Forefathers. I can understand their letters and personal records just as they wrote them - what is the problem?

Marlene H. Klim said:

Lock,

Great start. Thank you for taking the ball and running with it.

Is it even imaginable what the reaction would be if THE WRITERS OF THE CONSTITUTION were to 'drop by' just to see the results of all their efforts and intentions. They did their best in creating a really stellar document, A PLAN. Only a precious very few have truthfully followed it to the letter.

All of us owe all of what we have, both real and personal, to the Constitution and its authors. How many would put their lives on the line as they did to support it. I dare say the number would be disappointing. So many of us and so few true believers.

[Marlene H. Klim]

Lock,

You said it right. It is time for us (ALL AMERICANS) to stand up and demand that the Constitution must stand as written by our Forefathers.

This includes Section II, in reguiring 'ONLY A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN CAN BE THE PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY'. We need to demand DEMAND that ALL the attempts to subvert the Constitution be seen as exactly what they are, in reality trying to SUBVERT THIS COUNTRY.

There is another Constitution group on this site that has a really good document posted regarding the presidential electee's efforts on the matter of the 'NATURAL BORN CITIZEN' requirement of the Constitution. It should be a MUST READ FOR ALL. He's been working on this since 2006 according to the document.

[Mr. Right-of-Center]

Preserving the Constitution is one thing. Governing by it requires imagination, practical problem solving ability and integrity.

We had a general election in November 2008 and the Republican ticket for President lost.

The notion of secession is so extreme and radical as to negate the Constitution largely because its lawful exercise has led to an administration we don't agree with.

Revolution, civil war, armed insurrection are violent, hugely destructive events that throw a nation into anarchy, lawlessness and chaos.

The rights Americans have enjoyed for over 200 years would be seriously undermined if not destroyed by the very people who claim to love America and its history under the Constitution.

That makes little sense to me. It seems more like extreme hysteria rather than a political response any but the most extreme are about to adopt.

I can't think of ANY serious Republican leader in the history of the party who advocated the dissolution of the Union that the very first Republican president worked so ably to preserve.