On Government

It's like having to ask your gardener permission to walk in your garden. Government officials are the citizens servants, elected and paid to do the job of serving the public and defending our constitution. You shouldn't have to ask permission from your servant to do something that is a right, provided to you by the United States Constitution, and you shouldn't have to have the permission of the government to conduct your life in the manner you see fit that affects no other person(s).

 

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

Thomas Jefferson

 

Issue #2 The right to Bear Arms

Again, this is a constitutional right by the American People to bear arms. I stand firmly behind that right! We are Americans.

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
--Thomas Jefferson, quoting Cesare Beccaria in On Crimes and Punishment (1764).

 

Issue #5 Eliminate Property Tax

Property Tax! Eliminate it. When Americans buy a home or a piece of land, it should be theirs...not the governments if they don't pay a ransom for it every year to keep it. Once you buy something. it should be yours in my opinion.

Issue #6 Equal Metro Police Protection for the poor

Metro Las Vegas Police Department and why we need an inquiry/investigation?
More traffic stops are performed in our district  and surrounding areas more than anywhere else throughout Nevada!
We are scrutinized more because of our poverty and the location where we live more than other Americans who live in affluent areas.

Issue #7  Public  Education and its Demise

(Larger schools = Larger Problems) coming soon!
I support Home Schooling in Nevada

Issue #8 Removing Nevada State Felon ID Registration Card Requirements after 10 years of being a productive citizen!

This gives all of us a chance to remedy mistakes in our lives by encouraging all past convicted felons to become and to have the aspirations to do good. Right now, we punish those mistakes for life in the form of holding these mistakes against folks in preventing them from getting good jobs and housing.

Currently, we take all hope from them and give them no goals to work toward and the results speak for themselves. Society must provide hope for those with mistakes to be accepted by society.

Issue #9 Nevada citizen dividends at election time

I would like for you to think about this one for a minute. Think about how many Nevadans you know personally that do not vote at election time.

I would like to propose that we pay a $50 dividend from the state to each Nevada resident who votes at election time.

Why would you do that? someone asked me once. Well let's follow this. I know that the majority who vote control and make laws for the majority.

This would stop politicians from catering to such groups and organizations who they know historically vote for a certain candidate based on their views.

Which is not a bad thing, unless they are making laws that will hinder the rest of us in the majority who don't want that law but have to live with them because that politician knows a certain group doesn't vote and doesn't have to worry about the backlash at the polls.

So let's pay each Nevadan a state dividend that can be collected after they vote. The dividend will have nothing to do with party affiliation or how they vote, as long as they do. Sort of a reward for doing your civic duty.

After all, don't we pay people for jury duty? ( A civic duty)

We pay people who join the national guard and join our police and fire departments don't we? ( An argument can be made that this should be a civic duty)

While I am not suggesting we require you to vote or some kind of penalty would be imposed...hardly...I respect your right to NOT VOTE if you should desire not to. But then, your not spending gas money and time to go to the polls either, so you would not be paid.

But, on the same hand, I think there is an obligation by the government to serve the people and what better way to get the people's say by paying them for their service to our state by electing people to represent them.

We pay the people we elect! So why wouldn't we pay the people who elect them?

My Thoughts on:

Hiring workers within the city limits
Free Trade Agreements

Letters from my readers:
 

Some of my favorite Quotes:

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

Thomas Jefferson

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Thomas Jefferson