Interesting Viewpoints From the Fringe of a Major Political Party

"After decades of New Deal and Great Society social activism; combined with the rapid decline in civics and American history education in our government schools; mixed with a growing population of ill-informed and apathetic voters; government at every level in this country continues to be too big, too intrusive, and too expensive.

Founded in 1991, the Republican Liberty Caucus exists to promote individual liberty, limited government, and free enterprise within the Republican Party by:
(a) promoting these ideals among Party officials and its various organizations,
(b) identifying and supporting candidates sympathetic with these ideals, and
(c) promoting Caucus membership among Republican Party registrants, officials, and officeholders.

While rolling back decades of government “nannyism” will require a great deal of public education and grassroots lobbying, the most important means of changing public policy is to change public officials. Therefore, the Republican Liberty Caucus works to elect pro-liberty Republicans to offices at all levels, partisan and non-partisan, in both primary and general elections."




I assume there are people within the Democratic party that share these beliefs. If only all the people who do so could unite under what they have in common rather then what they disagree on.

see:

The New Real Deal

All (both of you),

I have decided to gather my thoughts and "re-purpose" this site as a place where I and others can put their ideas and beliefs on the internets. I assume you know that I am pretty conservative in the root meaning of the word (conserve). I don't like big government, not because I'm a right wing crazy, but rather, I don't think most human beings really have the ability to make decisions that truly are in the interest of others. I think most people can agree that our federal government is way to large to be effective in doing almost anything. And have lost sight of its original purposes.

At the same time I do not believe that the wasteful lifestyle that seems to define us as Americans is a healthy way to live (I am not saying that I am without fault here, and I am not casting a stone at the choices of others, rather, I am just stating that what we are doing isn't really "right" and is clearly not sustainable, we should be better stewards of the world we have been blessed with).

So, I invite you post your ideas. I hope this gets fairly large, and people can come together in they believe in, not their differences.

“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds… [we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our mis-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow sufferers… And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for [another ]… til the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery… And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.” – Thomas Jefferson

If only politicians today understood the things men did over 225 years ago.