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How Will You Vote?
Jim Sevy
This year offers all of us in the United States the opportunity to choose
a new President and elect Congressman and Senators as well as deal with
important state and local issues, such as California’s Proposition 22.
This is a way for everyone to get involved and to contribute to our
society. I recently answered an Internet survey about the 2000 election.
The questions were focused at determining whether I was a conservative or
a liberal, a republican or democrat, involved or not. After the
multiple-choice questions were complete, they asked for my comments on the
coming year in general. This is the way I replied:
“It will be a
frustrating exercise. At times it seems difficult to tell the difference
between the Republicans and the Democrats; both parties seem to believe
that the federal government should solve all of the countries problems. It
will be frustrating to me because I believe that the federal government
should stick to the duties explicitly outlined in the constitution and all
existing laws that push those limits should be reviewed. For example, the
Interstate Commerce clause has been severely abused by all three branches
of the federal government. “
Then I determined that in
order for me to deal with the frustration I needed to determine what I
would base my decision on. So I listed the criteria that would help me
determine how I would select candidates that I would vote for. Here is the
list I came up with.
- I
will support candidates that believe in a federal government that is
limited to the constitutional duties outlined in the constitution.
- I
will support candidates that will strive to remove the government's
involvement with the Family and that will legislate is such a way as
to promote individual responsibility, rather than victim-hood.
- I
will support candidates that believe in my sovereignty, as well as
their own and that of others.
- I
will support candidates that will support the teaching of
"Truth", whether it is, scientific, religious, or
philosophical.
- I
will support candidates that support individual liberty.
- I
will support candidates that are moral, ethical and righteous.
- I
will support candidates that believe that mankind can make progress
individually and as a society based on their liberty and their
righteousness and that we don't have to settle for "Peace"
or "Safety" at the cost of the ability to exercise our God
given free will.
I
encourage you to consider what qualifications you will require of those
you choose to vote for. This is the fundamental way for us to get
involved.
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