I have spent the the last forty-nine-years of my life in education,as an anatomy and physiology instructor and most recently as a Miamisburg School Board member… I beg you to do your uttermost best to keep school funding cuts at a minimum… I know you are a great friend of education and I applaud you for that… Thanks for all your past and future support of education…

Sincerely,
Dale E. Toadvine

Good Luck

tfm

As a conservative my disappointment in the republican party is boundless. if I wasted to vote for liberals I would vote for the real ones in the democratic party not the pretend ones in the republican party. It is time that the party goes back to its roots and stop being afraid of their own shadows. This country needs to be led by real men. The voters have not had that for some time.

I am sure that this is not the first response that you have received like this. Get rid of the country club liberals that run the party and get in tune with the American people. And make sure that each candidate understands that he or she is a public servant and is obligated to serve, not to give it lip-service.

Finally, accomplishments count. If the candidates can not accomplish, why would the party support them. The lesser of two evils is not an option.

Best Regards,

Robert C. Baxter

Renewing Republicanism

The underpinnings of the Republican Party are as old as the Republic. In the words of Ben Franklin at the close of the Constitutional Convention, when asked “what form of government are we to have,” his response was, “a republic if you can keep it.”

Therein lays the promise and the threat of our last 232 years of existence of the American Republic. Under the guidance of Lincoln, TR, and Ronald Reagan, those principles have been defined and refined to every new generation. But the founding principles have not changed.

The Constitution is a living document, not because it needs re-interpretation for each new generation, but because it is the standard by which each generation can define itself. When necessary we amend the Constitution, but we do not redefine it based on the whims of a few pushing an alternative code. It is then we cease to become a republic and march down the road to collectivism and eventually totalitarianism.

We are still a nation of entrepreneurs, whether independent business owners or salaried workers. That is, our past and our future success depend on our creativity, our individualism that is made practical by bringing our God given ideas to our neighbors to enlarge and enrich. Free market capitalism is our economic system, and the only system that ensures a continuation of that guarantee of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” This is what makes a nation great, and our nation the greatest guarantee or liberty in history.

We, the people, are now under a grave threat, one that has not yet been realized by the majority. Our very system and promise of equal treatment of exercising and using our God given talents and resources is threatened by those who would collectivize our country in the style of European socialism and beyond. Such as system will collectivize our monetary system by nationalizing our banks, our retirement independence by doing away with personal retirement and establishing a new mandatory government matched and controlled retirement account. Free speech, the lifeblood of a free people is under attack via the so-called ‘fairness doctrine.” This now includes a stifling not only of broadcast media but internet news and communication as well. The threat to a vibrant economy depends on small business, which is now under attack as at no time in our history by confiscatory taxes and regulation that will strangle any hope of future prosperity. Last and possibly the most important is our health care system, defined by our basic Constitutional guarantees and resulting in the best system to deliver care to the most people, both in our country and in other countries as well. Lenin said, “Medicine is the key to socialism,” because he realized that it is a commodity that everyone needs sooner or later, and if the government controls it, the government controls its people. The vast majority of Americans believe that the best way to ensure quality is to have the best information and trust in a personal physician, taken together to make best personal decisions. It is not the collective which forces everyone to have insurance; insurance is not health care. It is not “best practices,” which holds every patient to the “ugly mean,” that is, everyone having to fit into a predetermined statistical population to receive the right care or care at all. As example, if I am an 80 year old man and have a heart attack, your government in a national health scheme may determine you are too old to have a coronary bypass and you will simply be left to die. Think it cannot happen? Just check out the British system of care.

Yes, we Republicans have been apathetic, enjoying the good life that we and our forebears have given us, and our dedicated military has ensured. We have lost our way, but we have learned that to be an American depends on several propositions, those that define who we are and who we will become.

1- Respect the Xth Amendment to the Constitution.

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

The 10th amendment has routinely been misinterpreted at the whim of judges and justices who buy into the “living constitution” theory for personal political ends to destroy original intent so carefully crafted by the Founders to prevent centralization of power- that which we are witnessing today. The power to police, establish local governance and guarantee basic liberties are further eroded with every federal biennial budget with ever increasing regulation of our lives. We don’t always get it right, but every other system has lapsed into tyranny eventually, including democracies (Tytler)

2 –Define the American economic system as one of free market capitalism as the best insurance of equality, justice and freedom for all Americans.

3- Reestablish the principle that our culture-the melting pot- is the best guarantee that everyone will be heard and respected rather than the short sighted system of multiculturalism and multi-linguality, where those who don’t learn English are left behind. This further ensures our borders will be safe and that respect for the law is upheld. If the law id unjust, we will change the law, as we have done throughout our history. Such respect guarantees not special rights but rights not given to one excluding others (groups).

4- Respect for free speech, whether at the ballot box or media. Elitism consists of capturing control of the people by controlling information and communication, and in many instances having a double standard for the rulers than the ruled. Do I hear an echo of what happened in Illinois or recent cabinet appointments? Think who else might be included in the ruling class were it not for a free press and broadcast media.

5-Re-establish a free market health care system, where every patient is accorded the same respect and the same access to care, “if they need it, when they need it, and as much as they need.” (Edward Annis, former President, American Medical Association. Such a system can only survive when a free people are given the economic control over their lives- in this case their health. It can only be done by releasing all Americans from the notion that their employer is their health care nanny or worse than that their government is. This is accomplished in 2009 by true price transparency, tax deductible health accounts and freedom from onerous regulation.

6 – Last and most important is to re-establish the truth that this American Republic was founded on the principles of a Judeo-Christian philosophy,…”that we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights.”
Our cultural heritage is based on first the individual’s relationship with the Creator, that extension to the family, and those principles to the community and then to the national community. Our future depends on our relationship to our God, our families and our community.
This is the whole basis of our society and our legacy as Americans

Dave Westbrock