What now?

I have bounced this question around in my head for a while now.  How do we as a nation proceed?  Some would say our political system has always been this way, and that some public servants have always acted in their own interests.  That is undoubtedly so. 

Our media has rested on the work of Woodward and Bernstein for 35 years.  Is there anyone who believes there is not corruption of at least the scale of Watergate happening now?  Where is the investigative journalism on border security, on drug trafficking, on nepotism.  Where is the serious investigation and reporting on fundraising?  How many government appointments are “sold” every year?  How does one get an ambassadorship, or an appointment to a vacated legislative seat?

How about the political parties?  The complete betrayal of fiscal conservatives by the Republican party is the most stark example of how the parties look after their own interest not the interests of the people or the preservation of the constitution.

My idea is the Rescue America Coalition.   This organization will recruit, campaign for, and raise money for candidates from all parties.  The only string is that they put the interests of the country, it’s future, and it’s people above their own personal and political interests, and the interests of their party.

Now anyone can say they will do these things, but sitting elected officials will be judged and a determination will be made if they did as pledged.  If they did, they will be supported, and if they did not, the coalition will support someone else.

The essential points are self-less public service, and adherence to the constitution.

Do we want our children and grandchildren to live in a socialist North American Union, or should they have the opportunity to live in the greatest nation the world has ever known?  Should they have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

We the people have abdicated our responsibility.  We are not interested in government, or politics.  We are too busy, and those topics are too complicated and messy.  We have left the selection of our political candidates to the political parties and the media.  We have come to accept hypocrisy and corruption as the way things are and unchangeable.  They are unchangeable if we do things the same way.

Will we govern our country, or will we leave it to those that have and will continue to sell us out for their own benefit?

My name is Scott Wise, and I am running for congress. I’m a regular guy, and I am running because I believe we are at a critical time in our nations history, and our government is not acting responsibly. I am asking for your support, your vote, and if you take part in that kind of thing your contribution.

Our present congressman will have served 14 years when his term expires. That is 2 years longer than he said was the most he would serve when he first ran for congress on term limits. Our current congressman has served and been a party to the largest expansion of the Federal government in our nations history while originally promising smaller government. Our congressman has also served while our nation has been flooded with illegal immigrants, increased our national debt, surrendered our sovereignty, and turned dramatically toward socialism.

If that’s not bad enough most congressmen are worse than ours. Most elected officials worry more about how the lobbists want them to vote, or how the vote will affect the next election, than how their constituents want them to vote, or whats best for the country. Some work to undermine America at home and abroad. Some ignore issues vital to our very survival to strategically improve their future political position.

I could go on and on about government failures and irresponsibilities. I think our time is better served talking about what we can possibly do. I want to go to congress with the kind of loud and clear message the people send when they call home a 7 term incumbant in one of the most conservative districts in the country and elect an unwealthy patriotic gun toten redneck.

I want to take that message and find 50 other congressmen and women who believe the future of our country is more important than their political partys power. 50 votes isn’t enough to form a majority, but it is significant in terms of bargining power and swing votes. Hopefully over 2 years the 50 will grow in number. Either way, in 2010, I will take the put america first campaign nationwide focused on congressional districts where the incumbant has been most opposed to the put America first agenda.

None of this is meant to be mean spirited. The men and women in Washington D.C. have been sucked into a system gone wild. You can’t get along in Washinton without going along. Our particular congressman has given a good part of his life to public service. He is a good man who I voted for multiple times. He has been there long enough.

All of them and they way they do business have been there long enough. Vote for Scott Wise and he will put America first and seek out others willing to do the same. This is the greatest country the world has ever known, and we deserve a government that is better than what we have.

On this site you will find out about exciting upcoming events. Where I stand on the issues, and what I hope to accomplish in Washington. Our strategy for raising money and how you can help. Interesting links and Scott’s blog. You will also find out how to contact the campaign, register, and donate.

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Change

Change is a word we heard a lot of the last 9 months.  Of course change is kind of vague.  It implies something different, and many who voted for Obama thought it meant something different all together.  It appears, and I have even heard several times that what was meant by change was change back to how things were during the Clinton administration.

I read today that Hillary Clinton has rearranged her husbands affairs enough to clear the way for her to be secretary of state.  In fact Barack Obama’s cabinet is filled with people who put politics above the good of the country.  There is little doubt, from looking at those in power outside the white house, that business as usual will prevail.

Money and power will continue to set the agenda in Washington, and when pressing issues spring up the same interests will have their way with the solutions.  The media arm of the liberal agenda will continue to ignore the corruption and hypocrisy.

The Republicans have struck a conciliatory tone.  They will, I believe, not put politics above the country.  This is not to say that they will not be in opposition to much of the Pelosi agenda, but that they will not come to their position based on political calculation.  One finds a lot of independent political thought on the Republican side of the aisle, and principle often trumps partisanship.

My biggest question on the Republican side is will the leadership change Mike Pence, or will Mike Pence change the leadership?

The democrats have some problems with revisiting the warm glow of the Clinton era.  Most importantly, they don’t have the gathering momentum of the Reagan tax cuts.  Big changes to the economy like tax cuts lag, and the large Reagan tax cuts really took hold in the 90’s.  The other difference is that Bill Clinton inherited a relatively stable and secure global scene.

The worst thing about the whole picture, is that we will have people in places of power that put their own individual and partisian needs in front of the needs of the country and it’s people, and a complicit media that ignores troublesome issues while endlessly coverning trivial ones.

Add to this impressionist work of art a murky realization that some members of our government and media rrom both sides of the aisle are more aligned with the New World Order or the North American Union than our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

We need a new idea.  Millions of Americans thought they voted for one.  Maybe they did, but if Obama’s history, or his cabinet selections are any indicator, we are in for a lot more of what we have already gotten.

We do need change, and I have an idea.

Obama could unify

President elect Barack Obama could unify the country…  It would indeed be trans-formative…  It would certainly be post-partisan…  It would end partisan politics…  I could then be an Obama supporter.

How, might one ask?

He could tell the country we are broke.  He could say to the American people that we can afford no more, and in fact we need to cut back.  Barack Obama could tell the voters we have a corrupt government, and slash its size and scope.

President elect Obama could be square with the American people, and let them know that the president has very little to do with the economy, and the actions that president Bush took to desperately fuel the economy were to keep it from collapsing in the wake of 9/11.

President elect Obama could be honest with the American people, and admit the democratic opposition to the war in Iraq was calculated to gain political position, and regain executive and majority power.

He could tell the truth about how calculated democratic opposition to the war emboldened our enemies and cost American lives.   America’s position in the world was damaged for domestic political gain.

President elect Obama could explain why France, Germany, and Russia opposed holding Saddam to account.  He could explain the corruption behind the oil for food program, and lucrative trade of underground technology.

President elect Obama could talk about how incredibly motivated those Palestinian suicide bombers were when Saddam started writing large checks to the families of martyrs.

Barack Obama could explain that the democrats and their supporters in the media worked tirelessly to nudge public discourse in the direction of their agenda by cleverly representing the facts in way that colored perceptions so as to damage Bush and the Republican Party and benefit the democrat party.

All of this would go a long way toward healing the wounds of the last 7 years, and beyond.  This act of contrition would unite the American people, and put the partisan power brokers on notice.  This kind of monumental start to a presidential term could bring the kind of transformational change Obama has talked about. 

There is no way to change the corruption and hypocrisy of the Washington staffers, lobbyists, and legislators without a major jolt.  Who better to deliver that jolt than the Man who soundly defeated the ultra effective Clinton machine and the whimpering remains of the once dominant Reagan GOP?

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Alas, I fear, I am living in a dream land. 

More likely, judging by our history, Obama’s record, his associates, and rumored appointments, we will soon see a modern version of the New Deal, or Great Society.  The expense will be shouldered for generations, and its forbidden fruits will be intoxicating.  Free stuff is usually viewed favorably by humans.  The damage to our republic will be catastrophic. 

What is going on is not the same ole’ same ole’.  This isn’t like the tough times we’ve been in before.  The challenges this nation faces are monumental and consequential.   For generations we have been safe and secure.  We take our freedom for granted, and don’t take our security seriously.

The future of the United States of America is not guaranteed.  It can prevail, if we the people can unite, as one nation, under god, with liberty and justice for all.

Barack Obama…Unite this nation.  Come clean on the political rhetoric.  Chart a course that will take this nation to the kind of heights that can be reached by combining individual excellence, capitalist competition, and a sense of the common good, combined with personal responsibility, self reliance, innovation, and morality.

United We Stand, and divided we shall surely fall.

God bless America and the revolutionary ideals she stands for.

RIP GOP

As much as it pains me to say it, the Reagan revolution is dead.  Any lingering momentum from that movement has been squashed by Barack Obama and the democratic resurgence around the country.  Now conservatives have every bit as much of an up hill fight as they did in 1978.  I never thought it would come to this.  I overestimated the logic of a small government that knows it’s bounds, and under-estimated the public appetite for a nanny with candy.

I told someone the other day that “George Bush single-handedly destroyed the conservative movement.”  That’s not fair.   He had help.  The fact of the matter is, that voters who sent people to Washington to shrink the size of government feel betrayed, and they have no confidence in republicans.  The only reason they still vote for republicans is that they have only worse choices.

Many of those republicans spoke loudly in this election.

We certainly needed change, but I fear the change that’s coming.  Barack Obama is one thing, but wait until the nuts in congress get going with their agenda.  The government should be a facilitator, and steer clear of restrictive mandates, or social engineering.  This should be the role of government.

Barack Obama gained a lot of ground, because he talked about how tough it is out there.  It is tough.  Obama stressed how the government was going to help.  95% of Americans will get a tax cut.  We do need help.  I’ll take the $1200 or $1500 sure, but does that mean the government will give me $5000 in a couple of years so I can stay afloat?  Is that how we fix this? Keep supplementing 50% of the population?

The problem is, that to really fix the problem, you have to attack the root cause.

My guess is that medical expenses will still be high in 5 years.   I have medical insurance, and still can’t afford medical care.  We have to bring down the costs, but not by mandating fees.  The government’s role in this matter should be to facilitate the kind of competition that drives costs lower.  Continued consolidation of health care will certainly make things less expensive for giant health care systems, and will no doubt make things easier for our insurance companies, but it allows giant health care providers to set the price without worrying about competition.

If we made more money it would be easier for us to pay for medical care or gasoline.  The government could mandate a minimum wage like the unions and progressives want, but is that the American way?  Wages will go up naturally as demand for labor goes up.  For 2 decades we have not controlled our borders and have allowed millions of illegal immigrants into this country to artificially increase the supply of labor.  This “extra” labor supply has suppressed the labor rate.

The role of the media in our political process has become troublesome.  Some say, “it has always been this way,”  and in some ways they are right.  If you look back at elections from the early part of our nations history you will certainly find media that sided with one candidate or another.  Today’s media seems to have sided with an ideology.  The media bias seems to be out of control and widespread.  The same media that has pounded George Bush since 2000, was totally in the tank for Obama, and only sparsely admitted as much.  This democratic victory is as much theirs as it is Barack Obama’s.

The old media will no doubt be pushing for the fairness doctrine.  If it passes, it will be at the expense of that media and the bill of rights.  What I mean by that is that if people can’t get what they need from radio or television they will move to a media that carries their desired content.  Internet radio is up and running, and will become the new home of talk radio if the AM band won’t carry their programming.  Similarly, if broadcast and cable television content is controlled by the government, then sources like you tube will flourish.

We must do something to instill American ideals into our children.  It’s hard to expect people to understand what America is supposed to be if we don’t teach it, and there can be little doubt that millions of Americans feel entitled to the American dream.

The American dream, however, requires hard work and is in no way a birth rite.

3rd district debate – Larson steals the show

I watched the debate today.  It was on the internet.  I tuned in to WANE TV online and watched Mark Souder, Mike Montagano, and William Larson.  Larson has been largely ignored by the establishment as most Libertarian or 3rd party candidates have been.  There was no ignoring William Larson today.

While Souder and Montagano whined about the others dirty ads, Larson was answering the questions.  Souder nervously defended his record.  Montagano talked of change and the middle class.  Larson talked about the excesses of government and the bewildering choices our government makes.

Mark souder lost today, not because Mike Montagano beat him, but because William Larson won.  The two parties want to pretend Larson isn’t in the race, and history supports their position.  The media accepts the notion that the only candidates that matter are the ones they deem competitive.

Larson’s debate victory will not likely be enough to give him the win, but it could siphon votes from Souder.  This race got tighter today, and demonstrated why certified candidates should not be disregarded or marginalized by those who claim to represent the public.  Had Larson been covered fairly and from the beginning, it’s hard to imagine what this race would look like.

I’m as anxious about this race as I am about the presidential race.  These are strange days indeed.  The democrats promise a return to the great society or a new new deal.  The republicans promised to reform all that and give us a more limited government, but they betrayed us with more big government.  What are we the people to do?  Demand better.  Understand the issues, the candidates, and their positions.  Do what you can to help your chosen candidates, and vote with the future of our country in mind.

Do we want to be America?  Do we believe in freedom and liberty as well as the independence and responsibility they imply?  Can we do the hard work that is required to secure our nations ideals for future Americans?

Vote on November 4.

Sarah Palin

Hat’s off to local and state GOP, and the McCain Palin campaign.  You pulled off a wonderfull event Saturday evening in Fort Wayne.

Mayor Handshoe of Kendalville led the Pledge of Allegiance, Marlin Stutzman’s wife sang a beuatiful rendition of the Star Spangled Banner.  Murray Clark was excited, Mike Pence fired up the crowd, Mark Souder had a few good lines and Becky Skillman spoke with passion.  Hank Williams Jr got a huge roar, and treated the crowd to his own medley honoring the GOP ticket.

Sarah Palin came out and spoke with passion about John McCain and the ticket’s platform.  She did well, and the huge crowd that came for her responded with adoration.

The event, was not without annoyance.  I spent half a day earlier this week getting tickets that I already RSVP’d only to find out when I get my seat that I didn’t need them in the first place.  I stood outside for more than an hour.  My wife had my coat of course.  Others stood outside much longer so I shouldn’t complain.  13,000 were herded through 6 machines to scan your person.  Once through the the superduperscanner machines the agony was over.

I left wanting more.  I wanted more of the Sarah Palin I saw in Dayton…. When Sarah Palin was introduced to America, she started talking about people in it for the right reasons.  It’s odd that I didn’t hear anything like that today.   I have been dying for the real Sarah Palin to come out.  The problem is, the GOP establishment is as scared of Sarah Palin as the democrats and media are.  When I got home I read a yahoo link to a politico story http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081025/pl_politico/14929  talking about Palin going rogue.

That crowd wanted to blow the roof off the place…What would have sent the crowd over the edge?

Murray Clark could have briefly introduced Handshoe for the pledge, Stutzman for the anthem, and Mike Pence to get things started.  Hank could have then gone a rant about the dirty rotten scoundrels in Washington that sold our country out.  The crowd would have been swinging from the rafters for Becky Skillman to pitch mitch and passionately intorduce Sarah Palin.

Sarah Palin could have come on and said the things we the people know she wants to say.  Her talk of corruption stopped just short of Washington.  She knows about corruption, and has rooted it out, which is why 13000 people waited hours in the cold to see her on a Saturday afternoon in Fort Wayne, Indiana. 

Our government should not be for sale.  It is for sale however, and some will sell our American soul for money and power.  We want to have confidence that someone is going to do something about it, and see that it doesn’t happen again.  The government will not police itself.  The media is in on the game, and it’s corruption and manipulation knows no bounds.  The people lack the instrument of power to rein in the corruption.  We wait patiently, selecting the lesser of two evils, until one we really believe in comes along. 

We can only hope we are not mislead.

That is my biggest fear heading into this election.  I fear millions of Barack Obama supporters have been mislead.  I fear many have selected Obama as the lesser of two evils and have been misled.  All that Obama has been does not support what he says he will do.

Change for change sake is not the answer.  We do need change, but not the kind of change that expands the size and scope of the federal government.  We need a federal government that facilitates lower costs and higher wages, not one that hands out money and fosters class warfare.  We need a president that leads, not in a progressive direction, but in a constitutional direction.

If you are looking for a progressive socialist country with a stagnant economy like we see in Europe, then Barack Obama and democratic majorities in the House and Senate are what you are looking for.

If you are looking for a president that will honor the constitution, and work towards limited government then McCain is much closer to what you are looking for.

On November 5, this country will get what it deserves.  We will either take the path towards government solutions that enslave us with dependence and retreat, or we will take the path towards the kind of freedom from government that fosters the independent spirit that made America great.

I’m old enough to remember a time when people didn’t want a hand out.  Our government should stay true to American ideals, and foster capitalist answers to health care and low wages.  Competition fixes both problems.  An American government should seek to enable competition in the health care arena, and should not allow the labor market to be flooded with illegal immigrants.

Conservatives have failed in this regard.  They enabled health care consolidation that eliminates competition, and turned a blind eye to millions of illegal workers to flood into the market place.

The conservative movement is dead because our representatives sold out.  The solution to that problem is not a swing back to the big government ideals of the New Deal or the Great Society.

I’ll take a restrained Sarah Palin along side an independent McCain… At this point, with our political system in shambles, our economic system on the brink, our social system in disarray and a media filled with dis-information, the only thing that makes more sense than McCain/Palin……………..Palin/Hank Jr.

How Did We Get Here? Socialism alive and well in America

Socialism has been on the march since McCarthy left Washington.  That thought occurred to me over the holidays.  I took a break from this blog, because I felt like I started repeating myself.  It was New Years Eve, and the thought hit me like the ball falling on my head.

The idea is logical, and after reading the communist goals from the “Naked Communist” that Albert Herlong read into the congressional record in 1963,  While the capitalists went out into the business world, and made their way, the communists went to work on their agenda.

Their agenda was to put their people into positions in education, media, and even government.  Once in place they went to work recruiting like minded people, persuading others, and implementing their socialist agenda.  The results are striking.  We didn’t even know it happened, however looking back the change is obvious and stifling.

One need only read the communist goals to realize how much they have accomplished.  Many of our social ills can be traced to the changes this agenda has caused our society.  Many “useful idiots” have been enlisted.  The agenda has been disguised as compassion, the opposite of selfishness, and even progressiveness.  Where we have ended up is a lesson on why one should avoid allowing emotions to play a role in government or law.

Fundamentally the problem with thinking the government is best suited to solve our individual problems is two fold.  First, it is very hard to think of something the government does well, and even more difficult to think of something the government does efficiently.  Second, it flys in the face of the ideals this country was founded on.

Everything the government does is filled with waste, corruption, and politics.  More importantly this country was founded on the idea that we are free people.  Individual responsibility, freedom, and liberty are what brought people from all over the world to become Americans.

Now in America, nobody is responsible for themselves or their actions, the government tells you how to raise your kids, what to do with your property, and even if you can allow smokers in your business.  If you don’t obey, they will take your liberty.

Meanwhile our elected officials conduct foreign and domestic policy to suit their corporate financiers.  The corporations themselves have become socialist in their organization, and the people are left fearful and paralyzed.

That’s how we got here….now, where the heck are we and how do we get back?

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

A couple of weeks ago, I broke down and finally decided dial up was no deal.  It had been a long time since I enjoyed the internet.  My new DSL was to be up and running a week ago Tuesday.  Of course the modem didn’t come.  I had already called to cancel my dial up.  My modem didn’t come Wednesday either.  On Thursday Thanksgiving day I stopped by my in-laws, who were having trouble with their new DSL.  I ended up calling technical support, and got their DSL up and running.  While I was talking to them I asked about my delivery.  They informed me everything should have been in order, and gave me the shipping company’s number.  I called the shipping company, who had delivered to my house dozens of times, and found the driver could not find my house.  I gave them directions and they said they would deliver it this past tuesday.  Las Friday I was thinking that I could just run over to Fort Wayne on Monday and pick it up myself rather than waiting until Tuesday.

I called the shipping company.  I offered to pick it up Monday.  They said that wasn’t necessary they could drop it off to me Monday, but I needed to give them directions.  I shared with them that I had already done that, but gave them again. 

Monday came and went without a delivery.  I called Monday and found that they were holding the package for a customer requested delivery date, which was Tuesday.  They told me they needed directions to my house.  I shared with them I had already explained how to get to my house twice, and gave them directions.

Yesterday, I called to check on the scheduled delivery.  I found that the package was held to get directions to my home.  I shared with them that I had done that multiple times already.  I gave them directions to my home.  I strongly suggested they deliver it before they were finished for the day.  They said they would call me back.

I work 2nd and had to go to work.  They finally called my wife and said we could have the package if we would meet the driver in town.  She met him and got the modem.  I got off work last night, came home, and hooked it up.

DSL is great.  Click and you go there.  Why did I wait so long?  I have almost completely forgotten about the run around. 

Just before I went to bed last night, I looked at the return address on the package, and found it originated in Warsaw.  Less than 15 miles and it took exactly 2 weeks to arrive.

Communist goal #15 Capture one or both of the political parties in the US

This is goal #15 laid out by the communists in the early 1960s.   Albert Herlong, Jr. a Florida Congressman from 1949-69 read them into the Congressional Record Thursday, Jan 10, 1963.

15) Capture one or both of the political parties in the US.

The success of this goal is certainly debatable.  There is no question but that the modern Democratic party has found in the past success of government entitlement programs like Johnson’s “Great Society” an electoral strategy that works.  Promise free stuff from the government, and you win elections.  Just make sure you promise a better government freebie than the other guy.  Socialism, or at least the idea that the government can solve peoples problems, is certainly alive and well in modern America.  The truth of the matter is the government never came across a problem they could solve.  Solving the problem would mean the end of the program, and the people running the program have a vested interest in not ending the program.  Therefore the problem never gets solved.

The truly disturbing thing is that many of these communists goals have actually come to pass in the last 30 years.  Count back 30 years, make note of the Presidents since then, and think about who controlled the House and Senate.  The Republicans have been in power the better part of those 3 decades.  What does that say about the Republican party?  Ronald Reagan took power almost 25 years ago.  Since then we have only had a Democratic President for 8 years.

So, have the communists captured one or both political parties?  I don’t know.  Certainly nobody would admit to that.  The dramatic swing towards socialism is unmistakable.  American ideals are being undermined by our own government, and the people have been conditioned to hold out their hand.

The way back is for the people to get fed up.  Had enough?

It’s Hard to Stay Worked Up.

It is not hard to get worked up when you take a hard look at our present state.  A government running wild, a failing educational system, prisons so full we let violent offenders out early, a teetering economy, and anarchy spreading around the world leaves ones head to spin.

It is also hard to stay worked up.  Life has a way of jumping in front of you and demanding your attention.  It is hard to be concerned about a far away government, a broken educational system, mean people, GDP, or the state of freedom in a far away land when you need gas in the car to go to the hospital and see a sick relative.

The big picture gets blurry and out of focus when your kids get in trouble in school, the car doesn’t run, the septic backed up, or your best friend is having a tough time.  Life is tough, and it is getting tougher.

Is it really that bad?  No, and Yes.  It is all about perspective.  We in this country think it is very important to keep people from being exposed to 2nd hand smoke.  2nd hand smoke is bad.  We have removed it as a threat to the workplace in many areas.  Does that mean the workplace air is perfectly safe?  I doubt it.  Many of the factories I have been in have plenty of airborne hazards that have nothing to do with cigarettes.

We also seem to get pretty worked up over someone mentioning God, or displaying a religious symbol.

In much of the rest of the world people are dreaming of a better floor in their home than dirt.  People are struggling with real religious oppression.  People are bombed, beat, imprisoned, and decapitated for their religious views.

The point is we have it pretty good.  It is hard to get too worked up about our irresponsible government when things are so good.  Many see the problems with an entitlement society.  Many see the problems with a government focused on the short term.  Many see the position we are in when foreign interests have more say in what our government does than American citizens do.

So what’s a knowledgeable, educated citizen to do?  Shout from the rooftops.  Tell everyone you run into.  Teach your children.  This is the greatest country the world has ever known.   It is time we start expecting a government that is worthy of it.

Public service is not about a job for life.  It should not be about the accumulation of power.  It should also not be a way to enrich yourself at the citizens expense.

Public service has nothing to do with political parties, even though our federal government has become a partisan cesspool.  Public service is about serving your community.  It is about looking out for the good of the country, it’s future, and it’s people.

America rise up and take your country back for your children and grandchildren.