The Tenther Grapevine
The “revolution in a corn field” that is happening today in Governor Sam Brownback’s Kansas is potentially as important as what happened here in 1776. Because in the last two years the states have learned that they don’t have to do what the federal government tells them to do. They can think for themselves and govern themselves, just as Dorothy promised.
As the Washington Post reports with an excellent article titled “In Kansas, Gov. Sam Brownback puts tea party tenets into action with sharp cuts”: “If you want to know what a Tea Party America might look like, there is no place like Kansas. In the past year, three state agencies have been abolished and 2,050 jobs have been cut. Funding for schools, social services and the arts have been slashed. The new Republican governor rejected a $31.5 million federal grant for a new health-insurance exchange because he opposes President Obama’s health-care law. And that’s just the small stuff.”
It is the essence of the Tea Party and it is the essence of Jeffersonian democracy. And in this election it was said here the other day it could go one of two ways: There is loud, boisterous and thoughtless Tea Party support for the ideas of Newt Gingrich that advance big government further and to the direction of totalitarianism. Then there is the original item advanced by Ron Paul, Gary Johnson, the Tenth Amendment Center and Judge Andrew Napolitano; states thinking form themselves and freeing themselves from an archaic historic overlord. But someone needed to take action and Kansas has. This could not have been accomplished by any president even one sympathetic to these initiatives like Texas governor Rick Perry.
Working with Arthur Laffer, former Reagan adviser, Kansas is developing a working strategy for self governance. It will be a model now for other states, states in the middle with similar economies which want to go the way again – the American way – of sound money, hard work and self government.
If Ron Paul wins Iowa – Dorothy Rabinowitz of the WSJ who advanced Gingrich weeks back this morning declares Paul to be “the best-known propagandist for our enemies” (Surrender Dorothy!) – and he is doing well in New Hampshire, we will have a new party system. One a combo of Dems and Republicans (“No Labels”? Whigs?); Republicans such as George W. Bush and Dems like Obama with the same policies with cosmetic differences. The other a Jeffersonian party in the direction of Gary Johnson, Judge Nap and Ron Paul. Economically this might be seen as a shift in contention from the twins that have ravaged the world for 150 years Marx and Keynes to one between Keynes and Hayek. This returns us to our original nature: Hamilton v Jefferson.
Even today, thanks to Brownback and Laffer it is possible to see a Jeffersonian century ahead.
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What, a state standing up to act as A Republic on its own, to lead by example?This is not going to go over well with the totalitarian idiots of our time.
I am glad some in a city, community within a state are doing the acts. God knows someone needs to step up and lead others. To present an example that is able to sustain itself without the false assistance of such totalitarians.
This idea “one nation under God” does not state the Godly are to sit there on they hands because of our God given abilities to determine, to educate by experiences. Its ok to screw up but its completely immoral not to correct what so many are sure is completely wrong by lessons learned, by not doing such an act only states we do not care about ourselves as LIFE.
An informed Public is the act of standing for its Republic is in all honesty because it allows us to share and show our lessons (to be the example) of lessons we have learned well. Thomas Jefferson worked hard to inform us of this in the Declaration of Independence yet we refused to acknowledge and apply its very principals. It does not matter who screwed it up what matters is we learned we screwed up, get it, use it for its intended purpose and work to correct the WRONGS in each community by community to lead the state by example. To take this example to other states as in lessons that can be verifiable that gets desired results we as communities are looking for. It is up to us to stop expecting some other will do it better than you yourself will because they are not you, they are not informed with such principals. We can see unquestionably the Federal Government does not and has no intent at all to ever operate on such principals and because of it expanded themselves to total un-sustainability by all visible results.
Life is the most important factor in all choice, Liberty as important to allow life and our pursuits to achieve and sustain in expanding and supporting life only encompasses the first two.
If you don’t get this reread, it is of your importance to you.
Thank you Kansas for recognizing something lost far too long.
What, a state standing up to act as A Republic on its own, to lead by example?This is not going to go over well with the totalitarian idiots of our time.
I am glad some in a city, community within a state are doing the acts. God knows someone needs to step up and lead others. To present an example that is able to sustain itself without the false assistance of such totalitarians.
This idea “one nation under God” does not state the Godly are to sit there on they hands because of our God given abilities to determine, to educate by experiences. Its ok to screw up but its completely immoral not to correct what so many are sure is completely wrong by lessons learned, by not doing such an act only states we do not care about ourselves as LIFE.
An informed Public is the act of standing for its Republic is in all honesty because it allows us to share and show our lessons (to be the example) of lessons we have learned well. Thomas Jefferson worked hard to inform us of this in the Declaration of Independence yet we refused to acknowledge and apply its very principals. It does not matter who screwed it up what matters is we learned we screwed up, get it, use it for its intended purpose and work to correct the WRONGS in each community by community to lead the state by example. To take this example to other states as in lessons that can be verifiable that gets desired results we as communities are looking for. It is up to us to stop expecting some other will do it better than you yourself will because they are not you, they are not informed with such principals. We can see unquestionably the Federal Government does not and has no intent at all to ever operate on such principals and because of it expanded themselves to total un-sustainability by all visible results.
Life is the most important factor in all choice, Liberty as important to allow life and our pursuits to achieve and sustain in expanding and supporting life only encompasses the first two.
If you don’t get this reread, it is of your importance to you.
Thank you Kansas for recognizing something lost far too long.
What, a state standing up to act as A Republic on its own, to lead by example?This is not going to go over well with the totalitarian idiots of our time.
I am glad some in a city, community within a state are doing the acts. God knows someone needs to step up and lead others. To present an example that is able to sustain itself without the false assistance of such totalitarians.
This idea “one nation under God” does not state the Godly are to sit there on they hands because of our God given abilities to determine, to educate by experiences. Its ok to screw up but its completely immoral not to correct what so many are sure is completely wrong by lessons learned, by not doing such an act only states we do not care about ourselves as LIFE.
An informed Public is the act of standing for its Republic is in all honesty because it allows us to share and show our lessons (to be the example) of lessons we have learned well. Thomas Jefferson worked hard to inform us of this in the Declaration of Independence yet we refused to acknowledge and apply its very principals. It does not matter who screwed it up what matters is we learned we screwed up, get it, use it for its intended purpose and work to correct the WRONGS in each community by community to lead the state by example. To take this example to other states as in lessons that can be verifiable that gets desired results we as communities are looking for. It is up to us to stop expecting some other will do it better than you yourself will because they are not you, they are not informed with such principals. We can see unquestionably the Federal Government does not and has no intent at all to ever operate on such principals and because of it expanded themselves to total un-sustainability by all visible results.
Life is the most important factor in all choice, Liberty as important to allow life and our pursuits to achieve and sustain in expanding and supporting life only encompasses the first two.
If you don’t get this reread, it is of your importance to you.
Thank you Kansas for recognizing something lost far too long.