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Root Cause of America’s Legislative Failures
Majority Minority Tradition – An Introduction
When we are attempting to solve a problem or overcome a challenge it is imperative we seek out the root cause. “This is generally referred to as Root Cause Analysis, finding the real cause of the problem and dealing with it rather than simply continuing to deal with the symptoms.” (Systems Thinking, 2012) During each election cycle, over the past 100+ years at least, citizens are fed a large number of issues with many personalities explaining how, if elected, they will be the champions of change and the one who will fix issues. After taking office we are then told by these same agents for change why they are unable to effectively deal with the issues. During the next election cycle… Continue reading
Intervention is a really sound policy
Just ask any of those who are opposed to the notion the United States should move our foreign policy from one of intervention toward one of non-intervention and you will hear the many reasons why our approach works so well. We have stayed on an interventionist path since the end of World War II and made a real case for intervention even before that, back when President Woodrow Wilson was selling U.S. Citizens on the notion we are a democracy and we should be sharing it around the world.
Michele Bachman has been bragging of her slap down of Ron Paul since the last Fox debate before the Iowa Caucus as he attempted, although not very artfully, to once again talk up the idea of non-intervention. Don’t fall into… Continue reading
The Sum of Good Government
Today we are seeing a struggle between two seemingly different philosophies for governing our society. Political parties are not the divide as members of both major parties share similar views while third party involvement has little impact on the daily government decisions. Bill O’Reilly summed up the choices by stating the choice is self-reliance or entitlements. That’s a very good view of where we are yet those in elected federal office seem to be divided more on the entitlement side of this divide.
Liberty is a key principle in our history. When government involves itself in daily life through entitlements, and a view they must guide economic activity while ‘caring’ for those in need, we must understand the tradeoff is
Overcome your fear of a constitutional convention
It is time all who stand in opposition of a constitutional convention due to fear of it being a runaway toward tyranny consider the reasoning State’s were a part of Article V. Continue reading
